Today’s incidents in Bangkok have all the hallmarks of a bit of a disaster for the “terrorist” gang concerned. However this is not the first terrorist plot to go horribly wrong in Bangkok,. Back in March 1994 Ramzi Yousef is believed to have been involved in an attempted vehicle bomb attack on the Israeli embassy there. He and his accomplices rented a truck, (strangling the delivery driver and leaving his dead body in the back of the truck) loaded it with a ton of explosives and then the designated suicide bomber set off for the target driving the truck with the bomb and the dead body in the back. On the way to the target, the klutz of a terrorist got involved in a road traffic incident, crashing into a taxi bike and a car at a busy intersection. The terrorist driving the VBIED panicked … and ran off abandoning the vehicle, bomb and body included.
Police responded to the scene of the traffic accident, and without checking the back, took the vehicle to the police vehicle pound… A week later the vehicle owner called to try and locate his truck … and was led to a very smelly truck in the vehicle pound where the police discovered the putrefying remains of the delivery boy, and a one ton bomb ready to go off at the flick of a switch. By then Ramzi Yousef and disappeared but he did leave his fingerprints on the bomb. Yousef, the man behind the first World Trade Center bomb in New York is often described as a terrorist mastermind and genius, but the facts of some of his exploits don’t bear that out. He nearly blew his hand off in an incident in Pakistan when a device functioned and set fire to his bomb making facility accidentally in Manila while planning Operation Bojinka.
This would or could have been a successful "Trojan Horse" strategy if an alternative detonator mechanism was in place??