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2004-04-30 Southeast Asia

Thai Muslim Soccer Team Turned Militant Overnight

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Posted by Steve 2004-04-30 12:35:18 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Five members of the security forces were killed. One of the youths, who were all aged between 19 and 26, managed to strike a soldier with his blade. The rest were all shot dead before they even got close."
One managed to get a blow in, all the rest were shot dead and yet five members of the security force are dead? Either the troops got caught in their own crossfire or it sounds as though the attackers were more effective than is being acknowledged.

Posted by Seger 2004-04-30 12:58:42 PM|| 2004-04-30 12:58:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the writer got his lines crossed, and meant that in the course of the day, five members of the security force were killed, not that they were killed in this particular incident. This was one incident on a fairly bloody day.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-04-30 1:07:14 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-04-30 1:07:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 If the authors and agenda-jerks responsible for this pseudo-article, made oh-so-obvious by the quotes they chose to include, are gonna do their usual apology BS, then I won't take it seriously either. In that vein...

I'm not terribly knowledgeable regards soccer / football of this stripe, but isn't it unusual to red-card the whole team at once?

Posted by .com 2004-04-30 1:29:25 PM|| 2004-04-30 1:29:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "My nephew and many of his friends were good lads. His daily life was going to school, praying, and practicing soccer. We knew nothing of his bad behavior."

I can accept the shool part as long as he was learning something useful. But a much more laudable expression of his time would be to either find a frigging job or do what ever you have to do to be productive to your family. Someone isn't handing out martyr bonuses in Thialand are they?

Posted by cheaderhead 2004-04-30 1:48:33 PM|| 2004-04-30 1:48:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Thailand is a great country. Now we find out that there is a Muslim section. Strangely enough, the Muslim section is getting more and more violent. Anyone who thinks this fight is not going to get a lot bigger and nastier is living in a dreamworld. The Muslims continue to foment violence all over the world. Pretty soon, they are going to get more than they bargained for.

Posted by remote man 2004-04-30 2:12:15 PM|| 2004-04-30 2:12:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6
Funny, I thought dedicated muslims didn't do drugs?

Re-read the history of the assassins. They smoked hashish to get their Allah-anger up before they went out to kill.

The Junior Cyclists of Doom did the same.

Nice to know Islam keeps its best traditions alive.

(Someone needs to explain to Thai Muslims that while "sidehacking" does involve motorcycles, it doesn't involve machetes.)

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-30 2:15:44 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-04-30 2:15:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Oooh, good new word, "dahwah".

Kind of like "quest", but for brainwashed islamic nutcases instead.

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-04-30 2:32:02 PM|| 2004-04-30 2:32:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 kinda like "road trip!" but without the return home

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-30 2:37:11 PM|| 2004-04-30 2:37:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "This is excessively brutal,"

yes it is - for that many people to go a rampage with the intent of stealing weapons and using machetes....what would you expect..the police to sit back let them take the weapons and then begin the gunfight??please what a dumbass

Posted by Dan 2004-04-30 6:47:48 PM|| 2004-04-30 6:47:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Woah, Dude! That must have been some seriously good s**t they were smoking. I've -er- experimented -hem- with such in the past, and I NEVER got the urge to kill people with machetes - even if they were carrying Ring-Dings.

Posted by Xbalanke 2004-04-30 7:05:22 PM|| 2004-04-30 7:05:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I suggest they be given a Team Darwin Award.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-04-30 9:54:36 PM|| 2004-04-30 9:54:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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