SPAIN: LAST GROUP OF 217 SPANISH TROOPS RETURN FROM IRAQ

Record ID: 646602

  • Title: SPAIN: LAST GROUP OF 217 SPANISH TROOPS RETURN FROM IRAQ
  • Date: 24th May 2004
  • Summary: (U6) TORREJON AIR BASE, MADRID, SPAIN (MAY 24, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. CU SPANISH FLAG 0.04 2. GVs AIRPORT 0.08 3. SLV RELATIVES (2 SHOTS) 0.16 4. MCU/SLV JOSE BONO, DEFENCE MINISTER/MILITARY PERSONNEL (2 SHOTS) 0.24 5. LV PLANE ARRIVING 0.31 6. SLV RELATIVES 0.35 7. SLV DEFENCE MINISTER GOING TO THE PLANE 0.39 8. SV RELATIVES 0.44 9. LV SOLDIER SALUED DEFENCE MINISTER JOSE BONO 0.54 10. SV TROOPS COMING DOWN 0.54 11. SLV/LV OF TROOPS (3 SHOTS) 1.11 12. SLV BAND PLAYING 1.15 13. SV RELATIVES WAITNG (2 SHOTS) 1.23 14. SLV/SV SOLDIERS WALKING (2 SHOTS) 1.32 15. SV/SLV SOLDIERS LINED UP (2 SHOTS) 1.40 16. SLV MILITARY PERSONNEL 1.44 17. SLV/SV SOLDIERS SALUTING/JOSE BONO WATCHING (2 SHOTS) 1.58 18. MCU (Spanish) JOSE BONO SAYING: "You have all come back. Today is a happy day. You have known how to retreat and leave." 2.14 19. MCU/SV SOLDIERS WITH FAMILIES (4 SHOTS) 2.32 20. MCU (Spanish) SOLDIER DANIEL MORENO: "There have been bad times and good times. We are happy to be with the family." 2.41 21. MCU (Spanish) FAMILY TERESA: "We feel great to see them here and that they are well." 2.44 22. SV FAMILY EMBRACING 2.49 23. SV SOLDIER TALKING 2.53 24. SV SOLDIERS WALKING/WITH FAMILY (2 SHOTS) 3.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Reuters ID: LVAELZ60V3H1BQFDU7CYNJXH6A23
  • Story Text: Last group of 217 Spanish troops return from Iraq.



    The last group of Spanish soldiers stationed in Iraq
    touched down in Madrid on Monday (May 24) nearly two months
    after the Madrid train bombings that prompted a decision by
    the socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,
    to withdraw its 1,300 soldiers from Iraq.

    The soldiers arrived home following Zapatero's election
    victory on March 11, three days after the terrorist train
    bombs in Madrid that killed 190 people and wounded 1,900.

    The previous prime minister, José María Aznar, contrary to
    90 per cent of Spanish public opinion, committed the force
    in support of United States policy.


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