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"Thai Police Seize Explosives in Bangkok Bombing Investigation"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/world ... ation.html

"Bangkok bombing: Police name woman suspect, also seek man after raid"

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/31/asia/bangkok-bombing/
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‘Main suspect’ in Bangkok bombing arrested on Cambodian border
A second suspect has been arrested in the investigation into last month’s bombing in central Bangkok that killed 20 people.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha announced Tuesday afternoon that a foreign bomb suspect was arrested while trying to cross into Cambodia at Ban Pa Rai in Aranyaprathet district in Sa Kaeo province.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/135245/li ... an-border/
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^ Here's more on the above man, with additional photos. It really does appear that he is the one in all the CCTV video with the backpack.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/nationa ... 67956.html#

.......and more from the Bangkok Post: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/securit ... wan-bomber
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This guy may well be involved, but I'm not at all convinced that he's the man in the yellow t-shirt. Too skinny and narrow-shouldered IMO.
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"Thai police: Suspect acknowledges being near bomb scene"

"BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police said Wednesday a prime suspect in Bangkok's deadly bombing has admitted to being near the shrine where the attack took place but denied placing the bomb, as other clues pointed increasingly to a link with the trafficking of a minority ethnic group from China via Thailand."
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"Thai authorities said the suspect's fingerprints also matched those on a bottle of bomb-making material found in an apartment that was raided this past weekend."
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"Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said officials knew from their investigation that people involved in the bombing were about to flee the country and had traced one of the suspects to Aranyaprathet district in Sa Kaeo province, a crossing point to Cambodia.

Reports in the Bangkok Post newspaper and Cambodia's Phnom Penh Post, however, gave a different account. Citing unnamed sources, they said the man was arrested at the airport in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, as he was about to catch a departing flight and was turned over to Thai authorities at the border."

Comment: So shouldn't that reward go to the person(s) who caught him at the Phnom Penh airport? If not, this is police corruption at the highest level.

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"Thai Junta Names Bangkok Bombing Suspects in Custody

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Thai authorities on Thursday announced they have arrested a third suspect allegedly connected to last month’s fatal shrine bombing in Bangkok.

Kamarudeng Saho, 38, identified as a Thai Muslim, was apprehended in the southern province of Narathiwat, and is now undergoing military interrogation, according to officials who said he is being held under Article 44, which replaced martial law and gives the junta sweeping powers. ..."

http://www.voanews.com/content/thai-jun ... 43461.html
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dtaai-maai wrote:This guy may well be involved, but I'm not at all convinced that he's the man in the yellow t-shirt. Too skinny and narrow-shouldered IMO.
Looks as if you may be right dm... meanwhile the police have probably already spent the reward before it's been proven that the culprits were caught. :roll:

"Key suspect in Thai bombing still on the run

BANGKOK -- A foreign suspect arrested at the border near Cambodia is unlikely to be the yellow-shirted man who planted the bomb at a Bangkok shrine nearly three weeks ago, police said Friday...."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/thailand-ba ... ruled-out/
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"Thai police say suspect handed backpack to Bangkok bomber

BANGKOK (AP) — Police said Wednesday a key suspect in last month's deadly Bangkok blast has admitted he handed a backpack containing a bomb to a man in a yellow shirt who was later seen leaving a similar bag at a downtown shrine just before the blast occurred. ..."

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Erawan bombing: Uyghurs, Turkey, & passports … or Thai human trafficking, corruption … and Uyghur patsies?
I’m still an agnostic on the Uyghurs dunnit theory, at least as far as the “aggrieved Uyghurs bombed the Erawan shrine to kill Chinese tourists in revenge for repatriation of Uyghurs to PRC” way.

The only things we know for sure right now is that: a) the Thai government is anxious to manage & control this story, b) the Thai police leaks like a sieve and c) one has to wonder if the government’s main priority is to put a pretty frame on this story and hang it up as soon as possible.

There appears to be a definite Uyghur element in the case, judging by the detentions of one suspect with a Uyghur name holding a PRC passport (that looks genuine) and another guy with a clumsily forged Turkish passport who, it is suspected, is probably a Uyghur. Add to that a big stack of bogus Turkish passports — an inescapable element in the conveyor belt of PRC Uyghurs to havens in Turkey — and there’s the makings of a plausible Uyghur angle.

http://atimes.com/2015/09/erawan-bombin ... r-patsies/
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And there's still the matter of that reward. Before the crime was solved and before any "suspects" were proven guilty, some of the Bkk police force were out enjoying their "lottery winnings". Something just doesn't smell right to me... :roll:
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"Thai police say Bangkok bombing suspect fled to Turkey

BANGKOK (AP) — A key suspect in last month's bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey, Thai police said Monday, in another indication that the attack could be the work of members of China's ethnic Uighur minority who have sympathizers in Turkey. ..."

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Police officers joke with a key suspect in last month's Bangkok bombing, yellow shirt, identified by Thai police as Yusufu Mierili, also as Yusufu Mieraili, traveling on a Chinese passport, but his nationality remains unconfirmed, around a central Bangkok shopping center during a reenactment for the Aug. 17 bombing at Bangkok's popular Erawan Shrine that left 20 people dead and more than 120 injured,

Didn't think it was a topic for humor but maybe I am wrong...
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Erawan bombing: Thai probers in Malaysia to see suspect
The chief investigator looking into the deadly Erawan Shrine blast flew to Malaysia yesterday to seek more information and meet with a detainee believed to be a prime suspect in the attack, an informed source said.

Deputy national police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda led the team, which included Central Investigation Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Chaiwatketworachai and the deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, Pol Maj-General Chanthep Sesawet.

They were expected to meet Malaysia’s national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar over reports that the key suspect may have been detained during recent raids of many apartments and rented homes in Kuala Lumpur.

http://atimes.com/2015/09/erawan-attack ... e-suspect/

I wonder if the keystone cops are going to give their "reward" back?
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