That was supposedly just a murder for profit, but frankly, with all the connections, I have never believed that.
The cousin, I believe, was one of the good translators. There's another one - an Egyptian whom I heard at a translation conference two years ago, saying that he regretted he could not "help" the sheik more - who is now reposing in jail. He was the jailhouse interpreter who was smuggling messages, with the assistance of Lynne Stewart, to Rahman's buddies.
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