Bangkok grenade attacks wound 'Iranian' suspect and four others

[Nuclear Unicorn]

This could escalate matters --

An Iranian man has blown off his own legs and wounded at least four other people in grenade attacks in Bangkok, according to the police.

It remains unclear what the man's targets were, but the blasts come just a day after two bomb attacks aimed at Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.

Israel on Monday blamed Iran for the bombings in India and Georgia, a claim denounced in Tehran as "sheer lies".

Thai security forces found more explosives in the suspect's rented house in the capital, said Police General Pansiri Prapawat.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/14/bangkok-neighbourhood-twin-blasts

In the quest for plausible deniability you'd think Iran would hire locals just in case something went awry.

If this is Iran, they may have a beef with Israel (illegitimate IMHO) but they really screwed up taking that beef into non-belligerent nations like Georgia, Bangkok and India. Now each one of those nations has a beef with Iran and every other nation might rightly suspect they could be next. There's dumb and then there's this.

[leveymg]

1. The Iranians usually hire competent agents.

Like the nutty scheme involving the used car salesman, Mexican gangstas and the Saudi Ambassador, this has an ungenuine feel about it.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. I doubt he's faking having had his legs blown off.

[leveymg]

3. A professional doesn't throw C4 at taxis and trees

Too bizarre to believe it was a state-dispatched operation.

[marmar]

4. Agreed. But some people will believe anything.

nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. Or maybe he's an idiot who was throwing at a target and hit a tree

It was either a lone actor or someone trying to frame the Iranians or an Iranian agent.

-- I doubt this was a lone actor because there has been a spate of attacks through several countries.

-- I doubt it's someone trying to frame the Iranians because THAT would require a professional; a thing your own post discounts.