Women and children aid the Thai jihad, in effect taunting the Thai military for its reluctance to inflict civilian casualties. From AsiaTimes, with thanks to Romy:
BANGKOK - Suspected Islamist insurgents avoided capture after torturing to death two Thai marines by beating and stabbing the bound-and-gagged victims behind a human shield of defiant Muslim women and children, horrifying the government and plunging southern Thailand into a fresh security crisis.Amid the world's most violent Islamist insurgency outside Iraq, angry and confused security forces hunted the elusive killers, described as three or four young men who ran away, leaving the marines' bloodied bodies in Tanyong Limo village.
"They were brutally beaten to death with machetes and sticks, while their hands and legs were tied up, and they were gagged and blindfolded," Lieutenant General Kwanchart Klaharn, commander of the Fourth Army and director of the Southern Border Provinces Peace-building Command, told reporters.
The bodies were locked inside a building near a mosque, prompting security forces to break down a door to gain access before transporting them to a hospital morgue, he said.
Mere words cannot express my extreme disgust for acts such as this .. "in the name of allah" which lends justification, I suppose.
When a woman or child willingly shields a soldier, aren't they military combatants?
Would the Thai marines hold their fire if the woman or child was firing an RPG at them?
Do the Thai marines realize that next time it may be their turn to face the machetes while their comrades hold their fire?
Who said chivalry was dead.
"...shields a soldier..."
Oops, typo, that should say "...shields a scumbag terrorist in the act of murder..."
"When a woman or child willingly shields a soldier, aren't they military combatants?"
sounds like 'traditional' Mohammedan warfare. But then, wait for the qualifiers, like: "but they broke down the mosque-door"- or
"they attacked women and children"
That is what they call 'defense', folks.
Civilization is dead when it comes to dealing with zombies...
We gotta support the Thais.
We gotta help take out these Islamic bastards wherever they are.
That's 48:29 in real life, once again. Interestingly enough, the tactics of the Palestinian Terrorists, who are closely allied with the 'civilians', aren't that much different.
In fact they are the same. They know they can get a human shield whenever they feel the Israeli heat on their butts. Who doesn't want to become a martyr? And then, when Israel attacks these terrorists, who, if allowed to go free, would've killed another dozen of Israeli citizens, we see the liberal media (hello, al-AP!) exploding with indignant headlines such as "Israeli killings Worst Since Ceasefire".
That's why terrorism works.
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