our best buds, those wild and wacky saudis

are up to their ol' hijinks again! what a bunch of cards they are, huh? i laughed and laughed over this. as a matter of fact, i'm STILL laughing so hard right now, i could just kick the shite out of those f**king asswipes
why don't we bring our 'democracy' over there i wonder to myself?
Saudis to execute a woman for witchcraft
Rights Group: Saudis Should Halt Execution of a Woman for Witchcraft
DONNA ABU-NASR

A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza Falih, and the judges who tried her in the northern town of Quraiyat never gave her the opportunity to prove her innocence in the face of "absurd charges that have no basis in law."
Falih's case underscores shortcomings in Saudi Arabia's Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.
The most frequent victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission..........

The Saudi court cited an instance in which a man allegedly became impotent after being bewitched by Falih, the rights group said.

king george 'doesn't remember'

if he brought up the case of a 19 year old woman who was GANG RAPED by ARMED MEN then sentenced to 200 lashes AND prison time. king george didn't tell king abdullah he couldn't play in our sandbox anymore until he started playing fair. i sure would have booted king abdullah's ass right out of MY sandbox and kicked him in the shins while i was at it
oh yeah, and asked how he would have felt if this happened to HIS daughter, king george said, he would have felt very 'EMOTIONAL'. emotional indeed (i'm stopping now)

Bush on Saudi Rape Case: I "Don’t Remember" If I Brought It Up with King Abdullah
Posted by Amanda Terkel,
This morning, CNN's Ed Henry pointedly asked President Bush why he hasn't used his "influence" to "do something" about the 19-year old Saudi woman who was the victim of a brutal gang rape and later sentenced to 200 lashes. The Saudi court blamed her for being an "adulteress who invited the attack."
Bush refused to answer Henry's question, simply stating that King Abdullah "knows our position loud and clear." He said he recently spoke to King Abdullah "about the Middle Eastern peace," but isn't sure if he mentioned the Saudi case. "I don't remember if that subject came up."
When asked what went through his mind when he first heard about the case, Bush brushed aside his role as head of state, instead saying he would have been "very emotional" if it had happened to his daughter.
BUSH: My first thoughts were these.
What happens if this happened to my daughter? How would I react?
And I would have been -- I would have been -- I'd had -- I would have been very emotional, of course..........
(shout out to you ed henry for asking)