Thai jihad update. No doubt these Buddhist monks were acting provocatively somehow. “Insurgents kill two in southern Thailand,” from UPI, :
Militants in southern Thailand killed a volunteer security officer who was escorting Buddhist monks while they collected alms Monday, Xinhua reported.
Two suspected separatists shot and killed Aphidet Yongmakae as he finished his routine job of accompanying the monks on their rounds Monday morning in the southern province of Yala…
In another incident, Abdulmana Chaesor was shot by two gunmen while working in his shop in Yala city Sunday evening. The victim was a schoolteacher and a suspected police informant.
Police believe the killings were the work of Muslim separatists…