Militants Hunt in Saudi Arabia

World | June 21, 2004, Monday // 00:00

Saudi security forces have conducted a huge search to corner more militants and find the body of the beheaded American engineer Paul Johnson. Police cars and armoured vehicles sealed off the al-Malaz district of the capital Riyadh on Sunday. It was the site of a gun battle on Friday which ended in the death of the al-Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin. Islamist militants beheaded Johnson despite his family's pleas for mercy. The security forces left later in the night, and it was not clear whether anyone had been arrested.

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