Thai police are stepping up a crackdown on suspected Muslim militants, arresting a fifth man who may have links with overseas networks. The news follows the arrest of four suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiah Muslim network in the past month. Authorities said four men arrested earlier, including a Singaporean, were part of a cell planning attacks on embassies and Thai beach resorts popular with Westerners during a summit of Asia-Pacific heads of state in October. United States President George W Bush is among leaders expected to attend the summit. Thai Interior Minister Wan Muhamad Noor Matha said the fifth man, an Islamic religious teacher, had been arrested in the mainly Muslim southern province of Satun, 1,270 kilometres from Bangkok. Police declined to say when the man was arrested. Thai authorities have mounted a manhunt for more members of the militant cell, including a man they believe is the group's bomb maker and another believed to be smuggling radioactive materials.
| Which is apparently a different guy from the one they've already caught smuggling radioactive materials... |
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