Ayatollahs in the news

Several Americans who were held hostage for 444 days in Iran a quarter-century ago say that Iran's president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was one of their captors. Said former hostage Chuck Scott, a retired Army colonel who lives in Jonesboro, Ga.: "You could make him a blond and shave his whiskers, put him in a zoot suit and I'd still spot him." For the record, I was nowhere near Iran in 1979-1980.