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...soldiers in Iraq, of course, are not combat troops. But even though Asians have been assiduous in showing Iraqis they are there to rebuild the country, not fight a war, all Asian solders ultimately serve under U.S. command in the "coalition of the willing." And many Asian troops?the Thai, Mongolian and Filipino soldiers, in particular?are deployed in some of the most incendiary parts of Iraq. It's not hard, then, to imagine how a band of discontented Iraqis might target, say, an Asian medic or aid worker as a substitute for an American soldier. "The kidnapping...
...Japanese go, Korea might go," says Mo Jongryn, an international-relations expert at Yonsei University in Seoul. A similar calculus is being assessed in Thailand, which has 443 troops in Iraq and has already suffered two soldier casualties. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says he will consider pulling out Thai troops if the situation deteriorates...
...most troublesome of Thaksin's recent problems is the unrest in the country's Muslim south. To counter the resentment that many Thai Muslims feel at being marginalized, Thaksin traveled to the violence-plagued region last week to unveil a $300 million economic-aid package. But whatever credit Thaksin received for this development initiative he soon lost when reporters grilled him about another issue galvanizing the south: the disappearance of prominent Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelahphaijit. Somchai, a father of five, had vanished after going to a Bangkok hotel on March 12 to meet a client. A few days later...
...icon. He has devoted his career to defending their rights against what he felt were "gross injustices committed by the central government against Muslims," says Sittisak Kongluer, a colleague of Somchai's at their small Bangkok law firm. Somchai's high-profile and often-controversial clients include four Thai Muslims accused of involvement in regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah and five men suspected of planning a deadly raid on a Thai army base on Jan. 4. The attack sparked an upsurge of violence in the area that has left at least 50 people dead, most of whom were local officials...
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