Saudi court sentences al-Qaeda ideologue to death-paper

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A Saudi Arabian court on Wednesday sentenced a top al-Qaeda strategist to death and jailed 15 others for their role in a ****** of attacks in the kingdom last decade, Saudi newspapers reported on Thursday. The judge ordered that the body of Faris al-Zahrani, also k**wn as Abu Jandal al-Azdi, be displayed in public after his death in the most severe form of punishment available under the kingdom's Islamic law, al-Madina and Arab News dailies reported. The Saudi authorities ended the campaign by arresting thousands of suspected militants and launching a media campaign to discredit their ideology with the backing of influential clerics and tribal leaders. Zahrani was found guilty of offences that included embracing extremist ideologies, shedding the blood of Muslims and others, targeting security officials, harbouring fugitives and planning the overthrow of Gulf monarchies.

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