"The government will still adhere to a policy of reconciliation." Thai Jihad Update. "Tensions rise after deadly strike in Thailand," from Agence France-Presse:
YALA, Thailand - Tensions spiraled Friday in Thailand’s troubled south after 11 soldiers were killed in the single deadliest attack against security forces since a separatist insurgency erupted there in 2004.
The troops died late Thursday when their truck was bombed and ambushed by suspected separatist rebels in Yala, one of Thailand’s Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia.
‘The militants have stepped up attacks in order to increase pressure on authorities,’ army spokesman Acra Tiproch told AFP, adding that one more death had been added to the overnight toll.
‘This was the biggest single attack yet,’ he said.
He said that the rebels hoped to provoke a heavy-handed reaction from security forces, who could then be blamed for commiting atrocities against residents in the south.
‘The government will still adhere to a policy of reconciliation,’ he said.
Tiproch makes it sound rather like there are only two options -- absurdly disproportionate action, or complete inaction. That is not the case.
Despite a series of peace-building measures, Thailand’s military-backed government is under fire for failing to quell the insurgency which has claimed some 2,200 lives since erupting January 2004 and only appears to be worsening.
Many districts in Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani provinces have become virtual no-go zones for government troops.
Both soldiers and civilians die each day in shootings and bombings, while the region has also been plagued by frequent arson attacks.
‘The situation in the south is getting worse day by day. The militants are stepping up violence to show to the government that they cannot help people in the south,’ said Srawut Aree, a senior researcher at Chulalongkorn University’s Muslim Studies Center.
Others say Thursday’s attack showed that the militants were becoming more sophisticated and confident in confronting better-equipped government troops.
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Earlier Thursday five young men were gunned down in a mosque in the Saba Yoi district of Songkhla province, which borders Yala and has also seen a spike in separatist violence.
Elsewhere in the south, two people, including another soldier, were shot and killed, while nine troops were wounded in a series of bomb blasts.
Must be Thailand's foreign policy that's responsible for these Islamist crimes.
Not.
The same old story over and over again.
Israel, Bosnia, Kosovo, Russia and now also United States... Poor muslim "victims" everywhere...
It is all the fault of the Thai Buddhists. They have been occupying land that historically belonged to the ummah, and they continue to terrorize the ummah by this very occupation. The Buddhists have killed hundreds of thousands of muslims so far, and when the muslims retaliate by killing just 11 soldiers, it becomes headline news. The heinous, deplorable activities of the racist, bigot Buddhists are never published. The Buddhist scum have got away with genocide of the ummah in Thailand.
*There, defenderofislam, did it for yuh.
this is supposed to be a military let govenrment? more like white flag led government. so if the islamist keep on killing, you just turn the other cheek? the Thai gov/t needs another coup.
'and now also United States'~ LazarofSerbia
I was just thinking that as I read this article... watch, in about 10 years, as 'sanctuary cities' and towns like Hamtramsk become mainly muslim, and havens for 'insurgents.' Then the occasional 'random' attack will begin in neighboring towns, the 'random' arson, the 'random' break-in (all gradually increasing, of course).
And eventually, demands that these places be allowed to join together and form their own 'nations'...
I think when they chose the phrase 'Balkanization of the US,' they were closer to the truth than they knew.
"Earlier Thursday five young men were gunned down in a mosque ...."
...See! you could be a good praying Muslim, going to a mosque and be bouncing your head on the floor praying for "Allah" to improve your life, and the other Muslims still kill you.....
..Islam , the religion that delivers! (bombs and bullets , that is).....
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Alan Johnston (kidnapped BBC Islamonazi shill) has appeared on a video released by Army of Islam.
As was predicted he is singing the praises of his captors and calling for retreat from Dar-al-Islam. His prior reporting and political stand makes this whole issue very suspect.
And even if he isnt complicit in his own kidnapping he should pray the price of siding with barbarians.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6710863.stm
Gary,
Sincerely, I think that Americans are not prepared at all for what follows. They still don't know how double-faced this enemy is and what he is ready to do in order to achieve his goals. That's why I admire Robert's efforts, he is American hero.
Now Bushbrain is going to Albania, where they won't even allow Christians to renovate Churches let alone build them. And this insanity will once again offend Russia. I know that crackpot gave up alcohol; so is he dry-drunk? Now the welcoming committee has planted a bomb for the dhimmi-prez.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31288602.htm
When do we get a real GWOT?
Only when the islamofascists have done so much damage in the US that even the Leftist Academia wake up, and demand that the clueless Democrats actually DO something. After all, they 'know how to win a war.'*
*(After all, they were the ones who Nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
I say "Bring It" and let's get this over with! Oy vey...gettin' tired of this failed, dead, and beaten still Diplomacy route...
All Islamists understand is Strength or Weakness, so let's show them our Strength. NOW.
"Let's Roll..."
And I will echo the immortal words of Todd Beamer aboard United 93 - "Let's Roll!" (tears come to eyes).
Why Why WHY has America forgotten 9/11?
Because it's easier to handle one's daily existence...
From the link provided by km above
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6710863.stm
"Mr Johnston talks of the "huge suffering" of the Palestinian people, saying: "Everyday there are Palestinians arrested, imprisoned for no reason. People are killed on a daily basis. The economic suffering is terrible, especially here in Gaza."
You see, you racists bigots, the palestinians are suffering hugely and the economic suffering is terrible in gaza.
"He also says the British government is working to occupy Muslim lands against the will of the people there"
Why do the racist Brits want to occupy muslim lands now ?
"Mr Johnston refers to the "failed invasion of Iraq by America and Britain" and the "terrible" situation in Afghanistan."
Yes, Britain and America are responsible for the terrible situation in afghanistan. The ummah was having fun before you racists arrived and now look at the mess they have created.
"On the tape, the Army of Islam demand the release of Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-born Islamic cleric who is suspected of close links to al-Qaeda and is currently held by the UK government as a threat to national security."
Why do you racists bigots have to arrest a holy man ? I know, it is because he is muslim. You racist Crusaders are waging a Crusade against the muslims. It is all you racists' fault that the palis are hungry and iraq and afghanistan are beginning to look like parking lots. Hear it you racist bigots, it's all the fault of Britain and America.
*Pant pant. defenderofislam, how'm I doin' ?
not sure where defenderofislam is, but i think you're doing great.
do you need someone to take over when your panting gets to be too much? let us racist bigot murderers know...we're here for ya!
This nonsense is a win-win for the jihaddis.
They plan a propaganda campaign if there is an armed response against their hiding places, and the prepared victim mentality of the mohammedans assures success for that.
And if the actual victims decline to respond for fear of the propaganda campaign, they have a defacto surrender.
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Are there any Thais reading this site?
Is there a snowball's change that you people are going to wake up and fight back?
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What is proven time and time again, is that "proportional" responses to violence do not work!
It was proven in Viet Nam. It is re-proven daily in encounters with the jihaddis.
A "proportional" response allows the enemy to plan your moves for you ahead of time, and prepare a response before you have time to act.
You lose all element of surprise, and cede control of the level of hostilities, and even the choice of targets, to the aggressor.
It is an idiot strategy.
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The only time you have any chance of subduing a really aggressive and active enemy is when they are realistically and throroughly convinced that there is no telling what kind of absolutely horrifying crap you are going to do if provoked.
This works.
It worked with Russia. MAD was a basically insane-looking policy. Bomb us and we'll kill all of you and destroy everything. Nuts, but convincing and daunting.
It worked with the Japanese. Stop fighting us or we'll shower nauseating horrifying radioactive death on big populations with no notice or military logic about targets.
It just works, and it's the only thing that works.
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With the jihaddis all targets, choices and tactics have to be on the table.
Random mass killings, destruction of mosques and sentimental cultural sites, rounding up and killing all the preachers, destroying warehouses of books, tapes and korans, killing off prominent jihaddi linked clans or the clans of their supporters, literally anything.
Nothing else is going to get their attention, much less discourage them from continuing.
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The doctrine of war followed by the jihaddis is to instill fear and resist succumbing to fear, all the while engaging in a completely uninhibited and truly damning propaganda campaign.
Nothing less will work against them.
And the jihaddi war is a classic Clausewitz total-war, population against population - as further evidenced by the riots and continual invocation of popular outrage.
There is no evidence that anything else works against them.
Saddam was a monster, but he kept his population quiet. There is a military lesson to be learned from how the mohammedans govern their own countries.
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If looking innocent is more important than winning, then you will die looking innocent.
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So far as I'm concerned, it is as Cris Rock once said, it's better to look guilty at the mall than to look innocent in jail.
all the jihadis are instilling in me is a serious desire to lose all self-control, and SOON.
Man just 11 people in this story they make it sound like WW3. It's not 11 its years of sepratistism because Islam can not be reformed, like a Muslim in a Christian hospital, we have to put our crosses down but at the same time make prayer rooms for them, maybe to secretly shapeshift into lizards out of site.
it's only 2,100+ people since jan '04...
it's separatism in thailand, jesusisthelamb. unless you're being sarcastic.
the southern portion has just enough muslims (5%) to begin their domination efforts.
that's the beginning stages of ww3. i call it becoming omnipious. :D