Anti-Thaksin Thai leader shot

The leader of Thailand's so-called Yellow Shirts protest movement against Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted prime minister, has been shot and wounded in Bangkok.Sondhi Limthongkul's car was attacked at a petrol station in the Thai capital early on Friday, a spokesman for his People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), said.Panthep Puapongpan, a PAD spokesman, said a driver and bodyguard were also wounded.The PAD was behind a week-long siege of Bangkok's airports late last year to protest against allies of Thaksin within the government.The attack comes just days after supporters of Thaksin known as the Red Shirts, called off their own protests in the capital following street battles with the military and Bangkok residents that left two people dead and more than a hundred injured.