Foreigners beheaded in Saudi Arabia

[deadparrot]

AN Afghan and a Bangladeshi, who were respectively convicted in Saudi Arabia of drug trafficking and murder, were beheaded by the sword today, the interior ministry said.

The Afghani national, Obeid Allah bin Mohammad Alem, was caught smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin into the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency.

He was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Meanwhile, Bangladeshi Abdulsalam Baswas was found guilty of beating to death and robbing an Egyptian expatriate, and was executed in the capital, Riyadh, the ministry said in a separate statement.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20444455-1702,00.html

[sweetheart]

1. another one murdered by the drugs war

The war kills more than the drugs... sickly.

[bleedingheart]

2. It is horrific but there are folks in this country that would like to

have that kind of "law" imposed here...

[Freedom_from_Chains]

5. Yeah, that's one of the things that scares me about the people

who we somehow let get in power here.

[Halliburton]

3. these offenses don't warrant a beheading

talk about a punishment not fitting the crime.

[lumpy]

4. Robbing and beating to death

anyone would call for the death penalty in many of the states in this country, so in that case why would you think the punishment would not fit the crime? Granted a beheading seems to be grisy way to face death, but hanging is not exactly a sweet way to go either. As far as the death penalty for drug crimes, that would seem to be extreme.

[greccogirl]

7. I disagree. If I had a choice, I'd much rather be hung

than beheaded!! Especially the way these gooons do it!

[leesa]

9. It's pretty instantaneous, more so than hanging.

[Halliburton]

14. I meant the drug trafficking

executing somoene for drug trafficking does not fit the crime

[NOLADEM]

6. Yeah, well, we torture people to death and deny them due process

So, we aren't so different.

[brentspeak]

18. Well, we are different

There a lot of people in country working very hard to overturn portions of the Patriot Act. There maybe one or two people in Saudi Arabia doing the same for their country's atrocities.

[countmyvote4real]

8. Capital punishment is still murder.

And so is “collateral damage” when it results from unwarranted aggression against another sovereign state or people. It doesn’t matter how the death is executed. Murder is murder is murder.

I guess that leads us to “why?”

Cigar, anyone?

[sistersofmercy]

10. That is one scary country! 15 of 19, kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq

I wonder if some Saudi citizens are trickling across the border to Iraq do the adbucting and beheading. The everyday Saudi's hate Americans. Interestingly enough the year the war started with Iraq they were rank number 2 human rights violator by various human rights groups, Iraq was ranked number 9.

[JCMach1]

20. Yet another misconception- 'everyday Saudis hate Americans'...

the radical fringe hate us... some don't like our politics... the vast majority are neutral, or like us...

Who they UNVIVERSALLY dislike is their own government! I would say they dislike that even more than most DUers!

[davidinalameda]

11. guess these guys won't be smuggling drugs anytime soon

or robbing anyone

[420inTN]

12. Or beating anyone to death. n/t

[davidinalameda]

13. exactly

[geek tragedy]

15. Yes, our friends the moderate Saudis. eom

[gratuitous]

16. Doubtless their trials were models of judicial process

All the witnesses were credible, all the rulings just and in accordance with law, all the evidence beyond dispute, and the defendants given every facet of due process. Right? I'm sure that's what happened, right? No irregularties. Good, competent legal representation. And the countries of origin had courtroom observers for the public trials, so neither Afghanistan nor Bangladesh have any protest as to what went on.

Oh yes, I'm sure that's just what happened.

[pinerow]

17. Dang furriners...

nt

[Anakin Skywalker]

19. They Don't Call It

the Red Sea for nothing.