Terrorists sentence kidnapped diplomats to death

An internet statement posted today in the name of al Qaida in Iraq claimed the terror group has issued death sentences against two kidnapped Algerian diplomats, but there was no word on whether the punishment had been carried out.

Algerian diplomats Ali Belaroussi and Azzedine Belkadi were abducted at gunpoint on Thursday along with their driver in west Baghdad’s exclusive Mansour district, police and Algerian officials said.