In the NYTimes today:

JIDDA, Saudi
Arabia, Nov. 30 — The case of a 20-year-old woman who was sentenced to be
lashed after pressing charges against seven men who raped her and a male
companion has provoked a rare and angry public debate in Saudi Arabia, leading
to renewed calls for reform of the Saudi judicial system.

And from futher on in the article:

A Saudi judge, Ibrahim bin Salih Al-Khudairi of the Riyadh Appeals Court,
said in an interview published in Okaz newspaper on Nov. 27 that if he were a
judge in the Qatif court that he would have sentenced her, her male companion
and the seven rapists to death and that they should be lucky that they did not
get the death penalty.

These are our allies.

You know, like Pakistan. Musharraf's ending military rule! Yay!

Right after he secured a second term for himself. Does anyone still believe that he declared martial law for security reasons?