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“Merchant of Death” May Be Set Free in thailand A higher-ranking Thai prosecutor rebuffed demands from Washington Thursday over its attempts to extradite Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, sometimes known as the “Merchant of Death”. The Thai appeals court is considering moves by the Thai government in opposition to the criminal court’s ruling in August [...]

700,000 Baht Bomb Detector Fails Real Life Test A Thai military team inspected a suspicious motorcycle with a GT200 bomb scanner, but the device did not detect a bomb. The bomb on board the motorcycle exploded about 15 minutes after the military squad had left the scene with their not so effective bomb detector. Online [...]

Bombing in Yala A bomb went off at a busy market in the southern province of Yala on Monday injuring twenty-four people, together with three soldiers. Police said the explosive contrivance was hidden in a motorcycle that was parked in front of the marketplace in the town. It exploded about 7.30am when local inhabitants were [...]

Forget labels and seek out answers to the bloodshed Re: US Government may be getting the message – Finally, Editorials, The Nation, Thailand April 30th. Your editorial regarding the word games involved in the political mess that rages in the Middle East and, on a much smaller scale, in the deep South of Thailand calls [...]

Re: US Government may be getting the message – Finally, Editorials, April, 30th. by David Barkdull Your editorial regarding the word games involved in the political mess that rages in the Middle East and, on a much smaller scale, in the deep South of Thailand calls for a new set of lexicon to more accurately [...]

Thailand’s People’s Alliance for Democracy ‘PAD’ to Protest amendments to Thai Constitution People’s Alliance for Democracy ‘PAD’ will Protest amendments to Constitution next Friday at Thammasat University to Protest amendments to Thai Constitution. Suwat Wattanasiri said on behalf of PAD, that Thaksins PPP government plans to amend the 2007 constitution to get away with corruption [...]

US Senate Passes Spy Bill | UPDATE 1-US Senate passes spy bill, phone immunity U.S. phone companies that took part in President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program would receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits under a bill approved on Tuesday by the Democratic-led Senate.

David Barkdull’s reply to: The land of the free then deny freedom and rights to innocent people (until proven guilty) but it’s ok because they don’t do it in the land of the free David B: I really don’t think Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend’s wife, Hillary, can sort out something like this. It looks like sometimes [...]

Breaking News | Bhutto’s Assassin Caught On Video Tape? Here is a video from showing the assasin shooting Bhutto, ever so calmly and cleverly in cold blood … Here is a video from showing the assasin shooting Bhutto, cleverly in cold blood Breaking News | Bhutto’s Assassin Caught On Video Tape?