&gt; But they attacked the US because our presence was a direct obstacle. They didn&#x27;t put suicide bombers in China or Copenhagen or Paris for that matter.<p>al-Qaeda has for more than a decade overtly targeted China over its policies in Xinjiang, and the Chinese government claimed that the East Turkistan Islamic Movement behind many attacks there was tied to al-Qaeda (and, indeed, some senior leaders of that organization were killed in fighting against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.)