Russia to send special forces troops to Iraq?

Mosnews:

President

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian special services to find and kill the criminals who had kidnapped and executed several Russian embassy staff in Iraq earlier this month.

The ITAR-TASS news agency quoted a report by the Russian presidential pres service as reading that Vladimir Putin said this at the meeting with Saudi Prince Salman ben-Abdel Aziz al Saud.

“Russia will be grateful to our friends for sharing any information about the criminals who had killed our citizens in Iraq,” Putin added.
Four Russian embassy workers were abducted June 3 after an attack on their car in Baghdad’s Mansour neighborhood. A fifth Russian was killed in the incident. The captives include the embassy’s third secretary, Fyodor Zaitsev, and three other staffers: Rinat Agliulin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseyev.

On June 25 an Iraqi al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video showing the killings of the hostages.

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Are the Russians finally ready to join the war against al Qaeda in Iraq? I assume the friends who shared information with the Russians were from the US. Perhaps the Russians would also like to lean on Syria to quit supporting the thugs who murdered the four Russians.

This AP Online story at Pajamas Media has more details and some US response.

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