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Posted: 12/31/2006 4:08:38 AM EDT

Just reported on Sky news, 6 bombs gone off in Bangkok.
2 reported dead

Posted: 12/31/2006 4:14:54 AM EDT

[#1]

When she bangs my kok theres an explosion as well...

Thats not good news.

Posted: 12/31/2006 4:36:32 AM EDT

[#2]

sounds like RoP could be on the move

Posted: 12/31/2006 4:42:16 AM EDT

[#3]

Well we don't know what it is, but it's not terrorism...

I don't see anyting on Fox.

Posted: 12/31/2006 4:43:12 AM EDT

[#4]

Better there than here.

Posted: 12/31/2006 4:51:11 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Well we don't know what it is, but it's not terrorism...

I don't see anyting on Fox.

It was up there earlier, under there breaking news banner.

Don't know where it went.

Posted: 12/31/2006 5:10:01 AM EDT

[#6]

Probably just New Years celebration mishap - I'm in SE Asia right now, and the noise is worse than any artillery barrage I've ever heard. I think they've already cooked off a few tac nukes down the street.

Just wait'll I break out my stocks at 11pm though...

Posted: 12/31/2006 5:18:53 AM EDT

[#7]

Link

Thai Police now reporting that they have arrested someone carrying a bomb

Posted: 12/31/2006 10:49:19 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Link

Thai Police now reporting that they have arrested someone carrying a bomb

Our Bangkok correspondent says many Thais suspect the attacks were the work of opponents of the current military government, which forced Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from office in September.

I guess a tax-free US$1,000,000,000 (one billion U.S. dollars) was not enough for Khun Thaksin.

Posted: 12/31/2006 10:51:52 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Better there than here.

I hate to wish bad on anybody.....but +1000

Posted: 12/31/2006 11:15:35 AM EDT

[#10]

2 more bombs have gone off.
Reports say that 6 foreigners (including 2 Britons) have been injured

Posted: 12/31/2006 12:37:35 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Link

Thai Police now reporting that they have arrested someone carrying a bomb

Someone's gonna get their pee-pee whacked off.

Posted: 12/31/2006 5:38:03 PM EDT

[#12]

Goddamn Buddhists.

Posted: 12/31/2006 6:03:21 PM EDT

[#13]

Yep, it's those peace loving vegetarian Bhuddists who are into self-immolation that'll get you everytime.

Posted: 12/31/2006 6:08:15 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Goddamn Buddhists.

obviously they aren't REAL Buddhists

Posted: 12/31/2006 10:52:09 PM EDT

[#15]

The Central World Plaza is about 3 blocks from my old apartment, and the Klong Tooey site is less than 1km away to the south.

My buddies and my g/f are all OK.

We'll see if Khun Thaksin's supporters are really involved. If so, I wouldn't give a plugged 5 baht piece for him.

Just talked to the Senior Sergeant Major (G/F): Nothing firm from the Royal Thai Police, as of yet, but seems to be anti-government activists, rather than Muslims from the south. Still going to wait to see before having any opinion. Just glad all my friends are OK.

Posted: 1/1/2007 12:28:06 AM EDT

[#16]

Need more news to comment.

Posted: 1/1/2007 12:38:13 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Goddamn Buddhists.

obviously they aren't REAL Buddhists

+1. Buddhism is a religion of peace. Actually, I have no idea, but I know that's what I'm supposed to say.

Posted: 1/1/2007 12:40:48 AM EDT

[#18]

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,240418,00.html

Death Toll Rises From Multiple Bombings in Thailand During New Year's Celebrations
Monday, January 01, 2007

BANGKOK, Thailand — Nine bombs exploded across Bangkok as the Thai capital celebrated the New Year, killing three people and driving thousands of revelers home after the city was forced to cancel festivities.

Hospital staff and officials said 38 people were injured, at least nine of them foreigners.

There were two waves of bombings. Some initially mistook the sound of the bombs for fireworks.

Bangkok Mayor Apirak Kosayothin canceled major public celebrations and sent home about 5,000 gathered in Central World Plaza, the downtown venue for Bangkok's main New Year countdown party.

After midnight, three more bombs went off near the same plaza, iTV television reported.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, which capped a year of unrest in Thailand that included a military coup three months ago and a mounting Muslim insurgency in its southernmost provinces.

National police chief Gen. Ajirawit Suphanaphesat said he did not believe insurgents were behind the attacks in Bangkok, a major international banking and technology hub for Asia.

Police and army troops wielding assault rifles guarded some entertainment venues, transit stations and busy traffic circles. Roadblocks were up on some streets, while hotels stepped up security, searching cars and canceling expensive New Year's Eve dinners.

Major public celebrations were also canceled in the northern city of Chiang Mai.

But festivities continued in some areas of Bangkok, including the city's most famous red light district, Patpong Road, where hundreds of foreign tourists carried on celebrating. At midnight, fireworks lit up the sky in both Bangkok and Chiang Mai, with many residents still gathered in the streets of both cities.

Several embassies' Web sites advised their citizens to avoid Bangkok's city center.

"There is a possibility of further attacks in coming days," said a travel advisory from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. "Australians are urged to avoid unnecessary travel in Bangkok."

Bomb attacks are rare in the Thai capital.

Following the first wave of bombings, police said two people died at hospitals. There were also 14 people seriously wounded, said Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla.

"I heard a loud explosion and I thought it was fireworks. I ran there and saw a bleeding woman at the bus stop," Somrak Manphothong, a receptionist at the Saxophone bar near site of the first bombings. "Another guy was lying on the floor, covered with blood, and his wife was shaking his body."

A 26-year-old Thai man later died after undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel from his lung, Suphanaphesat said.

At another site near a vegetable market in the Klong Toey slum, a pool of blood and egg yolks covered the roadside beside an overturned motorcycle.

The three bombs that exploded just after midnight Monday were in a phone booth, a hotel, and near a canal bridge in a touristy downtown area packed with hotels and shopping malls.

Among the foreigners injured, doctors were trying to save a Hungarian woman's badly injured leg, said hospital spokeswoman Warin Detkung, denying earlier news reports that both her legs had been blown off.

In September, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a bloodless coup by Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin. The military installed Surayud Chulanont as the interim prime minister until elections in October 2007.

But Thaksin still enjoys widespread support and a number of arson attacks in provincial areas have been blamed on his followers.

"There are two potential suspects, Muslim insurgents and Thaksin's residual power," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University. "I tend to think it's residual power. I suspect the previous regime."

Thaksin's lawyer denied the former prime minister's involvement in the bombings on the Web site of the newspaper Matichon.

Bombings and shootings occur almost daily in Thailand's three southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani, where an Islamic insurgency that flared in January 2004 has killed more than 1,900 people.

Muslims make up the majority in overwhelmingly Buddhist Thailand's deep south, where they have long complained of discrimination.

The insurgents have carried out numerous attacks in the south, but are not known to have launched any in Bangkok.

Posted: 1/1/2007 12:41:44 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Need more ~~news to comment~~ cowbell.

Posted: 1/1/2007 12:48:50 AM EDT

[#20]

Simultaneous bombings = fingerprint of Al Qaeda

Posted: 1/1/2007 12:51:18 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Goddamn Buddhists.

obviously they aren't REAL Buddhists

+1. Buddhism is a religion of peace. Actually, I have no idea, but I know that's what I'm supposed to say.

And another +1. Sure, there are some shady passages in the Tipitaka, and a handful of Buddhist extremists might misinterpret them, but the vast majority are peace-loving people. Besides, just look at the Christians during the Crusades!

Posted: 1/1/2007 1:15:01 AM EDT

[#22]

Things that make you think.

Bomb explodes inside Chiang Mai mosque

A small homemade bomb exploded inside the central mosque in Chiang Mai Monday morning, injuring the mosque keeper, police said.

The explosion at the Chang Klan Mosque happened at 8:30 pm and Nasis Ahamad, 34, was injured.

Nasis claimed that the bomb was hurled into the mosque but an bomb expert, Pol Lt Col Noppakhun Kiratikarakul, said the evidences showed that the bomb failed from Nasis himself and exploded.

Nasis had been treated and is now safe.

The Nation

link

Posted: 1/1/2007 1:36:41 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Things that make you think.

Bomb explodes inside Chiang Mai mosque

A small homemade bomb exploded inside the central mosque in Chiang Mai Monday morning, injuring the mosque keeper, police said.

The explosion at the Chang Klan Mosque happened at 8:30 pm and Nasis Ahamad, 34, was injured.

Nasis claimed that the bomb was hurled into the mosque but an bomb expert, Pol Lt Col Noppakhun Kiratikarakul, said the evidences showed that the bomb failed from Nasis himself and exploded.

Nasis had been treated and is now safe.

The Nation

link

You read The Nation?

Posted: 1/1/2007 2:25:35 AM EDT

[#24]

wtf you read the nation?!!?!

Posted: 1/1/2007 2:31:00 AM EDT

[#25]

<--- Has no idea what "The Nation" is or what reading it might intimate.

Posted: 1/1/2007 2:41:30 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Things that make you think.

Bomb explodes inside Chiang Mai mosque

A small homemade bomb exploded inside the central mosque in Chiang Mai Monday morning, injuring the mosque keeper, police said.

The explosion at the Chang Klan Mosque happened at 8:30 pm and Nasis Ahamad, 34, was injured.

Nasis claimed that the bomb was hurled into the mosque but an bomb expert, Pol Lt Col Noppakhun Kiratikarakul, said the evidences showed that the bomb failed from Nasis himself and exploded.

Nasis had been treated and is now safe.

The Nation

link

You read The Nation?

Google >blast< or >bomb< and the story came up, I could care less where it came from or anyone’s opinion on what I read.

Savvy?

Posted: 1/1/2007 2:59:26 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Just reported on Sky news, 6 bombs gone off in Bangkok.
2 reported dead

EDIT- 9 bombs and 3 casulties ?

Note to self- dont buy any bombs with 'made in thailand' stickers on them.

seriously though is there good confirmation on this? small numbers of casulties makes me think fireworks show gone wrong...

edit again- so is 'the nation' whatever that may be claiming that some dude in a mosque tripped off his own fireworks prematurely?

mosque? damn those bhuddists

Posted: 1/1/2007 3:23:54 AM EDT

[#28]

Could be Al-Q, could be anti-gov forces in Thailand.
Too early to call.

Posted: 1/1/2007 3:24:24 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Things that make you think.

Bomb explodes inside Chiang Mai mosque

A small homemade bomb exploded inside the central mosque in Chiang Mai Monday morning, injuring the mosque keeper, police said.

The explosion at the Chang Klan Mosque happened at 8:30 pm and Nasis Ahamad, 34, was injured.

Nasis claimed that the bomb was hurled into the mosque but an bomb expert, Pol Lt Col Noppakhun Kiratikarakul, said the evidences showed that the bomb failed from Nasis himself and exploded.

Nasis had been treated and is now safe.

The Nation

link

Is this bad Chinglish in red above? wtf

Posted: 1/1/2007 3:51:24 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Things that make you think.

Bomb explodes inside Chiang Mai mosque

A small homemade bomb exploded inside the central mosque in Chiang Mai Monday morning, injuring the mosque keeper, police said.

The explosion at the Chang Klan Mosque happened at 8:30 pm and Nasis Ahamad, 34, was injured.

Nasis claimed that the bomb was hurled into the mosque but an bomb expert, Pol Lt Col Noppakhun Kiratikarakul, said the evidences showed that the bomb failed from Nasis himself and exploded.

Nasis had been treated and is now safe.

The Nation

link

Is this bad Chinglish in red above? wtf

Quite possible, Thailand is culturally diverse no telling what ethnic background of the writer.

A very nice country to visit, BTW.