Phone that triggered Thai bomb 'linked to Malaysia'

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Phone that triggered Thai bomb 'linked to Malaysia'

Tan Hui Yee Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok

 

Police reportedly seeking KL's help to identify source; separatists suspected of attacks

 

BANGKOK: -- Thai police are reported to be seeking Malaysian help to identify the source of a mobile phone used in one of the bombings that struck the southern provinces last week.

 

A portion of a mobile phone used to trigger an explosion in Phuket on Friday contained a Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission serial number, according to Bernama news agency.

 

Thai police, who have not confirmed the report, have gathered closed-circuit television footage and DNA samples from blast sites, and say they expect to make progress in investigations soon.

 

"Police in region eight have said they might have good news in the next one or two days," deputy national police chief Pongsapat Pongcharoen said yesterday. Region eight refers to the police division overseeing some southern provinces.

 

Full story: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/phone-that-triggered-thai-bomb-linked-to-malaysia

 

-- THE STRAITS TIMES 2016-08-15

[craigt3365]

Pure speculation, but easy enough to get phones from Malaysia and make everything look like it's the work of Southern insurgents.  IMHO, the scale of this is too large for them.  But who knows....

 

From the article:

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While the insurgents have largely confined their armed campaign to their home provinces, Dr Srisompob Jitpiromsri, a founder of the Deep South Watch which analyses the conflict, said the insurgent network was the only group within Thailand with the organisational capacity to carry out the latest attacks.

 

Sadly, there are several groups within Thailand capable of pulling this off.  Many actually.

 

[chrisinth]

I sort of hope that it was also a Malaysian SIM that was still in the phone.

 

If only to show how futile this obsession on SIM registration and suggested tracking idea actually is.

[mercman24]

don't ya just love it when the keystone cops give out this info to the media which should be kept secret, is it reasure the public that they are "on the case" ? oh dam; my phone is made in malaysia, better bin it, the way this lot work, i might be a suspect.

[petedk]

53 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

I sort of hope that it was also a Malaysian SIM that was still in the phone.

 

If only to show how futile this obsession on SIM registration and suggested tracking idea actually is.

 

Well, according to the Thai government, tourists in Malaysia have to use special sims (like the ones they want to introduce here), so if there was a sim in it and it was a Malaysian sim then if they were Thais (foreigners in malaysia) it would be easy to identify them.

[The stuttering parrot]

Junta lovers will no doubt blame the Malaysian red shirts.

[chrisinth]

2 minutes ago, petedk said:

 

Well, according to the Thai government, tourists in Malaysia have to use special sims (like the ones they want to introduce here), so if there was a sim in it and it was a Malaysian sim then if they were Thais (foreigners in malaysia) it would be easy to identify them.

Lets wait and see how that plays out.......................

[mtls2005]

"Alarm clock which triggered bomb linked to bed-side table."

[Class C]

"Hara Shintaro, a Pattani-based scholar and writer, gave the same assessment. He said it’s natural that the militants (i.e. the separatists in the deep south), who have fought to restore the once-independent state of Patani, would reject any Thai constitution because of clauses forbidding secession."

referendum graffiti in the south

[SOTIRIOS]

....duhh...

 

....anyone could have purchased the phone....

 

...in fact it would make more sense for locals to deflect attention....

 

 

[Briggsy]

At the end of the day, the cops will present the case as they and their current military masters would want it to be rather than where the evidence leads. They always do this. Koh Tao. Erawan shrine. and a million other cases.

 

The police in Thailand are in the business of getting very very rich through all kinds of organised crime rackets. They just want stuff like this (if it is not linked to organised crime) to go away so they can get on with their normal business of extortion, prostitution, gambling, human trafficking, drug dealing, etc. It interrupts their necessary income streams.

[sahibji]

2 hours ago, The stuttering parrot said:

Junta lovers will no doubt blame the Malaysian red shirts.

 it is important not to play the blame game as security of the country is at stake. i am sure the govenment would want to get to the bottom of it.

[sahibji]

with easy mobility and ease of buying mobile devices and SIM cards, the confirmation of a malaysian registered phone used in the denotation may satill be far from helpful. it could be any body who had bought this phone.

[ddavidovsky]

Does anyone around here ever modify their opinion in view of available evidence? Out comes the weaselly reasoning to support their own biases. It's pathetic.

 

It's not conclusive evidence that the bombs were a southern separatist issue, but by any objective measure it increases the likelihood.

 

 

[JAG]

Look here, it's really quite obvious.

 

A certain mastermind lives in Dubai - FACT.

 

He travelled recently to China -FACT

 

A lot of the aeroplanes from Dubai to China call at Singapore -  FACT.

 

Singapore is next to Malaysia - FACT.

 

What more evidence do you people need?

 

 

[ScotBkk]

6 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

Pure speculation, but easy enough to get phones from Malaysia and make everything look like it's the work of Southern insurgents.  IMHO, the scale of this is too large for them.  But who knows....

 

From the article:

 

Sadly, there are several groups within Thailand capable of pulling this off.  Many actually.

 

Information 

 

They always seem to give snippets of info to all and sundry as if to pre-warn any violators in advance. 

 

The thai equivalent of the Non-Secret Service perhaps? 

[Khon Kaen Dave]

Craig 3655

There are several groups in Thailand capable of pulling this off,many actually.

How do you know this,oh font of all knowledge? Do you have have names,addresses,proof of explosive experts among the groups,What are the names of these groups,how many are there. I would love to have the information you have.Maybe you should totter along to your local nick and repeat what you have just posted here.There's a couple of thousand baht in the offing,if your info is correct.But,you know what?somehow i idon't think it is.I personally think you are playing the old crapolola.

Now stop wasting peoples time,there's a good boy.

[sujoop]

The mastermind had the phones purchased from Malaysia = Southern militants = Case effectively solved for some (nevermind the mastermind could have directed that Malaysian phones be used just for this simple ruse). Once again some police investigators eagerly point to the lowest hanging fruit and the pattern continues (since many similar bombings starting on NY Eve 2006 in BKK following Thaksin's ouster).
 

The mastermind in the latest cowardly attacks was likely not happy with the referendum, targeted only Southern provinces (on a Royal day to add salt) and moreover appears bent on destroying tourism and destabilising Thailand in advance of a difficult transition period. Unfortunately/regretfully the Army is highly needed during this time period to maintain a civil society and to preserve law and order (cannot count on the mainly red/pro-Thaksin police as we've seen).