CNN: Kidnapped Russian Diplomats in Iraq Have Been Executed

[Barrett808]

Baghdad. In a statement published in Internet by the organization Mudjahidin Shura announced that the Russian diplomats had been executed, CNN reports. The info has not been confirmed until now from any other sources, the Echo of Moscow Radio announced.

Earlier the kidnappers of the diplomats sent an ultimatum to Moscow to release its troops from Chechnya and to release all Muslims from Russian prisons.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign affairs is working to check the info.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=90796&ch=0&datte=2006-06-21

[izzie]

1. What a shame. What crack pots these terrorist are;.

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[Pithy Cherub]

2. We've turned the corner right back to where we started.

It is officially now a circle. Good Grief! The Iraq debacle courtesy of bush and cheney for absolutely no reason. Human Rights violations everywhere courtesy of bush and cheney.

This is just bad and Russia is one of the 5 permanent members on the UN Security Council who already are not heeding the broken bush stay the course diatribes.

[AngryAmish]

3. Would not want to be in the Mudjahidin Shura right now

During lebanon's civil war they kidnapped some Russians. Once. Lots of the kidnappers and their families turned up dead.

[mike_c]

5. yeah but....

KGB was active in Lebanon-- I doubt if Russia has many assets on the ground in Baghdad, or many that can move freely. Could be a unique entrepreneurial opportunity for some enterprising Iraqi assassins....

[AngryAmish]

13. The scruples were lacking in Lebanon

4 Soviets were kidnapped. One was found shot in an empty lot.

I have heard (and I may be wrong) that around 100 Lebanese got killed. I think with enough cash that buying freelance killers in Baghdad might be cheaper.

[Igel]

6. Oddly enough,

that was a culturally sensitive response.

Not what you'd want to call a sensitive response, mind you.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Um...maybe beating the Red Army in Afghanistan gave them some

confidence?

:rofl:

[ECH1969]

8. The Mudjahidin Shura

Is a council of insurgent groups that Zarqawi created in Junuary. It is led by Tawid al-Jihad (AQI), but it also encompasses the most violent Baathist insurgent groups in Iraq.

[acmavm]

11. And we know this how? Seems to me like it would be a good way to

get the Russians on our side by offing their diplomats and blaming it on the insurgency.

That's how paranoid I'm getting. There are so many twists, turns, coups, plots, and bad guys that I think everything is just one big conspiracy. Well not really, but I don't think it's a stretch. Look who we got running things. All the corrupt and nasty boys from all the corrupt and nasty guns/money/drugs/nun-student-peasant killing days.

[Kagemusha]

12. The russians have love of Islamic radicals but they are NOT on our side

Emphatically not, and this would never have changed a thing, execution or no.

[MichiganVote]

4. They have ratcheted it up so assure a bloodbath in the country

[Doctor_J]

9. Parading Zarqawi's head around seems to have broken the backs

of the resistance. Another big win for Lord George!

[LuckyLib]

10. Why would we be surprised at this? Or the two dead Americans?

This is WAR. It's what you get when you screw up bigtime and march into a situation you know nothing about and make no attempt to understand. WAR.