Diplomats are dead, says al-Qaida

al-Qaida in Iraq claimed on the internet today that it has killed two Algerian diplomats kidnapped in Iraq, the second reported slayings of Arab envoys this month.

“The head of the Algerian mission Ali Belaroussi and the diplomat Azzedine Belkadi, whose government is ruling in violation of God’s will, were killed,” said the written statement, which could not be independently verified.