U.S Hostage Beheaded

Comment: Is this the same 'Al-Qaeda that the US told the Saudis to release a few weeks ago?

Is this the same 'Al-Qaeda' that carried out the obviously fake Berg beheading?

American hostage Paul Johnson Jr. has been beheaded by his Saudi captors.

An Al-Qaida group has claimed responsibility for the killing.

The group posted an internet message that shows photographs of a beheaded body.

A statement on the website says "the infidel got his fair treatment."

The Arab satellite network Al-Arabiya says Johnson’s body has been found in eastern Riyadh.

It adds: "let him taste something from what Muslims tasted who were long reached by Apache helicopter fire and missiles."

49 year old Johnson was a Lockheed Martin Corporation employee and helped maintain U.S built Apache helicopter gunships for the Saudi military.

He was kidnapped last Saturday in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.

Johnson's captors had threatened to kill him by Friday unless the Saudi Government released al Qaeda militants in its prisons.