Flashermac Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 Thailand seems about as far from the Taliban as you can get, yet just a short distance from its golden tourist beaches and paradise islands, an insurgency has been raging for five years. Someone is killed on average every day in the provinces on the country's southern border with Malaysia, where a shadowy group of Islamist extremists are stirring up a deepening sectarian divide. In just five years 3,800 people have been killed and more than 6,000 injured. But what they want is not totally clear and no group has ever publically admitted they carried out an attack. They have no links to al-Qaeda and few ties to foreign organisations except perhaps a few cash donations to keep the Islamic extremist message of violence going. ... BBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 really, you can understand islamic rage with gazza,the occupation in iraq and afghanistan, but this?....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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