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Pol Gen Somyot admits bombs link Uighur deportation and human trafficking gang National police chief Pol Gen Somyot Poompanmoung admitted on Tuesday that the twin bombings at the Erawan Shrine and Sathorn pier on August 17-18 were linked to Thailand’s decision to send 109 Uighur illegal migrants back to China and the crackdown on human trafficking gang in Thailand. He said that the twin bomb attacks, especially at the Erawan Shrine which killed 20 foreign tourists and Thais and injured over 120 others, were a revenge against the deportation of the Uighurs and the smashing of the human trafficking racket. However, he admitted that there were no information or evidences to link the attack of a Thai consulate in Turkey with the network responsible for the two bombings in Bangkok. He disclosed that one of his deputies, Pol Gen Chakthip Chaichinda, would lead a police team to Malaysia to get information from the Malaysian police who are now holding two Malaysians and a Pakistani under suspicion of involvement with the Bangkok’s bombers and their supporters. But he said that it wasn’t sure whether the three suspects could be extradited into Thailand for interrogation. http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pol-gen-somyot-admits-bombs-link-uighur-deportation-and-human-trafficking-gang ----------------------- It can't just be the translation, is this guy suggesting that the bombing in Bangkok is retaliation for the deporting or the Uighurs and thereto the responsibility of said Uighurs and or their supporters? Whilst at the same time suggesting that the bombing in Bangkok is retaliation for the (purported) shutting down of the People Trafficking in the south of Thailand, run by people unknown, but widely believed to be criminal gangs, with at the very least, culpable knowledge, by personnel in the Thai Military? Is he covering all bases? Next, will the bombing be caused by Global Warming? This is starting to look like the Koh Tao investigation, but bigger. Excellent! large and long supply of laughs coming this way

And now... ------- Turkish Suspect Denies Involvement in Erawan Bomb Attack Soldiers escort Adem Karadag, aka Mohammed Bilaturk, to Bangkok Metropolitan Police headquarters on 4 Sept. BANGKOK — The first man arrested on suspicion of involvement in last month’s bombing of the Erawan Shrine insists he had nothing to do with the attack and only arrived in Thailand days before he was taken into custody in a raid. Turkish national Adem Karadag, also known as Mohammed Bilaturk, said through his lawyer that upon arriving in Thailand on 24 Aug., the broker paid to smuggle him from Turkey ordered him to remain inside an apartment building where security forces discovered him among fake Turkish passports and bomb-making materials on 29 Aug. “He insisted that he had nothing to do with the materials found at Poon Anan Apartment,†his lawyer Chuchart Kanpai said. “The news that the materials at the room belonged to him may have been because of miscommunication.†Authorities also learned today from the Bangladeshi Embassy in Bangkok that the man suspected of orchestrating the bombing which killed 20 people was last known to have boarded a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, and not China as reported earlier. Abu Dustar Abdulrahman, a 27-year-old Chinese national also known as “Izaan,†left Bangkok for Bangladesh one day before the blast. From there, he flew to Istanbul on 30 Aug., one day after investigators arrested Karadag in Bangkok, police officials said today. Bangladeshi police officials had previously claimed he had traveled to Beijing, China. Chuchart said Karadag traveled from Turkey to Thailand via Laos and Vietnam, having paid a broker called Abdullah Abdullahman for his passage. Abdullahman was named in the investigation's 10th court-approved arrest warrant on 7 Sept. Composite image released for suspect Abdullah Abdullahman by Royal Thai Police. Karadag's lawyer said today his client paid Abdullahman to smuggle him into Thailand. Asked about Karadag’s claim of innocence, Police Lt. Gen. Prawuth Thawornsiri today said he was not surprised, because Karadag had denied the charges since his arrest. It was his capture that prompted Thai police to pay themselves a 3 million baht reward offered in the case, after identifying Karadag as a member of a network behind the attack. Chuchart described Karadag as a patsy for whom Thailand was nothing more than a transit point for further travel. “He wanted to become a chaffeur in Malaysia,†Chuchart said. After briefly being transferred to civilian police, Karadag is back in military custody at the 11th Army District in Bangkok, which has been converted into a “special prison†for bomb suspects. He is being held there along with Yusufu Mieraili, a Chinese national who was the second arrest to be made on 1 Sept. http://www.khaosoden...wsid=1442232683

Rape, murder and a deepening mystery on a tiny tropical island Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, British tourists killed in Thailand. It was exactly a year ago that the bodies were discovered on the beach: nearly naked, their blood mixing with the morning surf. Hannah Witheridge was a beautiful blonde from eastern England. David Miller was her handsome friend from the Channel Islands. They were in their early 20s and vacationing together on the tiny tropical island of Koh Tao, a backpacker's paradise off the coast of Thailand. On September 14, 2014, they attended an all-night party on Koh Tao's idyllic Sairee Beach, a half-mile swathe of emerald water and white sands. Sometime deep into the night, the two friends wandered off, perhaps headed back to their bungalow resort nearby. That's when the killers pounced. By the time dawn broke over Koh Tao, the beach had been transformed into a bloodbath. Witheridge was found with her face smashed in, her skirt wrenched up and her body showing signs of rape. Miller was found four metres away: face up, with a blow to the head and water in his lungs. A rusty hoe, its blade broken and caked in gore, lay nearby. The killings roiled Koh Tao, an eight-square-mile island buoyed by tourism. Authorities scoured its jungles for suspects as islanders blocked the ferry to prevent the murderers' escape. Coming just four months after a coup had installed a military junta in power, the case quickly became a litmus test of the new government's commitment to fighting crime. One year later, those test results are far from convincing. Two workers from Myanmar, also known as Burma, are currently on trial for the tourists' grisly murders, but the case is quickly unravelling in court. On Friday, a Thai forensic expert said that DNA evidence from the supposed murder weapon does not match the men accused of the crime. The testimony is just the latest in a long series of shocking setbacks that threaten to sink not only the case, but also the Thai criminal justice system. From the beginning, there were signs that the investigation was in trouble. Thai police admitted to moving Miller's body, ostensibly to prevent it from washing away. Authorities announced that Witheridge was raped, then said she wasn't, before finally saying she was raped twice. Cops initially named a British friend of hers as a person of interest, then began taking DNA samples from hundreds of suspects. The investigation descended into the absurd when the Thai Prime Minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, commented on the murders by saying that only ugly women were safe wearing bikinis in Thailand. Finally, police appeared to have found their footing when they arrested two Myanmar migrants who, cops claimed, had confessed to the crime. Yet, that case has also been disintegrating from the get-go, like a courthouse made of sand. Shortly after arresting the two 22-year-old men, Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, Thai officials had the suspects perform a bizarre public re-enactment of the crime. As police linked arms to keep onlookers off the beach, a confused looking Lin and Htun fumbled to reenact their alleged crime. Wearing helmets, bullet proof vests and handcuffs, and wielding a dust bin instead of a hoe, they men demonstrated how they had supposedly killed the two tourists. Bystanders, including a TV reporter, were roped in to play the parts of the victims. But their confession was, itself, confused. The men said they didn't use a condom, even though cops insisted they had. Then, just a few days later, a lawyer for the two men insisted that the confession was false: cops had beaten it out of them. A message of support for the families of British tourists David Miller and Hannah Witheridge on Koh Tao island. Photo: REUTERS "They told me that they were on the beach that night drinking and singing songs," said attorney Aung Myo Thant, a Myanmar embassy official, the Guardian reported. "They said they didn't do it, that the Thai police beat them until they confessed to something they didn't do. "They're pleading with the Burmese government to look into the case and find out the truth," he added after speaking to the two men. "They were a really pitiful sight. Their bodies had all sorts of bruises." Doubts about the case against the migrants - and the underlying mystery of who killed the tourists - have only deepened since the trial began in early July. First, Thai police admitted in court that they never bothered to check CCTV footage of a boat leaving from a nearby pier just an hour after the murder. "We have the footage, but we never checked it," Police Colonel Cherdpong Chiewpreecha admitted in court, drawing gasps from those in attendance, according to Sky News. He said he simply didn't believe the killer would have taken the boat. Cherdpong also said that his department had not investigated rumours of a fight between Witheridge and the son of a powerful Koh Tao politician the night of the murder. Nor did his department fully test the alleged murder weapon. Instead, the colonel told the court that the hoe was examined under a magnifying glass but investigators decided they were no viable fingerprints or DNA to collect, according to Sky News. Murder-accused Zaw Lin (back left) and Win Zaw Htun (back centre) arrive at court. Photo: GETTY IMAGES Blood spatters were not tested, Cherdpong admitted. Finally, he said he didn't think it was relevant that CCTV footage showed men fleeing from the area in different clothing than the Myanmar workers wearing that night. Last month, the translators used to obtain the now retracted confession admitted in court that they are actually roti (pancake) vendors who barely understand Thai and speak little Burmese, according to the Myanmar Times. "The second roti seller has been on the stand today and it's become very clear that he does not have much of grasp of Thai at all so we don't understand how he could have translated for police," Andy Hall, a British migrant rights advocate who is assisting the defense, told the newspaper. "As well there have been many police procedural issues exposed this week, including many inconsistencies in the timing of events around the arrest of the accused." Then came Friday's bombshell about the DNA on the bloody hoe. Police had previously given conflicting statements about the DNA evidence, initially saying that it was lost or "used up" before later insisting that it had been properly saved, according to Reuters. The two accused, wearing helmets, bulletproof vests and handcuffs, are made to re-enact the crime, with locals playing the victims. Photo: REUTERS Last month, a court on Koh Samui - 40 miles from Koh Tao - ordered that the remaining forensic evidence in the case be sent for reexamination. On Friday, Pornthip Rojanasunand, the head of Thailand's forensics institute, testified that DNA found on the hoe does not match that of the two accused Burmese men, according to the Telegraph. With no DNA evidence and a contested confession, the case appears to be collapsing. The trial is expected to conclude later this month. Given the inconsistencies in the investigation, however, doubt is likely to remain no matter the verdict. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/72094299/rape-murder-and-a-deepening-mystery-on-a-tiny-tropical-island

Jupiter Ascending 2015 - IMDB says "A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry." I say - Rubbish. Mila Kunis has lost the cuteness of youth. Channing Tatum's eyes are too close together. Mila Kunis' character accepts the change, from cleaning toilets, to Queen of the Universe with no perceptible surprise. Channing Tatum has 'Hover Boots' (think Marty McFly's hovering skateboard from Back to the Future'), If you were 12 this could be enjoyable.

The rise of the Krays 2015 - Quite good, some very convincing, cool gangster violence, can't help feeling that this was episode 1 of a trilogy maybe? Worth a watch. Manglehorn 2014 - I like Al Pacino - this movie? Too boring for my taste. Arty in the sense that it looks at a very ordinary man, doing very ordinary things. Ordinary. A waste of a whole 97 minutes. 1984 1984 - Againilly, worth a watch, as valid today as then. Hannibal Rising 2007 - Now this was good, the boy who became Hannibal Lecter of 'Silence of the Lambs'. Well acted, nice twists, lovely gore, well worth a watch.

And your point that non muslims beat women, stands. I'm agin the beating of women, kids, dogs, cats, camels, goats by anyone. Even young men with beards and shaved heads. On the other hand, I quite like the idea that anyone guilty of beating someone, should be beaten in turn, roughly, and about 20% more. But then I have a fluid morality.

Aaah I see ---------- Two Femen protesters were arrested after baring their breasts at a controversial conference near Paris on the role of Muslim women. According to Inna Shevchenko, a spokeswoman for the feminist protest group, two fundamentalist preachers were discussing the question of "whether wives should be beaten or not" when the activists, aged 25 and 31, ripped off their Arab-style cloaks and jumped on to the stage at the weekend. One had the slogan "No one subjugates me" inked across her torso. The other bore the words "I am my own prophet". The protester grabbed microphones and shouted feminist slogans in French and Arabic before being roughly bundled off the stage by about 15 men and handed over to police. Video footage of the incident shows a man apparently kicking one of the women. According to Shevchenko, some of the men shouted "dirty whores" and "kill them". She thanked the police for protecting the two women, who were taken into custody. They were released after being questioned by prosecutors, who said they would continue investigating what happened. Conference organisers said they would press charges against the activists. They were not alone in taking exception to the presence of fundamentalist preachers at the event, where shopping and cooking were showcased as appropriate "feminine activities". One speaker at the conference has reportedly posted calls on social networks for women to veil their faces or risk hellfire and sexual assault in the afterlife. Nearly 6000 people signed an online petition against the event. Twitter posts called for the protesters to be stoned or collectively raped. http://www.nzherald....jectid=11513021 http://www.telegraph...e-on-women.html ----------

Don't blame me, I don't find these actions towards women any good at all, I've been careful not to blame "muslims" I only single out the young men who perpetrated the violence and noted the topic the activists interrupted. Just the facts.

Apparently the two white robed "clerics" they interrupted, were discussing, beating of wives.

At least one shaven headed, bearded, young man putting the boot into a woman on the ground. White shirt in this frame.

I heard one guy saying that the winds were 85 km/h - hardly seems enough for a modern crane to come down. My prejudices about third world standards come into play, but this being Mecca, one would have thought that the crane was properly installed.

Sad really. But are they arresting any foreigners to blame it on ?

I couldn't handle being a media whore...

Well done, I've got to get rid of 20 Kg recently gained.

I know what you mean, here in Hobbit Land, I am now 'the enemy' again, because I have the temerity, to be middle aged, white and male. Getting sick of it. MLG on the other hand, is having a good time of it, though we do get odd looks when in public together.

Thai Murders: DNA 'Does Not Match' Defendants The trial of the men accused of killing two British backpackers hears DNA on the murder weapon does not match the defendants. Britons killed on Koh Tao The bodies of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found in Koh Tao A forensics expert says DNA found on the garden hoe used in the killing of two British backpackers in Thailand does not match the two defendants. The bodies of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on a beach on the holiday island of Koh Tao last September. Miss Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, had been raped and beaten. Mr Miller, 24, from Jersey, drowned in the sea after being clubbed around the head with the hoe. Burmese bar workers Zaw Lin and Wei Phyo, both 22, have pleaded not guilty and claim they were beaten by police. The head of Thailand's central forensics institute told the trial two profiles were found on the hoe - one a full sample, the other a partial sample - but neither matches the defendants. The DNA analysis was ordered by the defence after police failed to carry out their own tests after the murders. They also treated the murder scene haphazardly, the witness told the trial on the island of Koh Samui. Blood was not DNA tested for instance, at least one of the bodies was moved - potentially destroying evidence, and not enough photos were taken. The trial has previously heard claims the pair were beaten naked by police, suffocated with plastic bags and threatened with being killed at sea. Both men say they eventually confessed after being told they would only go to prison for four or five years. http://news.sky.com/story/1550571/thai-murders-dna-does-not-match-defendants

Marco Polo I - Netflix original series - Very Good, lots of Mongols, nekkid women and battle. Even some convincing Kung Fu. I'm looking for season II as soon as it's made.

Stryne on a date Stephen Fry's Sisters And Lastly

Words fail me, so I thought I'd post this, for your edification. Actually, I have to wonder, how this chap got into this state, there but for the grace of god...

What you said. I understand completely why places like NZ do not allow educational qualifications from Thailand, Laos etc, to count, in NZ Universities.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/3qonqhNexKA

It's defamation if my lawyer is bigger than yours.