Bombing in Thailand

[Fidel_Castronaut]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33969621

Bomber murders at least 17 people outside the Erawan Hindu shrine in Bangkok. No suspects as of yet though Thai police and military fear ISIS involvement.

[ReptilianPeon]

I don't think is DAESH. The choice of target does suggest the attack is religiously motivated however. Many Muhammadans hold similar beliefs to Dominion Theology, sadly. That doesn't automatically make them "terrorists" though, obviously. However, the victim-hood narrative by people such as DawahMan is what drives people to violence. There isn't much that separates Imran Ibn Mansour and Pat Robertson as they hold many similar beliefs.

[abaris]

No suspects as of yet though Thai police and military fear ISIS involvement.

According to our news cameras picked up a male suspect leaving the scene. Also they don't mention anything about ISIS as of yet. Just that the authorities suspect foreigners to have been targeted to hurt the tourism industry. They also investigate several leads. Among them the redshirts, who deny being involved in the attack and a group of islamic insurgents on the border of Malaysia. But the minister of defense already made a statement that it doesn't fit their modus operandi either. They're seperatists and don't do attacks on civilians. It is also mentioned that this is not the first attack of this kind. In february two smaller bombs exploded in front of a mall and a car bomb went off in april on the tourist island of Koh Samui. For all these attacks no organisation has claimed responsibility as of yet.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said the man was from the southeast Asian country's northeast, which is the heartland of the anti-military government Red Shirt movement.

That's from the Express

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/5989...-explosion

From the Guardian.

“As for possible motivations as to who may have caused this incident, it is too early to speculate which group may have been responsible for this crime but authorities are following possible leads.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/au...k-in-years

From Al Jazeera.

Thai forces are fighting a low-level Muslim insurgency in the predominantly Buddhist country's south, but those rebels have rarely launched attacks outside their ethnic Malay heartland.

Our correspondent Hay said officials have said the bombing did not "match their tactics".

The country has also been riven for a decade by intense and sometimes violent rivalry between political factions in Bangkok and elsewhere.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/de...25802.html

And CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/17/asia/t...gkok-bomb/

They all tell slightly different stories, but noone claims that the authorities suspect ISIS involvement.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

BBC News (TV) cited an official from the Thai military who claimed they were exploring all avenues including links to ISIS yesterday evening (10 pm news), that's all I'm going from. ISIS has been known to use both internal proxies and external agents to carry out attacks so I agree, it's a guessing game at the moment though I suspect without an admission or firm evidence either way little will be known either way.

[Longhorn]

What a croc of shit

[Ashground]

The current suspect caught on video at the scene sitting on a bench, taking off his backpack and walking away.

[mralstoner]

Sounds like it's none of the usual suspects, so it might be something out of left field e.g. disgruntled Uyghur sympathiser (but I think Uyghurs are only known for angry knife attacks in their homeland). To me, the combination of a "sophisticated" bomb, with a rather naive looking perp, suggests the boy was just a courier for something bigger. Who might that be? Time will tell, but for now we'll just place it in the X-Files, along with MH370, and the attack on the US military base in Japan the other day. If enough of these "unexplained" and "motiveless" crimes fall into the X-File, we'll know there's a new dark force at work in Asia. No prizes for guessing who that would be.

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