Boy killed in ice-cream shop bomb blast

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Boy killed in ice-cream shop bomb blast

Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

A nine-year-old boy was killed and 14 people wounded by a bomb that was triggered in front of an ice-cream shop in downtown Pattani Thursday.

The 5kg bomb hidden in a motorcycle parked in front of the ice-cream shop on Suwanmongkol Road in Muang district was detonated remotely about 1.30pm.Nisofian Nisani, nine, was buying ice at the shop at the time of the blast and was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

The boy's mother, Waeleemoh Jehloh, and Anan Yiamkamnuan, the ice-cream shop owner, are among the 14 others who were injured.

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stc
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Discussion 18 : 23 Mar 2013 at 01.5218
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I wonder how these bombs get through. The place has one of the highest concentrations of military on the planet. Maybe they use women to smuggle the bombs. Dress them up in the head-to-toe hijab and they've got the perfect cover. Brilliant.
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Discussion 17 : 22 Mar 2013 at 17.5317
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Smithy #9, the US is increasingly shifting its focus toward exploiting its technological superiority of using drones controlled from half a world away to hunt down the terrorists in Afghanistan. Israel is doing the same with equal effectiveness. That's why the terrorists have to resort to shooting unguided rockets blindly into Israel, only to be intercepted by the state-of-the-art Iron Dome interceptors. The nature of the War on Terror is shifting toward pitching the West's technological superiority against the terrorist's low-tech clever strategy & tactics. Therefore, our current low-tech approach is nothing but a disaster in progress.
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Discussion 16 : 22 Mar 2013 at 16.3916
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Disc 13, oldexp: An "insurgent" is someone who rises up against established authority and in a lot of cases, uses "terrorist tacticts" to fullfill the mission. Since both, a "terorist," or an "insurgent," create "terror" in order to fullfill their agenda, either word is appropriate in describing an unlawful, organized movement against established government authority.
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Discussion 15 : 22 Mar 2013 at 14.3415
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This is the action of a group who want the peace talks stopped. To stop the talks would be to let these people win.
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Discussion 14 : 22 Mar 2013 at 14.1014
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Disc 2, Claude: The Thai military is a well-trained, professional fighting force that is capable of handling the southern insurgency. I would place more Thai-Marines in the south and take the fight to the terrorists. It's a real tragety when an innocent, nine year old child becomes a victim of terrorism. The blame for terrorism in southern Thailand, lies directly with those involved in this insurgency and is in no-way related to past, or present government policy. In fact, these insurgents have one goal in mind and that is to gain a foothold in Southern Thailand, and then attempt to take over the Kingdom of Thailand.
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Discussion 13 : 22 Mar 2013 at 13.4813
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and they are still called insurgents.
They are Terrorists.
Period.
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Discussion 12 : 22 Mar 2013 at 11.3412
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Zero negotiations for child killers
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Discussion 11 : 22 Mar 2013 at 09.5911
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In the past, the insurgents selected only the uniform personnel targets but recently the attacks include more soft targets. Seem a pattern is forming. In the beginning, it was a ethnic separatist struggle and won the hearts of the locals Muslim and have good support. But lately, the insurgents have resort to intimidation to win the support of the locals. The highly ambitious but unsuccessful attack of the military base clearly is a desperate attempt to demonstrate to the locals that they still have the edge. It failed and quickly followed by the peace talks. The insurgents will be neutralized soon as they are losing support.
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Discussion 10 : 22 Mar 2013 at 09.5610
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It is a terrible thing to say but the government and media should give more background on the dead and injured to bring home to the local population the inhumanity of the terrorists who set and then remotely detonated this bomb. The population needs to realise that people like this are indiscriminate killers and be turned against them. I understand that the dead and injured become part of a propoganda battle - but if that turns the remaining popoulation against the killers so they stop giving them safe haven then at least the suffering and loss will not be entirely in vain
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Discussion 9 : 22 Mar 2013 at 09.259
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Israel and America... America and Israel... Claude108 and highlander, can you say exactly what similar situations Israel and America have solved? Let's see... Vietnam? No. Afghanistan? No. Iraq? No. Hamas and Hezbollah? Hmm... No. So what make you think Israel and USA can solve this problem?
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