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Muslim insurgency stokes fear in southern Thailand
International Herald Tribune ^
| February 25, 2007
| Seth Mydans
Posted on 02/25/2007 2:04:06 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos
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posted on
02/25/2007 2:05:51 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: ASA Vet
we never should have invaded southern Thailand ...
/s
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posted on
02/25/2007 2:13:28 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
02/25/2007 2:15:39 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Mount Athos
Sounds like Thailand? is turning into France.
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posted on
02/25/2007 2:17:06 PM PST
by
jdm
To: JimSEA
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posted on
02/25/2007 2:20:22 PM PST
by
blam
To: Mount Athos
Hey, no stories except for the poor, opressed muslims fighting and murdering in their occupied lands. It might be distracting to all those human rights groups. /s
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posted on
02/25/2007 2:33:01 PM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: killjoy
Hello, I remembered that you had posted many enthusiastic and hopeful postings about the latest prime minister of thailand, and his new approach to handling the muslim takeover of southern thailand. Has your opinion evolved any, now that violence is escalating even further, muslims have defacto control over territories, and the government is losing? What do you think of their policy of appeasement and apology?
General Sondhi, who led the coup, was responsible for the South. He had his hands completely tied and was being forced out of his position so he could be replaced by someone more loyal to the former prime minister.
SBPAC was shutdown by the former prime minister since there was 'no longer a Muslim problem in the South'. Under the former prime minister, all military and police activities in the South were coordinated out of Bangkok. Local commanders were not able to operate autonomously prior to the coup. They are now able to have more say on activities and are able to effect policies. Definitely a good thing.
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it was made very clear that these are low-level talks and negotiations are completely out of the question. The first line of the Thai Constitution states quite clear that Thailand is a 'singular state'. It will remain that way.
To: Mount Athos
It is stories like this that make me feel like iraq WAS the right thing to do, but we were too late.
To: Mount Athos
"A new policy of conciliation pursued by Thailand's junta since it took power in a coup five months ago has been met by increased violence,.. How long, will it take for this world to wake up to the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to reconcile differences with a pack of savages whose first and last purpose in existing is to kill anyone not like them. How many times have we seen appeasement met with increased savagery? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time. I must conclude, therefore that the world has gone insane.
To: Mount Athos
Hello, I remembered that you had posted many enthusiastic and hopeful postings about the latest prime minister of thailand, and his new approach to handling the muslim takeover of southern thailand. Has your opinion evolved any, now that violence is escalating even further, muslims have defacto control over territories, and the government is losing? What do you think of their policy of appeasement and apology? I think the government is on the right track... well should I say on a much better track than it would have been under the previous government. The problems right now have nothing to do with 'appeasement and apology' but with middle ranking career officers who are only looking at how they can get themselves promoted instead of doing their jobs. Thailand, being what it is, is just not in a position to do it by themselves without serious purges of middle ranking officers which is not going to happen. Unfortunately, at this point I think it is going to take a western power putting pressure on Thailand to win this thing.
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posted on
02/25/2007 2:53:13 PM PST
by
killjoy
(Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
To: Eagles Talon IV
I must conclude, therefore that the world has gone insane.It has.
To: Mount Athos
Thailand needs to get medieval on these muslim ba$tards. If they don't, they are in for a horrific outcome.
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posted on
02/25/2007 3:07:28 PM PST
by
Migraine
(...diversity is great (until it happens to you)...)
To: Eagles Talon IV
How long, will it take for this world to wake up to the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to reconcile differences with a pack of savages whose first and last purpose in existing is to kill anyone not like them. It is amazing isn't it? Seems like no one in power has studied history. Or at least, the conservative version of history. Everything else is wishing and fantasy. This is like the 1930s in slow-mo. Before this clash of cultures is over, over a billion may be dead. Every day the West sleeps increases the ultimate toll.
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posted on
02/25/2007 3:26:42 PM PST
by
rbg81
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To: ASA Vet
To: Mount Athos
I just read the full article and statements such as:
"When we are in a restaurant, if we see a soldier or policeman nearby we hurry to leave," Chidchanok said. "In the shops near the university, if a soldier or policeman comes to buy something, the owner says, 'Quickly just buy something and leave.'"
are laughable. I am close friends with guys serving in the South and their experiences are the exact opposite.
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posted on
02/25/2007 3:40:29 PM PST
by
killjoy
(Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
To: rbg81
The west has become too PC and multiculturists, to accept what is happening and doing something about it, they have become muslim jihadist butt kissers. When some of their family members have their heads chopped or sawed off they may come to the senses, but then it will be too late.
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posted on
02/25/2007 4:05:43 PM PST
by
tillacum
(Dispite the dark days of Ratdom, conservatives will prevail.)
To: Mount Athos
Behold the Peace of Islam: Picture of the Week
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Allah is on a roll! The Buddhist man under this sheet is just one of 666 innocents murdered in the name of Islam last week... |
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posted on
02/25/2007 4:20:04 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: lonevoice
How many deaths at the hands of Muslim extremists will it take to finally get the world united in an all out effort to end the slaughter? I think we are looking at world wide genocide.
To: Mount Athos
Its Israel and the Jews fault /sarc.
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posted on
02/25/2007 5:12:42 PM PST
by
omega4179
(Hitler had a "Rockstar" personality and was an articulate speaker.)
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