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Thai jihadis threaten Dire Revenge (TM)
This threat was posted to a jihadi website on 28 October. I'm posting it today so it's part of the RB archive.

Muslim separatists in southern Thailand vowed to carry out revenge attacks after the deaths of 78 protesters who died mainly from suffocation after being crammed on military trucks.

"We swear to Allah from now on, unjust groups cannot sleep well, all property they robbed from us will be destroyed," said the statement posted on the website of the Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo). "They will pay for what they have done, their cities will burn... their blood will pour into land and river," it went on. "Our weapons are fire and oil, fire and oil and fire and oil. We would like to mourn for the dead of people and express sorrow for all injured people ... Your sacrifice will not be wasted but it will be inscribed on our beloved motherland."

The message followed a threat posted on the same website in April to foreigners not to travel to key Thai tourist destinations following the deaths of 108 militants and five security forces during a one-day uprising against Thailand's rule. It warned of attacks on vital resorts for Thai tourism, including Phuket and Krabi, but there have been no strikes in those areas since the threat despite a continuing insurgency in the Muslim-majority south of the country.

Pulo emerged as the largest of a number of Muslim separatist organisations, which formed in the 1960s to re-launch a bid for independence after Thailand annexed a former independent Islamic state in the south 102 years ago.
I never knew those areas had been annexed.
After a wave of violence in the 1970s, a campaign to channel development funds into the area turned the tide, and the election of Thailand's first Muslim politicians helped seal the demise of separatism in the early 1990s. The weakened insurgent groups and their splinter organisations struggled through the 1990s, considered incapable of mounting any serious attacks. But the intifada insurgency sparked back into life in January and more than 415 people have died in violence this year.
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-11-13
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