Chinese Terror Raid Leaves 18 Dead

China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that police found links to international terror forces in a raid on an alleged terror camp near Pakistan last week.

Chinese police reported Monday that they raided a training camp run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, in the far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, killing 18 suspects and arresting 17 others.

"There is a large amount of evidence that shows, including evidence we got from this raid, that the ETIM is associated with international terrorist forces, and that they planned, organized and carried out a series of violent terrorist activities in China," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao.

Liu gave no specific details about the alleged evidence or attacks and did not say which overseas terror forces the group was linked to.

China has said before that ETIM has links to Osama Bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

Officials gave no exact location for the camp, saying only that it was somewhere in the remote Pamir mountains, a sprawling high-altitude section of Xinjiang near the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Police seized 22 grenades and material for 1,500 more, he said.

In Jordan, police killed one suspected al Qaeda member and detained a second in a crackdown on Tuesday that foiled a terrorist plot against the country, the state news agency and officials said.

Several police officials were lightly wounded in the pre-dawn raid on a house in the Matlaa' district in the northern Jordanian city of Irbid, the official Petra news agency said.

A unit comprised of elite police and intelligence forces stormed the cell's hideout because of "information on plans by al Qaeda targeting the Jordanian arena," said Petra, quoting an unidentified security official. It did not elaborate.

Security officials told The Associated Press that the two men opened fire at the special security forces that came to arrest them.

Police shot one man dead, said the officials, who spoke on conditions of anonymity because the operation was under way. The other man is in police custody, they said.

Meanwhile, two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA were arrested Tuesday in southern France, the first arrests since a massive car bombing in Madrid blamed on the group, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.

One of the detainees, identified as Asier Larrinaga Rodriguez, is linked to an arms cache discovered Dec. 23 in the Basque town of Amorebieta in northern Spain and to explosives found last week in the same area, the ministry said in a statement.

Spain is still trying to identify the second person arrested, it said. The arrests were made near the French town of Ascain by French police working with Spanish colleagues. At least one pistol was seized.

ETA claimed responsibility Tuesday for a huge car bombing on Dec. 30 at Madrid's primary airport that killed two men.

Despite the bombing, ETA said a nine-month cease-fire with the Spanish government still stands.