A nasty little piece from ABC news about the Uighurs of Eastern Turkestan,

under Chinese military occupation since the 1940s . Will

this be the next Al Qaeda haven? wonders the author of the piece. You have

to read all the way to the end to learn that the Uighurs are pro-American

and utterly un-interested in radical Islam. They are a Turkic people, and,

like the Anatolian Turks, seem to be able to practice Islam without getting

fanatical about it. The way China treats them, though–with full U.S.

encouragement–this might very well change.