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This is one aspect of Thai culture I have never ever gotten used to or comfortable with...now 25 years later.

 

Something awful happens and Thai people laugh...sometimes right in your face.

 

I know we have discussed this before.

 

I can intellectualize it but "get it?"

 

Impossible ...

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Turkish Suspect Denies Involvement in Erawan Bomb Attack

 

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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.â€

 

 

 

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.

 

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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.

 

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This is one aspect of Thai culture I have never ever gotten used to or comfortable with...now 25 years later.

 

Something awful happens and Thai people laugh...sometimes right in your face.

 

I know we have discussed this before.

 

I can intellectualize it but "get it?"

 

Impossible ...

 

 

Saw the same thing in Vietnam. It must be a SE Asian thing.

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