Witnesses who had been diverted from the area by police speculated that the house may be the hideout of the suspected kidnappers. However, the security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, would not comment on who may be in the house.
On Tuesday, Saudi forces arrested two militants north of Riyadh as they increased security in and around the city in the hunt for Johnson's kidnappers.
An Islamic Web site screened a videotape of Johnson, 49, on Tuesday threatening his life unless the Saudi government freed all its al-Qaida detainees by Friday night.
This is a crazy idea, but I have a reply for them.
If you do not free the hostage, we will kill all your AQ prisioners (if they are still in the henhouse).
Other alternative. Your AQ prisioners are dead, we killed them!! Who was it again you wanted to trade for??
I'll trade you a GWB rookie card for this guy.
So if they're not going to comment then why remain anonymous.
Idiots.