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Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes, most of them minority Shiites
CNBC ^ | 04-23-2019 | AP

Posted on 04/23/2019 8:32:05 PM PDT by NRx

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly pinned the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist to a pole as a warning to others.

The executions were likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Saudi dissident Ali Al-Ahmed, who runs the Gulf Institute in Washington, identified 34 of those executed as Shiites based on the names announced by the Interior Ministry.

“This is the largest mass execution of Shiites in the kingdom’s history,” he said.

Amnesty International also confirmed the majority of those executed were Shiite men. The rights group said they were convicted “after sham trials” that relied on confessions extracted through torture.

It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 2, 2016, when the kingdom executed 47 people for terrorism-related crimes in what was the largest mass execution carried out by Saudi authorities since 1980.

Among those executed three years ago were four Shiites, including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, whose death sparked protests from Pakistan to Iran and the ransacking of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Saudi-Iran ties have not recovered and the embassy remains shuttered.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: saudiarabia; waronterror
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1 posted on 04/23/2019 8:32:05 PM PDT by NRx
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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens...

Man that's a lot of chopping for one day. And I thought executions were usually on Fridays...

2 posted on 04/23/2019 8:36:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: NRx

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3744165/posts


3 posted on 04/23/2019 8:43:18 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: NRx

Gee. Are they THAT hard up for soccer balls?


4 posted on 04/23/2019 8:47:51 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Gee, all that flattery and ass-kissing and not a single nuclear warhead surrendered...)
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To: NRx

How many times does this need posting?


5 posted on 04/23/2019 8:49:33 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: NRx

Kinda messy....


6 posted on 04/23/2019 8:54:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: NRx

It is a nice start.............


7 posted on 04/23/2019 9:05:42 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Rummyfan

Now that’s what I call justice!!!!!!!, terrorist’s in USA get to vote.


8 posted on 04/23/2019 9:06:27 PM PDT by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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To: cabbieguy
terrorist’s in USA get to vote elected to political offices.

The more scary thought.

9 posted on 04/23/2019 9:11:50 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: NRx

Some day there’s going to be an Iran-Saudi Arabia war, and we should be on America’s side:

NO side.


10 posted on 04/23/2019 9:52:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Rummyfan

At least they execute them!


11 posted on 04/23/2019 9:52:45 PM PDT by caww
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To: Fungi

First I’ve seen it!


12 posted on 04/23/2019 9:53:35 PM PDT by caww
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To: Fungi

37?


13 posted on 04/23/2019 10:25:50 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: NRx

“This is the largest mass execution of Shiites in the kingdom’s history.”

Savages. Tribes are the norm in the Middle East. 7th century garbage.


14 posted on 04/23/2019 10:36:20 PM PDT by Falconspeed
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To: NRx

Welp, at least they can’t be exchanged to get back in the game.


15 posted on 04/23/2019 11:29:07 PM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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16 posted on 04/23/2019 11:53:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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17 posted on 04/23/2019 11:55:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: NRx

If this were getting actual terrorists, we could respect it... but how do we know this is not scapegoating. The 9/11 masterminds prepared their nefarious plans in Saudi Arabia as Saudi Arabian citizens.

It’s the oil business that is keeping them in any kind of semblance of sane relations with the world. If the world could tell them to take their oil and shove it back in the ground, their situation would implode.


18 posted on 04/24/2019 12:20:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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19 posted on 04/24/2019 12:22:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Fungi

Until it’s picked up by MSNBC.


20 posted on 04/24/2019 12:51:05 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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