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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Islamic militants who abducted and beheaded American engineer Paul Johnson say sympathetic Saudi security forces aided their kidnapping operation with police uniforms and vehicles -- an allegation a top Saudi official denied.
Saudi authorities continued their search Sunday night for the men behind the kidnapping, storming several buildings in the neighborhood where cell leader Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin was killed after Johnson's death.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been taken into custody as a result of the raid.
In a lengthy narrative about the kidnapping that was posted Sunday on the Islamist Web site Voice of Jihad, Johnson's kidnappers said they stopped his car at a fake checkpoint, transferred him to another car and took him to another location.
But Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, told CNN the claim fell "in the realm of fiction."
"It's very easy to obtain police uniforms, military uniforms," he told CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. "You go to a surplus store, and you get all you want."
Can they make it any clearer that their aim is to destabilize and overthrow the Saudi regime? How long will the Saudi's wait until a real crackdown occurs?
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Islamic militants who abducted and beheaded American engineer Paul Johnson say sympathetic Saudi security forces aided their kidnapping operation with police uniforms and vehicles -- an allegation a top Saudi official denied.
Saudi authorities continued their search Sunday night for the men behind the kidnapping, storming several buildings in the neighborhood where cell leader Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin was killed after Johnson's death.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been taken into custody as a result of the raid.
In a lengthy narrative about the kidnapping that was posted Sunday on the Islamist Web site Voice of Jihad, Johnson's kidnappers said they stopped his car at a fake checkpoint, transferred him to another car and took him to another location.
But Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, told CNN the claim fell "in the realm of fiction."
"It's very easy to obtain police uniforms, military uniforms," he told CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. "You go to a surplus store, and you get all you want."
Can they make it any clearer that their aim is to destabilize and overthrow the Saudi regime? How long will the Saudi's wait until a real crackdown occurs?
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