101.   Judges were told Moslem tradition held that animals must be conscious when their throats were cut and that the blood must pour out.

102.   Meanwhile five civilians had their throats cut in the western Mascara region over the weekend, the El Watan paper reported.

103.   One of them allegedly stabbed her to death, and the Kuwaiti, using the same knife, then cut her throat, the ministry said.

104.   Police Tuesday launched investigations into the deaths of two Chinese who had their throats cut and of a Nigerian who was shot.

105.   Some victims seen by an AFP photographer in a courtyard off Benson Street in the city centre had clearly been executed, as their throats had been cut.

106.   Tadic and his lieutenant, Bosko Dragicevic, had forced him to shoot or cut the throats of many other prisoners, he added.

107.   The court was told he had cut the throats of his mother and sister.