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| Gruesome jihadi snuff films found in southern Thailand as killings continue |
| 2007-10-02 |
| Police conducting a raid in a forest zone captured a mobile phone with multiple video clips depicting the beheading of a Thai Army ranger and a villager during a recent raid in Yala. According to Army spokesman Col. Akara Thiproj, during a recent raid in Bannang Sata district, police seized a mobile phone in an apparently abandoned kit bag in the forest. The mobile phone held several video clips documenting the killing and beheading of a Thai Army ranger and a villager. Another clip depicted an insurgent, his head covered with a cloth mask carrying a head of a decapitated victim. A few more unpleasant details here. Some clips show boys and girls estimated to be as young as five or six years old carrying 11 mm military weapons. According to the Army spokesman, the police have learned that the insurgents let children aged between 13-14 years old to transport explosive materials because the police don't often conduct body searches on youngsters. An investigation is under way. In other incidents, an Islamic ustaz or religious teacher and a local resident were shot dead in separate shootings. A 35-year-old Muslim religious teacher was gunned down in a hail of bullets and died instantly while he was riding his motorcycle home Monday night in Khok Pho district of Pattani province. Following the first killing, an unidentified group of gunmen fired at local residents dining at a karaoke restaurant, killing a 32-year-old patron on the spot. Meanwhile four police officers assigned to a teacher protection unit suffered minor injuries in a bomb attack in Narathiwat Tuesday. A remote-controlled bomb exploded 100 metres from a school in Sungai Padi district while the border patrol police officers were travelling to pick up and escort schoolteachers. The police received minor wounds, and their pick-up truck was damaged. They were rushed to nearby hospital and were released from hospital after treatment. Police responding to the incident have gathered evidence to track the bombers. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 But all I see is atrocity after atrocity and the entire civilized world - Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and the rest - sleeping as our neighbors are slaughtered. It's all I see, too, brother. I dread to think what's required to shake this world out of its complacency. No doubt it will involve some sort of spectacularly horrific carnage. I remain supremely confident of one thing only: That Islam—cheerfully and capably—will rise to the challenge. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-02 13:42 |
| #2 Zenster: I hope you are right. But all I see is atrocity after atrocity and the entire civilized world - Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and the test - sleeping as our neighbors are slaughtered. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-10-02 07:44 |
| #1 Right when you're left wondering what it will take to shake the Thais out of their complacency, along come the Muslims with one of their usual thoughtful solutions. This ought to put some lead in the Rangers' pencils. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-02 06:00 |