Russia 'to kill Iraq kidnappers'

If Russia succeeds in this objective, Americans should wonder why our government needs 130,000 soldiers in Iraq for three or more years in response to a group based in Western Pakistan's murdering 3,000 of our civilians on one day in September 2001. Much more reassuring to me would have been a program to target al-Qaeda as Russia is targeting the murderers of its diplomats.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5125416.stm


Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered special services to "find and destroy" the killers of four Russian diplomats taken hostage in Iraq.

The head of Russia's security services immediately pledged to see Putin's order carried out.

The Russian government confirmed the four men's deaths this week, after an insurgent group released a video showing two of them being killed.

The group had demanded Russia leave Chechnya and release Muslim prisoners.

"The President gave the order to Russian special services to take all measures for finding and eliminating the criminals who carried out the murder of Russian diplomats in Iraq", the Interfax news agency quoted the Kremlin's press...

Can anybody who wants to kill without consequences just go there and have at it?

It has been since March 2003.

You can make a lot of money doing it, too, if you sign on with one of the "security contracting" companies. Quite a world overlords Cheney and Rumsfeld have made for us, isn't it? Gott mit uns.

That you would support the US doing targeted assassinations against people perceived as enemies? hmmm, if that is the case, I do not think I can agree with that. I do not believe I could trust the government to wield such authority.

for a very specific task than do what the Bush admin did. Yes.

I definitely agree that not a single move since 9/11 has been correct. I suppose that targeted assassinations would have been a 'better' course but I do not feel it would have been correct either.

and the "global war on terror" with it.

I'm not usually a fan of using murder for political objectives, but in this case, if you target murderers and the objective is to put a stop to more murder by instilling fear in your targets, I think it makes sense. The way the Bushists have been doing it is extremely costly in lives, dollars, and the US's standing in the community of nations. It spreads the misery so wide that the alleged targets feel no pain and people who would not have been our enemies are now our enemies because of our misguided and misdirected actions.

just ask the lebanese.