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| Malaysia Forming Border Patrol Regiment for Thai Border |
| 2005-08-04 |
| PENANG, Aug 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysia will form a Border Patrol Regiment soon to guard the border with Thailand. Army Field Command chief Lt Jen Datuk Masood Zainal Abidin said the regiment would further tighten security at the border to prevent encroachment, smuggling and other illegal activities. The regiment would be of brigade strength and made up of military personnel, he told a news conference after attending the Malaysia-Thailand Regional Border Committee (RBC) meeting here Wednesday... Masood said the details of the new regiment would be announced by the armed forces chief soon. Currently, soldiers were already patrolling the border from Perlis to Kelantan but the formation of the regiment would help strengthen border security. Asked on the security problem in southern Thailand, Masood said it was a domestic affair of Thailand and Bangkok had not sought any form of assistance from Malaysia. "However, we are prepared to extend our assistance if it is needed to ensure peace in the border areas," he said... |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #2 Malaysia will form a Border Patrol Regiment soon to guard the border with Thailand Gotta watch those rascally Buddhist "insurgents". |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-04 14:11 |
| #1 Undoubted modelled upon the Syrian border patrol. |
| Posted by: Omiger Snaviting1691 2005-08-04 02:12 |