Word: arabia
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There are also concrete, practical arguments against the death penalty and its application. Of the six countries that execute people for crimes committed as children--Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and the United States--the U.S. has executed more children than any of the others: 160 since 1973. This monstrosity occurs despite the fact that every major international human rights treaty expressly prohibits executing people for committing crimes before...
...power was always a balancing act, straddling the contending claims of the Palestinian majority in his own country with those of the Bedouin and the military's officer corps while managing variously antagonistic relationships with Israel, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt...
...carry on jihad [holy war] aimed at liberating holy sites. The nation of Muhammad has responded to this appeal. If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans in order to liberate al-Aksa Mosque and the Holy Ka'aba [Islamic shrines in Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia] is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal. Our job is to instigate and, by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation...
...government does try to ban certain eugenic maneuvers, some rich parents will visit clinics in more permissive nations, then come home to bear their tip-top children. (Already, British parents have traveled to Saudi Arabia to choose their baby's sex in vitro, a procedure that is illegal at home.) Even without a ban, it will be upper-class parents who can afford pricey genetic technologies. Children who would in any event go to the finest doctors and schools will get an even bigger head start on health and achievement...
...should have given more than just a mention to engineer Stephen Bechtel's monumental achievement in creating the entire municipality of Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It cannot have been easy to construct on the edge of the desert out of thin air. KHURRAM AHMED TAJI Islamabad, Pakistan...