An Iraqi militant group has claimed the killing of one Briton and one
Brazilian in an attack on a US company in the violence-ravaged country, the
Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel reported on Saturday.
During the incident, the group identifying itself as Al Mujahideen Squadrons
also kidnapped one Brazilian man, according to the TV report.
The group said it carried out the attack together with the Army of Ansar
al-Sunna.
It remained unclear whether the attack was the same one claimed by the Army
of Ansar al-Sunna, in which it claimed the killing of one Swede and one Briton
working for an intelligence agency linked to US forces in the central city of
Baiji.
Sweden has denied that a Swede had been killed.
On Wednesday, one Briton and an Iraqi employed by the London-based Janusian
Security Risk Management were killed in an ambush near Baiji.
Violence has been mounting in Iraq as the Jan. 30 elections drawnear.
