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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (1435)	9/23/2006 11:59:57 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Thai coup sparked by failed war on Islamists The Times (London) ^ \| September 24, 2006 \| Michael Sheridan timesonline.co.uk The Royal Thai Army will adopt new tactics against a militant Islamic uprising, following the coup that sent Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted prime minister, into exile in London last week. According to sources briefed by the army high command, Thaksin’s bungled response to the insurgency in southern Thailand, which has claimed 1,700 lives in two years, was a critical factor in the generals’ decision to get rid of him. Military intelligence officers intend to negotiate with separatists and to use psychological warfare to isolate the most violent extremists, in contrast to Thaksin’s heavy-handed methods and harsh rhetoric. The coup leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, is a Muslim who has sworn loyalty to Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the symbol of nationhood in this majority Buddhist country of 65m people. The king has since bestowed his approval on the generals, a sign to Thais that the royal palace shared the belief that Thaksin had to go. The tanks rolled on a rainy night in Bangkok last week while Thaksin was at the United Nations in New York. But if the prime minister’s absence was the opportunity, sources said, the incentive to act was a sense that the Thai state was losing control over its southern territory, where 4m Muslims live. A final spur for the coup came when bomb explosions tore through the south’s commercial and tourist centre of Hat Yai last Saturday night, killing a Canadian visitor and three others, wounding dozens and prompting holidaymakers to flee. Shocked Thai officials conceded that the terrorism could no longer be contained and might spread north to resorts such as Phuket and Koh Samui, with catastrophic results for the £5 billion-a-year tourist industry, still reeling from the 2004 tsunami. (Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ....

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (1435)	9/24/2006 9:31:05 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

No deal to recognize Israel, Hamas says CBC News (Canada) ^ \| 22SEP06 \| CBC News cbc.ca Hope for a Middle East peace breakthrough faded on Friday when the militant group Hamas contradicted President Mahmoud Abbas's declaration that a new Palestinian unity government would recognize Israel. Speaking at the United Nations on Thursday, Abbas said a coalition being negotiated between his Fatah party and Hamas, the militant group that heads the Palestinian government, would recognize the Jewish state. Such a move would be a huge reversal for Hamas, which is formally dedicated to the destruction of Israel. On Friday, Hamas political advisor Ahmed Yousef told the Associated Press that "there won't be a national unity government if Hamas is asked to recognize Israel." However, he added that Hamas is prepared to offer Israel a "long-term truce for five or 10 years, until the occupation withdraws." Yousef is a close aide to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who is also the Palestinian prime minister. It is not clear how the truce proposal will be greeted in Israel or by the Western governments that cut aid to the Palestinians when Hamas came to power. Reporting from Jerusalem for the CBC, journalist Iris Mackler said the rival Palestinian parties are under great pressure to end the aid boycott, which has left Palestinians in desperate economic straits. "What we see are two sides who don't actually want to get together but for the sake of their people should or will have to get together," Mackler said. The obstacle, she said, has been that Hamas would not change its position on Israel's right to exist. "It's offering something else, which is a 10-year truce, but ultimately it says it can't recognize Israel," she said.