The Islamonazi savages of southern Thailand struck again in a big way.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces since 2004, but most people have no idea of this jihad. Few will hear of this latest attack either, because gutless Western leaders and media don’t want people to know the true face of Islam.
(photos via Atlas)
NPR – Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand’s restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists.
A first batch of explosives planted inside a parked pickup truck ripped through an area of restaurants and shops in a busy area of Yala city, a main commercial hub of Thailand’s restive southern provinces, said district police chief Col. Kritsada Kaewchandee.
About 20 minutes later, just as onlookers gathered at the blast site, a second car bomb exploded, causing the majority of casualties. Eleven people were killed and 110 wounded by the blasts.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces — Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala — since an Islamist insurgency flared in January 2004.
“This is the worst attack in the past few years,” said Col. Pramote Promin, deputy spokesman of a regional security agency. “The suspected insurgents were targeting people’s lives. They [chose] a bustling commercial area, so they wanted to harm people.”
Most attacks are small-scale bombings or drive-by shootings that target soldiers, police and symbols of authority, but suspected insurgents have also staged large attacks in commercial areas.
Separately, a blast occurred at a high-rise hotel in the city of Hat Yai, in the nearby province of Songkhla, that officials initially attributed to a gas leak and said was unrelated to the attacks blamed on insurgents.
The midday explosion at the 405-room Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel, where throngs of Malaysian and Singaporean tourists spend their weekends, killed three people and caused about 230 injuries, mostly from smoke inhalation, said police Lt. Puwadon Wiriyawarangkun.
After inspecting the hotel’s underground parking lot, authorities found a severely damaged sedan and a hole created by the explosion’s impact.
Regional police chief Lt. Gen. Jakthip Chaijinda said the Hat Yai incident “is likely related to what happened in Yala and might have been plotted by the same group of insurgents.”
Police said the blast that occurred at the underground level of the hotel had ripped the building’s cooking gas pipeline, causing a fire that sent smoke spiraling into the upper floors and trapping many people in their rooms until rescuers came. One of the fatalities was identified as a Malaysian tourist.
A McDonald’s restaurant on the hotel’s ground floor appeared to have suffered heavy damage from the blast.
The hotel was also targeted in 2006, when four people including a Canadian man were killed by six bombs that had been planted on Hat Yai’s main street. Hat Yai and the rest of Songkhla province have generally been spared the violence that has wracked Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.
In Saturday’s third incident, suspected Muslim militants detonated a motorcycle bomb 55 yards away from a local police station in Pattani province’s Mae Lan district, wounding one police officer, according to police Col. Tharet Kaewla-eiad.
The Yala bombings occurred on a road that was previously heavily guarded by checkpoints and closed to traffic to ensure safety. But the security was lifted in 2011 after local vendors said the measures harmed their businesses.
Exclusive photos of one undetonated bomb, obtained by ABC News, show the inside of the radio packed with tiny ball bearings and six magnets. Bomb experts say the magnets indicate the bomb was designed to be stuck to the side of a vehicle.
The religion of peace struck three times in southern Thailand over the past couple of days. The Islamic insurgency in southern Thailand is perhaps the most under-reported in the world. Over 4300 people have been murdered there in the last seven years.
In the province of Yala, police say that insurgents set off a roadside bomb and shot at an army patrol, killing three soldiers and wounding two.
Imagine targeting and blowing up harmless Buddhist monks as they go about collecting their daily alms. What kind of sick mindset would do such a thing?
These latest attacks on Buddhists in southern Thailand almost slipped by me.
While, internationally speaking, most eyes are drawn to Libya, Syria, and other Middle Eastern uprisings, Jihadists have continued to do their thing in Thailand’s Islamic-plagued south. I’ve posted many stories (links below) about this most overlooked and ignored jihad on the planet, but I blinked and almost missed the latest couple of attacks.
The hits just keep coming and coming in Southern Thailand. (
A few days back I wrote about a daring 
One of the most unreported scenes of violence on the planet is that which occurs regularly in southern Thailand. 4,300 people have been butchered there since 2004. Southern Thailand is predominantly Muslim, and they have been killing Buddhist Thais there for years. The Muslims want their own country – kinda like the Fakestinians, only without nearly the press. Also, unlike the Fakestinians, the Muslims in southern Thailand actually lived there for centuries.
