THAILAND: Senior general backs away from extremist claims

Updated May 22, 2007 19:33:16

In Thailand, a senior security adviser to the prime minister has backed away from claims he made last week that extremists from Cambodia and Indonesia were training separatist rebels in the south. General Watanachai Chaimuanwong had suggested that foreign experts were providing weapons and bomb making training in the Muslim-majority south.

Presenter: Rob Sharp
Speakers: Virginie Andre of Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Centre

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