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| Islamists warn Thailand visitors |
| 2004-05-30 |
| Muslim militants are warning the "people of the world" not to visit Phuket, a wealthy, tourist playground thus far untouched by the Muslim insurgency of southern Thailand. Phuket island, with floating bars set amid lush resorts with meticulously coifed foliage, rustic wooden bridges, stone paths and palm trees, remains untouched by the militants. But a recent harsh warning by the United Front for the Independence of Pattani, a feared guerrilla group usually referred to as Bersatu, included Phuket. Trying to turn another paradise into an Islamic hell. As they have done with Kashmir. It was posted on the "official Web site" of the Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO), which forms part of the united front along with the Mujahideen Pattani Movement and two smaller rebel groups. The unusual, one-paragraph "message from Bersatu" said: "Dear people of the world, persons who plan to visit Thailand NOW are warned not to travel to Pattani Raya Region Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Satun, Songkhla and the neighbor provinces [of] Phuket, Pangnga, Krabi, Pattalung. Pattani people are not responsible for anything [that] happens to you after this warning." The only other announcement in English on the Web site was a plea by the group "urging the Thai authorities to investigate at least 60 people [who] disappeared" during security sweeps between Jan. 5 and April 9. That demand was signed by the group’s deputy president, Lukman B. Lima, who was believed to be in exile in Sweden. In May 2003, Mr. Lima boasted Thai security forces were "falling like leaves" in southern Thailand because Muslims were rising up in "liberation movements" against "colonial" repression practiced by Thailand’s majority Buddhists. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #3 THIS is what the Islamoturds fear. You know why? Because they're weak, they're uneducated, they cannot build, they can only destroy--and they have no chance at all, EVER, to come up with cool stuff like this. In fact, they want to turn everything, everywhere, into the ugly, ruined, desolate, places from hell that they all love so dearly. If they succeed in scaring away tourism from Thailand, the people will lose everything, starve, and many will be forced to turn to prostitution, etc., to survive--JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED FOR THE INDONESIANS IN BALI. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-05-30 6:32:21 PM |
| #2 Must be nice not to be responsible for anything, especially any murderous behavior. Suppose those Islamo-fool-cowards who cut off that poor old Buddhist's head the other day weren't responsible, either. Looks like another coordinated and effective military sweep is in order... |
| Posted by: nada 2004-05-30 12:26:03 PM |
| #1 "Pattani people are not responsible for anything [that] happens to you after this warning." Islamists are never responsible, cuz' they've been humiliated, see? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-30 11:18:02 AM |