THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded two men convicted of drug trafficking in the ultraconservative kingdom, the interior ministry announced.
Mohammed Abdulmalik Ajaj, a Syrian, was arrested for smuggling "207,000 banned narcotic pills," the ministry said in a statement published on state news agency SPA.
He was beheaded in the northern province of [Al] Jawf.
Separately, the ministry said a Saudi, Hamad al-Yami, was beheaded in Jizan, in southwestern Saudi Arabia, for trafficking hashish. » | AFP | Tuesday, February 14, 2012
