Saudi police 'helped terrorists kidnap American'
The al-Qaida cell that kidnapped and killed American Paul M. Johnson Jr. claimed today that sympathisers in the kingdom’s security forces supplied it with police uniforms and vehicles and set up fake checkpoints to facilitate last week’s abduction.
The details of the kidnapping appeared in Sawt al-Jihad, or Voice of Holy War, an online periodical published by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. A separate article, the final one written by cell leader Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, killed in a shoot-out Friday night, justified Johnson’s slaying.
