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Southern Thailand - âWho You Gonna Call? - "Jihadi-busters"
Bush offers to set up US military base The United States has offered to set up a military base in Thailand following violence in the deep South attributed to Islamic separatists, according to a source familiar with security affairs. US President George W Bush made the offer to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to help |solve regional security problems amid increased fears about the involvement of international terrorists, Metha Matkhao, coordinator for a non-government human rights organisation, said yesterday. Metha, who said he learned about the US offer from a reliable security source, called on the premier and the National Security Council to explain what Bush had offered. "This is a very important issue and requires public participation in making a decision. If the government agrees to the offer, the country will be placed in a bad light in the eyes of Muslims all over the world," Metha said. Like, maybe the worldâs Muslims viewed as "good light" the fact that Thailand took the gloves off and gunned down terrorists holed up in a mosque last week? Another source said Bush had also secretly offered to send anti-terrorist forces to fight alongside Thai soldiers in the South, an arrangement similar to the military assistance the US provided to the Philippine government to help it suppress an Islamic rebellion on the island of Mindanao. Posted by: Lone Ranger 2004-05-03 |
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