Bomb making materials found near Bangkok

NY Times:
Thai police units on Monday seized what they said was a large stash of two chemicals that could be used to make rudimentary bombs, as a murky case that put the country on alert for a terrorist attack took a confusing turn.
A top Bangkok police official said the chemicals, ammonium nitrate and urea, were found in a commercial building on the outskirts of Bangkok. They were meant to be shipped out of the country, the official said, allaying fears of a pending attack on Thai soil.
The Thai prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, said: “The situation is under control — no problem. And I can guarantee the safety of our citizens and foreign tourists.”
But the United States Embassy said it stood by the emergency message it issued on Friday, saying foreign terrorists might be planning attacks against “tourist areas in Bangkok in the near future.”
The case appears to center on a Lebanese man, identified as Atris Hussein, who was arrested at Bangkok’s main airport on Thursday evening as he tried to leave the country. The Thai authorities said his arrest came after a tip from Israeli intelligence agents, who warned that a group of people who appeared to be from Hezbollah were planning to strike tourist sites in Bangkok in mid-January.
Thai officials said Mr. Hussein was himself a member of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group based in Lebanon that the United States and Israel consider a terrorist organization. Hezbollah denied that he was a member.
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The suspect lead police to the materials which were near the place he had been staying in Thailand.  It is possible that Thailand was just a transit point for the bomb materials to be used on another Hezballah target.  Hezballah's denial do not ring true.

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