ourmanflint

In the cctv video recording, before the yellow shirt suspect sat down, the white and red shirt guys seem to have been keeping the bench for him.

Will be interesting to talk to these 2 other men.

I agree, but it could also be just a coincidence , maybe the yellow shirt guy was just standing there hoping some of them would move away from the bench , but as you say , the men wearing red and white shirts needs to come forward and talk to the police, unless they were killed in the bomb blast.

If we are to believe there was up to a 15 minute lag between dropping off the backpack and explosion, then unlikely any of those in video would have been killed and all should be going to the police asap with camera phones in hand

Seriously doubt backpack man is anything other than Thai or Chinese, he is too small and walks like only Chinese or Thai walk, hunched shoulders and shuffling along in flip flops.

This might be the bomber who was using a fake American passport. Has same shoes, shorts and burn on his arm ( which was covered by a bandage as he left the backpack):

http://heavy.com/news/2015/08/bangkok-erawan-hindu-shrine-bomber-identity-photo-picture-fake-passport-american-stephen-larry-fahl-united-states-thailand/4/

Yes apart from being nearly 6ft tall, he could well be someone they should be looking at..

If there was one fact about the bomber that would be simple to ascertain, then it should be the bombers height. He is smaller than almost all around him and stood next to fence they should be able to accurately say the bomber is approx 150cm tall for example. Not heard a single thing about that, but elsewhere in the world the police would issue a statement saying exactly that.

If the Uighur wanted to make an example of Thai or Chinese in Thailand, surely there are better places to target. And if they really wanted to target those that sent back Uighurs to China, then attacking a temple devoted to an Indian deity, makes no sense at all.

Matichon said he spoke English to the motorcai driver, was dropped off in Silom Soi 9 and then was seen (and heard) taking a cab to 'the airport'. BKK or DMK wasn't stated.

Yet according to the RTP he also managed to throw a bomb from Saphan Taksin 24 hours later. No wonder everyone is confused, the information coming from the police is all over the place.

Looking at the video again, the bomber is very unlikely to be a westerner, he is just too short. Compared to others at the shrine he is quite small. So once again it is most likely someone from Thailand or its neighbours.

The only certainty to come out of this whole mess, is that it will show just how massively behind the rest of the world the BIB are when it comes to real investigative police work. They seem to turn everything into a farce. There can be few people who are confident the police will be able to track down the perps or even build up a realistic picture of how it really happened, and if the explosion at Saphan Taksin was connected.

"In the footage, the suspect with curly hair was seen carrying a backpack and walking into the shrine compound at 6.53pm"

...meanwhile

"A report also said that a foreigner with curly hair had been taken in for questioning at Suvarnabhumi Airport."

With observation skills so keen they will no doubt have a profile ready very soon. If you have curly hair and currently reside in Bangkok please be aware that you will soon come under public scrutiny.

Let's all play Blankety Blank

Despite lack of evidence, the Thai media blames ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )

"Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha also called on the media and social-media users to stop sharing unconfirmed information or risk exacerbating confusion."

I think he means ""stop repeating whatever my officers say sharing unconfirmed information or risk exacerbating confusion."

I think the pellets that came off make the authority's think it could be a pipe bomb or some other form of IED, but maybe a copy cat with a large firework with pellets attached, but who knows.

Interesting theory this firework thing. Just a thought but if a firework was thrown into the water wouldn't it simply be extinguished and remain floating on the surface. (or sink if pellets were somehow attached)?

Sorry, but a Firework this was most certainly not and for those in "the blast was too small" camp... Ask yourself this.... could the device have sunk several meters or more before detonation? thus reducing the shock radius even more? How deep exactly is the water in that location?

Having seen the second clip from different angle it does look more serious than I first thought. Still if it contained pellets or something, I'm surprised those nearby didn't get hurt, or pontoon wasn't damaged.

Hope they have divers at least going over the site beneath the bridge as likely to be substantial evidence if it turns out it was another pipe bomb.

I mean actual evidence is what most police forces tend to look for isn't it?

Nowhere near as big as Erawan explosion, a firework would do as much. Doubt these are connected.

For the love of God, I have tried hard to not respond to the two days of the Thai Visa Psychic Forensic unit GUESSING out their butt hole what is going on , but in this case, I have reached the end of my tether.

How could you possibly write something so profoundly stupid at a time like this when we come here to get NEWS that MATTERS?

how could you possibly reach this conclusion.

Tell me where you are, i will buy you a bottle of whatever you are drinking, if it will shut your pie hole for the afternoon.

My wife drives across that bridge every evening on the way home .. now could you kindly clear the way so the adults can share information and get on with the serious business of protecting our families?

I need to determine if she needs to use the other bridges.

Thank you in advance... for shutting up for a moment while others look for VALUABLE INFORMATION from our Expat peers.

Yes I was exaggerating, the point being this explosion was nowhere near as intense as the one at Erawan. Calm down old boy you'll give yourself a hernia!

In other words, this was a homegrown terrorist who perpetrated this heinous act

I am I the only one who thinks this person looks Asian? As soon as I saw it I thought Thai or Chinese. I also thought it was a woman.

I could be very wrong though as the picture isn't clear.

No you're not the only one. How anyone thought this guy was Arabic is a bit of a stretch

heres the video;

i'd say he left something and with the blast starting there

they got who did it

now have to find him;

https://www.facebook.com/NuChiko.29/videos/10207342172262871/?fref=nf

This could be the start.....

well he doesn't look arabic in that video does he, he looks asian, chinese or thai

Nowhere near as big as Erawan explosion, a firework would do as much. Doubt these are connected.

Considering it exploded underwater pretty damn big. Lucky it missed the ferry.

Scary times.

Not really. Pound for pound an underwater explosion would be many times more massive than one on land, this might have been a very small grenade but certainly not a pipe bomb, at least IMO.

Nowhere near as big as Erawan explosion, a firework would do as much. Doubt these are connected.

If anything the suspect looks Israeli. Pipe bombs like this are very much a part of the continuing problems in the middle east, everyone uses them, but you can thank the good old IRA for designing them and training others to build them.

A very shocking event, and I just cannot see any reason for targeting the Erawan Shrine. Yesterdays bike ride would have been an easy target for any would be attackers to have impact, yet they waited until today, and chose a target mainly used by normal everyday folks of all walks of life.

I hope no stone is left unturned searching out the villains who did this along with anyone involved in its inception.

Am I right in thinking that this is where they want to build some huge underpasses to ease traffic congestion? Doesn't seem like a very good place to dig big holes in the ground.

In what other country do those convicted of crimes and sentenced, then actually get bail? What a complete joke the legal system is in Thailand, it really is ripe for reform.

The problem has been made far worse with so many kind hearted (ie stupid) farangs setting up animal shelters and such, to encourage Thais not to do what they have normally done with soi

dogs previously, and that is poison them or call the "meat" man to round them up and ship them off to Vietnam. Any foreigner who feeds stray dogs should be forced to run naked covered in gravy through Klong Toey at midnight.

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Really! I have to explain the difference to you? Discriminating against someone because of a facet of their genetic make-up, ie skin colour, sex, disability is not the same as discrimination against someone who makes choices you do not agree with.

The logic of your argument would also allow students to turn up naked, drunk, smoke in class, bring their pet goat or masturbate whenever they want, all are personal choices, and I'm guessing you would defend these choices equally?

What a poorly thought out response, perhaps take a little longer to think about it. All of the other scenarios you give could give others a genuine inconvenience therefor it is not prejudiced to exclude these activities, besides turning up naked of course, which I would support anyway, and why not?

By the way, the explicit similarity which you appear unable to grasp, is that all of these prejudices, racism, sexism and classism, involve an assumed inherent difference between the people other than their race, sex or in this case, tattoo. An inherent difference is just not actually there and so it is prejudiced to assume that there would be, get it now? And I'm surprised I have to explain this but there you go, I must be on TV.

First of all having tattoos is not related to class discrimination, it just is not. And secondly you might say that being a free masturbator or an alcoholic is not the same as they are "genuine inconveniences", but that just goes to prove that there are somethings that we all agree to be disruptive, but try telling that to the alcoholic or monkey basher, and they would think you are just being a fascist for not letting them do what they want as in their opinion it is not harming anyone.