Young ethnic Uighur boys pray during Friday prayers outside the Id Kah Mosque on August 8, 2008, in Xinjiang’s famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China’s far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities announced stepped up controls on religious figures and potential «trouble-makers» in the Muslim city of Kashgar to guard against attacks on the Beijing Olympics which open today following the deadly attack that killed 16 police officers and a new threat by separatists from China’s far northwest Xinjiang region to attack the Games. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
