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Notice how the "militants" are not identified in the headline, and not in the story until several lines down.
Yep, you guessed it. The "militants" also happen to be Islamic!!!!!!!
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Tell 'em what they've won, Jihad Johnny!!!!!!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...s/thailand_southern_violence&cid=516&ncid=716
World - AP Asia
107 Killed in South Thailand Gunbattles
25 minutes ago
By ALISA TANG, Associated Press Writer
PATTANI, Thailand - Scores of teenage militants armed with little more than machetes attacked security outposts across Thailand's troubled Muslim-dominated south Wednesday, but they were repulsed by police who had been tipped off to the offensive. At least 107 militants were killed.
AP Photo
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The last of the raids was quashed when police fired tear gas into a mosque and then killed 11 fighters who tried to escape. Three policemen and two soldiers were also slain in the fighting.
It was the worst violence in a region that has seen dozens of people killed in near-daily of attacks this year. The government has blamed Islamic separatists who have sought to carve out a homeland in the Muslim-majority south of this predominantly Buddhist country for decades.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra denied the attackers had connections to international terrorists. Officials said the attacks were bids to steal weapons from checkpoints and military bases.
"Most of the insurgents are youths from the southern provinces," he said. "Their acts are not linked with international terrorists."
The attacks began before dawn, when the teenage militants stormed more than 15 police bases, village defense posts and district offices in a bid to steal weapons, said Lt. Gen. Proong Bunphandung, the chief of police for the south.
However, security forces had been tipped off and were waiting for the assailants, most of whom carried only machetes, Proong said.
Later on, television news reports showed the bodies of insurgents lying in pools of blood, some of them in front of police stations clasping machetes and wearing camouflage.
Gunfire could be heard in the background as armored personnel carriers drove down deserted village streets and commandos ran through the forest. Policemen and soldiers, carrying automatic rifles, ran across streets and ditches.
Army chief Gen. Chaiyasith Shinawatra told reporters that 107 insurgent were killed and 17 were arrested. He said three policemen and two soldiers were also killed while 15 policemen were injured.
No group claimed responsibility for the highly coordinated assault.
"Most of the dead insurgent are youths of ages ranging from 15 to 20, but two of the leaders are aged about 50 and 60," Proong said, adding that four of the militants were taken alive.
Hours after the violence erupted, 11 armed fighters took over the Kruesie Mosque in the town of Pattani before they were flushed out and shot to death, said Pattani police chief Maj. Gen. Paithoon Pattanasoporn.
"We are now in control of the situation," he said.
Security was tightened along the border with neighboring Malaysia, which has in the past denied allegations of harboring militants.
Thaksin said the raids were linked to a Jan. 4 attack on a military camp in the nearby province of Narathiwat, which triggered an upsurge of violence in the area this year. Four soldiers were killed and hundreds of guns stolen in that raid.
Muslims have long complained of discrimination in jobs and education in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat — Thailand's only Muslim majority provinces.
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They also say their culture and language are being subjugated by the Buddhist Thais, and cite as an example the state schools, which teach in Thai language. Muslims in the south speak Yawi, a dialect of Malay, spoken in the neighboring Malaysia.
The alienation caused by the central government's policies has been the source of a decades old separatist struggle, which had subsided after an amnesty in the late 1980s before exploding with the army arsenal raid in January.
One Islamic leader said he had been told the attackers were apparently drug addicts. Nimu Magajae, deputy chairman of Yala Islamic Council, said if that was true, then there was nothing wrong with the police action.
"This is the first time in my life that I have seen so many Muslim youths killed in one day. But if they were drug addicts we do not regard them as religious followers," he told The Associated Press.
"If they were really drugs addict and had the intention to kill police and the police defended themselves, it is an appropriate act."
Nimu also demanded that authorities hand over the dead bodies of the relatives so that their burial could be performed within 24 hours according to Islamic laws.
Notice how the "militants" are not identified in the headline, and not in the story until several lines down.
Yep, you guessed it. The "militants" also happen to be Islamic!!!!!!!
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Tell 'em what they've won, Jihad Johnny!!!!!!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...s/thailand_southern_violence&cid=516&ncid=716
World - AP Asia
107 Killed in South Thailand Gunbattles
25 minutes ago
By ALISA TANG, Associated Press Writer
PATTANI, Thailand - Scores of teenage militants armed with little more than machetes attacked security outposts across Thailand's troubled Muslim-dominated south Wednesday, but they were repulsed by police who had been tipped off to the offensive. At least 107 militants were killed.
AP Photo
_
The last of the raids was quashed when police fired tear gas into a mosque and then killed 11 fighters who tried to escape. Three policemen and two soldiers were also slain in the fighting.
It was the worst violence in a region that has seen dozens of people killed in near-daily of attacks this year. The government has blamed Islamic separatists who have sought to carve out a homeland in the Muslim-majority south of this predominantly Buddhist country for decades.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra denied the attackers had connections to international terrorists. Officials said the attacks were bids to steal weapons from checkpoints and military bases.
"Most of the insurgents are youths from the southern provinces," he said. "Their acts are not linked with international terrorists."
The attacks began before dawn, when the teenage militants stormed more than 15 police bases, village defense posts and district offices in a bid to steal weapons, said Lt. Gen. Proong Bunphandung, the chief of police for the south.
However, security forces had been tipped off and were waiting for the assailants, most of whom carried only machetes, Proong said.
Later on, television news reports showed the bodies of insurgents lying in pools of blood, some of them in front of police stations clasping machetes and wearing camouflage.
Gunfire could be heard in the background as armored personnel carriers drove down deserted village streets and commandos ran through the forest. Policemen and soldiers, carrying automatic rifles, ran across streets and ditches.
Army chief Gen. Chaiyasith Shinawatra told reporters that 107 insurgent were killed and 17 were arrested. He said three policemen and two soldiers were also killed while 15 policemen were injured.
No group claimed responsibility for the highly coordinated assault.
"Most of the dead insurgent are youths of ages ranging from 15 to 20, but two of the leaders are aged about 50 and 60," Proong said, adding that four of the militants were taken alive.
Hours after the violence erupted, 11 armed fighters took over the Kruesie Mosque in the town of Pattani before they were flushed out and shot to death, said Pattani police chief Maj. Gen. Paithoon Pattanasoporn.
"We are now in control of the situation," he said.
Security was tightened along the border with neighboring Malaysia, which has in the past denied allegations of harboring militants.
Thaksin said the raids were linked to a Jan. 4 attack on a military camp in the nearby province of Narathiwat, which triggered an upsurge of violence in the area this year. Four soldiers were killed and hundreds of guns stolen in that raid.
Muslims have long complained of discrimination in jobs and education in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat — Thailand's only Muslim majority provinces.
_
They also say their culture and language are being subjugated by the Buddhist Thais, and cite as an example the state schools, which teach in Thai language. Muslims in the south speak Yawi, a dialect of Malay, spoken in the neighboring Malaysia.
The alienation caused by the central government's policies has been the source of a decades old separatist struggle, which had subsided after an amnesty in the late 1980s before exploding with the army arsenal raid in January.
One Islamic leader said he had been told the attackers were apparently drug addicts. Nimu Magajae, deputy chairman of Yala Islamic Council, said if that was true, then there was nothing wrong with the police action.
"This is the first time in my life that I have seen so many Muslim youths killed in one day. But if they were drug addicts we do not regard them as religious followers," he told The Associated Press.
"If they were really drugs addict and had the intention to kill police and the police defended themselves, it is an appropriate act."
Nimu also demanded that authorities hand over the dead bodies of the relatives so that their burial could be performed within 24 hours according to Islamic laws.
