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Terror Suspect Youssef Ayad admitted plots to attack Israelis during Passover
Terror Suspect Youssef Ayad admitted plots to attack Israelis during Passover
The Israeli Embassy in Bangkok has asked the Thai capital’s Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) to increase security measures around the embassy and various other Jewish and Israeli establishments and tourist attractions, the Bangkok Post reported. The request follows the arrest of two Hezbollah terrorists who were believed to have been plotting an attack against Israeli tourists in Thailand.

The report quoted MPB chief Lt. Gen. Kamronwit Thoopkrachang as saying he had received a letter from the Israeli embassy “asking for extra protection for tourists staying on the popular backpacker roads in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district,” citing “Hezbollah terrorists planning to carry out attacks at six locations in Bangkok during Passover.”

A Hezbollah terror plot against Israeli tourists in Bangkok was foiled, and the investigation is proceeding swiftly, Israel Hayom reports. One admitted to planning an attack on Israeli tourists. The men have been identified as French-Lebanese national Daoud Farhat and Lebanese-Filipino national Youssef Ayad. Thailand’s deputy national police chief Winai Thongsong said the men were arrested at different locations in Bangkok after Thai police received intelligence from Israel about a planned attack on Israeli tourists during Passover.

The Thai source said investigators believe at least nine suspected foreign terrorists connected to Hezbollah are somewhere in Thailand. Authorities are attempting to track them down, he said. The source also said Ayad had given useful information to police and admitted his cell entered Thailand to carry out a bomb attack against Israeli tourists and other Israeli groups on Khao San Road during Songkran.

The Internal Security Operations Command insists the two suspected foreign terrorists arrested in Bangkok had no links with separatists in the deep South of Thailand and other terrorist groups in the Southeast  Asian region. Col Banpot Poonpian said yesterday he had earlier been informed by investigators that the two men suspected of having links to militant Islamic group, Hezbollah, were arrested at hotels in Sukhumvit Soi 4, known as Soi Na Na, during the Songkran holidays. “But Hezbollah has no any involvement with separatists’ movement in the deep South of Thailand, the Southeast Asia-based terror group Jemaah Islamiya and the al-Qaeda group,” he said, responding to reporters’ questions about Hezbollah’s movement into violence-related attacks in the deep South of Thailand.

Col Banpot said Thai people did not need to panic about the news as only Israel and the United States have upgraded Hezbollah to be an international terrorist group.

Mr. Farhat held a French passport and travelled from France while Mr. Ayad who left the Philippines carried a Philippines passport. According to their passports, both were born in Lebanon, though authorities have yet to confirm if the travel documents are genuine. Col Banpot said authorities have yet to check whether the two men had any connection with Hezbollah as alleged by Israel.

The investigator  yesterday said that police would take at least one week to finish their investigations into the two suspects. If they are found not guilty of any crime in Thailand, they will be deported back to France and the Philippines immediately. “Investigations are still under way,” the source said.

“So far we have not yet found any criminal involvement of the two suspects in Thailand. Even though we found nails and bolts allegedly used in making bombs from their homes in Bangkok, we did not find a potentially explosive substance.” National police chief Adul Sangsingkaew said yesterday he ordered his investigators to try to track down more members of the group in Thailand.

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