Original report from Phnom Penh
26 February 2008
Gerald Francis Forbes, the former US Marine who sent a letter describing a potential attack on the US Embassy to a Phnom Penh newspaper, will be deported, officials said.
Forbes has been held since last week, following his confession he sent a letter to the English-language Cambodia Daily warning of an attack on the US Embassy.
Embassy officials have said they did not consider the letter a credible threat.
Lt. Gen. Thong Lim, director of the Ministry of Information's immigration department, said Saturday the government would deport Forbes.
"Because our immigration law also includes deportation, we are implementing our immigration law," he said.
Forbes has been held since last week, following his confession he sent a letter to the English-language Cambodia Daily warning of an attack on the US Embassy.
Embassy officials have said they did not consider the letter a credible threat.
Lt. Gen. Thong Lim, director of the Ministry of Information's immigration department, said Saturday the government would deport Forbes.
"Because our immigration law also includes deportation, we are implementing our immigration law," he said.
4 comments:
yes, deport the trouble-maker!
Yep!
And there will not be any troublemakers here, no matter who they are. We just don't have the time and resources to waste on idiots.
"Embassy officials have said they did not consider the letter a credible threat"; says the US Embassy.
The man was just getting pretty upset with the US gov' and he doesn't know what else to do except to send an unthoughtful note to the Embassy to vent the fume of his anger. F]Let's forgive the man and help him out, financially. The case's closed. It is as simple as that. By doing so the US government will earn a good credit and a good repution for it has helped its own good citizen who has sacrificed for the country as a serviceman. Let's have some smiley faces.
Well, the problem is we can't tell which threat is dangerous and which threat is not.
The best policy is to prohibit all threat. That way, terrorist can't used our land to wager their war, and put our tourist industry on the line. We can't afford that at the present time. Too many people depend on tourist for their living.
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