
Thu Feb 21, 2008
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia will deport a U.S. veteran who told journalists that militants were planning a rocket attack on the U.S embassy in Phnom Penh, deputy police chief Sok Phal said on Thursday.
Gerald Forbes, 63, of Hawaii, was arrested for sending e-mails to journalists asking them to spread the warning the embassy would be rocketed, then overrun, he said.
"He admitted he did it because he was angry with the slow reception of his pension. In fact there was no group to commit an act of terror," Sok Phal told Reuters without further explanation.
He said Forbes, in the country on a tourist visa, would be deported and never allowed to re-enter Cambodia.
"He has no money for a flight ticket, so we're arranging the ticket for him," Sok Phal said.
A U.S. spokesman said the embassy "never thought it a credible threat", but riot police were sent to guard the embassy on Monday night, when Forbes said the attack would take place.
(Reporting by Ek Madra; Editing by Michael Battye and Jerry Norton)
Gerald Forbes, 63, of Hawaii, was arrested for sending e-mails to journalists asking them to spread the warning the embassy would be rocketed, then overrun, he said.
"He admitted he did it because he was angry with the slow reception of his pension. In fact there was no group to commit an act of terror," Sok Phal told Reuters without further explanation.
He said Forbes, in the country on a tourist visa, would be deported and never allowed to re-enter Cambodia.
"He has no money for a flight ticket, so we're arranging the ticket for him," Sok Phal said.
A U.S. spokesman said the embassy "never thought it a credible threat", but riot police were sent to guard the embassy on Monday night, when Forbes said the attack would take place.
(Reporting by Ek Madra; Editing by Michael Battye and Jerry Norton)
6 comments:
Their fucken uniform is too comfortable and too cool and that explain why they are dozing on the fucken job!
07:53: These Military Policemen are paid 10 to 15 usd per month and they are used as slaves working 15 hours per day by the government. The uniform is heavy and the temperature is 30oCelsius . Be lenient and pay some respect to lower class people who does not have enough food to eat or money to raise a family...
To 9:08AM
Oh! Thank you for painting such a sad picture of Cambodian cop or military but you haven't seen them in action when they evicted dirt poor Cambodian people off their land by burning and bulldozing their houses and beating them like animal!
By the way the police and the court are one of the most corrupted institutions in Cambodian society! Speak for yourself!
09:08, don't watch too much the pix on tv and newspaper that give you false opinion of really what happen in the field. I don;t think you live in Cambodia to understand and analyze the whole situation.
The ones sent to evict and kick the monks are the cops with vietnamese origins or their commanders are vietnameses. But all have khmer uniform. Go around phnom penh and eat at the Pho restaurants shops. You will see that most of the armed cops are iets while the khmer cops don't have any weapons. Who are the heads of the cops and the courts ? I repeat again, don't blame the lower class khmer people. They have nothing to do with monkey business. If so, they are force to do it....
Then why the simple policeman and PM are corrupted? Try to live with 15USD per month to feed your family and we will see. Otherwise if you have a magic alternative to offer them, why not.. I m sure that if you are ready to sponsor each of the cambodian cop with 200 usd salary per month and teach yourself how to behave with people, i will prostern to you , but for the meanwhile, just shut up your mouth if you speak just for the wind.....
sorry previous message was for 3:11 not for 09:08.
There is some cops who are allergic to corruption, but they have to find other way to survive. I say again, provide us some solutions to give them good salaries then no more corruption. by the meanwhile, try to wear the cop uniform and let see if you can feed yourself and your family for 15usd per month. I sure that you will end very corrupted....
To 3:25PM
What? Are you fucken blind like AH HUN SEN or what! Please don't tell that you seen those picture of the how AH HUN SEN police beat up dirt poor Cambodian to take their land!
By the way who tell these fucken Cambodian police to take the fucken police job when they know they won't be making enough to support their family and please go find some other fucken job! I can't believe you fool still creating the same excuse why these Cambodian police should behave in such a bad manner! And I hope you will find all the fucken excuse in the world for not teaching your children the right manner when they misbehave!
Here is one more chance for you to see the behavior of AH HUN SEN corrupted police in action!
Check it out!
http://www.licadho.org/album/view_photo.php?cat=36
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