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

[darkstar]

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?

[NMDemDist2]

1. does this mean they didn't "kill the evil murders" too?

good grief

[physioex]

2. Please....they are soo corrupt and blinded by money...

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

[havocmom]

3. So they found a body but Johnson's is still missing?

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?

[Just Me]

9. My sentiments EXACTLY!!! Plus, someone posted a picture of beheaded

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

:wtf:

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. So who "else" was beheaded

besides Johnson? *film at 11:00*

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Well, I imagine that there are

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.

[darkstar]

5. Looks like al Jazeera had it right yesterday...

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.

[spinbaby]

8. Al Jazeera always has their facts right

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

[Zhade]

11. And yet, according to some ignorant people...

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

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

[mike1963]

6. The only certainty is that someone is LYING. Again.

:grr:

[daleo]

10. So, the theory that Saudis just may have killed a scapegoat is still on

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

[Guaranteed]

12. How is this possible?

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?

[stevedeshazer]

13. This just doesn't add up

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.

[Guaranteed]

14. Kick. We need some answers. nt