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            SAUDI ARABIA. NIGERIAN BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
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              | Beheading in Saudi Arabia |   |  February 18, 2007: a Nigerian man was executed by sword in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The man, identified as Omar, was convicted of bringing cocaine into the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official news agency SPA. (Sources: AFP, 18/02/2007)
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