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Iraqi Al-Qaeda Group Says Kidnapped Russian Diplomats Killed Created: 21.06.2006 22:44 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 22:49 MSK , 21 hours 19 minutes ago A group loyal to al-Qaeda in Iraq said it killed four kidnapped Russian diplomats, the Bloomberg web-site reported on Wednesday quoting an Internet posting found by the Washington-based Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute. Russia did not pay any ``attention to the significance of its citizens,'' says a translation of the message by SITE researchers. The diplomats are Fyodor Zaitsev, Rinat Agliuglin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseyev, CNN reported on June 19. The posting was by a group called the Mujahedeen Shura Council, SITE said on its own Web site. Two days ago the group gave the Russian government 48 hours to pull out of Chechnya and free Muslim prisoners in Russian jails, according to an earlier statement translated into English by SITE. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pleaded for the diplomats' release and said two weeks ago that Russian authorities were working with the Iraq government, Iraq special forces and the U.S. military in an effort to free the diplomats. Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev yesterday denied any connection with the kidnappers and called for the diplomats' release, Reuters reported. Zakayev is the exiled foreign minister of the Chechen rebel government. The envoys were abducted in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, on June 3. A fifth Russian official, Vitaly Titov, was killed in the course of the kidnapping. In Moscow, the Russian government would not comment on the message about the possible slayings. Yevgeniy Khorishko, a spokesman at the Russian Embassy in Washington, said he wouldn't comment unless his government confirmed the deaths of the diplomats. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
