Last week, Iran's soft-spoken president, Muhammad Khatami, said he would be willing to extradite some 130 al-Qaeda suspects to their countries oforigin, though he revealed neither the rank of those he had in mind, nor their possible destinations.
He made a name for himself as a musician, was nominated for a Music of Black Origin (Mobo) award in 1998 for his Free Your Mind album and later became an entrepreneur, cookery writer and presenter.