Three Wounded In Thai Explosion

[stumonster]

Three wounded in Thai bombing

From correspondents in Bangkok

January 27, 2006

THREE people were injured today when a small bomb exploded in the courtyard of the Bangkok office building that houses the justice ministry, police said.

The bomb went off after midday at a food stall in the courtyard of the Software Park building.

The blast occurred just below the second-floor office of Thailand's leading forensics expert, pathologist Porntip Rojanasunan.

Police said the bomb caused little damage to the building, but destroyed part of the wall surrounding the property.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said a special team would investigate the bomb attack but declined to give any details.

"It's really bad. I will ask my intelligence team to investigate. At this moment, I don't know what caused (the explosion) but of course, I will pay my special attention," he said.

He declined to speculate on a motive for the bombing, or to link it to unrest in the Muslim-majority south.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/commo...55E1702,00.html

[Tywais]

I was listening to that on the radio on the way home and kept hearing something about C4. Couldn't concentrate on listening and driving so didn't follow it all.

[GuestHouse]

The blast occurred just below the second-floor office of Thailand's leading forensics expert, pathologist Porntip Rojanasunan.

Who's she been upsetting with impartial investigations then?

[Cassandra]

I was listening to that on the radio on the way home and kept hearing something about C4. Couldn't concentrate on listening and driving so didn't follow it all.

[/q

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

[Tywais]

The blast occurred just below the second-floor office of Thailand's leading forensics expert, pathologist Porntip Rojanasunan.

Who's she been upsetting with impartial investigations then?

Try the entire police force.

[chuchok]

The blast occurred just below the second-floor office of Thailand's leading forensics expert, pathologist Porntip Rojanasunan.

Who's she been upsetting with impartial investigations then?

We don't have to guess too much now do we.........

[Explorer]

I was listening to that on the radio on the way home and kept hearing something about C4. Couldn't concentrate on listening and driving so didn't follow it all.

[/q

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

Arai na?

Bad day at the office , huh?

Explorer

[Tywais]

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

Actually you did a better job of it then I did...

Oh yes, obviously you don't drive in Thailand.

Edited January 27, 2006 by tywais

[Cassandra]

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

Actually you did a better job of it then I did...

Oh yes, obviously you don't drive in Thailand.

Don't want to get too heavy about this.It's just that your original post added precisely nothing, almost comically so.

Oh yes, I've been driving in Thailand for over 20 years.Must be one of the few with a lifetime Thai driving license.

[Tywais]

Don't want to get too heavy about this.It's just that your original post added precisely nothing, almost comically so.

It was at least OT. The mention of C4 suggests possiblities of military or police and figured if someone else was listening to the radio/tv they could fill in the blanks. It was a seed to get further information.

[chownah]

I was listening to that on the radio on the way home and kept hearing something about C4. Couldn't concentrate on listening and driving so didn't follow it all.

[/q

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

:cheesy:

[sriracha john]

Bomb explodes near Thai Justice Ministry, 4 injured

(Kyodo) _ A bomb exploded Friday near Thailand's Justice Ministry in Nonthaburi Province on the outskirts of Bangkok, injuring four people, local police said.

Lt. Gen. Chaiyan Maklamtong said the blast occurred around noon at a small garden in front of the ministry while office workers were on their lunch breaks.

Although the motive and perpetrator of the attack are still unknown, Chaiyan said he thought the bomber did not target people.

He added the building has been closed for investigations and the police are retrieving footage from security cameras.

MINISTRY BOMBING: Justice blast may be "work of separatists"

Published on January 28, 2006

Explosion beneath her window raises suspicions of forensic expert. The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has joined the police investigation into a small bomb explosion at a courtyard near the Justice Ministry, Permanent Secretary for Justice Somchai Wongsawat said yesterday. The bomb went off during a lunch break at the courtyard of the Software Park Building that houses the ministry’s offices in Nonthaburi. An appropriately-named "soft" target in Bangkok?

The explosion slightly injured four officials: Nanthawan Sukkhaparb, Hathairat Naksil, Soawalak Thangjitwattana and Nannapas Jaiboon as well as a courier, Kittisak Wangdee.

Somchai said after reporting the incident to Government House and to Justice Minister Chidchai Vanasatidya, currently on a visit to Japan, he had instructed the DSI to work with police in the investigation.

He said he did not want to draw any conclusions about the perpetrators of the attack. Speculation abounded yesterday that the bomb might have been motivated either by internecine violence in the deep South or by an ongoing corruption probe into bidding for 16 projects by the Metropolitan Administration that DSI officials are also investigating.

“I don’t wish to assume the incident stemmed from [political] conflicts or was meant to threaten ministry officials,” Somchai said.

He said he had allowed officials to finish work early yesterday for security reasons. Security personnel then scoured the premises for any further bombs. The building in Nonthaburi houses several other organisations and companies besides the Justice Ministry’s local offices.

A source at DSI said the blast could be related to the unrest in the Muslim-majority South because the small C-4 bomb device used was a commonly employed device in the restive region. DSI investigators will see if the original suspicions bear up under further scrutiny, the source added.

Nonthaburi provincial police chief Maj-General Kamrob Panyakaew said police would interview maids and security guards. An initial report said a maid had seen two strangers smoking near the site of the blast a few minutes prior to the explosion.

Police may also interview Justice Ministry officials to see if current national security cases may have precipitated an attack on the building, he said.

Khunying Porntip Rojanasunan, acting director of the Central Institute of Forensic Sciences (CIFS), also visited the bomb site yesterday as the explosion had taken place near the second floor offices of the CIFS. She pointed out the bomb, which had destroyed a part of the building wall, was set off below her office.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he would send intelligence officials to investigate the bomb attack. Thaksin declined to comment on who he thought might have been behind the attack.

Edited January 27, 2006 by sriracha john

[chuchok]

name='Cassandra' date='2006-01-27 18:13:27' post='624884']

I was listening to that on the radio on the way home and kept hearing something about C4. Couldn't concentrate on listening and driving so didn't follow it all.

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

Well sweetheart, I think your post is a load of <deleted>.You must be bored.

have a nice day.

Edited January 27, 2006 by chuchok

[cdnvic]

Play nice everyone.

cv

[sierra01]

In the early edition of the Bangkok post online they said 'Initially police assumed the explosion was aimed to destroy the Software Park Building, which houses several offices including that of the Justice Ministry'.

A 1lb block of C-4 to bring down software park?

It's very worrying though, especially if it's related to the southern troubles.

[stoneman]

In the early edition of the Bangkok post online they said 'Initially police assumed the explosion was aimed to destroy the Software Park Building, which houses several offices including that of the Justice Ministry'.

A 1lb block of C-4 to bring down software park?

It's very worrying though, especially if it's related to the southern troubles.

I agree with you..If this is related to the problems in the South, we should all be very concerned... But I also believe that if there is evidence that there is a connection, the Army and the BIB will bury that information....Could be very bad for Tourism...

[sierra01]

I agree with you..If this is related to the problems in the South, we should all be very concerned... But I also believe that if there is evidence that there is a connection, the Army and the BIB will bury that information....Could be very bad for Tourism...

Unfortunately I have to agree with you too.

[Crushdepth]

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

What's your problem?

[N&M]

Cannot listen and drive in Los at the same time.....

Guess you've never had a blow job in the car then either

What do you do if you need to blow your nose while driving

[Tywais]

What do you do if you need to blow your nose while driving

I use your wife's skirt.

All right, driving along at 120kph while my radio is fadding in and out due to my power antennae having failed recently has a tendency to effect one's concentration.

[bulmercke]

I was listening to that on the radio on the way home and kept hearing something about C4. Couldn't concentrate on listening and driving so didn't follow it all.

[/q

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

Cassandra - had a bad day, did we? Your posting has no relevance to this thread and the subject being discussed.

[Cassandra]

I was listening to that on the radio on the way home and kept hearing something about C4. Couldn't concentrate on listening and driving so didn't follow it all.

[/q

Thanks for this very interesting and informative update.How fortunate we are to have observers such as yourself with incisive reporting and interesting insights.Since you couldn't concentrate on listening how about some discussion of your driving? Did you change gear many times for example and were you able to pick your nose while turning a corner?This is all very exciting stuff and I am sure I speak for many in thanking you for your important contribution.And to think that some criticise a few Thai Visa postings for being boring, unnecessary and irrelevant.I think your post demonstrates how of target that criticism is.Well done!

Cassandra - had a bad day, did we? Your posting has no relevance to this thread and the subject being discussed.

But yours is very relevant, contributing in a very effective way to the thread and subject.Well done and keep up the good work.