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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/06/20/images_of_slain_militan ts_in_hostage_killing_televised/ Images of slain militants in hostage killing televised Analysts debate significance of operation By Megan K. Stack, Los Angeles Times | June 20, 2004RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Keen to show strength in the face of a deepening Islamist insurgency, Saudi authorities televised images yesterday of the blood-spattered corpses of a man regarded as the kingdom's most powerful militant and three key aides. The four men were gunned down by security agents Friday night, just hours after pictures of American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr.'s decapitated body appeared on Islamist websites. Militants initially denied that Abd Al Aziz Al-Moqrin, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, had been killed. But late yesterday the Al Qaeda cell confirmed his death in an online statement. The group also vowed to continue its ''jihad," or holy war. Saudi officials said yesterday that Johnson's body had not been recovered, and there was no word on where he was held hostage or how his kidnappers evaded a massive manhunt until after they killed him. Earlier reports that Johnson's body was dumped in a remote corner of Riyadh were false, senior US and Saudi officials said. Johnson was identified after investigators analyzed the pictures released on the Internet by Islamist militants, the US Embassy in Riyadh said. Like many of the clashes between armed radicals and the Saudi government, accounts of the Friday shootout remained tangled. The men were detected when they tried to pass through a checkpoint Friday night, Adel Jubeir, a senior adviser to Crown Prince Abdullah, said in Washington, D.C. But an Interior Ministry official quoted by the state-run Saudi Press Agency said the four men were cornered at a filling station in a Riyadh neighborhood. Security forces opened fire, and gunned down all four suspects. A security agent died in the shootout, and two others were wounded. Along with Moqrin, the government said it had killed Faisal Dakheil. An Interior Ministry official said Dakheil had been among Johnson's captors, and appeared in a videotape of his execution. Another of the dead men was identified as Turki Mutairi, one of the armed militants responsible for a hostage crisis and shooting rampage in the oil hub of Khobar last month. Three of the four men who were holed up in Khobar's Oasis housing compound with dozens of hostages managed to slip through commandos ringing the area, embarrassing the Saudi government. The fourth militant killed Friday was Ibrahim Duraihem, who was accused by Saudi officials of aiding in November's attack on a Riyadh apartment complex housing mostly foreign workers, including many Arabs and Muslims. The attack drew deep anger in Saudi Arabia, and marked a shift in tactics from targeting Westerners to attacking fellow Muslims. Saudi officials -- stung by a spate of shootouts, bombings, and slayings of Westerners -- cast the death of Moqrin, the man who had threatened to kill Johnson, as a major success. But other analysts and diplomats played down the importance of Moqrin's death, and predicted more violence. Although he was an experienced fighter and a master self-promoter, Moqrin was only the latest militant to storm to the forefront of the Saudi insurgency. He was the third leader killed by security forces in the past year. Analysts said others are likely to follow his path. ''This is not a personality-dependent organization," said Patrick Lang, former head of Middle East intelligence at the Defense Department. ''They'll just generate another man. They regard this guy as a martyr, and martyrs inspire other people to come forward. You have to destroy the organization, not just the leaders." Moqrin was a veteran of fighting in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Algeria. ''He traveled widely and had an array of contacts, including some of Al Qaeda's most senior figures," said a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Moqrin was a close associate of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the Al Qaeda chieftain thought to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the official said. In a series of fiery Internet statements, Moqrin had portrayed himself as the driving force behind the recent spate of attacks -- and Saudi officials had more or less agreed. C Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! 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