Terrorist Suspects Plan Attacks on Embassies in Thailand

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Terrorist Suspects Plan Attacks on Embassies in Thailand

Foreign embassies in Bangkok and other places of interests in Thailand were among the attack targets of three terrorist suspects who were arrested, the local press reported on Wednesday.

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Foreign embassies in Bangkok and other places of interests in Thailand were among the attack targets of three terrorist suspects who were arrested, the local press reported on Wednesday.

The three Thais, who were arrested Tuesday in a police raid, were suspected of having collaborated with the Jemaah Islamiyah network to plan attacks on foreign embassies and interests in Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket, newspaper The Nation quoted authorities as saying.

Police got information about the three men from a detained Singaporean suspect named Arifin bin Ali, who was arrested on May 16 in Bangkok and suspected of being a senior member of Jemaah Islamiyah.

The three men were arrested in police raids in their homes in the southern province Narathivat, which lies some 1,000 kilometerssouth of Bangkok.

They are now detained at an undisclosed location in the southern province Songkhla, some 1,000 kilometers south of Bangkok.

Two of the three had confessed to their involvement in the Jemaah Islamiyah network, Narathivat's police chief Paisal Tangchaitrong was quoted by The Nation as saying

He also said that the police were looking for five other peoplebelieved to be connected to the group.

Embassies of the United States, Britain, Australia, Germany andSingapore were on the list of their planned target.

Tuesday's raids carried out in southern Thailand were a joint cooperation between the Thai and Singaporean authorities.

The arrest took place hours before Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's meeting with US President George W. Bush.

They were expected to discuss anti-terrorism cooperation duringthe meeting and issued a joint statement later on various topics including combating terrorism.

Thaksin said before the meeting that both sides would exchange intelligence information on the movement of terrorists so as to combat their activities.

The Thai government conceded last week that there were some terrorist operatives on the territory of the kingdom but claimed they were not active.

The Australian government has warned Australians of possible terrorist attacks in Thailand since mid May.

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