Huge weapons cache found lying in bushes

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Huge weapons cache found lying in bushes

Authorities baffled about who owns arms

Published: 24 Feb 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Authorities have uncovered a big arms cache of grenades and other heavy artillery in Surin, but don't know how the weapons arrived there, or where they were headed.

Officers from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the army and Border Patrol Police display war weapons seized in Surin’s Prasart district at the DSI headquarters yesterday. TAWATCHAI KEMGUMNERD

The seizure was made three months ago but was only revealed to the media yesterday, by DSI chief Tarit Pengdith.

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commee
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Discussion 15 : 25 Feb 2012 at 14.0115
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Reply to Pointoffew,

I appreciate you asking. With the number of attacks in the southern provinces, when based on the percentage of population, the number of people killed in terror attacks surpasses just about any other nation in the world. When you add in the recent events in Bangkok, it is clear that there is a significant terrorist problem in Thailand.
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Discussion 14 : 24 Feb 2012 at 16.4114
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commee, discussion 11, "Obviously, Thailand has a significant terrorist problem.". Would you mind sharing your information with us?
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Discussion 13 : 24 Feb 2012 at 12.1213
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Re: D2...hahaha...you mean like "Fast and Furious" ? or something like that? can you imagine that in Thailand... hard to tell who would get shot, and who would be blamed.
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Discussion 12 : 24 Feb 2012 at 11.1912
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As always the police are good in catching small fry, the big one always got untouched.
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Discussion 11 : 24 Feb 2012 at 11.0811
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Obviously, Thailand has a significant terrorist problem. They can try to ignore the true dangers, but Thailand is in a war with a very complex and evasive enemy. It could be argued that these events are not connected, but there are far too many coincidences for it to be uncoordinated. Thailand needs to tighten up all its borders, its immigrations, and its intelligence collection so that the types of events recently seen do not become even more problematic.
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Discussion 10 : 24 Feb 2012 at 10.3510
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Hidden in bushes? maybe yes but for a short time only i would imagaine, or they were cleaned by who ever found them, police,etc before being picked up. Finger prints.Dna(sweat).Some of these would have had tell tale signs if they had been in the bushes for a long time.
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Discussion 9 : 24 Feb 2012 at 10.299
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This cache would have been monitored by any other country, even if it took months, untill someone turned up for them. But what happened to the report about this that there was an influencial figure involved also? That was reported ealier. All weapons, grenades have serial numbers on them by the manufacturer, so it will be easy to trace if they wanted to. also who bought them if bought from a manufacuturer.
Smells very fishy to me. These are very new weapons, i bet they still need cleaning before use also. Check serial numbers.
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Discussion 8 : 24 Feb 2012 at 10.078
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For ammunition lying in the bushes it sure looks good, a cynic might say almost too good (^-^)
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Discussion 7 : 24 Feb 2012 at 09.577
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Yes indeed, the influential person has disappeared since yesterday's news. I believe it was stated that the "influential person" could not be named yesterday because it might interfere with the investigation and now apparently that has become true.
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Discussion 6 : 24 Feb 2012 at 09.496
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"They include 36 RPG-7 grenades, 36 RPG-7 launchers, 64 60mm rockets, 144 40mm rockets, and 1,437 rounds of .88 rifle ammunition."

Someone should have read the original article, they've got it mostly right.
That's 36 RPG-7 rockets, 36 RPG-7 boosters, 64 60mm mortar rounds, 144 40mm grenades for M79/M203, and 1,437 rounds of 30-06 ammunition in en-bloc clips for M1 Garand (AKA- ปลย.88, Type 88 small long gun).

Incidentally, there were 30 some odd RPG rockets that went missing from Lopburi depo late last year and was never found. Are these RPG rounds one and the same ?
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