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 "This should be a wake-up call for us all, since England has the best 
 antiterrorism tradition in Europe," said Francesco Sidoti, a security expert 
 at the University of L'Aquila in Italy. "We were unprepared." 
  
 "This has nothing to do with the old-style domestic terrorism that Europe is 
 used to," he said referring to scattered acts of violence committed by 
 groups like the Red Brigades in Italy. 
  
 Italy's prime minister and president expressed their outrage at the attacks, 
 as did Pope Benedict XVI, who called the bombings "barbaric acts against 
 humanity." 
  
 In Germany, which has more than 2,000 troops in Afghanistan, the interior 
 minister, Otto Schily, urged Germans to be vigilant because their country 
 was a potential terrorist target. "We have to be cautious and increase our 
 vigilance at various locations," he said. 
  
 In Iraq, the London bombings were met with widespread sympathy among Iraqis, 
 who have become accustomed to bombings that have subjected cities like 
 Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk to a casualty toll, on many days, similar to that 
 sustained in the British capital. In offices, restaurants and workshops 
 across Baghdad, people gathered to watch live television images of the 
 turmoil in London, and offered condolences to Britons working in Iraq. 
  
 "It was with deep sorrow that we heard the news of the bombings in London, 
 and of the civilian casualties," Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Iraqi prime 
 minister, said in a message to Mr. Blair. "This terrorist action that has no 
 connection to any religion or any humanitarian values." 
  
 "I'd like to send my deep condolences to you and through you to the British 
 people generally, and to the victims' families especially," Dr. Jaafari 
 said.  "All countries that experience terrorism must work together to defeat 
 it and create a peaceful world." 
  
 The Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, offered his own condolences to 
 Britain, and echoed Dr. Jaafari's sentiments. "Terrorism is an international 
 plague, and all nations should fight it together, because if we don't it 
 will spread even further than it already has," he said. 
  
 [Reporting for this article was contributed by Richard W. Stevenson from 
 Auchterarder, Scotland; Sarah Lyall, Don van Natta Jr., Heather Timmons, 
 Stephen Grey, Wendy Ginsberg and Daniel Altman of The International Herald 
 Tribune from London; Elisabeth Rosenthal of The International Herald Tribune 
 from Rome; Richard Bernstein from Berlin; Timothy Williams and Shadi Rahimi 
 from New York.] 
  
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