WORLD : 16 Beheaded for Fatal Mecca Blasts
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Sixteen Kuwaiti Shiite Muslims were publicly beheaded today for planting bombs that exploded in Mecca at the height of the Muslim pilgrimage this year, the Interior Ministry announced.
The statement, read over the state-run Riyadh radio, said that another four Kuwaitis received prison terms of 15 and 20 years and 1,000 to 1,500 lashes of the whip. It said another nine Kuwaitis were acquitted.
It was the first public word from Saudi Arabia that anyone had even been arrested in connection with the July 10 explosions, which killed one Pakistani pilgrim and injured 16 other pilgrims of various nationalities.
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