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  • Pakistani man beheaded in Saudi Arabia

    04/03/2007 10:53:47 PM PDT · by atomic conspiracy · 24 replies · 1,191+ views
    RIYADH: A Pakistani man was beheaded on Tuesday for stabbing to death a Saudi national after an argument, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. It identified the Pakistani man as Khalid bin Mahmoud bin Abdel-Ghafour and his victim as Wasfi bin Said bin Abdullah al-Marhoun. It did not say when the killing took place or say what the two men had argued about. Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery face the death sentence. Tuesday’s execution took to 25 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom so...
  • Man found with wife's head in bag

    03/20/2006 10:04:47 AM PST · by Red Badger · 90 replies · 2,136+ views
    BBC ^ | 3/20/2006 | Staff
    A man is being held by German police after walking into a petrol station with his wife's severed head in a bag. The 40-year-old man, of Turkish origin, was covered in blood when he approached the night counter at about 0400 GMT and asked the attendant to call the police. Hamburg police said officers found the head in a bag on a grass verge and arrested the man, who was in a confused state and admitted killing his wife. The body of the woman, aged 39, was found in their nearby flat. Hamburg police spokeswoman Ulrike Sweden said the man...