...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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...on Monday executed a Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i man accused of plotting a suicide kaboom in the kingdom and of links to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group, the interior ministry said. The wealthy Gulf country, with one of the world's highest execution rates, has been the target of a series of deadly IS shootings and bombings since late 2014.
"Mohammed al-Saddam, a Yemeni national, sought to target civilian gatherings at a public facility under the instructions of the ISIS terrorist organization," the interior ministry said in a statement, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym.
"The death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
was carried on Monday in the city of Riyadh."
It said the man had "pledged allegiance to IS" and was planning a "suicide attack using an boom belt", without elaborating on the case or when the Yemeni was arrested.
The Saudi authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
The number of executions had dropped significantly in 2020, partly due to a moratorium on executions of people sentenced to death for drug trafficking.
But
A total of nearly 70 people have been executed this year in the kingdom, according to an AFP tally based on official statements.
Saudi Arabia put 184 people to death in 2019, according to Amnesty, which has said it was the highest number recorded in a single year in the country.