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'Do not link terror attacks, Iraq'

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW SEPT. 11. Russia has warned the United States against exploiting a wave of international sympathy towards America on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in order to strike at Iraq.

As the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, called the U. S. President, George W. Bush, to express sympathy on the anniversary, a senior Russian diplomat rejected a possible use of force against Iraq as "unacceptable.'' Mr. Putin conveyed to Mr. Bush ``condolences, sympathy and support of the whole Russian people to Americans.''

As a year ago, Mr. Putin was the first world leader to call Mr. Bush on Sept. 11. Also today, the First Deputy Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, said no equation mark could be put between terrorism and Iraq. ``Attempts to justify a military strike against Baghdad by invoking the struggle against terrorism are unconvincing, to say the least,'' Mr. Trubnikov said in an interview on Wednesday.

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