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...realize how deadly serious the post-9/11 Heaney can be. "Anything can happen," he warns, "the tallest towers/ Be overturned, those in high places daunted,/ Those overlooked regarded." The world has changed, he is saying, and those cold, smooth, snicking scissors are creeping toward us. - D.M. 5. Tahir Shah, The Caliph's House...
...FREED. Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, Pakistani-born British Muslim sentenced to be hanged for the 1988 killing of taxi driver Jamshed Khan; after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf commuted his sentence; in Rawalpindi. Hussain, who said Khan had died after a gun went off during a struggle as the driver tried to sexually assault him, became a cause célèbre among Britain's Pakistani community and earned an appeal for clemency from Prince Charles during a visit to Pakistan last month. "At last," said Hussain's brother Amjad upon his release, "these 18 years of nightmare appear...
...owns Terra Seis. That wasn't too surprising in Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep and cows kept getting stuck in the stuff," Omar...
Ever looked out the window on a cold, wet day and dreamed of relocating to a gentler clime, where the sun smiles brightly, exotic flora perfume the air and the prices are forgiving? Tahir Shah did, and the result is The Caliph's House, a wry, energetic account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife, Rachana, and young daughter, Ariane, from London to Morocco, which he knew from childhood vacations. Think you've heard this all before, perhaps in Peter Mayle's best-selling A Year in Provence and its sequels, or Frances Mayes' tales of Tuscan transplantation...
...Tahir was arrested in Kuala Lumpur in May 2004 and held under a Malaysian law allowing for the indefinite detention of individuals posing a security threat. He has provided a wealth of information to local investigators about the specifics of Khan's dealings, particularly with Iran and Libya. The IAEA said last week that the Malaysian government agreed for the first time to make Tahir available to IAEA investigators--the next best thing to being able to talk to Khan himself...