The 2006 abduction of Russian diplomats in Iraq took place on June 3, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq when Iraqi insurgents ambushed a car belonging to the Russian Embassy.[1] Vitaly Titov, (an SVR agent), was killed in the attack and the other four people in the car – Fyodor Zaitsev (the embassy Third Secretary[2]), Rinat Agliuglin (a cook), Oleg Fedoseyev (an SVR agent), and Anatoly Smirnov (a driver)[3] – were abducted.[4]