Thailand on edge ahead of Thaksin wealth verdict

2010/02/25 21:10:58 @Reuters: World News

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of police and soldiers went on alert across Bangkok Friday, ready to tackle any violence by supporters of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra if a court orders the seizure of $2.3 billion (1.5 trillion pounds) of his family's assets. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=kf6gnoFeaBE:ET3aPmlW1YQ:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=kf6gnoFeaBE:ET3aPmlW1YQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=kf6gnoFeaBE:ET3aPmlW1YQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=kf6gnoFeaBE:ET3aPmlW1YQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=kf6gnoFeaBE:ET3aPmlW1YQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/kf6gnoFeaBE" height="1" width="1"/
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