Attack kills 16 police days before the Olympics (AP)

Chinese paramilitary police on duty along the streets of Shenyang, China, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. Two men rammed a dump truck Monday into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers, state media said, in an attack in restive western China that added to already high tensions days before the Beijing Olympics.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - In an audacious and deadly attack just days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, two men from a mainly Muslim ethnic group rammed a truck and hurled explosives at jogging policemen in China’s restive far west Monday, killing 16.


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