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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3911532
Two Foreigners Badly Wounded in Attack in Iraq
Killing of Spaniards, Japanese Fuels Debate on Iraq
Sun November 30, 2003 07:44 AM ET
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By Andrew Marshall
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The killing of seven Spanish intelligence agents and two Japanese diplomats in ambushes in Iraq sparked fresh debate on Sunday in countries allied to the United States on the risks of joining the Iraq mission.
Within hours, two more foreigners, possibly Koreans, were badly wounded not far from where the Japanese died on Saturday.
The U.S. Army said two American soldiers had also been killed on Saturday when guerrillas attacked their convoy with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades near the Syrian border. The attack brought to 187 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since Washington declared major combat over on May 1.
Reuters journalists near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit saw two seriously wounded men in a car that had been shot up on the same highway where the Japanese diplomats were shot dead at a roadside stall. Local people said the men were Korean. U.S. troops were treating one man. The other was slumped lifelessly.
South Korea is considering send more troops to Iraq on top of 675 medical and engineering soldiers deployed since May. But, as in Japan and other nations, the issue is a controversial one.
In Spain, where public opinion was widely against center-right Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's support for the U.S. invasion, Saturday's killing of the seven agents south of Baghdad reignited longstanding doubts about the role of around 1,300 Spanish troops helping to control south-central Iraq.
"Spain pays a high price," the left-leaning newspaper El Pais said in an editorial. The El Mundo daily described the killings as: "Deaths which require explanations and reflection."