With less than a month to go for the Beijing Olympics, the Chineseauthorities are showing increasing signs of nervousness over possible acts ofterrorism by the Islamic Movement of East Turkestan (IMET) either in the Olympicvenues or in Xinjiang or in any of the Central Asian Republics or in Pakistan.This nervousness has been reflected in the forcible closure of nearly 40allegedly illegal mosques in Xinjiang, more arrests of alleged terroristsand the execution of the death sentences awarded by the courts in the pastagainst alleged Uighur terrorists. The Chinese do not seem to have taken intoconsideration the danger that such acts by themselves may provoke the Uighurdissidents to retaliate against them.