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...Shinawatra publicly dismissed claims that terrorists were operating inside the country's borders as "ridiculous" and "fabrications" by "crazy people." The Prime Minister may now be rethinking those words because a chain of arrests of suspected Jemaah Islamiah (JI) operatives over the past month in Thailand and in neighboring Cambodia has exposed a potentially virulent terrorist cell operating on Thai soil. In southern Thailand last week, police arrested three Thai nationals, allegedly JI members, accused of plotting a series of Bali-style car-bomb attacks on five embassies?American, Australian, British, Israeli and Singaporean?in Bangkok. According to police...
...According to Thailand's deputy police commissioner, General Sunthorn Saikwan, Arifin had links to a terror cell busted in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, in May. During that sweep, police arrested two Thais?both from the south?and an Egyptian, and followed that up on June 11 with the capture of a Cambodian believed to be a member of the same cell. The Thai and Egyptian men were teachers at an Islamic school funded by the Saudi charity Om al-Qura. The charity is believed to have been used by al-Qaeda to fund its own activities and those...
...Cost of a kilogram of crickets in Cambodia...
...those without recourse to pricey medical assistance, the road can be a little rough. Take the case of Bennett Steinmuller, a traveler in Cambodia who was relieved of his laptop computer during a robbery and took a bullet in the process. He had a cheap travel-insurance policy and on arrival at the hospital called the help line with the memorable declaration: "I'm bleeding. I've been shot. I'm in Cambodia...
...group the Moro National Liberation Front and said to be its liaison with the regional terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI); while trying to board a flight for Manila; in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines. Yunos was caught with an Egyptian who is on international terrorist-watch lists. Meanwhile, in Cambodia the authorities detained three men?one Egyptian and two Thais?for being JI members. Although the arrests signify progress in the war on terror, they also show the resilience and reach of JI, which is widely regarded as al-Qaeda's Asian proxy...