Qatar Releases Saudis Who Attempted Coup against its Emir………….
“DOHA - Qatar's emir has pardoned an unspecified number of Saudis for their involvement in an attempted coup to overthrow him in 1996, the country's foreign ministry said on Tuesday. "In response to the desire of the custodian of the two holy shrines, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, issued an emiri decision to pardon a number of convicts charged for a failed coup d'etat," the ministry said. The statement did not specify the number of convicts, nor say what their sentences were. The group left the country on Tuesday afternoon accompanied by the deputy commander of the Saudi National Guard, Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the ministry said. For its part, the Saudi Press Agency said the Saudi king had asked his Qatari counterpart to "pardon the Saudi prisoners held in Qatar" and that he had done so………..” Aljazeera
They don’t say how many they were or who sent them, these Saudis who tried to overthrow the Qatari government in 1996. Aljazeera says 19 were sentenced to death but the sentences were never carried out, and 26 were sentenced to life in prison. The Saudi government would have immediately executed such plotters against it, and in fact they have in the past beheaded accused native and foreign plotters. It is highly unlikely that these were just a bunch of private Saudis. This attempt has seriously poisoned Saudi-Qatari relations since that time.
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