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...turned-actor leaps across boiling oil, ballets above an array of tuk tuks and beats up anyone foolish enough to challenge him. The insane inventiveness of the stunts?done without special effects, wirework or apparent concern for Jaa's life and limb?has turned into box-office gold in Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and even France, where the film found a fan and international distributor in action auteur Luc Besson. Besson recut the film and secured a U.S. distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures. Expectations are high that Ong Bak and Jaa will break big in North America...
...ASIA THAILAND: The insurgency in the country's south is almost certainly connected to a global jihad...
...which, since the Bali atrocity two years ago this week, has been periodically rocked by bombings instigated and executed by Islamic extremists. But this assembly took place in Sungai Golok, a small town deep in the Thai south, a poor region that borders Malaysia and which is home to Thailand's 6 million-strong Muslim minority. All year, the south has been wracked by a wave of violence that has already claimed more than 350 lives. Hardly a week seems to pass without a bombing or an assassination, with soldiers, policemen, monks, teachers, even a judge targeted. Last week, five...
...Thai security officials say interrogations of those apprehended reveal that most of their leaders are young ustaz, or Islamic teachers, who spent their formative years in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of them returning to Thailand as recently as a few years ago. This generation imbibed the heady, radical ideas swirling through the madrasahs after the mujahedin's success against the Soviets in Afghanistan. And many brought the idea of jihad back home with them. "We're not saying all these men are terrorists, of course," says General Pisarn Wattanawongkeeree, commander of the roughly 8,000 troops charged with keeping peace...
...will face a tough task. While security forces have rounded up scores of suspects in recent months, no ringleader has yet been captured. "We have all the names," Thaksin told TIME, "[but] we cannot find them." That may be because the main figures are not based in Thailand. Ever since militants attacked a Thai army camp in January, killing four soldiers and disappearing with more than 400 automatic weapons, officials have become increasingly convinced that leaders of the insurgency are hiding in Malaysia, given the laxity of frontier checkpoints. "It's not easy looking for them because they...