Al Qaeda providing weapons and training to infidels? It seems to me they're having a weapons/training shortage themselves, never mind dispensing the same to non-Muslims. Here's my guess - these rumors are part of a Chinese government disinformation campaign. I really don't see a need for either Al Qaeda training program, given that a substantial Tibetan community exists outside of Tibet, and a number of them have probably gotten military training in various armed forces around the world (especially in India). And in that neck of the woods, they could probably hire sympathetic ex-British or Indian Gurkhas veterans to train them for next to nothing. Heck, given the sympathy with which their cause is viewed in the West, if the Tibetans were hiring, they could probably get enthusiastic Western volunteers to train them in exchange for nothing more than room and board.

I am sympathetic to the Uighurs, but unless the Chinese do something really nutty (like have their fleet pay a surprise visit on Pearl Harbor), we may want to keep our distance from a people who are - like a lot of Muslims - fundamentally hostile to the non-Muslim world. The Turks are the friendliest of the Turkic peoples, and they are rabidly anti-American.