1. Mieraili was arrested during a raid at a residence in east Bangkok late last month during which an assortment of bombmaking equipment and fake travel documents were also seized.
2. Mieraili said that Izan was the ringleader of the bomb plot — the one who organized its execution and assigned roles to his accomplices before fleeing the country. He is now “one of the foremost wanted individuals” in the investigation
Mieraili, whom officials arrested at the Cambodian border on Sept. 1, appears to be the strongest lead. The 25-year-old is apparently from the Chinese territory of Xinjiang, home to China’s Uighur Muslim minority, which claims persecution at the hands of Beijing. A Chinese official told the press that Mieraili may have belonged to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a local militant group active in Xinjiang.