| |
Smegma
|
Bangkok Post June 12, 2003
The Islamic religious teacher and his son arrested in Narathiwat on Tuesday have confessed to being members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group, authorities said yesterday.
They also admitted conspiring with a Singaporean member of the Jemaah Islamiyah to bomb five embassies and major tourist spots, all in Bangkok.
The third suspect, Waemahadi Wae-dao, a doctor and owner of a drugstore in Narathiwat, denied being a member but admitted to producing fake passports for JI members.
A Crime Suppression Division source said police found key documentary evidence at the houses of the three suspects, including maps of Bangkok on which eight spots were circled - Khao San road, Soi Nana and some shopping centres on Sukhumvit road, along with the United States, British, Australian, Israeli and Singaporean embassies.
Details of the planned attacks were also written down on the maps, the source said.
Police Region 9 commissioner Paisarn Tangjaitrong said a warrant was already out for the fourth suspect, Samarn Waekaji, 47, alleged to be a key planner of terrorist attacks on targets in Thailand.
Dr Waemahadi, and Maisuri Haji Abdulloh, teacher and owner of Islam Burana Tohno school (a poh noh school teaching Islam), and his son, Muyahi Haji Doloh, were arrested as suspected members of a JI cell led by Arifin bin Ali, 42, a senior Singaporean member of the radical group who was arrested in Bangkok on May 16. They confessed to planning to bomb five embassies in Bangkok.
Central Investigation Bureau commissioner Jumpol Manmai said Mr Arifin disclosed that the JI group met Mr Maisuri and two other suspects at his school several times last October, to plan attacks on five embassies using car bombs, and attacks on mericans and other foreigners at certain tourist spots some time this month.
The three were charged with conspiring with others working for the interest of foreign states to commit hostile acts against the country, attempt to cause bodily harm to and hurt the freedom of foreign representatives, and illegal assembly.
They were flown to Bangkok from Narathiwat by a helicopter yesterday and detained at the Crime Suppression Division.
Pol Lt-Gen Paisarn said three other suspected JI members were also arrested in Narathiwat's Waeng, Tak Bai and Sungai Kolok districts, but he did not name them.
Police also were keeping a close watch on 18 other suspected JI members and 18 poh noh schools in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces said to be set up by Dr Waemahadi, he said.
Pol Lt-Gen Paisarn said Dr Waemahadi was ``the chief-of-staff'' of the JI group in southern Thailand.
He reportedly graduated from Prince of Songkhla University in Hat Yai, furthered his studies in Egypt and joined an international terrorism organisation which gave him money to build a 12-bed hospital in Narathiwat.
The hospital was shut down two years later after the doctor had a conflict with that terrorist group. He turned to another organisation for financial help for Islamic secessionists, and joined Mr Maisuri, said to belong to the Wahabi Islamic sect, in teaching Muslim youths the idea of secession.
Interior Minister Wan Muhamad Nor Matha said Mr Maisuri and his son, Mr Muyahi, admitted they were JI members and that they had planned terrorist attacks with Mr Arifin at his school in Narathiwat.
Dr Waemahadi only said he knew Mr Arifin and admitted to forging passports for JI members, but claimed he did not belong to JI, Mr Wan Nor said.
He declined to give details but insisted the three were not scapegoats as authorities had evidence that linked them to the JI group.
Mr Wan Nor, however, did not think they were involved in recent violence in the South which included attacks on police and teachers.
Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said the arrests of the three suspected terrorists on Tuesday while Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in the United States was not meant to please the US.
The Bush administration is reportedly not pleased with Thailand's half-hearted cooperation in the US-led war on Iraq.
Gen Chavalit said authorities had been investigating the JI group for six months, before the prime minister's trip was planned. The three suspects were key planners and considered important people inside the terrorst group. He did not think JI's presence in Thailand would grow as southern Muslim communities loved peace and hated violence.
|
Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:51 am on June 12, 2003
|
|
|
|
xplurer
|
Here in Oz they issued a terror alert a month or so back, it is still current. It was said to be based on pretty solid evidence for BKK, Phuket, Pataya.
I wonder if this is the same "event" or completely unrelated.
I also wonder if these arrests mean there is less liklihood of anything happening in the next few months or makes no differance.
I ignore the threats but am not totally blind to them, I make a calculated decision (on unknowns to a degree I admit).
The threat, if still current, is obviously real, as anyone who was in Bali. It is a matter of weighing up the "never gonna go outside again!" vs "yes, I'll open a new bacon shop in Bhagdad" equation and deciding if you think the risk is acceptable.
I admit though ... I hope these arrests decrease the liklihood.
Thanks for the info, I didn't see it make the papers here (most likely I missed it)
|
Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:16 am on June 12, 2003
|
|
Smegma
|
Here DG. I am bringing the thread up, so that you can read it all, be informed and shut up.
Perhaps you can do some cut and pasting and get this into a forum overthere. I would venture there is more info in this article of YESTERDAY, than what was in TODAY's article there.
|
Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 12:50 am on June 13, 2003
|
|
Vancouver Jay
|
All the more reason to be swaddled in warm bargirl flesh to catch any shrapnel.
|
Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 4:35 am on June 13, 2003
|
|
Thin White Duke
|
Boys, can anyone think of a better way to go......I can't.
|
Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:17 pm on June 13, 2003
|
|
|
|
bound4bangkok
|
Hello all
This is good news that they got caught before they actually did anything. Since Sept 11th, the Bali bombings several embassy bombings in africa. everyones known that SOMETHING can happen and these nutcases could target any where any time. Only the truely Nieve would think NOT In THAILAND no way. I think the brothers all know that Its possable and NANA actually would be a Very good target to do a lot of Damage cause of the compact nature if it. The terrorest while there Nutcases are not DUMB or they could have pulled off what they already have. The fact they got caught is what we all should be tankful for Rock on guys
|
Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:01 pm on June 14, 2003
|
|
Hermanolobo
|
Nana = perverts get blown up ?? Crocodile tears!
Sukhumwit = Possible. Good media coverage of event.
Khao San Road = Backpackers, University students, rich western kids !
More likely target to get media attention !
|
Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 7:16 am on June 17, 2003
|
|
dirty guru
|
i think the risk is low..but nanna is a place i will only now go to get an earlier takeaway til they fix the road access...its a trap!
|
Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:22 am on June 17, 2003
|
|
| |
|
