  AMMAN (AFP) - The ailing brother of an American beheaded last month in Saudi Arabia and a US-based peace activist travelled to the family home in Jordan of suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab Zarqawi. Indian-born evangelist Dr. KA Paul and Wayne Johnson told a press conference they went to the home in Zarqa, northeast of Amman, as part of efforts to call for the return Paul Johnson's body. Paul said he met briefly with one of Zarqawi's sisters, while Johnson, who suffers manic depression and alcoholism and walks with a cane, stayed in the car. "We spent a few minutes, asking them important questions we wanted answered (such as) 'do you support terrorism or do you support peace? ', and they said they are opposed to terrorism," Paul said. He said Zarqawi's sister, whom he did name, "was gracious enough to answer my questions and talk, and we had a brief prayer. " She said "we do oppose terrorism. We feel sorry for Johnson's family. We support peace and promoting peace.
We are not a terrorist family. " He added: "We wanted the victim Johnson, the only brother who is still alive, and the Zarqawi family to voice support for peace, to say enough is enough, that terrorism will not be successful no matter where it is. " Wayne Johnson, who sat in a daze, was too confused to speak about the visit to the Zarqawi family home. "I am not sure where we went," he said. Asked why he wanted to meet her, he said: "So that she can spread the word" to retrieve Paul Johnson's body.
And he pleaded to the media to help him bring Johnson's remains back to the family home -- a trailer -- in New Jersey, where his 80-year-old, cancer-stricken mother also lives. "Nobody is talking about him, as if he didn't exist and nobody cares," he said. "If it comes out in the media, maybe somebody, somewhere will retrieve the body and bring my brother's body back," he said haltingly.
"I don't understand why it was decapitated in the first place," he said. "I cry nights. I try to be strong. I don't sleep nights thinking about it". "The body is no good to them, why not release it," he asked. According to Paul, Wayne Johnson's trip to Jordan was his first outside New Jersey, let alone the United States, and that he obtained a passport for the trip "only Monday. "We came here as a first step before going to Saudi Arabia because he is afraid. He didn't want to come.
His mother thought he would be beheaded too if he went to Jordan," Paul said. The evangelist, who claims he helped put an end to seven wars, including conflicts in Liberia (news - web sites) and Haiti, said his organisation, Global Peace Initiative, was on a "humanitarian mission" to help the Johnsons. Paul Johnson was kidnapped June 12 in Saudi Arabia, where he lived for 10 years and worked for aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin.
He was beheaded by his captors a week later. --Just when I think things cant get anymore ridiculous...they just did. Can you believe this guy? The chutzpah...to go to this international terrorist's house and talk to his family. What the hell is going on here...let me guess he wants to be more tolerate of their people. He wanted to get an appology from the family? Why? The family had nothing to do with it...This guy has some serious issues. I know he is feeling a lot of pain and my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. But going to Jordan and going to Zarqawi's home is crazy. Andrew B. 
