RIYADH (AFP) -- Three Saudis were beheaded on Saturday in the western city of Taef after being convicted of killing fellow citizens in two separate incidents, state news agency SPA reported.
Mahfoudh bin Ali Al-Kenani was beheaded by the sword for stabbing to death Ali Saeed Al-Khazmari because of a feud between them, SPA said. Meanwhile, two brothers, Mohammed and Saud Al-Jaeed were also executed for shooting dead fellow citizen Hilal bin Sayel Al-Harthi, SPA said in another statement.
Saturday's executions bring to 37 the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year, according to a tally based on official and human rights group reports.
On June 10, London-based watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to stop applying the death penalty, saying there had been a significant rise in the number of executions in the previous six weeks. It said 15 people were executed in May alone. In 2009, the number of executions reached 67, compared to 102 in 2008.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
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They must have killed someone with connections, a Saudi is normally able to buy himself some illegal immigrant forgotten in the bottom of a dungeon somewhere and have him shortened in his stead.
This is exactly what happened in the picture above,
a Saudi car thief ring saved their heads by having the Somali shown there spray the tarmac
with his useless blood. I wish we did the same with OUR Somalis, they would be finally be useful for something!
FORT IRWIN, Calif. (KABC) -- A reward of $10,000 is being offered for information regarding several assault rifles stolen from an Inland Empire Army post.
Twenty-six AK-74 rifles and one Dragunov rifle were stolen from the weapons storage area at the Fort Irwin Army Post.
After questioning employees, at least one person was arrested and one firearm was recovered. However, investigators are hoping the public can help them find the rest of the guns.
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Asking the public? Looks like the local gumshoes are clueless idiots.
I know you don't get all the news about SoCal in your little Corner of Paradise, but "asking the public for help" is community-friendly-boilerplate for police here.
Inland Empire? And a Russian sniper rifle?
Fort Irwin is out in the middle of nowhere. Nearest town is Ridgecrest (where Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake is), and that too is surrounded by nothingness.
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By road Barstow is closer, but the base is rarely visited by anyone not military or defense contrator civilians. Opfor weapons (Russian and the like) for the opfor 11th ACR are plentiful. The pool of suspects is pretty clearly defined I'm afraid, since they all have ID photo and fingerprints.
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OPFOR and the AK-74 uses the 5.56mm round (the ones at Ft. Irwin are modified to use the NATO version) and is the newer version of the AK-47 that the former Warsaw pact nations use.
Either way, this is a huge black eye for the base.
Jeez...already? It always seems to sneak up on ya.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The holy month of Ramadan will begin Monday, Palestine's mufti announced late Saturday amid similar declarations from religious authorities.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Yemen, Morroco, Egypt, Qatar and Sudan also announced that Monday would be the first day of the Muslim holy month.
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Yeah, F16's aren't really good at short landings unless the field is equipped with wires, and were not intended at all for all-terrain use....wonder how much it's going to cost to clean the flight suit.....
Nah, news reports confirm that the pilot ran it into the grass after landing on Rwy 36, just north of the P-1 taxiway (http://theairplanenut.blogspot.com/2011/07/f-16-fighter-crash-at-eaa-airventure.html).
See airport diagram at:
http://www.wittmanairport.com/pdf/taxi.pdf
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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RIYADH (AFP) -- Three Saudis were beheaded on Saturday in the western city of Taef after being convicted of killing fellow citizens in two separate incidents, state news agency SPA reported.
