Al-Qaiea threatens to kill Moroccan hostages

Al-Qaeda in Iraq said in a web statement Thursday that it has decided to kill two Moroccan embassy hostages.

Labelling the two Moroccan hostages as "loyalists of the oppressors", the web statement said that "the legislative authority of al-Qaida organization in Iraq has decided to carry God's law against the infidels and has ruled to kill them."

The authenticity of the statement can not be verified immediately.

Abderahim Boualam, a driver of the Moroccan embassy in Iraq, and his assistant Abdelkrem El Mouhafidim were kidnapped on their way from the Jordanian capital Amman to Baghdad on Oct. 20.

Two days earlier, the al-Qaida wing said on another web statement that the two Moroccan hostages would face trial.

The al-Qaeda in Iraq, a terrorist group led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been responsible for some kidnappings and killings in Iraq in the two-year insurgency.

Source: Xinhua