http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/27/russiablames.shtml Moscow Blames U.S. for Russian Hostages Death in Iraq Created: 27.06.2006 20:09 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 20:10 MSK, 3 hours 51 minutes ago MosNews Russia intends to keep in contact with the coalition forces to determine their level of responsibility in the death of the Russian diplomats earlier kidnapped in Iraq, Russian presidential envoy for international cooperation in fighting terrorism and transnational organized crime Anatoly Safonov quoted by Interfax has said. âWe are saying openly that it is either governmental institutions or coalition forces that are responsible for order,â Safonov told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday. âFirst of all â and I hope this will be also said at the UN â we need to emphasize the uniqueness of the situation concerning security in Iraq, express our condemnation of what has happened, and call for drawing conclusions from this,â Safonov said First Vice-Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Lyubov Sliska, joined Safonov in blaming the coalition. âWe can see how the coalition forces are ârestoring orderâ,â she said. âEvery day dozens of innocent people are dying, and now diplomats are geting killed, too. The responsibility for what is going on in Iraq lies upon those who sought mass destruction weapons here, but found nothing,â she said. On Sunday, Arab in an Internet statement an al-Qaida terrorist group in Iraq said it had executed the four employees of the Russian Embassy in revenge for what they claimed was âthe torture, killing and expulsion of our brothers and sisters by the infidel Russian governmentâ in Chechnya.