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Bangkok was put on alert July 10 after Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lt. Gen. Adisorn Nonsee said army intelligence warned that militants from the country's restive south could be about to launch an attack in the capital. The police announced they are beefing up security in response to the intelligence.
To date, the militants' violent activities have been confined to the south, concentrated mainly in the provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. Any escalation of violence beyond this region into the capital would indicate a major shift in militant tactics. Given the militants' recent successes in the south -- and given an interim government increasingly stressing negotiation, since its attention is otherwise occupied with keeping Bangkok politics on track -- the militants have little to gain from hitting Bangkok.
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