Police tie blast suspects to ‘Sejeal’ stickers
Bangkok Post, Feb 22 2012
The mysterious stickers found posted along a road in Klong Toey district definitely belonged to the group of suspects believed to have been involved in the Feb 14 bombings on Sukhumvit Soi 71, police said. Fifty-two stickers bearing the word “Sejeal” were found on electricity posts and signboards on Duang Phithak Road. A police source inside the Metropolitan Police’s investigation team in charge of the case said:
We are sure they belong to the suspects, as we found about 300 similar stickers at a house rented by Leila Rohani, one of the five suspects. We believe the stickers were used to mark the escape route for the gang members after they completed a bombing mission, rather than marking potential target sites. Examinations of the stickers found a phrase which indicated that they were produced outside the country. We are trying to locate the manufacturer. It is very likely that Rohani brought them in from a foreign country.
Deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said police were looking into the significance of the “Sejeal” stickers. The word “Sejeal” is Arabic, and the stickers may refer to a passage in the Qur’an (Sura 105). It relates a miracle when birds from heaven dropped “sejeal stones” on a Yemeni army on elephants.
