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The recent issue of Sawt al-Jihad ("Voice of Jihad"), which is identified with Al-Qa'ida, published an article titled "A Letter to the Wife of the Slain Pagan Paul Johnson from the Wife of One of the Martyrs." [1] This letter celebrates the murder of the American hostage Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia. The anonymous letter is attributed to the wife of one of the terrorists killed by the Saudi Security forces. The following are excerpts from the letter: [2] 'The Blood of Your Husband is the Blood of a Dog because He is an Idolatrous Infidel' "I have heard that...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The United States has confirmed that the head found in a Riyadh freezer this week is that of decapitated hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., the spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh said Friday. "We did see the head on Thursday and have confirmed that it is the head of Paul Johnson, unfortunately," spokeswoman Carol Kalin told The Associated Press from the Saudi capital.

Surrender of al-Qaida Chief Negotiated Amnesty for Saudi Militants Expires As Cleric Says Negotiators Sent to al-Qaida Chief The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt July 23, 2004 — An amnesty period for Saudi militants ended with no major figures netted, but a cleric said Friday that negotiations were under way to try to get the purported al-Qaida chief in the Arabian Peninsula to surrender. The Saudi Interior Ministry, seeking to encourage last-minute surrenders, said those who contacted authorities before the amnesty expired at midnight Thursday could still benefit from the offer, even if they don't turn themselves in until later. There...

THE severed head of an American hostage was found hidden in the family hideout of al-Qaeda’s leader in Saudi Arabia during a botched raid by security forces. Police made the gruesome discovery of Paul Johnson’s head wrapped in polythene and stored in a freezer alongside bundles of food during the biggest security operation seen in the kingdom against Islamic militants. FBI agents are investigating whether the villa in Riyadh was where the US defence contractor was murdered last month by terrorists who filmed his death. After a six-hour gunbattle, police arrested the wife and three children of the al-Qaeda chief,...

CAIRO, Egypt - The head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was kidnapped and beheaded by militants in Saudi Arabia last month, was found in a raid on the house of Saudi Arabia's al-Qaida leader, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. Authorities said the head was found as Saudi security forces raided the home of Saleh Mohammed al-Aoofi. Two militants were killed and three were wounded in the sweep, but it was not clear if al-Aoofi was among them. A Saudi Interior Ministry official who reported the gunbattle and raid late Tuesday said authorities were holding the wife...

Saudi Forces Find Head of U.S. Hostage in Fridge

<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was kidnapped and decapitated by militants in Saudi Arabia last month, was found by security forces during a raid that targeted the Saudi al-Qaida chief. Two militants were killed, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.</p>

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CAIRO, Egypt - Images of an American hostage being decapitated surfaced Saturday on an Internet site known for carrying the statements of Islamic militants. The gruesome videotape appeared three days after U.S. authorities announced the search for the body of Paul M. Johnson Jr. had been called off. Still photographs of Johnson's beheading had been posted June 19 on some of the same militant Islamic forums that on Saturday provided links to the newly released video footage. Johnson, a 49-year-old engineer for U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin, was kidnapped June 12. The video, which ran almost two minutes and included...

CNSNews.com Commentary July 09, 2004 In the wake of the hideous beheading of American civilian Paul Johnson, the Saudi Arabian government struck back forcefully -- killing several high-level al Qaeda operatives. Such rapid and decisive action begs the question, If the Saudi government was able to take several of the murderers out on a moment's notice once it decided to do so, why weren't they eliminated in the days or weeks prior to Johnson's murder? The answer to the question, unfortunately, is that Saudi officials were not responding to the moral outrage of the situation, but rather to its economic...

<p>June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Two suspected militants, including one near the top of Saudi Arabia's most-wanted list, and a policeman were killed in a shootout in the capital Riyadh, an unidentified security official told the Associated Press.</p> <p>The clash took place today in the al-Quds neighborhood of eastern Riyadh, AP reported. At least one suspected militant got away in a stolen car. The Saudi official identified one of the slain suspects as Abdullah Mohammed Rashid al-Roshoud, who was on the list of Saudi Arabia's 26 most-wanted militants.</p>

THE BEHEADING of American Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia was terrible enough in itself, but for me it struck strangely close to home. Johnson's full name was Paul Marshall Johnson. When he was kidnapped, some media outlets, and the terrorists, referred to him as "Paul Marshall (Johnson)," with the surname in parentheses. The first I knew of the abduction was a phone call to my office from a network evening news reporter who thought that, since I have written on the Saudis and terrorism and was planning to return to the Middle East, I must be the one who had...

Al Qaeda militants who kidnapped and killed American engineer Paul Johnson said Sunday on an Islamist Web site that sympathetic Saudi security forces aided their kidnapping operation with police uniforms and vehicles.

Representative Foley was just on O'reilly talking about it..said not one democrat gave a speech on the beheading

Opposition: Saudi security knew Johnson's location Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Saudi opposition sources said Saudi security commanders knew of the location of Al Qaida chief Abul Aziz Al Muqrin at least three days before he executed a U.S. hostage. The Washington-based Saudi Institute said Saudi authorities knew of the whereabouts of the Al Qaida cell that abducted and threatened to kill Lockheed Martin engineer Paul Johnson. But the institute said the Saudi government decided not to move until Johnson, captured on June 12, was executed. "The Saudi government knew the location of a number of the terrorists but waited until...

Yet another innocent American civilian has been slaughtered at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Here was a man who never hurt a soul, had nothing but admiration and respect for Moslem culture, murdered in cold blood with his decapitated head propped grotesquely atop his lifeless body. Savage is too kind a word to describe the perpetrators of this act. Savage is a word you apply to human beings. If anything good can be said to have come from the death of Paul Johnson, it is that perhaps it will be a moment of epiphany for the American people on all...

Allah's Butchers By Ralph Peters FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2004 "Perhaps the greatest blasphemers in any religion are those who appoint themselves as God’s executioners. When an entire civilization embraces such butchers, both the civilization and the religion are in trouble. The ritual slaughter of Paul Johnson Jr. in Saudi Arabia wasn’t simply the act of a cluster of terrorists, but a reflection of the failure of the entire Arab world. Religions are what men make of them. In the Arab heartlands of Islam, Muslims are making a gory mess of their faith. It’s time to end the politically correct...

June 23, 2004 -- With the beheading of Paul Johnson, it is time to ask how many more people must die at the hands of these barbarians before we can acknowledge the politically incorrect fact that much of Islam is at war with Western civilization ("A Necessary Response to the Enemy's Savagery," Editorial, June 19)? To continue to pretend otherwise is to pander to political correctness. Robert SolomonBrooklyn President Bush must tell the Saudi government that American special forces will operate at will throughout the kingdom. If the Saudis don't like it, too bad. These teams should have orders to...

<p>The clock ran out on a Friday deadline set by a Saudi Arabian terrorist group calling itself al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a U.S. citizen working in the kingdom.</p> <p>The group, reportedly led by Abdulaziz Muqrin, said it would kill Paul Johnson, an employee of Lockheed Martin Corp., unless the Saudi government released a number of Islamist radicals detained in Saudi jails by Friday.</p>

How we Americans react to the horrible murder of Paul Johnson by al-Qaeda extremists will tell us a great deal about ourselves.  We need to discover whether we are truly determined to stop terrorists or merely appease them, pushing the real fight down the road for another generation.         The most common reaction was disbelief, but anyone who was surprised simply doesn't understand the enemy.  Why is it such a shock that murderous extremists would kill one man, when they glory in committing mass murder nearly every day?  Did anyone really think that prayer vigils and news footage of neighbors lighting candles...