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Subscribe to RSSA suspected Iranian man is severely injured in Thailand after a grenade explodes on a Bangkok street. Msnbc's Chris Jansing reports the incident could escalate tensions between Israel and Iran, whom Israel accuses of several assassination attempts on its citizens.
BANGKOK -- An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after an earlier blast shook his house in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India — an attack Israel blamed on Iran.
Authorities said it's unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but in Jerusalem Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, "we can't rule out any possibility."
Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but the possible targets were not known, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.
A passport found at the scene of one blast indicated the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran, Pansiri said. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.
PhotoBlog: Graphic photo of bomb scene
Tuesday's violence began in the afternoon when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in Moradi's house, blowing off part of the roof. Police said two foreigners quickly left the residence, followed by a wounded Moradi.
"He tried to wave down a taxi, but he was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him," Pansiri said. He then threw an explosive at the taxi and began running.
Police who had been called to the area then tried to apprehend Moradi, who hurled a grenade to defend himself. "But somehow it bounced back" and blew off his legs, Pansiri said.
EPA
A member of Thailand's explosives disposal unit inspects the scene of a bomb blast that injured a man thought to be Iranian on a roadside in Bangkok Tuesday.
Photos of the wounded Iranian showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk strewn with broken glass. He lay in front of a Thai primary and secondary school. No students were reported wounded.
A motorcycle taxi driver who arrived on the scene shortly after the explosion said he saw the man identified as Moradi lying on the ground with his leg blown off.
"Luckily school hadn't finished yet, otherwise there would be more injuries," Dechchart Puangket told NBC News.
A dark satchel nearby was investigated by a bomb disposal unit. Pansiri said police found Iranian currency, US dollars and Thai money in the bag.
Three Thai men and one Thai woman were brought to Kluaynamthai Hospital for treatment of injuries, said Suwinai Busarakamwong, a doctor there.
The blasts came a day after bomb attacks targeted Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia. Israel accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind those attacks. Hezbollah is a Shiite Islamist group backed by Syria and Iran that is on the official U.S. blacklist of foreign terrorist organizations.
An Israeli official told news website Ynet that the Bangkok explosions appeared to be a "bombing gone wrong."
Second Iranian detained
Another Iranian was detained Tuesday night at Bangkok's international airport as he attempted to leave for neighboring Malaysia, said police commander Winai Thongsong. Authorities were interrogating the man, but it was not yet known whether he was involved in Tuesday's blasts.
Kerek Wongsa / Reuters
Tuesday's violence began when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in a Bangkok house, blowing off part of the roof.
While Thai officials declined to speculate on whether the two men they had detained were involved with any militant group,
Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak blamed Iran.
"The attempted terrorist attack in Bangkok proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror,'' Barak said on a visit to Singapore.
"Iran and Hezbollah are unrelenting terror elements endangering the stability of the region, and endangering the stability of the world,'' said Barak, who spent a few hours in Bangkok on Sunday.
Israel accuses Iran of bombings in India, Georgia
Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants was detained by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 8,800 pounds of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.
Israel and the United States at the time warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.
Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi's movements, but initial reports indicated he flew into Thailand from Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 8, Pansiri said. He landed at the southern Thai resort town of Phuket, then stayed in a hotel in Chonburi, a couple hours drive southeast of Bangkok, for several nights.
Bangkok's blasts came one day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The attack in India wounded four people, while the device found in Georgia did not explode. Iran has denied it was responsible.
Israeli police have increased the state of alert in the country, emphasizing public places, foreign embassies and offices, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport.
Thailand has rarely been a target for foreign terrorists, although a domestic Muslim insurgency in the country's south has involved bombings of civilian targets.
NBC News, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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All you Guys are falling for this fabricated international spin: Iran had nothing to do with this incident (if anything we set this guy up to demonize Iran)
And you know this how?
And you wise ass know this, ha?
Hey Kevin , if you don't like it here. There's the door, don't let the screendoor hit you on the way out!!!!!!!
Hey Teri, if you dont like free speech theres the door, dont let my foot hit you on the way out. Kevin is wrong but you dont question the story of the "supposed iranian"? I guess the last few lies about the Iranian trying to kill the isreali diplomat to the USA and the imaginary mines and torpedos being fired at US ships by Iran the last year of the Bush quagmire were ok by you though. Its called false flag ops and it is been done since we learned how the Nazis did it to take power in Germany. Read a few books then try to follow along.
Wiley Coyote would be proud of this guy.
They should have left him lay there to die.
Gotta love when Muslims, who credit/blame their god for every little thing that happens, get such an apparetn thumbs down from that god. Religion: let's grow out of it.
Thats funny because that is exactly what the jews think, your probably for that religion though right?
Religion: Let's grow out of it.
Exactly...coming from a bigot
I hope they do not give him enough pain medication for his wounds!
Oh Thailand has a domestic muslim insurgency as well? Why do we tolerate muslims when they do not seem to tolerate anybody else?
Same thing with the Jews. Name one person in Isreal that has a government/civil job that is not a jew. Bigots and racists.
let me guess I'm a bigot because I pointed out the fact that Isreal is a racist country? lol. One thing I can say about you racist zionist is you stick together with you social program alerts you have set up to slant public opinion in your favor.
jabberjerk--Name one person who is not a Jew in a government job in Israel? How about Justice Salim Joubran of the Israeli Supreme Court? Your ignorance and hatred are appalling.
http://www.jpost.com/topic/Salim_Joubran
Ok, so more than one. I see they had a whole publicity party for that one though. haha what a joke. It was probably so you could point to one person in response to people like me. If not for us freedom of speech advocates you would not even have done that.
Jabberjockitch--
Four Arab members of the Israeli Knesset. Freely elected.
Current Knesset Members:
Talab El-Sana ,Masud Ganaim, Ibrahim Sarsur ,Ahmad Tibi
http://www.middle-east-info.org/gateway/arabsinisrael/index.htm
Now get off your dying ass and do your own research.
Israel should attack and destroy Iran as should Iran attack and destroy Israel. Then and only then will we have true peace in the ME
you've got to be kidding! There will never be true peace in the ME. Even if Israel no longer existed, the different tribes (Sunni, Shiite etc) would still trying to kill each other.
Israel is just a convenient story for the radical muslims.
ROFL
Hopefully it blows the legs off other Iranians that throw bombs and ideally near Ahmadinajad and Khomeni. This scum of the world should be erased.
Don't forget their False Prophet Mohammed mentioned in The Book Of Revelation. NO SOUP FOR HIM EITHER!!!!!!!!!!
5 attempts on Iranian bomb makers-4 eliminated, 3 attempts to kill Israeli officials-all failed.
Iran, you still want to go toe to toe with Israel?
LMFAO !!!
israel must fall they are satan!
Sorry to disappoint you but in this game of musical (country) chairs Israel WILL be the last one sitting and ALL others leaving the party with empty hands.
Of course he was from Iran. Probably state-sponsored. In fact, I'll bet every citizen in Iran contributed money to get this guy to bomb the Israeli embassy. Intelligence officials are also reporting an Iranian plot to assassinate Santa Claus.
Remember the Iranian plot to kill a Saudi ambassador on US soil? Hmmm. Kinda disappeared didn't it? Know why? It was about as believable as the Santa assassination plot - and it completely fell apart after details emerged it was a botched DEA operation and an attempt to provide a patsy for blame.....Then it fizzled. Got quiet. Placed in the memory hole.
Israel and the US are so desparate to start a war with Iran, they'll do anything - up to and including a "Gulf of Tonkin" type incident...or a false flag self-inflicted attack like the USS Liberty or the Lavon Affair (you can google that stuff if you don't know what it is.....same old Israeli/Mossad tricks.....the memory hole can only swallow so much.)
I'm afraid the boys on the USS Enterprise may be in trouble. That ship's supposed to be decommissioned next year - four nuke reactors - very expensive. It would be a lot cheaper and easier to sink it. And the Enterprise is such a recognizable name, the citizens of the US would be screaming for Iranian blood if something were to happen to them. Convenient that they're sailing it right into the Strait of Hormuz, isn't it?
Soldiers are only pawns - you chicken-hawks and Congress have proven that repeatedly - pawns to be used in the name of Corporate Empire. Look for the false-flag attack. It will happen. Hopefully, some of us will be on our toes enough to head it off or identify it for what it is.
But msnbc will be sure and tell all of you what you're supposed to think - and us? We'll be dirty, old conspiracy theorists......even though history has proven us right time and time again.
I don't care who you are.............That is just funny.
Almost as funny as the time the first and only zionist astronaut was melted in re-entry.. Hilarious.
Only a rag head would compare military service and a terrorist. Go fug your goat.
I would but your mom said not today.
At least my mother isn't a female dog like yours
Thats true a goat is not a female dog. You get a gold star.
Ive been reading Jabbers posts and ive come to realize hes just trolling trying to get a rise out of you people. Hes mentioned the astronaut like 10 times now. Ignore him, he'll eventually go away
If the Iranians do produce a nuke and attach it to a missle......... Will it too bounce off a tree and blow off a few legs in Iran.....
Only the one that the Isrealis fix to give the mentally retarded recruit for their terrorism.
Glad to hear this guy survived! I bet he is in no rush to get back to Iran. Once in Iran- the Israelies might take a try at him. It's dangerous out there- this guy really needs to be careful now. :)
I'm sure he'll be as careful as can be while confined, hopefully, for a very long long time. They don't call the Bangkok police the bangkok police for nothing. I sure he will tell all in the end.
I just read the latest on the bombers condition. They said that his injuries were more extensive and they had to amputate his remaining leg. Hmmm... let's see. One lost before throwing the first bomb (lost one leg). One lost after it bounced off of the tree (two lost)... and now?... OUCH! Guess he won't be having anymore kids!..... lol. I wonder if he's covered under Obamacare? NO SOUP FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could this guy have played for the Mets at one time?? Sure it wasn't Plaxico?!?!?
The Apocalypse is coming! "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception,There was a meeting of governments way back in 1975 in Britain, at that meeting it was made known that the ''greys'' were totally uninterested in our welfare except for their own needs. It was also made known that the ''greys'' reside on the Moon, under our oceans and under our ground look very much like the creatures in the movie, ''Fire in the Sky.'' Human, Dolphin and Sea Turtle. Bin' around for ages. Live underground. Under the Sea. Manipulate Mankind forever." They are the ELVES!!!!! They are the war makers and doers of all evil!!!! They are Con-Trolled by a group of Humans that have been enjoying technologies........... such as we are now just scraping the surface of......... for eons. 1954 Greada Treaty it's the treaty signed between Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Greys, ... in return for bits and pieces of their technology, we would provide them with abductees Congress added the words "In God We Trust" on all paper money. ... In February 1954 Planet X is the key to the survival of mankind...Nibiru is know biblically as the Kingdom of Heaven or the Holy City,where the angels and God himself reside,and also were Jesus will be at the 2nd coming..Nibiru was the home of satan and the fallen angels before they rebelled. Satan and the fallen angels are locked away INSIDE earth until the Planet X returns(judgement day), When Satan comes back to this earth he will have supernatural powers able to do miracles that will deceive many. He will be able to have lightning come down from heaven And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: What is in our foreheads? Our brain, our mind, that which we use to think. What this is saying is that people will receive a mark in their mind and that mark is deception Believing that the 1st one that comes to this earth with supernatural powers is Jesus Christ. The 1st one back with supernatural powers is not Jesus Christ but Satan himself.
Run for your lives!!!!
come on guys, we supposed to write comments not volumes!
Gee!... Iran involved in terrorism?... who would have thought?!!!!!!!!!!... lol. What's next? Are they going to start accusing the Taliban or something??????? I told that guy NOT to glue the bomb together with rubber cement!!! Now look what happened!!!!!!!! What a Dumb $hit, lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly what I thought when we found out last week Isreal was using terrorists to kill civilians.
Well that makes the entire country of Isreal "fair game" since they all are required military duty. Now can the Jews stop crying to the rest of the world and use their own lives and riches to fight their battles? Isrealis are like the international african american, always the victim.
No they are always on call for the military, therefore they are all fair game. The only thing spinning is the dreidel you got for being a good little bigot.
Threats from a racist zionist, whats new. One day some rich saudi will do your wife and bake your kid in a pie. With as much bad karma as racist zionist are saving up history will soon repeat itself like it has time and time again. I guess that wasnt karma though right? Your god that made you torture Jesus told you so.
But you didn't know that time your wife did that saudi man to get the money for the dreidel you didnt want to buy for junior.
Jab,
You must have really got bent over by someone to be soooooo angry. Your statements make you look like a total idiot and not to be taken seriously. Put some thought into your diatribe and come back with something of substance.
I'm glad you two agree with each other, but I'm so stupid that I post one sentence and you spend 7 paragraphs responding...
Get a room for your fantasy of a Jew knocking anything out but the hole in a bagel.
HEY REALLY!... did you know that Jabberwockyed spelled backwards spells DUMBA$$!!!!!!!!!... lol. What in the hell did this nut smoke this morning??? NO SOUP FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did anybody else catch that racial slur Jabber threw out against African Americans?
yup, I caught that, I just figured it cam efrom Jabber so it means nothing.
I have a theory, Jabber is actually a Jew. Except he was the kid who's parents couldn't afford a Bar Mitzvah and therefore he's pissed off at all Jews. Or perhaps he's a product of a 2 religion family and he's having issues because his Jewish parent didn't love him as much as the other parent did.
what was he thinking
"An Israeli offical told news website Ynet that it appeared the incident was a 'bombing gone wrong.' "
No. This outcome was a bombing gone right.
I thought getting bombed in Thailand was a visit to one of their exsquisite strip clubs where the girls do naughty things with bananas not bombs.
NOW THAT'S a curveball,bankshot,richochet,BACKFIRE! that's it BACKFIRE!
graduate of tehran university? iranian president's relative? must have flunked out of suicide school.
The Iranians have been watching to many episodes of the Three Stooges- three bomb attempts got no one they wanted blew there own leg off, way to go Moe. Next time pay attention when Israel blows up your nuclear faculty or takes out one of your scientist in broad daylight in the middle of Tehran.