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Thai Police Suspect Southern Insurgents in Bangkok Bombings

Zomber Peter

   BANGKOK - Thai authorities are casting suspicion on southern
   separatists while suggested broader political motives for a series of
   bombings that shook Bangkok Friday during a summit of top diplomats
   from the U.S., China and the region.

   A low-level insurgency has been simmering for years in Thailand's far
   south -- where Muslim militants want to break away from the
   Buddhist-majority country -- but rarely spread as far north as the
   capital. Analysts say any insurgents involved in Friday's attacks may
   have been acting as mercenaries for other groups, as they have before.

   The blasts hit five locations across Bangkok during the Friday morning
   rush hour, including a government office complex, army headquarters,
   the office of the defense secretary and a public transit train station,
   leaving four people with minor injuries.
   

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