Muqrin's group had posted photographs of Johnson's
severed head on a Web site, six days after the 49-year-old aviation engineer was kidnapped in Riyadh.Saudi authorities said on Saturday they had
killed al Qaeda leader Abdulaziz al-Muqrin and three other prominent militants after they beheaded U.S. hostage Paul Johnson.
State television broadcast pictures of the bodies of Muqrin and the three others, saying all had been involved in the recent surge of violence against
foreigners in the kingdom., Saudi authorities say the militants were cornered at a petrol station in Riyadh, after witnesses spotted them throwing Mr
Johnson's body from their car.
An Interior Ministry statement read out on television named the other three dead militants as Faisal al-Dakheel, Turki al-Muteiri and Ibrahim
al-Dreihim. Dakheel was wanted for killings including that of an American in Riyadh. Saudi officials said they also arrested 12 al-Qaeda suspects.
They also seized forged documents, a large number of weapons,three rocket propelled grenades, 16 pipe bombs, 10 hand grenades and currency worth
around $37,000, two weeks ago. And 3 three cars one of which is believed to have been used in an attack on a BBC team...more
Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin and three other militants died in a shootout in Riyadh after dumping American Paul Johnson's body, Saudi officials said.
A posting on an Islamist website had denied the militant chief was dead US President George W Bush condemned Mr Johnson's murder, saying it "shows
the evil nature of the enemy we face".
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