3 Foreigners Injured In Bangkok Bomb Explosion

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Re JudgeDredd and post #302, nice theories, except the Thai police -- not the Americans -- are reporting that the house was being used for bomb making with C4 explosives involved.... Not quite a dispute among bookmakers...

And as for targets, based on the info thus far, clearly Phra Kanong wasn't a target... it was the house that the terrorists were using as their base. The ultimate target could have been anywhere in BKK.

The fact that they ended up blowing up their house and then fleeing in panic was most likely a great stroke of luck for Thailand -- nothing to do with any smart or swift local law enforcement.

All the stuff with the Thai taxi driver and the locals there in the neighborhood was just unfortunate bystanders to a bunch of terrorists who suddenly unexpectedly found themselves on the run, literally.

But things are getting more interesting... We've now graduated from urea fertilizer to C4 here in BKK.... Thailand's moving up in the world of terrorism.

Edited February 14, 2012 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[samsiam]

By the way, he was catching a taxi. Any reports on where he was going?

To meet some virgins...

[z12]

It looks like one of the earlier posters here guessed at the correct explanation:

Government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng said police reported the house was being used to make bombs and had uncovered a cache of C4 explosives and remote control detonating devices.

She said a bomb went off inside the rented house and two of the three men fled. The third man, identified as Saeid Moradi, followed and tried to hail a taxi, which refused to stop.

So two iranian terrorists are AT LARGE! Amazing Thailand.

why do you say amazing Thailand ? are all terrorists that commit such acts around the world immediately caught ? Why would you think that should be the case here ?

your just jumping on the knock the authorities bandwagon, if reports are true they now have a second in custody, thought that would be cause for praise not sarcasm.

Sorry, Chalerm told us he was on top of this, that Thailand was safe, that the terrorist said they were not going to attack in Thailand and the Thai people were safe, of course the farangs are another story. So we should not belive him?

Edited February 14, 2012 by z12

[softgeorge]

Tourism numbers are going to drop like hell now ..

Want a bet, just watch the figures go through the roof. The ministers have a meeting in the morning with the P.M and I bet in a day or so the tourism authority will release a flash indicating record numbers and stating tourists are not concerned about a little firecracker. Floods, bombs, riots, curruption and scams are a magnet for top end tourists. Watch this space.

[maeab]

The target was to be soi 4 but things got out of hand and they had to make a run for it.

Edited February 14, 2012 by maeab

[ToffeEFCpower]

"All of the injured have been transported to the Kluaynamthai Hospital except for the foreigner who was transported to Chulalongkorn Hospital."

This low life is still alive. Maybe he would appreciate some visitors.

Why Chulalongkorn Hospital? Chulalongkorn Hospital is a long long way away in Silom, amid Bangkok traffic, it could easily take 45 mins. There are lots of nearer hosipitals, like banrungrad or Samitivate etc.

They charge too much!

[witsawakorn]

God bless he didn't do it in a busy crowd, but I guess now Shit in the Fan...

No

He did it outside a school

But according to another report the first bomb went offf in a house rented by 3 Iranians near the school the school wasn't the target and it appears that the only people seriously injured was one of the "bombers' whose bomb bounced back off a tree when he tried to throw it at police when fleeing the scene and blew his legs off SNN!

[Moonrakers]

I think we need an assurance from FROC that everything is OK

[z12]

And these clowns are making NUKES. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Edited February 14, 2012 by z12

[niveknedwob]

Moves are afoot to swear in the tree as the minister in charge of the new Ministry for Homeland Security

[softgeorge]

It looks like one of the earlier posters here guessed at the correct explanation:

Government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng said police reported the house was being used to make bombs and had uncovered a cache of C4 explosives and remote control detonating devices.

She said a bomb went off inside the rented house and two of the three men fled. The third man, identified as Saeid Moradi, followed and tried to hail a taxi, which refused to stop.

So two iranian terrorists are AT LARGE! Amazing Thailand.

why do you say amazing Thailand ? are all terrorists that commit such acts around the world immediately caught ? Why would you think that should be the case here ?

your just jumping on the knock the authorities bandwagon, if reports are true they now have a second in custody, thought that would be cause for praise not sarcasm.

Sorry, Chalerm told us he was on top of this, that Thailand was safe, that the terrorist said they were not going to attack in Thailand and the Thai people were safe, of course the farangs are another story. So we should not belive him?

Yea and his mate Surapong Towichukchaikul said the U.S and other countries had lifted thier warnings and declared the place safe when they obviously did not. Is there a single person in the Thai government you would take remotly seriously now. They have proved themselves to be laughing stocks and to be treated with the contempt they deserve. For the government it was and always will be the tourist dollar that is why they lied and played the whole threat down. Now it has blown up in thier faces (pun intended)

[rakman]

The TIMING relates to the recent Thailand terror threat (also Azerbaijan), fertilizer warehouse arrest, Hezbollah-Iran bombings in India and Georgia, but the TARGET makes no sense. Jury still out.

By timing, I mean the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah's deputy leader, Imad Mughniyah.

It does have the m.o. of those despicable scum, except for the carnage being far far less than it could have been, except for the poor victims of course.

It's really hard to train suicide bombers.. you only get one attempt.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

from the AP:

Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but it was not known what targets they might have been meant for, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.

Pansiri said a passport found at the scene of one of the blasts in Bangkok indicated the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.

Wreckage of a taxi lies at the scene of an explosion in Bangkok. It's not immediately clear whether any of Tuesday's targets were Israeli or Jewish, or whether there was any link to Monday's targeting of diplomats in India and Georgia. (Apichart Weerawong/Assoaciated Press)

Tuesday's violence began in the afternoon when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in Moradi's house, blowing off part of the roof. Police said two foreigners quickly left the residence, followed by a wounded Moradi.

"He tried to wave down a taxi, but he was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him," Pansiri said. He then threw an explosive at the taxi and began running.

Police who had been called to the area then tried to apprehend Moradi, who hurled a grenade to defend himself. "But somehow it bounced back" and blew off his legs, Pansiri said.

Photos of the wounded Iranian showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk strewn with broken glass. He lay in front of a Thai primary and secondary school. No students were reported wounded.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...ia-bombing.html

And a bit more from a different AP report:

Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi's movements, but initial reports indicated he flew into Thailand from Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 8, Pansiri said. He landed at the southern Thai resort town of Phuket, then stayed in a hotel in Chonburi, a couple hours drive southeast of Bangkok, for several nights.

Edited February 14, 2012 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Moonrakers]

We heard the bomber was challenged by the police and he pulled the pin on I assume a grenade and blew himself up.

He comes half way around the world to blow himself and innocents up.

If he is iranian and we have heard of big news due imminently concerning their nuclear program is this perhaps the beginning of an iranian bombing campaign?

Israel are threatening imminent airstrikes.

There's a large mosque on Sukhumvit 71. The area is popular with thai executives. A lot of large houses tucked away of lousy broken up roads.

this is the 'mainstream' theories they put on western tv, but the conspiracy theorists are the nuts?

Why is it so difficult to believe it is a botched attack?

I'm not saying that is definitely what happened, but why is it so difficult to believe?

[chooka]

What say now Mr. Surapong Towichukchaikul?

Here is his news conference.

[macnmotion]

Moves are afoot to swear in the tree as the minister in charge of the new Ministry for Homeland Security

While this is a serious situation, you win so far for your bit of injected levity! Very funny.

[moe666]

They keep saying he is arab and then Iranian but if you are from Iran you are a Persian.

[george]

Australia travel alert update:

The following Travel Advice has changed or been added since our last update ( 9 Feb 2012 16:13:14 EST):

* Thailand

http://www.smartrave...Advice/Thailand

Current Advice Level: "High degree of caution"

Change Summary:

It contains updated information in the Summary and under Safety and Security: Terrorism (updated information on explosions in Bangkok on 14 February). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Tulsathit of The Nation tweets:

Police reportedly found lots of explosives at the rented house. An intel source: I wouldn't rule out suspects having terrorism links.

https://twitter.com/...390483691409408

Separately, as best as I can tell from the various reports, it seems the thing the guy threw at the taxi and elsewhere on the street -- and what blew off his legs -- was a hand grenade...

But the explosives that blew up in the nearby house before that weren't a hand grenade... but more traditional explosives, reportedly C4, but not clear.

Edited February 14, 2012 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[z12]

And these clowns are making NUKES. Be afraid, be very afraid.

...these said nukes are gonna blow up in their faces too...

We can only hope they do.

Edited February 14, 2012 by z12

[Jingthing]

They keep saying he is arab and then Iranian but if you are from Iran you are a Persian.

Yes. Pedant Alert. Two percent ARE Arabs.

[MAJIC]

Tourism numbers are going to drop like hell now ..

Want a bet, just watch the figures go through the roof. The ministers have a meeting in the morning with the P.M and I bet in a day or so the tourism authority will release a flash indicating record numbers and stating tourists are not concerned about a little firecracker. Floods, bombs, riots, curruption and scams are a magnet for top end tourists. Watch this space.

And not forgetting the Western World Governments,should mind their own business,and not issue any more Terrorist warnings,because there are no Terrorists,and it's effecting tourism for no reason.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

And from Reuters:

Thai police said they were working to make safe an unspecified amount of explosives found in the house, which did not appear to have been badly damaged.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/thailand-bomb-bangkok-idINDEE81D08T20120214

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

And the government is at it already:

Foreign Ministry: Explosions in Sukhumvit area may not involve terrorists

BANGKOK, 14 February 2012 (NNT) - Foreign Ministry Spokesman Thani Thongphakdi urges the public not to be overly alarmed by the bomb attack in Sukhumvit Soi 71 this afternoon as it may not have been staged by terrorists.

Mr Thani said it is still unknown whether the bombings will have any impact on foreign confidence in Thailand as they occurred only 10 days after foreign countries had lifted their travel warnings against the Kingdom. However, he believed the explosions were not intended to harm tourists even though the conclusion is yet to be reached as the Royal Thai Police is now investigating the attack.

The bomb attack took place at around 14.00 hours when a suspicious man, believed to be a foreign national, dropped a backpack containing explosive materials in front of Kasem Pittaya School. A 47-year-old witness, Mrs Boonlak Pakdinok, recounted the event, saying that she saw a foreign suspect, according to her descriptions, throwing a grenade at a taxi in Soi Pridi Panomyong 35 before being chased by the police.

Afterwards, another grenade exploded on the suspect himself, causing him to lose both of his legs. He was then taken to Chulalongkorn Hospital. Four innocent bystanders, comprising a taxi driver, an elderly man and two women, were injured in the incident and were taken to Kluaynamthai Hospital.

http://thainews.prd....id=255502140024

[wolf5370]

"All of the injured have been transported to the Kluaynamthai Hospital except for the foreigner who was transported to Chulalongkorn Hospital."

This low life is still alive. Maybe he would appreciate some visitors.

Why Chulalongkorn Hospital? Chulalongkorn Hospital is a long long way away in Silom, amid Bangkok traffic, it could easily take 45 mins. There are lots of nearer hosipitals, like banrungrad or Samitivate etc.

They charge too much!

I would suggest they have a secure ward.

[Jingthing]

Israel now linking Bangkok bombing to Iran/Hezbollah bombs in India and Georgia. Israel’s defense minister coincidentally is in Singapore now. News at 11.

Israeli defense chief accuses Iran of being behind Bangkok blast

http://www.washingto...4xCR_story.html

Edited February 14, 2012 by Jingthing

[vahack]

We heard the bomber was challenged by the police and he pulled the pin on I assume a grenade and blew himself up.

He comes half way around the world to blow himself and innocents up.

If he is iranian and we have heard of big news due imminently concerning their nuclear program is this perhaps the beginning of an iranian bombing campaign?

Israel are threatening imminent airstrikes.

There's a large mosque on Sukhumvit 71. The area is popular with thai executives. A lot of large houses tucked away of lousy broken up roads.

this is the 'mainstream' theories they put on western tv, but the conspiracy theorists are the nuts?

Why is it so difficult to believe it is a botched attack?

I'm not saying that is definitely what happened, but why is it so difficult to believe?

what came first, the chicken or the egg?

[Lite Beer]

TRIPLE EXPLOSIONS

Second Iranian detained

Bangkok:-- Police on Tuesday arrested an Iranian suspected of involving in the triple bomb blasts in Bangkok at Suvarnabhumi Airport as he was about to depart for Malaysia.

The suspect was identified as Mohammad Hazaei, 42. He was waiting for an Air Asia flight to to Kuala Lumpur.

The arrest was made after separate three bomb explosions hit Bangkok on the Valentine's Day.

Another Iranian; Saerb Morabi, was now treated at a hospital after an explosive fell from his hands to the ground, exploded and mutilated his legs.

Police claimed Saerb, Hazaei and the third Iranian still at large rented a house in Klongtan district allegedly to make bombs. On Tuesday morning, a bomb went off at their house, sending the three to flee.

The first two managed to escape while Saerb failed to get a taxi. He then threw the bomb at the taxi before running to a main road only to find police and throw a bomb at them.

The bomb however accidentally fell to the ground, went off and cut his legs.

-- The Nation 2012-02-14

[chooka]

Australia travel alert update:

The following Travel Advice has changed or been added since our last update ( 9 Feb 2012 16:13:14 EST):

* Thailand

http://www.smartrave...Advice/Thailand

Current Advice Level: "High degree of caution"

Change Summary:

It contains updated information in the Summary and under Safety and Security: Terrorism (updated information on explosions in Bangkok on 14 February). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

Don't worry Surapong Towichukchaikul will cancel that in the morning.

[aussiebrian]

Dam pretty sad news.

I doubt the Lebanon / Iran connection holds any ground tho. even tho the Americans would like us to believe that.

Do you work for the Thai intelligence? If not, you should apply for a job with them.