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            SAUDI BEHEADS CHADIAN FOR RAPE
                           November 12, 2008: a Chadian man was beheaded by the sword in the western region of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after being convicted
 of rape. A drunken Ibrahim Mohammad Ali Ibrahim broke into a house planning to commit a burglary and sexually assaulted the owners's daughter at knifepoint,
 the ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA.   (Sources: Agence France Presse, 12/11/2008)
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