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2003-08-02 Arabia

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-02 02:19|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'll bet that the Al Dosari clan is the same as the Al Dossary - a very influential and successful (read: patronage) family that has several substantial businesses (incl a hospital, clinics, apartment complexes, etc.) in the Al Khobar - Al Dammam - Dhahran area. The vagaries of spelling Arabic names using Roman Characters is always a "flexible" propostition.

If so, then the only reason one of the family tasted steel was that he killed another scion of the clan.

As for the Paki Shafik, he was probably Shafuked by his Saudi "partner(s)" over money or cuz the cops were closing in and it was time to pull the plug. Nobody seriously thinks he has doing anything like trafficking drugs in SA sans Saudi bosses, do they? Heh, that's a no-brainer, folks. I'd bet my next paycheck he was the lowest expendable flunky of the enterprise who would be semi-credible to the coppers. I would also bet he had no clue who was at the top of his little marketing pyramid - puns intended. Find out who testified againt him and you can backtrack from there to find out which clan was running him as a mule or distributor.
Nobody makes a dime in Saudi Arabia without one or more Saudis taking a cut.

Speaking of cuts, Shafuked was scimitar fodder. Flash! Thud! Blink, blink!

Posted by PD 2003-8-2 2:53:52 AM|| 2003-8-2 2:53:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Notice the difference: when you kill a Saudi man you are beheaded. When you throw boiling water to a non-Saudi woman who ends dying you get four years (probably reduced to one for good conduct or enlisting in a jihad agaisnt kaffirs).

Posted by JFM 2003-8-2 3:00:51 AM|| 2003-8-2 3:00:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 And a good time was had by all.

Posted by Rafael 2003-8-2 7:05:51 AM|| 2003-8-2 7:05:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Aie, when I saw the title I rashly assumed they'd cut a few feet (what's the crime for that?). Heh. Let's have a thought for the Saudi executioner who's training his favourite son to take over the role of Butcher General.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2003-8-2 9:44:51 AM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2003-8-2 9:44:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 JFM--Good call. I was going to add that, too!

Posted by Dar 2003-8-2 9:54:45 AM|| 2003-8-2 9:54:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I was VERY SURPRISED that the article failed to mention the vociferous complaints filed by Amnesty International against the brutal nature of these judicial acts!

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-8-2 1:14:44 PM|| 2003-8-2 1:14:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 FS - And I'll wager that the Saudi Royal Executioner Union is Very Jealous that your Sword is Flaming! ;->

Posted by PD 2003-8-2 1:52:36 PM|| 2003-8-2 1:52:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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