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Islamic insurgents shot, hacked and crucified a Muslim man for cooperating with the military, and then drove home their intimidation attempt by beheading two Buddhist fish sellers. Police said the separatists left a note on the body of the Muslim man, identified as assistant village headman Abdulloh Malohsae of Rueso district, Narathiwat province: "This is what the infidels deserve. The soldier dogs must meet this end." Rebels shot and hacked the man with knives in an apparent attempt to cut off his head. Then they drove six-inch nails through his head, arms and legs to attach him to two pieces...

An Al Qaeda terror training video has been seized during a police raid on an Islamic school in southern Thailand. Almost 700 people have been killed in the region during a 16-month-long insurgency blamed on Muslim separatists. Acting on a tip-off, the security forces staged the raid on several Islamic boarding schools in southern Thailand's Pattani province believed to be insurgent training grounds. At one, they confiscated electric wire, PVC pipes, a personal computer along with a video cassette on Al Qaeda's terrorist training. Reports say police also recovered several notebooks containing records of the movement of security officials and...

TAK BAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Buddhists have expressed fear and frustration to Thailand's prime minister during a visit to the country's Muslim-majority south where nearly two dozen people have died in reprisal attacks in a fortnight. More than 1,000 people gathered at a temple where Thaksin Shinawatra was taking part in an annual religious rite in Tak Bai district in Narathiwat province. Some in the crowd implored Thaksin to help end the violence in the region and calm tensions after nearly 80 Muslims died in army custody last month, triggering Muslim threats of attacks in the capital Bangkok. "We are...

Arsonists set fire to 36 buildings, mostly deserted health clinics and police stations, in a rampage across Thailand's Muslim south that may reflect anger over a missing lawyer, government officials said Friday. . No injuries were reported. Interior Minister Bhokin Balakula said the attacks were carried out overnight in the provinces of Pattani, Songkhla and Yala, where violence erupted in January when an army camp was raided and guns were stolen. . More than 20 state schools were also set on fire that night, probably as a diversion for the army camp raid, in which four soldiers were killed. ....