Region 2 police, encompassing the entire eastern seaboard, have organised a 200 officer strong anti-terror group. The forces creation has stemmed from the recent violence which has been seen in Bangkok including, bombings along with grenade and rocket attacks.

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2010-03-01

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Its good to know the authorities recognize what happened in Bangkok for what it is -- political terrorism.

This is astonishing news. Within 2 days a whole 200 man "anti-terror" force has been, what, organised? Not trained or drilled or anything.

Maybe Sifu was ahead of the (downwards) curve in Thailand specialist police units after all.

Pattaya is very important to Thailand tourism. Any group wanting to cause economic pain and more chaos for Thailand knows this. Remember Bali. Maybe this anti-terror force needs to be bigger still.

First they have to clean our the seafood business.