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Moscow warned of "catastrophic consequences" in Iraq if former president Saddam Hussein is hanged, but expressed scepticism on Sunday that the death penalty would be carried out.
If the execution took place "there would be catastrophic consequences for Iraq, which is already on the verge of breaking up", said Konstantin Kosachev, president of the parliamentary commission for foreign affairs, on Moscow Echo radio. "It is unlikely the death penalty will be applied," he added. "It's rather a decision of moral principle".
"It is obvious that condemning him to death will only further divide Iraqi society, the Sunnis will not recognise this sentence," he said. A foreign ministry spokesman in Moscow indicated that he suspected a whiff of foreign interference in Saddam's sentencing.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2006

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