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MADRID, Spain (< a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/11/sprj.irq.spain/">CNN) -- Spain will send 1,300 troops to Iraq for peacekeeping duties as part of an international military force that will operate south of Baghdad, Defense Minister Federico Trillo said.
During the war, Spain dispatched 900 troops in southern Iraq on what the government said was a humanitarian mission, including medical aid to Iraqi civilians and Iraqi prisoners of war.