The chairman of the IPCC panel, Rajendra Pachauri, on Saturday called the forecast "a regrettable error,"

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They are certainly regrettable and horrible in terms of loss of life, but the reaction from the Iraqi people and the Iraqi leaders was firm and united in rejecting that violence and refusing to allow it to set Iraqi against Iraqi, which is obviously one of its intended goals,".

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