Posted on 06/20/2004 8:14:59 AM PDT by John Jorsett
CAIRO, Egypt - The al-Qaida cell that kidnapped and killed American Paul M. Johnson Jr. said in an online periodical Sunday that sympathizers in the kingdom's security forces supplied it with police uniforms and vehicles and set up fake checkpoints to facilitate last week's abduction.
The details of the kidnapping appeared in Sawt al-Jihad, or Voice of Holy War, a semimonthly online periodical published by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. A separate article, the final one written by cell leader Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, killed in a shootout Friday night, justified Johnson's slaying.
The first article said militants wearing police uniforms and using police cars set up a fake checkpoint on al-Khadma Road, leading the airport, near Imam Mohammed bin Saud University.
When Johnson's car approached the checkpoint June 12, the militants in police uniforms stopped his car - a Camry - detained him, anesthetized him and carried him to another car, the article said.
It said they then blew up Johnson's car.
"This car is the one the Saudi media claimed was laden with explosives and that (the security) seized and defused it," the article said.
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I'd like to express shock but....
Just another story meant to confuse the enemy (us).
These are dead men walking.
If another American gets kidnapped, it would not surprise me in the least to see an American operation doing a clean sweep through their neighborhoods.
On the other hand, The Americans that are currently there need to be acutely aware of the safety risk. But if they all leave, will the terrorists have won?
We need to have an American Operational Force on hand over there to counteract these things.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/8971064.htm
Most people are unaware that the first post-9/11 beheading was that of Guillermo Solero, a Californian, in October 2001 by the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines. AS has been tied to Al Qaeda since its founding in 1990.
What we are dealing with is a world-wide barbaric movement that would detroy the West and Western Civilization. I suppose in a multi-cultural world that characterizes the USA this has little meaning. Sad.
"We can't preserve the dignity of Muslims but through these means," he wrote.
An enemy who thinks this way leaves us with but one choice:
Kill, or be killed.
Right, and some of the most dangerous fronts in this war (WW III or IV, depending on who's counting) are in the Philippines, Indonesia, and other areas we scarcely hear about. Several years ago we began hearing about Muslims pulling Christians out of their homes in Indonesia, to be raped, tortured, sometimes beheaded, sometimes set afire while still alive. The media didn't deem these stories worthy of print space, but many (obviously not all) of these monsters honed their skills in places other than the ME.
We already have a force over there. And they quietly work with Saudi Arabian forces.
Riiight. Sure didn't help Mr. Johnson.
We already had that experience here in DC with Mohammad and Malvo.
Being in Saudi Arabia is getting to be very nearly as dangerous as visiting Mexico....
If we go, don't you think that the Germans and other foreign workers would be next?
Working hard to conceal my astonishment here .......
You have unreasonable expectations of what a force can do. The fact that three of the people who were responsible are now dead shortly after committing the crime shows the force is working (yes, the American force was involved).
We had a lot larger force in the U.S. on Sept 11 and we were unable to stop anything.
Preventing terrorism is hard. The only prevention is deterrence by making the price too high for the terrorists to pay (i.e. kill one American hostage and we kill 3 of the hostage takers).
bttt
Is this the same al-qaida cell that claimed al-Muqrin hadn't been killed? Then the Saudis released photographs of a very dead looking man who sure appears to be al-Muqrin. I heard on the news today that this al-qaida cell has now appointed a new leader. No explanation as to why they should need a new leader if al-Muqrin wasn't most sincerely dead.
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