Iraq Qaeda says holding 2 Morocco embassy staff

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Al Qaeda‘s wing in Iraq said on Tuesday it had abducted two Moroccan embassy employees who had gone missing on their way from Jordan to Baghdad, according to a statement on a Web site.

"Your brothers in the military wing of Al Qaeda Organization in Iraq have captured the two Moroccans working at the Moroccan government‘s embassy in Baghdad. Their interrogation is continuing," said the statement, without giving further details.

The statement could not be authenticated, but it was signed by al Qaeda‘s spokesman in Iraq and posted on a main Web site used by insurgents.

Morocco‘s foreign ministry earlier said driver Abderrahim Boualam and assistant Abdelkrim El Mouhafidim, both working at the chancellery in Baghdad, went missing on Thursday after returning by road in an embassy car from a brief trip to Jordan.

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