A witness at the trial of four Thai Muslims accused of belonging to the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group says the defendants were planning simultaneous truck bomb attacks on foreign embassies in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
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Special branch Colonel Pirapong Duangamporn told the Thai Criminal court Friday that on June 6 the four, along with a Singaporean suspect, were planning to bomb simultaneously the U.S., British, Israeli, Singaporean and Australian embassies in Bangkok, as well as tourist spots in Phuket and Pattaya districts. He said their goal was to create the maximum amount of chaos. Colonel Pirapong, who arrested the suspects, said three of the accused Thai Muslims were arrested in June and the fourth, accused of being the group’s bomb maker, turned himself in in July. They pleaded not guilty at earlier hearings. |