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...Rewind to March 2003. Bangkok was recovering from the property doldrums, banks were lending again, and it seemed a good time to buy. After months of searching for a new home, we stumbled on a village on the city's northeastern outskirts?full of old houses with potential, in quiet, green-canopied lanes?and spotted a small for sale sign. The house was a mess but we could renovate or rebuild. Shifty eyes aside, the owner was charm itself. He had retired from the air force, he said, and introduced himself as a general...
...Khallad bin Attash; they stay with Yazid Sufaat. Suspecting that al-Midhar and al-Hazmi are al-Qaeda members, the CIA monitors them there. From a third country, the CIA learns that al-Midhar's passport contains a U.S. visa. After a few days, the three men leave for Bangkok, where Thai intelligence agents lose them...
...cover-up "is just not true,'' says Dhanin. The company's chicken farms are a bulwark against the spread of diseases, he contends, because its birds are kept in giant warehouses, sequestered from birds believed to be carriers of the virus. His views are supported by a Bangkok-based senior officer of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, who says enclosed factory farms like CP's are the safest...
...have not said how much the outbreak will cost CP, Dhanin is once again digging in to fight for his business. After all, he comes from a family that started with next to nothing. Dhanin's father and uncle emigrated from China's Guangdong province in 1921, settled in Bangkok and scraped together enough money to open a seed shop. That sprouted operations in animal feed and fertilizer. When Dhanin, the youngest of four sons, took over the company in 1964, he moved aggressively into poultry farming. A tie-in with Arbor Acres Farm of the U.S. added new technology...
...worried that an Asian capital may be next?particularly given that the Madrid train attack prompted the new Spanish government to pledge to withdraw its troops from Iraq. South Korea has beefed up security on its trains, planes and other public transport, while Thailand has done the same at Bangkok airport, foreign embassies and so-called soft targets such as the tourist resorts in Pattaya and Phuket...