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...shelter is a grey-thatched, Cambridge-educated Arab lawyer named Musa al-Alami. To his boys he is known only as "Ammi" (Uncle). His friends and enemies have frequently called him the "Don Quixote of the Arab world...
...Musa el Husseini, cousin of Jerusalem's exiled Mufti...
...Musa el Husseini, cousin of Jerusalem's exiled Mufti and Ph.D. of London and Berlin universities, lay in his Amman prison cell one night last week and talked about going to Argentina to become a farmer. He could not believe that Jordan would hang him and three others for plotting the murder of King Abdullah. For days telegrams had been pouring into Amman pleading and warning against carrying out the sentence of the military court...
After a nine-day trial, the military court announced its verdict: death for four of the accused, including Dr. Musa el Husseini, the Mufti's cousin, who loudly pleaded for mercy; acquittal for four others, including an Arab-born Roman Catholic priest. Also sentenced to death in absentia: Colonel Abdullah el Tel, a Mufti man and former officer in Jordan's Arab Legion, described by the prosecution as the kingpin of the plot, and Musa el Ayubi, a grocer named as the colonel's go-between, who in his own hand had written the note ordering...
Pierian's members have not forgotten the "liquoring" activities of their predecessors, and every rehearsal is usually followed by a call of the traditional motto, "Sit Musa Lyrae Solers" and the still more traditional wine...