"They're trying to get us to retreat from the world. America will not retreat," said President Bush (news - web sites), who declared war on al Qaeda after a mainly Saudi group attacked the United States on September 11 three years ago. "America will not be intimidated by these kinds of extremist thugs."
Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said: "America will hunt down the killers one by one and destroy them."
I'm waiting for John Kerry's equally strong statement. Bush and Cheney have it right. These dogs must be eradicated.
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Abdulaziz al-Muqrin's group posted photographs of the 49-year-old aviation engineer's severed head on a Web site, six days after he was seized. The Saudi government had refused to free Islamist prisoners by a Friday deadline set by the cell.
Shortly afterwards, as Muqrin and two other top militants tried to deposit Johnson's body in the capital Riyadh, they were surrounded by Saudi security men and gunned down, a security source said.
Muqrin, an angry young man driven by revenge and hatred for the United States and its Arab allies, was Saudi Arabia's most wanted al Qaeda leader. His death will be portrayed as a major blow to Saudi-born Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) by the kingdom's rulers, once chided by their U.S. allies as being soft on terrorism.
"This is a very prompt and telling demonstration of their (Saudi) commitment to defeating al Qaeda. We are going to see justice is done," a State Department official said.
Johnson was the third American killed in Riyadh in the past 10 days, stepping up pressure on thousands of U.S. citizens and other foreigners vital to the economy of the world's biggest oil exporter and on the Saudi royal family, which bin Laden has sworn to overthrow for its close alliance with Washington.
"They're trying to get us to retreat from the world. America will not retreat," said President Bush (news - web sites), who declared war on al Qaeda after a mainly Saudi group attacked the United States on September 11 three years ago. "America will not be intimidated by these kinds of extremist thugs."
Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said: "America will hunt down the killers one by one and destroy them."
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