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Breaking: Major bomb attack in Bangkok city centre

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  • #2
    Menas
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    Jeez, after the string of bombings in May I hope this is not the first of a new string of attacks.
    Presume this is the same seperatists as before...


  • #3
    Boring username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Boring username


    Menas wrote: »
    Jeez, after the string of bombings in May I hope this is not the first of a new string of attacks.
    Presume this is the same seperatists as before...

    It could be separatists, or it could be Jemaah Islamiyah. They're been active on the Southern border with Malaysia running a war of attrition. Maybe they have changed tactics? Just a possibility anyway.


  • #4
    The_Valeyard
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    Thank f*ck the two other reported bombs failed to go off, could have been so much worse.


  • #5
    recylingbin
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    Boring username wrote: »
    Worrying news. A lot of Western tourists would be in the area, including Irish. Hopefully all the people I know over there are safe.
    Yeah, let's hope the dead and injured aren't westerners.
    *crosses fingers*


  • #6
    Boring username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Boring username


    At least 12 dead now according to reports. Some tourists may be among the casualties:
    The shrine is a major tourist attraction and the Thai government said the attack was aimed at foreigners.
    Local media report that tourists may be among the casualties.
    Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwong said: "It was a TNT bomb... the people who did it targeted foreigners and to damage tourism and the economy."

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33963280


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  • #7
    conorh91
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    Disaster porn. It's like Tianjin Night again.


  • #8
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Tourists are deliberately targetted now by groups aligning themselves with ISIS.

    The aim is to damage tourism, which brings economic troubles to country. As an economy destabilises and people become poorer and desperate, religious extremism can gain a stronger foothold and eventually take control.


  • #9
    Deathwish4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Deathwish4


    John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

    The Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.


  • #10
    Mena
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    Boring username wrote: »
    Hopefully all the people I know over there are safe.

    I know you probably shared this with the best of intents and that's fine, but maybe a little advice. Lines like the above come across pretty poorly and detract from the overall message.

    Just a point of view, do with it what you will.


  • #11
    Boring username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Boring username


    Mena wrote: »
    I know you probably shared this with the best of intents and that's fine, but maybe a little advice. Lines like the above come across pretty poorly and detract from the overall message.

    Just a point of view, do with it what you will.

    Fair enough point, on reflection I should have worded it better.


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  • #12
    cometogether
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    I am so fed up hearing stuff like this. Why can't the religious just f uck off and leave the world alone?


  • #13
    Yamanoto
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    recylingbin wrote: »
    Yeah, let's hope the dead and injured aren't westerners.
    *crosses fingers*

    Get off the stage ffs.

    Taking offence where none was intended.


  • #14
    DeadHand
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    cometogether wrote: »
    I am so fed up hearing stuff like this. Why can't the religious just f uck off and leave the world alone?

    There is only one major religion currently inspiring rape, slavery and mass murder on a constant basis.


  • #15
    badabing106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭badabing106


    DeadHand wrote: »
    There is only one major religion currently inspiring rape, slavery and mass murder on a constant basis.

    How is Catholism inspiring mass murder?


  • #16
    Boring username
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Boring username


    There appears to have been another explosion, or possibly two, but there doesn't appear to be any injuries as yet:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/11807583/Explosion-rocks-Bangkok-close-to-Erawan-shrine-with-reports-of-casualties-live.html


  • #17
    Nodin
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    cometogether wrote: »
    I am so fed up hearing stuff like this. Why can't the religious just f uck off and leave the world alone?

    Might not be religious.


  • #18
    Boring username
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    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Get off the stage ffs.

    Taking offence where none was intended.


    Ah go easy on him. He saw his chance to get up on the high horse and catch a few easy likes from the right on brigade. It'll be back to the trenches of tumblr for him soon....


  • #19
    Boring username
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    A Turk has been arrested for the attack, and Police found bomb making equipment was found at his apartment. It'll be interesting to see what his affiliations and politics are. What's the betting the religion of peace is involved?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/11832614/Thai-police-arrest-Turkish-suspect-over-Bangkok-shrine-bombing.html


  • #20
    custard gannet
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭custard gannet


    Nodin wrote: »
    Might not be religious.

    :pac:



    Boring username wrote: »
    A Turk has been arrested for the attack, and Police found bomb making equipment was found at his apartment. It'll be interesting to see what his affiliations and politics are. What's the betting the religion of peace is involved?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/11832614/Thai-police-arrest-Turkish-suspect-over-Bangkok-shrine-bombing.html

    It's strange that ISIS didn't claimed responsibility for this, they have in the past staked their claim to events which they have had a very tenuous link to.


  • #21
    DeadHand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭DeadHand


    Nodin wrote: »
    Might not be religious.

    No, your friends as usual I'm afraid.


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  • #22
    Saipanne
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    DeadHand wrote: »
    There is only one major religion currently inspiring rape, slavery and mass murder on a constant basis.

    Sure they're just standing on the shoulders of giants.


  • #23
    ThinkProgress
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    Many of these asian countries are vastly over populated, with many different religions/cultures/ideologies trying to coexist alongside each other.

    It's actually surprising there are not more conflicts.

    I think in the future, the average man on the street will have easy access to deadly weapons... and many of the more overpopulated countries will gradually begin to kill each other off.

    In my mind this is simply inevitable as our world population gets too big to sustain itself. Deadly conflict will be unavoidable when resources dwindle and diplomacy fails to find a solution....


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