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2003-08-11 Arabia

Pakistani, Afghan lose their heads in Riyadh

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-11 00:04|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 maybe the saudi's just didn't like them. Wouldn't be the first time they just cooked up a case to get rid of people they don't like.

Posted by Anon1 2003-8-11 8:41:26 AM|| 2003-8-11 8:41:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I mean really... who would smuggle heroin into a wahabbist stronghold? It's not like there is a ready market for white slag in Riyadh. This case is just bogus. They were probably jihadi grunts too dim to realise that now the House of Saud must crack down on jihadis and is looking for pawns to sacrifice.

Posted by Anon1 2003-8-11 8:44:20 AM|| 2003-8-11 8:44:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Or they could have been smuggling drugs. Even under the Taliban, Afghanistan was big into the heroin production business.

You guys think there's no drug use in Wahabbi-land? Think again.

Posted by Tom 2003-8-11 9:22:03 AM|| 2003-8-11 9:22:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course, it could be both - jihadis smuggling heroin. It's a ready cash crop in most countries that produce it, and right now jihadis need funds. Things must be getting pretty dry with all the confiscations, charity closings, and such.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-8-11 10:06:30 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-8-11 10:06:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 yep, I think there is not much drug use in Wahabbi land. Because there would always be a nosey neighbour/uncle/Imam to go tell the local religious police.

Plus i don't take at face value the explanations that accompany the gruesome beheadings and lashings that frequent the land of Saud. They often plant stuff on people they don't like.

EG: early this year, an Australian man was flogged because his *wife* - a nurse at a hospital there *allegedly* stole some hospital equipment. Equipment she denies stealing, equipment that she had no use for, as she goes to work and uses it all the time there.

They just didn't like him so they made it up.

When power is absolute and arbitrary in its application, you can make up whatever you want.

I do not believe that there is a big ready market for white slag in Saudi: a country where alcohol is banned and anyone caught trying to enter with a bible is detained for questioning.

Posted by Anon1 2003-8-11 10:15:18 AM|| 2003-8-11 10:15:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The population is young, the unemployment rate is staggering, and plenty of things go on behind closed doors. Fanatics are a minority. I don't dispute that many charges are just politically "convenient," but that doesn't mean that there is no crime.

Posted by Tom 2003-8-11 11:12:22 AM|| 2003-8-11 11:12:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 the Saudis can't be trusted. Period. They regularly cook up stories - like that story today about the 5 Brits, 1 Belgian and 1 Canadian imprisoned for 2&1/2 years for blowing things up????

One of them was a nurse for chrissakes. He went over there to earn a shitload of US$ tax free, living in the westerner compound and being a nurse. THe likelihood of him running amok with the others and blowing stuff up is ZIP.

When the Saudis regularly make up stories for westerners, I wouldn't trust their word on Pakis or Afghans either.

Just because we all KNOW that white slag comes in great quantities from that part of the world is not a reason to believe the Saudis.

And I dispute that fanatics are the minority in Saudi. They are not a culture of tolerance controlled by a fanatical minority at the top. If anything they are a fanatical majority being held back by a minority of westernised royals!

Posted by Anon1 2003-8-11 7:09:43 PM|| 2003-8-11 7:09:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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