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| Thai students detained in Pakistan have no IS links: Thai govt |
| 2015-06-13 |
| [DAWN] Five Thai students detained in Pakistain for trying to board a plane with a pistol and ammunition have no links to the self-styled Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... bully boy group or any criminal organization, a Thai government front man said on Friday. The men, who had been studying at a religious school in Pakistain, were trying to catch a flight on Monday night when they were intercepted. "We have no evidence that there are any links at all between the students and any criminal organization, so news that there is a link between IS and the students is not true," Major General Sansern Kaewkamnerd, a deputy government front man, told Rooters. On Friday, Thai newspaper the Bangkok Post reported that two of the five were suspected of having links to Islamic State, which is also known as IS. The report cited intelligence sources. Officials from Thailand's embassy in Islamabad had visited the students and an investigation by embassy officials was underway, Sansern said. An investigation into the students' families found no links with violence in Thailand's southern region, where there has been a long-running Moslem separatist insurgency, Army Chief Udomdej Sitabutr told news hounds on Friday. Some of the detained men are from Thailand's south. The students are in detention in Lahore, according to Thailand's foreign ministry. |
| Posted by:Fred |