Posted on 02/13/2013 7:18:38 PM PST by Jyotishi
Pattani, Thailand: Thai soldiers fending off a major assault on a military base in the country's violence-plagued south killed 19 insurgents, authorities said Wednesday. The death toll was believed to be the biggest inflicted on the Muslim guerrillas since more than 100 died in a single day nearly a decade ago.
About 50 militants wearing military-like uniforms raided a marine corps base in Bacho district in Narathiwat province late Tuesday night, Col Pramote Promin said.
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An Islamic insurgency erupted in 2004 in Thailand's three southernmost provinces, a Muslim-majority region in the Buddhist-dominated country. In April of that year, guerrillas launched simultaneous attacks on police stations and checkpoints in the three provinces, triggering clashes in which more than 100 militants died; 32 of them were killed at the Kreu-Sae mosque in Pattani where they were holed up.
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Good work.
Its a start.
Good shooting kop!
Hi, there - we’re Moslems, adherents of the Religion of Peace, so hold still and be peaceful while we murder you in a variety of sneaky surprise attacks and then cut off your head and display it on a pike.
Oh, and tell all your women we plan to rape them to death and then kill your kids.
But, hey, we’re Moslems, adherents of the Religion of Peace.
(And Obama is working them into positions of authority in the U.S. government.)
I’m sure that the king and royal family should step aside and let the muzzies take over the country.....get scary kerry on this stat.....
Maybe Hussein will organize an Arab Spring for Thailand yet.
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