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| Saudi Beheads Pakistani for Drug Trafficking |
| 2013-01-17 |
| [An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... beheaded a Pak man in the eastern Khubar province on Wednesday after he was convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry announced. Arshad Mohammed was enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for smuggling heroin and hashish into the kingdom, the ministry was quoted as saying by the official SPA news agency. His execution brings to four the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year. Last year, the ultra-conservative Moslem kingdom beheaded 76 people, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... put the number at 69. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia, or Islamic law. |
| Posted by:Fred |