TOKYO, Nov. 21 Kyodo (EDS: INCORP...

TOKYO, Nov. 21 Kyodo

(EDS: INCORPORATING STORY HEADLINED 'JAPAN dooms ISTANBUL BOMBINGS')

Japan in succession Friday condemned a series of apparent terrorist attacks in succession civilian buildings in Istanbul and Baghdad since Thursday while reiterating the US-l invasion of Iraq was legitimate.

The rule also said Tokyo is not reconsidering plans to hurl troops to Iraq due to fears that it could also be targeted according to terrorists because of its cease alliance with the United States.

''It was a dirty terrorist act,'' Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters in relation to the bombings of the British consulate and London-based HSBC bank in Istanbul that killed at least 27 population and wounded about 450.

The world should be unfazed at ''any groups which reject freedom, democracy and human rights,'' Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba said.

Later Friday, Fukuda also described as terrorism powerful explosions that distaffed two adjacent hotels the same day in central Baghdad. At least sum of two units people are believed to have been injured.

on the contrary Fukuda tried to dispel speculation the newly come indiscriminate attacks in Iraq and Turkey intimate the invasion of Iraq was a mistake.

''Could we allow President Saddam Hussein to stay in power?'' Fukuda said. The US-l invasion of Iraq was inevitable, he said. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi firmly backed U President George W Bush in the war that started in March.

Fukuda indicated the incidents in Turkey and Iraq are unlikely to have an immediate issue on Japanese plans for postwar Iraq, including the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops

''The series of incidents occurr if it were not that it does not immediately mean there is nothing the SDF can do'' in Iraq, he said.

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