Paul Johnson's body

where is it?

"sounds like there's more to the story than the Saudis are telling us" Richard Clarke, ABC News, Saturday June 19th, 6:33pm

also this from Japan Today

Saudi security agents searched homes in the capital and surrounding deserts Saturday for the body of slain American hostage Paul M Johnson Jr, while Saudi officials hailed as a victory their slaying of his executioner, the top al-Qaida figure in the kingdom

(6:27pm): an update from BBC News

The "Saudi authorities were still searching for Johnson's body" - Adel al-Jubeir

(6:20pm): News24.com Riyadh - Saudi Arabia killed four suspected terrorists, including the reputed leader of al-Qaeda in the kingdom, the interior ministry said on Saturday in the first official word on a shootout after the body of a decapitated American hostage was dumped

(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-AP, June 19, 2004 5:20 PM) _ Saudi security agents searched homes in the capital and surrounding deserts Saturday for the body of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., while Saudi officials hailed as a victory their slaying of his executioner, the top al-Qaida figure in the kingdom. But the U.S. ambassador said he doubted the death of Abdulaziz al-Moqrin, who officials said was gunned down in a firefight the night before, would stop the violence against Westerners in Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials had reported that Johnson's body was found Friday dumped on the northern outskirts of the capital, hours after his captors killed and decapitated him and posted Web photos of his severed head. But officials backtracked Saturday. "We haven't found the body yet," said Adel al-Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to Crown Prince Abdullah in Washington. "We think we know the area where it is."

still, the Lexington Herald is reporting Sat, Jun. 19, 2004

The decapitated corpse of Paul Johnson Jr., an employee of Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp., was found on the outskirts of the Saudi capital Riyadh yesterday, Shortly after discovering Johnson's body 20 miles north of Riyadh , Saudi police stopped the car at a gas station in the city's al-Malz neighborhood and exchanged fire with al-Qaida suspects.