Saudi Arabia beheads 4 Sri Lankans convicted of armed robbery

[PhilipShore]

The Associated Press

February 19, 2007

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/19/africa/ME-GEN-Saudi-Beheading.php

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia on Monday beheaded four Sri Lankans convicted of committing armed robbery, the state-run news agency said.

The four men were convicted of "forming a criminal gang which robbed a number of companies and threatened accountants and workers with weapons, shooting one of them and stealing his car," the kingdom's official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing an interior ministry statement.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which persons convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery are executed in public with a sword.

Monday's beheading brought to 13 the number of people executed this year in the kingdom. Last year, 38 people were executed. In 2005, the authorities beheaded 83 people.

[enid602]

1. Saudis

I don't see how their practice is in any way worse than ours.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Think of It As The Middle East's Own Bit of Texas

Run by the same folks, same practices...

[Double T]

3. We are BOTH barbarian nations.

[demosincebirth]

4. I don't think they've come out of the middle ages, yet.

[Coventina]

5. There's a reason for that: They don't want to

:puke:

[ohio2007]

6. Iran could match them head for head

but Iran is more into hanging their criminals.

[Disturbed]

7. When people were beheaded in Iraq

Busholini exclaimed that this was barbaric, horrific etc. I have never heard him say anything about the Saudis regularly practicing this method of execution.

[The Stranger]

10. Bush himself executed more people.

Come on.

[devilgrrl]

8. We hang, zap and drug ours....

we're cooler! :sarcasm:

[ohio2007]

9. Swift justice in the mullahs Iran

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2737749
the guy must have been a "Lee Harvey Oswald"....maybe they needed him dead and fast ?

maybe the people of Iran are better off not with out him sounding off in an Iranian court of law?

/sarc