Bangkok, Thailand – National Security Council (NSC) reps confirmed on Wednesday that two Lebanese men have been picked up and are being questioned in connection with possible terrorist links to Hezbollah.
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Thailand’s newspaper NATIONMULTIMEDIA.com (http://bit.ly/1eWllj9) reports that, according one source, the two men, Lebanese-French Daud Farhat and Lebanese-Philippine Yousef Ayyad, are listed on the Thai immigration watch list, and were pro-actively taken into custody for questioning after entering the country during Thailand’s Songkran, which coincided this year with Passover.
The source said, “Their presence in Thai territory near the Jewish Passover, which this year fell on April 13, aroused the Thai side’s suspicions, so the Thai side decided to take them into custody for questioning after a fatal shooting in the US during Passover.”
The NSC’s security-general Paradorn Pattanatabut said so far no links have been established between the two and the terrorist group, but that their visas have been revoked and they remain under questioning.