Thai Police Find Explosive Chemicals Linked To Terror Plot

[wxyz]

i doubt that a western farang would get off so lucky,

well, without some big time tea money,

that would explain the 200 BIB with this war criminal,

when you would think they would be looking for his accomplices, say soi 3 & 5

i predict some soon to be wealthy BIB

Edited January 16, 2012 by wxyz

[webfact]

TERROR

PM ensures safety following bomb ingredients found

The Nation

The government is in the control of the situation concerning the terror threat so people should not panic, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Monday.

Security authorities have been assigned to keep a close watch on the situation to ensure the safety of the public.

The premier was speaking after police raided a building in Samut Sakhon province and confiscated bomb-making ingredients including fertilisers and liquid ammonium nitrate.

The raid was made after terror suspect, Hussein Atris, of Swedish-Lebanese origin was arrested at a Bangkok airport. He confessed and led police to the building, which was reportedly used for the storage of explosive elements.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Winai Thongsong said the public should not worry about Thailand being the target of a terrorist attack, as it seemed the country was being used for storage and transit.

Police have reinforced their personnel and safety measures in many areas and particularly where foreign tourists gather, such as Khao San Road, Bang Lamphu, Rambutree Road as well as the embassies of the US and Israel.

Deputy PM Kowit Wattana also expressed confidence that the security authorities would be able to provide safety for people and important venues.

-- The Nation 2012-01-16

[wxyz]

"PM ensures safety following bomb ingredients found"

“What, me worry?” - Alfred yingluck Newman

[Reasonableman]

The government is in the control of the situation....

[RichinThailand]

Didn't the same government assure that Don Muang Airport would not flood...that they had it under control????

[webfact]

Lebanese charged in Thai terror probe: police

BANGKOK, January 16, 2012 (AFP) - Police in Thailand said Monday that they had charged a Lebanese man after potentially explosive materials were found following an alert over a possible terrorist attack.

The man was charged with violating weapons control law, deputy national police chief Pansiri Prapawat said, after a large amount of fertiliser and ammonium nitrate was found at a property rented by the suspect.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2012-01-16

[Jayman]

Lebanese charged in Thai terror probe: police

BANGKOK, January 16, 2012 (AFP) - Police in Thailand said Monday that they had charged a Lebanese man after potentially explosive materials were found following an alert over a possible terrorist attack.

The man was charged with violating weapons control law, deputy national police chief Pansiri Prapawat said, after a large amount of fertiliser and ammonium nitrate was found at a property rented by the suspect.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2012-01-16

Ok.. so now he's been charged.. well that's a relief.. I thought I read they deported him already. Made me kinda worried that they kept saying "he didn't break any laws so we deported him".

[huahinjoe]

Anyone can estimate the destruction force of 400kg fertilisers and chemicals would be?

Another note, i tought if anyone planning and confessing a plot thats already punishable, why on earth they can let the guy go away after 60 days? Amazing Thailand...

Why they hiding the guy's face, because he is farang? most thai news show the guy face even they have to reproduce the story like the teddy bear raper... haha

http://law2.umkc.edu...ighaccount.html

The bomb was composed of a simple combination of about 5,000 pounds of a common farm fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, and nitromethane racing fuel and remotely set off by a blasting cap. It was loaded onto a 20-foot-long Ryder rental truck and parked in front of the federal building shortly before detonation.

Equivalent of 2268 KILOS did this

http://www.u-s-histo...ages/h2048.html

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So converting 400 kl to 882 lbs,

We can expect say 1/4 - 1/3 of this damage depending on where it was placed.

But place this amongst 2,500 people milling about a dozen bars and stands on Kao San road....

without the huge concrete structures seen still standing, and all 4 stories at most....

Carnage is the only word.

http://www.omaha.com...plate=mobileart

Yeah, animatic thanks, it clearly shows if they bomb it in a fully loaded Kaosan road or even a Fullmoon party, there would be many farang die...

I think the authorities now want to downplay the incident for sure with this autocratic statements...

[wxyz]

"Lebanese charged in Thai terror probe: police"

kaching kaching, i think i just heard the BIB cash register

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Would it not make sense that he is being deported to Sweden? I believe that is where his passport was issued. Perhaps that would explain the quick deportation in light of the recent news about him. Certainly he would then be in for more interrogation as opposed to an exodus to Lebanon. Just a guess on my part and I should know better than to try to make sense of any action taken by the Thai government.

I posed that same question here the other day... AFAIK, we haven't heard zip from the Swedish government as to whether this guy was carrying a legitimate Swedish passport, or whether it was a phony. There were reports originally he was carrying two different passports, and later some suggestion some of his documents were fraudulent...

But from the news reports I've seen thus far, there's been no clarification of just who he is and what's his real passport/citizenship status... I'd love to know.. I hope we hear something from Sweden re this guy... and also.... to what country he got deported to.

[pimay11]

"Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Winai Thongsong said the public should not worry about Thailand being the target of a terrorist attack, as it seemed the country was being used for storage and transit".

It gets better each time they open their mouths.

But I think this is the most unbelievable and utterly stupid statement so far from anyone.

[TAWP]

I'm so amazed the gov. is still shooting their mouths of after the whole 'flooding-and-no-proper-info'-debacle.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Ok.. so now he's been charged.. well that's a relief.. I thought I read they deported him already. Made me kinda worried that they kept saying "he didn't break any laws so we deported him".

Ditto on that... What the heck's going on???

There were news reports posted here earlier today that the guy had been deported... And of course, the Thai authorities have been routinely saying the past several days that the guy broke no laws in Thailand....

If he's been charged, does that mean he hasn't been deported... Or, perish the thought, they deported him and then charged him after he was gone... The way this place works, I'd bet on the latter as the answer.

[wxyz]

"Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Winai Thongsong said the public should not worry about Thailand being the target of a terrorist attack, as it seemed the country was being used for storage and transit".

It gets better each time they open their mouths.

But I think this is the most unbelievable and utterly stupid statement so far from anyone.

must be the bomb in the turban that makes it hard to swallow

[Gers1873]

A government s[spokesman has told media sources that a number of very senior politicians in Thailand are suffering from severe cases of oral dysentery. A cure is being sought.

[BookMan]

I notice a lot of the posters and 'likers' on other threads who were saying the warning was a 'crock of sh*#' are quiet on this thread.

[wxyz]

the wife is always the last to know

According to reports in the Swedish press, the man is 47-year-old Hussein Atris, a barber who lived for many years in western Sweden before moving back to Lebanon seven years ago.

According to his wife, he was in Thailand on business at the time of his arrest.

http://www.thelocal.se/38518/20120116/

Edited January 16, 2012 by wxyz

[kerryk]

I notice a lot of the posters and 'likers' on other threads who were saying the warning was a 'crock of sh*#' are quiet on this thread.

You noticed that too.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

From Bloomberg News

Thailand Police Charge Terror Suspect After Finding Bomb-Making Materials

By Daniel Ten Kate and Suttinee Yuvejwattana - Jan 16, 2012 12:42 PM GMT+0700

Thai police charged a Swedish- Lebanese man suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Bangkok after finding bomb-making materials in a building on the capital’s outskirts.

Atris Hussein, 47, was charged with possessing illegal substances after being detained on Jan. 12 in connection with a plan to attack tourist sites frequented by Americans and Israelis, said Charamporn Suramanee, the assistant police chief. Thai police have linked him and a second suspect still on the run to the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement.

“We are monitoring the situation and have increased forces to look after public areas,” Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told reporters today. “The situation is under control. There is no problem.”

.................

The U.S. said in a Jan. 13 “emergency message” to citizens that “foreign terrorists may be currently looking to conduct attacks against tourist areas in Bangkok in the near future.” Embassy spokesman Walter Braunohler today said the warning remains in effect.

MORE:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-16/thailand-police-charge-terror-suspect-after-finding-bomb-making-materials.html

Edited January 16, 2012 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Gers1873]

Whatever the truth the fact the Thai police have taken such a large amount of chemicals out of commission is surely a result.

[lovetotravel]

the wife is always the last to know

According to reports in the Swedish press, the man is 47-year-old Hussein Atris, a barber who lived for many years in western Sweden before moving back to Lebanon seven years ago.

According to his wife, he was in Thailand on business at the time of his arrest.

http://www.thelocal.se/38518/20120116/

And the wife is usually one of the last to tell the truth.

Ah, more "evidence" for the US to drum up support for its war against Iran.

Isn't that stretching it a bit???? Even though "reportedly" funded by Iran, this group is from Lebanon.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

the wife is always the last to know

According to reports in the Swedish press, the man is 47-year-old Hussein Atris, a barber who lived for many years in western Sweden before moving back to Lebanon seven years ago.

According to his wife, he was in Thailand on business at the time of his arrest.

http://www.thelocal.se/38518/20120116/

The Swedish media report you're linking above basically says the Swedish government still hasn't confirmed who this guy is or his passport status...

And further:

Speaking with the Expressen newspaper, the wife of the 47-year-old terror suspect explained that, since moving back to Beruit, her husband had been trying to change careers from that of a barber to trading in “goods from Asia”.

“He's travelled to Thailand several times previously and purchased goods which he then sold in Lebanon,” Rania Koubaisi, Atris's wife, told the newspaper from her current home in Libya.

She denied suspicions that her husband was a terrorist.

“Why would he do something like this? I'm one hundred percent sure that this is a misunderstanding,” she told the newspaper.

As of Sunday, officials from the Swedish embassy had still not been able to meet with Atris, nor confirm his identity.

Edited January 16, 2012 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[pimay11]

the wife is always the last to know

According to reports in the Swedish press, the man is 47-year-old Hussein Atris, a barber who lived for many years in western Sweden before moving back to Lebanon seven years ago.

According to his wife, he was in Thailand on business at the time of his arrest.

http://www.thelocal.se/38518/20120116/

Why didn't they ask her first? It would have saved wll this?

Hussein: Dear Rania I am going to Thailand on business.

Rania: When will I see you again?

Hussein: In your dreams.

Edited January 16, 2012 by pimay11

[Thai at Heart]

Rumour has it that there is a sweep stake running among cabinet members for whom can make the country look the most inept.

This can be the only explanation.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Totally apart from the BKK bomb plot issue, there could be some additional truth here...

The guy could have been acquiring the explosive materials here and having them shipped/transported to Lebanon in fan boxes, as one of the earlier news reports claimed...

They need explosives there too... not just in Thailand...

As for the guy... considering that the Thais repeatedly have said he's confessed, and we've all seen photos here of the guy leading police to a large stash of potential explosives materials, I'd say he has some explaining to do to his wife... :-(

BTW, does he still get the virgins??? He did try... even though apparently he didn't succeed?

Edited January 16, 2012 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[wxyz]

the wife is always the last to know

According to reports in the Swedish press, the man is 47-year-old Hussein Atris, a barber who lived for many years in western Sweden before moving back to Lebanon seven years ago.

According to his wife, he was in Thailand on business at the time of his arrest.

http://www.thelocal.se/38518/20120116/

Why didn't they ask her first? It would have saved wll this?

Hussein: Dear Rania I am going to Thailand on business.

Rania: When will I see you again?

Hussein: In your dreams.

hahaha too true

[webfact]

Thailand: Four tonnes of explosive precursor found

BANGKOK: The confession of a terrorist suspect has led police to the discovery of more than four tonnes of explosive precursor in Samut Sakhon province.

Police Chief Pol Gen Priewpan Damapong said that 4,380kg of urea fertiliser and 10 gallons of liquid ammonia nitrate were found at a commercial building at Tambon Kalong, Mueng district, Samut Sakhon province, 36km south of Bangkok, this morning.

About 200 police checked the building in the early morning, following the confession of the suspect, a 48-year-old Lebanese, he said.

He said the suspect has rented the premises since January 2010 for 15,000 Baht (about RM1,500) per month, and that the explosive precursor had been stored there a long time.

"However, the suspect confessed that the materials were meant to be smuggled to another country and not to be used in this country," Pol Gen Priewpan said.

This capital was put on terrorism alert following a warning on its website by the United States Embassy in Thailand that foreign terrorists could be looking to conduct attacks against tourist areas here in the near future.

More than a dozen countries followed suit by issuing travel alerts for their citizens. [more...]

Full story: http://www.nst.com.m...r-found-1.33011

-- New Straights Times 2012-01-16

[wxyz]

the wife is always the last to know

According to reports in the Swedish press, the man is 47-year-old Hussein Atris, a barber who lived for many years in western Sweden before moving back to Lebanon seven years ago.

According to his wife, he was in Thailand on business at the time of his arrest.

http://www.thelocal.se/38518/20120116/

The Swedish media report you're linking above basically says the Swedish government still hasn't confirmed who this guy is or his passport status...

And further:

Speaking with the Expressen newspaper, the wife of the 47-year-old terror suspect explained that, since moving back to Beruit, her husband had been trying to change careers from that of a barber to trading in “goods from Asia”.

“He's travelled to Thailand several times previously and purchased goods which he then sold in Lebanon,” Rania Koubaisi, Atris's wife, told the newspaper from her current home in Libya.

She denied suspicions that her husband was a terrorist.

“Why would he do something like this? I'm one hundred percent sure that this is a misunderstanding,” she told the newspaper.

As of Sunday, officials from the Swedish embassy had still not been able to meet with Atris, nor confirm his identity.

i listed the link didn't i, i am sure he is a harmless bisexual only buying these chemicals to make the deserts bloom

ya, right, btw bisexual for this organization means, they own a camel and a donkey

[pimay11]

Totally apart from the BKK bomb plot issue, there could be some additional truth here...

The guy could have been acquiring the explosive materials here and having them shipped/transported to Lebanon in fan boxes, as one of the earlier news reports claimed...

They need explosives there too... not just in Thailand...

As for the guy... considering that the Thais repeatedly have said he's confessed, and we've all seen photos here of the guy leading police to a large stash of potential explosives materials, I'd say he has some explaining to do to his wife... :-(

BTW, does he still get the virgins??? He did try... even though apparently he didn't succeed?

Trying is not good enough. He will get Rania back .

[chooka]

So as there was no terror plot (According to Thai Auth's) and the guy had committed no offence and is being released without charge, does he get his fertiliser back or is it ilegal to possess fertiliser in Thailand?