Cambodia Deports American National For Allegedly Making Threat To US Embassy - US embassy in Phnom Penh receives terrorist threat

Securiyt forces deployed around the U.S embassy after the alleged terrorist threat.

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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Cambodia will deport an American man who was arrested after allegedly making a comment threatening the security of the U.S. Embassy, a senior police official said Wednesday (20 Feb).The man told police he was a U.S. war veteran and was venting his anger over insufficient support he has received from the American government, said Lt. Gen. Sok Phal, a deputy chief of the national police. He declined to reveal his name.Sok Phal added, however, that the man - arrested Tuesday (19 Feb) night - appeared disoriented."We will deport him and ban him from entering Cambodia again," Sok Phal said.The arrest occurred as part of an investigation into a purported threat that prompted the deployment of additional Cambodian security personnel around the embassy in the capital, Phnom Penh, Monday (18 Feb) night.Embassy spokesman Jeff Daigle said more guards were brought to the embassy after it received information concerning security. He declined to discuss the nature of the information or how it was obtained and would not comment on the arrest.Daigle said the embassy did not feel the information amounted to a threat, but that the Cambodian police decided "to put a few extra officers around the embassy just for that evening."//END//

The threat in the article below prompted the security scare and the arrrest of a man reported in the above article......

The US embassy in Cambodia was given a terrorist threat, prompting the Cambodian authority to send police and military police to protect the US embassy, said a government official.
Khieu Sopheak, the spokesman of the ministry of interior on Tuesday confirmed that there was an attack threat against the US embassy.
"The threat was made through a message sent to a media company which informed the US embassy on the threat. The US embassy told the authority and we sent our forces to protect the embassy," the spokesman said.
"In addition, we also made an investigation and now we knew the identity of the suspect", he added.
He refused to give more detail about the suspect who made the threat against the US embassy.
During his visit to Koh Kong, Joseph Mussomelli, the US ambassador said that there was a threat which was made through an email sent to a media company which then informed the US embassy.
"However, we should not pay too much too much attention to the threat as it doest not pose any security or safety threat to us", the US ambassador said. "We were not concerned about the threat", he added.
The ambassador said that In Cambodia, we feel confident about the security and safety to move around and for instance he came to Koh Kong without any bodyguard.
A police source said that after the authority was informed about the threat against the US embassy several hundreds of police and military police-both in uniform and civil clothes- were sent to protect the US embassy and the residence of the US ambassador. The armed forces were also deployed near the French and British embassies.
By Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper
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