Yingluck, the 36-year-old leader of Thailand, reshuffled her cabinet just six months after taking office. While it is premature to predict whether the military will step in and overthrow the government as it did in 2006, the military is watching the moves of the fledging prime minister closely. The United States is especially concerned about the appointment to the cabinet of Nalinee Taveesin, who is on a U.S. Treasury Department blacklist for doing business with Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe.
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