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"Sure thing! That sounds like lots of fun! I can't wait to beat the crap out of this 'Koh' dude!"
Lucy rolled her eyes at her friend's suggestion, "No Natsu, I never said you would be beating him up, just that if things get out of hand we may need some help, that's all. I can't have you picking fights with Celestial Spirits I haven't even met yet!" Lucy sighed angrily, "What is it with boys and their desire to fight and destroy each other?"
"That's Natsu for you!" The little blue cat next to Natsu, named Happy, chimed in agreement. He wore a green sack over his shoulders, and the fur at the end of his tail and stomach was white.
Natsu was wearing his usual clothing; a black vest with gold trim and white baggy pants ending halfway down his calves. His pink hair blew around in the light breeze, though it was usually untidy anyway. Around his waist hung a sheet-like material of the same colour and trim to his vest, and his feet were adorned in well-worn sandals. And of course, Igneel's white scarf was draped around his neck; the boy never parted with the piece of clothing. "Well, I for one think that fighting a 'Face-Stealer' would be quite fun." The Fire Dragon Slayer of Fairy Tail commented.
"He may not even have those powers Natsu, it could just be part of his name," Wendy suggested, a slightly worried look appearing on the blue-haired girl's face. "I would be rather scared of some spirit with that power."
"Perhaps we should just find out, now that we're all here behind the old Guild Hall." Lucy interrupted. They had thought it a good idea to summon this spirit here, since their old Guild Hall was higher in the hills. After many of their members went missing after the Tenrou Island incident, the remaining Fairy Tail members could not afford to maintain their first Guild Hall and so this one had served their purpose until the other members returned, and their current residence was constructed. Summoning this new spirit here meant that if things did turn sour, there wouldn't be a lot of collateral damage since nobody lived here anymore.
The young Celestial Wizard straightened her body, pointing her new Gate Key ahead of her, "Okay, let's just see what kind of Celestial Spirit you are, Koh." Lucy shut her eyes, and the other four Fairy Tail members took a few more steps backwards as she began. "I call upon thee in the world of the Celestial Spirits, I beckon you to my side at once! Pass through the Gate! Open! Gate of the Face Stealer, Koh!"
Usually a white or golden light would have appeared after Lucy's spell, though this time there was silence. Until Happy spoke up.
"I think Lucy's magic has gone weird."
"Huh?" Lucy spun around, "My magic has not gone 'weird', thank you very much! I performed the spell perfectly! There should have at least been some connection, though I felt nothing. It's like this spirit doesn't even exist." She hung her head slightly, eyes closing a little as she thought through all her options.
"Wait, Lucy," Carla responded, "You said that the 'Gate of the Face Stealer' was not a constellation you were familiar with. Perhaps then it stands to reason that this 'Koh' fellow is not a Celestial Spirit."
"But that's crazy!" Natsu interjected, "If Koh isn't a Celestial Spirit than why would he have a key thingy?"
"Well perhaps there is another spirit world, one which this Gate Key can lead to. A Gate key which summons a spirit from their spirit world." Lucy turned back to her comrades, "I am a Celestial Wizard since I summon spirits from the Celestial Spirit World, but what if... What if there are other worlds which also have spirits living in them? The notion is actually quite plausible if you think about it. And that's why my spell didn't work since there is no Celestial Spirit named Koh, but perhaps this spirit lives somewhere else."
Wendy perked her head up, "But if that's true then what is this 'spirit world' called?"
"Maybe it's just that; the 'Spirit World'," Natsu blurted out.
Lucy let out a cynical laugh, "What kind of name is that? I doubt that will be its name very much. Since there are other worlds which hold spirits it probably has a more specific name."
"Just give it a go Loony."
"Ugh," The blonde-haired wizard spun back around. "Fine, I'll indulge your little stupid idea. And that 'Loony' joke is so old now!" After inhaling deeply, Lucy once again held the mysterious Gate Key out ahead of her, keeping her other arm against her chest. She closed her eyes, waiting a few seconds to calm herself before casting the spell, "I call upon thee in the world of the Spirits, I beckon you to my side at once! Pass through the Gate!" She made sure to omit the word 'Celestial', sticking with Natus's idea. Although she had been sceptical, it seemed the Fire Dragon Slayer may have been right; Lucy could feel the air around her charging with magic energy, and a bright light had appeared underneath her form. Okay, I suppose it's working now. Lucy opened her lips again, finishing casting the spell, "Open! Gate of the Face Stealer, Koh!"
As soon as she had uttered those final words, a great beam of green energy shot down from the sky right in front of the spell-caster. Lucy flinched once she had opened her eyes, the unexpected appearance of this light making her nervous yet in awe at the same time. Swirls of yellow descended in a heavenly manner, accompanied by a sudden 'whoosh' sound as a glowing being began to take form. The glowing creature had a long body, and as the light began to fade it seemed to be some kind of centipede or insect.
"Is that... Koh?" Lucy mumbled, still inspired by this great light and energy coming from the portal.
The being before them said nothing, though his body began to wriggle slowly. Soon after, the light surrounding the centipede and the beam of energy burst into tiny specks of golden and green glitter, each speck fading after a few seconds. Without the light, the five Fairy Tail wizards could see the spirit's true form; it certainly was a centipede of some kind, and had many brownish-red legs with upper leg segments coated in a fur or hair. Two menacing dark reddish brown pincers announced the end of the beast, and each of the segments leading to the other end being dark greyish purple with a lighter variant of the colour on the ventral side. The presumed head was an almost oval shape head-on, with a fleshy red oval in the middle and eight sandy brown front legs with extended tibias clearly used for something deadly. As the spirit moved about slowly as if to gather its bearings, an eye-like slit opened up in the middle of the red oval on the head, and some kind of white face popped out. As Lucy staggered closer, she noticed that the white face was actually a Noh mask, a rather freakishly looking female face replica, with grey ovals around the eyes and bright red lips.
A deep throaty hum left the centipede's mouth as it crawled near Lucy. In a matter of seconds its eyelids burst open, revealing a pair of dead dull blue eyes. The front legs of the beast twitched as its body moved closer to the Celestial Wizard.
"My my, what strange but beautiful faces you all have," Koh uttered in a deep voice, yet his tone had a sly or smooth quality to it. His eyes rested again on Lucy's, "I might just take one for my collection!"
In a flash Koh had all eight of his front legs digging into Lucy's forehead, cheeks, and chin. A bloodcurdling scream forced its way from her lungs as she writhed about, but her face was held firmly in Koh's grasp. The Noh mask simply snickered, its dull eyes watching with a hunger and deep desire. "I've never seen a human spirit with such... blonde hair. It is rather intriguing and I must have your face!"
Suddenly Koh's body flew into the nearby tree, his front legs losing their grip of Lucy's face. A screech left the centipede's mouth as he was struck by a flame-coated fist. Natsu's fist.
The pink-haired wizard narrowed his eyes at Koh, his raw power and fury even hotter than his flames. "So, you do have the power to steal faces you creep." Natsu continued to glare his way. In an instant, a wild grin formed on Natsu's face, "Oh man this is going to be so much fun! Right Happy?!"
"Aye aye sir!" The little blue cat leapt into the air.
"We could so steal Lucy's face and sell it for lots of money!"
"Or better yet," Happy began, "We could steal her face, replace it with a gorilla's, and then stick her real face to her butt!"
A horrified Lucy soon spun around to face the cackling duo, "How can you two morons be joking at a time like this?!" Lucy bellowed at them, "I nearly had my face stolen! Ahhhhh!" The poor blonde-haired wizard burst into a flood of tears.
"Aw, cheer up Lucy, we're just messing with you. Besides, I doubt that oversized roach can really do anything," Natsu reassured. He began walking over to the recovering spirit. "Listen Koh dude, I don't know what kind of spirit you are, but you should know that all of Lucy's spirits have her back. They don't try and harm her, nor do they try to steal her face. If they do a guy with a big moustache shows up and kicks their butt!"
Lucy rolled her eyes, "Well, that's not entirely accurate."
"The point is," the fire mage continued as Koh stood back up on his legs to face him, "You are not allowed to harm Lucy in any way or we'll smack you up, ya hear?" As if to appear more threatening, Natsu ignited his fist in orange flames, holding it up so the centipede could surely see.
"What he means is," Lucy finally found the courage to step closer to her new spirit, "Is that now that we have a contract – which we still need to finalize the details of – You cannot kill or harm me in any way, well, at least that's how it works with Celestial Spirits so I assume that's how it will work with you. If you do then you will be stuck in our world until your life force finally runs out," Her thoughts quickly shifted to Loki, who had been in a similar situation at one point with the wizard he had a contract with before Lucy. "But I also promise as your wizard to never harm you either, Koh. Me and you have a contract now so we'd best be working together, I suppose. And the guy with the big moustache who Natsu mentioned is the Celestial Spirit King, though I suppose you must have your own king in your Spirit World."
The Face Stealer glanced first at Natsu, and then at Lucy, trying to make sense of what was happening. "Young man, young woman, do you both know who I am?" He began crawling in in a circle around them, slowly watching them with his dead eyes, "I am Koh, the Face Stealer. I am a powerful spirit, and I make no contracts with lesser spirits whom I have never even seen before, like you." Suddenly the eye-like slit opened once again, and out popped another face, this one a golden brown owl.
"He changed his face!" Wendy remarked from where the others stood, looking like she would hurl at any moment.
"In fact, I don't normally make contracts with any spirit at all," Koh continued, crawling closer to Wendy and the others. "My allegiance is to myself, my purpose to collect rare and beautiful faces, like the one you have little pretty one." The owl quickly changed to a face of an older man, bald with long wispy eyebrows and a white moustache. His blue eyes drilled into Wendy's terrified and fearful brown ones.
The Sky Dragon Slayer panicked, "Lucy, he's staring at me!"
"And so, I will not agree to make a contract with you, nor agree to your terms of not stealing your beautiful faces," The Face Stealer interrupted Lucy. "The truth of the matter is that I actually cannot use my powers here for some strange reason."
"You can't use your powers here at all?" Lucy questioned.
"I should have had your precious face within seconds of my grasp, or at least seen the first stages of my powers working in the time I held you in my pincers," Lucy shuddered after the centipede mentioned this, "But alas, I cannot seem to rip your face from your body to add to my collection." Koh then reared up on his hind legs, leaving his front ones and the ones with elongated tibia around his face dangling in the air, occasionally wriggling slowly. His eyes darted over the cityscape, noticing the tall Cardia Cathedral and the other tall buildings in this city of Magnolia. "So tell me, spirit man and spirit woman, where in the Spirit World have you taken me? Do you possess the power to teleport spirits from one place to another? How have you stripped me of my powers here? Hmmm?"
The Celestial wizard wore a confused look upon her face, "Um... We're not spirits, Koh. You've got it all wrong. You're a spirit, and I'm a Celestial wizard. I'm a human. I summoned you here."
"Hmmm, a wizard? I've never heard of that kind of human before," The Face Stealer placed his upper body back on the ground, circling the pair of wizards once again. "How did you summon me when I did not agree to your contract? What kind of bending do you use, young girl?"
"Bending? I... Don't know what that is," Lucy shrugged while pulling out Koh's Gate Key. "I summoned you with this Gate Key. I'm a Celestial wizard, so I can summon Celestial Spirits using Gate Keys, and once summoned we make a contract. Part of the contract is already established when I summon a spirit, though the details such as when the contracted spirit is available to be summoned and all that are worked out the first time I meet a spirit."
Koh grasped the black Gate Key with his pointy front legs, the face of a mandrill with a bright blue and red nose squinting as if to study the key's form easier. "I have never seen this strange object before. How does it open a portal for me to come to this part of the Spirit World?"
Lucy rolled her eyes, "We're not in the 'Spirit World', I take it that's where you are from?" The mandrill nodded before swapping out for the female Noh face again. "And it works because it uses my magic energy to open a gate for you to cross; your gate is the 'Gate of the Face Stealer'." Lucy informed the spirit.
"Ahahaha, do you take me for a fool?" Koh chuckled cynically, "I have been around for a long time young one, and there is no such power as 'magic energy', even though many naïve and foolish humans have believed so."
The Celestial Wizard and the Fire Dragon Slayer exchanged puzzled looks. "Wait, you don't know what magic is?" Lucy questioned.
"Now you are really trying my patience!" Koh hissed angrily at the pair, causing Lucy to cower a little and take a step back. "Do not pretend like I am a fool; I have been to many places both in the Spirit World and here in the Material World, and there is no such power as 'magic'. It is nothing but human legend. Now how about I ask you petty humans a question? By what means have you brought me here and stripped me of my powers?! Hmmm?"
"W...We... We're not in the 'Material World' either, Koh," Lucy managed to say in between her cowering. She quickly stood up straight, remembering that Koh could not harm her. "We're in a worls called 'Earthland'. I summoned you while you were in your world, I take it it's actually a combination of two worlds, the Spirit World and Material World?"
"Lucy, I'm not sure if Koh knows that he is a spirit who can be summoned," Carla let her wings out using her Aera Magic and made her way over to the pair of wizards. "He doesn't think magic is real, and has never seen his own Gate Key before. So maybe he doesn't realise that he is a spirit who can be summoned?"
Lucy placed a hand on her chin, "A Celestial spirit who doesn't know that he is a Celestial spirit. Well, in his case, a spirit who doesn't know he is a spirit. I think it's more than that Carla, since Koh does seem to remember details about his world and did believe we were spirits at first, but you're on the right track." The blonde-haired wizard straightened her body, "I think that Koh's world is like Edolas; there is no magic there."
"Like Edolas?" Wendy echoed. None of them would forget the alternate world they had once visited, the one where alternate versions of themselves lived. Edolas had indeed once had magic, that was before Mystogan had used a reverse Anima spell to rid their world of magic, but it had been a different kind to the magic they were used to here.
A moment of silence passed before Koh spoke again. Though he didn't just speak; he laughed instead. A quiet and modest chuckle soon transformed into a roaring fit of laughter, and the Face Stealer needed a moment to catch his breath before addressing the Fairy Tail wizards, "I finally see what this is now. I can't believe that it took me this long to realise," Koh let out another wheeze of laughter, all the while the confused wizards watched and listened. "Irutzi, the Spirit of Illusions, this is your doing right? You're taking revenge since I stole your beautiful wife's face, didn't I?" The centipede swapped his Noh face for a grey-skinned humanoid one, though this face had seaweed green hair which flowed down the sides. With this new face, Koh looked around the sky as if he were speaking to someone in the air, "I will tell you now, your illusion will not hold. I am an old and powerful spirit, and I will get my revenge for this. I will take your face as well as punishment!" The Face Stealer laughed with excitement, relishing in his planned vengeance.
"Now listen here you oversized slime-bag!" Natsu pointed a fiery fist at Koh, "We are not illusions! We're just as real as you are. So don't go saying that we don't exist, alright?!"
"Ugh, this spirit is infuriating," Lucy held her thumb and forefinger over the bridge of her nose, a look of frustration appearing as she closed her eyes. "There's no getting through to this spirit. Look Koh," The Celestial wizard addressed her spirit, "I'll prove to you that we're not illusions. I can close your gate with the same key that brought you here, sending you back to your world," Lucy dangled the black object in front of the centipede, "And then I'll open it again, bringing you here. How does that sound?"
Koh simply laughed again in reply, "Ahaha, I knew your powers would wear out eventually, Irutzi!" The face of the supposed wife of the 'Spirit of Illusions' disappeared in favour of another male face, this one a lot younger than the old bald man but still had a long moustache and also a black beard. "Your human illusions are now going to send me back to reality. You're losing your hold over them!" Another glee laugh left the man's mouth.
"Yeah, maybe it is a good idea to send this nut-job back Lucy. He's crazy." Natsu suggested.
Wendy still shivered with the others a few metres back from Lucy and Natsu, "And he's rather creepy..."
"Okay, have it your way Koh. Close! Gate of the Face Stealer!" Lucy waved the black key in the air, expecting a similar greenish gold light to appear around the centipede and send him to his home. But no such light appeared. "Close! Gate of the Face Stealer!" She repeated, though still nothing happened. "Close! Close! Close!" Lucy chanted, each time with a little more frustration than the first. Though the insane centipede still stood where he was, laughing the whole time. Lucy looked back to the strange Gate Key in her hands, "Why, why won't it work?"
Koh's laughter began to settle down, "And here I thought you had no strength left, Irutzi. I thought that your illusion spirit would send me back to reality, but it seems you pulled through at the last minute," Again, Koh spoke to the mysterious non-existent being in the air. "But you will not be able to hold out for much longer, since I am now aware of what you are doing."
"Lucy, why didn't your magic work?" Happy now flew over to Lucy's side.
"I... I was naïve to assume that Koh's gate would behave the same way as a normal Gate Key. Perhaps there's a different way to close Koh's gate and send him back."
Wendy also made her way over to the others, the blue-haired girl speaking next, "But how are we going to find out how to close Koh's gate?"
Lucy narrowed her eyes, "There's only one place we can go. Mr Hammelworth was the one who gave us this key after we completed his job request, though he didn't mention anything about it being different from an ordinary Gate Key. But perhaps he knows some more about how to use it." The Celestial Wizard turned back to Koh, "I don't suppose you're up for a walk to a nearby town?"
The Face Stealer chuckled lightly, "Okay then, I'll indulge you Irutzi and follow your illusions to wherever they are going. I'll even play along and make a contract with the Celestial Wizard too. So, Lucy was it? What are the conditions of our contract? Hmmm?"
The blonde-haired wizard rolled her eyes, "Fine, you want conditions? Don't use your powers on anyone unless I say so. You certainly can't use them on my friends or myself."
The male face disappeared, soon replaced by an angry-looking blue one with tusks of some kind, "I agree, Celestial Wizard."
"And don't go swapping your face every few seconds either."
This time, Koh wasn't so quick to agree to Lucy's terms of their supposed contract. "Really? But my faces are my pride and joy, young one. I've collected so many I simply want to... Show them off." After he finished he swapped his blue face for the old man again, grinning wildly from ear to ear.
"No, it's totally creepy. Just pick the face you had when you first appeared and be done with it."
"Hmm. Fine, I believe it was this one," The old man made way for the female Noh mask, its pale sickly white skin giving it an eerie look. "I agree."
Lucy tucked the strange Gate Key away with the rest of her keys. "That's better," She breathed a sigh of relief. "Now, let's get a move on to see Mr Hammelworth."
What followed was certainly a strange sight indeed. Not Lucy, Natsu, Wendy, or their two Exceed companions, Happy and Carla, but the giant centipede like creature which crawled alongside the Fairy Tail wizards stood out like a peacock at a black-and-white-only party. Terrified citizens of this town north of Magnolia cowered upon looking at the insect, some proceeding to sprint into their homes or down alleyways which would take them anywhere but their current street. Koh however, was either oblivious to the frightened people or relished in it, either way not doing anything to make himself less terrifying, if there was even anything to be done.
Lucy placed a palm to her head, an embarrassed but frustrated look in her eyes. "I knew we shouldn't have come down the main street. But, it was the quickest way to get to Hammelworth's house."
Carla nodded her head, "Indeed, according to the map it was."
"So Face Stealing dude," Natsu glanced to his side, "Is there really no magic in your world?"
A cheerful yet mocking laugh emanated from Koh's lips, a sound so peculiar to be coming from such a monstrous looking creature. "Of course not. Magic is not real."
"So you must not have Ethernano in the air or inside you then," Wendy remarked, but when the Noh mask turned to face her she froze. "Uh... Ethernano is like... Where magic power comes from. We... We as wizards can use our own Ethernano, but when we run out wizards here in Earthland can replenish their magic energy from the Ethernano in the air." The blue-haired girl concluded nervously, edging further away from Koh as they all kept walking forwards.
"Though the wizards in Edolas couldn't do that either remember? They had Lacrima-infused weaponry instead of them casting spells from their own energy." Lucy added as she led the way. After a few moments she turned back to her new spirit, "So Koh, you mentioned something earlier that I wanted to ask you about. At first, you asked me what type of 'bending' I was using. What is bending? Is that like, a power people use in your world instead of magic? How does it work?"
"Bending is an ancient art to allow one to control the elements," The spirit answered. "There are four elements, each inspired by the seasons; Fire is the element of Summer, the element of power, given first to the dragons who relished in its raw energy."
Natsu's ears perked up, "Wait, so you have cool fire in your world? I can't wait to eat some!"
The Noh mask shot back a quizzical look towards the pink-haired wizard, "You eat fire?"
"Well yeah, of course I do. I'm a Fire Dragon Slayer. Just like Wendy here eats air, and that metal-head Gajeel eats iron." Natsu folded his arms after his answer.
"Though we do eat normal food too," Wendy added, "I quite like ice-cream."
"Strange illusions you lot are after all," Koh muttered, eliciting a collective and exasperated sigh from the Fairy Tail wizards. The Face Stealer however took no notice, and continued with his explanation, "Air is the element of Autumn, the element of freedom. The sky bison also use this bending, flying the skies untethered to the earth. Water is the element of Winter, the element of change. The moon is the greatest waterbender of them all, since Tui pushes and pulls the tides under her command. She grants waterbenders great power under her glow. And then there is earth, the element of Spring, the element of substance. It was also gifted to the badgermoles, who are blind but rely solely on their ability to 'see' and dig their tunnel homes. Spirits cannot use this power, and not all humans can. But those who do can train in their art, and become skilled in manipulating their element."
"I see," Lucy remarked, nodding her head slowly. "So bending kind of is like magic, since not everyone can use it. And there are element types of magic too; Natsu and Wendy here both use a fire and air magic, and another wizard in our guild named Juvia uses water magic. And then there's Wizard Saint Jura, who uses earth magic. So I suppose our worlds aren't that different in some ways."
Silence crept into their conversation for the next few minutes. This world where Koh came from sounded so strange, so unreal, yet part of Lucy wanted to see in for herself. She had gone to the Celestial Spirit World a few times right? Perhaps she could also go to this strange world and see 'bending' for herself. But first she had to figure out how to close Koh's gate.
The group of six reached a turn-off from the main road, Lucy pointing in that direction. "Mr Hammelworth's house is this way, we're nearly there."
The group had to walk single file for the most part down this next alley, partly to accommodate for Koh's size since it was a narrow road. But once they had emerged back onto a wider street, the travellers could space themselves out a little more. Lucy spotted their destination only a few steps ahead, and then went to knock on his door.
"Mr Hammelworth? It's Lucy Heartfilia. I'm a Fairy Tail wizard and we just completed a job for you earlier today. I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions about the Gate Key you gave me?" Lucy announced their arrival when she heard no answer after her knock. Again she tapped the door, "Mr Hammelworth?" The Celestial Wizard shifted her pose a little to a more comfortable position, waiting for an answer that never came. "I suppose he could be out or something, though we did just see him here this morning."
Natsu walked up beside Lucy, "We'll there's more than one way to do this," The pink-haired Dragon Slayer thrust his fiery foot into the door, the wooden boards splitting apart.
"Natsu! You can't just break into people's homes and destroy their property!" Lucy yelled.
"It's an emergency. You smelled it too Wendy?"
The little Sky Dragon Slayer nodded, "Yeah... I think." An anxious frown appearing on her face.
"Smelled what, exactly?" Lucy questioned the two. She had to remember that Dragon Slayers did have other abilities besides their elements, such as a heightened sense of smell.
Natsu charged into the house. It was a rather small and quaint building, fairly tidy as it was when Lucy and the others had gone their earlier today. Though now some crimson red liquid of some kind had stained the rug. Lucy noticed the stain and bent down to examine it.
"It's... I... Don't believe it..." The horrified expression on Lucy's face as she stood up abruptly said everything her trembling lips could not tell. This was blood.
"Natsu! I... I can use Healing Magic if he needs it!" Wendy called out from the door frame. Though the pink-haired Dragon Slayer didn't respond, only stood with downcast eyes at the lifeless form before him. Lucy too made her way over, however instantly regretted ever allowing such a sight to ingrain itself in her eyes.
Mr Hammelworth was dead; a knife driven into his chest, the smears of blood leading from the living room to the kitchen being his own. He had tried to call for help, as his hand rested on a communication Lacrima, though Lucy suspected that the call was never made.
There was only one oddity left on the scene; a piece of parchment of some kind, left on the floor next to the crumpled corpse. Natsu wrapped his scarf around his mouth and nose as he bent down to pick it up, though upon reading who it was addressed to he turned and gave it to a pale-looking Lucy. The Celestial Wizard just stared into Natsu's hazel eyes, seeing how Natsu was also in shock by this murder. Even though her arms had grown heavy and numb from the turn of events, Lucy managed to take hold of the letter, seeing her name written across the top.
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This lot are feckin clueless. The government, the Police and all the other hangers on they are only concerned about making money and their own self interest.Its not a terrorist attack because they never hit their target due to their (the bombers) ineptitude
There has been bomb explosions in India and Georgia using the same types of equipment and explosives and the same magnets wich are designed to be attached to the chassis of a vehicle ie. car bombs. No connection my feckin arse!!!!!
No wonder the western governments issue warnings in Thailand concerning terrorism its the blind leading the fucking blind!!!!
The saving grace here is that they(The Thais) apprehended two of the terrorists,the first one was easy enough he couldn,t go anywhere,the second trying to get to Malaysia by aircraft, the third has been apprehended in Malaysia trying to board a flight to Tehran, and the girl is on the run(probably back in Iran now.)
And that won,t be to a heroes welcome after this feck-up.
I am so glad that the well informed Thai Gpvernment don,t classify these bombers as terrorists. They are just upset people due to the problems in world politics.
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Analysis: Was Iran behind the Bangkok bombings? - CNN.com
Analysis: Was Iran behind the Bangkok bombings?
By Paul Quaglia, Special to CNN
February 16, 2012 -- Updated 0311 GMT (1111 HKT)
Thai bomb squad officials inspect the site of an explosion in Bangkok on February 14, 2012.
(CNN) -- Even before the smoke had cleared from a series of bombings in the Thai capital of Bangkok Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak blamed Iran for the incident, as well as the attacks against Israeli diplomats in Delhi and Georgia two days ago.
"The attempted terror attack in Thailand proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to operate in the ways of terror and the latest attacks are an example of that," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed.
"In recent months, we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in several countries, including Azerbaijan, Thailand and others. Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, were behind all of these attempted attacks."
Was the government of Iran behind the bomb assembly operation in Bangkok?
Most likely, yes.
Was it part of a larger global effort to target Israeli diplomats in retaliation for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran?
Yes, again.
But the three men allegedly responsible for the Bangkok bombings can hardly be considered professional, hard-core Hezbollah terrorists.
The suspects were not involved in a sophisticated, state-financed terrorist attack. The bombs were poorly made and constructed. The chaotic departure from the area and the lack of operational security in entering and moving about since they entered the country indicate a relatively amateurish operation with little advance planning for contingencies.
So, what is the Iranian connection?
It is possible that Iran is seeking to modulate its retaliation for the murder of a number of its scientists over the past two years. For all its bluster, Iranian leaders are well aware that trigger-happy Israel is itching for a showdown over the evolving Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Iran with an atomic weapon has been an Israeli "red-line" for several decades. And Iranian leaders, poised astride an economy reeling under yet another round of economic sanctions, can ill afford a destabilizing war with Israel (and the U.S.), particularly one they would likely lose quickly and decisively. Israel, Iran trade accusations
But outsourcing terrorist attacks on Israeli targets to semi-incompetent subcontractors gives Iran neither plausible deniability nor direct control to dial-down the scope of retaliation to avoid handing the Israelis a chance to respond strategically.
It is more probable that Iranian intelligence has leveraged "B-Team" contacts in several countries to plan and carry out attacks against Israeli diplomats. While some support or funds might be available, the Iranian government would strive to keep its distance from farm-league terrorists putting together bombs in portable radios.
The Bangkok suspects were carrying Iranian passports -- not false documents. Their movements were crude, embarrassingly overt and ended in a debacle of incompetence and bad luck.
Unfortunately, Thai police investigations are not likely to shed light on the Iranian connection. Senior security officials claimed the explosions were not acts of terrorism because the bombs involved could not cause "large-scale destruction." Always sensitive to tarnishing Thailand's lucrative tourism sector, Thai officials are likely to continue to downplay the implications of Tuesday's explosions and seek to move the story off the media radar.
On January 12, after a controversial U.S. Embassy terrorist alert was issued, Thai officials arrested Atris Hussein, after finding "initial chemical materials that could produce bombs" in an area just outside Bangkok. Police said Hussein, who also holds a Swedish passport, led them to the location.
The authorities are accusing Hussein of trying to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists and say he is believed to belong to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group active in Lebanon that the U.S. views as a terrorist organization.
Thailand's second terrorism wake-up call rang out Tuesday afternoon in Bangkok. Whether Thai officials respond or simply hit the snooze button and continue to believe "it could never happen here," remains to be seen.
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Blogging 'motorsai' finds fame | Bangkok Post: news
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Dejchat: Making the media rounds
But Dejchat Puangket is no ordinary motorcycle taxi driver. He is also a blogger, sending out regular tweets about his daily life on Bangkok's mean streets and what he encounters when plying his trade.
And now that his photo of the Sukhumvit bomb suspect _ lying in debris, with one of his legs missing and the other barely attached _ has been splashed across the media, he can add celebrity to his resume.
Mr Dejchat, who blogs under the name "Blogger Rasisalai" and tweets from @motorcyrubjang, uploaded his photos and videos of the shocking aftermath _ some so vivid and graphic that he later blurred them _ at 2.32pm on Tuesday, minutes after the blasts occurred.
It is no surprise he received tweets from journalists from both the old and new media asking for the rights to use his images. And in the true spirit of citizen journalism, Mr Dejchat, who started blogging in 2007, allowed access to all.
"I did not witness the explosions myself, but I got there in time," Mr Dejchat told the Bangkok Post.
His win, or base, on Soi Pridi Banomyong 20 is a few blocks away from the crime scene on Soi 31.
Mr Dejchat's hectic schedule yesterday went like this _ a request for an interview from Matichon Online, talking to Rawangpai Channel about being a multimedia journalist, going on air on Channel 9 with Khun Kanok (Ratwongsakul, of the Chao Khao Khon news programme), posting bills at Idea Expert and ItalThai, going to Bang Po and then appearing on Blue Sky Channel at 6pm.
Mr Dejchat, who uses an android Imobile phone to take photos and often relies on a 15-baht per hour internet cafe to update his blogs, was so overwhelmed with interview requests that tweeted in the evening: "My apologies for all the calls I could not pick up na krub. I am on air at Blue Sky krub."
While he has been in the media spotlight before yesterday _ his blog has been seen by 907,745 people and his Twitter account has 2,228 followers _ his latest crime-scene reporting lifted it to another level.
"You are amazing! Are you a spy in disguise? (Just kidding)," one admirer tweeted him. Another said: "Phi motorcycle taxi overtook everybody including professional journos. Cool! The real citizen journalist."
Despite his overnight celebrity, his head is not too big for his helmet and he took time to tweet words of thanks to all of his new admirers.
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Its a great idea really. Order the camera, be seen to be doing something and get a massive kickback at the same time. Could it get any better for him?
I am under the impression that these 12k camerias are not in use at the moment, because theres there a wiff of curruption around e project and things we not done in quite the right way. So nobody prepared to sign the contract off and start using the them on the basis that doing so will put em in court for the next 10 years and noboies make it worth their while
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Three blasts a security issue but not terrorism: Yuthasak - The Nation
Three blasts a security issue but not terrorism: Yuthasak
February 16, 2012 2:04 pm
Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapha on Thursday admitted the Tuesday's three explosions off Sukhumvit 71 were a security issue but there was no evidence to classify as a terror attack nor a linkage to Hezbollah.
"The government views the blasts as having impacted on the national security," he said in the question-and-answer session of the House.
The explosive devices undercovered were meant for individual targets and the blasts involving Iranian bomber suspects were individual crimes and not a terroroist attack, Yuthasak said.
The police investigation has yet to determine the motive why the suspects were assembling the devices before the explosions, he said. The authorities had no evidence to link the suspects to the terrorist movement.
Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said his ministry had explained the situation to the diplomatic corps.
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Thai-ASEAN News Network - Hunt On for More Blast Suspects
Hunt On for More Blast Suspects
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The police are seeking the extradition of an Iranian bomb suspect after he was arrested in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia yesterday.
Deputy police chief Police General Parnsiri Prapawat said his agency is in the process of coordinating with Malaysian authorities to extradite Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, the third out of four Iranian suspects in the bombing in Sukhumwit Soi 71 on Tuesday.
Regarding the hunt for the female Iranian suspect Rohani Leila, Parnsiri conceded she has already fled overseas.
Parnsiri stated the search for evidence will be carried out at the suspects' rented house in Soi Pridi Banomyong 31 where the first blast went off, at the mouth of Soi Pridi Banomyong 31 in which a bomb was thrown at a taxi and the area outside Kasem Pittaya School near Soi Pridi Banomyong 35 where first Iranian suspect Saeib Morabi blew off his own legs.
He remarked the existing evidence suggest all four suspects worked together on making the explosive devices used in the incident. He said investigation into the origin of bomb materials and foreign currencies found in the rented home is ongoing. He insisted investigators will also find out if there are other parties working with the suspects.
Parnsiri today held a meeting with the investigation team made up of officers from the Metropolitan Police Bureau, the Special Branch Police, the Immigration Police, the Scientific Crime Detection Division and the bomb disposal unit to assess the progress of the case, 48 hours after the incident.
Meanwhile, National Police chief Police General Priewpan Damapong this morning took part in the interrogation of the second Iranian suspect Mohammad Hazai, who was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday evening while waiting to board a flight to Malaysia.
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Iranian will be extradited to Thailand | Bangkok Post: news
Iranian will be extradited to Thailand
Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, a suspect in Tuesday's three bomb explosions in the Sukhumvit soi 71 area of Bangkok, was arrested on Wednesday by Malaysian authorities in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysian police chief Ismail Omar said the Iranian was arrested under provisions of the Immigration Act of Malaysia following information provided by Thai authorities. He had fled Thailand and was attempting to catch a plane to Iran.
Mr Surapong said Thai police were already working with Malaysian authorities for the extradition of the suspect.
The South Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday approved warrants for the arrest of four Iranians in connection with the incident.
One, Saeid Moradi, 28, was severely injured, losing both legs, and is now being treated at Chulalongkorn Hospital.
Mohummad Hazaei, 42, was detained at Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday night while attempting to board a plane to Malaysia.
The fourth suspect, Rohani Leila, is believed to have arranged the rental of the house in Soi Pridi Banomyong 31 off Soi Sukhumvit 71, where the first explosion occurred. She was reported to have already returned to Tehran.
Asked whether Thailand would be more strict in issuing a visas to foreigners, Mr Surapong said passport holders of many countries can get a visa on arrival in Thailand, but Iranians have to apply for a visa from the Thai embassy in Tehran.
Mr Surapong said he learned that the Iranian suspects applied for their visas through a tour company. He had ordered officials to compile a list of tour companies and to be stricter in screening visa applicants.
He also said four more countries - Italy, Norway, Israel and Taiwan - had issued a travel warning to their citizens to be careful in visiting public places in Thailand, in addition to 10 countries which had done so earlier.
Asked whether the Sukhumvit 71 incident was linked to the animosity between Israel and Iran, Mr Surapong said Thailand would not interfere in the matter but would continue to maintain good relations with both countries.
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UTCC: Bombs' impact 'short term' | Bangkok Post: news
UTCC: Bombs' impact 'short term'
The bomb explosions in the Sukhumvit area on Tuesday will have only a short term impact on the tourism sector, no more than two months, according to the Economic and Business Forecasting Centre of the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.
Centre director Thanavath Phonvichai said on Thursday its pollsters had sought opinions from business operators, but did not provide details on how many were questioned and when.
Based on the survey, the number of foreign tourists visiting Thailand might well drop by about five to ten per cent, or 100,000 to 200,000 people, which would mean an estimated revenue loss of five to ten billion baht. This would trim gross domestic product growth by between 0.1 and 0.2 per cent, Mr Thanavath said.
He said the survey showed that the service industry would likely be directly hit by by the bomb explosions, but it it expected to recover quickly.
A total of 51.1 per cent of the respondents said the hotel business would be the hardest hit, followed by resort operators (20 per cent), and then restaurants, food shops and entertainment businesses.
Economic and Business Forecasting Centre chief Thanavath Phonvichai
Asked what sectors would suffer most from the explosions, 49.8 per cent of the surveyed business operators pointed to tourism, 15.6 per cent said foreign investment in Thailand, and 13.4 per cent said investment in the Thai stock market.
Asked what risk factors could derail the country's economy and their own businesses, the respondents said political conflict, natural disasters and investor confidence.
The director maintained his centre's GDP growth projection for this year at between 4.5 per cent and 5.0 per cent.
On the government's flood prevention measures, Mr Thanavath said investors remained concerned but had no plans to relocate their production bases to other countries at this stage.
He said most investors were aware of the government's plan to tackle potential flooding in the country this year but only half of them believed that the government would manage the problem better than last year.
The academic said the government's plan was not clear and concrete and the information given to investors was just a big picture of the situation when in fact it should give more details to restore their confidence.
However, he said, Prime Minster Yingluck Shinawatra's visit to some of the flood-hit provinces showed the government's sincerity in tackling flood issues.
He said most investors agreed with the government's move to plant more trees and other plants to absorb rainfall, but believed that the implementation would be difficult in reality. Some also feared that this year's flood could be even worse than last year, he added.
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Police hunt 5th bomb suspect | Bangkok Post: news
Police hunt 5th bomb suspect
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Pol Gen Pansiri said the fifth suspect was also a man of middle-eastern appearance. The other four suspects have been identified as Iranians, one of them a woman.
Police were checking if he was still in the country.
Pol Gen Pansiri said police had learned that Rohani Leila, the female suspect who had returned to Tehran, had rented a second house in Bangkok.
A court warrant was being sought to search the house to see if it had been used as a place to assemble bombs.
He reaffirmed that no emblems or other material symbolic of international terrorism were found in the search of the house in Soi Pridi Banomyong 31, off Sukhumvit soi 71, where the first of the three bombs went off on Tuesday.
In Thailand, Suvarnabhumi airport director Somchai Sawasdipol said authorities have tightened security after a failed bomb plot in central Bangkok.
"We are stepping up overall surveillance and will focus on passengers behaving suspiciously as well as abandoned luggage or packages," said Mr Somchai.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) secretary-general Supachai Panitchpakdi said the government should to impose more stringent immigration controls to prevent bad guys entering Thailand.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) secretary-general Supachai Panitchpakdi (Photo by Kosol Nakachol)
"Of course tourist spots must be guaranteed safety and security, but the authorities should also introduce more stringent screening measures at immigration. We should not be too worried that this could have an adverse impact to tourism," said Mr Supachai, speaking on the sideline of an economic conference in Bangkok.
He said the three explosions reflected increasing global tensions, but Thailand had to stand firm in saying that this is not a problem stemming from domestic affairs.
"Our security is sufficient and we have to show the world that we are ready with preventative measures now and when needed," the Thai economist said.
The United States had imposed strict immigration measures after the Sept 11 attacks and other countries also saw the necessity to take similar steps.
"Thailand can do a similar thing, a little inconvenience for visitors and tourists to ensure security for all should not be a worry,"
Two other Iranians have already been charged in Thailand in connection with Tuesday's bomb incident, the third to shake world capitals in less than 24 hours.
Thai police say Israeli diplomats were the intended targets of the botched plot, prompting Israeli accusations that Iran was behind a terror campaign, which Tehran has denied.
One of the suspects had his legs blown off as he tried to hurl an explosive device at Thai police while fleeing after an apparently unintended explosion at a Bangkok house, officials said.
He was said to be in stable condition in a Bangkok hospital.
The other Iranian suspect was detained trying to board a flight out of Thailand on Tuesday evening.
Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said the Iranian bomb suspect arrested in Malaysia will be extradited to Thailand once formalities are completed.
Thai security guards inspect a car entering a parking lot of the building which houses the Israeli embassy a day after multiple explosions in Bangkok on February 15, 2012. (Photo AFP)
Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, 31, was apprehended on Wednesday by Malaysian authorities in Kuala Lumpur.
Mr Surapong said police were already working with Malaysian authorities for his extradition.
Malaysian Police chief Ismail Omar said the Iranian was arrested under provisions of the Immigration Act of Malaysia following information provided by Thai authorities.
Malaysia's Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Mr Zadeh had been attempting to fly to Iran.
Mr Zadeh's arrest at Kuala Lumpur international airport showed Malaysia was "very serious and committed'' to addressing the threat of terrorism, said the minister
"The authorities of this country will never allow Malaysia to become a location, base, or transit point for terrorists or individuals who are wanted by any other country,'' he said.
Suvarnabhumi airport director Somchai Sawasdipol said authorities have tightened security.
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Thai-ASEAN News Network - Blasts Put Soi Nana Businesses on Edge
Blasts Put Soi Nana Businesses on Edge
UPDATE : 16 February 2012
Businesses at Soi Nana in Bangkok are now worrying that the bombing incident at Sukhumvit Soi 71 will affect tourism and ask officials to check the profiles of suspected foreigners travelling in and out Thailand carefully. Businesses at Soi Nana in Bangkok expressed concern that the Bangkok triple blasts will affect tourism and the image of Thailand. However, they did note that their sales have not dropped after the incident.
With its various entertainment spots, Soi Nana is a destination which attracts a lot of tourists, particularly Middle Easterners. Business owners are now concerned and are monitoring the situation to keep themselves updated all the time. All of them are joining hands to be on the lookout for suspicious individuals as well.
However, the entrepreneurs are calling for related agencies to carefully scan and check foreigners travelling in and out of the country in order to avoid such attacks again.
Meanwhile, police are keeping a close watch on the Israeli Embassy, which is located at the Ocean Tower II Building in Sukhumvit Soi 19. The building's security guards have been checking every vehicle entering the building with scans of the trunk and underneath the body to make sure no bombs are sneaked inside.
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Thai-ASEAN News Network - US Ambassador Meets Supreme Commander over Blast Case
US Ambassador Meets Supreme Commander over Blast Case
UPDATE : 16 February 2012
The US ambassador states it is still uncertain whether terrorists were responsible for the blasts in the heart of Bangkok, given the police's inquiry on the case has not yet been finalized.
United States Ambassador to Thailand Kristie Kenney today met Supreme Commander General Thanasak Patimaprakorn to discuss the blasts on Sukhumvit Soi 71.
The ambassador said the crime is a significant event and it is still too early to jump to conclusion that the blasts were associated with terrorism as the police's investigation is still underway.
She maintained that Thai-US relations remain strong and said she believed Thai authorities are capable enough to identify the motive behind the blasts.
US Embassy Spokesman Walter Braunohler said his embassy's present warning is not a ban on its citizens from traveling to Thailand, but a caution on them to increase their awareness while visiting tourist populated areas.
He insisted Thailand is still an attractive investment and tourist destination.
The spokesman said he is unable to conclude at this point that the blasts were associated with terrorism and asked countries linked to the crime to cooperate with the Thai government's investigation.
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Iran shadow war intensifies, crosses borders | Reuters
Iran "shadow war" intensifies, crosses borders
By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Peter Apps
BANGKOK/LONDON | Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:00pm EST
(Reuters) - The loudest noise that Thongma Danoi had ever heard was followed 20 minutes later by the strangest sight: a dazed and bloodied Iranian carrying two wire-adorned devices through the usually sleepy Bangkok neighborhood.
"He was losing a lot of blood," said Thongma, 68, who saw the Iranian man, later identified as Saeid Moradi, fleeing a rented house blown apart by a massive explosion on Tuesday. "People were shouting, 'He's got a bomb!' I tried not to look at him."
Minutes later, he heard another explosion, as 28-year-old Moradi reportedly threw a second bomb at a taxi that wouldn't pick him up. His rampage ended nearby, outside a school, with a third explosion that ripped off one of the bomber's legs and damaged the other so badly it had to be amputated.
Israel said the Bangkok blasts were evidence of an "attempted terrorist attack" and blamed Iran. Tehran denied involvement.
As bombings go, this week's trio of apparent attempted attacks on Israeli targets -- which also included an attack on a car carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi and a bomb found attached to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle in the Georgian capital Tbilisi -- seemed unusually inept.
But security experts believe they sent a clear message, the first serious retaliation for a quietly waged but increasingly bloody campaign of sabotage waged against Iran's nuclear program.
At least four Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years in attacks believed to have been carried out by or for Israel's intelligence services. While Israel invariably refuses to comment, some security analysts also suspect it has been involved in a string of major explosions at military and nuclear facilities in Iran, such as one in November that killed more than a dozen, including a senior Iranian general.
Tehran denied any involvement in this week's attacks, accusing Israel of staging them itself. But there are widespread suspicions that the real intent may have been to warn the Jewish state that Iran is prepared to retaliate in kind.
"I see in what happened a message to the effect of: 'Anything you can do, I can do too,'" said Gad Shimron, a former Mossad field officer who writes on intelligence matters. "In other words, if Israel uses terror for its security needs, it can expect reprisals from the other side."
In an environment of growing tension, paranoia and fear, there is a risk of escalation fuelled by worries over Iran's nuclear program, a potential Israeli strike on Iran and a devastating wider conflict in the Gulf.
"There is more and more pressure on all sides," says Anthony Cordesman, a former senior U.S. intelligence and defense official and now chair of strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Washington D.C.-based think tank. "All of them are interacting now in ways that make it harder and harder to anticipate the actions of each other."
While some Western officials say it is too soon to blame Tehran for this week's attacks, security analysts point to growing circumstantial evidence. Thai authorities said similar magnetic bombs were used in New Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok.
While they did not blame Iran directly, they said the two other men arrested in relation to the Bangkok blasts -- one in the Thai capital and the other in Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia as he bought a ticket to Tehran after fleeing Thailand -- were also Iranian.
The attack in Delhi -- in which a motorcycle attacker attached a magnetic or "sticky" bomb about the size of an iPad to an Israeli diplomatic vehicle -- appeared to be a virtual mirror image of the lethal January 11 attack on Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan in Tehran traffic.
Indian police say they have yet to track down the young man in a leather jacket riding a red motorcycle who eyewitnesses said attached the device before racing away. But they said they were investigating phone calls made to foreign numbers from the immediate area just after the attack, particularly four calls made to Iran, Lebanon and Pakistan.
Tal Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of Israel's defense attache to Delhi was injured in the attack. If the bomber had attached the device to the side of the car with the petrol tank, its occupants would have been less likely to survive, police said.
Iran has long used proxy groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Hamas in the Palestinian territories to attack its enemies overseas, and intelligence experts believe they may have done so again in this case. Tehran's relationship with Hamas has frayed in recent years, but Iran remains close to Hezbollah.
Other analysts believe the culprits may be members of Tehran's hardline Revolutionary Guard, perhaps from the Quds Force, believed responsible for "extraterritorial operations".
Conspiracy theories are rife . Some even point to the possibility that Israel itself might have orchestrated the attacks to damage Iran's relationship with key Asian powers particularly India, a current main purchaser of Iran's oil.
"The situation is getting worse and worse and it of course provides a good excuse for anyone who wishes to engage in real hostilities," said Farhang Jahanpour of Oxford University's Faculty of Oriental Studies.
For most analysts, however, these attacks plus an alleged plot last year to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States -- which U.S. authorities say they thwarted -- suggest Iran is now taking new risks or has signaled its proxies may do so.
"We are now seeing evidence of Iranian willingness to go after foreign targets in a way that has not been that much in evidence before," says Nigel Inkster, a former deputy chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), now at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
"Whether we're talking about the Iranians themselves or proxies such as Hezbollah, it is very difficult to know. It's also not clear whether they are acting on direction from the top or have simply been given the impression they (now) have greater flexibility."
The relative ineptitude of the attacks suggests Tehran wanted to send a message rather than inflict heavy casualties.
"The Iranians aren't interested in a truck-bomb-level attack on an Israeli embassy because that could provoke a conflict," said Paul Quaglia, director of security consultancy PSA Asia and a 20-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
"But they're upset about having ... nuclear scientists hit. Farming out these low-level bomb attacks against diplomats is the next best thing."
Israel too is also suspected of using a range of shadowy local resistance groups in Iran. Some of their members may not be aware of who they are ultimately working for, a technique known as "false flagging".
Several reports suggest Israeli agents may have impersonated their US counterparts in recruiting or directing members of the People's Mujahideen of Iran -- often known by its initials MEK -- or Jundallah, a group sometimes linked to al Qaeda that is based largely in the province of Baluchistan.
"There is some evidence that this has been happening," said former MI6 deputy chief Inkster. "It may be one of the things that has soured the relationship between Israel and the US. The "false flag" issue always makes things more complicated."
The United States denies any involvement in the lethal attacks within Iran -- even issuing a rare condemnation of the January car bomb killing.
One Gulf security source told Reuters he believed U.S. agencies were directly involved in some attacks, working alongside MEK. U.S. officials have denied such suggestions, saying they would never work with the resistance groups partly because they were suspected to have been infiltrated by Iranian intelligence.
Former and serving U.S. and other Western officials say the CIA does not have the authorization -- or "finding" -- from the White House to conduct lethal attacks within Iran, although few doubt they are involved in a wide range of other intelligence operations.
While the emerging "shadow war" might escalate in the months to come, not everyone believes it heightens the risk of a wider conflict that the United States, Iran and Israel are keen to avoid.
But the lesson of history -- particularly 1914, when the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in a Sarajevo sidestreet sparked a world war -- is that mistakes can happen.
"Everyone here is used to playing the long game," says former U.S. official Cordesman, saying he believed outright war was still likely to be avoided. "But you can still have someone on a street corner in the middle of nowhere... who sparks something that changes the course of history."
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Govt 'whitewashing' bombing | Bangkok Post: news
Govt 'whitewashing' bombing
Democrats say reaction can bruise Thai image
The government has come under criticism for trying to downplay the Bangkok bombing that injured one Iranian suspect and four bystanders.
Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva urged the government to come to terms with the fact that the bombs on Sukhumvit Soi 71 and two nearby locations had attracted global attention due to extensive media coverage.
Other countries were watching to see what measures would be implemented to prevent future incidents and ensure public safety but the government was apparently preoccupied with a damage control campaign, Mr Abhisit said.
"Security agencies were sending a message that it was not a terrorist attack because the targets were individuals. But we have to accept the fact that they had bombs and there were attempts to assemble bombs, regardless of what their targets were," he said.
Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul had sent the wrong signal to the world when he said the bombers intended to assemble bombs in Thailand for operations in other countries.
This statement could ease fears at home but create confusion in other countries as it could be interpreted that Thailand was not serious about the problem, he added.
"The bottom line is safety for all Thais and foreigners here, and [we must make] an effort not to let the incident jeopardise relations with other countries," Mr Abhisit said.
Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security analyst at Chulalongkorn University, said the government could not deny the suspects planned a terrorist attack.
"No matter what the government says, the picture of a taxi damaged by a bomb sent out to the world by the media and social media speaks for itself that it was an act by terrorists," he said.
Mr Panitan said the government was compelled to tone down the blasts, as admitting it was a terrorist act could scare foreigners away.
"Previous governments also downplayed issues like this. If they admitted a terrorist attack, it will have consequences for Thailand," he said.
Thailand banks on tourism for foreign exchange income, with about 12 million visitors coming to the country last year. The tourism sector accounts for about 6% of gross domestic product.
Mr Panitan called on the government to use this opportunity to revamp its intelligence operations.
The suspects were able to enter Thailand to prepare for their operations without the knowledge of authorities.
"The government must face the truth that we have lax security measures, even though we are a tourist destination," he said.
He also urged the Foreign Ministry to convince the Iranian government to come out to condemn the bombings and show it was not involved.
The four people who lived in the house where the first blast took place, including a woman, carry Iranian passports.
Deputy Prime Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa told parliament the bombings should not be considered a terrorist plot.
"Evidence shows the targets were individuals, so a terrorist act has been ruled out as of now.
"But all agencies involved are working together to come up with a conclusion to the case," said Gen Yutthasak, who is in charge of security.
He said authorities remained vigilant, as shown by the arrest of suspect Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh at Suvarnabhumi airport hours after the blasts, and prompt cooperation with Malaysia that led to the arrest of another suspect.
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Tuesday blast 'not linked to terrorism, Hezbollah' - The Nation
Tuesday blast 'not linked to terrorism, Hezbollah'
Photo : Sukul Kerdnaimongkol February 17, 2012 1:00 am
The government does not consider the blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday an act of terrorism and that the botched bombing attempt has nothing to do with the militant group Hezbollah, government figures said yesterday.
Deputy Prime Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapha, who is in charge of security affairs, told the House of Representatives yesterday that the explosions had been caused by bombs that were intended to kill individuals, not a large group of people.
He said the men involved in the explosions were not from Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based. However, he said, he was still waiting for verification as to whether the men were indeed Iranian nationals.
"The components of the bombs are not of the same type as the ones made by Hezbollah," said Yuthasak, who was previously defence minister.
Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul also said yesterday that the men behind the blasts had no links to Hezbollah as "they are not of the same nationality". He also dismissed any connection between the blasts in Bangkok and the attacks earlier this week in India and Georgia, which were allegedly meant to target Israeli diplomats. However, magnets were found in the bombs used in Bangkok, which were similar to the ones used in the other two countries.
Yuthasak and Surapong were responding to a query posed by opposition Democrat MP Thana Chirawinit. They were speaking on behalf of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Hezbollah, which literally means "Party of God", is a Shi'ite Muslim militant group and political party based in Lebanon. It is believed to receive financial and political support from Iran and Syria.
Yuthasak said yesterday that Tuesday's blasts affected Thailand's security, adding that state agencies had been ordered to beef up security following the incident.
"With the increased conflict between Middle Eastern and Western countries, Thai security agencies will have to intensify their work," he said.
The foreign minister added that other countries had confidence in the Thai security agencies, as he expressed concern about the negative news targeting the government as well as the rumours swirling after the incident.
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Bomb expert trained suspects - The Nation
Bomb expert trained suspects
The Nation February 17, 2012 1:00 am
One of the four Middle East men captured by security cameras during the blasts in Bangkok on Valentine's Day was suspected to be a bomb expert who passed on his bombmaking skills to the other three, police said yesterday.
Police also had the Southern Bangkok Criminal Court approve arrest warrants for the three Iranian men at the scene and an Iranian woman, Leila Rohani, 32, who reportedly has fled to Tehran, out of Thai police's reach.
The wounded suspect, Saeid Moradi, 28, faces charges of making explosives, possessing explosives without a permit, causing explosions that endangered others and attempting to murder onduty police and other persons. The three other suspects are wanted for the first three charges.
The police investigation team held their first meeting. Metropolitan Police chief Winai Thongsong said Special Branch police contacted Malaysia to seek the extradition of suspect Seda Ghatzadeh Masoud, 31, who flew to Kuala Lumpur, while Mohammad Hazaei, 42, arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport, would initially face the charge of launching bomb attacks.
In trying to determine if the explosions were related to the bomb attacks in India and Georgia, police have asked parties for more information.
Initially, the Bangkok bomb materials appear similar to what was used in the attacks on Israeli interests in other countries, in that magnets would affix the bomb to a car target, he added.
According to a source at the national security agency, prior to the first explosion at the suspects' rented house near Sukhumvit Soi 71, witnesses said they saw an Iranian man in his 50s and 150160cm tall going out of the house with a large luggage case at about 7am.
Security footage showed that in the week before the blasts, this man went in and out of the house on a daily basis, the source said. He was also seen in the Thong Lor and Khlong Tan areas after the blasts and when Hazaei was arrested at Suvarnabhumi.
The man was suspected of being a bomber or taking explosive materials to teach the three Iranians to make bombs, the source said, adding that Israeli officials also gave information to Thai police in this case.
Pol Lt General Wiboon Bangtamai, commissioner of the Immigration Bureau, said Rohani was now in Tehran, Iran's capital.
"We can't ask Iran to send her back to Thailand as we have no extradition treaty with that country," he said.
Rohani was suspected of being the one who rented the house where the three Iranian men stayed and where the first device exploded, apparently by accident.
Rohani's absence would not affect the case, as she had only rented the house. Thai police have enough evidence such as footage from security cameras and bomb materials found in the house, he added.
However, police searched her room at the house and turned up some more evidence, but offered no details.
Deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said that, besides the four wanted Iranians, police were also gathering information for an arrest warrant for a Middle East man who might be involved and checking if he was still in Thailand.
Police would continue to comb the damaged house and search two or three other places that the four Iranians had been seen frequenting. The house had so far not shown any signs of any terrorist group. Suppliers should alert police if foreigners buy a suspicious amount of material that could be used in bomb making, he added.
Wanchai Rujanawong, directorgeneral of the Office of the Attorney General's Foreign Affairs Bureau, said the extradition of Masoud from Malaysia would take some time. The agency was waiting for the submission of case documents from police, which would need to be translated, and would then proceed according to the ThaiBritish extradition treaty. Britain used to rule Malaysia. If that couldn't apply, Thai authorities would try diplomatic leverage of reciprocal trade with Malaysia.
Dr Prasert Triwijitsilpa, deputy director of Chulalongkorn Hospital, said Moradi, who lost both his legs in one blast, was in stable condition and remained unconscious and on respiratory assistance. Doctors would keep him under surveillance for 72 hours for infection.
Kluaynamthai Hospital released one of the blast victims, 82yearold Kangwal Horprasatthong.
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I can't fucking believe the US Ambassadress is saying she is uncertain if the blasts were related to terrorism! She was an idiot when she was here in the Philippines, and has obviously gotten even worse. And she was replaced here by an even bigger fool.
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Airports brace for attacks | Bangkok Post: news
Airports brace for attacks
Israel warns Thailand could be terror target
Police take Mohammad Khazaei, an Iranian suspect in Tuesday's bombings, to the Immigration Police Bureau for questioning yesterday. APICHART JINAKUL
Pol Gen Priewpan yesterday told the Transport Ministry to place the international airports, under the Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT), on high alert as Israel has warned terrorists may be targetting them.
A government source said Israel had advised police directly to boost security at airports, based on intelligence reports it had received.
AoT chairman ACM Sumet Phomanee raised the security alert at the six airports from level 2, the normal level, to level 3. The airports are Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Hat Yai and Phuket.
Pol Gen Priewpan denied reports terrorists were targetting the Israeli defence minister who was scheduled to change planes in Thailand on Wednesday but later cancelled the plan following the bombings on Tuesday.
The warning also prompted the government to beef up security for other modes of public transport.
Ronnachit Yaemsa-ard, acting governor of the Mass Rapid Authority of Thailand, said he had instructed Bangkok Metro Co, the operator of the MRT, to step up security at subway stations.
Anat Arbhabhirama, an adviser to the executive committee of Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc, which runs the BTS skytrain, gave an assurance that security at the BTS is always high.
State Railway of Thailand governor Yutthana Thapcharoen said security has been boosted at all railway stations, particularly in the lower South.
Pol Col Monthon Ngernwattana, acting chief of the Royal Thai Police's foreign affairs division, said the Attorney-General will seek the extradition to Thailand of Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, an Iranian suspect who was arrested by Malaysian authorities in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday after fleeing Bangkok.
Mr Zadeh had entered Malaysia on Tuesday and had been attempting to fly to Iran when he was detained, the Malaysian government said.
The arrest on Wednesday of Mr Zadeh at Kuala Lumpur's international airport showed Malaysia was "very serious and committed" to addressing the threat of terrorism, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.
Pol Col Monthon said the division had submitted evidence and an arrest warrant for the suspect to the Office of the Attorney-General, which it will forward to the Foreign Ministry.
The ministry will contact Malaysia's foreign ministry to extradite the suspect.
Pol Col Monthon said even though Thailand and Malaysia do not have a formal extradition treaty, Thailand will use an extradition treaty it signed with Britain, Malaysia's former colonial ruler.
Deputy national police chief Pansiri Prapawat said the Bangkok South Criminal Court had approved arrest warrants for all three Iranian suspects being held in custody, as well as an Iranian woman, Rohani Leila, who is suspected of having arranged for the rental of the Sukhumvit Soi 71 home.
Two suspects with Iranian passports were detained after the explosions on Sukhumvit Soi 71 on Tuesday.
Saeid Moradi, 28, was injured in the bombings and is being treated at Chulalongkorn Hospital. Mohummad Khazaei, 42, was detained at Suvarnabhumi airport late on Tuesday as he was about to board a plane to Malaysia. Mr Zadeh was arrested in Malaysia.
Pol Gen Pansiri said Mr Moradi has been charged with attempted murder and having explosives in his possession and the other three suspects have been charged with being in possession of explosives. A fifth suspect had also been identified. A warrant would be sought for the suspect, a Middle Eastern man.
Bomb disposal experts yesterday searched a hotel room at Nasa Vegas Hotel on Ramkhamhaeng Road, where Ms Leila checked in. They found no explosives.
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Suspects partied in Pattaya | Bangkok Post: news
Suspects partied in Pattaya
Two Thai women have fun with the three Iranian bomb suspects at a restaurant in Pattaya. Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, left, was arrested in Malaysia, Mohammad Khazaei, centre, was detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport, and Saied Moradi was badly injured in the bombings. PORNPROM SARTTRABHAYA
Her account, and photographs taken with her mobile phone, could help authorities confirm whether the suspects know one another.
The woman, in her twenties, and identified only as Nan, told the immigration officers that she had escorted Mohammad Khazaei, who was detained at Suvarnabhumi airport late on Tuesday after a series of explosions on Sukhumvit Soi 71.
Mr Khazaei met Ms Nan near the Balihai area in Pattaya. She said the Iranian asked her to escort him during his stay there because he was not good at speaking English.
Ms Nan later asked two friends to escort Mr Khazaei's two companions.
They were later identified from a group photo on Ms Nan's mobile phone as Saeid Moradi and Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, the third bomb suspect who was arrested in Malaysia yesterday.
During their stay in Pattaya, from Feb 8 to 13 according to their hotel's registration, Ms Nan and her friends hung out with the three men. In one group gathering, shown in a photo, they were winding down in a bar in a hotel. Ms Nan said they had drinks and played snooker together.
Ms Nan was with Mr Khazaei in his room as well but didn't detect any irregularities except one time when he barred her from approaching a closet in the room. On the last day, Monday, Mr Khazaei told her that he would go home. So she phoned a taxi to pick him up.
"What we got from Ms Nan is circumstantial evidence that helps confirm to us that they were here together in Pattaya," Pol Lt Gol Thawatchai Nongbua, inspector of Chon Buri Immigration Office, said.
National police chief Priewpan Damapong said police took Ms Nan to the immigration bureau in Bangkok to make Mr Khazaei feel more at ease.
Earlier, the suspect had showed signs of stress and refused to eat. After he met Ms Nan, he appeared more relaxed and agreed to eat some food, Pol Gen Priewpan said.
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