Saudi Arabia executes four for hashish possession

[Fukuoka]

BBC News - Saudi Arabia executes four for hashish possession

KSA forbidding freedom and trading

 

[Al Bhatti]

Good punishment

 

[gau8av]

fukin' animals

 

[JUBA]

KSA forbidding freedom and trading

Seems like you're a drug dealer as well, no wonder you're retardad, drugs messed up your brain, that's if you have any in the first place

 

[bad boy 8]

Excellent work..Drugs have destroyed many lives here in Pakistan..Its good that the Saudi's give these rats what they deserve

BBC News - Saudi Arabia executes four for hashish possession

KSA forbidding freedom and trading

You pathetic worm... dont you have anything to do except post anti Saudi stuff ? go lick some shrines

Seems like you're a drug dealer as well, no wonder you're retardad, drugs messed up your brain, that's if you have any in the first place

He is a pro iranian cockroach..he'll post anything thats against your country

 

[Falcon29]

Saudi Arabia does good punishments but funds Israeli operations on Gaza at the same time. What the hell.

 

[JUBA]

Saudi Arabia does good punishments but funds Israeli operations on Gaza at the same time. What the hell.

I hope it's true.

 

[Raphael]

I hope it's true.

too bad hazzy got banned before he could reply.

 

[Audio]

I will smoke a fat joint now to remember the martyred!

RIP fellow smokers!

 

[qamar1990]

BBC News - Saudi Arabia executes four for hashish possession

KSA forbidding freedom and trading

this is just too much… it is too harsh of punishment for just having drugs… completely unislamic..

 

[al-Hasani]

this is just too much… it is too harsh of punishment for just having drugs… completely unislamic..

No, it is not. They were not executed for "just possessing drugs" but for distributing it in great numbers and other offenses which BBC is omitting. As they often do when they report about events in KSA. Besides KSA do also have laws that are not strictly Islamic.

KSA has a ZERO tolerance policy for certain crimes hence why the country is one of the most safe countries in the world in terms of crime levels despite being located in the middle of a largely volatile region. Despite hosting people in the millions from across the world and from totally different cultures etc.

If you mess with the law in KSA you are risking your head. Simple as that.

 

[libertad]

Deplorable that people should be executed for possessing or selling plants. Thats all they are, plants. Do they punish thieves this severly?

 

[al-Hasani]

Deplorable that people should be executed for possessing or selling plants. Thats all they are, plants. Do they punish thieves this severly?

Maybe you should read my post before writing your own? I am also afraid that the decision-makers do not care about what some Joe says on PDF or elsewhere. KSA is not going to change its criminal laws no matter who tells them to do so. History has shown this and the present too. Especially not when the laws actually work as they should and are greatly helping to prevent crime which is the most important thing about laws.

Next.

 

[libertad]

Maybe you should read my post before writing your own? I am also afraid that the decision-makers do not care about what some Joe says on PDF or elsewhere. KSA is not going to change its criminal laws no matter who tells them to do so. History has shown this and the present too. Especially not when the laws actually work as they should and are greatly helping to prevent crime which is the most important thing about laws.

Next.

Yes, you don't change we know that already. Thats why you are scared of allowing women to drive. BTW wasn't one of your princes caught smuggling drugs in France from Colombia? What happened to him?

Saudi hypocrites.



Saudi Prince Accused of Drug Smuggling Avoids Prosecution
April 1, 2005

By BRIAN ROSS and JILL RACKMILL


Brian Ross More from Brian »
ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent
This week in Miami, while two drug defendants face a jury of their peers, one of their alleged co-conspirators remains safe and sound. The defendants are charged in a drug conspiracy case that involved the smuggling of two tons of cocaine from Colombia to France.

U.S. and French investigators say Nayef bin Sultan bin Fawwaz al-Shalaan, a member of the Saudi royal family, used his private 727 jet to smuggle drugs from South America to Le Borget airport outside of Paris. Under the rules of diplomatic immunity, when the prince landed at the airport in his private jet, his entourage received little or no inspection, a French official said.

The prince is now under indictment in the United States and France, but he remains in Saudi Arabia, a royal fugitive, protected by his powerful family, according to U.S. drug agents.

Doris Mangeri Salazar, a real estate agent from Coral Gables, Fla., who is described as the prince's former girlfriend, and her friend Ivan Lopez Vanegas, 49, are on trial in Miami. A Swiss banker alleged to have been the money launderer in the drug trafficking scheme has been indicted but is in Spain, which refuses to extradite him.



'No Doubt Whatsoever'

There is an outstanding international arrest warrant for the prince, but there is little law enforcement can do because neither the United States nor France has an extradition treaty with Saudi Arabia.

According to a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Miami, Joe Kilmer, the investigation yielded plenty of evidence of the prince's participation in the crime ring. "We feel there's no doubt whatsoever that the prince had every bit of knowledge as to what he was involved with," he said.

The Saudi government has not made the prince available for questioning, according to U.S. agents, and has done little to cooperate with the investigation. The Saudi government has not made any official comment on the case.

The former special agent in charge of the Miami office of the DEA, Tom Raffanello, said that he does not expect any further cooperation from the Saudis.

"I think that we got what we could get out of the Saudi Arabian government at this time," Raffanello said, though he added that it was not enough, given what he called the prince's key role in the plot.

"He is the key co-conspirator," Raffanello said. "He's the straw that stirs the drink. He made it happen. No plane, no dope. Dope stays in Colombia."



A Diplomatic Incident?

The prince, for his part, has declared his innocence in a Saudi newspaper, saying that he was bringing in plastic piping, not cocaine. The prince, however, has a prior drug charge, having been indicted in Mississippi on narcotics charges in 1984.





Authorities say the value of the smuggled cocaine was $36 million and that some of the drug money was moved through a Swiss bank in Geneva that was owned by the prince himself.



Police in France say that the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, even threatened to cancel a $6 billion contract with a French company over the case. The details of the alleged threat were sent in a diplomatic cable from the French ambassador in Riyadh.

A former French narcotics officer, Fabrice Monti, said this case has become the center of a diplomatic incident. "The Saudi government acted as one to set up a protective barrier between the prince and French justice and threatened to not sign a very important and lucrative contract in the works for a very long time," he said.



Raffanello said that in all his years, he's never seen a case like this before. "We've been doing dope investigations for years. We don't do many princes," he said. "It was kind of a shocker."

 

[elitepilot09]

Yes, you don't change we know that already. Thats why you are scared of allowing women to drive. BTW wasn't one of your princes caught smuggling drugs in France from Colombia? What happened to him?

Saudi hypocrites.



Saudi Prince Accused of Drug Smuggling Avoids Prosecution
April 1, 2005

By BRIAN ROSS and JILL RACKMILL


Brian Ross More from Brian »
ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent
This week in Miami, while two drug defendants face a jury of their peers, one of their alleged co-conspirators remains safe and sound. The defendants are charged in a drug conspiracy case that involved the smuggling of two tons of cocaine from Colombia to France.

U.S. and French investigators say Nayef bin Sultan bin Fawwaz al-Shalaan, a member of the Saudi royal family, used his private 727 jet to smuggle drugs from South America to Le Borget airport outside of Paris. Under the rules of diplomatic immunity, when the prince landed at the airport in his private jet, his entourage received little or no inspection, a French official said.

The prince is now under indictment in the United States and France, but he remains in Saudi Arabia, a royal fugitive, protected by his powerful family, according to U.S. drug agents.

Doris Mangeri Salazar, a real estate agent from Coral Gables, Fla., who is described as the prince's former girlfriend, and her friend Ivan Lopez Vanegas, 49, are on trial in Miami. A Swiss banker alleged to have been the money launderer in the drug trafficking scheme has been indicted but is in Spain, which refuses to extradite him.



'No Doubt Whatsoever'

There is an outstanding international arrest warrant for the prince, but there is little law enforcement can do because neither the United States nor France has an extradition treaty with Saudi Arabia.

According to a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Miami, Joe Kilmer, the investigation yielded plenty of evidence of the prince's participation in the crime ring. "We feel there's no doubt whatsoever that the prince had every bit of knowledge as to what he was involved with," he said.

The Saudi government has not made the prince available for questioning, according to U.S. agents, and has done little to cooperate with the investigation. The Saudi government has not made any official comment on the case.

The former special agent in charge of the Miami office of the DEA, Tom Raffanello, said that he does not expect any further cooperation from the Saudis.

"I think that we got what we could get out of the Saudi Arabian government at this time," Raffanello said, though he added that it was not enough, given what he called the prince's key role in the plot.

"He is the key co-conspirator," Raffanello said. "He's the straw that stirs the drink. He made it happen. No plane, no dope. Dope stays in Colombia."



A Diplomatic Incident?

The prince, for his part, has declared his innocence in a Saudi newspaper, saying that he was bringing in plastic piping, not cocaine. The prince, however, has a prior drug charge, having been indicted in Mississippi on narcotics charges in 1984.





Authorities say the value of the smuggled cocaine was $36 million and that some of the drug money was moved through a Swiss bank in Geneva that was owned by the prince himself.



Police in France say that the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, even threatened to cancel a $6 billion contract with a French company over the case. The details of the alleged threat were sent in a diplomatic cable from the French ambassador in Riyadh.

A former French narcotics officer, Fabrice Monti, said this case has become the center of a diplomatic incident. "The Saudi government acted as one to set up a protective barrier between the prince and French justice and threatened to not sign a very important and lucrative contract in the works for a very long time," he said.



Raffanello said that in all his years, he's never seen a case like this before. "We've been doing dope investigations for years. We don't do many princes," he said. "It was kind of a shocker."

Save your breath, just wait till that oil runs out, or some breakthrough substitute. They will always be hypocrites and they are hopeless. Thats the nicest possible way I can describe them.