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| Thailand Arrests Algerian Passport Forger |
| 2005-08-27 |
| An Algerian man wanted by Britain in connection with last month’s deadly London bombings has been caught in Thailand, the Immigration Police commissioner said yesterday. Lt-General Suwat Thamrong-srisakul said Atamnia Yachine, 33, was arrested on Wednesday in the Sukhumvit Soi Nana area on a charge of possessing 180 fake French and Spanish passports. Yachine is believed to have been providing terrorists behind the London bombers with bogus travel documents, Suwat said. Four bomb attacks rocked London on July 7, killing 52 and injuring more than 700 passengers on three crowded tube trains and a public bus. An Immigration Police source said the bureau had planned to parade Yachine along with two suspected foreign paedophiles in front of the media on Wednesday but the British Embassy had asked them not to. Police were tipped off to Yachine’s whereabouts when an unspecified number of people were intercepted with 452 false European passports at Bangkok International Airport earlier this month. Those suspects were believed to have purchased some bogus passports from Yachine, Suwat said. Authorities traced calls from the mobile phone of one of the airport suspects and developed a lead that took them to the Algerian passport counterfeiter. A senior police officer familiar with the case said authorities here were debating whether to detain the Algerian longer to dig out more leads from him or hand him over immediately to the British government. Thailand has long been accused of being a magnet for transnational criminals to come and make all kinds of illicit deals and purchases. |
| Posted by:Lone Ranger |
| #2 detain the Algerian longer to dig out more leads from him I like the sound of that |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-27 17:57 |
| #1 But will the Thais offer him a free TV and access to British soccer matches on that TV? http://calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com/2005/08/neville-chamberlain-act-of-month.html |
| Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-08-27 17:03 |