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Southeast Asia
Bomb blast injures eight soldiers, as top Thai officials visit the south
2008-01-21
Even as the prime minister and other top officials were going South to review the progress current status of the jihad insurgency, an undetermined number of terrorists insurgents detonated a bomb using a cell phone signal near a railway station in Narathiwat's Rue So district, injuring eight soldiers. The new violence occurred as a military unit on foot-patrol to ensure safety for railway passengers were assaulted. The government soldiers and the presumed insurgents exchanged gunfire for five minutes before the assailants withdrew.

In nearby Pattani province, a police informant was gunned down on Monday morning in the provincial seat. Abdultorlae Tohadam was shot in a drive-by shooting riding a motorcycle and died at the scene.

The prime minister, accompanied by Defence Minister Boonrawd Somtas, Army Chief Anupong Paojinda , and National Police Chief Seripisuth Temiyavej, flew to Yala Monday to convene a meeting with officials from the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC). Prior to the meeting, the premier disclosed that he was going to hear an inventory of SBPAC's problems from the SBPAC.

He conceded the continuing jihad insurgency in the restive region could not be tackled in the near future even though the government has more local support and more coordination among state agencies concerned.
But if the government had more support and coordination, it would mean that the problem was being tackled, no?

Gen. Surayud stressed that the Army has been instructed to improve its intelligence as some local soldiers were found to be involved in information leakage to the terrorists insurgents.
"Listen guys. I need you to spy like you've never spied before. And no more leaking, you hear?"
The loss of classified military information was brought to light recently when two soldiers and a civil servant were arrested on charges of leaking confidential material to terrorists insurgents. Seven police officers were later taken in for questioning on suspicion of handing information to jihadis insurgents.

The visit came a week after eight soldiers were ambushed in a deadly bomb attack in Narathiwat's Chanae district, in which one soldier was beheaded.
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