Qaeda attacks on Western targets rise in Saudi Arabia

Saudi and US authorities are working closely to locate an American engineer who Al Qaeda said it had kidnapped after it killed another US na...

Saudi and US authorities are working closely to locate an American engineer who Al Qaeda said it had kidnapped after it killed another US national in the capital Riyadh, security sources said on Sunday.

Riyadh’s police chief denied reports that a body of Westerner had been found in the streets of the capital.

Saudi and US authorities are still trying to locate US engineer, Paul Johnson, 45, who Al Qaeda claimed it had kidnapped on Saturday. ‘‘We are working with local officials to find him,’’ a US embassy spokeswoman said. Saturday’s killing of a US national, the sixth attack on Westerners in six weeks, rattled tens of thousands of expatriates in the world’s largest oil exporter, prompting fears of mass exodus.

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Police, hunting for militants, said they sealed off two areas in Riyadh and arrested two suspects.

Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday cited a worsening security situation in Saudi Arabia and said the US was determined to do all it could to defeat terrorists. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for kidnapping Johnson and killing American Kenneth Scroggs on Saturday. —(Reuters)

Dominic A LeBlanc, the Minister of Public Safety, said, "The promotion of violence is never acceptable in Canada." (PTI Photo/ File)

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