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http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=122&id=7227&t=Thailand%3A+Two+Buddhist+teachers+killed+in+south Friday, December 29, 2006 by Asia News | Tags: thailand, terrorism, islam Suspected Islamic militants this morning shot dead two Buddhist teachers and then set their bodies ablaze near the school where they used to teach in southern Thailand, local police said. The charred remains of the bodies were found 100 metres from the school entrance, near the pickup truck they were driving when the militants attacked. One of the victims, Chamnong Koopathanaphong, was the principal of the school in Yala province and the second man Manoo Sornkaew, was a teacher at the school. Police said they believed the...

COORDINATED BANGKOK BOMBS KILL 2; New Year's Eve Countdown cancelled(BangkokPost.com) At least six bombs or grenades have exploded in Bangkok early on New Year's Eve. Two people are reported to have been killed, about 25 have been wounded. Bangkok authorities ordered all public New Year's Eve parties cancelled. Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin appeared at the huge Bangkok Countdown 2006 venue and told the crowd to "go home and stay in peace." There had been confusion for an hour over whether New Year's parties would be permitted after the bombing. New Year's is the biggest public party in Thailand. The national...

NEW DELHI: Indian police said on Sunday they had arrested two militants armed with explosives at a railway station in New Delhi. The two were initially detained on suspicion that they were members of the pro-Pakistan militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for many attacks in India, including train bombings in the financial capital Mumbai in July, senior Delhi police official Karnal Singh said. "We received a tip-off that the two men would be coming by train from Jammu (the winter capital of Indian Kashmir)," Singh said. "We detained them and during interrogation they admitted to being members of the Lashkar, and...

Four explosives went off almost simultaneously in Bangkok, injuring at least 20 people as the city people have just started to celebrate the New Year's eve. One person was dead at the Big C supermarket, Sapan Kwai branch, where witness saw a man dropped a grenade from a pedestrian bridge, police said. At least 20 were injured at the Victory Monument when a powerful bomb went off near a bus station. At the Klong Toei area near the Na Ranong intersection, a bomb hidden in a trash can near a Chinese spirit shrine exploded and injured two bypassers. The explosion...