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Hasan Mahsum

Hasan Mahsum (Uyghur: ھەسەن مەخسۇم/Hesen Mexsum; Chinese: 艾山·买合苏木, Pinyin: Àishān Măihésūmù; also transliterated: Hassan Maksum; born in Shule County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, China in 1964 and died in South Waziristan on 2 October 2003), also known as Abu-Muhammad al-Turkestani and Ashan Sumut, founded and led the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, an Islamic terrorist organization affiliated with Al Qaeda, until the Pakistani Army shot and killed him in a counter-terrorism operation on 2 October 2003. He is an Uyghur.

Mahsum, a native of Shule (Kunixar) County, became involved with the East Turkestan independence movement early in his life; in his late 20s, he was already a lecturer at a training camp in Yecheng County, preaching holy war and advocating the use of violence against Chinese authorities. He was arrested in October 1993 by the Chinese police for terrorist activities and sentenced to three years of re-education through labour. After fleeing China in 1997, Mahsum lived in Afghanistan and Pakistan; he held an Afghan passport issued by the Taliban. In early 1999, he was said to have met with Osama bin Laden, who offered him US$300,000 of financial assistance for the East Turkestan Islamic Movement in the following year; Mahsum himself denied any connection with bin Laden. The Chinese government has accused him of directing a series of violent terrorist activities including robbery and murder in Urumqi on February 4, 1999 and violent murders in the Khotan region on December 14, 1999; it is believed that these attacks were actually carried out by an operative of his named Mutalif Kasim.

Death

The Pakistani army attacked an al-Qaeda hideout in South Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan on 2 October 2003. They shot and killed eight terrorists, including Mahsum. The Beijing News and International Herald Leader initially reported that the United States worked with Pakistan in a joint counter-terrorism operation, but Major General Shaukat Sultan, spokesman for the Pakistani military, denied U.S. troop involvement. Sultan said "DNA tests were conducted to determine it was him." The Chinese government helped identify his body.

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