19 juin 2004 09:27
Another American hostage beheaded
Isabelle Hontebeyrie
Islamist radicals killed an American engineer held hostage in Saudi Arabia, then posted photographs of the man’s severed head and bloodied corpse on an Islamist Web site Friday.
Hours later, Saudi security forces reported that they tracked down and killed at least three militants, including the reputed leader of a group responsible for beheading 49-year-old Paul M. Johnson Jr., a native of New Jersey.
According to
The Detroit News "
In a statement posted with the grisly photographs, the group said, "As we promised the mujahedeen (holy warriors), we have beheaded the American hostage ... Paul Marshal after the deadline that the mujahedeen gave to the tyrannical Saudi government passed". Three pictures showed the decapitated remains of a man resembling Johnson. In one picture, a hand cradled the severed head. In another snapshot, the slain man was sprawled on his stomach, and somebody had balanced the head, face to the camera, atop his back."
Family members of Paul Johnson Jr. also released a statement Friday praising U.S. and Saudi authorities for efforts to rescue him. "They knew the odds were not in the favor of law enforcement," said Joseph Billy Jr., an FBI agent who spoke on the family's behalf. "They also know that the vast majority of citizens of Saudi Arabia also grieves with them at this time." (AP via ABC News)
USA Today reports: "World governments condemned the beheading of an American engineer by an al-Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia, while one Islamic leader in Indonesia predicted more killings of the kind unless the United States changes its approach toward the Middle East."
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