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"International terrorist group & VBSW(Burmese dissidents)"

SOURCE:  Monday, December 20 (AFP)
Opposition claim in no-confidence debate

>BANGKOK: Thailand's political opposition claimed yesterday that an 
>associate of Osama bin Laden was operating from a Thai base.
>Opposition leader and former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said 
>he had evidence the unnamed suspect had funnelled arms to Myanmar 
>activists who took over Yangon's Bangkok embassy in October.

>``From decades of involvement in intelligence penetration operations I 
>have obtained tapes. There is a group linked to international 
>terrorists, one member of which is in Thailand,'' said Mr Chavalit, a 
>retired general, on the fifth day of a marathon no-confidence debate.

>``There is concrete evidence this man is wanted by a Cambodian court, 
>and he has links with Osama bin Laden and he provided arms to the 
>Myanmar embassy gunmen,'' he said.

>Bin Laden is accused of masterminding bombings at two US embassies in 
>Africa last year.

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SOURCE: The Nation - Dec 20, 1999.?@

>NAP leader claims Surin helped fugitive

>THE opposition fired its last salvo yesterday in claiming that an 
>associate of alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden -- the Saudi national 
>said to have supplied arms to the dissidents who stormed the Burmese 
>Embassy in October -- is taking refuge in Thailand.

>Undeterred, Chavalit said he had acquired the tape from his connections 
>in military intelligence, but stopped short of identifying his source 
>other than saying he had relied on ''the old school network''.

>Continuing his attack on Surin, he said: ''There is a political group in 
>Cambodia that Surin is aware of. He may not necessarily be associated 
>with it but the group is mobilising foreign funds to finance its 
>activities in Cambodia.
>''That's why the group is associated with international terrorism and 
>Osama bin Laden,'' Chavalit said, with apparent reference to Cambodia's 
>opposition party, the Sam Rainsy Party led by maverick Sam Rainsy.
>''It is believed that this group helped provide arms for those Burmese 
>dissidents who seized the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok in October.''

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