THE SHOCKING COUP: "The situation is no good."
"It's just a matter of time," a top minister had told him. "We only have a few weeks left before they act." Another had told him: "Our days are numbered."
By Sept. 17, 2006, in New York, even Thaksin, waiting to deliver a speech on behalf of his nation at the United Nations General Assembly, was getting very worried. "I think you're right," he told a colleague. "I should go back. The situation is no good."
But by then it was too late.