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Explaining that the code word for the plot was "the building," Serraj produced copies of three cables. The first, addressed by Ibrahim to Umm Emir Khalid, the name of his royal daughter in Riyadh, said: "We arrived safely. We saw the building and completed definite agreement. Send 200 immediately. Am waiting in Damascus at Hotel Bilat Rashid for your prompt answer. Your father Assad Ibrahim." The second said: "Building in perfect condition, but he wants second half of money before transferring building as planned. Necessary repairs will be made after arrival of your remittance. Assad Ibrahim." Serraj handed around photostats...
...religion," says one of the Emir's former concubines, "says that a married woman should not go out." There are women on the streets of Kano in northern Nigeria but, as the saying goes, they are the young, the old, the poor, and the harlots. Most educated Nigerian men have no interest in emancipating their wives. "If you marry an educated woman, she wants to go out and work." explained a librarian working for the British Council. "If you let her, people talk against you. If you stop her, you have to buy her more things to keep...
...shouted "Traitor" and "Satan," denounced him as a stooge of the British and an Ottoman-style tyrant. He pays no heed. Every Iraqi knows how a half-century ago Nuri leagued with the Arab Patriot Jafar al-Askari to conspire against the Ottoman Turks, then fought on camelback for Emir Feisal in World War I's revolt in the Arabian desert...
...general election Quid Babana lost his seat to a hated rival, whose election he tried to invalidate. Failing to secure a patronage job as district tax collector in France, he became violently anti-French and joined the "Cairo" movement. Recently Ould Babana turned up posing as the Emir des Croyants (leader of the believers), with a Senegalese secretary called Prince Sese Zacharias, and leading the Greater Moroccan movement of Mauritania...
When the British were looking for chieftains to rule their Middle East states after World War 1, they found ready at hand the two Hashemite brothers Emir Feisal and Emir Abdullah, who had fought with skill and cunning against the Turks in alliance with Lawrence of Arabia. The British installed Feisal in Iraq, created Trans-Jordan for Abdullah...