You’ll want to take a look at wp_insert_attachment and wp_generate_attachment_metadata.
You can’t insert a featured image/thumbnail using the_post_thumbnail – that function only gets the thumbnail for the current post.
See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_attachment
and http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_generate_attachment_metadata
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