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Thai police hold Hezbollah suspect

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Reuters

1 Views • Jan 17, 2012

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A Lebanese man arrested on suspicion of planning an attack arrives at a Bangkok court.
His arrest comes after the discovery of a huge stash of bomb-making substances.
Police are set to seek a court order to keep him in detention.
Officials have said he is linked to the Shi'ite Islamist group Hezbollah.
Based in Lebanon, the group is backed by Syria and Iran and is on the U.S. blacklist of foreign 'terrorist' organisations.
He was reported to be carrying a Swedish passport.
The suspect was arrested at a Bangkok airport on Thursday, and gave police an address where over 4,000 kilos of urea and 10 gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate were discovered.
Urea and ammonium nitrate have been used in a number of deadly attacks, such as the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 which killed 168 people, and a car bomb that exploded outside the Norwegian Prime Minister's office in Oslo last year.
Thai police say they believe the bomb-making material was not intended for use in Thailand and was to be transported to another unnamed country.
The United States, Israel and nine other countries have warned their citizens of possible attacks in parts of the southeast Asian kingdom.
Travis Brecher, Reuters