Iraq al Qaeda offers proof of envoy abduction-Web
Posted on: Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 07:53 CDT
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's al Qaeda group posted Web picturesof identification cards of Egypt's top envoy to Iraq onWednesday as proof it had kidnapped the Arab diplomat.
The pictures, posted on an Islamist Web site, included Ihabel-Sherif's driving license, foreign ministry and healthinsurance cards. The cards bore the name, title andpassport-sized pictures of the envoy.
"These are the identification cards of the ambassador oftyrants," the group, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said in astatement signed by its spokesman. It gave no further details.
Al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq, which claimedresponsibility on Tuesday for Sherif's abduction, has in thepast beheaded foreign captives.
The Egyptian mission chief, who was expected to become thefirst Arab ambassador in Baghdad since the fall of SaddamHussein, was snatched by gunmen off a Baghdad street late onSaturday.
Diplomats have speculated that Sherif was kidnapped byinsurgents to send a political message to Arab countries not todeepen their ties to the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad.
Zarqawi's group is one of the leaders of a bloodyinsurgency against U.S. forces and the American-backed Iraqigovernment. Most of the hostages taken by the group have beenkilled.
Source: REUTERS
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