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| Saudi beheads another Pakistani for drug trafficking |
| 2015-01-15 |
| [DAWN] 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 Wednesday beheaded a convicted Pak narco and one of its own citizens who killed a soldier. Mahmoud Massih Iqbal Massih was executed in Qatif near the Gulf coast for heroin trafficking, the Saudi interior ministry said. At the same time, Rakan bin Eid bin Bikheet al-Baqmi, a Saudi, was found guilty of chasing and firing on a security patrol, killing soldier Sultan bin Ibrahim bin Ghrahid al-Jaid. Baqmi was executed in the Mecca region of western Saudi Arabia. Their cases bring to nine the number of executions this year, according to an AFP tally. Saudi Arabia carried out the death penalty against 87 people last year, up from 78 in 2013, according to another AFP tally. The kingdom had the third-highest number of recorded executions in 2013, behind Iran and Iraq, Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of Islamic law. |
| Posted by:Fred |