EDITORIAL
Tuesday's bomb attack on state-run NBT or Channel 11 television station may not have hurt anyone or caused major damage to property. But it exposed a major flaw in the country's intelligence and security services - a perception that could prove more disastrous in the long run.
Not only was this blast the third to have occurred at NBT this year - following previous attacks on March 24 and April 4 - it also took place on the heels of another explosion last Thursday at the King Power Complex on Rang Nam Road, itself the target of an earlier grenade assault in July, which seriously injured a trash collector.
Not only did these assaults by heavy weapons occur (in broad daylight in the case of the latest incident at NBT) when Bangkok and nine other provinces are under the supposedly powerful protection of the Emergency Decree, but so far police and security officers have found no suspect nor, as it appears, do they have any clue about this recurring violence.
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