Four killed, five injured in militant attack in Pattani

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Four killed, five injured in militant attack in Pattani

PATTANI: -- Three local government officials and a civilian were killed, and five others injured when Muslim militants attacked a local government office in Khok Pho district of Pattani Thursday morning with assault rifles and home made bombs.

Khok Pho police investigator Pol Lt-Col Surin Chumvoratayi said the attack happened in front of Makrud local adminstration office in Khok Pho.

They came in pickup truck, opened fire into the office M 16 assault rifles and fled.

On their escape, they also strew nail traps along the way to prevent hot pursuits by authorities and also planted bombs at the scene.

One bomb exploded wounding five villagers.

Killed at the local administration office by gunfire included Prasit Sintu-uthai, the local administration office chief, a civil engineer officer Chambong Nosith, and an adminstration official Jirawat Siripanbun, and a villager.

Five other peoples wounded in the bomb explosion included two women.

Meanwhile Latapanyang local government office in Yaring district was also when militants fired into the wall of the office. Nobody was injured.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/four-killed-five-injured-militant-attack-pattani/


-- Thai PBS 2014-09-11

[clockman]

Get some those surplus generals down there!

[Fat Haggis]

I just commented about this attack to a forum member who said that Thailand is peaceful now... yes, try telling that to the families who lost loved ones today.

There are terrorists still at work down South, the problem is far from over..

[ezzra]

Not before long, you will hear that ISIS has put down roots in the south to " help thy brethren "

and the carnage will grow many folds, what our new PM doing about it? now that he's resting

on his laurels....

[Albertosez]

Anyone who has been following the other threads on TV about " UK having a Jihad Problem and the recent Beheadings in UK " will have read lots of information about Radical Islam and the intentions of the Muslims.

The UK has failed miserably in recognizing,controlling and eradicating these Radical Muslims and we now have a enormous problem that very few even recognize. I hope Thailand has stronger leadership and can drive these people out - preferably in body bags in the back of a Trash Lorry !

[razer]

In Malaysia, amid reports that four new Malaysian militant groups, identified by their acronyms BKAW, BAJ, Dimzia and ADI, are bent on creating a “super” Islamic caliphate in parts of Southeast Asia, including secular Singapore

http://thediplomat.com/2014/09/indonesia-malaysia-and-the-fight-against-islamic-state-influence/

[chooka]

Wherever muslims are there is trouble, these people just can't live with others and we see it in every single country around the world.

[earthpig]

For peace to break out, the Thais must do to their Malays what the Russians did to their Chechens or what the Chinese did to their Uighers or what Bush did to his Falluhjans.

And once they have done it, they have to keep on doing it for a long, long time, and not pull an Obama and stop the Global War on Terror and as a result give up all the ground gained in Iraq and then some.

Southern Thai is very bad, indeed horrible, tragedy. But it is what it is and not confronting it directly increases dramatically the lives lost. Those are the wages of the soft power advocates, as Gordon Brown proved so dramatically in Basra and Helmand.

[fabphil]

Maybe the thai govt needs to ask Obama for help to sought this mob out in the south..because they sure aint doing it..

[Krataiboy]

Anyone who has been following the other threads on TV about " UK having a Jihad Problem and the recent Beheadings in UK " will have read lots of information about Radical Islam and the intentions of the Muslims.

The UK has failed miserably in recognizing,controlling and eradicating these Radical Muslims and we now have a enormous problem that very few even recognize. I hope Thailand has stronger leadership and can drive these people out - preferably in body bags in the back of a Trash Lorry !

If anybody is guilty of "radicalising" Muslims it is Britain, the US and other Western nations which seem to assume they have a God-given right to meddle in the affairs of other sovereign nations and launch wars of aggression at will, irrespective of their legality under UN or international charter.

When you routinely murder and displace millions of people, destroy their homes, livelihoods and way of life is it really so surprising that so many become "radicalised"? Britain and other nations which have lost young men to the Caliphate recently are simply reaping the bitter harvest hatred and resentment sown during military operations in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.

Further intervention in Syria, which seems to be next on the US agenda for the privilege of having freedom and democracy imposed at the point of a gun, will inevitably send more converts flocking to the feared black flag of radical Islam.

[Albertosez]

Anyone who has been following the other threads on TV about " UK having a Jihad Problem and the recent Beheadings in UK " will have read lots of information about Radical Islam and the intentions of the Muslims.

The UK has failed miserably in recognizing,controlling and eradicating these Radical Muslims and we now have a enormous problem that very few even recognize. I hope Thailand has stronger leadership and can drive these people out - preferably in body bags in the back of a Trash Lorry !

If anybody is guilty of "radicalising" Muslims it is Britain, the US and other Western nations which seem to assume they have a God-given right to meddle in the affairs of other sovereign nations and launch wars of aggression at will, irrespective of their legality under UN or international charter.

When you routinely murder and displace millions of people, destroy their homes, livelihoods and way of life is it really so surprising that so many become "radicalised"? Britain and other nations which have lost young men to the Caliphate recently are simply reaping the bitter harvest hatred and resentment sown during military operations in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.

Further intervention in Syria, which seems to be next on the US agenda for the privilege of having freedom and democracy imposed at the point of a gun, will inevitably send more converts flocking to the feared black flag of radical Islam.

I do not disagree with you - entirely. However, I think the radicals have / have had their own hidden agenda anyway - irrespective of the Foreign Policies / interference from the West. Unfortunately, we are now in a big mess and this needs to be sorted out. You would have to be ignorant, however, to condone the behavior of these Radical Muslims - irrespective of which Country these atrocities are being committed in !

[rascalman]

Please remember that their's is a religion of peace and love!

Edited September 12, 2014 by rascalman

[toooa]

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Remember about a year ago Obama wanted to go into Syria because of the chemical attacks he blamed and Assad when it was actually Al Nusra front who were responsible? Looks like he's using IS as his excuse this time.

Yes, IS is very dangerous and incompatible with peace, but forget at your peril, that back in 2007 IS was nothing but an online forum for militants.....so how did they get all their weapons and recruits and training? The ousting of Gaddafi and Saddam in Iraq certainly proved that a ruthless dictator who is pretty much secular in approach is sometimes needed to keep the crazies under control. When you upset that bucket of worms, and then arm and train all manner of shady groups, with very loose boundaries with other shady groups then you get something like ISIS. It also helps to have oil rich backers in gulf oilifates. Of course that's a gross simplification but how they could have expected any other outcome baffles me.

Let's arm and train our enemy's (Assad, Gadafi, Ayatollah whatever) enemy (Sundry Crazies)... that should work shouldn't it?

IS is the new Al Qaeda, the new boogie man on the block, and excuse for the endless war on a word "terror". Remember war keeps the masses busy.

Yes taxpayers, billions of your dollars, and debt on your children's heads has been very beneficial for the creation of IS. How do you like them apples?

As to the issues in the Deep South (back on track again), I think that a peek into the history of the Malay Peninsular may answer some questions.

As to it being an issue of Islam, well not all Muslims believe in this ideology to be fair, but the ones who are using religion to suck in the ideologically minded and ignorant seem to have a pretty slick marketing strategy.

Also I often wonder what the response would be if a rogue sect of Christianity was forming armies, beheading civilians, raping and destroying in the name of the Almighty. This is not 633 A.D. anymore, nor is it 1099 A.D.

There are Imams speaking up about it, but not enough. These extremists are the Dajal themselves.

Edited September 13, 2014 by toooa

[Bluespunk]

Anyone who has been following the other threads on TV about " UK having a Jihad Problem and the recent Beheadings in UK " will have read lots of information about Radical Islam and the intentions of the Muslims.

The UK has failed miserably in recognizing,controlling and eradicating these Radical Muslims and we now have a enormous problem that very few even recognize. I hope Thailand has stronger leadership and can drive these people out - preferably in body bags in the back of a Trash Lorry !

The most recent beheading in the UK was carried out by a catholic.

Edited September 13, 2014 by Bluespunk