UNKNOWN LOCATION: AL AQAEDA VIDEO BROADCASTS IMAGES OF BLINDFOLDED AMERICAN HOSTAGE , POSSIBLY PAUL JOHNSON KIDNAPPED IN SAUDI ARABIA

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  • Title: UNKNOWN LOCATION: AL AQAEDA VIDEO BROADCASTS IMAGES OF BLINDFOLDED AMERICAN HOSTAGE , POSSIBLY PAUL JOHNSON KIDNAPPED IN SAUDI ARABIA
  • Date: 16th June 2004
  • Summary: (W4) UNKNOWN LOCATION (RECENT) WEBSITE) 1. CAPTION READING 'JOB : APACHE PLANES SYSTEM ENGINEER - ADVANCED ELECTRONICS COMPANY 0.08 2. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) BLINDFOLDED MAN BELIEVED TO BE KIDNAPPED U.S CITIZEN PAUL JOHNSON SAYING "Paul Marshall Johnson Junior." 0.12 3. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHNSON SAYING "I am an American, out of the United States." 0.18 4. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHNSON SAYING "Apache helicopter." 0.22 5. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHNSON SAYING "I work on Apache helicopters." 0.26 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) MASKED MAN (POSSIBLY ABDUL AZIZ AL-MUQRIN, BELIEVED MILITARY LEADER OF AL QAEDA IN SAUDI ARABIA) HOLDING MACHINE GUN SAYING "We thank God alone, you crusaders have gathered against the Muslims, and killed the old and the children, and raped women, and stole the money and fortune of Muslims and controlled their economy and you've continued to rage a war on Islam, do you think you will be out of reach. God has brought out to you a band that fights for his name and that loves death as much as you love living. A group that aims for martyrdom for God. God has helped Al Qaeda fighters in Saudi to hit the engineering staff in charge of developing the Apache planes that Muslims have suffered from in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the group has managed to kill the director of the crew and take hostage an engineer. If the Saudi government's dictators want to release their American hostage they must release our mujahideen (fighters) prisoners in Saudi jails within seventy two hours from the date of this tape, or else we will kill him in revenge for our Muslim brethren's whose blood was wasted for free everywhere, there will be rivers of crusaders' blood in this blessed year. We've made a promise to support our weak Muslim brothers with our own lives. As for those traitor dictators who backed the Americans and took part in killing you, they do not represent Muslims in Saudi Arabia, but they are our enemy as they are your enemy and they are God's enemy." 3.21 7. SCU PAUL JOHNSON (MUTE) 3.31 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th June 2004 13:00
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