The militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement organised the suicide vehicle attack that killed five people in the heart of Beijing this week, China’s most senior security official said.

Protests along the Olympic torch relay route and reports of foiled terrorist plots in China suggest a real possibility for violence during the Beijing games, the head of Interpol said today.

CHINA foiled a bid to cause an air disaster on a passenger jet en route to Beijing and the plane made a safe emergency landing, an official said yesterday, in what state media called an attempted terrorist attack.

The son of a prominent US-based Chinese Muslim activist was today jailed for nine years on subversion charges, a state news agency said.

SEÁN MONCRIEFF’S Last Word column (Irish Examiner, August 24) distorted the true teachings of Islam. I’m an Irish Muslim and I know that Islam is a tolerant yet principled faith.