whybother

So, this went from "No, we don't have her " to "Yes, we have her because she is a terrorist, but we let her go anyways!" in just 3 days?!

I am not convinced!

Did they let her go?

It went from her being arrested a week ago, to the media getting involved 3 days ago, to someone in the army denying she was in their custody 2 days ago, to her being charged with terrorism yesterday. I don't believe she has been released.

Who did they bribe?????

If they bribed someone, they didn't pay enough.

THEY WISH..........!!

if you check SKYTREK website you'll find THIS:

www.worldairportawards.com

VERY different !!!!

Which shows BKK as 5th in the 40-50 million passenger group.

What's different?

Just read the latest Skytrax report/list and Suvarnabhumi Airport does not even get a sniff into the list of the top 30 so where does the number 5th come from? Also, as a handicapped person, the airport is far from being the friendliest for people in wheelchairs. Tried a few times to get the wheelchair into a toilet and there is a small step, only an inch or so high but that prevents me from entering by myself because the door is not easily opened as it must be pushed open. Then it immediately slams shut while trying to negotiate the step. The joints between the floor sections are not good either. They cause the wheelchair to bump and jump along creating spinal and leg pain - had back operations, two hip replacements, and right knee replacement and no feeling in feet. Long distances from check-in to gate another problem as is trying to get into and out of the airport through departures. Whoever thought of putting in that horrendous barrier should be shot. Must admit though, at least the taxi is closer to the door than they can get in China where the taxi can not get within about 100 feet of the door as they are not allowed to drive that close. At least most airports worldwide allow that because of the luggage being large and some do not even provide free trolleys. (Toronto is an example where you pay CAD2:00 and then get nothing back when finished.)

5th (out of 9 or 10) in the 40-50 mil passenger group. 47th (or 49th?) overall.

Suwannaphum may be better than many N American and European airports - most of which are showing their age and lack of capacity in a changed environment - but in my opinion Thailand's main airport comes nowhere near the best in Asia.

A random list of six criticisms:

- Overpriced F&B

- Monopoly duty free supplier

- Vast distances to walk to gates

- Immigration bottlenecks much of the time

- STILL no conveniently-accessed Internet (registration required - why?)

- In general, trading on an outdated and obsolete image of Thailand, unsuitable to 2015.

Pass, at best

F&B in most airports, especially airside, is overpriced.

One of the best airports in the world, Changi, requires passport registration for wi-fi access.

It's a big airport. How do you propose that they bring all the gates closer to the main terminal?

Best Airports : 40-50 million passengers

1 Seoul Incheon ICN

2 Kuala Lumpur KUL

3 Madrid MAD

4 San Francisco SFO

5 Bangkok Suvarnabhumi BKK

6 Charlotte/Douglas CLT

7 Las Vegas LAS

8 Phoenix Sky Harbor PHX

9 Miami International MIA

On last year's stats, there were 10 airports in the 40-50 million passenger range.

Yes, but who can believe those damn foreigners. Just because there are lots of video of Thai soldiers shooting protesters, and thousands of rounds were expended, and their are no pictures of red shirts with guns, alive or dead, doesn't mean the red shirts didn't concoct this whole story. Surely at the behest of Thaksin they were ordered to run into bullets to gain sympathy for the cause? And of course the Red Shirts, with Thaksin's backing, can operate anywhere in the country, and impersonate soldiers with impunity. We should all be very afraid...

Yet there are plenty of pictures of redshirts who are armed and they did kill people. Knowingly posting lies breaks the forum rules.

As you know very well there is not a single picture nor a single video clip of a dead, armed protester. They were all 100% unarmed. Don't say that maybe their weapons were removed by other protesters because there is plenty of real-time video of these people being killed. And not one of them was armed.

Have you seen photos of every dead protester? No. Were there even photos of every dead protester? No. There were photos of maybe 10 of the 80 protesters killed.

A PR catastrophe to add to a very long list of PR catastrophes, but still, nothing to do with 2010.

It has everything very much to do with 2010. This person is of extreme interest. The conspiracy theory is that military heavies have put pressure on her to recant her testimony on the killings in 2010. I'll remain mute on that point. However because of her involvement in 2010 and her testomony and now her defiant three finger salute she is definitely in the spot lite, and under the gun, so to speak.

Everyone, red, white, blue or green should be able to agree on this. She is very important indeed, be she communist republican scum, anarchist, apostate or red shirt.

The only thing that it might have to do with 2010 is that the shootings might be the reason she got involved in these bombings. Other than that, she wasn't arrested for anything that happened in 2010.

possibly related to the current NACC case against Abhisit / Suthep for abuse of power ... That has just recently been launched...

Not likely. What more could she add after the inquest said it was the army that shot those in the wat? How would her evidence affect the case against Abhisit/Suthep that they gave orders to the army to kill people? Was she also in the war room to hear those orders?

you posed the question, why now after 5 years.

I provided a current event which is related.

You state, not likely,

so now my response is...

why bother...

Except it's a bit far fetched that she was detained in relation to that case. She has given her evidence to the courts. The courts have already decided that the army did the shooting. Were a hundred other people also recently detained because they were at the wat that day?

the current junta's tactics are archaic, .. .prehistoric... but then they are all dinosaurs from a different era and this entire exercise (reform, blah, blah, blah, ...) is just about keeping things they way that they have been for many, many decades... if not longer.

If they really try to pull off such a transparent lie as connecting this eye witness to the 2010 shootings by the military to a current attack in BKK, they will simply be showing (again) their true colors...

sad, sad, sad, ...

Who is connecting the 2010 shootings to the recent bombings? You, and other anti-government posters. No one else. Not the military. Not the police.

The only connection appears to be that someone who was a witness to the shootings also apparently had some connection to a person already arrested in relation to the bombings.

in reply to the question, "who", you will notice that it is not even necessary to read the entire article. Just read the post I replied to which states:

Nattathida was not heard from or seen until today, six days later, when she was transferred to police custody for her alleged connection to a “terrorism network” that organized a grenade attack at the Criminal Court earlier this month.

Now you should understand "who" in your question "who is connecting..."

OK?

No. The military is not connecting the two incidents. She was arrested in connection to the recent bombings.

She was also a witness to the wat shootings, but that has nothing to do with why she was arrested now.

Does this tie into the recent detention of a woman for several days?

Probably not.

the current junta's tactics are archaic, .. .prehistoric... but then they are all dinosaurs from a different era and this entire exercise (reform, blah, blah, blah, ...) is just about keeping things they way that they have been for many, many decades... if not longer.

If they really try to pull off such a transparent lie as connecting this eye witness to the 2010 shootings by the military to a current attack in BKK, they will simply be showing (again) their true colors...

sad, sad, sad, ...

Who is connecting the 2010 shootings to the recent bombings? You, and other anti-government posters. No one else. Not the military. Not the police.

The only connection appears to be that someone who was a witness to the shootings also apparently had some connection to a person already arrested in relation to the bombings.

I can't disagree that this person is definitely a "person of interest" and it is within the army's rights under martial law to legally take her into custody for not more than 7 days without a warrant or charge.

It has been a PR catastrophe for the govt. First denying she was under military custody, then flip-flopping and admitting it. Does the govt.'s left hand know what the right hand is doing? The answer seems to be no. FX. The finance minister not being informed that the PM had shelved the land tax bill. The PM has been complaining publicly about PR and showing his frustration about it by making off the cuff remarks about punching a reporter in the face, and yet the gaffs keep happening on a near daily basis. "Should they be wearing bikinis?"

A PR catastrophe to add to a very long list of PR catastrophes, but still, nothing to do with 2010.

the current junta's tactics are archaic, .. .prehistoric... but then they are all dinosaurs from a different era and this entire exercise (reform, blah, blah, blah, ...) is just about keeping things they way that they have been for many, many decades... if not longer.

If they really try to pull off such a transparent lie as connecting this eye witness to the 2010 shootings by the military to a current attack in BKK, they will simply be showing (again) their true colors...

sad, sad, sad, ...

Who is connecting the 2010 shootings to the recent bombings? You, and other anti-government posters. No one else. Not the military. Not the police.

The only connection appears to be that someone who was a witness to the shootings also apparently had some connection to a person already arrested in relation to the bombings.

possibly related to the current NACC case against Abhisit / Suthep for abuse of power ... That has just recently been launched...

Not likely. What more could she add after the inquest said it was the army that shot those in the wat? How would her evidence affect the case against Abhisit/Suthep that they gave orders to the army to kill people? Was she also in the war room to hear those orders?

Where do you get your information from that her detention don't have anything to do with 2010? This is just another case of someone lying or the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

There are suggestions in several reports that she was detained in relation to the recent court bombings.

There is nothing in any of the reports that her detention had anything to do with 2010. The likelyhood that she was detained in relation to 2010 is remote, given that that was 5 years ago, the inquest was 2-3 years ago (in which I assume she gave evidence), and the coup was a year ago. Why would she be detained in relation to that now?

Because talking about it is slanderous against the military... You fail to understand that truth is not necessarily a defense against slander or libel (not just specific to the military). She might have needed an "attitude adjustment" to talk about things that will return "happiness" to the Thai people and talking about things that won't.... are not acceptable....

Arresting and detaining her in relation to something that happened 5 years ago does not make sense. Why now?

Where do you get your information from that her detention don't have anything to do with 2010? This is just another case of someone lying or the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

There are suggestions in several reports that she was detained in relation to the recent court bombings.

There is nothing in any of the reports that her detention had anything to do with 2010. The likelyhood that she was detained in relation to 2010 is remote, given that that was 5 years ago, the inquest was 2-3 years ago (in which I assume she gave evidence), and the coup was a year ago. Why would she be detained in relation to that now?

The problem with this proposed law is the definition of terrorism.

Anyone donating money to ANY of the protest groups in Thailand over the last 10 years could fall foul of this law.

The Junta is picking up people out of their homes, detaining them without reason or cause. lying about it and some people here who support the Junta think this kind of stuff is okay. She was brave given the three finger salute, I am sure that will be another 7 days of re-education.

Being involved in the recent court bombings is the reason/cause.

Ok. Let's hear it from the junta followers that this is totally reprehensible.

Or will you be saying there must be more to it.

Ahh the sound of those ducking for cover.

So you know why she was "arrested"?

Does it matter why? The fact is she was arrested but the Junta apologists harped on about it being red shirts in disguise.

And many others were suggesting that the military had killed her off.

It appears that her arrest has nothing to do with 2010. It could actually bring into question her whole 2010 wat story.

Ok. Let's hear it from the junta followers that this is totally reprehensible.

Or will you be saying there must be more to it.

Ahh the sound of those ducking for cover.

So you know why she was "arrested"?