Thai police chief suspects bomb and arson attacks are politically connected

[Wilsonandson]

 

Two explosive devices were found at the Bang Niang weekend market in Phang Nga's Takua Pa district yesterday. The market was partially damaged by a fire on Friday, suspected to be an arson attack.

Police bomb disposal experts found that the two improvised bombs, made to be detonated with a mobile phone, had failed to work properly hence they did not explode.

- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/thai-bomb-attacks-red-shirts-south-taken-questioning#sthash.J6BmB3cE.dpuf

[JAG]

1 hour ago, Wilsonandson said:

Paradise Plaza today in Patong, Phuket as police find a EOD that was set to detinate on Friday but didn't.

 

Classic! EOD bod getting all suited up to go and defuse a device known to be based around a cellphone, and set off by a cellphone signal - and matey here is fiddling with his own cellphone!  With mates like that who needs enemies!

[thailandsgreat]

if the phones, SIM-cards and unexploded hardware are all really planted by terrorists, there ought to be heaps for CSI to dig into. Wouldn't the police at least tell us what number we ought not call

OK. I admit I am not 100% on this one, but I keep all possibilities open here.

[JAG]

1 hour ago, cumgranosalum said:

who do you think looks more likely to catch a criminal?

 

 

 

 

That's a nobrainer - the Farangs don't even have any medals or para wings! And as for that plain six foot table, well how unprofessional can you get?

[Wilsonandson]

A leader of the "Red Shirts" -- the grassroots movement supportive of the ousted government and hostile to the junta -- expressed concern Sunday his network would be fingered for the attacks.

 

"We have been made victims for things we did not do several times before," Jatuporn Prompan said in a video post.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/32331623/thai-police-know-who-was-behind-tourist-town-bombings-spokesman/#page1

Edited August 14, 2016 by Wilsonandson

[cumgranosalum]

1 hour ago, JAG said:

 

That's a nobrainer - the Farangs don't even have any medals or para wings! And as for that plain six foot table, well how unprofessional can you get?

...and there's a WOMAN sat there!

[Felt 35]

I just heard now that Police have found another device this afternoon in a shop near the Chat chai marked in Hua Hin. Not a bomb but a device which can be used to set of a explosive. Anyone else or rumors?

[andyww]

Why are people on this thread going on about Thaksin and politics?

 

The evidence that this is an extension of the Southern bombing campaign is overwhelming.

[cumgranosalum]

20 minutes ago, andyww said:

Why are people on this thread going on about Thaksin and politics?

 

The evidence that this is an extension of the Southern bombing campaign is overwhelming.

Not though, is it?

[heybruce]

3 hours ago, Siripon said:

Come on Winnie, don't pretend to be naive, you know better than to believe what every official says on record. I doubt very much Pheua Thai would have entered the room that day in May if they knew they wouldn't be leaving it as free men. The Democrats seemed to have had more idea,. Which one was it who turned round  to his colleague when Prayuth announced the coup  and said, 'I told you so.' only to be told to shut up!

Prayuth fooled them all that day.

Do you really think it took a clever man to declare martial law, insist that it wasn't a coup, detain Suthep and Jatuporn, then declare the coup?  Do you think Suthep and Jatuporn had any option but to go with the military?

 

Once again, do you have a better example of Prayut's cleverness?

[heybruce]

22 minutes ago, andyww said:

Why are people on this thread going on about Thaksin and politics?

 

The evidence that this is an extension of the Southern bombing campaign is overwhelming.

According to the front page of today's BP, the police stated that even though the bombs were of the type used by the southern insurgents the bombing wasn't done by these insurgents (no evidence or reason given).  The article (headline) said the government is blaming political opponents and a "mastermind" based on the number of speculative posts on social media.

 

Speculation on social media.  No doubt that's evidence enough for the junta fans.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I just read the same BKK Post article you're talking about.

 

I think you're correct that the article, and the police, gave zero reasons for what evidence they may have or why they think the bombings were the work of Thai anti-govt. political party.

 

But, I don't think it's correct that the police claim about a mastermind "was based on the number of speculative posts on social media."  Nothing in the article has the police linking responsibility for the event and a mastermind with the social media posting.

 

[heybruce]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

I just read the same BKK Post article you're talking about.

 

I think you're correct that the article, and the police, gave zero reasons for what evidence they may have or why they think the bombings were the work of Thai anti-govt. political party.

 

But, I don't think it's correct that the police claim about a mastermind "was based on the number of speculative posts on social media."  Nothing in the article has the police linking responsibility for the event and a mastermind with the social media posting.

 

You could be right, I don't have the paper now, and the internet version is abbreviated.  However I don't recall any evidence given about anything, nor any attempt to restrain unsubstantiated speculation.

[Wilsonandson]

Red shirt leader arrrested at his business in Ang Thong Vichai Padungsaksri.

At Chaiyapat Triudom, a UDD leader in the central province of Ang Thong, reported that 7-8 military officers at 6 am arrested and searched the house of Narong Padungsaksi, a local UDD member.

 

After the arrest, the soldiers took Narong to an unknown location. At the time of writing, his whereabouts remain unknown.

 

According to Narong’s close associate, the authorities said that they were searching for bombs because certain informants told them that there were bombs in the house.

 

They confiscated the mobile phones of Narong, his wife and three of his employees and CDs which were found in the house. nbsp;/p pThe arrest of the two came shortly after a series of arson and bomb attacks in five provinces of Southern Thailand on Thursday night and Friday, Thailand's Mother's Day and the birthday of HM the Queen. The attacks left four dead and dozens, many of whom are foreign tourists, injured.

http://prachatai.com/aggregator/sources/1

Edited August 14, 2016 by Wilsonandson

[tukkytuktuk]

Yesterday, Sunday, workman uncovered a grenade at Ramkamhaeng, Bangkok. They called the police and EOD were brought in to diffuse the grenade bomb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTC5ZT3diA

 

Edited August 15, 2016 by tukkytuktuk

[atyclb]

14 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

 

Why would they bomb their own stations though?

 

perhaps so the majority(non critical thinking people) will let them off the hook 

[linksman00]

14 hours ago, andyww said:

Why are people on this thread going on about Thaksin and politics?

 

The evidence that this is an extension of the Southern bombing campaign is overwhelming.

There seems to be a certain deranged group of posters here on Thaivisa that likes to blame Thaksin for just about everything, perhaps it takes their mind off of the fact that  Thailand is autocratically ruled by a military strongman at the moment 

[tukkytuktuk]

Kamthon Kedkaeo, a native of Krabi, quickly removed the device, bundled up in a plastic bag tied to a rail at the China Town Plaza shopping complex, after a Nepalese man had pointed it out to him at about 6:40pm.

 

After opening the bag and seeing a mobile phone with wires attached to a gel pack, Mr Kamthon placed the bag in a water bucket and and ran it to the middle of the car park, about 50 metres from the shopping area.

http://www.thephuketnews.com/patong-security-guard-praised-to-receive-b50k-reward-for-removing-potential-fire-bomb-58686.php

[heybruce]

2 hours ago, linksman00 said:

There seems to be a certain deranged group of posters here on Thaivisa that likes to blame Thaksin for just about everything, perhaps it takes their mind off of the fact that  Thailand is autocratically ruled by a military strongman at the moment 

" autocratically ruled by a military strongman"

 

Correct, but a clumsy way to describe the situation.  If only there were a single word with the same meaning we could use.

[thailandsgreat]

Quote

Thai authorities have reportedly asked for help from Malaysia in tracking down the owner of a mobile phone used to detonate one of the explosives in the recent wave of bombings that targeted some of Thailand's best-known tourist destinations.

Bernama, Malaysia's state news agency, reported on Sunday that the owner of the mobile phone, recovered from one of the blast sites in the popular island of Phuket, was "said to be from Malaysia". 

The phone was only partly damaged in the explosion, leaving its serial number still visible to investigators, a security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Bernama.

According to the Bernama report, the serial number belonged to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), a regulatory body overseeing communications in Malaysia, including phone and online activities.  

Thai police have forwarded the phone fragment to Malaysian authorities. 

In a statement on Sunday, MCMC said it would "work closely with police" to help find the suspect.

from Al-Jazeera

 

But they also arrested a red shirt leader ??!!

 

All points towards the Muslims, as I understand.

 

Like I wrote in another thread, there have not been so many (any?) Buddhist bombings, but quite a number of Muslim such

Edited August 15, 2016 by thailandsgreat

[Plutojames88]

Well lets speculate in fun what's next? 

 

No arrests .....could this be an operation ?

 

 

Next will be a faked abduction of YS by men in army uniforms .

She doesn't get heard of again .....rebellion 

 

All special ops ....later she safely emerges ..when the emperor ( her brother returns for the trials ) of the treason charged Junta? 

 

In all seriousness it is starting to look too professional for the Reds or Muslims .

The way it's timed to cause alarm and panic in the army ....

9/11 style? 

Another ..and another ?

 

The link to distract by using a Malaysian phone.

Mentioning CIA ....even gets you the conspiracy theory prize .

 

Yet ....it all seems so professional 

Edited August 15, 2016 by Plutojames88

[thailandsgreat]

I haven't followed Thai police work long enough to make a verdict. But now it seems they make one normal investigation with forensics of the phones and it leads towards the Muslims.

 

But that I first found out through Al-Jazeera. (Maybe I missed something in Thai media and Bangkok Post. I don't read Thai to that level.)

 

In Thai media we read about a red shirt leader being arrested and some flammable stuff being put  in a water bucket by a security guard that got 50k for the job.

Edited August 15, 2016 by thailandsgreat

[heybruce]

1 hour ago, thailandsgreat said:

from Al-Jazeera

 

But they also arrested a red shirt leader ??!!

 

All points towards the Muslims, as I understand.

 

Like I wrote in another thread, there have not been so many (any?) Buddhist bombings, but quite a number of Muslim such

They're being practical.  They need to "solve" these crimes quickly to reassure tourists.  Every knows they can't solve the problem of the southern insurgency, so they need to pin the explosions on someone else.  Since they're looking for a random scapegoat, why not pick their old enemy?

[ChrisY1]

Obviously, the RTP have been bought into line with the generals desires......another sham!

[Shawn0000]

2 hours ago, thailandsgreat said:

from Al-Jazeera

 

But they also arrested a red shirt leader ??!!

 

All points towards the Muslims, as I understand.

 

Like I wrote in another thread, there have not been so many (any?) Buddhist bombings, but quite a number of Muslim such

 

No, but they do tend to do this, to blame the Reds initially and then later quietly accept that is was actually the Muslims, and it works, how many people still think that the Bangkok bombings were Thaksin having heard the very loud but false accusations but missed the quiet realisation that it was actually the southern insurgents?  

 

[thailandsgreat]

35 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

No, but they do tend to do this, to blame the Reds initially and then later quietly accept that is was actually the Muslims, and it works, how many people still think that the Bangkok bombings were Thaksin having heard the very loud but false accusations but missed the quiet realisation that it was actually the southern insurgents?  

 

Were there more bombs in Bangkok than Erawan? I missed that, probably. Erawan bombing was by the Chinese Muslims, the Uyghurs. Like you say, also vague information as long as media focus is on.

 

Edit: OK, it was back in 2006. Thanks to the member that PM:ed me.

Edited August 15, 2016 by thailandsgreat