Thread: Moscow Warns That ISIS in Thailand to Attack Russian Targets

BANGKOK — Ten Syrian members of the Islamic State slipped into Thailand last month to attack Russian interests, according to a leaked Thai police memo citing information from the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB.

The memo, issued Friday and marked “Urgent” and “Secret,” cites intelligence from the FSB sent to Thailand’s National Security Council that members of the Islamic State entered the kingdom between Oct. 15 and Oct. 31.

It specifically indicates that four traveled to Pattaya, two to Phuket and two to Bangkok and two to unknown destinations. The alleged terrorists’ whereabouts and names were not identified. According to the FSB warning, their goal is to perpetrate attacks against Russian interests in the kingdom.

The memo urged authorities to increase security around “targeted areas that Russian authorities are concerned about, including venues associated with allies that have joined attacks on ISIS in Syria such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and Australia.

It was not possible to immediately confirm the details contained in the Thai memo with Russian authorities. It was issued by the intelligence arm of the Thai national police known as the Special Branch. It was sent to all of its investigative divisions.

Apart from the capital, the other two cities mentioned in the memo – Phuket and Pattaya – have established Russian communities and are popular with Russian tourists.

If true, the timing the militants' entry would have been weeks before several attacks since attributed to the Islamic State, including the Oct. 31 destruction of a Russian commercial jet in Egpyt and coordinated attacks in Paris which killed 130 people on Nov. 13.

The Islamic State has taken credit for attacking those nations which have joined in bombing their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.

Moscow Warns That ISIS in Thailand to Attack Russian Targets

somnana

Originally Posted by spliff

somnana

Or 'Bomb Nana' maybe.

^^Does the same apply to US, UK and other European interests!

^negative.

^Oh yeah, I get ye'

Need to bring a few of the Spetsnaz boys over.

Subject: Fighting Fire With Fire (A part of current history)

First the tough French Foreign Legion —Now the fearsome Russian Spetsnaz... (special forces)..!! BIG shit coming —for the ISIS..!

RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES: HAS ISIS MET ITS FEAR MERCHANT MATCH?

by JAMES ZUMWALT Oct 2015649

ISIS is a fear merchant. It depends heavily upon using fear to intimidate those opposed to it.

In its high-publicized videos, legions of soulless bodies fill its ranks, regularly demonstrating limitless savagery in executing their enemies. Be-headings, burning prisoners alive, attaching bombs to babies to show new recruits how explosives rip a human body apart, running tanks over prisoners, etc.— no means of execution is beyond the pale as they market fear.

But fear can be a double-edged sword. A force capable of demonstrating this has just entered the fray in Syria. Having used fear previously very effectively against Muslim extremists, this force looks to do so again—only this time its blade will come down on ISIS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently dispatched a military group in which he has great pride and confidence—his special forces—to Syria. The group has been honed into a uniquely skilled counter-terrorism killing machine, known in Russia for getting the job done.

Russia’s special forces originated out of a terrorist act perpetrated more than four decades ago by another violent Muslim group.

In Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists of Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes and a German police officer during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The attack prompted the head of the KGB (the Soviet secret police), Yuri Andropov, to order the creation of a special military force trained in counter-terrorism.

With its establishment two years later, the force initially was used for domestic security. But once deployed outside the homeland, it quickly established a bloody reputation for itself.

Comparable to our own elite fighters of US Delta Force, Russian special forces have an operational edge ours do not. While battlefield actions by U.S. forces will, appropriately, always be defined by the laws of land warfare, Russian special forces historically have tossed their moral compass aside. By doing so, they convey a clear message—in blood—to adversaries.

After Moscow invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, Russian special forces were tasked to implement “regime change.” Wearing Afghan uniforms, they quickly secured strategic government buildings in Kabul. Storming the presidential palace, they followed through on orders to kill every Afghan in the building. Not only was Afghan President Hafizullah Amin killed along with his mistress and young son, but so too were all witnesses.

Russian special forces played a significant role in Afghanistan throughout the ten year war. But their reputation for taking whatever action necessary to complete its mission was cemented in Lebanon.

In October 1985, a radical Muslim Brotherhood splinter group kidnapped four Soviet diplomats in Beirut. By the time Russian special forces reached the city, one of the diplomats had already been executed.

As Moscow’s policy was never to negotiate with terrorists, no effort was made to do so. Using a network of informants, the Russians identified the militant group responsible and the kidnappers involved.

With the kidnappers’ names in hand, the Russians immediately rounded up their family members, taking them hostage. They then cut off hostages’ body parts, delivering them to the militants along with the threat to continue making deliveries.

The militants got the message. The surviving Russian diplomats were immediately released. For two decades thereafter, Russian diplomats operated safely abroad without fear of becoming targets of Muslim terrorists.

But in 2006, Putin had to call upon his special forces again after four Russian officials in Iraq were abducted and murdered. He gave the order those responsible were to be “destroyed.” Each of the militants involved was hunted down and killed.

Russian naval special forces also have not shied away from playing the fear card. In 2010, the forces confronted Somali pirates.

Operating from their mother ship, the Somalis pirated a Russian oil tanker. Russian naval special forces boarded the tanker, easily routing the pirates, taking them captive and putting them back on board their mother ship. There, the pirates were securely tied up and the mother ship fitted with explosives. Once back on their own ship, the Russians detonated the explosives.

No Russian ship since then has been pirated.

Russian special forces have demonstrated they can rise to the same level of violence as ISIS.

As they hit the ground running in Syria, the Russians will set out—aided by their Iranian and Syrian friends—to establish informant networks to identify, locate and kill ISIS leaders. Where possible to do so, they will ensure they die a violent death in a way that conveys the message they seek to send.

If there is an Arabic word for “karma,” ISIS will soon be muttering it.

If this is true, then Walking Street is a bloodbath waiting to happen

Raze Pattaya and start again while they're at it, that'd be nice

...the intelligence arm of the Thai national police...

Leaked memos, etc.

As if there wasn't a good reason to avoid that shithole , there sure is now .

Infact IMHO any holiday region infested with those ruskie twatts is best avoided

And a couple more will have blown bit's of themselves off trying to make bombs.

According to Reuters....

"The original communication was by word of mouth between Russian and Thai police. I don't know how the document leaked."

https://t.co/wMBTt2CgW6

The leaked memo

The Thai cops are now saying they think the report is a forgery aimed at damaging the economy

Originally Posted by spliff

somnana

Or something like that...

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

If this is true, then Walking Street is a bloodbath waiting to happen

All they'll get is a load of chinkies with cameras.

Ladyboy hits blown....to bits

Police orders probe of leaked report about IS terrorists

The national police chief has ordered a probe to find out how a report of the Special Branch police, based on foreign intelligence reports, about potential presence of IS terrorists was leaked to the media.
The leaked report was widely played up by the local media prompting the military and the police to scramble to announce that the report was not yet verified and, so far, no IS terrorists have been located here.

Pol Gen Srivara Rangsipromnakul, the deputy national police chief, will head the probe team. Pol Gen Chakthip Chaichinda, the national police chief, said anyone found to have leaked the report, considered as confidential, would be deemed violating the law.

Pol Gen Chakthip disclosed that not just Russian intelligence agency had alerted the presence of suspected IS terrorists among Syrian visitors to this country but also other foreign intelligence agencies.

Since October, he said about 200 Syrians had visited Thailand and all except 20 of them had left the country.

However, the police chief noted that since his involvement in intelligence work there was never a report of suspected IS terrorists in Thailand, pointing out that Thailand is not a party in the Syrian conflict.

As a precaution however, he said he had ordered a stepup of security at high risk areas such as tourist destinations.

Police orders probe of leaked report about IS terrorists - Thai PBS English News

Originally Posted by misskit

Since October, he said about 200 Syrians had visited Thailand and all except 20 of them had left the country.

Perhaps thats 20 less who are trying to claim benefits ( sorry I must stop saying that ) refugee status in the UK

Not a single statement about this directly from the Russians yet?

RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES: HAS ISIS MET ITS FEAR MERCHANT MATCH?

Send in the Ghurkas and tell ISIS that they have special knives to behead all combatants they kill. It frightened the Afgans enough to complain, so maybe?

I heard this story about Syrians arriving in Thailand to attack Russians on BBC radio 4 news. Now I know why it was reported last week before the House of Commons vote, whether it is true or not is besides the point, it is needed to demonise Datcha ( ISIS)
Strike fear into Western peasants that ISIS Datcha is coming to behrad you in your sleep.
Fear sells war.
And armaments manufactures need fresh sales orders.

Daesh has absolutely no shortage of targets now, but every atrocity they successfully commit will only act to hasten their elimination.