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| Uncle beheads toddler in supermarket |
| 2008-03-03 |
| A MAN beheaded his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in a supermarket in Saudi Arabia apparently after a family dispute, newspapers reported. The 25-year-old Syrian national picked up a knife from the store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah yesterday and decapitated the little boy in full view of shoppers, Arab News said. The man apparently killed the little boy following a dispute with the man's sister and brother-in-law, the English-language daily said. "He chopped off the boy's head in front of the mother to get back at her," a police officer was quoted as saying. The mother fainted and was taken to hospital. Murder is punishable by death in ultra-conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, where the death sentence is usually carried out by beheading. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Too bad (for the man, that is) that it wasn't a little girl he killed. That way he could have claimed that it was an honor killing ("the little slut was making eyes at my son"). So, he would have received the typical sentence for an honor killing - 2 hours, with time off for good behavior. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-03-03 23:02 |
| #2 "Saudi Arabia, where the death sentence is usually carried out by beheading" Fitting, in this loser's case. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-03 22:28 |
| #1 "Family Feud" Islamic style... |
| Posted by: Punky Threang1071 2008-03-03 22:08 |