KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will assure Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday it will not allow separatist militants, suspected of bomb attacks in southern Thailand earlier this month, to operate from its territory. "We will not allow Malaysia to be used as a launching pad or training ground for any separatist movement, or terrorist act from our side," Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar told Reuters late on Monday. Several bombs exploded in Muslim-dominated southern Thai towns early this month. A child was killed and dozens of people were wounded in the blasts which Thai security officers blamed on Muslim separatists.

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