Meanwhile on Friday a senior Egyptian diplomat, Mohamed Mamdouh Helmi Qutb, was kidnapped. He is the first foreign diplomat to be kidnapped in Iraq. His captors called on Egypt to not provide Iraq with security assistance. In addition a group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq says it has kidnapped two Pakastani contractors working for U.S. forces. A video shown on Al-Jazeera today included a statement saying that the men, were being sentenced to death because their country was discussing sending troops to Iraq. And in other Iraq news the US military and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Iraqi resistance yesterday. And earlier this morning, a car bomb in Mosul killed up to four Iraqis.