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Experts check second motorcycle for clues

Published: 25/02/2012 at 10:16 AM
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Forensic and bomb disposal experts were yesterday examining another motorcycle for possible links to the Sukhumvit 71 explosions.

Police officers ask to check the identity card of a foreign visitor who acts as a security volunteer for police in Soi Nana on Sukhumvit Road. Police have been conducting more foot patrols to ensure the safety of tourists. PATIPAT JANTHONG

Pol Col Surapong Chaijan, deputy chief of Metropolitan Police Division 1, said the Yamaha motorcycle was taken from the mouth of Soi Boonyu in Din Daeng district two days after the Feb 14 blasts.

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mr.meldrew
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Discussion 9 : 25/02/2012 at 07:06 PM9
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ex-pet D5 : Spot on. As a Brit it makes my blood boil when I read of terrorists being described as British when they are usually illegal refugees who got our passport as easy as getting candy from a baby.
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Discussion 8 : 25/02/2012 at 07:05 PM8
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#3 med142, it's not unususal for the Thai Police to have foreigners working as security volunteers. In Pattaya, for example, there are several foreigners helping the Thai Police working out problems with other 'farangs' who don't understand how to behave or in other ways are getting in trouble themselves.
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Discussion 7 : 25/02/2012 at 06:54 PM7
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And the Iranian embassy wants access to them, then they are dead, no more evidence to prove the Iranian statement wrong. They will have just happened to commit suicide in jail in my opinion.

This is too high of a profile case for something not to happen to them before court. My guess is they never make it into court. Anone want to bet on it?
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Discussion 6 : 25/02/2012 at 06:07 PM6
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Med142, foreign volunteers are not uncommon. There are many who work in Pattaya, Westerners who wear cop-like uniforms who are helpful and make sure that the tourists do not start fights and whatnot.
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Discussion 5 : 25/02/2012 at 02:23 PM5
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anybody can link these suspects to the Iranian government?(yet?)
most of the Kurd's I know have a Turkish passport,scattered throughout Turkey and neighboring countries the PKK wages war for almost 20 years on the Turks......the assassination attempt on pope John Paul 2 was carried out by a Turkish passport holder, yet nobody cried foul on the Turkish government, and right fully so.
this comment doesn't have the intention to target Turkey in any way...it just proves that a passport holder of a certain country not necessarily means that the government of that specific country should be named and blamed in the first place, unless proven in a court of law!
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Discussion 4 : 25/02/2012 at 12:14 PM4
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Iranian Embassy admits the two suspects are Iranian, MY MY the first truth to ever come from Iran
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Discussion 3 : 25/02/2012 at 10:46 AM3
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Check the photo above and read the little bit about it. How can a foriegn visitor act as a security volunteer for the police? I thought that visitors could not do that. Maybe i am wrong.
The iranian Embassy, would say what they say. I have no idea if anyone remembers the Iranian Embassy siege in London.
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Discussion 2 : 25/02/2012 at 07:53 AM2
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Please take note: "Motorcycle taxi drivers in the neighbourhood alerted police when they noticed the motorcycle had been left idle for several days."

Once again, citizen involvement 'saves the day.'

Again an 'absurd comment' from their embassy: "However, these suspects are not linked with the Iranian government or organisations in Iran and they acted independently as individuals, an Iranian embassy official was quoted as saying."

Right! They were dis-satisfied with the tourist service, so they chucked a grenade, had C-4 and sticky bombs, but they were acting on their own! Who believes that?
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Discussion 1 : 25/02/2012 at 07:50 AM1
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Anybody thought the Iranian Embassy would say the suspects were linked to the Iranian government?
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