According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( ILGA ) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.

According to Al-Kurdī, there had been 89 historic floods by 1965, including several in the Saudi period.

According to a 2009 U. S. State Department communication by Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, ( disclosed as part of the Wikileaks U. S. ' cables leaks ' controversy in 2010 ) " donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide ".

According to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi foreign policy is focused on co-operation with the Gulf states, the unity of the Arab world, solidarity with Muslim countries, and support for the United Nations ( UN ).

According to a study by Alternatives to Combat Child Labour Through Education and Sustainable Services in the Middle East and North Africa Region ( ACCESS-MENA ) 30 % of school children living in border villages of Yemen had been smuggled into Saudi Arabia.

According to the report by Russian investigators, Zura Barayeva, the widow of Arbi Barayev, led the female members of the group, while a man known as Yasir, identified by his documents as Idris Alkhazurov, was said to be the group's " ideologist " believed to be trained in Saudi Arabia.

According to John Kampfner, " Emboldened by their experience in Afghanistan, they saw the opportunity to root out hostile regimes in the Middle East and to implant very American interpretations of democracy and free markets, from Iraq to Iran and Saudi Arabia.

According to Richard Leiby, of The Washington Post, Riza is " an Oxford-educated British citizen, was born in Tunisia and grew up in Saudi Arabia.

According to Islamic tradition, approximately four thousand years ago, the valley of Mecca ( in what is now Saudi Arabia ) was a dry, rocky and uninhabited place.

According to the chroniclers of Nejd, the city was founded in 1446-7 by Mani Al-Mraydi, an ancestor of the Saudi royal family.

According to Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, 20 Afghans, seven Pakistanis, three Yemenis, two Egyptians, one Saudi and one Turk were killed.

According to an Arab source of the Guardian, Perle sent a Saudi official the following terms for Iraq to fulfill to prevent war: " Saddam's abdication and departure, first to a US military base for interrogation and then into supervised exile, a surrender of Iraqi troops, and the admission that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

According to the Longriders Guild, the Yemen Government, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabian Government say officially that there has never been an " Ocean of Fire " race.

According to Clarke's statements to the 9 / 11 Commission, a member of the Bush administration relayed to Clarke the request of the Saudi embassy to allow the members of the bin Laden family living in the U. S. to fly to Saudi Arabia.

According to the MEF itself, " U. S. interests in the Middle East include fighting radical Islam ; working for Palestinian acceptance of Israel ; robustly asserting U. S. interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia ; and developing strategies to deal with Iraq and contain Iran ".

According to the organization's website, Islamist Watch does not focus on counter terrorism and only indirectly concerns Islamism in traditional Muslim countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, and its three main " activities " include " research, advocacy, and activism.

The conflict between Israel and the Arab countries has been described as a proxy war, with Israel acting as a proxy for the United States and the Soviet Union's proxies being Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon., According to Pennsylvania State University Professor of Political Science Stephen J. Cimbala, this theater was the site of the greatest Cold War setback to America when, under the influence of anti-Israeli attitudes after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, American allies Saudi Arabia and Iran ( under the shah ) drifted from the American sphere of influence, leading to the 1973 oil crisis as well as the eventual Iranian Revolution in 1979.

According to an interview with " Jamestown Special Correspondent " Mahan Abedin, Omar Bakri joined Hizb-ut-Tahrir ( HT ) in Beirut and maintained contacts with it in Cairo, and started an HT cells in Saudi Arabia " where " by 1983 I had built a team of 38 brothers.

According to the Ethiopian government 36 countries including India, China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had leased farm land there in March 2011.

According to Posner, he and his wife, Trisha, have been banned from entering Saudi Arabia as a result of this book.

According to several published reports, Saudi pressure was brought to bear upon the channel head over the hand-shaking incident.

According to a number of medieval historians, who depend on the account of John of Ephesus, Dhū Nuwas, who was a convert to Judaism, announced that he would persecute the Christians living in his kingdom because Christian states persecuted his fellow co-religionists in their realms ; a letter survives written by Simon, the bishop of Beth Arsham in 524 AD, recounts Dhū Nuwas ' ( where he is called Dimnon ) persecution in Najran ( modern al-Ukhdud in Saudi Arabia ).

According to FBI director Robert Mueller and the 9 / 11 Commission, Omari entered the United States through a Dubai flight on June 29, 2001, with Salem al-Hazmi, landing in New York.

According to U. N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the approved expansion is equal to about 82 % of Japan's total land area.

According to Federal Election Commission data, Spacey has contributed US $ 42, 000 to Democratic candidates and committees.

According to the records compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2009, the United States Department of Justice typically convicted a little over 81, 000 people ; of this, approximately 800 are convicted of money laundering as the primary or most serious charge.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, Moqed set off the metal detector at the airport and was screened with a hand-wand.

According to the Constitution of North Korea ( 조선민주주의인민공화국 사회주의 헌법 ) Article 100, " the National Defence Commission is the highest military leadership body of State power.

" According to Article 102, " the Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea commands and directs all the armed forces and guides national defence as a whole.

According to the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, electromagnetic radiations from ultraviolet to infrared, to radiofrequency ( including microwave ) radiation, static and time-varying electric and magnetic fields, and ultrasound belong to the non-ionizing radiations.

According to the Texas Transportation Commission, Paris is the second-largest city in Texas without a four-lane divided highway connecting to an Interstate highway within the state.

According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).

According to a recent report by the European Commission, Slovakia ( along with some other Central and Eastern European economies ) is low down on the list of EU states in the area of innovation ( Slovakia ranks 22nd ).

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, it is possible that pilots were not stabbed to death and were sent to the rear of the plane.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, 26 al-Qaeda terrorist conspirators sought to enter the United States to carry out a suicide mission.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, " This was an unprecedented order.

According to 9 / 11 Commission staff statement No. 17 there were several communications failures at the federal government level during and after the 9 / 11 attacks.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, 13 passengers from Flight 93 made a total of over 30 calls to both family and emergency personnel ( twenty-two confirmed air phone ( airfone ) calls, two confirmed cell phone and eight not specified in the report ).

According to the FBI and the 9 / 11 Commission report, Hazmi first entered the United States on June 29, 2001, although there are numerous unconfirmed reports that he was living in San Antonio, Texas with fellow hijacker Satam al-Suqami much earlier.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.

According to the Federal Election Commission ( FEC ), the NLP spent $ 2. 3 million on its presidential campaign in the 1999-2000 election cycle.

According to Captain Phillip's amended Commission, dated 25 April 1787, the colony included all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean within the latitudes of 10 ° 37 ' S and 43 ° 39 ' S which included most of New Zealand except for the southern half of the South Island.

According to the United States EMP Commission, the main potential problem with the E2 component is the fact that it immediately follows the E1 component, which may have damaged the devices that would normally protect against E2.

According to the EMP Commission Executive Report of 2004, " In general, it would not be an issue for critical infrastructure systems since they have existing protective measures for defense against occasional lightning strikes.

According to the CIE ( the International Commission on Illumination ), reflectivity is distinguished from reflectance by the fact that reflectivity is a value that applies to thick reflecting objects.

According to the International Boundary and Water Commission, its total length was in the late 1980s, though course shifts occasionally result in length changes.