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Chinese plainclothes security check the bags of tourists as they enter Tiananmen Square in Beijing on August 3, 2008. China has blamed Uighur militants of the banned East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for plotting attacks on the Beijing Olympics, which begin on August 8, and has implemented suffocating security to squash any threat. Critics say authorities in Beijing exaggerate the terror threat to justify the repression of unhappy minorities like Xinjiang's 8.3 million Uighurs, who have chafed under decades of Chinese rule. China seemed vindicated last month when a group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) claimed credit for bus explosions in Shanghai and the southwestern city of Kunming that killed three people. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)