Moscow blames U.S. for envoys' killings

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | June 29, 2006 | By Michael Mainville

[Grzegorz 246]

MOSCOW -- Russian lawmakers yesterday unanimously blamed the United States for the deaths of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, highlighting growing tensions between the two countries ahead of a meeting of Group of Eight foreign ministers in Moscow today.

Moscow also demanded in a proposed U.S. Security Council resolution that coalition forces in Baghdad provide better security for diplomats. The United States and Britain resisted the resolution.

President Vladimir Putin instructed Russian security services to find the killers and "destroy" them.

"The tragedy that occurred recently in Iraq was only possible because of the growing crisis in the country as the occupying powers increasingly lose control of the situation," read a motion unanimously approved by the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.

"All the responsibility for the situation in Iraq, including the security of its citizens and of foreign workers, lies with the occupying powers. We are convinced that they could have prevented this tragedy," the lawmakers said hours before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Moscow for today's G-8 ministerial meeting.

[Txsleuth]

Lovely,/s

Also, disingenuous....since Russia was HELPING Saddam and these people at least up until the first day of the war..

[Freeport]

Uh... Let me get this straight.. Their diplomats, their security systems and procedures... Our fault. Have I got that right?

[EagleUSA]

Hey Vladimir, there is a war going on, in case you had not noticed...

[Txsleuth]

Luckily, Condi can speak to the Russians in their language, wo there won't be anything lost in the translation.

[Diogenesis]

Projection from a weak Putin, himself unable to protect the ... Russian children.

[Grzegorz 246]

pong.

[Dilbert56]

Wow, Putin's a Democrat. Explains the shuttering of the media, the encroachment on democracy and the ability to speak with such facile cognitive dissonance.

[50sDad]

Hey Ivan...they whipped your sorry Soviet @$$ in Aphganistan, and we brought the caves down around their terrorist ears. If you can't guarantee security for your own people, start sending in soldiers instead of diplomats.

[Onelifetogive]

U.S. Security Council

That would be sweet.....

[Steve_Seattle]

Also, disingenuous....since Russia was HELPING Saddam and these people at least up until the first day of the war..

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also recall that a big chunk of the insurgents' weapons - RPGs, etc - are Russian made, and that Russia was one of Saddam's major arms suppliers.

[Dixie Yooper]

Back in the good old days of the Soviet Union, when they occupied a country, no one came in, no one got out.
It was much easier to control the insurgents and be responsible for their actions that way.
I forgot to mention, no press or media either.
I can understand where Russia's lawmakers are coming from and I don't doubt for minute that several of them would love to have things the way they used to be.

[Grzegorz 246]

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also recall that a big chunk of the insurgents' weapons - RPGs, etc - are Russian made, and that Russia was one of Saddam's major arms suppliers."

Russia was one of Saddam's major arms suppliers but I doubt they sold "insurgents" any weapon.

[Txsleuth]

You are right...

And, it has been speculated...even here on FR lately, that one reason the Pres. Bush hasn't made a HUGH deal about the WMDS that have been found is because some of them came from Russia, France and other countries...and he doesn't want to "call them out"....

Well...if ole Putin wants to call Bush out, by blaming these deaths on the US...then I say...no holds barred.

[philled]

Wow, silly me. Much like I did with the Nicholas Berg and CPT murders, this time I was again blaming the murdering terrorists, at whose hands they died at, for the killings...

[evets]

Awww... don't cry Pootie.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Bushki's faultski.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Russia was one of Saddam's major arms suppliers but I doubt they sold "insurgents" any weapon."

I'm not saying that Russia directly supplied the insurgents, only that many of the weapons that fell into the insurgents hands were originally supplied to Saddam by Russia.

[BenLurkin]

Much in common with the democrat hacks, they have.

[april15Bendovr]

Thats like liberals blaming President Bush for creating Hurricane Katrina or the San Andreas Fault.

We all know if there is another earthquake in California next it wont be San Andreas Fault it will be Presidents Bush's Fault.