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BAGHDAD (R) � Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz sent a letter of condolence to former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark on the anniversary of hijack attacks in the United States, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) said on Wednesday.
Clark, a vocal opponent of US policy on Iraq and the UN sanctions imposed since Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, visited Iraq late last month.
�On the elapse of one year after the tragic events of Sept. 11, I express to you, and through you to the families of the victims my deep condolences,� Aziz said in the letter.
Wednesday marked one year since hijackers killed more than 3,000 people in the United States when they seized four commercial airliners, slammed two into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Centre and one into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field.
Washington says there is no hard evidence linking Iraq to the attacks but, with Al Qaeda leader Osama Ben Laden elusive and perhaps dead, deposing President Saddam Hussein has become US President George W. Bush's main focus.

�Our sympathy with you in this event rises from our feeling here in Iraq of the tragedies which have hit our people over 12 years of continued sanctions and aggression,� Aziz said.
Jordan Times not via Drudge