Islamic Militants Kill 5 Soldiers, Thailand Says By REUTERS New York Times October 06, 2005 BANGKOK, Oct. 5 (Reuters) - Gunmen suspected of being Islamic militants killed five soldiers and wounded two others in an ambush on Wednesday, the police said. An army radio message transmitted earlier said the gunmen had raided an outpost, wounding five soldiers and escaping with five guns, but the police at the scene said five soldiers had been killed. "The soldiers were taking an evening break when dozens of militants attacked them, and these troops had no way to defend themselves," said a police colonel in Narathiwat Province, Thanongsak Wangsupa, who was at the scene. It was the most deadly single attack on security forces since the insurgency began in January last year. More than 900 people have been killed in the insurgency in the country's three southernmost provinces, where there is a Muslim majority. The attackers on Wednesday used spikes and trees to block the road and prevent counterattacks by soldiers, the radio account said. Militants are also suspected in the beheading of a villager in southern <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/th ailand/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> Thailand. The head and torso of a man, thought to be in his 50's, were recovered in a rubber plantation in Yala, one of the provinces where the violence has taken place. The police said that villagers told them about the beheaded man on Tuesday, but that they were too frightened of booby traps or ambushes to examine the scene until Wednesday. "We were afraid of falling into the militants' trap," a police investigator at the scene said by telephone. "They might have triggered a bomb once we reached there." The police investigator said it was unclear whether the victim was Buddhist or Muslim, although as with previous beheadings of Buddhists, a note was left beside the victim's head saying the killing was in retaliation for police actions. "You have arrested innocent people from the village," the note said, according to the investigator. "I have killed innocent people in return." The decapitation was the 11th in 21 months of violence. The recent troubles began in January 2004 in Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani Provinces, where militants fought a low-level separatist war in the 1970's and 1980's. The Thai government has flooded the region, where 80 percent of the people are ethnic Malays who are Muslims, with 30,000 troops and police officers. Their presence has angered many residents. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
