Thai security forces inspect the site of an attack on army patrolling vehicle in the southern Yala province July 2, 2010. Suspected Muslim insurgents ambushed security forces in southern Thailand on Friday and killed three soldiers in a second attack in two days, an army officer said, ratcheting up violence in a low-level insurgency that has been going on for about six years in predominantly Buddhist Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south, on the border with Malaysia. (Reuters}

Thai bomb squad members inspect the crater at the site of a roadside bomb planted by suspected separatist Muslim militants in Thailand 's restive southern province of Narathiwat on July 2, 2010. Five people, including three military rangers, were killed in a bomb attack in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority southern provinces, police said. (Getty Images)