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By Chalathip Thirasoonthrakul
Reuters
Monday, September 1, 2008; 4:13 AM

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A small bomb exploded in a Bangkok police booth in
the small hours of Monday as a stand-off between the Prime Minister
and protesters occupying his office entered its seventh day with no
sign of either side backing down.

A senior government source said the blast, which shattered nearby
windows but caused no injuries shortly after 1 a.m. (2:00 p.m. EDT on
Sunday), was a signal the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) was
taking its campaign to another level.

"The PAD has launched a guerrilla war with us," the source, who asked
not to be named, said.

Police echoed his comments, saying they believed it to be the work of
agitators trying to depict the police as powerless in the face of the
three-month PAD campaign to unseat the elected administration.
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"They want to show that the government and the police are too weak to
protect the people," national police spokesman Surapol Thuanthong told
Reuters. "It is something we expected would have happened."

The PAD, a group of businessmen and activists whose campaign against
former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra led to his overthrow in a
2006 coup, has always espoused peaceful protest.

However, last week's raid on a state television station by men armed
with knives and golf clubs, as well as the protracted Government House
occupation behind razor wire barricades, has brought this into
question.

A PAD spokesman denied any responsibility.

"We had no reason to do that. It would only scare away protesters, not
bring more people to join. We have other effective "civil
disobedience" measures to fight the government without planting a
bomb," Parnthep Pourpongpan said.

"I AM NOT AFRAID"

Tensions peaked on Friday when police used teargas and rubber bullets
to repel 2,000 protesters trying to storm Bangkok police headquarters.
Protesters also shut down three regional airports, all of which have
since reopened.

Samak has said repeatedly that he would never bow to the PAD demands,
and warned in his weekly radio address on Sunday that his patience was
wearing out.
 




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