Posted on 08/06/2006 12:12:43 AM PDT by ldish
Four injured in explosion on Bangkok bus
BANGKOK: -- Four passengers were injured when a homemade bomb exploded on a Bangkok bus Saturday night.
The time bomb detonated by a clock exploded on Bus No 95 at 10:40 am.
The bus was having about 20 passengers and had left Happy Land Market heading to Bang Khen when the explosion occurred when it was in front of Bang Toey Temple near Soi Navamin 101..
Three passengers were slightly injured were discharged from the Lard Prao Hospital after treatments.
The other passenger suffered cuts on the left leg and suffered back injury from the blast impact. He was discharged after treatment.
The bus driver, Jittakorn Prajonghat, 32, told police that the bomb might be planted by four teenagers who got off the bus just a stop before the bomb exploded.
--The Nation 2006-08-06
ON THE NET...
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=Bus+%2B+Bangkok&ie=UTF-8
August 6, 2006
http://nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30010473
"Four injured in explosion on Bangkok bus"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The time bomb detonated by a clock exploded on Bus No 95 at 10:40 am."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The bus driver, Jittakorn Prajonghat, 32, told police that the bomb might be planted by four teenagers who got off the bus just a stop before the bomb exploded."
Much too early to say. There have been a few 'homemade bombs' going off in Bangkok in the past year because of the ongoing political problems with the Prime Minister.
bttt
Let me guess, Bhuddists??
Cute...
Given recent events, probably a 50% chance.
when the results start looking like London or Tel Aviv
then we'll know
Who would want to wait that long before taking action...
So in your eyes, the ongoing attacks in Bangkok between TRT and it's opponents have been the work of Muslims? What about the grenade tossed at Gen Prem's house? You think that was done by Muslims also?
Arrest of the 'ultimate mastermind' (Details of Hambali 's Arrest 3 yrs ago)
Interesting story about Hambali.
Some other tidbits not in the story:
In Phnom Penh, Hambali stayed for a while at the Cloud 9 guest house, a notorious ganja smokers hangout. The female employees there stated that he gave them the creeps.
We arrived in BKK a few weeks after Hambali's capture, which was already in the news. But it wasn't until the first week of September that the Bangkok Post reported the target list, which included Khao San Road, Nana and Patpong. I recall that Khao San Road was closed to automobiles that very day.
Strangest of all: when we arrive in Vietnam in late September, family members down on the Delta told us that several "Arabs" had been detained a few weeks earlier while trying to cross the border illegally at Chau Doc (from Cambodia). This came from another relative who worked for the police in Chau Doc, it was never reported in the English language or local papers in Vietnam. No one knew what happened to them, only that they'd been arrested. This jibes with (a) the crackdown on Muslims in Cambodia, (b) the arrest of Hambali, and (c) the Bangkok Post's report that Vietnam had also been on Hambali's target list. In any case no one knew what had happened to the "Arabs".
A couple of points from the article.
"To keep him in Guantanamo, as rumoured, is not the best solution,"
Well, some countries have a habit of letting these bastards escape or they're given light prison terms. Let him rot in Gitmo, if that's where he is.
According to Thai officials, most of the $10 million in reward was distributed to those who had not much to do with the case, while those who worked hard got very little or nothing.
I hope that isn't the case and this is someone vetching about not getting a cut.
It was reported some time ago (although who knows the truth of it) that Hambali wasn't sent to Gitmo, but had been kept for a very long time at a military airbase in Thailand (not Don Muang Airport).
Pick up a copy of The Second Front: Inside Asia's Most Dangerous Terrorist Network by Ken Conboy. It is about the formation and eventual undoing of JI. It talks about the various plots involving Thailand with a lot of information on Hambali.
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