Flashermac Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 BBC NEWS 19 January 2006 Thai violence hits phone networks Suspected Islamic militants set fire to dozens of mobile phone transmission towers in Thailand's four southern provinces on Wednesday night. The co-ordinated attacks caused disruption to phone services, but no injuries were reported. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the attacks were in retaliation for government restrictions on the use of mobile phones in the region. Officials are battling a long-running Muslim insurgency in Thailand's south. More than 1,000 people have died since early 2004, mostly in isolated attacks on civilians or security personnel. But occasionally more co-ordinated attacks have been orchestrated. "Last night's attacks aimed to incite more unrest and to show that the militants are still capable" of staging co-ordinated raids, Mr Thaksin told the French news agency AFP. "The attacks may have been to retaliate against government registration of SIM cards, because now they cannot use mobile phones to detonate bombs," he said. The militants are through to have thrown petrol bombs at both mobile phone towers and phone booths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 "The attacks may have been to retaliate against government registration of SIM cards, because now they cannot use mobile phones to detonate bombs," he said. so they cannot travel to other places and buy SIM cards and then travel back South?...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Or just mug somebody and steal a phone ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlton68 Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Or just pay a drunkard a bottle to register a dozen SIMs in his name? Buy already registered SIMs without changing the registration data? The government must be happy. The suspected islamic militants restrict the use of cellphones even more than the government could ever dream of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Interesting that petrol bombs were used, with the phones not being able to set off bombs now ("because now they cannot use mobile phones to detonate bombs," - Thaksin), they must have come up with some other cunning and evil method of setting off bombs. Cheers Coss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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