U.S. troops mistakenly kill 3 Iraqi police

Saddam party official attacked; Spanish PM visits troops

The Associated Press

Updated: 6:27 a.m. ET Dec. 20, 2003U.S. troops mistakenly shot and killed three Iraqi police officers and wounded two others, thinking they were bandits, an Iraqi police officer said Saturday. In other violence, a former official of Saddam Hussein's Baath party is in critical condition after gunmen riding by on a bicycle fired on her and killed her son in the southern Shiite holy city of Najaf. Meanwhile, the Spanish prime minister paid a surprise visit to his country’s soldiers in Iraq, affirming his support for the occupation as the United States said it was deploying more troops.

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