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Article: DRUG SMUGGLERS RISK DEATH SAUDIS REFUSE TO TOLERATE INTRODUCTION OF DRUGS INTO THEIR COUNTRY AND BEHEAD ANYONE CAUGHT IN THE ACT.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 25, 1997
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Byline: Faiza Saleh Ambah Associated Press
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- The man was in his 60s, wore the seamless white robes of a Muslim pilgrim and had the flowing beard characteristic of the devout. One other thing: He was very nervous.
That last trait - and his Pakistani nationality - were his undoing.
Police and customs agents trying to break the flow of drugs into wealthy Saudi Arabia from desperately poor surrounding nations have come to suspect Pakistanis in particular.
When the 62-year-old Pakistani stumbled on the questions asked of all arriving religious pilgrims, he was X-rayed. Inside his body were six balloons wrapped in black ...