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    Saudi hunt for missing American

    (CNN) -- U.S. and Saudi authorities were searching Sunday for a missing American who al Qaeda militants claim to have kidnapped after killing another U.S. citizen in Riyadh.

    U.S. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said he had no details about the online claim from a group called Al Falluja Squadron, which identified the man. The department said it learned of the missing man Saturday around 1 p.m. ET when the family contacted the embassy.

    The missing man was identified as Paul M. Johnson Jr. by his son, Paul Johnson III, of Port Saint Joe, Florida.

    Johnson told CNN affiliate WESH-TV that his father was the man pictured on an jihadist Web site and that his father had worked in the Middle East since 1982.

    He also said neither the State Department nor Lockheed Martin, the missing man's employer, had contacted him about the disappearance.

    "I'm waiting on the State Department to give me an answer [and] his company," Johnson said. "You know, this should not have happened. This could have been very preventable."

    The man was reported missing shortly after gunmen killed Kenneth Scroggs, an American working for a British-Saudi company, at his home in Riyadh's upscale Malaz neighborhood.

    A statement on the Web site identified the man it said it had kidnapped, posting a driver's license, passport, business card and other documents and described him as a system engineering "specialist" for the Apache AH-64 helicopter.

    "We have our legal right to treat them [hostages] the same way they treat our people," the statement said. "We will publish more details about the man kidnapped and explain the mujahedeen's demands."

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    Yet another person from this area. The guy from harrisburg that was killed in a Hamas bombing in Israel, then Nick Berg. Think maybe some of these Militants would visit Pennsylvania so we could abduct, execute, and blow them up?

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    • #3
      Article and video here. http://www.reuters.com

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      • #4
        How sick. I heard this morning that Saudi cops found a body that could be related to the kidnapping. Where in the article does it say he lived in the Harrisburg, PA area?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Lunatock
          Yet another person from this area. The guy from harrisburg that was killed in a Hamas bombing in Israel, then Nick Berg. Think maybe some of these Militants would visit Pennsylvania so we could abduct, execute, and blow them up?
          just has a scare in pa's neighbors yard, ohio, guess they caught a guy trying to blow up a mall in columbus.
          Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
          Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
          Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
          Listen to the words long written down
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          • #6
            Originally posted by donnie
            just has a scare in pa's neighbors yard, ohio, guess they caught a guy trying to blow up a mall in columbus.
            I heard, thank god they caught him. What tipped them off?

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