Friday, November 23, 2007
War on Terror Ally Update: Saudi Arabia
From an ABC News article by Lara Setrakian:
"Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Justice is defending a sentence of 200 lashes for the victim of a gang rape, punished because she was in the car of a male who wasn't a relative when the two were attacked.
[T]he General Court of Qatif increased the punishment to 200 lashes and six months in jail after she took her case to the press. Authorities deemed it an "attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," according to Saudi Arabia's English-language newspaper Arab News."
Click here for full article.
Related:
- The U.S. offers mild criticism in the Saudi rape case. [Reuters via ABC News]
- "Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials. [emphasis added]" [NY Times]
- An AP report says private Saudi citizens are funding the Iraqi insurgents. [CS Monitor]
Before:
Pakistan: the US's other 'War on terror ally.'
Labels: Iraq war, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, War on Terror
