April 12, 2008 (LPAC)--China has arrested nine Tibetan Buddhist monks for bombing a government building on March 23 amid simmering tension following widespread riots, Xinhua news agency said. The bombing targeted a government building in the town of Gyanbe and was carried out by monks from the town's Tongxia monastery, the news agency report said.

Chinese officials have warned that groups campaigning for independence in Tibet have joined Muslim Uighurs fighting for an independent "East Turkestan" in the northwest region of Xinjiang. Wen Wei Po, a mainland-backed paper in Hong Kong reported this week that Tibetan and Uighur forces were also collaborating with al Qaeda to target the Olympic Games in Beijing in August.

The link-up between the Uighurs and the Tibetans by Beijing is not a new formulation, but it is significant since it provides a window on how the violence in Tibet occurred. What Beijing has not come out with is that the Uighurs are under the control of the MI6 and the linking up of the Uighurs with the Tibetans is primarily a British objective to break up China, or demand concessions from China which would strengthen the City of London, just the way the British East India Company did in the 19th century through the First Opium War.