Al-Qaeda said this morning it had decided to kill two Moroccan embassy employees it kidnapped last month, according to an Internet statement.
The Moroccan authorities said Abderrahim Boualam and Abdelkarim El Mouhafidi, disappeared last month while headed to Baghdad by road from the Jordanian capital, Amman.
"The legislative authority of al-Qaeda organisation in Iraq has decided to carry God's law against the infidels and has ruled to kill them," the group said.
It was not clear from the statement when the killings would be carried out. The statement's authenticity could not be verified.
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The posting, on an Islamist website often used by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda group, did not show any pictures or videos of them being killed.