07 February 2006

Came out by the same door as in I went.


The Beeb reports that Omar Khayam, who protested the infamous cartoons by dressing up as a suicide bomber, is a drug dealer. It was strange enough hearing the phrase 'Omar Khayam of Bedford coming from the BBC newsreader, but to have the question
I often wonder what the vintners buy
One half so precious as the goods they sell


be answered:

He was given five and a half years in prison in December 2002 for dealing cocaine and heroin....



is, shall we say, startling.

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