Islamic separatists 'biggest threat to Olympics'

A Chinese army officer has warned that Islamic separatists are the biggest threat to the Olympics.

At a rare briefing one week ahead of the opening of the games, Colonel Tian Yixiang from the Olympics security command centre told reporters the biggest threat came from “the East Turkestan terrorist organisation”-- a jihadist group seeking to establish an Islamic state in China’s far western region of Xinjiang.