jitagawn Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 They have contradicted themselves from the beginning :shakehead ,I went surfing in Indo-very mellow but back into the fray this week :grinyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Police have arrested a man they say is the Erawan bomber. They found bomb making material in his apartment. https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Police have arrested a man they say is have chosen as the Erawan bomber. They found bomb making material in his apartment. https://twitter.com/...erp|twgr^author Fixed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallenda Posted August 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Police have arrested a man they say is the Erawan bomber. They found bomb making material in his apartment. https://twitter.com/...erp|twgr^author Looking at the different stories (CNN, Reuters, etc.). At first cops said it's the guy in the video. Then they change it, he's not the guy in the video. It almost seems like they went to a neighborhood with Muslims in it and kept their eyes open for an adult non-Thai male. OK that's the guy. I can see now why they declined to use the American facial recognition program. It would make everything more difficult if the guy they arrest has to actually match the guy in the video. So much easier without it. The real bomber has to be pissing himself laughing about now. Whichever country he's in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Not any great police work ... reports say the landlord turned him in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallenda Posted August 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Not any great police work ... reports say the landlord turned him in. On the way home, they stopped and chatted, and the guy said "Did you see the news? That was me! I did that!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Note to self, next time I make a boom device, do not go home and wait in an apartment, with all the fixins and false passports and general disrepute of my neighbours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 What to do, oh wait, run away, they'll be looking for me. Maybe if I put the fixins under my prayer mat, no one will look there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Thailand arrests suspect in deadly shrine blast LINDSAY MURDOCH Last updated 08:21, August 30 2015 SUPPLIED An earlier sketch of the suspect and a photo released by Thai police of the man they arrested. Police have arrested a key suspect in the Bangkok shrine bombing in a seedy apartment building in a predominantly Muslim area of the Thai capital. The 28-year-old man, believed to be Turkish, was found in possession of a stack of passports and bomb-making materials, including motorcycle ball bearings similar to those used in the bombing of the Erawan shrine on August 17. He was late Saturday charged with being in possession of bomb making materials including pipes and fuses pending further investigation. SUPPLIEDThai police at the apartment building where the man was arrested. One of the seized passports carrying the man's photograph had two expiry dates, indicating it was a crude forgery. There was no date of issue and the expiry date was repeated twice. The arrest has reinforced suspicion that an extreme right-wing Pan-Turkic group was behind the bombing that killed 20 people and injured more than 120 in the worst attack in Thailand in years. SUPPLIED The suspect's passport, published in Thai media soon after the arrest The group known as Grey Wolves has been linked with Muslim Uighurs in western China. Thailand's deportation of 109 Uighurs in July infuriated Uighurs who regard themselves as being of Turkish origin. However police insisted after the man's arrest early Saturday afternoon it was still too early in the investigation to point the finger at any one group. SUPPLIED Thai police question the suspect, right. Police released photographs of the shabbily-dressed unshaven suspect with short hair sitting handcuffed in a corner of the room where he was arrested after more than 100 police surrounded the apartment building. The name shown on the fake passport was Adem Karadag. The man was taken on Saturday night to an army base for questioning. Thailand has been under military rule since May last year. Police said the man had been renting five rooms in the apartment block since July 21. The Bangkok Post quoted a source saying local residents of the budget Poon Anand apartments in the Nong Chok district tipped off police about the man who could not speak Thai and appeared similar in appearance to a police drawing of a key suspect shown in grainy CCTV footage leaving a backpack stacked with explosives at the Erawan shrine. But police said it was not yet clear whether arrested man was the suspect shown in the CCTV footage. "We believe he is part of the same gang," said national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri, referring to the shrine bombing. Police earlier said up to 10 people may have been involved in the bombing that shocked the nation that has endured a decade of political instability. Another suspect kicked a similar bomb into a Bangkok canal 25 minutes after the shrine bombing. That bomb exploded the next day but no-one was injured. No-one has claimed responsibility for the bombings. Bangkok-based security analyst Anthony Davis said last week the Grey Wolves were the most likely group to be behind the bombing but did not rule out other possibilities. The group has close links with Turkish organised criminals who are know to have a presence in Bangkok. Grey Wolves' operatives were at the forefront of an attack on the Thai consulate in Istanbul in July. Until Saturday's breakthrough Thai authorities had been criticised for making contradicting and confusing statements about the bombing investigation. Officials initially said the bombings were not likely to be the work of international terrorists in an attempt to allay the fears of tourists. They instead suggested the attack may be linked to the country's tumultuous political feuds. Tourism accounts of more than 10 per cent of Thailand's faltering economy. http://www.stuff.co....ly-shrine-blast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 However, Pol Gen Somyot continued to insist that the Aug 17 attack that killed 20 people was not terrorist in nature. Both the police and the military have been actively discouraging talk of terrorism for fear that it could harm the country's tourism industry. "It's a personal feud," Pol Gen Somyot told reporters at Royal Thai Police headquarters during a live broadcast. ... http://www.bangkokpo...le-bomb-suspect Was he feuding with tourists or with a Hindu god? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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