Russia denied on Wednesday Arab and Western media reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was in the compound of its embassy in Baghdad. "This type of statement is not in any way true," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told Russian state television. "This is another attempt to place our embassy in Baghdad under threat," he said, in an apparent reference to protests on April 2 over U.S. strikes on Baghdad which Moscow said threatened the lives of its diplomats. Russia has also blamed the United States for an incident — still unexplained — in which a convoy of Russian diplomats came under fire as it was leaving Baghdad.
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