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2004-05-05 Southeast Asia

Global terrorism fears over bloody Thailand uprising

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Posted by Steve 2004-05-05 1:30:25 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Additional: A court in Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a Muslim religious teacher suspected of masterminding last week's attacks.
Reuters news agency has quoted officials as saying that two men held after the attacks had given enough evidence to justify the arrest of Yusof Rayalong, 33, also known as Ustas Ishma-ae, a teacher at a religious school.
Police say during the interrogation, one of the two suspects said he attacked a Yala army base after Yusof had indoctrinated him with separatist ideas. He also told police Yusof had recruited at least 20 teenagers to launch the raids.

And this: Immigration authorities said seven Indonesians had entered Thailand last month through a Thai-Malaysia border crossing in Narathiwat province and were not registered as having left the country. Three Indonesian men entered on April 18 and three more men and a woman arrived on April 19, an immigration official said on condition of anonymity. He refused to give their names or ages. Pisarn said the bodies of the suspected foreigners have not been claimed by relatives since last Wednesday's wave of assaults on police posts in three southern provinces in which 107 attackers were killed - the bloodiest day in the region's recent history. "The seven unclaimed bodies are not Thai," said Pisarn, commander of the 4th Army that controls the south. Pisarn told reporters he is "100 per cent sure" the unclaimed bodies are of foreigners because authorities have accounted for all the remaining dead.

Posted by Steve 2004-05-05 2:10:49 PM|| 2004-05-05 2:10:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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