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The government of China claims this group is responsible for several car bomb attacks in Xinjiang in the 1990s, as well as the death of a Chinese diplomat in Kyrgyzstan in 2002 . But the group has neither admitted nor denied such accusations. Several arrested members of the group admitted, however, that they were trained by Al-Qaida in Afghanistan . On October 2 , 2003 , one of the founding members and leaders of the group was shot dead by the Pakistan i army in a counter-terrorism operation on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. See also: Politics Of China |