BLOODY IRAQ WEEKEND: BUSH'S PAWN KILL SCORES OF CIVILIANS; SPAIN DEAD RETURN

U.S. Kills 54 Iraqis in Occupation's Bloodiest Weekend; Non-U.S.
Coalition Forces Suffer 14 Deaths

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We go to Spain as the bodies of seven Spanish intelligence agents
killed in Iraq return home and we take a look at the reaction in Japan
after two Japanese diplomats are killed. [Includes transcript] U.S.
forces killed up to 54 Iraqis Sunday in Samarra in one of the
bloodiest battles since the fall of Baghdad. Pentagon officials
claimed all of the Iraqis killed were fighters but Agence France Press
reports that local medics said at least eight of the Iraqis were
civilians including an Iraqi woman and child. The Los Angeles Times
also reported that local residents said some of the victims worked at
a pharmaceutical factory which was hit accidentally by U.S. tanks.

The U.S. said the killings came in response to Iraqi attacks on three
U.S. convoys near Samarra.

It came at the end of a weekend that saw coalition forces suffer 14
deaths including seven Spanish intelligence agents, two Korean
contractors, two Japanese diplomats, two US soldiers and a Colombian
contractor. A total of 111 coalition forces died in November marking
the deadliest month since the U.S. invaded Iraq.

In Spain, calls for the return of all Spanish troops increased. Polls
show 85 percent of the country believe the war in Iraq was a mistake.
The newspaper El Mundo editorialized "Nobody who saw the glee with
which passersby trampled the corpses of our countrymen can still
maintain that the majority of Iraqis consider coalition troops to be
their liberators."

    * Dr. Andrew Oros, assistant professor of Political Science at
Washington College.
    * Ignacio Carrion, senior writer with El Pais, Spain's largest
daily newspaper. He joins us on the phone from southern Spain

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