More info on the Bangkok bombings....
COORDINATED BANGKOK BOMBS KILL 2; New Year's Eve Countdown cancelled
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A Greek Olympic Airlines plane diverted to Shannon Airport in south-western Ireland Sunday following a bomb threat, but hours later was allowed to fly on after a search revealed nothing.
The plan's owners Olympic Airlines said in Athens that all 183 passengers and the 12-member crew were evacuated at Shannon as security experts searched the plane.
A man speaking English with a "strong Arab accent" had twice rung Athens airport to issue warnings of an attack in connection with the execution Saturday of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Greek Transport Minister Michalis Liapis was among passengers aboard the flight from New York to Athens.
Army seizes huge cache of explosives in Assam (India)
Sunday, December 31, 2006
KOKRAJHAR: The army has seized a huge cache of explosives from two alleged arms suppliers in Assam's Chirang district. Acting on a tip-off, the army arrested Pradeep Basumatary and Bangal Mushahary from a place near Runikhata and seized from them 90 pieces of assorted explosives weighing nearly two kg last night, sources said on Sunday.
The duo allegedly supplied arms to major insurgent groups of Assam like the ULFA and NDFB as well as an underground group of Meghalaya, the sources said. Several gelatine sticks, nine detonators and small arms were also seized from the duo. They reportedly confessed that the arms and explosives were bought from a company based in Hyderabad and then supplied to rebels in the northeast. The two men are being interrogated, the sources said.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1072058
New Year's Eve bomb arrests in India
1555 GMT (2355 HKT), December 31, 2006
NEW DELHI, India - Police arrested two suspected terrorists with improvised explosive devices on New Year's Eve at a busy railway station in New Delhi. New Delhi Police spokesman Ravi Pawar said the two are believed to be linked to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.
The group, based in Pakistan, has been behind previous terrorist attacks and is believed to be associated with al Qaeda. The U.S. State Department lists it as a terrorist organization. Pawar said Friday's incident is "under investigation" and that the explosives "have gone for testing."
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/31/india.arrests/