Thai Jihad Update from Reuters (thanks to Sr. Soph):
BANGKOK, June 19 (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim separatist rebels killed four people, including a district chief and an army colonel, in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south, police said on Tuesday.One soldier was killed and two wounded late on Monday as they clashed with militants who set fire to a school in Pattani, one of three southernmost Thai provinces where more than 2,300 people have been killed in a three-year insurgency, police said.
The district chief, the colonel and their driver were killed early on Tuesday by a 15-kg (33 lb) roadside bomb as they returned from another school fire in Pattani, police said.
Anti-government slogans were written on a small bridge near the explosion accusing the Pattani governor of involvement in the killing of four Muslim politicians on their way home from a meeting with him. The governor said militants were to blame.
Looks like that new government plan of appeasement is having the desired affect.
/sarc
At least they've dropped the "restive South" nonsense.
I'd say moslems suffer from schoolophobia with all the school burnings perpetrated by moslems in Thailand, France, etc.
I guess as long as schools continue the islam-is-a-religion-of-peace-and-what-wonderful-contributions-islam-has-made-to-our-world canard, though, schoolophobia won't strike.
"Four killed in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south"
Why is it always non-Islamics that are killed? Isn't time the Moslems took some heavy casualties in the South of Thailand?
Of course, they have a Moslem strongman back in Bangkok, whose side do you think he is on?
Expect any Moslem to act true to form--that outlined by you-know-who when he started the whole rotten movement.
At least they've dropped the "restive South" nonsense.
Yes, and the 'militants' seem to have lost their 'shadowy-ness', too.
Maybe because they can probably operate unchallenged in broad daylight by now :sigh:
At least they've dropped the "restive South" nonsense.
Yes, and the 'militants' seem to have lost their 'shadowy-ness', too.
Maybe because they can probably operate unchallenged in broad daylight by now :sigh:
Al Reuters Calls Thailand’s South ‘Rebellious’
June 19th, 2007
What does that tell you? After years of absolute BS reporting about ‘Thailand’s restive South’ where shadowy militants and ‘insurgents’ are doing bad things that no one understands, Al Reuters is becoming more adventurous:
First, the South was ‘restive’,- now, the South has become ‘rebellious’- but since one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist, Reuters still doesn’t call the Jihadists terrorists, because of ‘who are we to judge’ and that would be ‘biased’ reporting, wouldn’t it?
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/06/19/al-reuters-calls-tahilands-south-rebellious/
Agreeing with 'sheik yer'mami' - "Rebellious" IS definitely an improvement upon "restive".
Suggestions from the floor - how should the article under discussion have been written, had the journalists any idea of the deep history of the region (from before its original takeover by Islam in the late Middle Ages) through to the present day? If the journalists had any idea of how Jihad works?