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He will stand forever, and will win the next, and next, and next election.

He will be our PM until the day he dies.

Well said - he also has many Farang votes (if we could) as he understands both West and East and a lot in between. Right now despite the PT stupidity of more wasted time and energy, he is strong and showing he is a survivor. He has many well wishers and a lot of support.

Well he hasn't much support from the foreigners with some better education and seen critical be almost all foreign media.

but, okay, in the international community of beer bar patrons and Thaksin haters he has bigger support. They also don't like election days, but for other reasons than Abhisit, they cannot vote and cannot buy beer.

And how would you know a person's educational level?

I'm not sure which part of this you don't understand I was commenting on the Interpol quoted article 3

"Requests aimed at prosecuting terrorists are processed in strict conformity with the above rules, particularly in terms of applying the predominance theory. In practice, Article 3 does therefore not prevent those accused of serious, violent terrorist offences (such as serious attacks against human life or physical safety, hostage-taking and kidnapping, serious attacks against property (bomb attacks, etc.), unlawful acts against civil aviation (hijacking of aircraft)) from being located with a view to their arrest and extradition."

which lists direct action, and asking where the government accuse him of direct action. If there is another article stating BEHIND such actions then I agree with the poster, if not this quoted article is not relevant.

"which lists direct action"

Where?

Sorry I must have missed the news article where the goverment accuses him of any of these DIRECT actions, can you direct me to it.

And while you're there, try and find the one where the Americans accuse Osama Bin Ladan of personally flying planes into buildings, setting alight his shoes and underpants, blowing up trains and buses, and general hands on acts of terrorism.

How to respond? So many ways.

1. Well good, then Abhisit was not seen firing into innocent people and if he was, the video cannot show the trajectory of a bullet traveling at 3000 fps. Perhaps the bullet turned left all of a sudden.

2. Or let's do an Einstein thought experiment (I assume you know what that is) Osama buys a nuke, puts it New York and tells someone in NY to push the button. Now the experiment. A lawyer says the New Yorker who pushed the button is guilty of terrorism and not Osama. Now what do people tell this lawyer?

If the case is compelling for the charge of terrorism (and foreign press suggests it is!) then Interpol will help facilitate an arrest. Then it goes to the governent of the country he is arrested in to extradite or not.

Political motivation will not be an issue in a charge of terrorism if a pria facie case is made for the warrant. It doesn't matter how much Thaksin supporters cry about it, there is no excuse allowed for commiting acts of terrorism, conspiring to commit acts of terrorism, or financing terrorism.

Right on the money...... according to? Interpol!

Interpol has an article 3 that precludes working on charges of a political, religious, or racial nature. But according to Interpol's website that discusses this very fact, it does not apply to violent terrorist crimes. Violent terrorism is not a political charge. They even give examples, which I think Thaksin had better read fast.

Here is the full story from INTERPOL's website all about the..

INTERPOL- Legal framework governing cases of a political, military, religious or racial character

The key point is............

"Requests aimed at prosecuting terrorists are processed in strict conformity with the above rules, particularly in terms of applying the predominance theory. In practice, Article 3 does therefore not prevent those accused of serious, violent terrorist offences (such as serious attacks against human life or physical safety, hostage-taking and kidnapping, serious attacks against property (bomb attacks, etc.), unlawful acts against civil aviation (hijacking of aircraft)) from being located with a view to their arrest and extradition."

I think many here confuse a politically motivated crime like breaking press rules, with acts of violence. A politically motivated crime is one that would not otherwise be criminal except for politics. Burning down cities is illegal everywhere.

Over the last 2 or so years, I must have read this headline in various forms about 30 times. e.g. Thai government to request extradition of Thaksin from UK/Dubai/Montenegro/France/Cambodia or Thai government ask Interpol to arrest Thaksin.

However each and every time the headline is followed by a statement about a week later "The UK/Dubai/Montenegro/etc government has received no extradition request from the Thai government" or "Interpol has received no request for the arrest of Thaksin Shinawatra from the Thai government."

How many times can they cry wolf? Unlimited times, it seems.

Does sound familiar. But this time they said they're going to translate it from Thai so it could be read!

If human rights would be your concern you would be maybe better informed, but your interest are only propaganda and a hate campaign.

I call this insights, or is it a two way mirror u using?

Why u guys bring up those hr issues, when at the time this fugitive has handled any of these issues iron fisted-

it seems to me always like: "Well those too, look, look...they did it too...!"

simply to wash the blood off their very own hands - YUK!

It's HIS style, not style, but blunt "Shut up moves like: "The UN is not my father!"

Anything he does looks like a copy script from "The Art of War"....

turning the arrow around against those who fired it.... very movie like...

I wonder when this will backfire... maybe he is building his very own trap right now!

Trying to defend ones very own wrongdoings with that of others is pretty cheap and petty - isn't it,

but then has he ever had format or any style at all?

What should one expect of a former countryside projectionist turned a multi billionaire?

He may change his wardrobe, his image, buy Louis Vuitton bags for his daughter, wear Patek Phillipe watches and drive an Aston Martin - but the very INSIDE remains the same forever!

A sheep skin doesn't make a wolf a sheep - does it?

Nobody reads what Mazeltov writes anymore - just ignore him and move on lol

OK, I can rest.

... the puppet master behind the proxy government responsible for the Rohingya and Hmong repatriation policies, ...

Would you care to explain?

As far as i know the ugly treatment of the Rohingya boat people happend under PM Abhisit. The 'repatriation policies' of the Hmong are agreements between the Junta Government and Leaders in Laos, Abhisits best friends.

Tak Bai, Krue Sae was an army job, the dissapearing people probably too, the same people who helped Abhisit last year with paper bullets and this year with killing terrorist in Bangkok.

Tak Bai is widely attributed to Thaksin. To summarize Thaksin's "defense", he basically said the killing is good, if you don't understand it just go away.

another opinion

http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1583-r...ope-to-thailand

David Kilgour was a Member of the Canadian Parliament from 1979 to 2006, and also served as Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Committees of the Whole House, Secretary of State for Latin America & Africa, and Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific.

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An excellent view point. There was also a very good write up a couple of days ago from Time, one of the few news magazines that still looks at a story rather than their ratings. Sorry don't have the link right now, it is easy to find by googling time magazine and Thailand.

The article have some inaccuracy and the writer didn't do his home work.

the article argues with referring to a Therdpoum Chaidee, saying he is a collaborator of the Red Shirt leadership and a former Thaksin-supporting MP. the later is true, he was a TRT MP, he was also a commie many years ago. But he isn't a red shirt collaborator, that is BS. nowadays Therdpoum is Therdpoum is also a PAD leader, facing an indictment on terrorism offences for the airport seizure, charged with instigating unrest and other criminal offences. Therdpoum is also one of the party executives of the New Politics Party.

Anyway, the article says it has the Therdpoum admission from the Le Figaro. would it be possible that the Le Figaro got it from Asia Times Online? ATO had also Therdpoum a couple of days ago on their pages, and without mentioning his PAD connection. just calling him a former comrade of Dr. Weng and ex-TRT.

I would not be surprised if David Kilgour has actually no clue and not much of an opinion but did only some stupid lazy copy and paste journalism work.

Another lawyer statement "The article has some inaccuracy". How much? 5%?

Followed by a groundless attempt to discredit a person of very high stature.

I suggest people read the article themselves. Most mature people can distinguish someone attempting to get at the truth and someone purposefully spreading disinformation.

He talks about what is needed for the Thai people and that which is good. Have you done that?

But then a bit later I read: After the 2006 coup, the military junta ordered another investigation into the anti-drug campaign.The committee concluded that as many as 1400 of the 2500 killed had no link to drugs.

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That doesn't mean that these 1400 are totally innocent victims that where killed in the name of the 'War in Drug'. These death where just wrongly added to statistics filed under drug related crimes.

The number of somewhat 2500/2700 is just the total number of violently death that occurred during the months of the war on drugs. The 1400 have been killed for other reasons, the normal crime that happen day by day in Thailand.

The number of death from the hand of police, law enforcement officers is much much more lower than 2500.

But 2500 looks much better if you wanna make propaganda against the regime.

Yet more disinformation, again. You have been hard at work defending Mr. Thaksin. I was in a big trial once, had to take on a really bad guy. He hired lawyer after lawyer, we actually lost count. Each one of them sounded just like you, same kind of questions. They dumped thousands of pages of unrelated disinformation on the case. I had a secret weapon, called the truth, I stood behind it like my general Stonewall Jackson. The guy is now toast.

To start, you have twisted the numbers, of course. Roughly 1000 of the extra judical killings were not related to drugs, these were above the normal crime rate. They were killing anyone they wanted! No control. Justice, Thaksin style. After 2500 deaths, not one single major drug dealer or player had been killed or prosecuted. None! But maybe people should read on there own. Google Thaksin human rights violations is like googling Madonna, it is so popular.

But maybe try the Human Rights Watch, they say........

A violent state-sponsored "war on drugs" is jeopardizing Thailand's long struggle to become one of Southeast Asia's leading rights-respecting democracies.Officially launched in February 2003, the government crackdown has resulted in the unexplained killing of more than 2,000 persons, the arbitrary arrest or blacklisting of several thousand more, and the endorsement of extreme violence by government officials at the highest levels.

Links to the hrw, the full story.

http://www.hrw.org/en/node/12005/section/2

another opinion

http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1583-r...ope-to-thailand

David Kilgour was a Member of the Canadian Parliament from 1979 to 2006, and also served as Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Committees of the Whole House, Secretary of State for Latin America & Africa, and Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific.

David Kilgour continues to be active in issues of human rights and international concern. He is co-chair of the Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran, past chair of the Latin America and Caribbean policy working group of the Ottawa branch of the Canadian International council, a Fellow of the Queen's University Centre for the Study of Democracy and a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD).

He and human rights attorney David Matas were recently awarded the 2009 Human Rights Prize of the International Society for Human Rights In Switzerland for their work in raising awareness of state-sponsored organ pillaging in China. They have also been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

An excellent view point. There was also a very good write up a couple of days ago from Time, one of the few news magazines that still looks at a story rather than their ratings. Sorry don't have the link right now, it is easy to find by googling time magazine and Thailand.

Good news here.

The only way to get a true independent investigation is to get some proper international human rights lawyers and investigators to look into this, and if necessary file charges against the government, and certain people who were in the CRES, with the International Criminal Court, and make the UNHRC fully aware of what has happened.

It is very sad to see army snipers allegedly shooting to kill civilians. It is very sad to see many people reported "missing" and the CRES is not willing to post lists of names of people held in detention. We have seen pictures of red shirts and monks blindfolded and handcuffed, and many people have not returned home. Why is the CRES unwilling to release the list of names of all detained people and where they are ?

It has been reported that some death certificates have been filled in incorrectly, with relatives insisting the cause of death is changed to bullet wound to the head as for some reason this was not recorded as the cause of death even though there is a bullet wound directly through the head. No idea why some people appear to be trying to cover up the cause of death ?? Any ideas ?

Media freedoms and basic human rights were allegedly infringed with the cutting off of media access, internet access, web site access and many other forms of basic human rights.

A full, thorough and proper investigation by international rights experts and war crimes lawyers is a good way of ensuring that if there are any breaches here, they will be found out, and it will also ensure such breaches, if they happened, will never happen again.

If anyone here cares about Thai's they will have no objections to this investigation.

The investigation and all else aside, let's cut the crap of posters saying or suggesting they alone care for the "Thai People" and that "if" anyone here "cares" about the Thai people and Thailand, we'd have to agree with you, accept what you like, believe what you say, support what you defend; advocate that which you say or propose.

It sounds something like, "I am for the Thai people. (I therefore, I have the right to ask:) Are you now or have you ever been against the Thai people?"

Grow up.

L_head, Glad you are not part of an "independent" investigation, you have, without investigation or evidence, already decided guilt! I can see you selecting a jury, "Do you agree to find the defendent guilty?"

A investigation, a real one, will need to include all participants and understand what really happened, and I think a whole lot of people would welcome that. It must also include the prime suspect Mr. Thaksin and they might as well start with his own human rights violations, which the international community complained about at the time. Before a real investigation can draw conclusions, it will have to answer a lot of tough questions like who was blowing up power pylons, who was sabotaging fuel depots, who shot 100 soldiers on April 10th, who assassinated their commanding officer? Who shot Seh Daeng? Who shot Sondhi? Who fired RPGs at the Dusit Hotel with reporters inside? Who fired hundreds of M79 grenades and other bombs? Who were the Ronin? And, who funded the red operation? Who knew about the torching of the city in advance? How many times did the red leaders call for arson and destruction? Who paid these guys?

Why did the police do nothing? Did the military deploy the 237 million baht worth of riot gear and rubber bullet guns recently purchased? What orders were given to the soldiers? When? Did they follow them? Exactly when and how many times did the soldiers come under fire? Who fired the grenades on April 21? Were reporters and medical workers really targeted? Who targeted them and why? Who was responsible for the shootings at the temple? How many people died, and, who were they, what were they doing? How many weapons did the reds have. Who made the car bombs.

I would also like to see some accountability on the part of the international community on why did they not take Thailand's concerns about Thaksin and his activities more seriously.

Then, figure out who did what and punish anyone who did serious wrong.

'chaoyang'

It's a tough one. AGREE

* A mob takes over part of the city and basically says it will never go away unless it gets everything it wants.

I AM SORRY TO TELL YOU IN MOST COUNTRIES YOU ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE A PROTEST OR RALLY FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIKE AS LONG AS IT IS PEACEFUL. ESPECIALLY WESTERN COUNTRIES.

* An extremist member member (Seh Daeng) is assassinated and his still-breathing corpse is charged with terrorism.

* Finally the army moves in with live ammunition and 80+ civilians are killed.

WHAT HAS THE ARMY GOT TO DO WITH ANY OF THIS?

* After the group is fired on by the army of its own country, some members apparently torch highly valuable properties.

Ya, there are a few human rights violations in there, but then Abhisit tried every other means and showed a great deal of patience (either that of the army refused to move earlier).

YES MANY HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THROUGH HIS TENURE AS WELL AS THE PREVIOUS GOVT'S.

If a group had taken and terrorized Times Square in New York, the US National Guard would have opened fire after about the second day, not the 60th, but then in "free" America, protesters wouldn't have been able to pull off what the Reds did in BKK. They would have been shot before the barricades ever got up. IN AMERICA IF THE PROTESTERS ARE PEACEFUL THEY WOULD NOT SEND THE ARMY IN WITH ANTI AIRCRAFT GUNS ARMOURED VEHICLES ETC. THEY WOULD NOT SEND THE ARMY IN FULL STOP. IF OVER 100 PEOPLE DIED AND WENT MISSING AND IT WAS STATE CONTROLLED THE GOVERNOR WOULD RESIGN. IF THE PRESIDENT SENT THE ARMY IN AND OVER 100 DIED AND WENT MISSING THE PRESIDENT WOULD RESIGN.

Lets face it Abhisit has made too many mistakes, I agree he had a difficult job but he screwed it, and should show accountability and resign.

Correction, the only reference I saw to an anti-aircraft gun was on the red side, C4 plastic explosives, RPG anti tank weapons (but used against hotels and jet fuel depots), M79 grenades and other kinds of bombs as well.

Maybe you are comparing apples and oranges.

Its amazing and somewhat disturbing the number of excuses people are coming up with to defend Abhisit.

Abhisit could have rounded them all off and sent them to gas chambers and we would still have people defending him.

3000 Thai people died under Thaksin, probably more deaths then all the deaths in all the crackdowns Thailand had since 1972 put together. How does one excuse that?

I mean really. If you're going to condemn Prime Minister Abhisit for killing 80 rebels trying to overthrow the government, shouldn't you condemn Thaksin for killing 3000 first?

The 3000 deaths is deplorable, but that is another story. Really, you have to stop making up excuses for Abhisit. What he did was criminal, plain and simple.

"The 3000 deaths is deplorable, but that is another story."

No, that's this story.

Maybe they can investigate the 3,000 extra-judicial killings that took place under Thaksin's "war on drugs", too.

If Abhisit (yes, the supposed messiah of thai politics etc),

walks away scot free for the extra-judicial killings under his leadership,

its pretty much a carte blanche for PMs past and present to get away with murder.

Precisely and exactly why Mr. Thaksin was removed, exactly why there was a coup, and exactly why Thailand must succeed in it's first attempt to clean up it's political landscape. If Thaksin is to have any legacy at all, it will be that corruption became so great, the Thais had to fix their system.

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Furthermore you claim "Sae Daeng said in his final interview "They'll never get me in here!" " I doubt that is true. But maybe you have some sources unknown to me. Can you tell me where du you get that line from?

I think you lie and made it up, to create an impression that Seh Deang is a selfish coward who hide inside the red camp behind the barricades from the authorities or from justice and think only of himself. That is not Deh Deang, he was always there, daily, in the first line and saw no reason to hide. He devoted his time and his life for protection of the red shirt protesters from a military crackdown and bloodshed.

He was there for the ordinary people. A hero not only for red shirts but for many Thais of all social classes. One of the last true chevaliers. Intelligent. And it is very disrespectful and rude how some farangs at this board insult him and telling lies.

You only tell part of the story, the part you want, your conclusions cannot be believed. You assume TV posters will lie, you assume anyone with the reds will tell the truth. Was Seh Daeng telling the truth when war weapons were confiscated from his house and his assisstant's house, and said "Who me? Never seen them!". "Jing leh? Blak, mai kheuy hen!" Before posting I checked my house for war weapons, found none, maybe most houses don't have war weapons.

Why do you expect an armed insurgency who's goal is to hide themselves to tell the truth? You think the reds will just say "Oh, yes, we have hidden secret soldiers". Your understanding of the Thai lie is very poor. I guess you are not Thai. I for one cannot believe your analysis.

From an interview with SD.....

In an interview on May 9, he had denied being responsible for any violence. "I deny!" he cried in English, with a laugh, when asked about the dozens of bombings that have set Bangkok on edge and about the mysterious black-shirted killers who escalated the violence on April 10 that killed 25 soldiers and civilians. "No one ever saw me."

Remember, Bangkok was supposed to be blacked out that night.

You are right though, Seh Daeng was not an evil person, he was famous for helping others and giving of himself, unlike his boss in exile. Perhaps a good man in a bad place on a suicide mission.

No suprise really. Only a few working braincells are needed to realise the arrest warrant is political.

Terrorism is often a political offense. The Thai extradition act also prevents a person from being extradited for political offenses, however there are some exceptions.

1. extradition would not otherwise be contrary to Thai law and the offense is not political or military in nature (political offenses do not include the commission of an act of violence against the King, Queen or the Heir-Apparent or any head of state, government leader or member of a family of any of them or the commission of any crime not defined as a political offense under any applicable extradition treaty),

Fortunately Thaksin doesn't seem to have many working braincells and has committed crimes that are serious enough to extradite him for. If there is evidence that he organized and funded terrorist attacks I don't think many countries will be eager to protect him.

Interesting. Here is what INTERPOL has to say about it, from their website

INTERPOL- Legal framework governing cases of a political, military, religious or racial character

I'll let the TV lawyers make their own interpretation but Interpol has an article 3 which precludes political, religious, and racial cases, as well as criteria on how this is interpreted, the exceptions. I think that crimes of a political nature refer to thinks like violating media laws, not violent terrorism and they also apply a predominance criteria. However, the critical passage is

Requests aimed at prosecuting terrorists are processed in strict conformity with the above rules, particularly in terms of applying the predominance theory. In practice, Article 3 does therefore not prevent those accused of serious, violent terrorist offences (such as serious attacks against human life or physical safety, hostage-taking and kidnapping, serious attacks against property (bomb attacks, etc.), unlawful acts against civil aviation (hijacking of aircraft)) from being located with a view to their arrest and extradition.

Straight from the horse's mouth. However, the whole article makes an interesting read. Wonder if Amsterdam has read it

No request will be made, the message from interpol is pretty clear - they won't be used for politically motivated reasons.

Abhisit will probably back off, but if he does push ahead its highly likely that the request will get formally rejected. Interpol is not stupid, they see what is really going on.

They will not allow an excuse of "political motivation" when dealing with substantive evidence of terrorism.

Is there any link where this "substantive evidence" can be seen (or read) or do you have any idea if there is indeed evidence that the Thai authorities have and will send (or maybe already have sent) to Interpol ?

Did the government already show this evidence to the -Thai and/or International- Press and if so what exactly is/was the evidence ?

Were this clear documents in black-and-white from Banks for instance, proving that money was transfered from Thaksin's accounts to other Thai entities or individuals ?

I ask so because I have no idea about this so called evidence that everybody is talking about.

LaoPo

The evidence would all be at DSI. Criminal evidence is rarely made public unless courts or prosecution do it to benefit the case. Extradition is not a matter of public opinion. Police, Interpol, and foreign governments will decide whatever they decide based on evidence provided in the case and pretty much ignore the public media.

The Thais might eventually make some public purely of local Thai consumption.

There were a few news articles in February/March about the government looking into large sums of money transferred over a 6 month period to a number of bogus recipients, some with identical addresses, but no detail.

Do you have proof ? Didn't think so.

To bad Seh Daeng had just started explaining all about Thaksin's involvement and their plans to fight when someone blew his head off.

It isn't exactly a secret that the US gave Thailand information regarding financial transfers and probably signals intercepts as well (communications). This plus public statements of various people including Thaksin himself as well as Sae Daeng and others is substantive enough for an arrest warrant and a trial.

Actually, it's beyond obvious. Here's a picture of the reds burning the whole city, here's the video of their leaders reading a list of targets. Here's the video of the leaders telling them to do it. Here's Seh Daeng telling everyone that he and Thaksin run the show along with the three leaders in the video.

The US likely does have communications because they have understood the players all along. Seeing the city burn, they may be willing to turn over such information. If anything, the Thais probably have to much.

No suprise really. Only a few working braincells are needed to realise the arrest warrant is political.

Even inanimate objects know that Thaksin was funding and leading the reds.

Do you have proof ? Didn't think so.

To bad Seh Daeng had just started explaining all about Thaksin's involvement and their plans to fight when someone blew his head off.

when we talk about Seh Daeng assassination, the first question that needs to be asked,

who would benefit from it?

It's not such a hard question to answer.

The Gov will never admit anything. Why would they?

They are not THAT stupid (???)

There is no chance of an independent investigation in this country anyways.

Who would benefit? Thaksin for one. Seh Daeng was clearly and unequivocally identifying Thaksin as the leader, the person who scuttled the peace plan, and the person who decided to fight on with Seh Daeng and abandon the red leaders who wanted to compromise. They were partners in crime, according to Seh Daeng.

What would Thaksin gain? 1)Remove the primary witness for terrorism charges. 2) trigger more instability, 3) further damage the government's position. 3 in 1.

Now the government side. What do they have to gain? Only the removal of the reds commanding officer, but not the organization or other field commanders. What would they loose? First, they would loose their star witness for the prosecution, and again it would further damage their position.

Who shot him is a mystery, maybe the Thai version of who shot JFK.

I reply to posts. I give facts. I give opinions. I usually state which is which. I try not to bait or flame. That is about all that you do.

Will Interpol act? More than likely

I doubt it.

Sh.t, finding myself agreeing with dear clown. Interpol will drag it's feet as far as legally possible. The matter is complicated, politically tinted. Anyway, the Thai government first has to submit a request with sufficient documentation (like a cupboard full ). Then some unlucky person at Interpol has to start reading it. Don't call us, we call you.

What interpol thinks of Thailand, from interpol website....

March 2008, HONG KONG, China - A man believed to be the world's largest arms dealer, suspected of supplying weapons to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, has been arrested in Thailand following a multi-country operation with support from INTERPOL

Viktor Bout, who is accused by US authorities of conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, was arrested by the Royal Thai Police at a hotel in Bangkok on Thursday.

"This multi-country operation culminating in the arrest of Viktor Bout in Thailand is a model for how suspected dangerous international criminals need to be investigated, charged and brought to justice in the 21st century," said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble.

"The arrest of Viktor Bout in Thailand is an excellent example of the outstanding co-operation among the international police community in general and between the U.S. and Thailand in particular, and shows the importance of INTERPOL as a key global network," said Martin Renkiewicz, Director of INTERPOL's US National Central Bureau.

more http://www.interpol.int/public/ICPO/PressR...08/PR200810.asp

Don't forget the top Al Qaeda leader in Asia arrested here and the recent arms shipment from N. Korea captured at Don Meuang, among others. I imagine that interpol and the Thai authorities are on very good speaking terms.

Yes sir, Mr. Abhisit, if you insist, krup!

The real question here is ...why did it take Abhisit 1 1/2 years into his term to bring the drug killing charges back against Abhisit? Why were they dropped in the first place?

I think the first question that needs be asked is why the charges never got anywhere when Thaksin was in power and then again between 2006 and 2008?. They certainly came to the attention of the international community.

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All right! He explains the pylons. This one act is near conclusive prove that the whole show was planned from the start, including the assassination of army commanders and shooting of a 100 soldiers on April 10. If all 7 bombs had detonated, nothing would have been recorded that night. Probably the biggest oops of all by the reds.

Right in line with the reds destroying video cameras and shooting out street lights before the crackdown.

Ahhh, the pylons, and as hard evidence there is an link to a newspaper article which close with the following sentence:

" investigations have yet to identify the culprits behind the blasts."

sorry the whole letter is nothing more than some yellow propaganda, trash by someone who is clearly obssed with Thaksin and cannot get enough.

ultra right wing extremist and believer in conspiracy theories will never get objective.

Ah, yes. seven 5 kilogram C4 plastic explosive bombs rigged to alarm clock detonators to go off just when the reds attack the military on Saturday, obvious terrorism.

From the same article where you find a few words to defend Thaksin, but oops, no reference??? , ...........

...

The governor said the bombings were a terrorist act." unquote

...........and you say mentioning fact in not being objective??

Yes, the article called it terrorism, but where is the connection to Thaksin?

Have no idea, I didn't bring up his name. Why are you so obsessed about defending him?

Saturday , May 29 , 2010

The Thai Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Thaksin on terrorism charges .........

<snip, full article above>

16 th April 2010: Red shirts bomb attacks at three high voltage electricity pylons in Ayuthaya's Bang Pa-in district were intended to plunge parts of Bangkok into darkness. See http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/3...lackout-averted (breach of item 2 as above-listed). On the same day , two high-ranking officers were taken hostage by Red Shirt protesters. See http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world...i-1225854613652 (breach of item 3).

continued http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/ThaiTalk/2010/05/29/entry-1

All right! He explains the pylons. This one act is near conclusive prove that the whole show was planned from the start, including the assassination of army commanders and shooting of a 100 soldiers on April 10. If all 7 bombs had detonated, nothing would have been recorded that night. Probably the biggest oops of all by the reds.

Right in line with the reds destroying video cameras and shooting out street lights before the crackdown.

Ahhh, the pylons, and as hard evidence there is an link to a newspaper article which close with the following sentence:

" investigations have yet to identify the culprits behind the blasts."

sorry the whole letter is nothing more than some yellow propaganda, trash by someone who is clearly obssed with Thaksin and cannot get enough.

ultra right wing extremist and believer in conspiracy theories will never get objective.

Ah, yes. seven 5 kilogram C4 plastic explosive bombs rigged to alarm clock detonators to go off just when the reds attack the military on Saturday, obvious terrorism.

From the same article where you find a few words to defend Thaksin, but oops, no reference??? , ...........

Officials say they believe the blast at the third pylon occurred at the same time as those at the first two pylons on Saturday night. ''More importantly, the attacks are believed to have been aimed at causing a blackout in Bangkok. That means we are facing a kind of terrorist sabotage,'' an official said.

Plastic explosives planted at the base of the third pylon damaged four of its legs and nearly toppled power lines, provincial police commander Jaruvat Vaisaya said.

''Seven bombs were found at three electricity pylons. Four bombs exploded and the other three malfunctioned,'' he said.

A police source said the bombs weighed 5kg each and were ignited by alarm clocks.

Had all of the explosives detonated, power would have been cut to the northern Bangkok suburb of Rangsit, Ayutthaya governor Wittaya Phewpong said. ''Whoever planted them wanted to cause huge damage.

The governor said the bombings were a terrorist act." unquote

...........and you say mentioning fact in not being objective??