The Shi'a Fox: Is a legned being created about Hizbullah leader Mugniyah?
Rumors he is alive.
Injustice in a fundamentalist kingdom: an illiterate Saudi woman accused of witchcraft,will be beheaded.

                                                                                
Death at High Noon in the New Middle East...                       

“Hizbullah's Imad Mughniya is dead, most probably”
                                                          The Economist, Feb 14 2008

The Shi'a Fox Redux?
The above comment summarizes what many Arabs and a few Westerner kaffirs seem to think of the reported death of Mughniyah in a car bomb in Syria. The Egyptian author of a book on him, "The Shi'a Fox", claims that he cannot be dead, that the car bomb ploy is a typical ruse for him to mislead the Mossad and US agents who are after him. Already there are hints in some Middle East media that he is actually alive and that he may re-emerge with a new nom de guerre. Just as it had been reported in the past that he had plastic surgery done twice to change his features. The reports claim that the surgeries were done in Tehran, not in Hollywood. Maybe next time he will look something like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if they can change his height. Still, the man is surely dead.

Death and Injustice in a Fundamentalist Kingdom:
In Saudi Arabia, Mr. Bush's favorite symbol of the New Middle East, sans Condi Rice's birth pangs this time, an illiterate woman has been sentenced to be beheaded for witchcraft. That is right: witchcraft. This is a crime that cannot be proven, not even in Texas, not outside the realm of fiction.
The woman was held by the notorious police of that fundamentalist Islamic kingdom for about a month, and she claims she was coerced and beaten until she confessed.
Yet a Saudi man weho had Erectile Dysfunction had accused her of using witchcraft to make him impotent, and the court bought it.

According to Human Rights Watch:
" The judges never investigated whether her confession was voluntary or reliable or investigated her allegations of torture. They never even made an inquiry as to whether she could have been responsible for allegedly supernatural occurrences, such as the sudden impotence of a man she is said to have “bewitched.” They also broke Saudi law in multiple instances, ignoring legal rules on proper procedures in a trial.  
 The judges did not sit as a panel of three, as required for cases involving the death penalty. They excluded Fawza Falih from most trial sessions and banned a relative who was acting as her legal representative from attending any session. Earlier, her interrogators blocked her access to a lawyer and the judges, and denied her the right to professional legal representation, thus depriving her of the opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses against her. She claims that some of the witnesses were unknown to her and that others had made statements against her only as a result of beatings. " 

She is clearly a poor woman, being illiterate. Last November an Egyptian laborer was beheade publicly in Saudi Arabia, also for using witchcraft in order to separate a married couple.
Wahooo....the winds of democracy and freedom are sure blowing across the New New Middle East...
Cheers, if you dare
mhg
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