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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/280386/police-seek-2-more-over-blasts

“Police seek 2 more over blasts
Sukhumbhand urges alert for whole of city”

Published: 18/02/2012 at 03:31 AM
Newspaper section: News

SNIPPET: “National deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said authorities are now seeking to arrest a man they have identified as 52-year-old Nikkhahfard Javad who was seen on surveillance tapes in the area of a Sukhumvit 71 home just before an explosion ripped through it on Tuesday afternoon.”

SNIPPET: “Masoud Sedaghat Zade, 31, the third Iranian thought to have been involved, was arrested in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. A suspected female accomplice, Leila Rohani, is being sought for questioning. Immigration records show she left Thailand earlier this month for Iran.

SNIPPET: “Malaysian security officials said Mr Zade had made several trips to Malaysia in the past several months.

Mr Zade told interrogators he was an auto parts dealer and that he had visited Malaysia, Thailand and other countries in the region on business.”

SNIPPET: “Investigators later found two complete bombs packed with radios with 2 kilogrammes of C4 each.

Iran, which is already facing international condemnation over its nuclear programme with allegations it is trying to make nuclear weapons, has denied any involvement in the bomb plot.

But Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon named Brigadier-General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, a covert arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, as the mastermind of the attacks.

“We see what is happening in India, Georgia and Thailand. It is the same pattern. The same bomb, the same lab, the same factory,” Mr Yaalon said in a newspaper interview.

Will Hartley, head of the Terrorism & Insurgency Centre at IHS Jane’s, said Israel’s assertion of an Iranian link was “not unreasonable given the circumstantial evidence”.”