Saudi Arabia does not have written criminal law to deal with terrorism offenses, and many terror suspects are never tried in court, he said.

“Their best bet of coming out is to go through a religious re-education program,” he said. “The Saudis like this (program), but we’re more skeptical.

“Telling a detainee that he’s all wrong about religion can’t take the place of any judicial hearing.”

Source CNN.com

Commentary

I’m no fan of Human Rights activists as the majority of them are argent people that think they know whats rights and wrong and everybody else is wrong. However I have to agree with them here that these prosecutions are way over due and religious re-education is not the correct path.

Ali AlKhudair

Story

An update to an earlier story about Saudi Arabia turning the cases of terrorists to the Judaical system shows that the official count of terrorists being prosecuted is 991 and the number of judges presiding on these cases 6 judges. These number could increase according to official sources. These terrorists were responsible for over 160 failed terrorist acts, over 30 successful terrorist act. The death of 74 Saudi officers and wounding of 657 others, the death of 90 civilians and the wounding of 439 others. The Saudi authorities have also confiscated from the terrorists tons of explosives and thousands of weapons and ammunition. To note Saudi Arabia has been struggling with a rise in terrorist attacks starting in 2003 and with the efforts of Saudi law enforcements such attacks have decreased dramatically during the last couple of years. To note a news sources mentions the names of a few religious leaders who have provided the terrorists with religious approval for their acts. Some of the names mentioned are Naser AlFahad, Ali AlKhudair, and Ahmad AlKhalidy.

Commentary

Now that’s a large number, its about time they got these criminals to court to face justice and their victims. I hope these prosecutions go without any trouble.

Riyadh General Court

Today Monday October 20th 2008 Saudi authorities started the prosecution of 70 terrorists who have supported or performed terrorists acts in Saudi Arabia during the last few years. This has been an overdue prosecution as some of these men have been in prison for years with no official charges which has upset many human rights organizations. The Judaical authorities have assigned 10 judges to

look into these cases and the security around the court house has increased.

Commentary

This has been long overdue. The Saudi government has been using the excuse that investigations were not completed and that many of these terrorists had information that was helpful in cracking down their colleges. That is understandable but it only made other terrorists more dangerous. As for the last few years many who were arrested were freed for good behavior and for abandoning their terrorist believes as long as they didn’t help to kill or killed anyone. Compassion and help is not what terrorists need, what they need is an iron fist and the death penalty to know where they end up with such horrifying acts.