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 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's powerful military council on Wednesday declared that New Year's Eve bomb attacks in the capital were staged by politicians and renegade army officers loyal to exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who want to topple the government.
It vowed to severely punish those behind the bombings, which killed three people and wounded nearly 40 others while the city was in the midst of New Year's celebrations.
Meanwhile, the Thai capital was shaken by a series of bomb scares and threats, though no actual explosive devices were found. Among the places affected were a school, a downtown luxury shopping center, an Air Force base and the offices of the English-language newspaper The Nation.
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