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Saudis nab Cole suspect in al Qeada bust of Johnson killers

Arab News:

The Interior Ministry confirmed yesterday that Al-Qaeda’s suspected leader in Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, was one of four militants gunned down Friday night.

The security offensive came shortly after Muqrin’s “Al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula” carried out its threat to execute American Paul M. Johnson and posted gruesome photos of the beheaded victim on websites.

Contradicting earlier reports, Saudi officials said yesterday that the body of Johnson had not been found.

After weeks of apparent inability to stop anti-Western terror, authorities said Friday night’s gunbattle in Riyadh also left two gunmen directly involved in the attacks dead and netted 12 suspects.

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Twelve suspected terrorists were arrested, but their names would not be divulged “in the interest of the investigation,” the ministry said.

But a security source said one of them was a senior terrorist suspected of involvement in the 2000 bombing of the US warship Cole in Yemen.

“This man is considered one of the aides to Al-Muqrin,” the source said.

The Interior Ministry statement said security forces also seized three cars, one of which was used in the June 6 shooting attack on a BBC crew in Riyadh that left cameraman Simon Cumbers dead and correspondent Frank Gardner critically wounded.

This is a pretty good knock on al Qaeda and the 12 bad guys who survived will probably produce more leads. The Cole suspect should be extradicted to Gitmo.