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Southeast Asia
Two Thai terrorists admit links to bloody mosque standoff
2008-01-25
Two Thai Muslim suspects now in police custody for obviously allegedly murdering a Buddhist schoolteacher on Thursday morning admitted involvement in the controversial 2004 massacre at a landmark mosque in Pattani.

Gunned down at 8 am Thursday while enroute by motorcycle to his work at Ban Koh Taa School in Pattani was Buddhist 46-year-old schoolteacher Suvit Boonsanit. He rushed to Yala Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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About 100 soldiers and police officers were deployed to hunt for the terrorists suspected insurgents. A few hours later, two young men were arrested, with the authorities seizing a motorcycle and a shotgun.

According to the initial interrogation, the two men admitted killing the teacher to release themselves from an obligation to the mastermind of the murder. After the murder, the suspects said, they would be free to leave Pattani. However, they did not elaborate why the alleged author of the plot had control over them.

The suspects said they belonged to the Tareegat group which was involved in the controversial incident at Kruesae Mosque in Pattani on April 28, 2004. Some 100 young Muslim men died in the historic landmark house of worship of the Muslim-majority province after a brutal clash with law enforcement officers.

Meanwhile:

Twelve suspected terrorists insurgents were rounded up from two villages in (Narathiwat) Friday.

And:

Terrorists Suspected insurgents tried to ambush soldiers in Yala Province but failed because their explosives went off prematurely.

Police said eight soldiers were on their way to visit a wounded soldier at a hospital in Yaha province on Friday morning when terrorists insurgents detonated an explosive hidden in a plant jar placed on a roadside. The blast went off before their pick-up passed by, so the soldiers were unharmed. The terrorists insurgents fled into a nearby rubber plantation, police said. Authorities sealed off the area to search for the suspects.
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