Al-Qaeda gang threatens to execute Algerian diplomats
The video showed two blindfolded men, one of whom identified himself as Ali Belaroussi, the chief of the Algerian mission. The other said he was Azzedine Belkadi.
A statement from al-Qaeda in Iraq accompanying the video said their "confessions" would be posted soon. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has said it would kill the two diplomats, adding that this would be "the fate of the ambassadors and the envoys of all infidel governments".
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Hide AdMeanwhile, gunmen opened fire yesterday on two buses carrying workers from a government-owned company, killing 12 and wounding nine, police and a company official said.
The attack took place in the Abu Ghraib area in the west of Baghdad shortly after the employees left their jobs at a company owned by the ministry of industry and minerals.