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An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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Why do Saudi clerics alway turn up where there's terror?

This year it was to be free televisions, cable and English football but the Saudi clerics, not to be out-matched, were quick to riposte with an adroit "hat trick" of their own by declaring football un-islamic.

[Northern Alliance]

Best analysis I have seen of the situation there.

[dervish]

From your link

"I regret that they finally were killed. We had surrendered to their demand by bringing Malaysian reporters but our two soldiers were killed anyway," he told reporters at the scene.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/169465/1/.html

Huge mistake -- negotiating with Islamic terrorists.

They should have stormed in the way the Brits just rescued thier own in Iraq.

[killjoy]

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has ambiguously vowed that "justice will be served", but the reality is that he sits there helpless, bound and unduly restrained by Western liberalism and political correctness, Thaksin like many other world leaders have found themselves on the receiving end of this 'new and improved' recrudescent fascism cloaked in a facade of religion.

Saying that nothing will be done because of Toxin is sort of like blaming Ronald McDonald when you get a bad cheeseburger. Neither one runs the company. Trust me, justice is being served in the south. Unfortunately I can't say more but I have a lot of friends who were sent down there because of this and they are not the touchy-feely type.