Sheikh will face execution for drugs
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A sheikh related to the rulers of Kuwait is facing the death sentence for drug trafficking.Sheikh Talal Nasser al-Sabah, who is in his fifties, was caught by Kuwaiti police with 22 pounds of cocaine and 165 pounds of hashish. When sentencing him to death, Judge Humoud al-Mutwatah said that he had “willingly walked the path of evil” and deserved no mercy.
It was the first time that a member of a Gulf royal family had been condemned to death by a court.However, the convict’s relative, the Emir, could pardon al-Sabah who is the nephew of a previous Emir of Kuwait, Jaber al-Sabah.He has announced in the Kuwaiti press that he has appealed to the Emir to grant a pardon.In addition to drugs trafficking, Sheikh Talal was also found guilty of laundering the proceeds of his crimes and of illegal possession of two pistols and a shotgun.
Sheikh al-Sabah continues to deny that he is a drug dealer. and said that he has left his fate to the Emir. “I am drug-addicted and I am getting cured. I don’t deal,” he told the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jareeda from his jail cell.“I don’t know whether Kuwaiti society is satisfied with the ruling of the judiciary or not. “But it is in the hands of the Emir.”
It was the first time that a member of a Gulf royal family had been condemned to death by a court.However, the convict’s relative, the Emir, could pardon al-Sabah who is the nephew of a previous Emir of Kuwait, Jaber al-Sabah.He has announced in the Kuwaiti press that he has appealed to the Emir to grant a pardon.In addition to drugs trafficking, Sheikh Talal was also found guilty of laundering the proceeds of his crimes and of illegal possession of two pistols and a shotgun.
Sheikh al-Sabah continues to deny that he is a drug dealer. and said that he has left his fate to the Emir. “I am drug-addicted and I am getting cured. I don’t deal,” he told the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jareeda from his jail cell.“I don’t know whether Kuwaiti society is satisfied with the ruling of the judiciary or not. “But it is in the hands of the Emir.”
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brad62
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maybe Bush will pardon him. He has oil, right?
- 3 years ago
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brad62
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RamonMoney
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what THE hell.?When are we going to stop this nonsense on drugs let people be free to do what thay wont and sell what thay can.
- 3 years ago
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