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[Sexpat]

JI may have infiltrated S. Thailand

"Al-Qaida-linked regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah has infiltrated southern Thailand, where young fighters are unwilling to negotiate in their bloody battle for an Islamic state, a separatist leader said, according to a news report.

Wan Kadir Che Wan, the leader of the Bersatu rebel group, told Al-Jazeera network from an undisclosed location outside Thailand that violence was unlikely to end, as the younger separatists believe they have the upper hand - and because they have spies inside the Thai government. . . .

"This new generation of people, they are very young and they are very determined," he said. "The old generation can compromise, but this new generation seems to still want independence," the report, posted on the Al-Jazeera Web site Wednesday.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingne...newsid=30019662

[Jersey]

If JI or some Al Queda branch were active in the south, I don't see how the violence would be strictly limited to the southern provinces, as it now seems to be.

I recall recently reading in "that book" how the Thai right wing used the communist threat in the 1970's to justify some horrendous abuses. It was determined years later that the "communist menace" was totally exaggerated. Maybe the same thing is going on here.

It's always nice to be able to blame unrest on "outsiders."