LOS ANGELES, CA:
A diplomat from Saudi Arabia has requested political asylum because he is a homosexual and has a Jewish woman for a friend. He told NBC News that if he was returned to Saudi Arabia they would “kill me openly and in broad daylight.” Ahmad Asseri is the first secretary of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Los Angeles. Asseri claims that Saudi officials have terminated his employment and pulled his diplomatic passport after discovering his sexual orientation. In return, Asseri threatened to take embarrassing information public about the Saudi royal family living in the United States.
