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...According to the intelligence official, Mas Selamat's immigration papers showed that he had been inside Thailand for four days and then re-entered Malaysia, possibly with several traveling companions. "We had no [immigration] records for [those companions]," he said. "And we have to admit we don't know what they were doing here...
...does now. Mas Selamat was captured in Indonesia in February. Information gleaned from his subsequent interrogation in Singapore triggered the recent arrest of the three Thais. The network exposed by Thai authorities now reveals that, despite Thaksin's initial assurances to the contrary, Thailand has played unwitting host to JI regional operatives...
...Thaksin said last week that Selamat and his colleagues were planning the bombings to coincide with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, when the heads of state, including U.S. President George W. Bush, were supposed to gather in Thailand. But the plan was aborted, police say, following the May 16 arrest in Bangkok of the cell's suspected chief planner, Singaporean Arifin bin Ali, who also goes by the alias John Wong Ah Hung. Arifin, it is now known, was one of the accomplices who entered southern Thailand with Mas Selamat in December...
...According to Thailand's deputy police commissioner, General Sunthorn Saikwan, Arifin had links to a terror cell busted in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, in May. During that sweep, police arrested two Thais?both from the south?and an Egyptian, and followed that up on June 11 with the capture of a Cambodian believed to be a member of the same cell. The Thai and Egyptian men were teachers at an Islamic school funded by the Saudi charity Om al-Qura. The charity is believed to have been used by al-Qaeda to fund its own activities and those...
...Thailand: A New Terror Threat