Thread: Bangkok Bombing August 2015

Wonder if they will take the suspect back to the scene of the bombing.
He would need full body armour,helmet and a military Humvee to keep him safe.

Nice.... All the bomb making components arranged neatly on his prayer carpet.

The only recognisable thing on the carpet in that picture is a roll of tape.

I saw a suicide belt.
Similar to a backpackers money belt.
Guilty as fck.

Originally Posted by Warwick

"He is a foreigner, but it's unlikely that he is an international terrorist. It's a personal feud," Pol Gen Somyot told reporters at Royal Thai Police headquarters during a live broadcast.

"He got angry on behalf of his friends and family members." he added without elaborating further.

Source 'Bangkok Post' but where the Pol Gen dreamt this one up from God only knows.

The Thai Tourism Authority.

From the BP article.....Police hold Erawan bomb suspect | Bangkok Post: news

...investigators received a tip-off that a man who looked like the suspect shown leaving the Ratchaprasong blast scene was staying there...

Pol Lt Gen Prawut was quoted as saying that police did not believe the man being detained was the bomber but had connections to those involved.

So he doesn't really look like the suspect leaving Ratchaprasong then, yes.

I know that this is dated (20 Aug) but the footage shows VERY clear images of the bomber, refuting the claims I've read that all the bomber images were 'grainy', and seems to be a good piece of reporting by CNN:

Thailand’s Nation TV on Saturday aired an image of a suicide vest from US Transport Security Administration (TSA) allegedly belonging to the accused Bangkok Erwine Shrine bomber.

TSA published the image of the fake suicide vest on its official blog on March 8, 2013. According to the blog, TSA officer confiscated the fake suicide vest after a checked bag drew the attention of officers.

However, Nation TV aired the image of the fake suicide vest as though it was found during the raiding of the alleged suspect’s apartment.

On Saturday Thai police announced a foreigner who matched the description of a man caught on CCTV as the suspect behind the Bangkok blast was arrested.

The Bangkok blast occurred on Aug. 17 and killed 20 people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

“We found a man who is now arrested by police for possessing explosive items. He is a foreigner, 28-years old. He was found with materials that can be used to assemble explosives,” said the National Police Spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri during a press conference.

“We found that he is connected to both of the Bangkok blasts [on Aug. 17 and 18], both at Rajaprasong and Sathorn. We believe the perpetrators are the same group,” he added.

Thavornsiri also showed images of the raid, including a pile of passports and equipment that can be used to make bombs.

Police also showed an image of a Turkish passport suspected to be belonging to the accused but made it clear that the passport was fake.

“The passport you see is fake,” said Prawuth. “We don’t know if he is Turkish or not.”

Many media outlets including Thai implied that the bombing might have been carried out by Uighur Muslims, who Thailand had deported to China last month.

Over 100 Turkic-speaking Uighur refugees were deported from Thailand back to China.

Thai police also added without elaborating that the attack was a “personal grudge…not international terrorism.”

TRT World on Saturday spoke with an official from the Turkish Foreign Ministry. The government official told TRT World that Turkish officials called on the Thai government for information in relation to the issue but has not received a response to their call.

The government official also added that Turkey has asked the Interpol to provide information.

Thai TV uses fake suicide vest image for Bangkok bombing | TRTWorld

Somyot says personal revenge is motive to deadly bombing

Royal Thai Police commissioner Pol Gen Somyot Poompunmuong said that the motive of the deadly bomb attack at Ratchaprasong as a personal revenge, ruling out a possibility of international terrorism.
He said from the questioning of the foreign bomb suspect, the motive of the bombing was to take revenge for his friends and relatives who were deported by Thai authorities recently.

Pol Gen Somyot did not specify exactly if the attack was stemmed from the recent deportation of over 100 Uighurs, a Turkish Muslim minority group, back to China but said the bomber was angry with the deportation and then took avenge.

He also said the bomb suspect has several fake passports and each passport carries a different name.

He said the police have sent the suspect to the military for detention and further questioning.

The suspect was given a bullet proof jacket and helmet to wear for security reason while being escorted in heavily guarded convoy to the First Army Division of the Royal Guards in Dusit district.

Earlier in the afternoon, the combined force of over 100 police and soldiers searched Rooms 404, 409, 410, 411, 412 on the fourth floor of an apartment on Soi Chuemsamphan in Nong Chok district rented by Ahemet Mehmmet Emin Ayse following tipoff that he might be involved in the bombing.

The man rented the rooms since January 27 last year.

Found in the search included a shirt tainted with explosive substances, ball bearings in plastic packages, several sizes of square and round batteries, electrical cords, electric welder, adhesive tapes, screw driver, scissor, a plastic tank with chemicals, box of sodium carbonate, several sizes of metal pipes with covers, sticky tape and ignition fuses.

But it was not yet known if the name of the man who rented the rooms is the same as the bomb suspect.

However the national police chief indicated that the suspect has been in the country for years.

Somyot says personal revenge is motive to deadly bombing - Thai PBS English News

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

He is a foreigner, 28-years old.

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

a Turkish passport suspected to be belonging to the accused but made it clear that the passport was fake.

So how can they be sure he is 28? When guessing an age one isn't so precise.

...personal revenge is motive to deadly bombing...

An extreme hatred of incense sticks?

I'm not buying this crap. The Thai cops have zero credibility. They round up some swarthy foreign criminal acting on a tip and then plant the "bomb making" bits.

He is clearly not the bomber in the video.

All the rest of the increasingly contradictory press babbling is just that - babbling based on nothing but what the head cop may have dreamed the night before.

A criminal scumbag, sure...but you don't have to go far in that area of Bangkok to shake one of them out of his lair.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

I'm not buying this crap. The Thai cops have zero credibility.

Agree with you 100% Mr D.

Well he may be connected or maybe not. But it is disturbing that despite the apparent fact that the police had several days notice and supposedly were able to discover that there were a several people involved:-

Pol Gen Somyot said plainclothes police and volunteers with language skills had been sent to mingle with foreign tourists at places frequented by the suspects and near their accommodations over the past few days. The information led officers to believe that several people including Thais were involved, Post Today quoted him as saying. (Source Bangkok Post).

- And with 100 personnel at their disposal to surround and seal off the building, they still only netted one suspect.

My guess, for what it is worth, is that the guy they picked up is the housekeeper for whatever group is working here. He probably knows very little of immediate value.

Don't be so untrusting(is that a word?) after a few days in custody a confession will appear.

Originally Posted by Warwick

Pol Gen Somyot said plainclothes police and volunteers with language skills had been sent to mingle with foreign tourists at places frequented by the suspects and near their accommodations over the past few days. The information led officers to believe that several people including Thais were involved, Post Today quoted him as saying. (Source Bangkok Post).

So the BIB and their volunteers hung around and overheard swarthy characters speaking any one of a dozen languages openly discussing their evil deeds while our non-swarthy, linguistically-skilled heroes listened in. And presto, got their man - or at least some asshole who's a low-level criminal who can be fitted up so the business of sucking money out of foreign pockets can proceed.

Well done - you lying cunts.

Originally Posted by baldrick

but it is a little strange they are using international roaming and not thai burner sims/phones

Yes i noticed that guess it means all foreign sims using international roaming will be blocked until registered with Thai authorities .

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

BBC news says 12 dead.

no not yet crazy

Bangkok bombing: Arrested suspect uncooperative, member of people-smuggling gang, Thai authorities say



The man arrested in connection with the deadly bomb blast in Bangkok is not cooperating with police, according to Thai authorities who have also announced that he is part of a people-smuggling gang.



he 28-year-old man, who has been in Thailand since January 2014, was detained on charges of possessing illegal explosives.
Investigators said the man was found with bomb-making equipment and multiple passports during a raid at a flat in Bangkok's eastern suburbs on Saturday morning.
Police have not revealed the man's identity or nationality, however an Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) spokesman said the man is a Turkish national.
"The interrogation is not making progress because the suspect is not really giving useful information," Thai army chief General Udomdej Sitabutr said.
"We have to conduct further interrogations and make him better understand so he will be more cooperative — while we have to be careful not to violate the suspect's rights."
The August 17 bomb at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine, where Thais and Asian tourists flock each day, stunned Thailand.
Fourteen foreigners, seven from mainland China and Hong Kong, were among the 20 killed in an attack the ruling junta said was intended to cripple an already flagging economy.


National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said on Sunday the suspect was part of a people-smuggling gang who helped illegal migrants obtain counterfeit documents, and the bomb attack was in response to a recent crackdown by Thai authorities.
"They [the gang] are unsatisfied with police arresting illegal entrants," he told Channel 3 in a telephone interview.
"He [the suspect] had more than 200 fake passports [when he was arrested]. It's a network that fakes nationalities and sends them [illegal migrants] on to third countries," he added, without elaborating how he received that information.
Suicide vest broadcast sparks criticism

Police have been criticised for an erratic investigation that had, until this weekend, uncovered few clues about who was behind the blast.





No group has claimed responsibility.
In the latest blunder, Thailand's junta mistakenly showed an unrelated picture of a suicide vest during a nationally televised broadcast announcing the foreigner's arrest.
The picture of the vest was widely shared on social media, but late on Saturday police took to Twitter to say the photo of the vest was not from the flat.
"The picture has nothing to do with the bombing. It is not official," police wrote on their Twitter account @PoliceSpokesmen.
"We would like to ask people who published that picture to stop their actions because it might bring concern to society and it could be in breach of computer legislation," they added in another tweet.
National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri, who was the police official in the national broadcast, also tweeted: "The picture that you are putting in your messages might damage the country so please could you stop because the country has already been very bruised."


Police searching for more suspects

Deputy national police chief Chaktip Chaijinda told Thai television more suspects were being sought.
Police and residents in Bangkok's Nong Chok district said the suspect rented four apartments on the same floor of the rundown building.
A man and woman living on the same floor said the suspect did not live alone, adding that they had seen a taller man with similar appearance entering and leaving several times each day.
They had not seen the second man since Friday.
"We've seen two of them, frequently. One was the arrested man, but there's another, he's much taller," said the man, who requested anonymity because he feared for his safety.


The detained man was reclusive but always appeared focused and walked with intent on his rare forays outside.
They said he was often seen on his knees praying outside the room.
"I still fear danger," the woman said.
"We don't know if the other man has been arrested."
Speculation has focused on which groups could have motive and capability to carry out the bombing.
These have included southern ethnic Malay insurgents, opponents of the military government, foreign militant groups and sympathisers of Uighur Muslims.
Thailand forcibly repatriated more than 100 Uighurs to China last month, prompting international outrage.
Many of the minority Uighurs from China's far west have sought passage to Turkey via South-East Asia.
On Saturday, police indicated the person arrested was the prime suspect, a young man with shaggy dark hair who wore a yellow shirt and was picked out on security cameras dropping off a backpack at the shrine and leaving before the bomb went off.

Bangkok bombing: Arrested suspect uncooperative, member of people-smuggling gang, Thai authorities say - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Originally Posted by wackyjacky

They don't know his nationality yet. His Turkish PP was forged and he had 100 more in the room. Why so many ?

Was it forged in bloken engrish by some Thais in matching clothes?

while we have to be careful not to violate the suspect's rights."

In the latest blunder, Thailand's junta mistakenly showed an unrelated picture of a suicide vest during a nationally televised broadcast announcing the foreigner's arrest.

Just when you think that that they couldn't be any more stupid, they come up with yet another money shot.
These "cops" must have studied at the Monty Python academy of policing.

Originally Posted by klong toey

It is unclear whether the landlady who owned the apartment where the suspect was captured and phoned in her suspicions will receive any money.

Clear. She won't.

Police investigating the deadly Bangkok shrine bombing say they are seeking a Thai woman and an unidentified man after bomb-making materials were discovered over the weekend in a second apartment raided by police.
The blast that hit the Erawan Shrine in a busy shopping district on August 17 was Thailand's worst single mass-casualty attack, with most of the victims ethnic Chinese tourists from across Asia.
The new lead came after police saidthey made a breakthrough in their case, detaining an unnamed foreign man on Saturday morning at another flat where detonators, industrial pipes and ball-bearings were allegedly found.
In a televised broadcast on Monday, national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri showed a photograph of the wanted Thai woman, taken from an official identity card, showing her wearing a black hijab.

He named her as Wanna Suansan, 26, the first time a suspect in the bombing probe has been identified.
A sketch of an unidentified man with a moustache was also broadcast.
Mr Prawut said the two were believed to be renting a second room where more bomb equipment was found, as police search for possible accomplices to the shrine bombing.
"We found fertiliser bags, watches, radio controls — parts to make bombs and electric charges," Mr Prawut said.
He said the items were found during a raid on an apartment in the north-eastern suburb of Minburi over the weekend.
He did not detail when the raid took place but added that the type of fertiliser found was urea-based.
Urea nitrate is a compound commonly used in homemade bombs.

Bangkok bombing: Police seek new suspects after bomb-making materials found in second apartment - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I always thought urea bombs needed to be reasonably big

I wonder if the BiB have just inadvertantly stumbled across a plot planned by the southern insurgents