Thai Jihad Update from AFP:
YALA, Thailand (AFP) - A wave of small bombs have exploded almost simultaneously at 22 banks in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, leaving one person dead and at least 29 injured.
Militants, many of them dressed as students, left the bombs hidden inside books at commercial banks across the province of Yala, the regional army commander, Lieutenant General Ong-korn Thongprasom told Thai television on Thursday.
"Two suspects were arrested in connection with the bomb attacks. Mostly the militants used young men dressed in student uniforms to plant small bombs which were hidden inside books," he said on Thursday.
Nopporn Thammasart, branch manager of the Bank of Ayudhya in Yala, said his staff received a telephone call warning of a bomb just minutes before the blast injured two of his customers.
"I had no time to inform the police, because within two minutes of the phone call, the bomb exploded," he said.
The blasts shattered windows but caused relatively little damage at the banks. Most of the banks in the region closed immediately, and the Bank of Thailand said most would remain closed Friday to make repairs.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the government had sent intelligence reports to security officials in the region warning of an imminent attack.
"We learned about the attack in advance through our intelligence and we had warned local officials," he told reporters.
Thailand's top security official, deputy prime minister Chidchai Vanasathidya, said the separatists, who are mainly ethnic Malay, wanted the attacks Thursday to coincide with independence day in neighboring Malaysia.
"We warned security forces in the region that the militants may stage attacks today to mark the Malaysian national day," he told reporters.
The bombs exploded at 10 banks in Yala provincial town, and the rest in outlying areas of the province, police said.
Banks under the umbrella of the Bank of Thailand, including the Bank of Ayudhya mentioned above, charge interest -- considered usury, or riba -- which is forbidden under Sharia law.
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Two Muslim men were shot dead in Yala during the night, police added.
Most of the attacks in the region along the southern border with Malaysia are small bombings or drive-by shootings.
But during the last three months, militants have shown themselves capable of conducting well-coordinated attacks that seemed designed to intimidate rather than kill, political analyst Panitan Wattanayagorn said.
"The bombs in the south are to make local people scared and feel that government cannot provide them security," Panitan said.
In the last wave of attacks on August 2, militants staged nearly 100 coordinated bomb and arson attacks that injured three people.
On June 15, they bombed 46 police, government and business targets, killing two people and wounding at least 21.
The three provinces along the Malaysian border were an ethnic Malay sultanate until Buddhist Thailand annexed them a century ago, and separatist unrest has simmered ever since.
More than 1,400 people have been killed in the mainly Muslim provinces since the latest violence erupted in January 2004.
Surely this is the fault of American foreign policy in Thailand and the large numbers of Jews and Christians in Thailand making life uncomfortable for the Muslims.
Red-Green Alert!
Time Magazine Giving Cover Fire to Jihadist Beslan Child-Killers
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1516216,00.html
It's the Red-Green Show!
Time is giving credence to the idea that local security forces and not Jihadists were to blame for the massacre of children at Beslan that took so many young lives.
Classically fanatical tactics - blaming the recipients of the violence to exonerate the murderers, all in the name of enquiring journalism. Is there nothing they won't stoop to?
What predatory rats.
Robert, thank you for keeping the public apprised of the SE Asia jihad. It receives far too little press and is the wannabe Afghanistan of the 90's.
Fellow JW posters, remember two things:
1. The largest Doomslamic gathering outside of the Hajj occurred in Bangladesh;
and
2. The tropical canopy of the lush southeast Asian rainforest provides jihadist training camps ideal cover from our spy satellites and U-2 filghts. Travel agencies in Pakistan and Iran brag: "It's the perfect family getaway for Allah's recruits if you can survive the bugs, snakes, and tsunami of on-the-run western child molesters who infect the region."
sanman,
Reporting the fact that many Beslan locals were killed in a crossfire between poorly trained troops and vigilantes vs. the jihadists is not some sort of pro-jihad propaganda. Nowhere in the article did anyone allude that the locals were just as bad and as repsonsible as the Chechen jihadists. Get a life.
The only hope for Thailand is for non Muslims to organize and drive out or kill any Muslim who supports these scums. Group retaliation and punishment is part of the solution.
It would, of course, have nothing to do with Islam or Sharia Law. It is really "anger and confusion".
As Bhumika Ghimire points out:
"Islamic Terrorism Has Nothing to Do with Islam"
By Bhumika Ghimire
Aug 31 2006 11:20AM
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Popular belief says that the poverty and lack of opportunity in Muslim nations, especially in the Middle East fuels the hatred and terrorism against the US and the West, actually it is the anger and confusion among the people which leads them to violence.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/55479/islamic_terrorism_has_nothing_to_do.html
No interest? I knew there was something I agreed with Muslims about.
Honestly, Thailand, that is what happens when you let Muslims into your country.
Islamists are snakes. If you let them into your country and treat them kindly... they will simmer with hatred for you.
Thankfully, like snakes, they are easy to crush. In battle, they always lose.
", actually it is the anger and confusion among the people which leads them to violence."
It is the religion, it is not some racial inferiority. The religion is all about murder and criminality, it raises wickedness to the sacred. In a sense, the ultimate anti-religion.
Islam is the wine of murder and lies. Drink it and your soul dies.
Americaningermany
I'd go easy on Thailand - all this trouble you're reading about is just in the Malay rich south. In Bangkok and Phuket, there are hardly any Muslims, one might as well go there. Thailand needs our support in the Jihad being waged against it - there are a lot of other countries way ahead of Thailand when it comes to sucking up to the Mohammedans.
ChristiansInAction
I have been living in Thailand for aprox 6 yrs, since my military retirement.
All I can say is "DEATH TO JIHAD"! These aren't the 1st attacks, as most of you know; teachers shot, Monks be-headed, Military & police killed, maimed & mutilated by those who practise the "tolerant" Islamic faith. Most of those effected have been in the Southern Provences of the country; except the Bomb Tech's(EOD), Military & police that have NO choice!
The Thai's are incredibly tolerant people! The Muslim's are NOT! I have volunteered, along with other "farangs" (foreigners), to "visit" S.Thailand with the hope of exterminating some of the vermon there. It is time for the Thai people to demand safety from these scum.
"If Allah Wills It", I would be the first to assist! Their method's are akin to the Nazi's rounding-up the Jew's for the slaughter. Except this is much more heinous, e.g. walking into an elementary level classroom & shooting the teacher in the head, in front of 9 yr old's.
I hope they all are "MARTYRED" soon, in the most degrading way to there "religion(sic)".
"Long Live the King"
AFP failed to mention the word Jihad in its report. So these murderous Moslems must have been militated by the desire to reunite with the former Buddhist Malay Sultantate, no?