Thread: Bangkok: Three explosions rock Sukhumvit 71, Iranian injured

Thailand really dosn't have much luck with extradition. Its going to be very interesting to see wha happens to this chap when he gets back to iran

One of the suspects has been detained in prison, while another suspect has been receiving treatment in Chulalongkorn hospital.

So he's footloose and fancy free, eh?

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/secu...obtained-bombs

Iranian suspect denies murder plot

Moradi won't say where he obtained bombs

• Published: 21/03/2012 at 02:16 AM
• Newspaper section: News

The Iranian man who lost both of his legs in a bomb blast on Sukhumvit Soi 71 on Valentine's Day has admitted he was involved in an explosion minutes earlier in a flat he was staying in, police say.

However, he would not say where the explosives came from, deputy national police chief Pol Gen Pansiri Prapawat, the lead investigator in the case, said. Investigators interrogated the suspect, Saeid Moradi, for two hours yesterday.

It was the first time that Mr Moradi's doctor at the Police Hospital had allowed investigators to question him.

The doctor, Pol Col Phongthon Sukhosit, said Mr Moradi could be discharged from the hospital in the next week or two.

Investigators informed Mr Moradi through an interpreter that police are pressing four charges against him _ colluding to use explosives, triggering an explosion, attempted murder and attempted murder of a police officer. Mr Moradi has denied all charges.

However, during the interrogation he admitted he caused an explosion in a house which his group had rented. He also admitted he was the last one to flee the property and was carrying two bombs. He hailed a taxi after noticing some people were following him. When the taxi failed to stop, Mr Moradi said he threw one bomb, which exploded near the cab.

When he saw a police truck approaching, Mr Moradi said he tried to throw a bag containing the second bomb at the vehicle. The bag bounced off a truck as it was passing and landed at his feet before exploding.
Mr Moradi also allegedly admitted he knew the other Iranian suspects in the case, including the key suspect, Norouzi Shayan Ali Akbar.

He also confessed that he previously lived in the Nasa Vegas apartment building and Phetchaburi Suites with another suspect, Masoud Sedaghtzadeh. Police found 400 stickers emblazoned with the word "Sejeal" at the Nasa Vegas flat, Pol Gen Pansiri said.

Meanwhile, a Lebanese man with alleged links to the Hizbollah militant group who was arrested in Bangkok will appear in court today on charges of breaking weapons control laws, a senior prosecutor said.

The suspect, who is also believed to have a Swedish passport, was arrested in January.

Police later found a large amount of ammonium nitrate that could be used to make a bomb at a building he was renting at the time.

"Prosecutors agreed to charge him with breaking weapons control laws," Pongniwat Yuthaponboripan, director-general of the Department of Criminal Litigation, said yesterday.

Ammonium nitrate is commonly used in agriculture, but mixed with other substances it can make a bomb.

Possession of the chemical requires a permit.

Mr Pongniwat said investigators had filed one charge against the suspect and, depending on evidence, he could later be charged with terrorism.

The court will hear his plea today. Authorities allege he has links to Hizbollah, an Iranian- and Syrian-backed terror group. BANGKOK POST AND AFP

India sends arrest warrant to Malaysia for Iranian national
Apr 5, 2012

India has sent an arrest warrant for Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, arrested in connection with the botched-up bombing in Bangkok, to Malaysia requesting for his production before court to unravel the conspiracy behind the attack on an Israeli diplomat's car here on February 13.

Malaysian authorities through diplomatic channels were handed over the warrant with a plea that a proper extradition request would be sent after completion of all legal formalities, official sources said.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav issued the warrant against the Iranian national on March 17 after Special Cell of Delhi Police alleged that he was also involved in the conspiracy of the blast.

The Interpol has also issued a Red Corner Notice against him.

The request cities the in-principle agreement between India and Malaysia to establish a mechanism for cooperation on counter-terrorism.

While both countries have an Extradition Treaty ratified in February 2011, they are in the process of inking a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty in Criminal Matters.

Malaysian authorities, however, are keen on sending Sedaghatzadeh to Bangkok as an extradition request from Thailand was received first and also the fact that he was a part of the botched-up plan in that country.

It was the phone book of Sedaghatzadeh that led sleuths comprising officials from external and internal security agencies to Indian journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi from where the entire conspiracy behind the February 13 bombing of Israeli diplomat Tal Yeshua started unravelling.

India, however, has requested authorities in Kuala Lumpur to share all information including his interrogation report and other documents seized from him with security agencies in New Delhi, the sources said.

Probe reports already shared by Bangkok included pictures of Sedaghatzadeh and two other bombers -- Saeid Moradi and Mohammad Kharzei (both part of botched up plan in Bangkok) with some women escorts in Pattaya.

According to the investigation report sent by the Malaysian authorities, Sedaghatzadeh was detained upon his arrival at the Kaula Lumpur airport and detained.

According to sources, the spate of attacks planned in New Delhi, Bangkok and Georgia was to take revenge on attacks on Iranian scientists since 2009. Four Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in attacks since 2009.

The modus operandi used in the Delhi bombing in which Yeshua was critically injured was similar to the killing of Iranian scientists.

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Bomb plot suspect Masoud Sedaghatzadeh to face court in Thailand

• From: AFP
• June 26, 2012 12:00AM

A MALAYSIAN court yesterday approved the extradition of an Iranian to Thailand on suspicion of being involved in an alleged bomb plot against Israeli diplomats in the country.

Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, who was arrested at Kuala Lumpur's international airport on February 15, is among three Iranians being held over incidents in Bangkok that led to Tehran being accused of a terror campaign against Israel, which it denied.

The alleged plot emerged after an apparently unintended explosion at a house in the Thai capital. Two suspects are in custody in Thailand, including one who hurled a bomb at police while fleeing, blowing off his own legs.

At a criminal sessions court in Kuala Lumpur, judge S. Komathy described Sedaghatzadeh, 31, as a "fugitive criminal" and said she disagreed with defence arguments that there was no evidence against him.

"In my view, the conduct of the respondent is inconsistent with that of an innocent man," she said.

The explosions in Thailand followed bomb attacks targeting Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia the previous day, pushing tensions between arch-foes Iran and Israel to a new spike.

Thai police have said that Israeli diplomats were the intended target of the plot, and that prosecutors have referred a case against five Iranian suspects to court for a possible trial.

Aside from Sedaghatzadeh and the two being held in Thailand, two other suspects are believed to have returned to Iran.

BANGKOK - Iranian bomb suspects in Bangkok claim innocence - World - TheState.com

Iranian bomb suspects in Bangkok claim innocence

By ELISA MALA - Associated Press

BANGKOK — Two Iranians arrested after a botched bomb plot that allegedly targeted Israeli diplomats say they're innocent and were stunned to discover explosives stashed in a cabinet in their rented Bangkok home, a lawyer said Friday.

Both men appeared in court Friday, 10 months after the explosives blew apart their home in a residential Bangkok neighborhood on Valentine's Day. The explosion uncovered a plot that Thai authorities say was aimed at Israeli envoys and that Israel says was part of an Iranian-backed network of terror.

Authorities hope the trial, expected to end in March, will help explain who was behind the alleged plot that backfired when the explosives cache accidentally ignited.


Saeid Moradi, an Iranian suspect bomber, on a wheelchair is pushed by a Thai prisoner at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Moradi was wounded with his own bomb after it exploded when he hurled it to a group of chasing Thai police officers. He and compatriot Mohammad Kharzei were detained in Bangkok while another Iranian Masoud Sedaghatzadeh has been arrested in Malaysia after the series of explosion that occurred last February which wounded four other people.
- Apichart Weerawong /AP Photo

Investigators say that bombs found at the home had round, coin-like magnets on them - similar to "sticky" bombs used against Israeli diplomats in foiled attacks a day earlier in India and the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Defense attorney Kittipong Kiattanapoom told The Associated Press the two Iranians will testify that "they did not have any prior knowledge of the bombs before they discovered them in the house they had rented."

One of the men is 28-year-old Saied Moradi, who fled the home carrying explosives that blew off his legs in another botched blast. He entered the courtroom in a wheelchair.

Moradi, a 28-year-old former soldier, "opened a cabinet in the house and saw four bombs there" and immediately told his two Iranian housemates to run for safety, the lawyer said.

Mohammad Kharzei, 42, was arrested that night at Bangkok's airport trying to board a flight to Iran.

Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, 31, was detained the next day in Malaysia and is currently appealing an extradition order to Thailand.

Moradi claims he was trying to dispose of two of the bombs by throwing them into a nearby canal when he collapsed in exhaustion while running from the home, triggering an explosion that ripped off his legs.

"He denies throwing any of the bombs," Kittipong said.

Witnesses gave a dramatically different account.

A closed circuit video camera installed on the street outside the home showed the three Iranians emerge, one by one. Moradi was the last man out, wearing a black backpack and baseball cap, with blood dripping from his face, holding what looked like portable radios in each hand.

Food vendor Nayaree Ayong told the court he saw Moradi exit his home carrying "black boxes with green wires sticking out."

Another witness, Nayotrum Pratityung, said he followed Moradi and watched as he tried to hail a taxi but then crouched down and placed one of his black boxes in the middle of a two-lane street.

"About 30 seconds later a taxi came by," he told the court. "Then the taxi blew up." The taxi driver was among four people wounded.

Other witnesses at the time said Moradi threw an explosive at a taxi after its driver refused to stop for him.

Next, Moradi turned onto a main road as police began moving in, at which point the Iranian pulled a rectangular-shaped box from his backpack and threw it toward the officers, police said at the time. But Moradi's bomb got caught on something and hit the ground next to him and exploded, instantly shredding both his legs at the knee.

Moradi and Kharzei both face up to 27 years in prison on charges of possession of unlawful explosives and causing explosions that damaged property.

Moradi faces two additional charges, including attempted murder of a policeman, which carries the death penalty.

Lucky to go Home, 1/2 the Man He used to be...................

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

BANGKOK - Iranian bomb suspects in Bangkok claim innocence - World - TheState.com

Iranian bomb suspects in Bangkok claim innocence

By ELISA MALA - Associated Press

BANGKOK — Two Iranians arrested after a botched bomb plot that allegedly targeted Israeli diplomats say they're innocent and were stunned to discover explosives stashed in a cabinet in their rented Bangkok home, a lawyer said Friday.

Both men appeared in court Friday, 10 months after the explosives blew apart their home in a residential Bangkok neighborhood on Valentine's Day. The explosion uncovered a plot that Thai authorities say was aimed at Israeli envoys and that Israel says was part of an Iranian-backed network of terror.

Authorities hope the trial, expected to end in March, will help explain who was behind the alleged plot that backfired when the explosives cache accidentally ignited.


Saeid Moradi, an Iranian suspect bomber, on a wheelchair is pushed by a Thai prisoner at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Moradi was wounded with his own bomb after it exploded when he hurled it to a group of chasing Thai police officers. He and compatriot Mohammad Kharzei were detained in Bangkok while another Iranian Masoud Sedaghatzadeh has been arrested in Malaysia after the series of explosion that occurred last February which wounded four other people.
- Apichart Weerawong /AP Photo

Investigators say that bombs found at the home had round, coin-like magnets on them - similar to "sticky" bombs used against Israeli diplomats in foiled attacks a day earlier in India and the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Defense attorney Kittipong Kiattanapoom told The Associated Press the two Iranians will testify that "they did not have any prior knowledge of the bombs before they discovered them in the house they had rented."

One of the men is 28-year-old Saied Moradi, who fled the home carrying explosives that blew off his legs in another botched blast. He entered the courtroom in a wheelchair.

Moradi, a 28-year-old former soldier, "opened a cabinet in the house and saw four bombs there" and immediately told his two Iranian housemates to run for safety, the lawyer said.

Mohammad Kharzei, 42, was arrested that night at Bangkok's airport trying to board a flight to Iran.

Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, 31, was detained the next day in Malaysia and is currently appealing an extradition order to Thailand.

Moradi claims he was trying to dispose of two of the bombs by throwing them into a nearby canal when he collapsed in exhaustion while running from the home, triggering an explosion that ripped off his legs.

"He denies throwing any of the bombs," Kittipong said.

Witnesses gave a dramatically different account.

A closed circuit video camera installed on the street outside the home showed the three Iranians emerge, one by one. Moradi was the last man out, wearing a black backpack and baseball cap, with blood dripping from his face, holding what looked like portable radios in each hand.

Food vendor Nayaree Ayong told the court he saw Moradi exit his home carrying "black boxes with green wires sticking out."

Another witness, Nayotrum Pratityung, said he followed Moradi and watched as he tried to hail a taxi but then crouched down and placed one of his black boxes in the middle of a two-lane street.

"About 30 seconds later a taxi came by," he told the court. "Then the taxi blew up." The taxi driver was among four people wounded.

Other witnesses at the time said Moradi threw an explosive at a taxi after its driver refused to stop for him.

Next, Moradi turned onto a main road as police began moving in, at which point the Iranian pulled a rectangular-shaped box from his backpack and threw it toward the officers, police said at the time. But Moradi's bomb got caught on something and hit the ground next to him and exploded, instantly shredding both his legs at the knee.

Moradi and Kharzei both face up to 27 years in prison on charges of possession of unlawful explosives and causing explosions that damaged property.

Moradi faces two additional charges, including attempted murder of a policeman, which carries the death penalty.

Hasn't got a leg to stand on.

Two Iranians charged over botched bomb plot in Bangkok plead not guilty | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Iranians deny Bangkok bomb plot

• Published: 15 Jan 2013 at 17.45
• Online news:

Two Iranians on trial for an alleged botched bomb plot against Israeli diplomats in Bangkok appeared in court again Tuesday, where their Thai lawyer protested their innocence.


Saeid Moradi, centre, who had his legs blown off in an explosion arrives at the South Criminal Court on Tuesday. (AFP Photo)

Mohammad Khazaei, 42, and Saeid Moradi, 29, are among five Iranians suspected of involvement in the Feb 2012 explosions on Sukhumvit Soi 71, that followed attacks in India and Georgia and saw Tehran accused of a terror campaign.

The pair have already pleaded not guilty at a court in Bangkok to charges including attempted murder and possessing explosives, their lawyer Kittipong Kiattanapoom said.

"They were not involved with the bombs nor did they aim to kill any innocent people, including police officials," he said outside the court.

Mr Kittipong also said the men had not rented the suburban Bangkok house, where an apparently unintended explosion disclosed the supposed plot.

He said Mr Moradi, who lost both his legs in a subsequent blast, had been surprised to discover bombs in a cupboard of the property.

The injured suspect had been trying safely to dispose of one device when it fell to the ground and detonated on the street, Mr Kittipong added.

Israel blamed the Feb 14 Thai blasts, and bomb attacks a day earlier targeting Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia, on Iran.

Tehran denies the allegations.

In June a Malaysian court ordered the extradition to Thailand of another Iranian suspect Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, who was 31 at the time.

Mr Sedaghatzadeh was arrested at Kuala Lumpur's international airport a day after the Bangkok blasts. Two other suspects are believed to have returned to Iran.

The court hearing resumes Wednesday.

^^who would have thought that my little joke would become the basis of his defence