Posted on 09/09/2003 11:49:11 PM PDT by HAL9000
BANGKOK, Thailand (DPA): Indonesia and Malaysia have provided Thai police with photographs and other information related to 19 suspected members of two radical Islamic groups that may be planning terrorist attacks on next month's APEC summit in Bangkok, news reports said Wednesday.Police at checkpoints along the Thai-Malaysian border have been put on alert to ensure the terrorist suspects do no enter Thailand, according to security officials quoted by the Thai-language daily Khom Chat Luek.
Indonesian authorities gave Thai police a list of 11 people suspected to have been under the command of the Indonesian terrorist suspect Hambali before he was arrested last month in the central Thai city of Ayutthaya in a joint Thai-U.S. operation.
Hambali is accused of being the operations chief of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), which is alleged to be closely connected to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network and to have carried out several deadly bombings in Indonesia.
A list containing eight suspected members of another radical Islamic organisation, Kumpulan Militant Malaysia (KMM), was submitted to Thai police by the government of Malaysia, according to the Thai security officials.
Both the KMM and the JI are accused of working to establish an Islamic state covering Malaysia, Indonesia, part of the Philippines and southern Thailand.
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