Intelligence services are keeping a close watch on a movement on Malaysia's Langkawi island, where militants plot insurgent attacks in the deep South of Thailand, said Defence Minister Gen Thammarak Isarangkura na Ayudhaya yesterday. The island has reportedly been used as a venue for meetings of militants responsible for a string of violence in the deep South, former Malaysian politicians and Thai politicians, he said.``The movement that draws my attention is in Langkawi. It is also where a former Malaysian politician lives. The militant leaders have been there several times,'' the minister said.
Gen Thammarak said it is believed that insurgent attacks in Thailand's southern border provinces are planned at the meetings. ``My men are checking on it. I don't want to talk about it,'' he said.
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He also said the reported movement is deemed bad for bilateral relations.