[killjoy]

There is present an always appropriate insult to the MSM and PC reporting, not to mention radical islam, which is not unique to this thread. Informational update posts are easily found with a scroll button.

The problem is when the signal-to-noise ratio gets to the point where it it no longer worth it to scroll through posts looking through the noise. Posters are not insulting the MSM, they are insulting FR. The source probably doesn't mention Muslims because it does not need to. Everyone in Thailand already knows who did it.

[wgflyer]

I agree with you that the noise level gets pretty high sometimes, and that this can be frustrating. But, to me, that is just about impossible to avoid on a forum as large as this one, especially on such a charged issue as a (probable) attack by radical islamists. Whenever I see so many responses to a post I feel that the poster has made a good contribution.

By the way, Thailand was g big part of my life during the 70's. I found the people very, very pleasant and I like the Buddhist mentality. I hope they are able to beat this islamic intrusion definitively back to the Malayan border. Truly, I don't understand how a Muslim was able to succeed in a coup, there. Keep posting and give us reflections from your advantageous perspective.

[Hawthorn]

> Everyone in Thailand already knows who did it. <

Not so sure. My Thai wife, here in the USA, has already picked up -- and tends to believe -- the Bangkok rumor mill's latest, which is that the bombings were the work of Thaksin's supporters.

As supporting evidence, she cites the fact that anti-Thaksin commentators on ASTV (Sondhi's news channel) were saying yesterday, well before the bombings, that violence would soon be forthcoming from elements of Thaksin's TRT Party.

[And in fact, she had discussed these predictions with me yesterday, again, well before the bombings.]

My counter to her is that the bombings could just as easily have been done by "agents provacateurs" among the anti-TRT (pro-coup) folks, in order that blame might be attributed to Thaksin.

Bottom Line:

At this early stage, and without better evidence, we may not be able to discriminate among three possible groups of suspects, (1) Thaksin supporters, (2) coup supporters, and (3) Muslims.