China's special ops just reenacted the US raid on Bin Laden for some reason

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March 28, 2017 7:27 PM

Chinese state-run TV just showed special forces practicing a raid that bears eerie similarities to the US Navy SEALs' 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden

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Footage recently emerged from a prime-time segment on Chinese state-run television showing Chinese special forces practicing a raid that bears an eerie resemblance to the US Navy SEALs' 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The segment, first noticed by the New York Times, takes place in Xinjiang, a province in Western China home to the Uighurs, a Muslim minority often at odds with China's state-endorsed atheism and their dominant ethnicity, the Hans.

While China has increased its presence in the Middle East as of late, it has also increased raids on Uighur leaders, issuing one strange announcement in November 14, 2015 that compared a 56-day battle against the Uighurs to the ISIS attack in Paris that killed 130.

In the slides below, see details from the Chinese reenactment of the Bin Laden raid.

Here's the compound US Navy SEALs found Osama Bin Laden in.

Here's China's reproduction.

Here we see the Chinese special forces taking doors and clearing rooms.

Now, inexplicably, they're crawling under flaming ropes.

Putting on a bit of a show here.

Finally we see helicopters descend on another, similar compound.

While the delivery may be a bit garbled, it's clear that China sought to imitate the world's finest in its version of the successful SEAL Team 6 raid. Whether the special forces units will participate in raids against Al-Qaeda-linked targets abroad or simply continue to hit the Uighur minority, they've broadcasted loud and clear that they're proud and ready.

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