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US Ally, Saudi Arabia Beheads 87 In 2014, Up Over 10% From 2013
It was a good year for those long 'beheadings'. After a solid 79 head-removals in 2013, 2014 surged 10% higher with a recent record 87 beheadings overall (following a surge since August for crimes such as "drug smuggling, witchcraft, or sorcery"). The 'State' responsible for all these executions... not ISIS, but US ally, Saudi Arabia...
A Pakistani man convicted of smuggling a large amount of heroin has been decapitated by sword in Saudi Arabia, the government reported on Wednesday, disregarding concerns raised by human rights activists and raising the number of people executed there this year to 87.
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“The Interior Ministry reminds the public that the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud) – may Allah protect him – continues the fight against drugs of all kinds as it inflicts serious harm on the individual and society,” the ministry said in its statement. “The most severe penalties on the perpetrators are derived from the righteous approach of Sharia law.”
Wednesday’s beheading adds to a surge in executions that began in August, angering human rights organizations because many of those killed were convicted of non-lethal crimes. “Any execution is appalling, but executions for crimes such as drug smuggling or sorcery that result in no loss of life are particularly egregious,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, of Human Rights Watch, earlier this year.
Amnesty International also expressed its concern after four family members were all beheaded on the same day in August for merely possessing hashish. “The recent increase in executions in Saudi Arabia is a deeply disturbing deterioration. The authorities must act immediately to halt this cruel practice,” said Said Boumedouha, of Amnesty International.
At least 87 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia this year, following 79 executions last year. The kingdom applies the death penalty for a large number of crimes, including drug offenses, apostasy, sorcery and witchcraft. Both witchcraft and sorcery are not listed as crimes but have been used to prosecute people for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion, according to activists.
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Still, as we noted previously, Saudi Arabia is not the worst...
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They are just doing the job that Obama wishes he could do to us.
yes which is why we need a trillion dollar appollo program to come up with viable alternatives to crude oil so arabs can never dictate to anyone the cost of running their civilization ever again and they can melt back into the sands from whence they came
North Korea is LAST on this list with "+" (whatever that means ) executions? Just putting made up stuff on a chart doesn't make it true.
They are much maligned, but fuck it. It's New Year's. Happy Revolution New Year, fight club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnuSsM7tRw
This is one society you do not want to get ahead in, or go head-over-heels there....
It's 2015! Happy New Fears!
Hey.....at least they didn't stick anyone in Gitmo.
Just sayin....
Hamas raised Gaza's executions almost 700% in 2 days this year, compared to 2013. Granted, the PA was apparently not happy, especially after a moratorium was issued on executions in 2005.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=722656
Sung to the tune of "Let's Go Out To The Ballpark"
Let's go out to the sandbox
Let's go out to Riyadh
We'll have some grand executions there
We'll kill the drug dealers extraordinare
So its root, root, root for the headsman
His swordblade was honed sharp
So it's off, off, off with their heads
Rolling down the boulevard.
Apologies to the writers of Mad Magazine circa 1965. But you had a good one with your Grand Revolution parody.
Riyadh. In the hear of the "old town" nestled amongst the shops in the bazaar, is a place known a Chop Square. At least that what we heathens are told it is named. And if you have the grand pleasure to be in the area when a beheading takes place, the black robed preacher men guide you with their whacking sticks toward the activity and the natives will all push you to the front row, where you get to watch Islamic Justice At Work.
My suggestion; Stay way the fuck away
From Chop Square and the Middle East.
They do not like Yankee Dogs there.
At all.
Great cheap gold, BTW, in the bazaar. Y'all get beautiful hand tooled jewelery by weight. No charge for the artistry/jeweler's efforts.
And I'll betcha if they say it's 24kt, it's 24kt or they too wind up in the square losing a hand or something else.
Very effective justice.
Rather strict and intolerant, but shit, slavery worked too, built the pyramids (BS, they weren't built by Egyptians, but that's a whole nother discussion)
Happy New Year
The executioner in the pic has style, a southpaw winding up for a classy backhand strike, wonder if they hava a matador like following amongst the fans?
Enjoy the Television Interview with Saudi's Headsman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmBp23W6nc
He describes his technique....and the swords he chooses.
It is notable that the Saudis do not use a Saudi to do their dirty work. Same old, same old.
How did you come to the conclusion that he is not a Saudi?
Saudi Arabia spans a large region and there are differing degrees of melanin content in their skin. Furthermore they did report that they have them travel to different regions within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Those "regions" are somewhat like the States which make up the United States of America. (Now I may be a Californian, or an Arizonaian by "birthplace", but I am still an American.)
Anyway..
I found it somewhat humorous when asked how he "felt" about carrying out his first beheading (a Western Liberal Progressive idea...) that he responded, and I quote the translation, "Every person is a bit worried when he starts a new job....and is afraid he might fail..."
Now that was fucking laughable. It brings tears to my eyes.
Can you fucking believe that there are actually people like that?
Let's arm them to the hilt with Nukes and ICBMs today. Then we will not need worry about tomorrow.
I just wanted to hear him say "Meh. It's a living. Stay in school, kids."
No Nickleback ever.
Seriously? Nickelback? I hope that was supposed to be funny.
I love the Witchcraft crime; 1100 AD, anyone ? And these people are supposed to be smart, eh? I don't think so.
Witchcraft and Sorcery...... here that's 'banking and finance'
"Just putting made up stuff on a chart doesn't make it true."
But it will serve to confirm the idea that it is true in the minds of those who want it to be true.
TommyBerg, don't think that Arabs are in control of the oil fiasco. They're just the managers.
Managing it to THEIR BENEFIT. They are just as SELF INTERESTED as any other Nation-State.
Your ARROGANCE shall be the seed of your fall. You do yourself NO SERVICE by underestimating the abilities of your opponent.
They will use YOUR PRIDE and ARROGANCE as a weapon against you.
A Realistic assessment generally produces success in any engagement between interested parties.
A fantastic assessment, through underestimation, or ,overestimation, generally will yield unrealistic expectations and, following that, FAILURE TO PERFORM.
That is some hangover.
So ISIS is trying to catch up?
<--- William Wallace
<--- ISIS
<------ Sunni
<------ Shiite
<--Sadducees
<--Pharisees
<--Theocracy
<--Republic
<<- Ford
<<- Chevy
Happy New Year you mooks!
And I just demonstrated that those ISIS, Shia, Pharasee, Theocracy advocates prefer Chevy's.
You can depend on Zero Hedge for something cheerful to think about on New Years !! Happy (?) crazy year; fellow sufferers.
May you prosper in yours.
my best friend's half-sister makes $77 every hour on the computer . She has been laid off for 5 months but last month her pay check was $14292 just working on the computer for a few hours. read... www.works3.com
I fucked her in the ass while her husband was at work, then made her suck my dick! You shoulda seen her shit-eating grin!! Wait..she was your sister, dude...never mind.
Who is up voting this diarrhea?
The people whom he paid?
Obamacare will feel like that as the mandate kicks in today
Are the beheadings up 10% in real terms(accounting for population growth) or in nominal terms? Just curious.
I, for one, will wait to see the Goldman Sachs Swirl-o-gram to get a better feel for this trend.
Seasonally corrected the number of beheadings actually decreased 8%.
Perhaps, a polar vortex in Saudi Arabia??
What's with all the southpaw head choppers?
Very sinistre...
Deflation
If it is your head, it is in real terms.
If it is someone else's, it is nominal.
Must be inflation
US ally, Mexico, beheads hundreds of people every year.
Mexican drug cartels worse than ISIL
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/isil-vs-mexican-drugcartel...
Plenty of ppl in goverment should be put in a guillotine.....OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.......
You have been identified and convicted of 'Terrorist Hate Thought' under Patriot Act Section 128B subsection 3
Please report to your nearest Re-education Camp. The same for those giving 'Up Arrows'
Yeah, so? Just because we buy oil from them doesn't mean we dictate their criminal policies to them.
Bullish
What of ISIS numbers?
Yes. where is the ISIS quarterly report???
WHERE IS THE GROWTH??????????????????????
Those guys get all the head they want.
Those guys get all the head they want.
From little boys.
No different from those in the highest echelons of US Government...because...ISIS IS A FABRICATION OF THE CIA.
They do not change a working model.
ergo...Child Pornography coverup by the Pentagon.
In a just world, "death by nail-gun" is reserved for bankers...
We got some catching up to do, but fortunately, the candidate list is long !!!
Sorcerers and witches I tell you, Wallstreet and K Street Hulk, we gotsta go get em. Drug dealers at the Fed if I ever met any...
As a reminder, Internet is a US Military invention.
US Military is funded by Saudi Arabia oil in exchange for protection from Iran.
Without internet zerohedge would not exist.
We can easily conclude that US Military and Saudi Arabia funded the invention of Internet and every single military related invention, like iphone, gps etc etc etc.
So, please, have some respect for a valuable ally like Saudi Arabia facilitating survival of Western civilization by funding US Military in exchange for protection.
Empires rules by having allies. Saudis are our best.
Have some respect please.
Sure. Take it easy EKM. Dont lose your head over it....
Correct Seasmoke.... Cooler heads prevail.
I dead head my irises, day-lilies, marigolds, echinacea, and more in my garden. I get new growth from it every single year.
Just thinking out loud, don't mind me...
Your lillies and irises are perennial and don't benefit from dead-heading, except to look immediately nicer on that particular stem. The echinacea and marigold benefit from dead-heading only in the sense of the particular plant not bolting to seed too early, and thus has no real connection to whether it returns the next year. These latter two are annuals. The first two are rhizome perennials.
I was a private contractor in the Kingdom in 1994/95. I worked for RTC (Riyadh Telephone Cables) as a consultant for their nascent optical fiber cable business. While there, I was invited to view a "double-header" taking place in the city square one Friday.
I declined, since watching someone being beheaded isn't on my bucket list.
Hanging parties used to be family entertainment in America.
Everybody would bring a blanket and picnic basket.
Hopefully the spine didn't pull out of the body. That would be a "bad hanging".
Buzkill.
Marigolds are good slug killers. I apologize for my comments Ms Creant. There's a lot of business going on down there.
I'm long Kitty!
EKM my friend, Z/H would exist with or without the "internet". Information has flowed for eons!
The fires on mountain tops and birds, dogs ect... have delivered information for centuries.
i didn't know al gore was a saudi
Cute to patriotically ratify some agreement made on the fly by our best. like NATO won't get one inch closer to Rusia. Let's quit subsidizing any of this foreign entanglementay.
Empires rules by having allies. Saudis are our best.
I may like some of the people in the USA.
But I do not support an "American Empire". I do not support the concept of "Empire".
I support Liberty and Freedom.
Empires are antithesis to those principles to which I ascribe.
Thus I have no respect to that which attempts to enslave me.
You write for The Onion?
We can easily conclude that US Military and Saudi Arabia funded the invention of Internet and every single military related invention, like iphone, gps etc etc etc.
Don't forget Building Demolition by Mini-Nukes.... SO much faster than the old fashioned way
The fastest way is to build the demolition charges into the structure.
'But, she turned me into a newt!!"
"Well,...it got better."
Heads will roll for sure...
Too literal.
It's not the beheadings...it's the stonings I have an issue with.
Beheading is fairly quick and humane. Much like gunshot, gas, electrocution or poison...all methods WE use here. So I give these guys a pass, and kudos for doing their jobs with such a dramatic flair!
But stonings...no, that's just not right. I draw the line there.
Thanks for sharing with us how you think the state should "humanely" (like, kindly, gently) cull the herd.
So as not to hurt your feelings.
The guillotine was invented to be a "humane" form of execution. Its inventor was guillotined. Go figure.
Beused Observer. Sorry but gas, electrocution and Poison (as our penal institutions inject) are not fairly quick and humane. Guillotine, behendings and a gunshot to the back of th ehead are quick. But I agree stonings are barbaric. Must come from ancient writings where stones were ever-present.
Now I step away from reality when I urge that Kevin Cooper get his "due". A SA executioner can do him on the 50 yard line at half-time of the Rose Bowl.
Believe it or not, stonings are very quick.
It may be gruesome. But after getting the first hits to the head one becomes unconcious and dies rapidly.
Stoning doesn't require a specialist.
It's the community that performs the execution.
They do it with a dump truck of stones nowadays.
All in one lift,probably more humane than the botched executions over here.
Modernisation is wonderfull.
If you like your head, you can keep your head.
You have a point there. But I think it is really more of an issue with what these people are being beheaded for that irks most people. Sorcery? Drug smuggling?
Do you live there?
Is it your affair?
Or are you just prone to sticking your nose into somebody else's business, like most of these Mommy Government LIBERALS, where it does not belong.
Saudi can do as it pleases to their own. When their people tire of iut then they will revolt, or die.
What is it that you Liberals do not understand about NO FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS?
But I would not feel so all alone..............everybody must get stoned!
And NO outcry from Liberals, Neocons or Media in America.
And Russia didn't even make the list.
Cool. I like capital punishment as a deterent for heinous crimes. Decapitate Obama and other spies, the legislature, the supreme court justices, all lobbyists, child molesters, rapists, murderers and felonious lawyers, and immediately solve all the ills of modern society.
Capital punishment is NOT a deterrent. It's a guarantee that the person killed will NEVER do their wicked deed again. That idea of capital punishment as a deterrent is a communist propaganda ploy; it doesn't deter, they say (with some sort of 'proof,') and they demand executions be stopped. That's a false argument because capital punishment is not intended, nor was it EVER intended, to be a deterrent.
I'm all for speedy (within 24 hours) capital punishment for rapists, murderers, child molesters, being a lawyer, and for corrupt politicans.
You forgot the Banksters.
Off with their heads.
I've known some creeps who wouldn't have done what they did if they weren't confident their influential family & friends wouldn't bail them out. They didn't escape a good beating, and the anticipation of street justice was what deterred them from continuing their crime sprees.
Like the 9/11 perpetrators Cheney, Wolfowitz, Zakheim, Rumsfeldt, Chertoff etc. I'd volunteer to decapitate these bastards myself.
The only thing stopping you is the NYPD.
Wait, what?
Specifically the first Constitution of the united States, that we are to believe that we still comply to for our mutual self interests, states that no citizen has greater rights than any other. Cops do not have more discretionary judgement than ME. Judges do not have more discretionary judgement than ME. Which leaves the lawyers and criminals.
Stand your ground. Wisely.
When you go to court and they use sporkichano, tell them you don't speak Chinese-latin or spanglish. So many no hablas, too many judicial idiots. Step in now while you still can, Americanos. Tell them you do not understand the charges against you, or consult the latest version of Black's Law Dictionary. Learn and grow, and grow enough to cover your expenses. Denizens of the establishment think we are all idiots, when they are truly and increasingly stupid themselves, or act as idiots to protect themselves from the apparently ordinary human social reflex to form witch trials.
Learn their jargon and take them on their own terms. Literally.
If you sell heroin in my neighborhood to children, or to women, you'll be killed so swiftly by a mob that professional politicians will call it their own "government".
Looks like "liberation" of Iraq was full success.
Good advice from Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecrheD1eYYU
There's an interview with the executioner on youtube. Fucking weirdest thing you'll ever see, two Saudi Fox & Friends types gushing over this fucking butcher, asking him about his techniques and how he's training up the son to take over.
Sorcery my ass.
MSNBC types, you mean.
whats the diference between them?
So... is 'Executioner' one of those 'guild' type jobs passed down within the family?
You know, like the Presidency here in the US (though here we let families take turns)
Yes.
See this interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmBp23W6nc
Fuck the ME. Too many other places in the world that deserve our attention. And pump the shit out of those wells you dirty bastards. As soon as they dry up, the world will be a better place.
Tylers,
Hasn't anyone incorpoated all the Drone Strikes, Insurgency Ops, and "Military Advisor" Kills?
Saudi's dealth penalty is not a secret, everyone there knows about it and the sane and not-so-sane things you can do to receive it. If you get caught with a load of drugs you should expect it, getting caught converting from Islam you should expect it, getting caught raping or murdering you should expect it.
The thing is; getting caught is the denominator here. Practise adultary, withcraft, sorcery or another religion in private and you won't get caught. Homes won't have Swat teams smashing down the door unless you invite them in, and most homes have multiple entry doors, bars on the tiny windows and huge walls surrounding them. It's common knowledge many have fully-stocked bars in the basements, topped up with regular car trips to the UAE and Bahrain.
Getting caught is dumb or madness. It's a culling of the herd.
Who is the mud puppet in the photograph who looks like he is about to behead a toddler?
Who raised that mud puppet? Who taught him in school?
How does someone murder a tiny child like that??
I think it's safe to assume CL is going lower. Tyler always prints Brent, but look at Cushing-WTI> light sweet.
Wow, that's some serious contango!
What part of "IT'S ALL OVER NOW" don't you understand?
Fuck You> Pay ME NOW Bitch. I'll watch your(cChinese) tanker for a fee.
Jihadi Johnny is on pace to outdo them
Those Saudi Jew Kings masquerading as Arabs don't have anything on the ones running ISIS
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/the-kingdom-in-the-c...
Saudi Rule of Law is an Oxymoron.
Some deputy dirtshitbag manager wants your job/woman and plants a bag of cocaine in your desk at work or home.
Fuck me in the Royal Kingdom of Sodomy you wouldn't wish to make any Frenemies now, would you?
The Saudis should buy a car crusher and crush people to death with a car crusher, change is always good and new methods should be used as much as possible. Hire Charles Manson as a consultant. Some new ideas are required, swords are barbaric. Set up a wind turbine and fling the doomed criminal into the blades. They'll hit the ground with a thud. They need to step out of the box. It could become a national sport.
Besides, burning at the stake is better. Joan of Arc style.
Europe should really return to burning at the stake for major crimes against humanity such as witchcraft and heresy. A mere accusation is grounds for indictment, a fair trial, a guilty verdict and a death sentence judgment.
Droning people to death is another good choice.
It is legal, ethical, moral, and justifiable, so there you go.
If the Saudis can do it, so can the US gov.
Saudi Arabia is allies with many countries
Finland To Train Saudi Youth
Tony Blair Associates Brokered Chinese Deals For PetroSaudi
France and Saudi Arabia To Provide Weapons to Lebanon Army
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com
That sword kinda nips that racist cop bullshit in the bud don't it. Gotta love a country that wants to debate cops or no cops as a civil program. Divide and conquer, only way to run a country.
Some folks got head chopped
These numbers need to be head-onically adjusted.
I thought these moon worshipping, perpetualy dressed for bed, imbecilic, sluggard, sodomites didn't have any skilled swordsman left to execute the beheadings.
Keep underestimating them. Demonstrate your foolishness.
Yeah. They are so imbecillic that they are about to trash the US Shale Oil Industry and bankrupt the West as a result.
Checkmate. (It is curious that they did develop the game of Chess. Perhaps they have mastered that game?)
But you are just playing Checkers along with that jerkoff in the Whore House.
What the hell are you going on about? The saudis couldn't pump one drop of oil out of the ground if it weren't for all the foreign workers that go there and actually produce something. If the west is about to go bankrupt, it isn't because men in nightshirts happen to live atop carbon. Your presuppositions about me are tantamount to a confession freely offered by you.
Without the oil that the West discovered and developed the Saudis would be ekeing out a subsistence living while shagging goats for relaxation.
I think the preferred "shag" these days are sheep. But they do have a hard time putting lipstick on them!
ISLAM: PARTY LIKE IT'S 1299!
What a shit hole of a country. No wonder the Saudi students don't want to go "home" after seeing our form of corruption, freedom, education and science. We suck but the Saudis are worse, way, way worse. Makes me feel good to be "American"...now that is funny.
Oil is a hell of a drug.
About three years back, I read that the Saudis didn't have enough swordsmen-executioners. I contacted the embassey to offer my services; I figured I was a shoe in as an infidel--reputedly it's a double whammy to these sand savages to be executed by an infidel.
I never heard back.
Funny.
The police in the USA kills annually more, than 1000 people, much more, than those 87.
The US government drone-kill every year another 1000 people.
The USA makes enough cruel killings all over the planet, but they look at Saudi Arabia.
Beheading Apostates. WTF. And this dipshit of country is a US Ally.
It is amazing how many “airheads’ will read this kind of article and shout “….government killing and brutality are everywhere we must stop them! …” and in their second breath proclaim “….and citizens do NOT need second amendment rights to arms in this world to defend themselves from vicious government brutality…” So prey tell me what government is going to fear you if you if you have no arms…
So to my government who wants my arms I say “…Molon Labe … ” pronounced mo-lone lah-beh
P.S. Gov…I’m Lov’in my new Sig P220 45ACP I got at Christ’s Mass…
what the Saudis do is more humane than recent US executions
The Quislings in Quislington DC love the saudi's. Keep there pockets filled with cash for hookers and blow. Federal gov sucks. Fuck you .gov.
Fuck You Bernanke
If you are long a beheading, aren't you short one head?
beheadings will continue until morale improves
There are authoritarian regimes and then there are authoritarian regimes that civilized people can't stomach. The saudis are the latter. We have all the moral authority we need to put an end to their history.
Isn't that the same moral authority Bush had to put end to Iraqi history.
Iraq is now the unhappiest country in the world.
Thank you, George W Bush.
Schlafen Sie gut, Son of Satan.
Son of Satan is right. The misery death and destruction that f*cking bastard has caused during his Presidency. And apparently he was utterly callous about the suffering.
Nothing wrong with a little head.
They should try oil-boarding.
I'm definitely bullish on severed heads. Going long!!!! Eat your heart out Bitcoin!
If Saudi citizens...errr...subjects had guns, this might play out a little differently.
There are lots of guns in Saudi! The government buys most of them off with social benefits.
A disgusting horrible place and ruling class. Utter hypocrites. All the vices for which they execute impoverished foreigners, rape, theft, homosexuality, drugs are rampant among the ruling class. You can see them going across the causeway to Bahrain every weekend to indulge their vices.
Bar none, not even North Korea, I'd like to see this place go up in smoke.
I lived in Saudi for a couple of years, every word is true. It is a vile, disgusting place and Saudi's are vile, disgusting people. Suprisingly tho, Kuwati's manage to out-asshole even the Saudi's.
ISLAM: PARTY LIKE IT'S 1299!
Gives new meaning to the old phrase, "Give me head till I'm dead!"