AL-QAIDA MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE IN IRAQ FOR KILLING RUSSIAN ENVOYS

the Karkh criminal court in west Baghdad, Iraq, sentenced an unidentified al-Qaida militant to death for the kidnapping and murder of five Russian diplomats in June 2006, a judicial official said. Fyodor Zaytsev, Rinat Aglyulin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedosseyov were abducted in the west Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansur on June 3, 2006. Vitaly Titov, was killed during the kidnapping.