Bangkok Bombing Aug 2015

[Glass]

Hasn't been mentioned here yet. 22 People killed in a bombing Monday, at a Hindu shrine in a major shopping precinct of Bangkok.

This shrine is part of a hotel complex and as with most shrines at Thailand businesses, it faces on the the street. It is quite an impressive looking shrine and it attracts a lot of tourists and locals. It is fairly close to major shopping malls around Siam Central, and is located on one of the main roads of down town bangkok, in an area that has a lot of hotels and ex pats from various countries. It is probably 1km from the muslim quarter. and maybe 2 km from the indian quarter.

The hotel and shrine are right next door to police facilities, headquarters and several hospitals. The police hospital is almost directly across the road from this hotel. There are several other hospitals within 1 -2 kms.

They are saying this morning they have captured the bomber. Apparently he is american and traveling on a false passport for someone probably 20 years older than he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifGoACQEBko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifGoACQEBko
Remember this is BBC. Usually right on the spot for trouble.

Looking at the man identified in the above video, he does look very asian compared to the guy they have in custody IMO.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSv9uCDDeVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSv9uCDDeVA

Still, I think it's possible. As for the YT guys comments that he cant believe he got in. But if you have been to the Thai airport, it's pandemonium and there are literally tens of thousands of people in there at any one time. The immigration queues are massive. Nearly 1 million people go through there per week. Everyone gets photographed so I'm sure they will match it up.

The surname on the passport is FAHL, not Stevens. Simple mistake by the presenter. Issued in Virginia USA.

The guys glasses are pretty unusual. A goggle. Most likely some kind of boarding or mountain biking or similar. They have a seal around the edge of the lense to stop dust getting in.

[Glass]

This guy might have come in overland and not via the airport. It's possible. Or maybe in on one passport and out on another.

[expat4ever]

When did he get in country? Seems like he had a connection for explosives from someone.

[Glass]

exactly. Local news here is not reporting on this guy. They are saying that the Thai authorities are looking for accomplices of the suspected bomber.

The bomb used TNT. If it were a improvised bomb it would not have been TNT. Would have been too big for a backpack and would probably have needed a vehicle, a car or pickup. I think it would be difficult but not impossible to get TNT in country if you knew people. Is this guy going to get TNT? Is he going to know people? Only if he is working in a team IMO.

Authorities have also said there were 2 unexploded devices. That tells me it was an organised op. Possibly the first 2 bombs did not go off. I think it is common to run 2 or 3 teams on the one event. In case the first team bails out or fails in some way, there are other teams who can keep them on track or go in themselves. This is what I think happened here... IF There were other devices. I am sure they will be going through the footage to see if they can identify the other bombers.

Still not sure yellow shirt guy is this guy, although it does look like some side burns going on with yellow shirt guy. The hair looks wrong though. Could be a wig maybe?

Someone also tossed a bomb into a canal somewhere, either from a bridge or wharf/jetty. Maybe yet another bomber who decided to bail once the job was done? Possibly another target? Lost their nerve or things go too hot?

[Glass]

Still not reporting they have a suspect in custody. Directing towards the Uighurs.

Suspect may have been wearing a wig.


Police want to interview motorcycle taxi drivers who brought him to the shrine and took him away.Police said the man may have been wearing a wig. They were working on the theory he was not acting alone.



The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/world/bangkok-bombing-investigation-turns-to-uighurs-20150819-gj2hlr.html)

[expat4ever]

Yes more than 1 bomb is standard SOP for terrorists for maximum destruction and casualties. I was very close to a car bomb that went off. Actually was very lucky, was walking right towards it when a taxi appeared closer so we changed direction and 10 seconds later the car exploded. We got out quickly in case there was another.

[Glass]

From our local news, this is the Thai police identikit of the suspect they are looking for.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMxGaPGUcAAsS29.jpg

I haven't verified the image is official.

Bangkok Post says Royal Thai Police image.
(http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/661628/arrest-warrant-next-for-erawan-bomb-suspect)
I think the guy in the 2nd video in the OP is from something else maybe. Not related to these events and possibly from another time. That guy does not show up anywhere else so far.

[Glass]

Today from the Bangkok Post.

The Thai Prime Minister is playing down the Uighur retaliation theory (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/661872/pm-plays-down-uighur-theory).

Redshirts posted a tweet 4 days ago (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/661696/red-shirt-denies-involvement-in-erawan) saying there would be a violent event. Claims to have got that information from a "political group" but not involved. Sure. We know how the colours work.

Two additional men are being sought by authorities after being identified from CCTV. Men in Red shirt and White shirt.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/media/content/20150820/c1_662924_150820072411_620x413.jpg


Police now say they have identified two more possible suspects in the bombing outside the Erawan shrine on Monday.
Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thawornsiri, assistant national police chief, gave the media a screen capture from a grainy CCTV that shows the two men, who police say were standing close to the main suspect, the "man in the yellow T-shirt" strongly suspected of planting the bomb.



Police have located and arrested the scooter driver who took the bomber from the scene. No information if it was the same one who took bomber to the scene.


Although Pol Lt Gen Prawut, who is also the police spokesman, raised the possibility that the man was Thai and in disguise, the warrant on charges of premeditated murder was issued for a "foreign man, name unknown, who appears in the sketch drawing."

A motorcycle taxi driver said in a phone interview aired by Channel 3, a Thai TV station, that he had picked up a man matching the police description at a taxi stand a quarter of a mile from the shrine after the bomb exploded, The New York Times reported early Thursday.

The driver, who gave his name as Kasem, said the man did not speak to him, just walked up and handed him a piece of paper with the words "Lumpini Park" written on it in English. Lumpini Park is a well-populated area in the commercial heart of Bangkok, about two-thirds of a mile from Erawan.

I'm not sure the scooter driver was arrested. Maybe just questioned.

Interesting. There are a few embassies in that area. There are also quite a few not far from the scene of the bombing, heading North east. This park is due south from the bombing site.

[Amanda]

I haven't had much time to look into this Bangkok bombing, but FWIW here's Wayne Madsen's take on it:

August 20-21, 2015 -- Mossad either getting sloppier or more arrogant in Bangkok bombing

Thailand's all-points bulletin for a young black-haired man of "Middle Eastern" and/or "European" extraction who is wanted for placing an explosive-laden backpack among mostly Chinese tourists at Bangkok's Lord Brahma Hindu shrine at Erawan in the Chidlom district, in the heart of Bangkok's busy shopping and tourist area, is either a sign that Israel's Mossad is getting sloppier in its false flag attacks or more arrogant in carrying them out.

The bombing killed 27 people, including four Chinese nationals, and wounded more than 120. Among the dead were, in addition to the Chinese, Thais, Malaysians, Singaporeans, and one Filipino, one Indonesian, and one British national. Although no claims of responsibility were made, Israel quickly tried to link the bombing to Iran. This is a major clue as to who was responsible for the attack, along with the fact that the Israeli media was proclaiming that no Israelis were killed or injured in the bombing but that it took place in an area often frequented by Israeli tourists and shoppers. If the area had so many Israeli shoppers normally present why were no Israelis among the dead or injured? The Israeli embassy in Bangkok was quick to report no Israeli casualties in the bombing. One explanation is the Israelis had some form of advance warning to steer clear of Erawan. The fact that no Israelis were harmed in the bombing is even more astounding considering the fact that Thai authorities stated that the intended targets were, in fact, foreigners. Among the injured were Chinese, Taiwanese, Malaysians, Hong Kongers, Japanese, Singaporeans, and a Philippines citizen, an Omani, a Qatari, an Indonesian, and a Maldivian. But no Israelis in one of their "hot spots" in Bangkok.

The Israeli media also lauded the work of the Chabad House in Bangkok for taking care of many Israeli tourists who flocked there for news about the bombing and mutual support. WMR previously reported on our trip to the Chabad House in 2007. It was clear that "non-Middle Eastern looking" people are not welcome there and that it serves the interests, as do all Chabad Houses, of the local Mossad intelligence stations.

The New York Jewish newspaper "The Algemeiner" reported that the Erawan Shrine and adjacent MBK Shopping Complex are known as an "Israeli hot spot" in Bangkok.

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Chief suspect in Bangkok bombing (above from security camera) is reported to be "Middle Eastern-looking" and of "European" descent. Some security experts believe the man in the security footage was wearing a wig and glasses as a disguise because he was aware of the number of security cameras in the area. A Mossad team that carried out an assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai in 2010 also wore crude disguises, This is coded law enforcement language for "Israeli." Thai police sketch of perpetrator (below).

Law enforcement agencies around the world, including INTERPOL, are forced to use terms like "Middle Eastern-looking," "Mediterranean-looking," or, as the Thai National Police have recently used in its quest for the Bangkok bomber, "European/Middle Eastern in appearance." To use the term "Israeli" would mean a barrage of howls from Jewish and Israeli organizations that the police agencies are "anti-Semitic." The situation is so bad at the U.S. FBI, any use of the term "Israeli" to suggest terrorism or espionage is seen as a "career killer" for the offending agent.

Plainly, if a suspect were Arab, South Asian, or Muslim, those terms would be used by the police, whether in Thailand, which has a history of fighting a Muslim insurgency in the south of the country, to Britain, which has a sizable Muslim community. Thai police have described the main suspect as a "khaek khao," which means a light-skinned person of South Asian, Persian, or Middle Eastern extraction, not, as is being mis-reported by the Western media, Asian or Middle Eastern "Muslims." Khaek kao could mean a Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Muslim, or Jew hailing from India in the east to the Levant in the west and anyplace in between.
khaek khao

The political correctness involved in investigating the Bangkok bombing has resulted in conflicting information coming from the Thai government. The police said they are looking for a "tall foreign man" with a "prominent nose." The police also said the suspect spoke neither Thai nor English but "another foreign language." Security cameras caught a tall man wearing a yellow T-shirt leave a backpack at the scene of the bombing 15 minutes before the explosion. Police are also looking for two other suspicious people spotted near the man with the backpack. However, a military spokesman said the bombers were not tied to any "international terrorists." Mossad operational teams often consist of 3 to 4 people, with one often a female. Other Thai law enforcement sources said there may be as many as 10 people involved in carrying out the bombing. A later Thai police report suggests that the main suspect may have already fled Thailand, an indication of a sophisticated operation that was not only responsible for the bombing but the exfiltration from Thailand of the team of bombers.

The fact that the bombing is similar to a previous one in Bangkok linked to Mossad suggests both the Thai police and military are correct. The perpetrator is "foreign" and the Mossad is not considered per se an "international terrorist" organization, although it has carried out a number of terrorist acts around the world. The yellow shirt-clad suspect disappeared into a Bangkok neighborhood where a number of Uighur refugees from China live. The escape route was clearly intended to pin the blame for the attack on the Muslim Uighurs, 109 of which were forcibly deported by Thailand to China last month. The Israeli media could not seem to decide on whether the perpetrators were Iranian or Uighurs. Rupert Murdoch's pro-Israeli newspapers tried to pin blame for the attack on Hezbollah.

Thai police said the bomb was a pipe bomb packed with ball bearings that is typically used in terrorist explosions abroad. The bomb's ball bearing shrapnel is designed to kill and maim large numbers of people and not destroy much property. A similar bomb exploded at Sathon pier the next day but it caused no casualties.

WMR reported on the attempt by Israel to pin a 2012 bombing in Bangkok on Iran. Our February 15, 2012 report: "The motto of Mossad has long been based on practicing the art of deception to engage in covert and overt warfare. Mossad's motto "By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War" (Hebrew: be-tahbūlōt ta`aseh lekhā milkhamāh) is being carried out in supposed Iranian-engineered bomb plots against Israeli diplomats in New Delhi, India; Tbilisi, Georgia; and Bangkok, Thailand.

The Israeli ambassador to Thailand, Itzhak Shoham, is alleging that the latest bomb plot in Bangkok, in which two men said to be carrying Iranian passports were caught trying to carry out a bomb plot against Israeli diplomatic targets, were similar to two other operations in Tbilisi and New Delhi. The Tbilisi and New Delhi operations saw amateurish homemade magnetic 'sticky bombs,' similar to those that Israel and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) have used to carry out car bomb assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran, being used against Israeli embassy targets.

In Bangkok, 'sticky bombs' made from C-4 explosives went off prematurely in the home of two suspects. The residence is located on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok. One of the alleged Iranians caught by Thai police is Saeid Moradi. Moradi lost his legs while tossing a grenade at police while they were chasing Moradi.

Earlier, a bomb attached to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle exploded, slightly wounding the wife of an Israeli diplomat. The woman was released from the hospital later the same day. In Tbilisi, a bomb attached to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle was defused before it as detonated . . . Israeli officials have promised retaliation for the alleged Iranian attacks. However, Iran has stated that Israel carried out the attacks in order to damage Tehran's good relations with India, Georgia, and Thailand. Thailand recently recognized the statehood of Palestine.

Thai authorities had been expecting a Mossad operation for the past month in retaliation for Thailand's recognition of Palestine . . . Moradi, the alleged Iranian grenade thrower, flew to Bangkok from Seoul. After arriving in Thailand, Moradi traveled to Phuket and then to Chonburi, remaining for several days during the Cobra Gold exercise. It is believed by Thai sources that Moradi obtained the hand grenades from the U.S. Special Forces team in Chonburi. Moradi threw the grenades at police on Sukhumvit Soi 7 in the Nana area of Bangkok [the area is close to the Nana sois 3,5, 9, and 11, where the suspected Erawan shrine bomber is believed to have escaped after carrying out the bombing of the shrine] . . . Thai sources also point out that Moradi is of Persian Jewish origin. A number of prominent Iranian Jewish families, some of whom are in exile in the United States, have the last name Moradi . . . A number of international terrorism experts claim the Bangkok operation lacked the sophistication that would be expected from Iranian intelligence or Iran's Quds special operations force . . . WMR has learned from Thai sources that the Ekkamai safe house was being used as an assembly center for car explosives. The devices were magnetic packages that were designed to be detonated by radio signal. The bomb packages were being shipped by the MEK from Thailand to Iran disguised as consumer electronics. The Thailand-to-Iran route is how previous car bombs targeting Iranian scientists were being smuggled into Iran.

WMR followed up the 2012 bombing story on February 17, 2012: "As the old saying goes, 'when you're trapped in a hole, stop digging.' The more Israel 'reveals' about a four-nation terrorist plot allegedly aimed at Israel by Iran and Hezbollah, the more it becomes an obvious blatant propaganda ploy by Tel Aviv to pin blame on Iran and its allies.

The more Thai police look into the Ekkamai safe house used by the so-called Iranians to plan their bomb attacks against Israeli targets in Bangkok, the more it becomes clear that the house was part of a Mossad operation using Mojahedin-e-Khalk (MEK) terrorists and Iranian Jews as go-betweens.

The Ekkamai safe house was rented by an 'Iranian' woman named Leila Rohani. It is known that Rohani is an Iranian Jewish name specific to musicians in the old Persian royal court. There are a number of Iranian Jewish Rohanis living in the Los Angeles area among members of the de-throned Shah's family.

Singapore has debunked a story that was obviously planted by Mossad in a Kuwaiti newspaper that claimed that Iranian agents, all part of the same ring that allegedly targeted Israeli facilities in Georgia, India, and Thailand, planned to assassinate Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak while he was attending the Singapore Air Show. Singapore police denied they arrested a three-man Iranian-Hezbollah team in the country to kill the Israeli Defense Minister. The information was said to have been passed on by Mossad to Singapore authorities but Singapore and even the Israeli embassy in Singapore deny the story . . .

With information obtained by WMR from Thailand that the magnets used for the bombs in New Delhi and Bangkok came from the same sheet and that the toy-size bomb in New Delhi was constructed at the Ekkamai safe house factory rented by Leila Rohani, the India and Georgia operations appear to have been training missions carried out by Mossad for the benefit of MEK terrorists and their Persian Jewish handlers. A bomb slapped on to an Israeli vehicle at the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi failed to detonate.

Thai authorities are now claiming that a man who lost his legs after a bomb he was carrying detonated prematurely was merely in possession of an Iranian passport, not that he, himself, was identified as Iranian. The man, Saeid Moradi, is now in a Bangkok hospital. Moradi, like Rohani, is a common Iranian Jewish last name.

Moradi and two accomplices were reported to have cavorted with prostitutes at bars in Pattaya Beach, Thailand, before traveling to Bangkok. Actual Quds Force operatives and Iranian special operations covert units have mullahs or junior religious scholars traveling with them, acting as political officers and chaplains . . .

The team of terrorists flew to Pattaya Beach from Phuket. Phuket was near the venue where the U.S. was conducting Cobra Gold military exercises with Thai, South Korean, Japanese, Indonesian and Malaysian forces. One man seen with Moradi and two others in Bangkok, Javad Nikkhahfard, is believed to be the chief bomb maker and is now on the run from authorities. Thai authorities describe Nikkhahfard as of 'Middle Eastern descent' but give no nationality. 'Middle Eastern descent' is a common code used by American and other 'politically Semite-sitive' law enforcement agencies to describe Israelis without endangering their careers.

Another alleged Iranian in Thailand, Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, was arrested in Malaysia while attempting to fly back directly to Iran. Thai sources have stated that this shows that Mossad tried too hard to pin the bombings in Bangkok on Iran. Any competent intelligence agency would have, if we are to believe that the Iranian team in Bangkok was caught red-handed, have immediately found local cover, gained contact with their case officer -- presumably an official cover Iranian diplomat or non-official cover businessman in Bangkok, and then use back-up identification/passport to travel to a third country, for example, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, or Pakistan, before returning to Iran. The Mossad had obviously pre-paid the air tickets for their 'Iranians' using their actual names for false flag purposes. However, by being stereotypically cheap, the Mossad is rapidly blowing the cover off their shoddy operation."

Israelis would be so bold as to try to pin the Erawan shrine bombing on Iran. As seen in their 2012 caper in Bangkok, the Mossad was so sloppy in its operations its fingerprints began to appear all over the Bangkok crime scenes.

[Glass]

thanks. very good assessment. There are a lot in Thailand. I had an address I wanted to check to see how far it was from the park that the bomber was taken to. There are a few embassies in that area. I grabbed a bunch of stuff I think the address is in amongst this morning. I still need to go through it and find the notes.

The european date for the event was 17-08-2015

1+7 = 8
0+8 = 8
2+0+1+5 = 8

8-8-8

popular area for Chinese tourists.

I don't know what the numbers look like in Thai calendar or Israeli for that matter.

[Glass]

So the embassy I was thinking of is not in the area of this park that the bomber went to. That embassy is in the almost opposite direction. The US embassy is there though. At the North east corner of the park.

[Dogman]

thanks. very good assessment. There are a lot in Thailand. I had an address I wanted to check to see how far it was from the park that the bomber was taken to. There are a few embassies in that area. I grabbed a bunch of stuff I think the address is in amongst this morning. I still need to go through it and find the notes.

The european date for the event was 17-08-2015

1+7 = 8
0+8 = 8
2+0+1+5 = 8

8-8-8

popular area for Chinese tourists.

I don't know what the numbers look like in Thai calendar or Israeli for that matter. Hi Kitty !

LMFAO !

[Glass]

Hi Kitty !

LMFAO !

The kitty's numbers were usually rubbish rantings. Probably due to too much quiet corner time.

as I say to other people, you might not believe in it but your enemy does. People should know what their enemy believes. Just like September 11 has been a very auspicious day for terror attacks and other major events through out history. They do it by the numbers.

[PatColo]

just rolled by tomatobubble updates page (http://www.tomatobubble.com/id72.html) to check the latest.


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