yo stan, hear any excitement up there last night, sounds like a bit of shoot out. i've capped off 30 rounds from an ak before, usually got a response from the locals boys in blue at home. or were you and lita snoozing.
Sting on Thai-Lao border leaves 4 dead
Bangkok (dpa) - A sting operation to nab Lao drug traffickers turned into a shootout near the Thailand-Laos border, leaving three Thai police and one Lao national dead, police said Tuesday.
Twelve police from Thailand's narcotics suppression division participated in the sting operation at 10 p.m. Monday in the Thai-Lao border town of Nong Khai, 500 kilometres north of Bangkok, said Nong Khai Police Colonel Suriya Lertphumbanya.
The sting aimed at catching Lao traffickers red-handed selling one kilogram of ecstasy for 800,000 baht (20,000 dollars) to undercover cops, but the operation took a bloody turn, he said.
"Police rushed in to make the arrests but they were taken unaware by a Lao ambush. The Lao opened fire on us with an AK-47, killing one policeman on the spot and two others died in hospital," said Suriya in a telephone interview.
At least one Lao also died in the ensuing firefight, but two escaped.
"We've been working on this sting for quite a while, buying smaller amounts of marijuana and amphetamines over the past few weeks but Monday night was the first big purchase," said Suriya.
Laos, which has a history of illegally cultivating opium, has switched to producing methamphetamines and marijuana, or trafficking them from neighbouring Myanmar (Burma) in recent years, according to anti-narcotics officials.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=113902
We were in the sack,never heard a thing about it!
