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	Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnson, who worked for Lockheed Martin on upgrading Saudi AH-64A Apache attack helicopters, was kidnapped and taken hostage by a terrorist group claiming to be part of Al-Qaida.
		Johnson made some statements similar to the ones made by Nick Berg before Berg was killed (not long before Johnson was taken hostage).
		Johnson was described by his son, Paul Johnson III, as a lover of Saudi Arabian culture who often sent verses of the Qur'an to his daughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Johnson_(hostage) (446 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hostage's family pleads for his life after video surfaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Johnson Jr., 49, a Lockheed Martin employee from Stafford Township, was kidnapped Saturday by a group calling itself al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
		Paul Johnson III made his plea on CNN, appearing with an aunt and with the 3-year-old grandson his father has never met in person.
		Paul Johnson III said that the family planned to reunite later this year in his stepmother's native Thailand.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-15-saudi-hostage_x.htm (749 words)

	U.S. Hostage (Paul Johnson) Beheaded, Terror Group Says
		Johnson, who worked on Apache helicopter systems for Lockheed Martin, was kidnapped last weekend by militants who threatened to kill him by Friday if the kingdom did not release its al-Qaida prisoners.
		Johnson was the second American abducted and slain by his kidnappers in the Middle East in just over a month.
		In Washington, spokespersons for the CIA and the State Department said the agency was not able to immediately confirm the report of Johnson's beheading.
	www.apfn.net /messageboard/06-19-04/discussion.cgi.47.html (553 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| US confirms Johnson head found
		Mr Johnson's wife had pleaded for his release on Arabic TV A man's head discovered during a police raid in Riyadh earlier this week is that of American hostage Paul Johnson, the US embassy in Saudi Arabia says.
		Johnson, 49, was from New Jersey and had been working as a helicopter engineer in Saudi Arabia for US defence contractor Lockheed Martin.
		Johnson was the second US civilian to have been beheaded by his abductors in the region this year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3921397.stm (266 words)

	Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One woman and her young daughter left by the mailbox a small pink teddy bear and a message offering their prayers and condolences to Paul Johnson III over the death of his father.
		Paul Johnson III, who lives in Port St. John, made several pleas this week on network TV asking the terrorists to spare his dad's life.
		After Johnson's death was reported, his family was in seclusion at a town house in Galloway Township, N.J., where they have been holding a vigil.
	www.floridatoday.com /!NEWSROOM/special/pauljohnsonjr/061804johnsonmain.htm (997 words)

	FOXNews.com - Body of Beheaded American Found - U.S. & World
		Johnson, who had worked in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade, was the latest victim of an escalating campaign of violence against Westerners that aims to drive foreign workers from the kingdom and undermine the ruling royal family, hated by Al Qaeda.
		Johnson's beheading is the latest in a new, more dramatic wave of terror attacks for Saudi Arabia: bodies dragged on streets, traffic police blown up in their offices, hotel guests taken hostage and a chef shot outside an ATM machine.
		Johnson was seized on June 12, the same day that Islamic militants shot and killed Kenneth Scroggs of Laconia, New Hampshire, in his garage in Riyadh.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,123030,00.html (1365 words)

	Paul Johnson Hostage Beheading
		Paul Johnson, a 49-year-old Lockheed Martin Corp. employee, was kidnapped in Riyadh last Saturday.
		Johnson worked on Apache attack helicopters in Saudi Arabia and had lived there for more than a decade.
		Johnson's family in the United States, including his son, daughter, brother and sister, has asked for privacy.
	www.word-on-the-street.us (392 words)

	RedOrbit - General - Service Honors Slain Hostage Paul Johnson
		Johnson, 49, an engineer for Lockheed Martin who worked on Apache helicopters, was abducted June 12 by a group calling itself al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
		Johnson's beheading was made public on a Web site on June 18.
		During the service, Johnson's mother, Delores Johnson, was presented with an American flag by a family friend who arranged the ceremony.
	www.redorbit.com /news/general/68053/service_honors_slain_hostage_paul_johnson/index.html (430 words)

	Al Qaeda atrocities: The murder of Paul Johnson
		Like so many other Americans who have lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, Paul Johnson was doing his best to support his family, working in partnership with Saudis who respected his skill and his contribution to building their country...[He] came to appreciate Saudi Arabia, its people, and the religion of Islam.
		Johnson was not a warrior but engaged by a contractor for the Saudi Arabian government.
		Johnson's killing is an affront to Islam and to Muslims in Canada and abroad.
	www.religioustolerance.org /islatroc.htm (1966 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Saudis 'find head' of US hostage
		The head of Paul Johnson was discovered in a refrigerator during a police raid on an apartment in the Saudi capital Riyadh, the interior ministry said.
		Johnson was abducted by an al-Qaeda cell on 12 June.
		Johnson, who was from New Jersey, had been working as a helicopter engineer in Saudi Arabia for US defence contractor Lockheed Martin.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3913629.stm (444 words)

	U.S. Hostage Paul Johnson Beheaded:
		Photographs of Paul M. Johnson's severed head and body were posted on an al Qaeda website on Friday.
		Johnson was an employee of Lockheed Martin working on Apache attack helicopter systems for the Saudi government.
		Shortly after the kidnapping, the terrorists said they would murder their hostage unless all al Qaeda prisoners being held in Saudi Arabia were released.
	www.apfn.org /apfn/POW_beheaded2.htm (233 words)

	World's Largest Prayer Board Annointed.net News - New HOSTAGE - Paul Johnson Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Johnson, 49, of Stafford Township, N.J., was abducted Saturday by a group calling itself al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
		Paul Johnson III said his father once sent a copy of the Quran to his sister, with passages highlighted from the Islamic holy text that he felt were especially important.
		Paul Johnson III made the request through The Associated Press a day before a deadline imposed by the group that captured his father, Paul Johnson Jr.
	www.annointed.net /pn_vb.php?pn_do=showthread&p=109173 (3039 words)

	Paul k johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One is paul k johnson as a hostage paul johnson she is strongly urging americans to over million.
		This is the american hostage paul johnson did not close enough to be brought to shout, cowabunga.
		Johnson notes that will amount, in effect, to appeasement, and that he is the book modern times.
	paul-johnson.rainbowbudapest.com /paul-k-johnson.html (571 words)

	CNN.com - Feyerick: Johnson felt safe in Saudi Arabia - Jun 18, 2004
		Johnson, an employee of Lockheed Martin in Saudi Arabia, was kidnapped Saturday in Riyadh.
		The family right now -- Johnson's sister, Johnson's mother, his son, his grandson -- they are all within a home in a private area, a secluded area.
		One of Johnson's co-workers, under a pseudonym, Saad the Believer, sent a letter to a number of Islamist militant Web sites pleading for Johnson, saying that he was a Muslim -- this friend -- that he was a Muslim and as a Muslim, he was offering Johnson his personal protection.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/Northeast/06/18/feyerick (829 words)

	Head of slain U.S. hostage found in Saudi raid - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Johnson was beheaded in June; 2 militants said killed in gunfight
		RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was kidnapped and beheaded by militants in Saudi Arabia last month, was found by Saudi security forces during a raid on a militant hideout that left two militants dead, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
		Johnson, a 49-year-old engineer who had worked in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade, was kidnapped June 12 by militants in Riyadh who followed through on a threat to kill him if the kingdom did not release its al-Qaida prisoners.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5470960 (714 words)

	Islamic Radicals Behead American In Saudi Arabia (washingtonpost.com) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Johnson was the third American in less than two weeks to meet a violent death in Riyadh.
		Johnson was reported missing by his family last Saturday, the same day that another American contractor who worked out of Johnson's office, Kenneth Scroggs, was killed by gunmen as he drove into his garage in Riyadh.
		In the days leading up to the deadline, Johnson's relatives and friends made emotional appeals on television for his release, telling the kidnappers that he was a friend of Muslims and deeply interested in their culture.
	www.washingtonpost.com.cob-web.org:8888 /wp-dyn/articles/A52166-2004Jun18.html (834 words)

	Paul Johnson beheaded. Photos posted on internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Johnson was a 49 year old civilian employee working in Saudi Arabia.
		One neighbor describes Johnson -- who went by the nickname "Eagle" -- as "one of the greatest kids" she knew.
		Also, I have some brief thoughts about the propriety of posting the photo of Paul Johnson: Saudi justice is swift.
	www.calicocat.com /2004/06/paul-johnson-beheaded-photos-posted-on.html (342 words)

	American Hostage Paul Johnson Beheaded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		johnson was a "target" because he was a mercenary.
		Paul Johnson was no mercenary he was an engineer.
		johnson was a soldier of fortune, he was not ordinary troops, he was not an innocent civillian.
	www.washingtondispatch.com /spectrum/archives/000317.html (7606 words)

	CNN.com - Al Qaeda militants kill American hostage - Jun 18, 2004
		Johnson, a 49-year-old Lockheed Martin Corp. employee, was kidnapped in Riyadh last Saturday.
		As news of Johnson's killing spread, U.S. officials condemned the terrorists.
		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 Falluja Squadron, which claims to have ties to al Qaeda.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/06/18/saudi.kidnap/index.html (1093 words)

	CNN: American Hostage Paul Johnson, Jr. Beheaded - WTAworld.com
		Johnson's captors had set Friday as a deadline for Saudi officials to release their al-Qaida captives.
		Paul Johnson Jr.'s wife pleads for her husband's safe return.
		Johnson, 49, a Lockheed Martin Corp. employee, had been kidnapped Saturday in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
	www.wtaworld.com /showthread.php?t=119909 (807 words)

	American hostage’s head found in Saudi Arabia - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Source: AP The head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was beheaded last month, was found by Saudi security forces during a raid on one of the houses in Saudi Arabia, suspected to belong to Al Qaeda network.
		An earlier statement from an official at the ministry said authorities were holding the wife and three children of Saleh Mohammed al-Aoofi, the man believed to be '-Qaeda chief in Saudi Arabia, after the raid.
		Johnson, a 49-year-old engineer who had worked in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade, was kidnapped June 12, and beheaded on June 17.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=2721 (836 words)

	Crosswalk.com - US Hostage Paul Johnson Killed by Al Qaeda Militants
		"As we promised the mujahideen, we have beheaded the American hostage Paul Marshall after the deadline that the mujahideen gave to the tyrannical Saudi government passed," a statement signed by the Organization of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said on al Islah website.
		Johnson's captors had promised to execute him by Friday unless the Saudi government frees jailed militants.
		A team of 20 FBI agents specializing in hostage rescue and negotiations had been working alongside the Saudis, according to a senior Saudi official in Washington.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1269244.html (455 words)

	Paul Johnson Video » Outside The Beltway \| OTB
		The video was released on Tuesday and shows relatively high-quality film of hostage Paul Johnson, who kidnappers from a group called “al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” have threatened to kill by Friday.
		The hostage, a 49-year-old aviation engineer, was shown blindfolded with a piece of white fabric and tape.
		UPDATE (7/21) CNN reports the Saudis have found Paul Johnson’s head in a freezer during a raid on al Qaeda.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2004/06/paul_johnson_video (1277 words)

	U.S Hostage Beheaded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Arab satellite network Al-Arabiya says Johnson’s body has been found in eastern Riyadh.
		49 year old Johnson was a Lockheed Martin Corporation employee and helped maintain U.S built Apache helicopter gunships for the Saudi military.
		Johnson's captors had threatened to kill him by Friday unless the Saudi Government released al Qaeda militants in its prisons.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/june2004/061804hostagebeheaded.htm (162 words)

	paul johnson beheading (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Johnson beheading : was it justified?Thatâs right, the beheading of Paul Johnson is not some new invention of al-Qaida, but the standard way that Islamic nations have meted out death sentences.
		Public school textbooks: Assume you beheaded Paul Johnson As Paul Johnson was prepared for beheading, American children are being prepared to "Assume you are a Muslim soldier," an assignment in Across the Centuries...
		Paul Johnson was beheaded on June 19th 2004 in Saudi Arabia.
	www.paul-johnson-beheading.amica.net.pl.cob-web.org:8888 (1942 words)

	CNN.com - American hostage beheaded in Saudi Arabia - Jun 18, 2004
		Johnson, 49, worked on Apache helicopters in Saudi Arabia and had lived there for more than a decade.
		Johnson spent the past 10 years in Saudi Arabia working for Lockheed Martin Corp., which issued this statement before its employee was confirmed killed:
		Noom Johnson said, "I would like to say when I saw his picture on the TV, I was very worried about him so much.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/US/06/18/hostage.killed (532 words)

	Saudis Search For Slain Hostage - CBS News
		One of the areas searched was al-Malaz, site of a gunbattle Friday that ended with the death of Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, the main suspect in the kidnapping and killing of American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr.
		Al-Muteiry was among the militants to flee the scene of a May 29 shooting and hostage-attack on the oil hub of Khobar that killed 22 people and al-Dreiham was linked to a Nov. 8, 2003, suicide bombing at a Riyadh housing compounds that killed 17, the statement added.
		Paul Johnson's body has yet to be found, but Saudi officials say those responsible for his murder have been killed in a bloody shootout.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/06/20/world/main624952.shtml (1189 words)

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