Bomb material found in Thailand after terror warnings | Reuters

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  • Alors, voici comment ça se passe : tu es libanais, Israël décide que tu es « membre du Hezbollah », et expédie ton nom à toutes les douanes de la planète. Et là, tu te retrouves en taule en… Thaïlande.

    AFP : Thailand arrests suspect after US terror warning
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    BANGKOK — Thai authorities said Friday they had detained a Lebanese man with suspected links to the Hezbollah militant group, after the United States warned of a terrorist threat against tourists in the kingdom.

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    A Thai senior intelligence officer who did not want to be named told AFP that the kingdom had been informed before the New Year by Israel of a possible threat.

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    “We already have one suspect in custody for interrogation at a government building in Bangkok. He is a Hezbollah from Lebanon,” he said.

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    “Israel was suspicious that these two men might be terrorists, so they gave information, including their names, to our police before the New Year,” the senior intelligence officer said.
    The suspect has denied involvement with any terrorist activities, he added.

    “These two men entered Thailand a while ago but did not conduct any terrorist activity. I wonder why Israel was suspicious about them.”

    • Ah… y’a du nouveau.
      http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/16/uk-thailand-security-idUSLNE80F00X20120116

      National police chief Priewpan Damapong told reporters the suspect, named as Atris Hussein, had given police an address where bomb-making material was being kept.

      Officers discovered large amount of substances that could be used to make explosives in a building in Samut Sakhon, southwest of Bangkok, including 4,380 kg of urea and 10 gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.

      Priewpan said the suspect maintained that his group had not planned an attack in Thailand but intended to transport the substances to a third country. The officer declined to give the destination.

    • Swedish-Lebanese Terror Suspect Explains Himself
      http://www.scandasia.com/viewNews.php?coun_code=th&news_id=10037

      “I am 100 percent not guilty in the terror crimes, I am accused of,” says Atris Hussein, who was last week arrested in Bangkok suspected of preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in Thailand.

      In an interview with the Bangkok based Swedish report Jan Kallman of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, who visited him in prison, the 47 year old Hussein says he became a Swedish citizen in 1994. But in 2005, he and his family moved back to Lebanon where he has lived since.

      He claims the chemical ingredients that was found in the house that could be used to make bombs was placed there by the Israeli secret service Mossad.

      “Much of the material police found in my store had been placed there, probably by the Israeli secret service Mossad,” said Atris Hussein to Aftonbladet’s reporter Jan Kallman.