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To: tejek who wrote (185507)	3/24/2004 12:25:42 PM
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Blair, Powell Press Spain Over Iraq Troops Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:21 AM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Saul Hudson and Daniel Trotta MADRID (Reuters) - The United States and Britain bargained with Spain's new prime minister Wednesday over his pledge to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq, hoping to salvage a faltering alliance. Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were in Madrid with other world leaders and royalty to mourn the 190 victims of the Madrid train bomb attacks which triggered a voter revolt that brought Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to power. Zapatero -- who scored a shock election win three days after the suspected al Qaeda-linked attacks on March 11 -- has pledged to withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops from Iraq unless the U.N. takes over from U.S-led forces by June 30. Powell came with an offer of a new United Nations resolution that could keep Spain's troops on board as Blair kicked off a round of meetings between Zapatero and international leaders. "We'll talk about where we stand regarding a new U.N. resolution," a senior U.S. state department official told reporters. The leaders, including German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac, both strong opponents of the Iraq war, joined Zapatero and grieving relatives at a Roman Catholic state funeral mass in Madrid's Almudena Cathedral. "Great is the pain that has overwhelmed your lives and those of your families since that black day in which brutal terrorist violence, executed with unspeakable cruelty, cut down the lives of your most loved ones," Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, the archbishop of Madrid, told victims' relatives at the mass. Spain is holding 13 suspects, including 10 Moroccans, over the bombings on four packed commuter trains that killed 190 people, wounded around 1,900 others and brought the specter of radical Islamist violence to the heart of Europe. Queen Sofia of Spain and other members of the royal family reduced many in the congregation to tears when they hugged relatives of the dead at the mass. Continued ... reuters.com