Showing posts with label FBI cooperation with Hun Sen's cops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FBI cooperation with Hun Sen's cops. Show all posts

Monday, March 02, 2009

U.S. helps Cambodia probe foiled bomb plots in Phnom Penh [-Is the FBI ready to reveal the truth, nothing but the truth?]

PHNOM PENH, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is working with Cambodia's national police to investigate the foiled bomb plots that occurred in Phnom Penh in January, said national media on Monday.

Police asked the FBI for assistance after it identified potential suspects overseas, English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily quoted national police spokesman Kieth Chantharith as saying.

"We have requested assistance from the FBI to do some investigation on suspects abroad," he said, while declining to say in which foreign country police believed the suspect reside.

Calling it a "terrorist case," the spokesman said that it is normal for Cambodia to contact foreign police forces when their home country becomes relevant to the investigation.

Three explosive devices of very limited killing power were found on Jan. 2 near the Ministry of National Defense and the state-run No. 3 Television Station, but detonated by experts later in the day, without causing any casualty and damage.

At least 6 people have been arrested so far in connection with the case. All the suspects belonged to an anti-government organization called the Tiger Head Movement.

Friday, February 01, 2008

Chhun Yasith to be sent to court [-The icing on the FBI's cake offered to Hun Sen?]

Chhun Yasith, president of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) movement

Friday, February 1, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

FBI Director Robert Mueller said in a press conference on 31 January, following the inauguration of the FBI office located inside the US embassy in Cambodia, that the FBI plans to send Chhun Yasith, the chairman of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) movement, who is currently being jailed, to face justice in the near future. Chhun Yasith, the CFF leader, organized an attack in the middle of Phnom Penh city in 2001. He was later arrested in the US with the cooperation between the Cambodian government and the FBI. Robert Mueller said that he thanks the Cambodian government for its cooperation in the exchange of information and its authorization for the US to interview its witnesses. He said that the US is preparing to send Chhun Yasith to court for sentencing.