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dirty guru
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I think Americans need to be especially mindful that wearing American Baseball caps - or T shirts - and/or speaking loudly - or saying anti Muslim (middle eastern ) things in bars or public places -is not advisable -
Doc Love had an excellent suggestion that Americans wore their little American Pin badges of the stars and stripes - so others could consciously be given the chance to keep away from them-
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Posted on: 3:46 pm on Jan. 17, 2012
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I find it ironical when politicians beat their breasts over the notional impact of terrorist alerts on tourism. What would be the actual impact on tourism if a terrorist strike is indeed successfully carried out ? It is far better to let information flow freely and to publicise the alerts extensively so people -- and tourists -- know that warnings are taken seriously and that authorities are doing their best to protect them.
In several countries across Asia -- heavily regulated Singapore included -- you have TV monitors at MRT, bus and railway stations repeatedly playing mock videos of strange people placing luggage under their seats and not taking them when they alight. It tells people to stay alert. Thailand has a lo-o-o-o-o-ng way to go to shed its false assumption of insulation from terrorist attacks.
On the other hand, there is this little feisty bird on my shoulder that tells me that Suk Soi 3, with all those denizens that send a shiver down your spine, is not just a convenient meeting place for the flies -- it could actually be the spider's parlor.
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Posted on: 1:48 am on Jan. 18, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated 18 January 2012 :-
Suspect had many accomplices: police
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Ongoing police investigation into a high-profile terrorism case suggests that Lebanese suspect Atris Hussein may have had many accomplices, including some Thais, Deputy National Police Commissioner General Pansiri Prapawat disclosed yesterday.
"We will question people who have been in contact with Atris," he said, refusing to elaborate.
Police said that Hussein, 47, had confessed to storing large amounts of ammonia nitrate and urea fertiliser at a shop house in Samut Sakhon and was planning to export it to a third country. He currently faces the charge of possessing prohibited substances.
"The items in his possession could be used to make bombs," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lt-General Winai Thongsong said, adding that three Arabs had been seen going in and out of the shop house.
"They were last seen six months ago, but we believe they have already left Thailand," Winai said.
He added that police had found evidence that Hussein had contacted shipping firms in order to export the bomb-making materials. "We have already alerted the authorities of the intended destination," he said, adding that Hussein was just a man assigned to handle the bomb-making materials in Thailand and not key to any terror plots.
Urea fertiliser is freely available in Thailand and possessing it is not a legal offence. However, ammonia nitrate is a controlled substance and unauthorised possession constitutes the violation of law.
Assistant National Police Commissioner Lt-General Jaramporn Suramanee said the Scientific Crime Detection Division was examining fingerprints to determine who else might have been involved.
Winai said Hussein had told police that he had never exported bomb-making materials out of Thailand before.
"He was going to do it for the first time," he said.
Pansiri said Hussein was cooperating with the police and that investigation was making good progress. To date, he said, the suspect has not been charged with terrorism.
It is widely believed that Hussein has links with Hezbollah, a militant political party in Lebanon that is considered a terrorist organisation by Israel, the United States, Britain, Canada and several other countries.
Israeli police had reportedly warned Thai police in December that a Hezbollah member of Lebanese descent had entered Thailand and was plotting to stage terror attacks in key foreign tourist sites on Sukhumvit and Khao San roads. The targets were allegedly people from countries considered hostile to the Arab world.
Police had since been pursuing all leads and finally nabbed Hussein at Suvarnabhumi Airport last week. An informed source said Hussein had travelled in and out of Thailand several times over the past two years and usually stayed at Bangkok's All Seasons Hotel.
According to the source, Hussein had revealed in jail that bomb-making materials were being kept in a shophouse in Samut Sakhon and that he used to drive around the capital taking photos of key sites.
Yet, when the charge was filed against him officially, he denied any wrongdoing.
"We will question more witnesses and gather more evidence before deciding whether to file terrorism charges," Pansiri said yesterday.
The Criminal Court yesterday approved an initial 12-day detention for Hussein pending further investigation. He is now being held at the Bangkok Remand Prison.
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Posted on: 1:56 am on Jan. 18, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Quote: from Kaymanx on 2:48 pm on Jan. 18, 2012
Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in Bangkok
BK, I hope the terrorists don't read this !!!
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Posted on: 2:03 am on Jan. 18, 2012
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bkkz
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PL, they already know that info. It's freely available on the net. Just google it. Just want the folks who live nearby these places to be aware, that's all.
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Posted on: 2:21 am on Jan. 18, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Quote: from bkkz on 3:21 pm on Jan. 18, 2012
PL, they already know that info. It's freely available on the net. Just google it. Just want the folks who live nearby these places to be aware, that's all.
BK, thank you for the "community service".... God bless you !
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Posted on: 3:34 am on Jan. 18, 2012
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koolbreez
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What is really reasuring about these reports is that NO deisel fuel was found at the site of the materials they found, unless they did not mention it, but they aren't that smart, and they showed everything in the videos on TV.
Deisel is the key ingredient to make it all go boom, and without it the ingredients are just fertilizer. You also need a mercury blasting cap, but that is something they might be smart enough not to mention, and small enough they could hide it from the news very easily, but as media obsessed some of the high ranking officials are, they would have showed them off if they found some.
They mentioned the fan boxes, and printing paper, so they would have mentioned the deisel if it was there in enough quantity for that much fertilizer. There would have been at least one 55 gallon drum of it, and it would have been visable in all the video that was on TV of them emptying the warehouse, and luckily there wasn't any.
The fertilizer has to be saturated, and soaked thoroughly with the deisel so it's not something you can add at the last moment, and expect it to go boom.
Some of you might remember what 1300 pounds of it did to the Federal building in Oklahoma city when Timothy McVey used it. He was executed for that domestic terrorist action.
It is one of the most powerful of explosives, and very easy to make. The hardest part in most countries is getting the blasting cap to set it all off. There is a way to make one with off the counter materials, but it is complicated, and not something very many people could do without blowing themselves up in the final drying process....lolol.
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Posted on: 10:37 am on Jan. 18, 2012
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magnum
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... today's BKK Post reports on the BKK building where bomb-making chemicals were stored:
"Mr Chavanond said it was widely known among residents that it was actually police who rented the building."
... bloody f***ing hell!... is that just f***ing unbelieveable?
... can anyone wonder that the Royal Thai Police cannot be trusted with the lives of others in their hands... to police ANYTHING, much less terrorists?
... (the part about US investigators not yet interrogating the suspect I think is just total misdirection... even if Thais resist cooperating, how hard do you think it is to bribe a Thai?
... I can imagine foreign investigators relying upon the Thais to "pre-debrief" the suspect by inserting and firing-up the copper anal cathode, just before the foreign investigators enter the chamber of horrors for questioning).
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/275749/us-wants-to-question-suspect
US 'wants to question suspect'
Ex-NSC chief says terror alert aims for joint fight
The US has refused to lift a terror alert in Thailand because it wants to pressure the country into allowing its authorities to take part in the questioning of a Swedish-Lebanese terror suspect, a former National Security Council secretary-general says.
Kachadpai Burusapatana said he believed the US warning about possible terror attacks here remains in place because the US wants Thailand to collaborate more with it against terrorism.
The US wants Thailand to lets its investigators join in the questioning of terror suspect Hussein Atris, who was arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport last Thursday.
Police suspect he might have links to the Hezbollah militant group.
Mr Kachadpai also said police should avoid publicising the issue too much if they had not gathered clear evidence.
In his view, evidence was insufficient to point to terrorist plots in Thailand, and careless handling of the issue could get Thailand embroiled in a conflict between the US and terrorists, he said.
Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security analyst at Chulalongkorn University, said he had detected signs of a possible problem in communication between the US and Thailand.
He noted a report on Tuesday which said Thai investigators had not allowed US authorities to take part in the questioning of the terror suspect.
The next day, US ambassador Kristie Kenney posted a message on her Twitter account that the US terror alert for American citizens in Bangkok had not been lifted.
Mr Panitan believes the US may want Thailand to give a reassurance that American people are safe before considering lifting the alert.
"A superpower like the US will not easily bow to a demand by Thailand to lift the alert straight away," he said.
He also said Thai authorities must show tact and diplomacy in dealing with the US. Summoning the US ambassador to discuss the terror alert may ruffle Washington's feathers.
Mr Panitan said it would be best if the foreign minister met the US ambassador and told her what Thailand was doing about the terror threat. He believes the US will understand and eventually lift the warning.
Meanwhile, police have denied setting up the seizure of a huge cache of bomb-making materials in the Mahachai area of Samut Sakhon on Monday.
Police raided the building after questioning Mr Atris.
They found 4.4 tonnes of urea-based fertiliser and 290 litres of ammonium nitrate.
Deputy national police chief Pansiri Prapawat, head of the investigators handling the case, yesterday rejected claims by Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut that police had set up the raid to clear themselves of suspicion in the cache.
Mr Chavanond said it was widely known among residents that it was actually police who rented the building.
Pol Gen Pansiri insisted Mr Atris had rented the building for 15,000 baht a month for two years and was close to reaching a deal to buy the building for 6 million baht.
Checks had found a policeman also rented the building for workers to stay, but only for two months.
Mr Atris had told them the materials were not intended for use in any attacks in Thailand, and were to be exported.
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Posted on: 8:50 pm on Jan. 18, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated 19 January 2012 :-
US embassy maintains terror threat warning on its website
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The US Embassy sees American citizens in Thailand still facing the threat of terrorism and will keep the warning on its website even though the Thai government is insisting that Thailand is not a target for international terrorists, a senior embassy official said yesterday.
"Nothing changes" when it comes to the perceived threats and America's need to keep its citizens informed, the high-ranking embassy source told The Nation.
However, the source would not say how long this warning - which seems to be upsetting the Yingluck government - would remain on the embassy's website.
Government leaders have been calling on the embassy to remove the warning, especially now that a foreign suspect has been arrested and a large cache of bomb-making materials discovered.
Last week, US Ambassador to Thailand Kristie Kenney tweeted that the warning was "real" and "Bangkok specific". Despite that, the source yesterday suggested that the information gathered so far was not enough to pinpoint targets or locations.
The source would not confirm if the warning was meant to push the government into being more proactive. The embassy posted the warning after some kind of notification was submitted to the Foreign Ministry a day earlier.
The police, meanwhile, are still keeping a close watch on three spots in Bangkok - Rambutri, Sukhumvit 22 and Khao San roads. "We will continue to prevent and suppress [terror attacks]," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lt-General Winai Thongsong said yesterday.
Atris Hussein, 47, was arrested last week at Suvarnabhumi Airport and is now facing charges of illegally possessing ammonia nitrate, a precursor chemical used for bomb-making.
Police believe that Hussein may have had several accomplices and the investigation is ongoing.
Six months ago, three Arab-looking men were allegedly seen going in and out of the Samut Sakhon shophouse rented by Hussein and used to keep ammonia nitrate and urea fertiliser, according to police. These men, however, are believed to have already left Thailand.
"Some Thais might have worked for Hussein, but we believe they might have not known exactly what he was up to," Winai said.
In the USEmbassyBKK Twitter account, Kenney was quoted as saying that the January 13 emergency message for US citizens remained in effect.
On January 13, the US embassy's web site alerted US citizens in Thailand that foreign terrorists might be currently looking to conduct attacks against tourist areas in Bangkok in the near future.
US citizens were urged to exercise caution when visiting public areas where large groups of Western tourists gather in Bangkok.
Deputy National Police Commissioner General Pansiri Prapawat said yesterday that police planned to question everybody who might have been in contact with Hussein.
"Our teams are investigating the case, questioning witnesses, examining and gathering evidence," he said.
Meanwhile, an informed source said that at a meeting held to follow up on the case yesterday, police officers also discussed a widely circulated suggestion that police might have placed ammonia nitrate in the shophouse.
"The reports are based on information that a police senior sergeant major had rented the same shophouse," the source said. "But local police said a policeman had rented another shophouse nearby to sell rice and had only used the place for two months."
According to the source, Hussein had rented a shophouse in Samut Sakhon for up to two years at a monthly rate of Bt15,000 and was planning to buy it for Bt6 million.
After the meeting, Pansiri, who is chief investigator, said police had acquired more information on the case but could not reveal it at this point.
Winai also revealed that police are working closely with local and international intelligence agencies.
Supreme Commander General Thanasak Patimaprakorn, meanwhile, voiced confidence that the situation relating to terrorism threat in Thailand was under control.
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Posted on: 10:29 pm on Jan. 18, 2012
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