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Media: RIA Novosti
Byline: N/A
Date: 06 September 2006
06/09/2006 16:30 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti) - A high-ranking
representative of the Kremlin issued a chilling warning Wednesday saying
that Iraq was gradually becoming a "terrorist corporation" producing new
generations of terrorists.
Terrorist attacks continue to claim scores of lives in Iraq virtually every
day. In the latest bombing, at least eight people were killed Wednesday in
western Baghdad.
Anatoly Safonov, a Russian presidential special envoy on the fight against
terrorism and international organized crime, spelled out the danger the
situation presented. "In essence, we saw that Iraq is an assembly line for
cloning, giving birth to new and new generations [of terrorists]," he said.
Russia has criticized Iraq's authorities for failing to apprehend members of
Iraq-based cell of al-Qaeda responsible for the killing of Russian diplomats
in June. One Russian Embassy employee was shot June 3 in an attack on a car
and four others were abducted and executed.
"It [Iraq] is literally turning into a terrorist corporation," he said. "But
what is even more frightening is that the veterans of these events go to
different countries and carry with them the virus of terrorism."
Concerns have been raised in many countries about the influence of radical
Islamic preachers in mosques, but Safonov suggested that houses of worship
were not where security services should be looking for terrorists.
"Terrorism is not born in mosques as we thought in the past, but in prisons
where terrorists serve their sentences," he said.
President Vladimir Putin gave orders in June for the killers of the
diplomats to be found and killed.
Russia's security chief Nikolai Patrushev said in August he was convinced
that killers of five Russian embassy employees in Iraq would be found.
Byline: N/A
Date: 06 September 2006
06/09/2006 16:30 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti) - A high-ranking
representative of the Kremlin issued a chilling warning Wednesday saying
that Iraq was gradually becoming a "terrorist corporation" producing new
generations of terrorists.
Terrorist attacks continue to claim scores of lives in Iraq virtually every
day. In the latest bombing, at least eight people were killed Wednesday in
western Baghdad.
Anatoly Safonov, a Russian presidential special envoy on the fight against
terrorism and international organized crime, spelled out the danger the
situation presented. "In essence, we saw that Iraq is an assembly line for
cloning, giving birth to new and new generations [of terrorists]," he said.
Russia has criticized Iraq's authorities for failing to apprehend members of
Iraq-based cell of al-Qaeda responsible for the killing of Russian diplomats
in June. One Russian Embassy employee was shot June 3 in an attack on a car
and four others were abducted and executed.
"It [Iraq] is literally turning into a terrorist corporation," he said. "But
what is even more frightening is that the veterans of these events go to
different countries and carry with them the virus of terrorism."
Concerns have been raised in many countries about the influence of radical
Islamic preachers in mosques, but Safonov suggested that houses of worship
were not where security services should be looking for terrorists.
"Terrorism is not born in mosques as we thought in the past, but in prisons
where terrorists serve their sentences," he said.
President Vladimir Putin gave orders in June for the killers of the
diplomats to be found and killed.
Russia's security chief Nikolai Patrushev said in August he was convinced
that killers of five Russian embassy employees in Iraq would be found.