A Saudi court sentenced to death on Wednesday the "chief strategist" of a wave of Al-Qaeda violence that erupted in the kingdom in 2003, a decade after his reported arrest. The official Saudi Press Agency gave neither his name **r the date of his arrest in the southwestern city of Abha, saying only that he had shown ** remorse while in custody. The trial, in which 16 co-defendants were also sentenced to prison terms of up to 20 years, was the latest in a ****** of prosecutions begun in July 2011 for alleged offences committed during the peak of Al-Qaeda violence in the oil kingpin between 2003 and 2006. Saudi authorities had previously focused on efforts to reform those detained for "deviating" from officially sanctioned Islam by preaching jihad or holy war, boasting of successful results from its well-funded rehabilitation centres.
04-03-2014, 01:51 AM
Saudi death sentence for top Qaeda man 'held for decade'
A Saudi court sentenced to death on Wednesday the "chief strategist" of a wave of Al-Qaeda violence that erupted in the kingdom in 2003, a decade after his reported arrest. The official Saudi Press Agency gave neither his name **r the date of his arrest in the southwestern city of Abha, saying only that he had shown ** remorse while in custody. The trial, in which 16 co-defendants were also sentenced to prison terms of up to 20 years, was the latest in a ****** of prosecutions begun in July 2011 for alleged offences committed during the peak of Al-Qaeda violence in the oil kingpin between 2003 and 2006. Saudi authorities had previously focused on efforts to reform those detained for "deviating" from officially sanctioned Islam by preaching jihad or holy war, boasting of successful results from its well-funded rehabilitation centres.
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