Stickers along Bangkok route linked to blasts?

A total of 40 stickers suspected to be part of an alleged terror plot by a group of Iranians have been found pasted along a route running close to a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok, nearly a week after the triple explosions rocked the Thai capital.

The stickers have the word "SEJEAL" written on them and the police have not yet figured out what it meant but believe it could be a code, Nation newspaper reported on Tuesday. "Sijjil", a word with a different spelling, means baked clay in Persian language, according to Wikipedia. Iranian solid-fueled ballistic missiles have also been named Sijjil.

Earlier, many stickers were found in a room in the house rented by Leila Rohani, a woman suspect who is already apparently back in Iran, as well as on a motorcycle purchased by other suspects, which has been recovered.

The stickers, 40 of which were pasted at 27 locations on power poles, traffic signs and telephone booths, were on Monday found along a road leading to the JW Marriot Hotel, off the main Sukhumvit road.

There were no details about how the hotel could be linked to the route and to Israeli diplomats, if they were the likely targets of the prospective attacks. Meanwhile, the police on Monday took Mohammad Khazaei, 42, who was arrested at the international airport in Bangkok while trying to flee to Malaysia on the day of the explosions, to re-enact his alleged crimes. He was formally charged with making bombs, possessing explosives without permission and causing explosions leading to injuries.

The police have obtained an arrest warrant for a fifth suspect, an alleged bomb-maker identified as Norouzi Shaya Ali Akbar, 57, who entered Thailand on February 2 and left the country at 8.50 am on the day of the blasts on Tuesday last week.

Defence intelligence sources had earlier identified this fifth suspect as Nikkhahfard Javad, the paper said.

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