The Strange Thai Insurgents Who Like Sorcery and Get High on Cough Syrup

Krue Se Mosque is just outside the city of Pattani on the shoulder of Highway 42, so nondescript you could breeze by without noticing. A bullet-riddled sign bears the notation, “Tourism Authority of Thailand,” but nobody coming here is a tourist. Any visitor is told –first with glances, soon in stronger terms — to keep his sojourn brief.