Thailand’s security agencies will investigate this issue as a precaution as IS-led attacks had affected thousands of people in different countries, the prime minister said. Prawit’s comment came in response to an earlier news report yesterday that deputy police chief Pol General Srivara Ransibrahamakul had said Thai nationals were providing funds to IS and that he had instructed six police divisions to seek more information on the issue. After the Bangkok Regional Cooperation Team’s annual meeting yesterday, Srivara said the Australian Federal Police’s terrorism situation assessment reported that an unidentified number of Thai nationals had visited IS Facebook pages and websites nearly 100,000 times over the past year. Sirivara said there was not any information about whether the suspects were linked to the unrest in the deep South, adding that the IS link did not mean that attacks were being planned. He said the report only suggested that people were interested in news about IS and its ideology, while the Australian police had only advised their Thai counterparts to be on the alert.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 22, 2016 18:02 UTC