Two Iraqis beheaded for drug trafficking

Two Iraqi men were beheaded today for smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

Mohammed bin Ali al-Salami and Faisal bin Karim al-Shiblawi were convicted of smuggling an undisclosed quantity of hashish into the kingdom and were beheaded in the northern city of Arar, the ministry said in a statement reported by the Saudi Press Agency.