Russian Embassy Workers Executed
June 25, 2006 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Sunday showing the killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. A fourth also was said to have been killed. An accompanying statement by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization linking seven insurgent groups including al-Qaida in Iraq, said all four Russians had been killed.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it had not yet confirmed the hostages’ deaths.
The 90-second video, posted on an Islamic Web site that frequently airs militant messages, showed the beheading of two blindfolded men and the shooting of a third.
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