Militants claim Saudi security helped killers

A number of troubling questions began to surface about the events surrounding Mr Johnson’s grotesque killing last Friday. Where was the body, which Saudi authorities claimed his abductors were in the process of dumping when they were ambushed? How come the security forces were unable to find the kidnap gang for six days, then tracked them down hours after the murder was carried out? Is it possible – as a jihadi website alleged yesterday – that members of the security forces were somehow in cahoots with al-Qa’ida?

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