1.   Following the execution in Giddings, a town between Austin and Houston, rumors began circulating.

2.   Following the executions, Shell International Petroleum Co. said it would consider withdrawing from the country and the World Bank canceled its participation in a liquified gas project.

3.   Following the execution, the bodies were put into boxes along with clothes, ropes and hoods, and then were photographed.

4.   The executions were followed by a series of faxes from Saudi dissidents warning of reprisals.

5.   The incident captured the nervous state in which alcoholic-drink companies find themselves in the days following the execution of Joe Camel.

6.   Other Arab states have announced sentences of crucifixion following execution for criminals in recent months, but such a penalty is not common in Islamic countries.

7.   Philippine officials have become sensitive about the plight of Filipino workers abroad following the execution for murder of another maid, Flor Contemplacion, in Singapore in March.

8.   Rasheed assured Horani that Baghdad will continue to supply Jordan with oil despite a recent cooling in relations following the execution of four Jordanian students for smuggling in Iraq.

9.   An embassy hotline, on which Americans living in the kingdom can receive recorded security information, was not updated following the executions.

10.   Anger swelled among the crowds following the executions and several foreign journalists were harassed.