JMP condemns slaying of Russian diplomats in Iraq [Archives:2006/959/Local News]

SANA'A, June 26 ) In a statement distributed Monday, the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) conveyed their condolences to the Russian embassy in Sana'a and to relatives of the four Russian diplomats who were killed in Iraq.

“Those who resort to such acts never represent the Iraqi legal resistance,” the statement reads. It demands that the Iraqi people not allow such acts of barbarism, which harms the reputation of countries supporting the Iraqis.

Last Sunday, the JMP condemned the kidnapping and ensuing execution of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, described as “scandalous.”

“The crime harms reputation of the Iraqi legal resistance,” the opposition parties stated.

A JMP delegation, headed by Mohamed Qahtan, Chairman of the Islah Party's Political Department, visited the Russian embassy in Sana'a on June 18 to express solidarity with the families of the Russian diplomats.

The Mujahedeen Shura Council in Iraq, an umbrella group of seven organizations, announced on June 25 that it had carried out the murder of four hostages because Russia failed to respond to the group's demand that Russia withdraw from Chechnya and release Muslim prisoners.

Fyodor Zaitsev, Rinat Agliugin, Anatoly Smirnov, and Oleg Fedoseyev were kidnapped on June 3 in front of a market after being intercepted by three cars belonging to insurgent group in the Mansour neighborhood. Their bodyguard was shot dead in the struggle.
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