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Southeast Asia
Cop Killed, School Torched in Southern Thailand
2007-01-27
Jihadi *sswipes Suspected Muslim separatists ambushed police patrols and torched a school as Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont returned to southern Thailand Saturday for a third attempt at ending the bloody insurgency, officials said.

A police sergeant was in critical condition after he was shot three times at close range while on patrol with three other officers in the busy market of Yala's provincial capital, said police Maj. Suthas Noosikhong.

On Friday night, suspected insurgents killed a police sergeant in Pattani province and set fire to a government school in Yala province, totally destroying it.

Surayud, who arrived in southern Thailand Friday night, said he hoped for a peaceful solution to the conflict. "My government is standing firm on appeasement reconciliation and a peaceful solution despite clear evidence strong rumors and speculation that the situation is not improving," he told some 1,000 community and religious leaders in Pattani province on Saturday.

On his first visit, Surayud groveled shamelessly offered an apology to the local Muslims for past government wrongdoing, which was widely praised by supposed moderates in the south. But, predictably, the insurgency has continued unabated.
Posted by:ryuge

#5  Look at the website: it's our own beloved Jackel. He's making allowances for those - like me - who aren't clever enough to notice it's him, ever since I cussed at him the other night when he quoted the Kos Kiddies. Some of us -- like me -- aren't subtle enough to notice if it isn't really obvious.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-01-27 22:10  

#4  Leftist idiot, I'm not sure if your handle or comment is meant to be ironic.

Anyway, the teaching of science is fraught, because the essence of science is scepticism and continual re-examination of the evidence in order to falsify what is 'known', whereas education is about conveying some certainty about things.

This is difficult enough with intelligent adults and impossible with children. Ergo, you cannot teach science to children, you can only teach children about what science thinks it knows.

You may not like the theory of evolution taught as just theory (which of course it is), but I find this preferrable to such PC idiocy as climate change taught as incontrovertable fact.
Posted by: phil_b   2007-01-27 20:18  

#3  One of the times the statement, particularly the "maybe worse" matches the name exactly. WTG Leftist Idiot!
Posted by: Phineter Thraviger   2007-01-27 20:04  

#2  Yeah, well, some bible-thumpers over here don't like teaching evolution or sex-ed, so they are just as bad, maybe worse.
Posted by: Leftist idiot   2007-01-27 19:44  

#1  From Thailand to Afghanistan to Beslan to schoolgirls left to burn in Arabia, the leftards support barbarians who have decided to bypass burning books and go straight to burning teachers instead. And they call them Minute Men.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-01-27 09:03  

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