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...which attendees sometimes referred to as "motivation courses," actually featured diatribes against the Malaysian government and calls to Islamic activism. Students who displayed the proper ardor were sent by Azahari to Afghanistan, according to the police. After the Bali blasts, Azahari went on the run, probably fleeing to southern Thailand, although Malaysian police say he continued to use his campus e-mail account to communicate with fellow jihadis...
...lending its pungent and musky taste to nearly every dish. Its strong aroma permeates the room at Floating Rock, but prahok’s bark is worse than its bite; the smell and taste is familiar to anyone who’s eaten the fish sauce-laden cuisines of Thailand and Vietnam. Much like these cuisines, Cambodian food uses an abundance of aromatic herbs for vibrant flavor, fresh chiles for heat and spices for complexity. Dishes are often augmented with a pinch of sugar, supplying a characteristic sweet and sour taste. But it is the distinctive prahok that gives Cambodian...
Eight-year-old Jay Unthong's mother was the first casualty in Thailand's war on drugs. She died just after midnight on Feb. 1, moments after the launch of a three-month government campaign to rid the country of narcotics. Jay's parents were small-time dealers in their village of Ban Rai, in western Ratchaburi province. His mother, Yupin, was reportedly on a police blacklist. Her husband, Boonchuay, spent 18 months in jail for possession of amphetamine pills, known in Thai as ya ba, or crazy medicine. On Jan. 31, the family spent the evening playing fairground games...
...After four weeks, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's war on drugs has Thailand fully mobilized. Police have made 13,232 arrests, seized nearly 10 million pills and accepted the surrender of 36,277 suspected drug pushers. Across the country, dealers, users and, sometimes, innocents are being gunned down, either by underworld associates, neighborhood enemies or, as human-rights groups allege, by cops taking extralegal measures. Since Jay's parents were slain, 1,138 more people have been killed?an average of almost...
...Thailand does indeed have a crippling drug habit. The country currently reigns as the world's largest consumer of methamphetamines and is a major smuggling route for heroin out of the Golden Triangle. Stung by criticism that he has been soft on Burma, where most of the narcotics are produced, Thaksin has pledged no lenience for those supplying drugs to Thailand's 3 million users. Police insist that the bodies piling up are bad guys killed by other bad guys?specifically, drug lords silencing potential informers. The Thai term for such a murder is ka tat torn, or killing...