Al Qaeda Claims to Kidnap American

[TacticalPeek]

Al Qaeda Claims to Kidnap American
2nd U.S. Contractor Killed in Saudi Arabia

From News Services
Sunday, June 13, 2004; Page A26

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 13 -- A purported al Qaeda statement Saturday said the terror group's operatives in the Saudi capital had kidnapped one American man in the Saudi capital and killed another. The captive would be treated the way U.S. troops treated Iraqi prisoners, the statement said.

The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh confirmed that an American was missing but would not identify him. "We do have reports of a missing American," an embassy spokesperson said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We are working with local authorities to find him and are in touch with his family."

The al Qaeda statement, posted late Saturday on an Islamic Web site, showed a passport-size photo of a brown-haired man and a business card bearing the name Paul M. Johnson. It said he was born in 1955.

The card identified Johnson as an employee of Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. (Company spokesman Dennis Boxx said Saturday night that he had no immediate information about a kidnapping and was checking the report.)


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37583-2004Jun12.html

[shraby]

1. It's like the Senate

Judiciary committee has been telling Ashcroft..what goes around, comes around.

[goforit]

2. LOL!!!..............Alqueda, eh?....Bush is stirring up election BS!!!!

[bluedog]

3. hes a goner!!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/12/saudi.shooting/index.html

"We have our legal right to treat the same way they treat our people," it adds. "We will publish more details about the man kidnapped and explain the mujahedeen's demands."


This means they plan on torture!!

[DeaconBlues]

4. The abduction of ths poor guy will get about as much media attention

as the G.I. who is being held by insurgents in Iraq. We can't let hostage stories get in the way of Bush's (re)election plans, can we?

[Disturbed]

5. The GI a POW?

I was thinking about him the other day. No word of him for weeks.

Will BushCo demand that the GI be treated according to the Geneva Convention?

[DeaconBlues]

6. Buschco doesn't give a damn if he is treated like a prisoner of the

Inquisition - as long as it stays off the evening news.

[Tight_rope]

7. Bush could give a rats ass if any American is captured and killed!

All the motherfucker cares about is his own ass and how it looks good in the WH. Fuck Bush and his whole administration. Let's worry about the poor civilians who are being played as pons in this fucked up game of Russian roulette that Bush has started.

I hope he and his crew rot in hell (right along with Reagan) for all the evil things that they've to so many innocent people. :beer: