The country that does more than any other to export terrorism decided to do something proactive for a change. Saudi Arabia executed 47 terrorists:
Saudi Arabia has executed 47 men for various bombings and attacks, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
The punishments were carried out in 10 provinces, according to a statement by the official Saudi Press Agency. While most of the convicted men were Saudi citizens, the number included one Egyptian and one Chadian national, it said. Some executions were carried out by firing squad and some by sword, a ministry spokesman said on Al-Arabiya TV.
The men were convicted of crimes including bombings targeting the traffic department and interior ministry in Riyadh, plots to attack military airports, and other strikes on security forces, the ministry said. Some of the attacks happened between 2003 and 2006. Those executed were described as promoters of a “deviant” version of Islam, a phrase used by Saudi Arabia for al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and other militant groups.
Among the executed was Nimr Al-Nimr, a radical Shiite Cleric and ally of Iran. In response to his death, the Iranian news agency issued the folllowing statement:
The Saudi government will “pay a heavy price” for pursuing its policy of execution and suppression of its domestic critics, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said, according to the official news agency IRNA.
Are we on the verge of a Shiite-Sunni war in the Middle East? It’s certainly starting to seem like it.
AAN Staff
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