A Chinese Islamic faction that has threatened attacks during the Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to stay away from the Beijing Games and avoid buses, trains, planes and buildings used by Chinese, a U.S. group that monitors militant organisations said yesterday.

On the six-minute video issued Wednesday, two days before the Games open, a representative of the Turkistan Islamic Party reiterated the group's threats against the Olympics made in a video last month, according to SITE Intelligence Group. It shows images of the Beijing Olympics logo in flames and an explosion over an Olympic venue.

"Choose your side," says the speaker, grasping a rifle and dressed in a black turban and camouflage with his face masked. "Do not stay on the same bus, on the same train, on the same plane, in the same buildings, or any place the Chinese are," he warns Muslims, according to SITE.

The video accuses China of using the Olympics to hide its actions from the world.

The TIP representative spoke the Turkic language of the Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority in China's restive western Xinjiang territory near the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Uighurs have a long history of tense relations with the central government.

The Turkistan Islamic Party is believed to be based across the border in Pakistan, where security experts say it has received training from al-Qaeda. Last month, the group issued videotaped threats and claimed responsibility for a series of recent bus bombings in China.