From AP via The Standard:
Small bombs injured five people Sunday in continuing violence in Thailand's Muslim-dominated south, as a much-criticized new decree came into effect giving Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra authoritarian powers to fight the ongoing insurgency.About 900 people have died in drive-by shootings and bombings in the southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani since January last year, when Muslim separatists launched an insurgency.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej signed the decree into law, authorizing Thaksin to unilaterally declare a state of emergency and implement security measures, said Cabinet Secretary Bowornsak Uwanno.
The decree gives Thaksin the power to impose curfews, ban public gatherings, censor news, close publications, limit travel, detain suspects without charge, confiscate property and tap telephones, among other measures.
The decree was issued after a daring raid Thursday night by suspected Islamic insurgents on the capital of Yala province.
The militants destroyed electrical transformers to black out the city, then set off firebombs and other explosives in commercial areas and fired at security forces before escaping...
It is time for Thaksin to come down hard with a really big, big hammer. Let us hope he does not have the dhimmi disease.
xue xi Bangkok.
Proving us right seems to be the Islamic way. "I'm upset with these new laws, I think I'll go behead someone or toss a few bombs for Allah!"
What the Thais have to do is start razing mosques and start killing off and imprisoning Jihadist preachers. Islam is small tumor for them, don't let it metastasize.
Of course these bombings are meant in a spiritual way that reflects the true inner struggle of jihad, right boys and girls? How dare we nasty infidels misinterpret it?
LOL Dumbo, love it...very true. Just like the car bomber who killed all those kids in Iraq...its just another stunning example of terrorist "Bravery and courage"...men are too much for these yobs, so they have to kill children and use bombs.
And of course Bohemond...they have the -right- from Allah himself to blow up or kill things they don't agree with or like...I just think we should claim the same rights...