Thailand Jihad Update. "Attack in Thailand kills 8 soldiers," by Sutin Wannabovorn for the Associated Press:
BANGKOK, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents killed eight soldiers — leaving one beheaded — in a bomb and shooting attack Monday in restive southern Thailand, army and police officials said.
The soldiers were on a routine morning patrol in the Chanae district of Narathiwat province when a bomb hidden on the road exploded as their vehicle passed, said the spokesman, Col. Akara Thiprote.
After the blast, suspected insurgents attacked the vehicle with a barrage of gunfire, leaving no survivors, he said.
"One of the soldiers was beheaded. His head was found 50 meters away from the scene of the attack," said police Lt. Col. Chakkrote Nongmanee, who inspected the blast site.
It was not immediately clear at what point the soldier was beheaded.
An initial investigation indicated that about 20 suspected insurgents had been hiding behind brush along the roadside, Chakkrote said, adding that police found 10 weapons left in the area, including eight M-16 assault rifles, a submachine gun and a pistol.
More than 2,800 people have been killed in Thailand's Muslim-majority southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, and some parts of neighboring Songkhla, since a long-simmering Islamic separatist insurgency flared in January 2004.
Maybe Bush will push for a Muslim state within Thailand. After all, Bush wants to reward Pali terrorism so he must be fair.
"... police found 10 weapons left in the area, including eight M-16 assault rifles, a submachine gun and a pistol...."
....that is odd...maybe the blood and body parts were all the Muslims were interested in...
His head was found 50 meters away from the scene of the attack.
They just needed a ball to practice for the 2010 soccer world cup. Maybe they were feeling too "restive"
Has anyone here flown into the new airport in Bangkok? When you drive into the city from the airport you can see quite a few mosques. Some of them look damn big. They also look quite new, but I'm not sure if they are. Anyway, I worry about all Thailand and not just the restive south.
When the Thais wake the heck up and start attacking the muslims in revenge for the over 2800 deaths in the past four years (of women, children, school teachers and the like), it will make this seem tame by comparison.
I just hope the Thais wake up sooner rather then later.
I wonder how the only man to get beheaded was chosen for that honor? I guess we will never know, only Allah knows, because he was behind the whole event.
These terrorist know that Allah is watching their every move, they also know what he (Allah) likes and expects. They read it in his book, and had it reaffirmed by the Prophet. Allah is with them, and 'is' them...Worse than submission, possession...
"I wonder how the only man to get beheaded was chosen for that honor?"
...I would like to think he actually managed to shoot a couple of attackers...
When its payback time
The muslims whine
A terrible human tragedy occured in Tak Bai, Narathiwat on October 2004. Yet the world still turns a blind eye to suffering of the Patani Malay minority there. Organisations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Commission of Jurists and the United Nations have fought various causes before and brought the untold suffering of the millions of destitute into the living rooms of the powerful and influential. There is plenty of evidence of the brutality that was shown to the world that day.
THE TRUTH IS MOSLEMSS DON,T WANT PEACE
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2006/06/true-story.html
"The Land of Smiles"?
Once you visited Thailand, you will notice that the most prominent feature of the character of the Thai people is their natural inclination to smile.
Perhaps it was the influence of Buddhism.
Thai people take things easy and they are kind to strangers. They are always cheerful no matter whether in success or in adversity.
Thai people have lived in their motherland for centuries in happiness and contentment.
Another significant trait of the Thai nation - their love of peace. their exceptional ability to co-exist with people of different ethnic groups, different religions, different political views and different social classes.
In Thai history, there have been no religious wars.
Until
The Thailand Jihad
Photographic Evidence One of the least known and least publicized current wars involving Islamic extremists is the ongoing jihad in southern Thailand.
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/09/land-of-smiles.html
I *think* this is the same story - BBC version, as relayed by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in their online news site.
See link.
Interesting to compare and contrast. If it's the same story, these poor soldiers were trundling home to base after escorting a bunch of schoolteachers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/14/2138266.htm?section=world
It's all the fault of those Thai Zionists that invaded Iraq.
As usual.
Of course the problem is that the muslims in the south of Thailand should have been joined with Malaysia rather than Thailand. They do not like being the second class citizens that they always have been.
'ryan'
In light of your remarks about the alleged second-class citizenship of the Muslim minority in Thailand, in particular in the southern states (which were, I will remind you, Hindu-Buddhist societies for a good millennium before Islam ever came onto the scene),
I think you need to carry out some research into the very special meaning which is attached to 'oppression' by quite a lot of Muslims.
On the available evidence, it seems to mean something like this: - "'Oppression': that condition which is experienced by Muslims who live in a state where Infidel law is the law of the land, where the head of state is not necessarily a Muslim, and where Muslims are not able to do whatever they like (up to and including rape, robbery and murder), whenever they like, to non-Muslims, with total impunity".