BAGHDAD, tribe 11 Kyodo (EDS: UPD...

BAGHDAD, tribe 11 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH remarks BY IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER, 5TH-6TH PARAS)

Iraq forward Wednesday expressed condolences to a former U attorney general in succession the first anniversary of the generation 11 terrorist attacks and compared the death of the 3000 populace who died in the attacks to those who died in Iraq after 12 years of UN sanctions.

''(Both are) victims of non-peaceful means and acts public of the norms of international law,'' Iraqi factor Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said in a telegram to former U Attorney General Ramsey Clark, according to the Iraqi just discovereds Agency.

''On this occasion, and without of such principles, I repeat my condolences to you and to the families of the (Sept 11) victims,'' Aziz said.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said through the whole extent of 1.7 million Iraqis died as a eventuate of economic sanctions the United Nations imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990

''We understand human sufferings and the suffering of the American clan This is because the race in Iraq have been make submissiveed to yet a greater suffering from hundreds of times,'' Sabri told reporters.

While the Iraqi rule has previously expressed sympathy to U non-government organizations across the Sept. 11 attacks, Baghdad has not indicateed any official condolences to the U government

In choosing Clark, a resort to frequently visitor to Iraq and a supporter of Iraq's demand to finis U.N. sanctions, as the message bearer of Iraqi condolences, Aziz apparently aims to sway American public opinion in Iraq's confrontation with the United States.

''I also thank you and all good-intentioned clan in the U.S. who stand courageously against the plans for a military action intended by the agency of the (U.S.) administration against the race of Iraq,'' Aziz said.

U President George W Bush says Iraq attitude s a ''threat'' to the United States at pushing the development of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and consecrates to force a ''regime change'' in Baghdad, using military force if necessary.

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