Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani in combat in the Bosnian war. While the U.S. pushed for Sheikh Mohammed’s arrest, Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani allegedly told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed about the growing pressure for his arrest, leading to him reportedly leaving the country with a Qatar-provided passport on a ‘government executive jet.’ After this, Al Thani was "briefly confined to house arrest." In a 2003 article by The New York Times, Sheik Abdullah bin Khalid al-Thani is mentioned as "the same official who had repeatedly allowed Arab extremists who had fought in Afghanistan to live on his farm." The article also describes a Qatari government
Roman Catholic Diocese of Surat Thani Roman Catholic Diocese of Surat Thani The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Surat Thani ("Dioecesis Suratthanensis", ) in southern Thailand was founded in 1969, when it was split off from the Diocese of Ratchaburi by the papal bull "Qui Regno Christi". It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Bangkok. The area of Surat Thani was evangelized by the Salesians of Don Bosco in the 1930s. The diocese covers an area of 76,562 km², covering all of the southern provinces of Thailand, including Prachuap Khiri Khan as its northernmost province. As of 2001, of its nine million citizens, 6,682 or