Report: Thailand Issues Arrest Warrant against 2nd Lebanese Hizbullah Suspect
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Thailand charged another Lebanese Hizbullah suspect identified as James Sammy Paolo, who is an alleged accomplice of Hussein Atris, for planning to carry out a terrorist activity.
The Criminal Court in Thailand issued on Thursday an arrest warrant against Paolo, 40, who will face the same charges as Atris, of possessing forbidden chemical substances.
Thailand Police Chief Gen. Priewpan Damapong said that the sketch of Paolo was given from a description by Atris.
Paolo was Atris' housemate at the warehouse in Samut Sakhon, on the western outskirts of Bangkok, where police seized 4,000 kilograms of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate, according to media reports published on Friday.
Bangkok Post said that police are trying to determine whether Paolo is still in Thailand and have contacted Interpol in their efforts to track him down.
Priewpan told the daily that both men are accused of violating the Military Supply Act by possessing ammonium nitrate without permission.
“Atris and Paolo were planning to send the chemicals to another country and had rented 10 containers from the Transport Co.,” Priewpan said.
Atris denied he is a member of Hizbullah consequently Thai police can only press a criminal charge against him where he could face up to five years in prison.
The U.S. Embassy had issued an "emergency message" last Friday warning of a possible terror threat against Americans in Bangkok, and Israel warned its citizens as well.
Thai authorities were caught off-guard by the U.S. announcement, hastily revealing they had detained a Swedish national of Lebanese origin with alleged links to Hizbullah and that intelligence indicated a plot could be carried out between Jan. 13 and 15.
Details of the alleged plot remained hazy due to conflicting accounts from Thai officials, some of whom said that Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.
In Stockholm, Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Linn Duvhammar confirmed Atris has dual citizenship and said the Swedish embassy is helping him find a lawyer. He moved to Sweden in 1991 and spent 2006-09 in Lebanon before returning.
Duvhammar said the man was carrying a valid Swedish passport when he was arrested, as well as an old one that had been stained.
20 January 2012, 12:28
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atris, matris, balees, all shia terrorists employed and paid by hizb of thugs and the mullahs of Qom. I hope they electrocute the criminals so they may become shia saints and iranian martyrs.
20 January 2012, 13:19
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Next up for jail, Nasrallah and his boys in Dehiya....yalla ya shabab...:)
20 January 2012, 13:27
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Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma) and Aleksander Breivik (Oslo) both used this type of bomb
20 January 2012, 13:48
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I agree with my fellow Shiite brother Cookie_Monster . Why would those two resistance saints go to Thailand for fertilizer when they could stay in Lebanon and simply get all the fertilizer they can stand from watching any one of the magnificent SHN speeches .
20 January 2012, 14:22
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The evidence was planted. the propaganda against Lebanon is starting. as clinton said several years ago, to get to Iran (the octopus) we need to cut its tentacles. they did so in Irak, now in Syria and next is Lebanon's Hezbollah. and they did so with propaganda and making stupid ppl believe in stuff they never existed.
20 January 2012, 14:23
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The evidence was planted. the propaganda against Lebanon is starting. as clinton said several years ago, to get to Iran (the octopus) we need to cut its tentacles. they did so in Irak, now in Syria and next is Lebanon's Hezbollah. and they did so with propaganda and making stupid ppl believe in stuff they never existed.
20 January 2012, 14:41
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carl_mtl you seem to know so much of stupid ppl, some might even say ur a native.. how did clinton cut Iran's tentacles in Irak again? most unstupid ppl think that Iran was tentaclesless in Irak when saddan was in charge as he had a nasty habit of seasoning the pro Iranian octopus ppl with mustard gas.. as u know conspiracy theories are a staple food in the diet of stupid ppl.
20 January 2012, 14:55
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I don't think anyone can disagree with our local intellectual giant going by the unlikely username mowaten when he proclaimed "murderers and assassins, but always for the good cause!". As the old adage of any successful terrorist organization goes, when you plan to murder innocent people it's always handy to do it for a "good cause".
20 January 2012, 15:36
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Guys coockie is still living in 18th century ( retard) like the rest of the thugs whatever their sheikh tells them that's what they believe. hey go out there explode yourself, wear this key to your neck & you will go straight to Heaven where there will be loads of virgins waiting for you. and those idiots believe in them. all this started by these Iranian savages.
20 January 2012, 15:39
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@ Carl stupid propaganda ? but the Shia's in Lebanon were joyful when Israel invaded the south, The Shia in Iraq were happy when US, UK invaded Iraq. in Syria, it's the people's will. You can try but cannot crush people's will
20 January 2012, 15:56
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Dear Cockeat Monster,
You are a real genius and all the turbanator bonobo hairy mehdi dress wearing baboons will applaud your brilliance
20 January 2012, 16:14
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Another one bites the dust...And making it more dusty for Lebanese abroad..
Thank you Hizb...Thank you
20 January 2012, 17:27
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Hizbullah: We the leading distributors of fertilizers since 1983.
20 January 2012, 17:33
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The more we communicate, the clearer we see and understand how the world REALLY works.
Think of what we eat! think of where it comes from.
Think of what we're made to consider vital and important! And where it stems from.
Think of what we believe in, from religious beliefs to political affiliations.
Open your eyes and dare to think! Beyond countries, beyond borders and political regimes, beyond Gods and religions, beyond Money!
It's all just a show to keep us occupied from really realizing how to truly live!
We are the reason why wealthy people rule us! We are the common people, we are the majority of the world! We now can communicate with each-others! We briefly live a historical moment of chaotic clarity! We just have to dare to act on it!
20 January 2012, 19:53
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Cookie_Monster, boy, why don't you please share some of those baalbek hashish laced cookies of yours with the class, i'm sure we would all enjoy, at least for a short while, experiencing that same dazed confused reality you are perpetually living under.
20 January 2012, 19:58
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@Open Your Eyes
Think of what we eat! and how it comes out.
Surely there must be an intrigue there somewhere, no?
21 January 2012, 00:36
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back @Charmin:
Thinking of what comes out after eating is less Charmin' than where it comes from :)
21 January 2012, 00:42
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@Cookie_Jarbou3: It is called retaliation for the lead assassinated Iranian chemist where those HA agents were going to carry out the bomb attack. Your people give a bad reputation for our Country and its citizens, those agents sold their Country for Iran where they get paid from. They need to be taught a lesson so that others think twice before turning all Lebanese into terrorists. Do not bring up the old song of Mossad and US because for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (World Trade Center attack)
21 January 2012, 11:32
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Cookie_Monster, so now u're admitting that Hizb has an Iranian agenda!!? This means Iran's interest first not Lebanon!! come on people make up your mind and stop contradicting yourselves...one day you work for Lebanon and Lebanese the next you're Iran's arm in Lebanon ...
