Thai police release detailed sketch of suspected shrine bomber

[Ace of Pop]

Why so ready to reject the Pic Richard. It's called Denial.Well he may be a Killer , but let's hope he's from any Nation with White Christian terrorists.

[bangrak]

IMHO, at both sides of this sketch, they could have been printing up to 2x 4 other, smaller sketches, like: without the glasses(!): the same, with flat combed hair, with short trimmed hair, with a shaven skull, with long straight hair (wig), with a beard, and a pair of the previous with glasses on.

When that guy would still be alive(?) and around, my guess(!) is he will have changed the apparence of his face, and he will avoid to 'take the pose' like for a photo shooting, and for the sight of him to 'ring a bell' in a blink-of-an-eye-long time, it would be important not to focus on his hair (doesn't it look like a wig?) or glasses, but the 'naked' parts of his face.

N.B.: Isn't it weird nor the driver of the tuk-tuk he came with, nor that of the motorbike taxi he left on, have come forward yet? Also no other driver, so it seems, while those guys are reknown for their piercing eyes. Even with a 1Million reward... Too scared, or might it be something else? Strange, really.

Edited August 19, 2015 by bangrak

[allan michaud]

Most of the above comments appear to dismiss this activity as being related to the earlier atrocities.We are forgetting that time has moved on and the new tricks are far more sophisticated than 2006-2013.

Four days ago I commented on Yinluck's statement,on Jatuporn's response to the new charter,and his threat to meet with the red shirts.This all came about soon after Mr.T possibly

accepted that he was going to lose his stripes.

These new forays prompted me to warn that things were about to get real bad; " no holes barred" I think I wrote. PLease GOD,I would like to re-think my pondering,and hope that there is a speedy end to this disgusting atmosphere.

FYI it's 'no holds barred'. Although its impossible to rule out any group yet, a radicalised group of Red's would be my bet at the moment. I just hope this sketch does the job and they get this nut job off the streets.

[homeseeker]

From the police sketch... I think he looks Asian....do you agree?

Edited August 19, 2015 by homeseeker

[anotheruser]

Okay I have decided to take a sketch of the screen shot and go to the 711 I may have saw the guy at and see if it matches. If I can get them to understand me

[simonuk]

possibly the most generic looking human male ive ever seen,,,,,

[Seastallion]

""might be foreign or Thai", according to national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri."

That narrows it down. Might be a woman, too.

[bangrak]

He does look islamist to me.

'Islamist', are you positively sure?

Could you have a look at the link in the comment from 'richard_smith237' in #19 here? Dont' think that's an 'Islamist', but he looks like the guy on the sketch...

[richard_smith237]

Why so ready to reject the Pic Richard. It's called Denial.Well he may be a Killer , but let's hope he's from any Nation with White Christian terrorists.

?? If you are referring to me AoP I agree with you... I wouldn't reject anything at this stage.

Anyone with any suspected link needs to be questioned....

[Jonmarleesco]

Could be any U.K. Passport Holder these days.

Could be any American passport holder for the last few decades too

Or German, French, Danish ... take your pick.

[Jonmarleesco]

IMHO, at both sides of this sketch, they could have been printing up to 2x 4 other, smaller sketches, like: without the glasses(!): the same, with flat combed hair, with short trimmed hair, with a shaven skull, with long straight hair (wig), with a beard, and a pair of the previous with glasses on.

When that guy would still be alive(?) and around, my guess(!) is he will have changed the apparence of his face, and he will avoid to 'take the pose' like for a photo shooting, and for the sight of him to 'ring a bell' in a blink-of-an-eye-long time, it would be important not to focus on his hair (doesn't it look like a wig?) or glasses, but the 'naked' parts of his face.

N.B.: Isn't it weird nor the driver of the tuk-tuk he came with, nor that of the motorbike taxi he left on, have come forward yet? Also no other driver, so it seems, while those guys are reknown for their piercing eyes. Even with a 1Million reward... Too scared, or might it be something else? Strange, really.

The m/c driver has come forward, having dropped the individual at the mouth of Silom Soi 9.

[firestar]

From the police sketch... I think he looks Asian....do you agree?

Asian eyes on foreigner face... keeping their options open.... he could be anything

[Sheryl]

A number of posts with photos or links to photos of specific people suggested to resemble the sketch have been removed.

Please remember that Thailand has very strict anti-defamation laws.

And also that any number of perfectly innocent people will have more some resemblance to this sketch and that it could cause great distress to an innocent person to start spreading their photo around in this context.

If you believe you have a photo of someone who could be the suspect, notify the authorities. Don't post it here.

[chrisinth]

Since the guy has sweatbands on the center of his arms that are only likely to be to conceal his tats, it's probably also no coincidence he has ridiculously large glasses and massive hair.

If the arm bands were for covering tats, why would he not be wearing long sleeves?

The event seemed organized enough to assume he wouldn't have overlooked something like tattoos as a bit of a give-away. I don't think it was a last minute decision to do what he did.

[tomacht8]

Hopefully they also check the phone lines.
All telephone companies keep in their accounting systems the data connections.
The time of the explosion is precisely known.
The masts/area is also known which have received and sent the signal.
When the bomb was detonated by telephone, it is easy to read the numbers out of the data.
If they can identify the phone numbers,
Sim from reception phone and Sim from transmitter phone,
they could track all connections have been made with the phones.

In some countries, the links are stored up to 6 months.
Farther on, they could find out the activation data of the Sims.
Likewise, when the Sims may have been charged.

They could also find out when and where the Sims were purchased.
The enterprise resource planning systems, e.g. 7/11 bear in this data.
They may also able to locate the store where the Sims were purchased.

Then they could check the CCTVs from the store.
Then they might have better pictures.

The technology is there, hopefully.
Hopefully they also check these options.

Edited August 19, 2015 by tomacht8

[Bluespunk]

Could be any U.K. Passport Holder these days.

Considering the background of the British citizen murdered in this bombing that "joke" is in astonishingly poor taste.

. It was a Fact,not a Joke ,sorry I offended the P.C Wimps.

It was a nasty little piece of bigotry.

[RUGBYPAUL2]

As you can see from my non-existent posts in the pass I never comment on anything unless I have anything to contribute (sensibly) But previous experience of watching hours of CCTV in Northern Ireland and Manchester for the Arndale shopping center Bombing. I would like to point out two things.

• Firstly if you have seen the uncut version of the (CCTV) you will see that after he walks away the camera is jerked rapidly to the left and you can clearly see it is taken from a mobile device inside a room as the window and remote control for the air-con comes into view.
• Secondly the "suspect" is quite clearly central to the image, and is the quite clearly followed by the Camera.

Drawing from previous experience and not a conspiracy theorist it looks remarkably like this individual was being "watched"

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

The family in BKK told us that 2 bombs was found at Min Buri market. This is unconfirmed.

Edited August 19, 2015 by SOUTHERNSTAR

[Tomtomtom69]

This might rule out his arrival on an international flight. Doesn't immigration take pictures of everyone flying into the country?

Not just everyone flying into the country but also those arriving overland. Any smart terrorist is going to exploit weak security by coming in by the easiest means. If that means coming in by land rather than flying in, that's what they'll do. But since Thai immigration takes a picture at every land border, whether you are coming from Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia or Myanmar, I suspect it won't make a difference.

[alphaflight]

I'm very surprised that they were able to get a sketch from footage that showed a figure which was completely unidentifiable (unless they have something which is less translucent. To say that the person looks like a foreigner (which has been stated more than once) just shows the lake of experience being shown. That video fits almost every nationality, including Thai. I really wish the Thai authorities would refrain from giving out any information until they actually have concrete proof. Their stories related to crimes committed, seem to change by the hour; and quite frankly it makes a them look incapable of figuring things out. There have been several bombs in the last few months, and getting it figured out should be more important than an image or self pride. Ask everyone in the international community for help. To say this can't be this or that, or that it does not fit on particular mindset is being ignorant. Save the people, and stop an other tragic event from taking place again....

[Linzz]

He does look islamist to me.

'Islamist', are you positively sure?

Could you have a look at the link in the comment from 'richard_smith237' in #19 here? Dont' think that's an 'Islamist', but he looks like the guy on the sketch...

Islamist? Not only is he either a Thai or a foreigner but also someone from the country of Islam...we're certainly making progress now

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

Hopefully they also check the phone lines.

All telephone companies keep in their accounting systems the data connections.

The time of the explosion is precisely known.

The masts/area is also known which have received and sent the signal.

When the bomb was detonated by telephone, it is easy to read the numbers out of the data.

If they can identify the phone numbers,

Sim from reception phone and Sim from transmitter phone,

they could track all connections have been made with the phones.

In some countries, the links are stored up to 6 months.

Farther on, they could find out the activation data of the Sims.

Likewise, when the Sims may have been charged.

They could also find out when and where the Sims were purchased.

The enterprise resource planning systems, e.g. 7/11 bear in this data.

They may also able to locate the store where the Sims were purchased.

Then they could check the CCTVs from the store.

Then they might have better pictures.

The technology is there, hopefully.

Hopefully they also check these options.

They use stolen mobile phones and sims that cant be traced. There was 27 IED in the deep south during July and most used mobile phones and very few arrests. Good try but the badies if they are pro's they are smarter than making a basic mistake.

[bangrak]

IMHO, at both sides of this sketch, they could have been printing up to 2x 4 other, smaller sketches, like: without the glasses(!): the same, with flat combed hair, with short trimmed hair, with a shaven skull, with long straight hair (wig), with a beard, and a pair of the previous with glasses on.

When that guy would still be alive(?) and around, my guess(!) is he will have changed the apparence of his face, and he will avoid to 'take the pose' like for a photo shooting, and for the sight of him to 'ring a bell' in a blink-of-an-eye-long time, it would be important not to focus on his hair (doesn't it look like a wig?) or glasses, but the 'naked' parts of his face.

N.B.: Isn't it weird nor the driver of the tuk-tuk he came with, nor that of the motorbike taxi he left on, have come forward yet? Also no other driver, so it seems, while those guys are reknown for their piercing eyes. Even with a 1Million reward... Too scared, or might it be something else? Strange, really.

The m/c driver has come forward, having dropped the individual at the mouth of Silom Soi 9.

Thank you for the info, I was not aware of that when I wrote my reaction. I guess by now the police then knows whether the guy is Thai native, or not, considering the way he spoke Thai (or...?) with the driver, which could point in some direction about his origins...

[nithisa78]

This thing seems to have been fairly carefully planned, so it seems unlikely that the guy would not have taken some steps to disguise himself.

This was very well planned. Horrible.......

[otherstuff1957]

As you can see from my non-existent posts in the pass I never comment on anything unless I have anything to contribute (sensibly) But previous experience of watching hours of CCTV in Northern Ireland and Manchester for the Arndale shopping center Bombing. I would like to point out two things.

• Firstly if you have seen the uncut version of the (CCTV) you will see that after he walks away the camera is jerked rapidly to the left and you can clearly see it is taken from a mobile device inside a room as the window and remote control for the air-con comes into view.
• Secondly the "suspect" is quite clearly central to the image, and is the quite clearly followed by the Camera.

Drawing from previous experience and not a conspiracy theorist it looks remarkably like this individual was being "watched"

Or.... the video that was released to the press was filmed by a policeman who was zooming his mobile camera onto the monitor that they were watching.

In at least one of the videos that I've seen of the incident you can hear the police talking in the background.

[Yunla]

Backpack Boy looks like a rental, he just seemed too young and dizzy to be seriously committed to anything. I am also 100% certain that the other two lads in the video were involved. They were placeholders, keeping the seats occupied until Backpack Boy arrived. Because a backpack left in the corner on the floor raises suspicions, a backpack on a seat implies that the owner has gone to buy a cold drink and doesn't want to lose his seat. It was obviously planned out that the two placeholders would hold the seats until the bomber arrived. If all three of those lads were rentals, I think it is more than possible that their employer has already erased all three of them. This doesn't look like the kind of run that leaves loose ends dangling around.

[MZurf]

As you can see from my non-existent posts in the pass I never comment on anything unless I have anything to contribute (sensibly) But previous experience of watching hours of CCTV in Northern Ireland and Manchester for the Arndale shopping center Bombing. I would like to point out two things.

• Firstly if you have seen the uncut version of the (CCTV) you will see that after he walks away the camera is jerked rapidly to the left and you can clearly see it is taken from a mobile device inside a room as the window and remote control for the air-con comes into view.
• Secondly the "suspect" is quite clearly central to the image, and is the quite clearly followed by the Camera.

Drawing from previous experience and not a conspiracy theorist it looks remarkably like this individual was being "watched"

I would have thought that the police studied the raw CCTV footage, identified a suspect and this was recorded on a mobile phone by someone in the room - or am I missing something?

[Linzz]

As you can see from my non-existent posts in the pass I never comment on anything unless I have anything to contribute (sensibly) But previous experience of watching hours of CCTV in Northern Ireland and Manchester for the Arndale shopping center Bombing. I would like to point out two things.

• Firstly if you have seen the uncut version of the (CCTV) you will see that after he walks away the camera is jerked rapidly to the left and you can clearly see it is taken from a mobile device inside a room as the window and remote control for the air-con comes into view.
• Secondly the "suspect" is quite clearly central to the image, and is the quite clearly followed by the Camera.

Drawing from previous experience and not a conspiracy theorist it looks remarkably like this individual was being "watched"

Hi RP,

I think it was established on another thread that the clip was a specific copy of detail from the very general CCTV footage, thus the following

[Ace of Pop]

Why so ready to reject the Pic Richard. It's called Denial.Well he may be a Killer , but let's hope he's from any Nation with White Christian terrorists.

?? If you are referring to me AoP I agree with you... I wouldn't reject anything at this stage.

Anyone with any suspected link needs to be questioned....

Yes i was,sorry I phones tend to make me a tad short.

[Ace of Pop]

Could be any U.K. Passport Holder these days.

Considering the background of the British citizen murdered in this bombing that "joke" is in astonishingly poor taste.

. It was a Fact,not a Joke ,sorry I offended the P.C Wimps.

It was a nasty little piece of bigotry.

Yes i detest P.C Cowards.and nasty piece of appeasing by you..