Suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden sponsored Uygar separatists from the northwestern Xinjiang province, Chinese state media has reported. The official China Central Television station reported hundreds of activists had campaigned for an independent East Turkestan state in the Xinjiang Uygar Autonomous Region and were trained by members of al Qaida — alleged to be bin Laden`s network of operatives — in camps in northern Afghanistan. Full Story