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11/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Spain: Intelligence agents 'assassinated' in Iraq"

SPANISH INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS KILLED IN IRAQ: Our condolences go out to the families of the seven men killed south of Baghdad today.

Eyewitnesses said one or two cars carrying insurgents were following the Spaniards, who were traveling south in two four-wheel-drive vehicles.

They were fired on by gunmen in the cars and by people on the side of the road in what appeared to be a coordinated ambush.

A 30-minute firefight followed, witnesses said.

Three bodies lay in the road and two in the median, said Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a Washington Post reporter in Iraq. Others at the scene said there were two additional bodies in a burned vehicle.

A boisterous crowd at the scene chanted pro-Saddam Hussein slogans and kicked the bodies after the killings.

Crowds are always brave when they insult dead men. Let's see them be "boisterous" in front of, to pick a group at random, the 82nd Airborne Division.