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	Saudi ends outcry, rebukes judges with rape pardon

dl211

12-19-2007 9:13 AM

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Saudi Arabia's liberal elite consider the pardon to be a sign of King Abdullah's reformer instincts and a slap in the face to judges, who are clerics of austere Wahhabi Islam.

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