I was doing some internet research on this topic to post a thread about it, and I discovered that you've beaten me to it by several months. Good work.
The person who wrote this article is a Freeper - and comments on this thread - I would look his name up but have to run - give a tip o' the heat to him -he deserves it more.
He deserves the praise.
By the way - "How the British broke the Thugs of India and how to apply those methods against terrorists" is my title for this article. I was looking - knowing from my studies of history - for an example on the net of the Thugs to post as a lesson from history type of post regarding the war on terror. This article was so good all I needed to do was create the title and the point was made by the article itself without any long winded account on my part.