Al-Qaida threats all over the world

Al-Qaida is occupying news headlines all over the world. In Europe it claimed responsibility for explosions in London, making at least 190 people wounded and at least 40 dead. In Iraq Al-Qaida said that it killed Egypt's top envoy in Iraq.

In a Web posting Al-Qaida stated that it killed Egypt's top envoy in Iraq, posting a video of the blindfolded diplomat, identifying himself.

"We announce in the al-Qaida in Iraq that the verdict of God against the ambassador of the infidels, the ambassador of Egypt, has been carried out. Thank God," a written statement in the Web posting said, according to the AP.

The video does not show him being executed. It shows a man who appears to be the diplomat, Ihab al-Sherif, blindfolded and wearing a polo shirt. He says his name, says he is the head of the interests section in Iraq and gives his address. He then says he worked previously in Israel, where al-Sherif was part of the Egyptian embassy.

Ihab al-Sherif was kidnapped in the Iraqi capital over last weekend. On Sunday, officials said, that Egyptian diplomat Ihab al-Sherif, 51, chief of his country's diplomatic mission in Baghdad, had been kidnapped. Witnesses said he was seized Saturday night by about eight gunmen after he stopped to buy a newspaper in western Baghdad.

On Wednesday the kidnappers of Egypt's envoy in a Web statement threatened to kill him for apostasy.