- Title: THAILAND: SECURITY STEPPED UP AHEAD OF APEC SUMMIT.
- Date: 4th October 2003
- Summary: (W3) BANGKOK, THAILAND (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/MV/PAN: POLICEMEN LINE UP (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. LV/GV: VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE (2 SHOTS) 0.25 3. LAS/CU: VARIOUS OF COMMANDOS STANDING IN LINE (3 SHOTS) 0.40 4. MV: VARIOUS POLICE LIEUTENANT GENERAL KRISANA POLANANTA (PRONOUNCED KRIT-SA-NA PHON-AR-NAN) INSPECTING SPECIAL POLICE COMMANDOS 0.48 5. SOUNDBITE (English) KRISANA SAYING "Our country is the safe country, we have done for security so much, we are sure the police and the other staffs have done everything for APEC, so we are sure" 6. GV/CU/GV: KRISANA WATCHING MOTORCADE PASSING BY (6 SHOTS) 1.33 7. SOUNDBITE (English) KRISANA SAYING "Our country is the safe country, we have done for security so much, we are sure the police and the other staffs have done everything for APEC, so we are sure" 2.02 8. GV: POLICE LINE 2.06 9. VARIOUS: IMMIGRATIONS OFFICIALS PATROLLING TOURIST AREAS, SPEAKING TO OMANI AND SAUID TOURISTS, CECKING PASSPORTS (7 SHOTS) 2.57 10. GV: OFFICIALS HANDING OUT HANDBILLS TO RESTAURANT OWNER 3.06 11. MCU: A CUSTOMER SMOKING A PIPE 3.11 12. MV: OFFICIAL CHECKING IDENTIFICATION 3.19 13. GV: VARIOUS OFFICIALS PATROLLING TOURIST BARS AREA (2 SHOTS) 3.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BANGKOK,THAILAND
- Country: Thailand
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- Story Text: Security is stepped up ahead of the upcoming APEC
summit.
Thailand is mounting its biggest security operation
for the Asia-Pacific summit attended by U.S. President
George
W. Bush and other world leaders later this month.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on his weekly
radio programme that Thailand will bar protests during
21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit
on October 20-21.
Thousands of soldiers and police have been assigned to
summit venues, the airport, and hotels for the summit on .
There have been persistent suggestions that Thai
security is not up to the job of keeping the leaders safe,
but Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has declared the
country ready for any threat.
Just this week, a Thai newspaper quoted an unidentified
police source as saying the hunt was on for six
surface-to-air missiles believed to have been smuggled in
from Cambodia. Thaksin said the rumour had turned out to be
just that.
Thailand is surrounded by formerly-war-torn countries
and is believed to be a transit point for arms smuggling to
rebels in various Asian nations, including Indonesia and
Sri Lanka.
In August, a joint CIA-Thai operation north of Bangkok
led to the capture of Hambali, believed to be the
operations chief of the Southeast Asian militant network
Jemaah Islamiah and al Qaeda's main man in the region.
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