The Iraqi wing of al Qaeda said it had kidnapped a senior Interior Ministry official this week, according to an Internet statement posted on Friday. The Al Qaeda Organisation for Holy War in Iraq, headed by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it had seized Colonel Riyadh Katei Aliwi on Wednesday. "We will soon issue a tape of his confessions, so that he can serve as an example for all the enemies of God, who will be severely punished in the afterlife," the group added.