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 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 the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, if a student graduates with a ( minimum six years ) PharmD degree, then the graduate has the chance to further develop himself.

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 Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to the Ministry of Communications, the following are some of the different ISPs operating in Afghanistan:

According to the Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ( MCIT ), the geographical existence of Afghanistan is very valuable to connect all communications to this satellite.

According to Ministry of Education guidelines, and the opinions of educators, the use of Japanese furigana should be avoided in English teaching due to the differences in pronunciation between English and Japanese.

According to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, every year there are more than 200, 000 foreign students that are learning Italian language ; they are distributed in the 90 Institutes of Italian Culture in the world, in the 179 Italian schools abroad and in the 111 Italian sections that are open into foreign schools.

According to the Ministry of Economy, the state regulates the prices of goods and services provided by monopolies and the prices of electric or thermal energy, land, medical services, and services offered by local tax regions.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

According to the Namibian Defence Ministry, enlistments of both men and women will number no more than 7, 500.

According to Chékarou Bagoudou, Chief of the Division of Road Safety and Security of the Nigerien Ministry of Transport, there were 4338 officially reported road accidents in 2008, with 7443 victims, of which 616 were killed.

According to statistics by the Ministry of Interior.

According to the Ministry of Resettlement, most of the displaced persons had been released or returned to their places of origin, leaving only 6, 651 in the camps as of December 2011.

According to UK Ministry of Defence, British military forces have also used thermobaric weapons in their AGM-114N Hellfire missiles ( carried by Apache helicopters and UAVs ) against the Taliban in the War in Afghanistan.

According to a recent report by the Ministry of Finance and Industry, nominal GDP rose by 20. 8 % in 2012 to $ 360 billion, compared with $ 298 billion in 2011.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to some of the actors, and confirmed in the writings of Godfrey Baseley, in its early days the show was used as a conduit for announcements from the Ministry of Agriculture, one actor reading an announcement almost verbatim to another.

According to the Ministry of Education ( 1963 ), there were 2, 350, 000 members and 15, 000 churches.

According to the Ministry of the

According to Ernst Röhm, Martin Faust and Theodor Casella, both members of the armed militia organisation Reichskriegsflagge, were shot down accidentally in a burst of machine gun fire during the occupation of the War Ministry as the result of a misunderstanding with II / Inf. Regt 19.

According to the British television Channel 4, from 2005 through early 2006, SIIC's Badr Organization members working as commandos in the Ministry of the Interior ( which Badr controls ) " have been implicated in rounding up and killing thousands of ordinary Sunni civilians.

According to an international opinion survey conducted in 2009 on behalf of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, India is the most pro-Israel country in the world.

According to Ministry of Transport statistics, the annual ridership for the Monorail Line in 2008 was 21, 765, 233.

According to the curriculum guidelines of the Ministry of Education, cultural festivals are part of special activities and are defined as " events which aim to use the results of everyday learning to heighten motivation ".

According to U. S. Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Copies of Lt. Col. Halt's letter regarding the sighting at RAF Woodbridge ( see above ) to the U. K. Ministry of Defense were routinely released ( without addition comment ) by the American base public affairs staff throughout the 1980s until the base closed.

According to the Spanish Ministry of Justice, nobility and grandee titles are created by the " sovereign grace of the king ", and may be passed on to the recipient's heirs, who may not sell the title.