I'm still not buying it.
Thaliand?
Yea, and the Pope COULD be Jewish and monkeys COULD fly out my butt.... As someone who lives in Bangkok, bullsh*t! The former Prime Minister, and those who support him, have nothing to gain from this. There are too many loose lips around Thailand and word of it would get out eventually completely destroying anyone involves chances of ever being involved in politics again... or of seeing the outside of Klong Prem Prison. Here is what I wrote on a previous thread:
I am not buying it either. My feeling at this point is a Muslim sympathizer group based somewhere around Bangkok. I don't think it was the guys from the south for a variety of reasons. The targets were picked quite well. That part would require someone familiar with the city.
The attacks were very minor. From the reports that I have read, the bombs were approximately 5x3x1 inch in size and consisted of ANFO and watch based timers. Stuff that could easily be read about online.
Whoever did it was not sure about the consequences and so didn't go for anything spectacular. If the bombings involved TRT or another political factions, there would be no reason for multiple small distributed attacks. It is too risky. One medium size bomb placed somewhere out of the way would have been enough and would have gotten the same message across. I don't see any way these groups could benefit from the attacks. Besides, this is Thailand. Someone would talk and it would be the political end of whoever did it.
The critical question:
Has the Thai government yet asked for FBI assistance in evaluating the evidence?
If so, then I'm probably going to conclude that the bombings were the work of either (1) the Muslims or (2) the supporters of ousted P.M. Thaksin.
But if the government refuses to involve the FBI in solving the case, then I'll probably conclude that government supporters were involved.
The best report I have read is from the Christian Science Monitor by By Simon Montlake.
"The insurgents clearly have the technical capacities, but you have to wonder, do they have the infrastructure in Bangkok to do eight bombs?" says Zachary Abuza, a politics professor at Simmons College in Boston and author of a book on the Thai insurgency. Others are skeptical, however, of the rush to rule out domestic militants. Sanit Nakajitti, director of PSA Asia Pacific Group, a security consultancy in Bangkok, says the use of watch timers and ammonium nitrate was consistent with the bombs made by southern insurgents, and said recent police intelligence reports had warned of an imminent bombing campaign in Bangkok. Mr. Sanit, a former police officer, says the investigation is being swayed by political pressure. "The problem is that military intelligence, the police, and other intelligence agencies have been given a goal. They must come out with the results that this [violence] is from the old powers," he says. "It's sad. They can't act freely."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0103/p04s01-woap.html
I have heard rumors that some police officers have been removed and replaced with ones that will yield to the political pressure from the military government.