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Kyre
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 Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:48 pm Second US beheading |
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U.S. hostage Johnson beheaded
Sources say body found in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Friday, June 18, 2004 Posted: 3:36 PM EDT (1936 GMT)
(CNN) -- Al Qaeda militants kept a pledge to kill their American hostage, posting three chilling photographs Friday on an Islamist Web site to prove they had beheaded Paul Johnson Jr.
The Lockheed Martin Corp. employee was kidnapped in Riyadh last Saturday. Sources in Riyadh said Johnson's body was found in the eastern part of Riyadh; official statements are expected soon.
Abdel Aziz Al-Muqrin, the self-proclaimed military leader of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, had threatened Tuesday to kill Johnson in 72 hours unless the Saudi government released al Qaeda prisoners and Westerners left the Arabian Peninsula.
"As we promised, we the mujahedeen from the Falluja Squadron slaughtered the American hostage Paul Johnson after the deadline we gave to the Saudi tyrants," a statement said on the Web site. It has been translated from the Arabic.
"So he got his fair share from this life and for him to taste a bit of what the Muslims have been suffering from Apache helicopter attacks. They were tortured by its missiles."
Johnson, 49, worked on Apache helicopters in Saudi Arabia and had lived there for more than a decade.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell condemned what he called an "action of barbarism."
"It shows once again what the world is dealing with -- to behead somebody or murder somebody, somebody innocent who was only trying to help," he said. "It will cause us and the Saudis to redouble our efforts to go after the terrorists wherever they are, wherever they hide."
But a senior U.S. State Department official told CNN the United States would now act to "batten down the hatch and don't give them an easy target," and urge Americans to leave the country.
"We want Americans to leave. We want the people that are there to take appropriate precautions," the official said.
The official added that Johnson lived away from the heavy fortified expatriate compounds and "was a sitting duck."
The al Qaeda Web statement also said the killing was "a lesson for them to learn for whoever comes to our country, this will be their punishment."
Al-Muqrin had claimed responsibility for Johnson's kidnapping and the death of another American, Kenneth Scroggs, on Saturday on behalf of a group called the Al Falluja Squadron, which claims to have ties to al Qaeda.
The photographs on the Web site plainly show the face of Johnson, the man seen in videotapes with his captors earlier this week.
Pleas unheeded
Earlier in the day, Johnson's Thai wife, Noom, tearfully pleaded for his release.
Muslim friends of Johnson -- including some clerics -- also pleaded for his release. But the militants were not swayed.
Lockheed Martin spokesman, Tom Jurkowsky, said the company is "dealing with the family."
"All we can say is we're very distressed, very disheartened," Jurkowsky said.
Earlier Friday, Al Arabiya as well as CNN had aired an emotional appeal from Johnson's Thai wife, Noom.
U.S. and Saudi investigators concluded an intensive meeting Friday, Saudi officials said, as security forces spread all over the kingdom searching for Johnson. |
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Republican_Man
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| Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:02 pm |
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There is only one--ONE--way to describe this, and that is an act of PURE EVIL, PURE EVIL
That is the ONLY way to describe it.
There is NO excuse WHATSOEVER for it.
And here's something I heard on the news today in an interview:
-The Koran (and this is something I don't like, but...) in the Koran it states RULES for handling hostages--but it specifically says NOT to kill them. So technically this act goes SPECIFICALLY against their religion.
But of course someone like Pah Wraith could add on to that, I would think.
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LightningBoy
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I don't know how long the U.S. can tolderate this before we finally snap.
If you ever questioned military action against these people, now you know why you were wrong. We need to line up each one of the Extremeist Islamic Fascists, and smear them with pigs entrails (Islam sees pig as filthy, and it bars them from heaven in their religion), then execute each one with a bullet dipped in pigs blood, then bury them in the pig organs. (Like General Jack Persing did in 1890.) This will set an example for future animals that if you keep this up, you're going to hell.
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Pah-Wraith
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| Sat Jun 19, 2004 8:04 am |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | There is only one--ONE--way to describe this, and that is an act of PURE EVIL, PURE EVIL
That is the ONLY way to describe it.
There is NO excuse WHATSOEVER for it.
And here's something I heard on the news today in an interview:
-The Koran (and this is something I don't like, but...) in the Koran it states RULES for handling hostages--but it specifically says NOT to kill them. So technically this act goes SPECIFICALLY against their religion.
But of course someone like Pah Wraith could add on to that, I would think. |
Hostages aren't supposed to be taken, as Non-Combatants are clearly said to be left unharmed including Women and Children who belong to Nations that Muslims are at war with.
In the Sunnah (Biography of the Prophet) it clearly states that Prisoners of War should be fed the same amount as everyone else (Muslims who caught them) and that if a Prisoner could teach an illiterate man to read a few words, he would be set free. Muslims are not supposed to take Captives who are not fighting them in a War.
| Quote: | | We need to line up each one of the Extremeist Islamic Fascists, and smear them with pigs entrails (Islam sees pig as filthy, and it bars them from heaven in their religion), then execute each one with a bullet dipped in pigs blood, then bury them in the pig organs. (Like General Jack Persing did in 1890.) This will set an example for future animals that if you keep this up, you're going to hell. |
Interesting, Now since Wahabism is classed as the Fundamental Islamic Extremism of Islam, why don't you go ahead and do that to 85% of Saudi Arabia as Wahabism is the Sect of islam that the percentage falls under 
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Republican_Man
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| Sat Jun 19, 2004 4:57 pm |
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| Pah-Wraith wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | There is only one--ONE--way to describe this, and that is an act of PURE EVIL, PURE EVIL
That is the ONLY way to describe it.
There is NO excuse WHATSOEVER for it.
And here's something I heard on the news today in an interview:
-The Koran (and this is something I don't like, but...) in the Koran it states RULES for handling hostages--but it specifically says NOT to kill them. So technically this act goes SPECIFICALLY against their religion.
But of course someone like Pah Wraith could add on to that, I would think. |
Hostages aren't supposed to be taken, as Non-Combatants are clearly said to be left unharmed including Women and Children who belong to Nations that Muslims are at war with.
In the Sunnah (Biography of the Prophet) it clearly states that Prisoners of War should be fed the same amount as everyone else (Muslims who caught them) and that if a Prisoner could teach an illiterate man to read a few words, he would be set free. Muslims are not supposed to take Captives who are not fighting them in a War.
| Quote: | | We need to line up each one of the Extremeist Islamic Fascists, and smear them with pigs entrails (Islam sees pig as filthy, and it bars them from heaven in their religion), then execute each one with a bullet dipped in pigs blood, then bury them in the pig organs. (Like General Jack Persing did in 1890.) This will set an example for future animals that if you keep this up, you're going to hell. |
Interesting, Now since Wahabism is classed as the Fundamental Islamic Extremism of Islam, why don't you go ahead and do that to 85% of Saudi Arabia as Wahabism is the Sect of islam that the percentage falls under |
Interesting...So those terrorists are doing COMPLETELY wrong things, then. Well, that's not a surprise--those are EVIL acts--but they are doing those acts as Islamic Extremest terrorists doing it "in the NAME OF GOD" and yet it GOES against their religion. Now that makes it worse...
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John Connor
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I think its cruel and really uncalled for. Thats what i think dispiet that im not american.
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Republican_Man
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| Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:25 pm |
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| John Connor wrote: | | I think its cruel and really uncalled for. Thats what i think dispiet that im not american. |
You SHOULD think that it's cruel and uncalled for, otherwise you are EVIL yourself. You do NOT have to be an American to make a judgement about it, however, but that is an "of course"
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