BANGKOK (AP) - An exiled Muslim rebel leader on Thursday welcomed Thailand's military overthrow of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, saying the coup could help resolve a bloody Islamic insurgency in the country's south.
"It is the right thing that the military has taken power to replace the Thaksin Shinawatra government,'' said Lukman B. Lima, an exiled leader in one of several groups fighting the central government for a separate Muslim state.
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