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...Thailand: A New Terror Threat
...Thailand: A New Terror Threat
...Thailand: A New Terror Threat
...late 2002, Thailand's prime minister Thaksin 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...
...Thai agents were investigating possible domestic JI operations as early as January 2002, when one of the country's most senior intelligence officials was alerted by his counterparts in Singapore to the presence of suspected JI operatives in southern Thailand. Acting on the scoop, the official dispatched field agents to the porous southern border town of Sungai Kolok to check assertions that four JI members had fled through Malaysia and into southern Thailand, a Muslim stronghold in a predominantly Buddhist country. He didn't expect the agents to find much. But when they combed through embarkation cards of individuals...