01 April 2013 - orsam

Mahmud said that the spread of sympathy
for the Syrian opposition had been helped
by the gradual erosion of the distinct
Golan Druze identity and its attachment to
Damascus.
"We don't feel we have any particular
identity, Druze or other. We've been
under Israeli occupation for 40 years," he
said.
In the past, Syria's Druze minority has
played a leading role in some of the major
events of the country's history.
A monument that adorns a roundabout in
Majdal Shams recalls the part played by
the community in the nationwide revolt
against French colonial rule that erupted
in Druze areas in 1925.
Nearly 90 years on, their country's future
is being decided on the other side of the
Israeli-patrolled barbed wire and they can
only watch on as divided spectators.
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7. ARABIAN PENINSULA AND THE
GULF OF BASRA
Kuwait hangs three in first
executions since 2007
Authorities in Kuwait on Monday hanged
three convicted murderers in the first
executions in the Gulf state since May
2007, the ministry of justice said.
The men, a Pakistani, a Saudi and a
stateless Arab, were hanged at the central
jail, west of the capital Kuwait City, in
front of judicial and security officials, the
ministry said.
The Pakistani was convicted of killing a
Kuwaiti couple and the Saudi of murdering
a compatriot.
The stateless Arab was hanged for killing
his wife and five children after claiming he
was a long-awaited imam.
Shiite Muslims revere Islam's twelfth
imam, Mohammad Al-Mahdi, who
disappeared from the earth in the tenth
century and is said to be due to return to
save mankind.
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