Two held over Algerian diplomat kidnappings

Two people have been detained in connection with the kidnapping of two Algerian diplomats last week, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said today.

Gen Hussein Ali Kamal, a ministry security adviser, did not say who the suspects were nor when they were picked up after last week’s abduction of Algeria’s top envoy to Iraq, charge d’affaires Ali Belaroussi, 62, and another Algerian diplomat, Azzedine Belkadi, 47.