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Wed, 02/22/2012 - 13:01
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Thai PM orders integrated intelligence after bomb blasts in Bangkok
UDON THANI, February 22 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has told her Cabinet members to ensure the safety of people and international tourists and has ordered integrated intelligence to boost security, following recent bomb blasts on Sukhumvit 71 Road in Bangkok on February 14.
After a mobile Cabinet meeting in the northeastern Udon Thani Province Wednesday, Acting Government Spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng told a press conference that the prime minister asked her Cabinet members to support security operations for people and assigned Deputies Prime Minister Police Captain Chalerm Yubumrung and General Yuthasak Sasiprapa to integrate intelligence operations.
Thitima said that the prime minister also ordered the two deputies premier to hold weekly meetings to discuss national security developments and operations with representatives of the Royal Thai Police Office, the National Intelligence Agency, the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs, as well as other security-related authorities.
According to the acting government spokesperson, the prime minister also instructed the Ministry of Transport to guarantee security at airports, tourist police to monitor suspects and immigration police and language experts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to check visits of foreigners carefully.
Meanwhile, General Yuthasak acknowledged that authorities were still unable to identify any party being responsible for the bomb blasts in Bangkok and were verifying information from various sources; while Defence Minister Air Chief Marshal Sukumpol Suwanatat denied his acknowledgement on Iran’s statement that the bomb blasts in the Thai capital were the acts of People’s Mujahedin of Iran, an anti-Iranian government movement, noting that new and inexperienced terrorists might arrive for attacks because experienced ones have already been blacklisted.
The defence minister suggested that concerned authorities carefully watch out for the arrivals of such rookies, expressing his hope that Malaysia would send an Iranian bombing suspect to Thailand within this week. (TNA)