Qaeda claims execution of U.S. embassy employee

BAGHDAD: An al-Qaida front group maintained Thursday on an Islamic Web site known to be used by extremists that it had killed an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, but the Embassy cast doubts on the claim's validity.

On the site, the Islamic State of Iraq claimed the execution of an embassy "official" it identified as Zaher Abdel Mohsin Abdel-Saheb took place Saturday as revenge for "the Muslim women who are still captives in the prisons of Shiites and crusaders."

The Arabic-language statement was signed by the Ministry of Information of the Islamic State of Iraq.

The veracity of the claim could not be independently verified and the U.S. Embassy said it was "checking records."

"However, at this time it appears there is no record for a person by the name of Zaher Abdel Mohsin Abdel-Saheb who worked — or ever has worked — at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad," the Embassy told The AP in an e-mailed statement.

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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THEY HAVE KILLED THE WRONG MAN.