This is definitely not good

I wish I could think of a reason not to believe this:

Cairo: The al-Qaeda cell that kidnapped and killed American Paul Johnson Jr said in an online periodical today sympathisers in the kingdom's security forces supplied it with police uniforms and vehicles and set up fake checkpoints to facilitate last week's abduction.

The details of the kidnapping appeared in Sawt al-Jihad, or Voice of Holy War, a semi-monthly online periodical published by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. A separate article, the final one written by cell leader Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, killed in a shootout on Friday night, justified Johnson's slaying.

The first article said militants wearing police uniforms and using police cars set up a fake checkpoint on al-Khadma Road, leading to the airport, near Imam Mohammed bin Saud University.

When Johnson's car approached the checkpoint on June 12, the militants in police uniforms stopped his car - a Toyota Camry - detained him, anaesthetised him and carried him to another car, the article said.

It's no secret that the Saudi entity is a breeding ground for terrorism. It's no surprise, therefore, that some of their police might be cooperating with terrorists. But for al Qaeda to openly disclose the fact would tend to indicate that it's either not true or that the problem is so pervasive that they don't believe there's anything that can be done about it. Unfortunately, I think the latter is the best bet.