asiafun Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 Will it spread beyond the four southern provinces or will places like Phuket fall victim to the escalating violence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 It's only three provinces, with just an occasional bomb attack in Songkla. I don't see it spreading. If it were going to, it would have by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickfarang Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 My crystal ball is broken. Hold on while I find a screwdriver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 anyone else remember them ( police) finding some grenades in a trash can in patong some months back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 4 home made bombs were found on each side of the police station in Klong San last year-only 150 yards from my balcony kao pit maimee klai roo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickfarang Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Quetsion answered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 Why? There have been grenade attacks in Bangkok every know and then. Always been loal politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 Why? There have been grenade attacks in Bangkok every know and then. Always been loal politics. yes, real problem: and ask the injured or the family of the dead if they really care who was behind it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asiafun Posted December 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 Considering the growing strife between Thaksin and the other guy I was thinking the seperatists might take advantage of his distractions and ramp up the attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 I've described the 1980s grenade attack at Patpong several times here. That was a disagreement between some vocational students and the doormen at a go-go bar. I arrived within minutes of the attack, just after the victims had been rushed away to the nearest hospital. You couldn't miss the pools of blood inside the bar and the brightly coloured high heel shoes of the dead or injured dancers. Quite a heart breaking sight. (The shrapnel had blown through the wooden door and killed the girls as they sat at the bar. Had it happened half an hour later, there would have been plenty of Farang victims too.) A few years ago, a young maid was killed opening a politician's gate in the morning so that her boss could drive out. Someone had wired a grenade to the gate so that the pin would be pulled when the gate was opened. It was obviously meant for the pol, but killed an Isaan girl instead. All sorts of war weapons are available on the black market here, smuggled in from Cambodia -- M-16s, AK-47s, M-79 bloop guns, .45 semi-auto pistols etc. I was once quoted a price of 60 baht for a fragmentation grenade, as if I wanted one of the damn things. Thus my point: if the factions in the southernmost provinces were going to do something in Bangkok, they could easily have done so already. A greater danger would be from some foreign groups who decided to stage a bombing to "help" their "Muslim brothers" in the south. Thailand withdrew its non-combat military units from Iraq, after several were killed in a mortar attack and the Thai people started asking why the Thai troops were there in the first place. (Mr T's friendship with Bush?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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