1.   Convicted drug traffickers are publicly beheaded.

2.   The Saudis have indicated they will continue their policy of beheading narcotics traffickers.

3.   An Afghan drug trafficker was beheaded by the sword Monday in the western Saudi province of Mecca, the interior ministry announced.

4.   Drug traffickers are beheaded in Saudi Arabia, and imprisoned in Yemen.

5.   Saudi Arabia has also taken a tough line on drugs, beheading traffickers by sword in public.