CNN, Saturday, June 19, 2004:
(CNN) -- Saudi security forces killed a top al Qaeda leader in the kingdom shortly after the decapitated body of American hostage Paul Johnson Jr. was left in a remote area of Riyadh, security sources said.
Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, the self-proclaimed military leader of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, was killed while disposing of Johnson's body, the sources told CNN.
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Johnson, a 49-year-old Lockheed Martin Corp. employee, was kidnapped in Riyadh last Saturday.
His body was found Friday in northern Riyadh soon after an Islamist Web site posted photographs of his decapitated body.
U.S. officials said the remains were "definitely" Johnson's.
Reuters, July 15, 2004:
RIYADH (Reuters) - A search by U.S. and Saudi authorities for the body of a beheaded American hostage is drawing to a close after experts failed to find his remains, the U.S. embassy said Thursday.
Experts who had come to Saudi Arabia to help search for the body of engineer Paul Johnson, who was killed nearly a month ago, have left the country after collecting evidence which will be analyzed in Washington, spokeswoman Carole Kalin said.
[ . . . ]
"Our experts who had come for that specific purpose have now departed. And there was significant evidence collected during the stay that is being examined. But we don't have the expectation that there will be a recovery of the body at this time," she added.
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