I should have clarified that the Excel I had was specifically for beheadings in the ME.
It got so it made me sick. There were SO MANY.
But now? With ISIS butchering and gutting little kids, too? That’s a whole ‘nuther thing. Then....there’s SAUDI.
The Saudis are the only friends we have over there. American oilmen (Texans) arrived there for good in the 1920's for the "awl." They are still there. There had been American geologists there for a while looking for probable petroleum sites. Boy, did they strike oil or what.
The Saudis have an estimated 200+ more years of petroleum to pump out of their land and ocean.
The oil companies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco] formed a company called the Arabian-American Oil Company, ARAMCO. The King of Saudi Arabia had SOLD his petroleum rights (and natural gas) to this company. They used to BURN off all the natural gas and just sell the petroleum.
It wasn't until the early 1980's that the natural gas was collected, liquefied, bottled and sold. Thus began the first LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) plant was built and running. That's when WE were over there.
In 1982 the King BOUGHT BACK those petroleum and natural gas rights. It cost him a ton of petro-dollcars and he probably took it out of "chump change."
SO, in 1983 money, King Fahd was getting ALL the money for the petroleum and it was estimated that he made 1 BILLION DOLLARS every two and a half days.
American folks have been there almost 100 years. That is where I decided to attend daily Mass, thanks to my Saudi boss. Yes, they have priests, a couple of vicars and a few reverends (who do ALL the denominations of Protestantism in ONE service).
Since Christian holy men are NOT allowed in Muslim Saudi Arabia the Saudis decided to call them "special teachers." So, that is their name. A priest by any other name still celebrates Mass.
The Saudis don't want any trouble with us or any of the West since the West is their biggest buyer/customer. Why would they?
Beheadings took place on Friday mornings, Friday being their holy day. They were public and rare. They only occurred when someone had committed murder. No trials, no attorneys, no stays of execution...nothing of what we have here. "You kill, you die." Extremely simple.
We were there five years and traveled to all the places that we KNEW we would NEVER, EVER visit when we returned home. We made a TON of money.
When we finally came home I KISSED the linoleum floor of the LAX airport...I was home!