One Killed in Bombing of Thai Noodle Shop

AllHeadlineNews ^ | 1/16/05

[TexKat]

BANGKOK, Thailand - A bomb believed planted by Muslim insurgents exploded Sunday at a noodle shop in southern Thailand, killing one person and injuring 59 others, officials said.

Thailand's three southernmost provinces have been plagued for the past year by violence the authorities blame on a revived Muslim separatist movement.

The bomb, estimated to weigh 10 pounds, was left in the shop and triggered remotely by a mobile phone at noon while the shop was crowded, police said.

Witnesses said the bomb may have been planted by a woman who left her purse on a chair and walked out shortly before the explosion, provincial police chief Col. Parinya Kwangyeun said.

The restaurant's owner was confirmed dead, and 59 other people were hospitalized with injuries, including 10 who were in critical condition, Parinya said.

Many previous bombings in the area have used the same gel explosive, large quantities of which have been reported stolen from quarries and construction sites.

Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani on the Thai-Malaysia border are the only Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand, which is mostly Buddhist. Southern Muslims have long complained of being treated as second-class citizens.

Near-daily shootings and occasional bombings have plagued the area, claiming more than 660 lives over the past year.

[TexKat]

Thai police go through the rubble of a noodle shop, after a bomb explosion in Yala province about 1084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, January 16, 2005. A bomb exploded outside a noodle shop in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 29, police said. Violence erupted in the south a year ago, fuelling fears that a dormant separatist Islamic insurgency might be revived. About 500 people were killed last year in three southern provinces annexed by Thailand a century ago. REUTERS/Stringer

A Thai victim waits for a doctor at hospital, after being hurt by a bomb explosion, in Yala province about 1084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, January 16, 2005. A bomb exploded outside a noodle shop in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 29, police said. Violence erupted in the south a year ago, fuelling fears that a dormant separatist Islamic insurgency might be revived. About 500 people were killed last year in three southern provinces annexed by Thailand a century ago. REUTERS/Stringer

Thai offical transport a victim to hospital after being hurt by a bomb explosion in Yala province about 1084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, January 16, 2005. A bomb exploded outside a noodle shop in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 29, police said. Violence erupted in the south a year ago, fuelling fears that a dormant separatist Islamic insurgency might be revived. About 500 people were killed last year in three southern provinces annexed by Thailand a century ago. REUTERS/Stringer

Thai police go through the rubble of a noodle shop, after a bomb explosion in Yala province about 1084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, January 16, 2005. A bomb exploded outside a noodle shop in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 29, police said. Violence erupted in the south a year ago, fuelling fears that a dormant separatist Islamic insurgency might be revived. About 500 people were killed last year in three southern provinces annexed by Thailand a century ago. REUTERS/Stringer

Thai soilder moves through the rubble after a bomb explosion in Yala province about 1084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok, January 16, 2005. A bomb exploded outside a noodle shop in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 29, police said. Violence erupted in the south a year ago, fuelling fears that a dormant separatist Islamic insurgency might be revived. About 500 people were killed last year in three southern provinces annexed by Thailand a century ago. REUTERS/Stringer

[Just Lori]

What the hell do these animals WANT??? Muslim violence is EVERYWHERE!

[JRandomFreeper]

Prayers for the families, and for the victims, and for the Thai in general.

/john

[PilloryHillary]

"Muslim insurgents" = TERRORISTS!

[VOA]

Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani on the Thai-Malaysia border are the only Muslim-majority
provinces in Thailand, which is mostly Buddhist.

Ship them to Banda Aceh in Indonesia.
Lots of low-price real estate for them there...would probably be
first-class citizens in that part of the world...

[tkathy]

This is just unbelievable! They are subhuman maniacs.

[riri]

I told my MIL from Thailand was in jeopardy from Islam. She told me I was wrong.

Later during the week I found out her mother, still residing in Thailand, attends the local mosque. Not because she is a Muslim (she is Buddhist) but because it just makes things easier for her.

[Clemenza]

We can never have enough Thai noodle shops in the USA. I hope that the non-Muslim Thais such as the victim consider either emigration or retaliation.

[Madame Dufarge]

Southern Muslims have long complained of being treated as second-class citizens

It would appear there's a reason for this.

[dennisw]

If Muslims are too blame then one mosque should be bombed from the air. With no warning to anyone who may be there. Start with the worst Jihadist mosques then work your way down the list

[miltonim]

Muhammad's Koran-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims continues...

[tet68]

What the hell do these animals WANT??? Muslim violence is EVERYWHERE!


That is indeed what they want!
What they also desire is a terrific backlash at any moderate
Muslims, thereby furthering their Jihad.

The continued harping of CAIR in this country is preparing
the Muslims here for the response to the next terror strike, it's how they recruit.

[Bossy Gillis]

I cannot believe the Thai government doesn't put an end to this, their hands are not tied like the US.

[kenth]

They want everyone dead who isn't muslim. It's that simple I believe.

The left tries to 'nuance' and explain away their violence as a message to western intrusion and imperialism. That's a load of crap. The only message is 'death to the infidels'.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It's been this way for 1,200 years. What else is new about Islam?

And, to answer your question, they want everyone to live under the satanic Crescent Moon and face Mecca five times a day, that's what they want.

[rightwinggoth]

"Muslim insurgents"

Err, this looks more like the work of terrorists than enemy combatants, unless there's some big Muslim rebellion in Thailand that I don't know about. Is 'insurgent' becoming a politically-correct neologism?

[reagan_fanatic]

Damned MSM showing their bias again...

A bomb believed planted by Muslim insurgents

TERRORISTS

...

[Longbow1969]

"What the hell do these animals WANT??? Muslim violence is EVERYWHERE!"

They want the death and destruction of everything un-Islamic. Muslims actually make their goals pretty clear to anyone willing to pay even the slightest bit of attention. The Thai's are, unfortunantly, guity of the same thing we are in the West - that is, trying to avoid facing the horrible truth about what Islam really represents.

The majority buddhist Thai's are wracking their brains trying to figure out how to reach out to their Muslim population, sending their Queen to the terrorist ridden provinces in the vain search for dialogue, floating silly cutout paper peace doves as symbolic acts of understanding, etc - and meanwhile the terrorist continue their campaign of killing, bombing and mayhem. How it isn't completely obvious to everyone that these Islamic fanatics, and the general Muslim population that harbors and refuses to condemn the violence, will respond to anything other than massive force is beyond me.

The violent nature of Islam will never end because it is a religion of conquest. I hope and pray the rest of the world wakes up soon and recognizes this fact, but sadly I fear it will take terrorist attacks of unimaginable scale before we learn.

Islam is a scourge which must be thoroughly crushed.

Longbow

[Longbow1969]

"I cannot believe the Thai government doesn't put an end to this, their hands are not tied like the US."

To his credit, Prime Minister Thaksin has made some attempts to deal with the Islamic violence in the south. The problem is, he and his TRT party are like the West in that they refuse to accept the depth of the problem. Thaksin and his administration like to blame Muslim violence on hooligans or gang members rather than accept the completely obvious - which is that a significant percentage of the entire Islamic population in the south is sympathetic to their terrorist brethren. Still, Thaksin takes a strong stand against terror from time to time, but unfortunantly each time he does, busy body NGO's get involved and condemn the Thai government and the West starts whining that Thaksin should persue "dialogue" rather than allow the "cycle of violence" to continue.

Keep an eye on Thailand. The Islamic terrorists are actively trying to bomb tourist areas in and around BKK, Phuket and elsewhere. Something on the scale of the Bali bombing will be attempted, the only question is when and will the Thai authorities be able to stop it in time.

Longbow

[Lazamataz]

BANGKOK, Thailand - A bomb believed planted by Muslim insurgents exploded Sunday at a noodle shop in southern Thailand, killing one person and injuring 59 others, officials said.

All Islamics, even the peaceful ones, have become my mortal enemy.