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...does now. Mas Selamat was captured in Indonesia in February. Information gleaned from his subsequent interrogation in Singapore triggered the recent arrest of the three Thais. The network exposed by Thai authorities now reveals that, despite Thaksin's initial assurances to the contrary, Thailand has played unwitting host to JI regional operatives...
...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...
...Thaksin's change of heart was fortuitously timed. Last week's arrest of the three Thai nationals?medical doctor Waemahadi Wae-dao, 41, Islamic teacher Maisuri Haji Abdullah, 50, and his son Muyahi Haji Doloh, 21?took place on the eve of Thaksin's meeting with Bush in Washington. During the meeting Thaksin promised Bush full cooperation in the war against terrorism. "There is no longer any ambiguity in our policy," says Prapat. "We are now involved...
...deeply so. Details of the Thai national Narong, who was caught selling radioactive material, are still emerging...
...hasn't fully closed yet. Police continue to hunt for at least two other Thai suspected members of the cell, including Samarn Wae-kaji, believed by police to be an expert bomb builder who honed his skills under Arifin, who is a graduate of a terror training camp in the Philippines. "Don't worry, we'll catch him," says Major General Chumpon Manmai, Thailand's special branch police commissioner. The notion that there are terrorists in Thailand for him to catch is not so ridiculous anymore...