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Report from Bangkok Post dated Saturday 27 January 2007 :-
All 19 suspects detained by police released due to a lack of evidence
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All 19 people detained for questioning in connection with the New Year blasts have been released for lack of evidence, a police source said yesterday. However, one civilian suspect, Krisdakorn Thipbodi, is being held by Prawase police for illegal possession of firearms, the source added.
None of the fingerprints of the 19 men matched those taken from the blast sites and examination of other evidence is not ready yet, the source said.
Comparison of evidence collected from the bomb sites with materials seized from houses in last Saturday's raids will take another week to complete, the source added.
The 14 military officers and five civilians were released after being held for a week without being charged.
The released men would be summoned for further questioning if new findings suggest they may have been involved in the attacks. Arrest warrants will only be sought if there is solid evidence linking them to the blasts, said the source.
However, all of the released have been put under surveillance on the orders of Pol Lt-Gen Panupong Singhara, assistant police chief and head of the investigation, the source said.
''Besides monitoring their movements, the team will also provide protection, especially to the five civilians,'' said the source. ''Some ill-intentioned group may attempt to intervene.''
Military detainees were handed over to their units which will decide how to deal with them. One of the civilians released, Thanapol Dee-iam, was sent to Surin province where he is wanted on extortion charges.
Council for National Security (CNS) chairman Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin yesterday denied he had been informed in advance of last Saturday's raids.
''No. We did not know anything,'' said Gen Sonthi, who is also the army chief.
National police chief Kowit Wattana had been quoted as reporting to the CNS that Gen Sonthi gave him the green light for the raids on Jan 17, three days before the arrests were made.
Pol Gen Kowit met Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont for an hour yesterday to report the progress of the investigation.
When asked if he was satisfied with the work of the police, Gen Surayud said the national police chief had dedicated resources to efforts to solve the case.
Gen Sonthi has said repeatedly that Pol Gen Kowit would be held personally responsible for the investigation and has publicly warned the police chief against arresting scapegoats.
Defence Minister Boonrawd Somtas said the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) will decide whether or not to launch a separate probe into the New Year blasts after the release of the suspects.
He said that Gen Sonthi, as director of Isoc, will have the final say in the matter.
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Quote: from PussyLover 69 on 3:35 pm on Jan. 27, 2007
All 19 people detained for questioning in connection with the New Year blasts have been released for lack of evidence, a police source said yesterday. However, one civilian suspect, Krisdakorn Thipbodi, is being held by Prawase police for illegal possession of firearms, the source added.
None of the fingerprints of the 19 men matched those taken from the blast sites and examination of other evidence is not ready yet, the source said.
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Posted on: 11:29 am on Jan. 27, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Tuesday 30 January 2007 :-
Two explosions in northern Bangkok
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Two explosions occurred early on Tuesday morning along the main road in northern Bangkok. There were no casualties reported in the blasts near the Daily News newspaper and Rama Gardens Hotel Bangkok.
The blasts are suspected to be grenades, probably fired from a military-type grenade launcher from the Don Muang Tollway, which runs above the Viphavadee Rangsit road, where the explosions occurred.
One went off around 1 a.m. just in front of the Daily News newspaper building, which is about 200 metres back from the main roadway. It blew a hole about 30 cm (one foot) wide in the ground.
The second blast, not long after, occurred about 30 metres from the first, in the parking lot of the Rama Gardens Hotel. It blew out most of the lights in the parking area, and caused a foot-wide crack in a wall.
At both scenes, police found explosive debris, which they were analysing this morning. Officers and bomb squad members said they believed the explosives were "projectile devices fired from a launcher on the Tollway."
The blasts bore little resemblance to the bombing waves on New Year's Eve, but were likely to increase pressure on authorities to solve that dealing incident.
The New Year's bombings involved actual time bombs, set in public areas to go off when large numbers of people were around. They killed three Thais and wounded more than 40 Thai and foreign bystanders.
The attacks this morning likely were by grenades. While they landed at public areas, they were fired at a time and place when both damage and casualties were likely to be light. In the event, they caused only superficial damage and no known casualties.
The Thai military and elite police forces have thousands of grenade launchers in their inventory.
The standard M40 grenade launcher and rounds can be purchased reasonably easily on the weapons black market. Both weapons and ammunition date back to the Vietnam war era, and have become common throughout Thailand and the region.
Such terrorist-type bombing was unknown in Bangkok until New Year's Eve. Through the communist wars of the 1970s and 1980s, and the southern separatist violence which has flared for 30 years, there has been no associated violence in the capital.
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Posted on: 7:35 am on Jan. 30, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Tuesday 30 January 2007 :-
Govt Poll: Bangkok frightened but secure
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(TNA) - One month after the deadly bombings in the capital on New Year's Eve which killed three persons and injured more than 40, the National Statistical Office (NSO) released an opinion survey which found that although Bangkokians fear bombings, they remain confident in the government's security measures.
The survey, conducted among 1,080 Bangkok residents aged 15 and above January 6-9, found that over two-thirds -- 68.5 per cent -- of those surveyed worried about the bombings.
A smaller number, but still a majority -- 53.6 per cent -- said the incidents impacted their everyday lives and those of their families when going to crowded recreational, shopping or business areas, according to NSO secretary-general Thananoot Treetipbut.
The survey found that Bangkokians' activities after work and on holidays have changed.
For example, the percentage of respondents going to department stores has dropped from 88.5 per cent to 65 per cent.
Thananoot said although most of Bangkok residents are frightened and worried about the bombings, 77.9 per cent of the respondents are nonetheless confident in the government's prevention and security measures.
However, 80 per cent said there were no security measures implemented in their communities and only 20 per cent said that the police and soldiers regularly patrolled residential areas.
More than half of the respondents or 54.7 per cent said that overall, Bangkok residents' safety in terms of their lives and property is at a moderate to high level, while 45.3 per cent said the safety was little to none.
Meanwhile, 42.6 per cent said what they wanted the government to do most after the bombings was to arrest the bombers, while 31.5 per cent said that the government should increase security measures.
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Posted on: 7:40 am on Jan. 30, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 2 February 2007 :-
DSI: Bomb suspect has South links
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The Department of Special Investigation confirmed Friday that the man caught on a surveillance camera as a Bangkok bombing suspect was already wanted in a case related to southern unrest.
DSI director-general Sunai Manomai-udom, in an interview on a morning TV news programme, identified the suspect as Thawansak Pae-nae. He has been charged in a criminal case but had escaped.
Mr Thawansak was allegedly caught in security footage by a CCTV system at Seacon Square mall on New Year's Eve while dropping a potato-chip cylinder into a trash bin.
Mr Sunai said he could be involved with a separatist movement called PYNSS, said Mr Sunai. The group never has been mentioned publicly before, according to Bangkok Post archives.
Mr Thawansak was among the three suspects whom DSI believe could be involved in the deadly bombing waves in Bangkok.
Justice Minister Charnchai Likhitjitta said one Thursday the DSI spotted two suspicious men and one woman on a footage from a security camera.
When asked if he was worried about this case, Mr Sunai said, "I'm not worried."
Portions of the videotape of the other suspects will be sent overseas for identification using equipment unavailable in Thailand.
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Posted on: 12:40 am on Feb. 2, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 2 February 2007 :-
DSI hones in on suspects from security camera tapes
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The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has singled out images of three suspects in the New Year bombings in Bangkok using security camera footage taken at CentralWorld Plaza that police had already analysed. Justice Minister Charnchai Likhitjitta said the DSI spotted two suspicious men and one woman on footage from a security camera.
After sketching one of the men and cross-checking the picture with criminal records, the DSI found he had been charged in a criminal case before but had escaped.
Sketches of the other two suspects will be sent overseas for identification using equipment unavailable in Thailand. He said the tapes the DSI team examined were the same as those previously analysed by the police. He denied the DSI had a secret security camera.
DSI director-general Sunai Manomai-udom said investigators used specialist software to analyse the tapes from CentralWorld's camera.
The DSI would look for more evidence to see how the three suspects were linked to each other and to the explosion in front of CentralWorld, he said.
''We will wait until the evidence is clearer before calling in the suspects, because the agency does not want to bring in the wrong suspects for questioning as the police did, as it will tarnish our reputation,'' Mr Sunai said.
The DSI's inquiry would place importance on circumstantial evidence as it had secured different information from the police, he said.
The DSI has not yet found a link to the 19 suspects whom police earlier brought in for questioning, said Mr Sunai, who was recently appointed chief of the DSI by the military-appointed government.
A source said the DSI is examining pictures of people who stood near the rubbish bin where the bomb was placed, including the three suspects. Investigators would gradually eliminate those who were not relevant to the inquiry, the source said. The faces of the suspects were not clear from the footage.
Ehancement techniques had been applied to develop a composite image which helped link one data image to a man listed in police records.
Pictures of the other two suspects require more sophisticated software programmes in use overseas to build up a composite image as they showed only one side of their faces, the source said.
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Posted on: 12:52 am on Feb. 2, 2007
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Posted on: 9:01 am on Feb. 2, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 5 February 2007 :-
City bomb blast evidence linked to South
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Police said yesterday their theory on a possible link between the New Year's Eve bombings in Bangkok and Nonthaburi and southern insurgency was correct.
In a report to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), police insisted on a possible link with separatist movements, after the Internal Security Operations Command said it thought the bombings stemmed from political conflicts, a source said. The DSI has joined the probe into the bombings that killed three people and injured 42 others.
Police believe evidence collected from the nine sites where bombs went off point to a bomb-making technique similar to that used in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, the source said, citing the report.
The technique was nearly identical to that used in the bombing at a Bangkok Bank branch in Betong district of Yala last year. Casio digital watches were used as timers.
Stainless steel back covers of Casio watches of the 200 and 201 series were found at the Bangkok sites.
These series are made in Indonesia and China, and sent mostly to Hat Yai district of Songkhla and department stores in Bangkok.
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Posted on: 3:16 am on Feb. 5, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Wednesday 21 February 2007 :-
Security in Bangkok to be tightened
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Bangkok governor Apirak Kosayodhin warned directors of 50 districts in Bangkok of possible insurgents' attacks in the capital in an urgent letter distributed on Wednesday.
Mr Apirak told the directors to work with police and soldiers to prevent insurgents' attacks, especially at crowded places like department stores, skytrain and subway stations.
He said security measures to be stepped up in Bangkok around the clock to guarantee safety to the Bangkokians.
Public are also urged to help authorities and inform them if they see or know something suspicious.
Mr Apirak's action came after rumours circulated that insurgents planned to stage violent activities again on Friday ( 23 February 2007 )
Insurgents staged a spate of bombings and arson in the southernmost provinces on Sunday night, killing seven people and hurting more than 50 others.
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