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November, 2016. Southern Thailand. The city of Narathiwat.
The longest running Muslim insurrection in South East Asia led to an amalgamation of Thailand’s most southern provinces and the creation of the Islamic Republic of Patani. The new Republic includes Kelantan, which seceded from Malaysia.
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Some of the crowd began to do so; others were rooted to the sight of the doom rushing toward us. I didn't wait to see; at all costs I would save myself and the boy, though I kept shouting "GET INSIDE!" Indeed, the structure was of an incredible thickness, but one of the modifications to its basic Aztec Temple design was the addition of glass windows to let in light. As I charged through the living room it was instantly clear that these would be blown out by the heat wave, despite facing east rather than south. But attached to the back room there was an empty storage space with no windows, walls as thick as the Pyramids of Cheops, and a heavy, safe, vault-like door. Still screaming "GET INSIDE!!," and feeling the first hints of the nearly-arrived heat wave, I dove into the storage room, hand on the door.
All those years of wishing that he’d taken another path, that he’d done something crazy instead of pursuing security – he’d succeeded wildly, there could be no denying that, his natural talents and the smart choice of moving, after Boston, from environment-friendly energy-efficiency issues to security-related software design had seen to that. A beautiful wife with whom he interfaced well, a comfortable, blast-resistant house in the Atlanta/Birmingham suburbs, all the money in the bank that he could possibly want… still… hadn’t life been better when he’d been riding mopeds around South East Asia with a backpack and a copy of the Lonely Planet Guide?
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