Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Thailand
Charles Johnson
Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 10:45 pm PDT • Views: 397
Bomb wounds 11 in Thailand’s Muslim south.
YALA, Thailand (AFP) - At least 11 people were wounded by a bomb at a busy market in Thailand’s restive Muslim-majority south Thursday but a second device was defused, police said.
The attack came as mainly Buddhist Thailand was on high alert against possible terror attacks during the five-day Buddhist New Year holiday, which begins on Friday.
The bomb, hidden under a market stall, was set off by a mobile phone in Yala, one of three insurgency-hit southern provinces bordering Malaysia, police said.
Another bomb was discovered at a public phone booth near the market but police defused the device.
Notice: even though the wire services want us to think the jihad violence in Thailand is “shadowy” and mysterious and no one ever claims responsibility, they still don’t hesitate to label it an “insurgency.”
Yala has suffered the brunt of a recent escalation in attacks by a shadowy Islamic insurgency, which never claims responsibility for the violence. More than 2,000 people have been killed in three years of unrest in the south.
Frank says: