Thailand coup: A Muslim takeover?

We'll see.

BANGKOK: General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the leader of the coup attempt in Thailand, is the first Muslim to head the Buddhist nation's army and is known to be close the country's revered king Sonthi, 59, a decorated combat veteran, had publicly clashed with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra over security policy in the run-up to Tuesday's military takeover in Bangkok.

His appointment last year as army commander-in-Chief was widely seen as a bid by the government to end a violent Islamic insurgency in the Muslim-majority South. Muslims make up just four percent of the kingdom's population.