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China Sailor
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Send the dude to Gitmo and let them sort it out...
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Posted on: 3:04 pm on Jan. 20, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated 21 January 2012 :-
Police chief rejects Atris set-up claim
Suspect in terror alert fingers Israel's Mossad
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Claims by a Swedish-Lebanese man arrested for possession of restricted materials that he was an ordinary trader set up by Israel's secret service were dismissed by the Bangkok police chief yesterday.
Pol Lt Gen Winai Thongsong rejected the man's claim that Mossad or Israeli diplomats were involved in the Thai investigation.
In an interview in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Hussein Atris, who was arrested last week after fears were raised of a terrorist attack in Bangkok, said his detention was a conspiracy.
"I am 100% not guilty in the terror crimes I am accused of," Mr Atris, 47, told the newspaper.
He also claimed that when he was taken out of prison on Monday to go to Samut Sakhon, he was placed in a car and interrogated by three men who "apparently came from the Mossad".
He alleged the restricted chemicals found in a shophouse raided on Monday were planted by Mossad.
Pol Lt Gen Winai said Mr Atris could maintain his innocence but police insisted his arrest and the seizure of the chemicals were not a set-up by any security agencies.
"The suspect led the investigators to the rented house himself. How could it be a set-up? The suspect told the police about the house and led them there without any Israeli involvement," Pol Lt Gen Winai said.
A source in the investigation team said the chemicals and other materials found in the suspect's shophouse in the south of Bangkok were packed, apparently for overseas shipping.
The source said police were confident there was no plot to attack targets in Bangkok as Mr Atris and the others, who allegedly have links with the Hezbollah group in Lebanon, had rented containers destined for three countries.
Mr Atris was detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Jan 12 as he was about to leave for Lebanon. On Monday, police took him to a shophouse in Samut Sakhon's tambon Mahachai where 4,380kg of urea-based fertiliser and 290 litres of ammonium nitrate were found.
On Thursday, the Criminal Court approved an arrest warrant for another Lebanese man called Jieme Paolo, 42, on a charge of colluding with Mr Atris to possess military supplies - ammonium nitrate - without permission.
The suspect is not the person in the sketch shown to the media earlier by police spokesman Piya Uthayo.
Metropolitan deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said Mr Paolo was Mr Atris's flatmate in Mahachai.
Pol Gen Pansiri said a police team on Thursday searched another house rented by Mr Atris and his associates in 2009 and 2010. They did not find any evidence as there have been three tenants because the suspects had already moved out.
Another police source said Mr Atris and his accomplices planned to ship the materials for bomb assembly via a shipping company on Sukhumvit Soi 3.
According to the source, Mr Atris was paid about US$5,000 (160,000 baht) for the delivery by an unnamed man.
Over the past two years, Mr Atris has entered Thailand 11 times. During those times, he and the others - the latest suspect Jieme Paolo and two others only known as Abass and Alaa - helped pack the materials into the boxes found at the rented shophouse.
His trip to Thailand was to check whether the materials were ready to be sent off, the source said.
Since the arrest, 17 governments have retained their security warnings about a possible terrorist attack in Bangkok. The United States insisted it will maintain its alert even though another arrest warrant has been issued.
Opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday suggested the government issue an official statement stating there is no reason for the security warnings to be kept in place.
"Otherwise, citizens of those countries will believe in the information issued by their governments. The key is for the government to explain that it has handled the threat that led to the warning being issued. That confidence will prompt those countries to review their warnings, " Mr Abhisit said.
He urged Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul to work harder to resolve the situation and restore public confidence.
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Posted on: 8:06 pm on Jan. 20, 2012
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magnum
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... 17 countries have issued security warnings for travel to Thailand... Thailand announces: "no, no... no need for concern... everything is under control... Thailand is not a target for terrorism.... I guarantee your safety."
... so, who... will believe... Thais?
... Thailand is a country where deceit and lying are widely practiced cultural values, even at the highest levels of government... where the 'partially free press' is harrassed and threatened by the government, the Internet is policed by the Ministry of Telecommunications, and its citizens private communications intercepted by the Royal Thai Police.
... even if the Thais were telling the truth, who would believe them?
... I guess trustworthiness in the eyes of the world (well, 17 countries at least) is the trade-off Thais make for the shining society they have created for themselves.
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Posted on: 8:40 pm on Jan. 20, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated 21 January 2012 :-
Bomb materials meant for the Mideast: Thai Police
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Police have discovered that the foreign suspect who has been detained over his alleged links to a terror network had been planning to send bomb-making materials to three countries in the Middle East, a source revealed yesterday.
"The suspect had contacted an export company on Sukhumvit Soi 3," the source said.
Atris Hussein, who holds both Lebanese and Swedish nationalities, was nabbed at Suvarnabhumi Airport early this month. He has been widely linked to Hezbollah, a militant group and political party based in Lebanon.
His arrest has since become big news.
However, in a recent interview, Hussein told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that he was set up.
"A lot of the material that police found in my storage facility had been placed there, most likely by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
In his interview, Hussein insisted that he ran an export business, which involved his buying goods in Asia and sending them to other countries, including Lebanon.
"The products were fans, copy paper, ice packs used for pain relief," he told the paper.
However, the source said yesterday that another foreigner was believed to have paid Hussein about US$5,000 (Bt150,000) after checking on the bomb-making materials at his shophouse in Samut Sakhon. Police uncovered huge amounts of ammonium nitrate and urea fertiliser at the site, and since the former is a controlled substance in Thailand, Hussein is being charged with having a prohibited substance in his possession.
Police have also issued an arrest warrant for Jieme Paolo or Sami Sam, a 42-year-old Lebanese national, on the same charge. He has been described as one of Hussein's accomplices.
"We have been checking whether this suspect has left the country," Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner General Pansiri Prapawat said.
He added that Paolo had been living in the shophouse rented by Hussein. This is in addition to the sketch of a third man that was displayed by police spokesman Maj-General Piya Utayo.
"We have to find out more about the man in the sketch before taking further action," Pansiri said.
According to Pansiri, Hussein had travelled in and out of Thailand about 11 times over the past few years. He and his accomplices had rented a house opposite Tesco Lotus superstore in Samut Sakhon from 2009 to late 2010, before moving to the shophouse.
"We have acquired more evidence but cannot reveal it at this point," Pansiri said.
According to an English translation of the report published by Aftonbladet posted on http://www.thelocal.se,
Hussein is 47, moved to Sweden in 1989 and took Swedish citizenship in 1994. In 2005, he moved back to Lebanon but held on to his Swedish passport. The report also said Hussein used to work as a hairdresser in Gothenburg.
China yesterday became the first country to revoke its warning to citizens about the terrorism threat in Thailand, according to Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul. About 20 countries issued such warnings.
Surapong said the move would bolster tourism and encourage other countries to remove their warnings.
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Posted on: 10:04 pm on Jan. 20, 2012
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magnum
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... I am so relieved!... the Thai government gleefully announces that the bombs were not meant for Thailand after all!... silly us.
... and how very convenient, that Thai tourism is now COMPLETELY unaffected by all this misunderstanding and everyone can come back.
... interesting, though... this is PRECISELY like Cabinet Minister Chalerm pronounced on day 1 of this affair... seems all the Royal Thai Police thereafter needed to do was synthesize an evidence trail consistent with Cabinet Minister Chalerm's grand pronouncement to prevent him from losing face in front of the whole world.
... well, mission accomplished!... let's all go back to enforcing litter laws against those trashy tourists and helping poor Thai jet-ski operators collect damages from wreckless tourists.
... convenient... and very typically Thai... but, who can know the truth, since you can never know when they are lying, or not.
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Posted on: 11:14 pm on Jan. 20, 2012
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Gus
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This excuse by Atris is about as plausible as the Captain of the Costa Concordia who accidentally tripped and slid into a life boat.
Nevertheless it is still a good thing this stuff is off the streets of Thailand.
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Posted on: 4:50 am on Jan. 21, 2012
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koolbreez
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If the police reports have any credibility, the person stated he had rented 10 containers to ship the materials to other countries. With each container holding 27,000 - 47,000 pounds, where is the rest of the fertilizer to warrant that many containers? 4.4 tons doesn't even make it worthwhile renting one container let alone 10. Is this like everything else that is illegal, you just go down, and walk the street until you find someone selling it, kind of like the illegal porn, or yaba.
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Posted on: 6:45 am on Jan. 21, 2012
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Deep File
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I don't mean to discount the potential Jewish targets, but think back to the Bali bombing and then think of Titanium on a Saturday night at 11pm. 150 revellers minimum, all of them "Western" and the front door is only 2 meters from the curb of the soi...
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Posted on: 4:13 am on Jan. 26, 2012
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madfrog
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Something does not make sense in what they say...
They say they found 400 electric fans and that the explosive substances were to be hidden in empty fan boxes.
Who can seriously believe they needed to actually buy 400 fans to get 400 empty fan boxes?
Not possible to just get the empty boxes? In Thailand where EVERYTHING is for sale, they can get tons of explosive but need to buy hundreds of fans just to get some empty box with "electric fan" written on them?
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Posted on: 5:01 am on Jan. 26, 2012
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