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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.
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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."
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No useable oil in disputed areas: US
Alan Dawson, Published on 07/04/2013
» An authoritative new report on likely oil and gas reserves in the heavily disputed regions of the South China has concluded that there probably aren't any.
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THE BIG ISSUE: Finally, a Mr Big
Alan Dawson, Published on 28/09/2013
» There are, basically, two kinds of police - the honest kind and the other kind. As a result, there are two kinds of drug raids, the hopeful kind and the successful kind.
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Obama should apologise
Alan Dawson, Published on 08/06/2014
» US President Barack Obama was reportedly flabbergasted to find that Americans failed to appreciate his gesture to retrieve a probable US turncoat from Afghanistan by exchanging him for five Taliban terrorists.
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Name, shame, repeat
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/06/2014
» Pretty well the whole world knows that the traffic in Thailand is horrible, but events in the past week showed that the trafficking is even worse.
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The big issue: Man with a history
Alan Dawson, Published on 07/06/2015
» Whoever writes the script for the movie of his life — which, by the way, someone definitely should do — will have to tone it down a bit or many viewers won’t believe that just one man has done what three-star Gen Manas Kongpan has done.
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The big issue: Frogs in a pot
Alan Dawson, Published on 16/08/2015
» The head of the Constitution Drafting Committee suddenly realised he had forgotten something. At a mere 130 pages, 61,000 words, 315 sections, the charter really needed some meat on its bones.
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The big issue: The long and tortuous road
Alan Dawson, Published on 19/06/2016
» Torture is probably more like the weather than anything else around. It is, as US editorialist Charles Dudley Warner wrote (Mark Twain repeated it), "a matter about which a great deal is said and very little done".
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The big issue: The US-Thai nexus
Alan Dawson, Published on 17/07/2016
» The Law of the Sea Tribunal demolished China’s claims about the nine-dash line, historical ownership and even — this one is quite out of the blue for everyone involved — the claim that rocks, outcroppings and shoals are "islands" that can belong to a country.
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