Saudis Search for Slain Hostage's Body (officials retracting story)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040619/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_kidnapped_american


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi security agents searched homes in the capital and surrounding deserts Saturday for the body of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., while Saudi officials hailed as a victory their slaying of his executioner, the top al-Qaida figure in the kingdom.

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Saudi officials had reported that Johnson's body was found Friday dumped on the northern outskirts of the capital, hours after his captors killed and decapitated him and posted Web photos of his severed head.

But officials backtracked Saturday. "We haven't found the body yet," said Adel al-Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to Crown Prince Abdullah in Washington. "We think we know the area where it is."

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Has anyone heard an updated explanation, then, as to how they found the bad guys? Given my undertanding of yesterday's version of events, don't they need one?

good grief

Take everything they say with a grain of salt...

So is anybody else missing? If they found a body, it was somebody.

Why do I feel a Marty Feldman version of a song comning on?

"somebody" on our board. I'm getting pretty sick of the crap.

:wtf:

besides Johnson? *film at 11:00*

a whole lot of headless bodies lying around in Saudi. Especially a lot of anglo Infidel-typoe bodies. It was an easy mistake to make.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/653CA47F-E422-47F3-8B72-A85C7D1119AE.htm

Saudi dissidents killed in shootout

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Unclear if Johnson's body found

Shortly earlier, an AFP correspondent saw dozens of security men deployed in al-Munisiyah neighbourhood in eastern Riyadh amid reports that the body of American aeronautics engineer Paul Johnson had been dumped there. But no body was found.

They can be opinionated but the basic facts are always right.

..."al Jazeera ain't nuthin' but shit."

Odd - it sounds exactly like something b*sh would say.

:grr:

And, as usual, the early story (killers were identified trying to dump the body) was a steaming load.

They killed those four men on the tip of someone who saw the guys dump the body- so how exactly is it that they can't find the body?

Something's wrong here. Four dead terrorists...no Johnson body...conflicting accounts.

All in Saudi Arabia, where truth is in the eyes of the beheaders...the Bush - Saud Crime Family Alliance.