Riyad
Ahmed, IOL Correspondent
MOSCOW,
February 27 (IslamOnline.net) – Iraqi Ambassador in Moscow Abbas
Khallaf announced that more than 10,000 Russian citizens have applied
for entrance visa into Iraq to act as human shields in the looming
U.S.-led military aggression.
In
statements to the independent Russian website news.ru on Wednesday,
February 26, the Iraqi diplomat said applicants spiraled up from 3,500
people in February 21 to more than 10,000 at present.
The
Russians want to defy the Anglo-American aggression against Iraq, said
Abbas, recalling that 3,000 Russians had already arrived in Iraq over
the past days.
All
the travel, stay and return expenses are footed by the Iraqi Foreign
Ministry.
Some
Iraqi diplomats said most of the applicants are Christian Orthodox who
flock to Iraq not to defend its sovereignty but more importantly to
fight the Americans.
They
expected the Russian human shields to stay in Iraq for three weeks and
fly back home by mid-March.
On
Wednesday, February 26, the Chairman of the Russia Mufti Council
announced that thousands of Muslim Russians are ready to head for
Baghdad to defend the Iraqi people against the American aggression.
Peace
activists from around the four corners of the of the universe are coming
in droves to Iraq to help defend the innocent Iraqi people from the
state-of-the-art Anglo-American weaponry machinery.
