Prayuth said Thursday's announcement should not induce any kind of panic and that life would continue as normal, adding that the army would take care of the foreigners, and foreign embassies, currently in Thailand.
He was not allowed to leave the country or to have unauthorised meetings with foreigners or to visit foreign embassies.
When Mr Vanunu was released in 2004, the Israeli government imposed brutally restrictive controls over him, forbidding him from leaving the country, going near foreign embassies or even talking to foreigners.
And so Walsh functions as a facilitator between foreign embassies, local government, and incarcerated foreigners.
Indeed, JI has apparently even infiltrated Singapore's tiny community of Chinese Muslims, as revealed by the recent arrest of a certain John Wong, who had converted to Islam and adopted the name Arifin bin Ali.According to the Thai police, the men they arrested were planning to plant bombs at several foreign embassies, and in resorts popular with foreigners.
A meeting of security officials from foreign embassies had concluded that an attack on foreigners in the capital was imminent, a Western ambassador said Saturday night.
So are foreign embassies.
Islamist militants, some who claim loyalty to Isis, operate in pockets of Libya, especially eastern Benghazi and Derna, and foreigners and embassies have been targeted in shootings, kidnappings and bombings.
Now it has advised foreigners in South Korea to leave before the coming "thermonuclear war" (foreign-embassy staff in the North's capital, Pyongyang, were also told to consider leaving).
