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...false Saudis, writes Posner, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief." Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for a senior member of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do." The man at the other end would be Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a Westernized nephew of King Fahd's and a publisher better known as a racehorse owner. His horse War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby in 2002. To the amazement of the U.S., the numbers proved valid. When the fake inquisitors accused Zubaydah of lying, he responded with...
...living was not having to get up in the morning. In spite of that slacker attitude, Rhodes, 31, this month finds himself on Granta magazine's prestigious decennial list of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists, standing on the shoulders of giants like Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, and rubbing his own with publishing hotshots Zadie Smith and Toby Litt. Rhodes' presence there is all the more remarkable since his first novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home (Canongate; 214 pages), is only now arriving in bookstores and is likely, he says, to be his last. The grind...
ZADIE SMITH. Smith, a Radcliffe Institute fellow whose debut novel White Teeth earned her the Whitbread First Novel Award and comparisons to Salman Rushdie, will discuss the morality of the novel. The talk is sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute. Monday, April 14 at 4 p.m. Free. Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden...
Because of its Iraq policy, the U.S. has lost the respect it had as an impartial nation [COVER STORY, March 3]. Saddam Hussein is bad, but war is not the way to remove him. It serves only to make him a hero to Muslim nations. SYED SALMAN KHALIQ Lahore, Pakistan...
...know more about al-Hussayen's work for the sponsor of most of these sites, the radical Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a Michigan-based group known as one of the most strident voices of Islam on the Web. IANA hosted the websites of two radical Saudi sheiks--Salman al-Awdah and Safar al-Hawali--both of whom are closely associated with Osama bin Laden and who provided religious justification for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the SITE Institute, a Washington-based terrorist-research group that monitors the Internet. In the recent German trial of Mounir El Motassadeq...