Police search for body of beheaded hostage

Police in armoured vehicles and a helicopter closed off three Riyadh neighbourhoods in a pre-dawn search today for more Islamic extremists and for the body of the American hostage beheaded by al-Qaida.

The areas searched included al-Malaz, site of a gun battle on Friday that ended with the death of Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, the mastermind of Paul Johnson kidnapping and brutal murder and other terror attacks.