Six hours before she was executed, Mary, Queen of Scots wrote to her brother-in-law, Henry III of France: "As for my son, I commend him to you in so far as he deserves, for I cannot answer for him." The year was 1587. On December 30 last year a conclave of feudal potentates gathered in the home of the slain Benazir Bhutto to hear her last will and testament being read out and its contents subsequently announced to the world media.
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/ 15 September 2006
Tariq Ali discusses Lawrence Wright’s 480-page tome <i>The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11</i>, already a United States bestseller.