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Iraq arrests man for murder of Russian diplomats: Ifax

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Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:18pm EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have arrested the man behind the murder of four Russian diplomats abducted in Baghdad and later killed by an al Qaeda-led group, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday.

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Four Russian diplomats were abducted in June 2006 and an al Qaeda group posted video footage on the Internet showing the killing of three men it said were Russian hostages. Russia said all four had been killed.

"We have arrested the key person who was responsible for this murder," Zebari told the Interfax news agency in an interview.

"He is called Abu Nur and is a terrorist fundamentalist, a representative of one of the al Qaeda cells," he said. "He is now in detention."

Russian President Vladimir Putin last year ordered his state security agents to hunt down and wipe out the killers of the diplomats abducted in Iraq.

Russia, together with France and Germany, did not support the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, arguing for more time to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

Russia's parliament laid blame for the diplomats' deaths at the door of the "occupying powers".
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