El Al, Tesco Buldings Rocketed in Bangkok

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"Unrelated" to anything at all going on anywhere else in the world,
an El Al building and a building of the Brit Tesco supermarket chain
were attacked with an anti-tank rocket in Bangkok, Thailand on
Wednesday. The war on terror means hitting terrorists and nations
that 'harbor' them anywhere in the world, right Sheriff Bush?

A war, by definition, means at least two opposing armies, not one
monster blitzkrieg by the only world's superpower bombing and maiming
civilians. Maybe it is a war after all... The claim of the Bangkok
police that this was "unrelated to the conflict in the Middle East"
could not be independently confirmed. :-)

Reuters via the Times of India - 5 December 2001
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1478346506


Rocket hits Tesco, El Al buildings in Bangkok 

BANGKOK: An anti-tank rocket struck a Bangkok building housing the
office of El Al Israel Airlines on Wednesday, but police said the
incident appeared unrelated to the conflict in the Middle East.

Police said no one was killed or injured in the blast and that
security had been stepped up at the Israeli embassy in as a
precaution.

Bangkok Police Chief Anan Piromkaeu told reporters that an
unidentified assailant fired an M72 anti-tank rocket, which hit and
damaged the Tesco Lotus supermarket before exploding in a nearby
building housing El Al's offices at 6.30 am (2330 GMT Tuesday).

The rocket grazed the supermarket and hit the fourth floor of the
Manorom Building on Rama IV road in which El Al has a ticketing
office on the 14th floor, shattering windows.

"It looks like an intimidating act," Anan said. "Police believe that
it involved a business conflict."

He said police were investigating the possibility the rocket was
aimed at the Tesco store and had overshot its mark.

Another police officer, who asked not to be named, said at the scene
police believed the rocket was aimed at the Tesco store.

"We don't know yet, but we think the Tesco Lotus department store was
the target," the officer said. "We have had trouble with bombings at
some of the Tesco stores before."

Local radio stations speculated that the attack may have been the
result of a dispute between security companies contracted by the
store.(REUTERS)


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