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Three beheaded in Saudi Arabia
[Al Ahram] Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian narco and two Saudis convicted of murder, despite concerns raised by rights' experts that trials are not conducted fairly in the kingdom. Their cases bring to 97 the number of executions of locals and foreigners carried out in the conservative Moslem kingdom this year. That compares with 87 for all of 2014, according to AFP tallies. The Syrian, Mohammed Hussein Abdulkareem Halwani, was executed in Jubail, on the kingdom's Gulf coast, after a court found him guilty of smuggling methamphetamines, the interior ministry said. The ministry, in statements carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, named the two Saudis executed as Hussein al-Qahtani and Jibran al-Qahtani. They were convicted of separate murders with firearms and were put to death in Abha, in Asir region, the ministry said. Posted by: Fred 2015-06-10 |
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