DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants beheaded an American engineer they had held hostage since last week after the Saudi government failed to meet its demands to free jailed militants, an Islamist Web site said Friday."As we promised the mujahideen, we have beheaded the American hostage Paul Marshall after the deadline that the mujahideen gave to the tyrannical Saudi government passed," a statement signed by the Organization of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said on al Islah Web site.
The Web site also showed pictures of what appeared to be his severed head.
