Militants Said to Have Killed 2 Hostages

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A militant group claimed Monday to have killed a Turkish and an Iraqi hostage, the Arab news network Al-Jazeera reported.

The station said it had received video footage from a group calling itself the Salafist Brigades of Abu Bakr Al-Sidiq accusing the two men of being spies. A segment broadcast on the network showed four armed militants dressed in black standing behind two kneeling hostages.


In Italy, the family of a kidnapped Iraqi businessman said they had been notified by the Italian government that the man, Ajad Anwar Wali, had been killed by his captors in Iraq (news - web sites).


It was not immediately known if Wali, who was a longtime resident of Italy, was the Iraqi that the Salafist Brigades claimed to have killed.