He waited several minutes before
he would speak.
"The colonel won most of the bets.
He won a thousand rials, I think, on the headless Lur who ran fifteen paces
after he was beheaded."
The old man seemed exhausted from
the telling of the story.
"What happened to the colonel?' I
inquired.
"The colonel? Oh, he became a
general and later Minister of War. What higher-ups shared in the plunder I do
not know. But the colonel is today a very rich man. He bought several hundred
houses in Tehran with the plunder."
There was scorn in his voice, as
he spit out the words,"The Butcher, Amir Ahmadi."
Later Judge William O. Douglas
wrote that he met Amir Ahmadi at a garden party in Tehran.
"What is your relationship to the
people of Luristan today?' a lady asked.
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