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Arabia

Saudi beheads national, two Pakistanis for drug trafficking

2007-05-14

RIYADH - A Saudi convicted of murder and two Pakistanis found guilty of drug trafficking were beheaded by the sword on Sunday, the interior ministry said. Mufreh bin Ahmad al-Missbali Assiri stabbed to death Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Mudhlim Assiri after an argument, the ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA. He was executed in the southwestern region of Assir.

The two Pakistani men were beheaded in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for drug trafficking, the ministry said in a separate statement. Nasser Khan and Abdulrasheed Musharaf were caught trying to smuggle undisclosed amounts of heroin hidden in their stomachs into the kingdom, the ministry said.

You can have that job -- I've seen, up close and personal in the ICU, what happens. The 'mules' swallow balloons containing heroin or cocaine wrapped in layers of latex to smuggle them through customs. Every once in a while a balloon in the stomach or colon starts to leak. It ain't pretty.

The beheadings brought to 66 the number of executions announced by the Saudi authorities this year.

Posted by:Steve White

#9 Who pays?

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-05-14 14:58

#8 Yes, a plain X-ray makes the diagnosis.

Naltrexone usually doesn't work because you can't give enough to make a difference -- you need the whole hospital supply. Even worse if the mule ingested cocaine; those folks just start seizing and won't stop.

Procedure is to get them as stable as you can as quickly as you can and then heigh thee away to the OR ASAP for a laparotomy and exploration to remove all the balloons.

Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-14 14:56

#7 Mufreh bin Ahmad al-Missbali Assiri stabbed to death Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Mudhlim Assiri

So, this is, what, a four-fer? Keep'em rolling, boys. The more Mufrehs and Adbullahs for the chop, the better.

Posted by: Excalibur 2007-05-14 09:07

#6 Sixty-six executions in 4-1/2 months?

Wow. And the liberals complain about Texas!

Posted by: Bobby 2007-05-14 06:04

#5 "Non-turd-like" ....

Whahahahaaa, Zenster you are amazing.

Posted by: Besoeker 2007-05-14 05:14

#4 I've heard that good x-rays can also distinguish the very non-turd-like packets.

Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-14 03:33

#3 Sorta makes me wonder how they catch these guys. I suppose 100% of the time because of some digestive problem or a condom breaks?

Posted by: gorb 2007-05-14 02:28

#2 Let's talk about that a Saudi Prince who has been tried in absntia in Francee and found guilty of drug smuggling. He is in Saudi Arabia so I am holding my breath for his execution.

Posted by: JFM 2007-05-14 01:51

#1 I've seen, up close and personal in the ICU, what happens when one of the balloons in the stomach or colon containing heroin or cocaine starts to leak. It ain't pretty.

what is the procedure Dr Steve?

start the antagonist naltrexone and then plunge into the work with a ~~long knife~~ can opener?

Posted by: RD 2007-05-14 00:49

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