3 Foreigners Injured In Bangkok Bomb Explosion

[ttelise]

More GRAPHIC pictures: http://www.oknation....2/02/14/entry-1

Wow - didn't seem to be much blood - I thought having 2 legs blown off would have covered the place in claret

Perhaps cortarized the wounds to some degree.

[antipodesant]

The worlds intelligence agencies will now be justified in raising the level of the warnings on the Realm.

[WhizBang]

And before anyone chimes in with a "well we don't know he's a terrorist yet" comment, how many regular folks, or more particularly foreigners in Thailand, go walking around the streets with grenades or other explosives in hand? And what else would you call such a person anyway?

A RED Shirt.

[animatic]

I gather his last words were 'Allahu Akbar'..

I wonder what that means...

'God is Great' or 'Allah is great.'

[PoodMaiDai]

Where are those dumb a*ses from the Thai government saying that Thailand is safe and clear from terrorist acts?

+1 for the USA Embassy and other countries on this one, if they stood their ground.

Those in the Thai gov who said it was clear should be brought up on charges.

[anterian]

Fertiliser bombs are notoriously unstable. "Hoist with his own petard" would seem an apt comment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard#.22Hoist_with_his_own_petard.22

[george]

Update:

Reports of an Iranian suspect in the Suk 71 bombing has been arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport /via Bangkok Post

[rotary]

Maybe all this proposed "ending" of prostitution in Thailand that came out a few days ago should take second place to ending this kind of thing

[Goshawk]

extremely graphic video of the 'suspect' with legs blown off, didn't want to embed it here, so copy/paste this in your browser....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhK0xtyfskg

[Dizzle]

Soi 71 is not near the Israeli embassy. The Israeli embassy is in Ocean Tower II just of Soi 19

Depends what you define as "near". Soi 19 is just about 3 miles from Soi 71. Furthermore, if reports that the bomber was angry at the taxi driver for not wanted him to take him (to where?), it wouldn't be a stretch to say that 3 miles is not far at all. Speculation of course.

[KRS1]

Iranians in BKK are commonly associated with smuggling ICE into LOS, wouldn't surprise me if the Ghanian that had just been arrested is related in some way to this Iranian and was working as his mule. Shipment gets confiscated, Iranian loses everything, supplier threatens to kill him for lack of payment then he goes nuts since he can't pay it back.

Iran has no beef with Thailand.

Edited February 14, 2012 by KRS1

[anterian]

Hoist by his own petard!

[george]

Update:

British Embassy in Bangkok issues travel advise:

http://ukinthailand....s/travel-advice

[Ulysses G.]

So it's unlikely that Muslims would attack a Muslim area. Could it be an Israeli False Flag like those in India and Georgia??

False flag? Someone needs to lay off the Kool-aid. There are Islamic terrorists attacking and murdering Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and all over the Middle East. There have been lots of Muslims killed by bombs in Indonesia too. They are not very particular about their victims.

Edited February 14, 2012 by Ulysses G.

[oops]

i didn't get it ... the guy who got his leg blown off was the person throwing the bomb ?

I think they call that Karma

And well deserved in this case

Yeh! and this was two for one

[travelmann]

One hurt in blasts in Thai capital: police

BANGKOK, February 14, 2012 (AFP) - A man believed to be Iranian was seriously wounded when a device he was suspected of carrying exploded in the Thai capital Bangkok on Tuesday, police said.

Police investigators rushed to the scene after three men were seen fleeing from a house where a blast was reported in the east of the city.

One of the men hurled an explosive device at a taxi which refused to stop and later tried to throw another device at police, triggering a blast which tore off his legs, authorities said.

"An Iranian ID was found with the injured man so it's likely that he's an Iranian national," Major General Pisit Pisuthisak, deputy commander of Bangkok Metropolitan Police, told AFP by telephone from the scene.

"A police forensics team is examining the house," he added.

The suspect was admitted to a Bangkok hospital where he was receiving emergency treatment.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged people not to "jump to conclusions" about the circumstances behind the blasts.

"Let the police and intelligence agencies do their work and the public must not panic because the perpetrator was detained," she told reporters during a visit to northeast Thailand.

The city has been on edge since the United States last month warned of a threat of a terrorist strike on tourist areas in Bangkok.

Thai police later charged a Lebanese suspect after they raided a property and discovered chemicals that could be used to make a bomb.

Thai authorities allege the Lebanese man has links to Hezbollah, an Iranian- and Syrian-backed Muslim Shiite group that is blacklisted as a terrorist organisation by Washington.

The Bangkok blasts came a day after bombs targeted Israeli interests in India and Georgia, injuring a diplomat and her driver in New Delhi, in attacks that Israel accused Iran of masterminding.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2012-02-14

Its a serious issue but you have to laugh at this sentence I mean how does a man with no legs run away exactly?? Congratulations for detaining him!

[mouse]

Things are never what they seem. Those that know will never tell and those that tell never knew.

[KRS1]

extremely graphic video of the 'suspect' with legs blown off, didn't want to embed it here, so copy/paste this in your browser....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhK0xtyfskg

Guy is alive and moving his stumps around with meat hanging off ...

[Arkady]

Hopefully this near miss will persuade politicians and civil servants to stop trying to suck up to Iran and take the terrorist threat seriously. Being nice to the foreign terrorists and their sponsors doesn't make them like the Thais. They still hate them for their systematic brutality against their muslim brothers in the South.

[Babcock]

This is an innocous area. There are a lot of muslims in the area but generally there aren't many farang only thai.

The house is blown up.

If it's true he threw the bomb and it hit the tree falling at his feet then at least there is some justice.

[FriedMyLittleBrain]

First sorry if it real terror & this comment is just IMHO of my "little brain" BUT what a strange thing - just IRANIANS just farangs - no names (& no need to explain that it is not easy to get it & details . UGU iranians in Bangkok with bombs for what??how nice everything for kind US blah...Like Syria now just not in right place -near Iran..of course Iran with nuclear weapons -horror but soo tired from careness of US-sorry nothing bad about country just politicians

[nicky1982]

[Goshawk]

extremely graphic video of the 'suspect' with legs blown off, didn't want to embed it here, so copy/paste this in your browser....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhK0xtyfskg

Guy is alive and moving his stumps around with meat hanging off ...

notice his jeans up in that tree..?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

If these guys are terrorists then I'll be shocked.. Bloody amateurs..

It's not usually the terrorist leaders and masterminds who carry out the attacks or decide to blow themselves up...

Needless to say, they more often recruit

[Swiss1960]

Who says it's a terrorist attack? Who says the bomb thrower is a suicide bomber? Why not just a "normal" dispute between Mafia clans over money, drugs, women, influence in the crime scene...??? Maybe one mobster ordering a hit on another one and the hitman was just too dumb to throw the second bomb and killed himself...

Speculations about ANY possible reason behind this killing is just MUCH too early IMHO! First the victims and the hitman should be identified and background checked.

[Ohyesuare]

The three men were obviously putting together bombs for a terrorist attack when one went off in the house prematurely. They grabbed the bombs and were trying to take a taxi to their intended target but he wouldn't take him/them so they tried to cause as much damage and deaths before getting killed and/or arrested.

[Jingthing]

If these guys are terrorists then I'll be shocked.. Bloody amateurs..

It's not usually the terrorist leaders and masterminds who carry out the attacks or decide to blow themselves up...

Needless to say, they more often recruit

That will be the Thai government line, most likely. Not terrorists. Nothing to see here. Make your bookings now! Edited February 14, 2012 by Jingthing

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

If these guys are terrorists then I'll be shocked.. Bloody amateurs..

It's not usually the terrorist leaders and masterminds who carry out the attacks or decide to blow themselves up...

Needless to say, they more often recruit the run-of-the-mill true believers, the expendable ones, to do the dirty work.

So amateurs blowing themselves up or trying to kill others on behalf of terrorism is hardly uncommon.

BTW, these guys don't have to be working for the Iranian government, or whomever, in order to be "terrorists". No one here, as yet, knows who these guys were or what they were up to or whom they were affiliated with, if any organized group.

But for foreigners roaming around BKK carrying grenades or other types of explosives and throwing them on a public street -- apart from whatever explosion supposedly occurred at the house -- I'd say the label "terrorist" fairly applies.

Edited February 14, 2012 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[emilyb]

Iranians in BKK are commonly associated with smuggling ICE into LOS, wouldn't surprise me if the Ghanian that had just been arrested is related in some way to this Iranian and was working as his mule. Shipment gets confiscated, Iranian loses everything, supplier threatens to kill him for lack of payment then he goes nuts since he can't pay it back.

Iran has no beef with Thailand.

Yeah - and the Pasdaran aren't this stupid. Back when all the morons were saying our State Department was probably making something up I was pointing out the obvious, that they don't issue that kind of warning for Thailand. Ever. Meaning that it was likely legit. However, this is not what Pasdaran-coordinated activity looks like. This is amateur hour. The IRG wouldn't send the keystone killsqaud to launch their first foreign attack in a previously friendly country on a random soi at a taxi cab. Their style reads more like the late Imad Mughniyah's playbook - carefully coordinated, big or specific targets and tight execution.

Anyhow, I'm glad the injuries were kept to a minimum and I hope it's just some wacky one-off incident like what you describe.

[Curt1591]

Who says it's a terrorist attack? Who says the bomb thrower is a suicide bomber? Why not just a "normal" dispute between Mafia clans over money, drugs, women, influence in the crime scene...??? Maybe one mobster ordering a hit on another one and the hitman was just too dumb to throw the second bomb and killed himself...

Speculations about ANY possible reason behind this killing is just MUCH too early IMHO! First the victims and the hitman should be identified and background checked.

Yes, we will just have to wait for the official Thai take on the matter.

Too bad Suthep is gone. No one could spin them better than him!

Edited February 14, 2012 by Curt1591