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Another Pakistani beheaded in Saudi Arabia for 'smuggling' heroin
2014-10-16
[DAWN] 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 the Soddy national face...
on Wednesday beheaded a Pak man, the interior ministry said, bringing to almost 60 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.

Mohammad Yunus Mohammed Shoaib, executed in the Eastern Province community of Qatif, "was caught smuggling a large quantity of heroin into the kingdom inside his gut," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

His decapitation takes to 57 the number of people executed by sword in the conservative Gulf nation this year, compared with 78 people in all of 2013, according to an AFP count.

On Tuesday a Saudi, Hamad bin Awadh bin Hawi Al-Anzi, was executed in northern Jawf region "because he smuggled a large quantity of amphetamine pills into the kingdom," SPA said.
Posted by:Fred

#1  All that Afghan heroin has to go somewhere.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-10-16 11:38  

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