--Putin orders Russian SS to track down killers in Iraq--

i don't think this won't go over so well................

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=att93Rbz1wNs&refer=europe

Putin Orders Hunt for Killers of Russians in Iraq

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his security services to find and kill those responsible for the deaths of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, after Russian lawmakers blamed the U.S. for rising violence in that country.

Putin's directive will be posted on the president's Web site later today, an official in the Kremlin's press service said by telephone in Moscow, declining to be named. Russia's lower house of parliament passed a resolution earlier today blaming the ``occupying forces'' in Iraq for failing to protect people living and working in the country.

The diplomats were kidnapped in Baghdad on June 3 and a group linked to the al-Qaeda in Iraq organization posted a video on a Web site over the weekend purporting to show the killing of three of them. In an accompanying statement, the Mujahedeen Shura Council, a collection of insurgent groups that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq, said the fourth man also was killed.

``It is our deep conviction'' that the U.S. could have prevented the tragedy, lawmakers said in the resolution, which was supported by 425 of the lower house's 450 members. The killings ``were made possible first of all because of the growing crisis in the country as the occupying forces increasingly lose control of the situation.''

The resolution was initiated by United Russia, the pro- Kremlin party that dominates the lower house, or Duma.

The murders confirm ``the view of Russia's leadership and parliament that the forceful action of the U.S. and its allies in Iraq three years ago was a mistake,'' United Russia deputy Konstantin Kosachev, who heads the Duma's International Relations Committee, said on the party's Web site yesterday.

 

oh well maybe I should have put this in the hangout.,

 

yeah i should have probably typed out security services, didn't even really think about the nazi stuff, but i was thinking of a secret police thing.

basically putin is sending russian special forces into iraq which has got to really annoy the bush administration and probably military commanders too.