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Conspiracy of errors has saved Bangkok thus far
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/02/2012
» Thailand continues to play a bit role in the Mideast conflict and, as the Valentine's Day bomb debacle in Bangkok has shown, the country also seems to attract mostly second-string operatives in the violence.
Humanity shines through tale of terror's horrors
B Magazine, Alan Dawson, Published on 15/07/2012
» In an era where anti-terrorism novels have become perhaps the largest niche of thrillers, Dan's War by Milt Mays crumbles pretty well every existing cliche in the genre.
The trial and the errors of the Abu Ghaith arrest
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/03/2013
» Since US President Barack Obama cranked up the drone programme, the United States has been like the unyielding Robocop film character: "I'm not going to arrest you any more."
US report details post-9/11 torture in Thailand
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/04/2013
» A report by a bipartisan US task force on interrogation and torture of al-Qaeda suspects after the Sept 11 attacks presents the most complete picture yet of Thailand's covert role in the process.
The big issue: The safe house
Alan Dawson, Published on 10/08/2014
» In March, 2002, a joint operation in Faisalabad by the Pakistani police, CIA and FBI cornered, shot and seriously wounded the Saudi terrorist and former anti-Russian mujahideen Zain Abidin Mohammed Husain Abu Zubaydah. He received the best medical care for his wounds because he was needed for an important experiment in Thailand.
The big issue: Sparing country [redacted]
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/12/2014
» In 2002, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorism and US military pushback, the CIA opened a secret facility in central Thailand. The agency brought two high-level al-Qaeda operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, to the site and launched a new programme of "enhanced interrogation" techniques on them including physical assault and waterboarding, distressing many US officials.
The big issue: How to make a terrorist
Alan Dawson, Published on 06/09/2015
» Thailand and international terrorism have a history that goes way back. The current calls for security forces to get serious about threats to the country are only echoes of the past 40-plus years.
The big issue: Time to face accusers
Alan Dawson, Published on 15/11/2015
» Aziz Phitakkumpon, known generally in news stories as "the spiritual leader of Thai Muslims", has been Chularatchamontri for more than five years. He is soft-spoken, but never has been afraid to speak out, which he did again last week.
Abu Sayyaf beheading deadline nears
Alan Dawson, Published on 25/04/2016
» Asia's most vicious terrorist group has set a deadline of 2pm Monday (Thailand time) to behead at least one of three foreign and one Filipina hostages it holds in the southern Philippines.
The big issue: An interesting life
Alan Dawson, Published on 15/05/2016
» People say you should never speak ill of the dead, so let’s say of the recently late Masae Useng of Narathiwat that he was an interesting man. “Interesting” in the sense that security forces were interested in him, police and the army were interested in him, and the prosecutors and court system found him interesting.