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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 13 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabian officials confirmed Sunday an American missing since Saturday in Riyadh has apparently been kidnapped by Islamic militants.
Riyadh police officials said the man -- identified as Paul Marshal Johnson -- was kidnapped by a militant group calling itself the "Fallujah Squadron -- the Voice of Jihad of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula."
An Islamic Web site carried a statement claiming the abduction was designed to "avenge the abuse of prisoners" in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by U.S. forces.
The statement said, "We have our legal right to treat (hostages) the same way they treat our people," and threatened to "publish more details about the kidnapped man and explain the mujahedeen's demands."
NBC reported both the Web site and Johnson's friends in Riyadh identified the kidnapped American as an aeronautical engineer working for the Lockheed Martin Corp and that he was a long-time Saudi resident.
The Web sites posted copies of Johnson's driver's license, Saudi and American identification papers and other documents to prove he had been taken hostage.
Johnson's son Paul Johnson III, broadcast a message to the militants, "Get my dad home safely." He said his father "doesn't deserve" to be kidnapped.
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