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Rape case roils Saudi legal system (Saudi, ahem, Justice)
Yahoo ^
Posted on 11/21/2006 11:02:59 PM PST by Irishguy
AL-AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia - When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined the judge would punish her — and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.
The story of the Girl of Qatif, as the alleged rape victim has been called by the media here, has triggered a rare debate about Saudi Arabia's legal system, in which judges have wide discretion in punishing a criminal, rules of evidence are shaky and sometimes no defense lawyers are present.
The result, critics say, are sentences left to the whim of judges. These include one in which a group of men got heavier sentences for harassing women than the men in the Girl of Qatif rape case or three men who were convicted of raping a boy. In another, a woman was ordered to divorce her husband against her will based on a demand by her relatives.
In the case of the Girl of Qatif, she was sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married — a crime in this strictly segregated country — at the time that she was allegedly attacked and raped by a group of other men
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http://www.nysun.com/article/43442
"Iranians Training Qaeda Terrorists to Attack Our GIs"
By CON COUGHLIN
The Daily Telegraph
November 14, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET (from page 4 of this article): "Any increase in Iran's influence over Al Qaeda could have potentially devastating consequences for international security. Al Qaeda has made no secret of its desire to acquire weapons of mass destruction — including "dirty" nuclear bombs.
Intelligence specialists believe that Iran will soon have the capacity to develop its own nuclear weapons and Tehran is also known to have developed a highly effective chemical weapons program.
"We are looking at a Doomsday scenario here where Al Qaeda finally fulfils its ultimate goal of acquiring weapons of mass destruction," a senior Western intelligence official said. "And unlike other terror groups, Al Qaeda is perfectly willing to use them.""
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November 20, 2006
"'So we may be willing to do the strangest things.'"