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The Spinning Head](http://arafiqui.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/blood-is-not-thicker-than-water-on-the-death-of-my-friend-raza-khan/) says:

Raza was my rock.  He was my eyes and ears on the dangerous Pakistani frontier with Afghanistan. He was the only person in Pakistan I trusted with my life and I repeatedly placed it in his hands. He never ever let me down.

He was officially a fixer, but Raza Khan was far, far more than that.