Wave Of Terror Bombings In Thailand

Islamist terrorists in Thailand have set off a wave of bombings across Southern Thailand targeting banks. 22 banks were hit, killing one (so far) and wounding at least 29 people. This is NOT coming up on the top stories on the Yahoo news aggregater.

Militants, many of them dressed as students, left the bombs hidden inside books at commercial banks across the province of Yala, the regional army commander, Lieutenant General Ong-korn Thongprasom told Thai television on Thursday.

"Two suspects were arrested in connection with the bomb attacks. Mostly the militants used young men dressed in student uniforms to plant small bombs which were hidden inside books," he said on Thursday.

Nopporn Thammasart, branch manager of the Bank of Ayudhya in Yala, said his staff received a telephone call warning of a bomb just minutes before the blast injured two of his customers.

"I had no time to inform the police, because within two minutes of the phone call, the bomb exploded," he said.

The blasts shattered windows but caused relatively little damage at the banks. Most of the banks in the region closed immediately, and the Bank of Thailand said most would remain closed Friday to make repairs.

Gateway Pundit has a roundup. Warning, the photos are not for the squeamish. Nothing up on Agam's Gecko  (who lives in Thailand) yet, but I expect he will have something fairly soon.