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| Thailand Bomb Plot: Iran Suspects Cavorted With Prostitutes |
| 2012-02-17 |
| The three Iranian men detained for allegedly plotting bomb attacks in Bangkok on Israeli diplomats had more than terror on their minds in Thailand. Police said Friday that they had also cavorted with prostitutes at a beach resort. The news comes as Thai authorities announced they were searching for two more suspects in the botched bomb plot, including a possible explosives specialist who may have been training the Iranians. The foiled plan was discovered Tuesday when explosives in the men's rented house blew up by mistake, forcing them to flee. Two were detained in the Thai capital, and a third was captured Wednesday in neighboring Malaysia as he reportedly tried to return to Iran. After flying into the southern city of Phuket on Feb. 8, the men moved to Pattaya and stayed there for at least two nights before heading to Bangkok. Located 45 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of the Thai capital, Pattaya is particularly notorious for its sleazy sex industry and large contingent of prostitutes. The Iranians hung out with several female sex workers during their stay there, and one of the women was brought to Bangkok to identify the suspects on Thursday, said Lt. Col. Noppon Kuldiloke, a senior immigration police investigator in southern Thailand. A cellphone image taken by one of the women, published by the Bangkok Post with an article headlined "Suspects partied in Pattaya," purportedly showed the three Iranians at a Middle Eastern bar or restaurant surrounded by hookah water-pipes, two of them cradling women in their arms. The men posed for the photo around a low, drink-filled table on which there appeared to be at least one bottle of beer. The woman who took the image said one of the now-detained suspects, Mohammad Kharzei, had asked her to escort him "because he was not good at speaking English," according to the Bangkok Post. She said she brought two companions for Kharzei's friends, and they had drinks and played snooker together. The woman detected nothing awry, except when one of the Iranians "barred her from approaching a closet" in his hotel room, the newspaper reported. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 ...looking for professional tips? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-02-17 23:22 |
| #3 Is this like a jihadi version of a bachelor party before hooking up with the allotted virgins for eternity. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2012-02-17 22:12 |
| #2 before 911 - wimmn and drink before fallujah- wimin and drugs and drink and gay sex. inference about jihads? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2012-02-17 21:37 |
| #1 As Raj said on Wednesday "Legless man found in topless bar?" Yes! Extra points for Raj. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2012-02-17 15:42 |