Who Do You Think Is Responsible For The Bangkok Bombing?

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Supplementary note to self. Deny being Turkish, the passports were fake, ergo I have no Turkish connection, therefore I am innocent.

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Bangkok bombing: Who are the Turkish terrorist group the Grey Wolves?

 

Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John-Paul II in Rome in 1981, arrives a hotel after he was released from prison in Ankara, Turkey. Photo: AP

 

Police arrest suspect over Bangkok shrine bombing

 

Bangkok: Neo-fascists from a Turkish terrorist group called Grey Wolves have emerged as key suspects in the Bangkok bombing after the arrest of a man believed to be Turkish in the Thai capital with bomb making material.

 

The group's death squads have stalked Turkey since the 1960s, murdering left-wing and liberal activists, university students and journalists and engaging in street battles and attacks.

 

 

Mehmet Ali Agca in 1983: a Grey Wolves collaborator. Photo: Reuters

 

They gained international notoriety in 1981 when Mehmet Ali Agca, one of their collaborators, shot and nearly killed Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square.

 

The Grey Wolves are known for their distinct hand sign, which represents a wolf head, made by holding up a forefinger and little finger.

 

The group's ideology centres on the glory days of Turkish history, seeking to unite Muslim Turkic peoples from the Balkans to Central Asia in a pan-Turkish extension of the Turkish nation-state.

 

 

Pope John Paul II lies seriously wounded in his open car moments after he was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. Photo: Reuters

 

The group extended operations in the early 1990s into post-Soviet states with Turkic and Muslim populations, including the Nagorno-Karabakh war in Azerbaijan and Chechen conflicts.

 

The group is believed to have ties to Turkish crime gangs that operate in Bangkok that could have provided logistical support for their attack, security analysts say.

 

Thai police have been searching for Turkish nationals who arrived in Thailand in the 15 days before a blast tore through foreign tourists and Thais at the Erawan shrine on August 17, killing 20 people and injuring more than 120 others in an unprecedented attack.

 

But their breakthrough in the investigation came when residents of a predominantly Muslim district of Bangkok on Saturday reported to police the suspicious activities of a non-Thai speaking man renting five rooms in a seedy, four-storey apartment block.

 

After more than 100 police surrounded the building they found a man believed to 28 years old in a room with a stack of false passports and bomb making equipment similar to that used in the shrine bombing, including ball bearings, pipes and fuses.

 

The bearded man with short cropped hair has been charged with possession of bomb making material and is being held in a Thai military base pending further investigation.

 

Anthony Davis, a respected Bangkok-based security analyst with IHS-Jane's, said last week the Grey Wolves were likely to be behind the bombing because they had both motive and capability, although he did not rule out other possibilities.

 

"They are violent and operate below the radar," he said.

 

Mr Davis said the group had "latched on to in a big way" Uighur Muslims in western China who claim they have suffered years of persecution from Beijing.

 

Thailand infuriated the Uighur movement in July when the country deported to China 109 Uighur men who had been separated from their wives and children.

 

Ethnic-Chinese tourists appear to have been targets of the shrine bombers.

 

Mr Davis described the Bangkok attack as potentially the nightmare that has worried security agencies, a link-up between terrorism and organised crime.

 

 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bangkok-bombing-who-are-the-turkish-terrorist-group-the-grey-wolves-20150830-gjavjz.html

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So one arrest made and a room full of bomb making equipment. Suicide vests and ball bearings....nasty

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Thai junta broadcast unrelated suicide vest picture

 

August 30, 2015 11:28 am

 

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's junta came under scrutiny Sunday after mistakenly showing an unrelated picture of a suicide vest during a nationally televised broadcast announcing the arrest of a foreign man in connection with last week's deadly Bangkok shrine bombing.

 

In an embarrassing u-turn officials later said the vest was not among the items found at the suspect’s flat and warned people not to share the shot online.

 

It is the latest blunder to hit an investigation that has received criticism over how quickly investigators searched and cleared up the blast site, as well as confusing and sometimes contradictory statements from senior officers and junta officials.

 

Police on Saturday charged a foreign man after a raid on an apartment in Bangkok’s eastern outskirts. Investigators say the man was found with bomb-making equipment linked to the 17 August blast, which killed 20 people and wounded scores more.

 

All Thai television channels ran a broadcast at 6pm (1100 GMT) on Saturday which featured a spokesman from the Royal Thai Police and a spokesman for the National Council for Peace and Order -- the official name for the junta.

 

As official Colonel Winthai Suvaree spoke, images from inside the suspect’s flat flashed up on the screen including pictures of the man surrounded by officers, a close portrait of the man and items laid out on a rug.

 

Another picture was then briefly broadcast showing a vest covered in bulging pockets connected by wires, held up by a hand wearing a blue surgical glove. Winthai did not talk about or make reference to the pictures.

 

The picture of the vest was widely shared on social media, but late Saturday police took to Twitter to say the photo of the vest was not from the flat.

 

"The picture has nothing to do with the bombing. It is not official," police wrote on their Twitter account @PoliceSpokesmen.

 

"We would like to ask people who published that picture to stop their actions because it might bring concern to society and it could be in breach of computer legislation," they added in another tweet.

 

National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri, who was the police official in the national broadcast, also tweeted: "The picture that you are putting in your messages might damage the country so please could you stop because the country has already been very bruised."

 

Neither account explained how the picture made it into the broadcast.

 

Prawut and junta officials did not respond to AFP’s requests for comment early Monday.

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Thai-junta-broadcast-unrelated-suicide-vest-pictur-30267749.html

 

Really? unrelated pix? Maybe an unrelated bomb maker?

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I am guessing the major networks here in Australia didn't get that note.

 

This is just so pathetic

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And expected

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I won't post the whole article - link here - http://www.bangkokpo...or-bomb-attacks

 

But this excerpt got my attention.

 

>>A source in the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) said police and military officers are jointly questioning the arrested suspect and authorities are not ruling out any possibilities including human trafficking. <<

 

Trying to link the situation to trafficking. So that they can show they are expending a lot of effort on trafficking? Good P.R. for the trafficking issues they are labouring under? Sounds more like, "let's put out a bunch of stories and see which ones fly, we'll go with the one the public accept the most". Problem solved.

 

It would certainly explain the range of utterances from the Authoritariyah!

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It's like a Pink Panther script

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I am thinking "someone?" thinks linking to Trafficing to show that Thailand isn't involved, it's all lies, look at this baddy.

 

Seems to be standard modus operendi

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Note to the Thai gov...all you have to say is, "...this is an ongoing investigation, no comment", hence, stop all the stupid,

misleading statements that make you look like idiots!