Posted on 11/09/2006 10:26:14 AM PST by weegee
BANGKOK, Thailand — Eight bombs exploded almost simultaneously at car and motorcycle showrooms in restive southern Thailand today, wounding nine people, police said.
The blasts were believed to have been carried out by Muslim insurgents, police said.
Attackers posing as customers planted explosives inside cars or near motorcycles at Honda, Nissan, Chevrolet, Mazda, Ford and Isuzu dealerships and at two motorcycle showrooms, Yala police Lt. Col. Sakkarin Bamphensamai said.
He said without elaborating that the blasts bore the trademarks of Muslim separatists.
Police Col. Phumphet Phiphatpetchphoom said that initial reports showed that nine people were wounded.
The attacks came one day after the second visit in a week to the insurgency-wracked region by Thailand's new interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont.
Violence has continued despite pledges from Surayud's interim government to make peace in the south a priority and to end the iron-fisted approach of his predecessor, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled by a military coup in September.
Surayud said that Muslims in southern Thailand should be allowed to practice Islamic law — a major shift from previous governments that had been unwilling to make concessions to Islamic culture.
More than 1,800 people have died in sectarian violence in Thailand's three Muslim-majority provinces — Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat — since an Islamic separatist movement flared in January 2004. The majority of Thailand's population is Buddhist.
This is why you get a hotel in Pattya.
Thailand??
Those damn Amish!
We never should have invaded Thailand.
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It is just another intifada. We'll have one along the Rio Grande before long.
Now that they've had their own Spain / US Midterm 06 moment by way of Coup D'Etat, and moved into appeasement mode, they are reaping the bitter harvest.
"Phumphet Phiphatpetchphoom"
Sure sign of cultural deterioration when names get like that. eg Mayan 'Itxlelatlepitle Alta Xitlputel' Look what happened to them.
i guess it all depends on what actually kills people in a blast of that sort: concussion, building collapsing, flying debris, glass. I guess its better to role over in a dhimmi and pay the jizya.
http://www.answers.com/topic/jizya
http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Index/D/dhimmi.html
Don't they know the War on Terror is over? Time to make nicey with the Democrats.
Nancy Pelosi: "... they'll stay as long as we're there. They're there because we're there."
US out of Thailand!!
Uhh, hmmm... ?
I guess it takes a while for the election returns to make it over to the Islamofascists. They must have not paid their satellite dish bill. /sarc
bump
Sounds like terrorist tactical training - little or no casualties... just a test to show they can pull it off. I hope some intel/CIA folks are paying attention.
I wonder how that muslim dictator they've got now is coming along with his plans for free and fair elections.
And I've got a bridge to sell you! .... LOL!
THREE Christian high school girls were beheaded as a Ramadan "trophy" by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists, a court heard yesterday. The girls' severed heads were dumped in plastic bags in their village in Indonesia's strife-torn Central Sulawesi province, along with a handwritten note threatening more such attacks.The note read: "Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female; blood shall be answered with blood, soul with soul, head with head."
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