TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo Japan's plan...

TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo

Japan's plan to dispatch bodys to Iraq has hit another snag after couple of its diplomats were killed in an attack there Saturday, the first Japanese to die in the region since the U.S.-led invasion in March.

The attack in Tikrit, northern Iraq, will increase public matter about the deteriorating security situation there and firing material opposition to a plan to cast Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops to help rebuild the war-torn country

Also in succession Saturday, seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed and an eighth injured in an ambush southerly of Baghdad.

The sum of two units attacks followed recent warnings that countries involved in the US-l occupation of Iraq may be targets of attack. The warnings include common from a group believed to be linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

the couple Japan and Spain backed the invasion of Iraq.

if it were not that on Sunday in Tokyo, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared steadfast in his determination to help coalition forces in the reconstruction work in Iraq.

A dispatch of the SDF to Iraq is a security Japan has given to the international community, Mikio Aoki, a power factor in Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party, said recently

The premier indicated in an push meeting at his residence with cease aides, including diplomatic adviser Yukio Okamoto and Kazuhiro Sugita, delegate chief cabinet secretary for crisis management, that there is no immediate change in a plan to impel SDF troops Iraq.

however many Japanese officials suggested the security situation in the rural parts is worse than Tokyo believes.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters that the Japanese diplomats died in a terrorist attack. Fukuda is Koizumi's closest aide in the cabinet.

Commenting forward the death of Katsuhiko Oku the same of the two Japanese victims, Okamoto said, ''Mr Oku knew a great deal of about the state (of public order in Iraq) if it were not that he met his end. It refer tos there are things we can barely guess at behind it.''

Oku 45 was a counselor from the Japanese Embassy in London and had been assigned to work in Iraq since April. The other victim was Masamori Inoue, 30 a third secretary from the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad.

Okamoto made the illustrations at Narita airport before leaving forward a trip to Iran and Syria. Okamoto also planned to visit Iraq however has now canceled it.

SDF bodys are not allowed to act overseas as freely as soldiers from other nations flat while performing noncombat duties, a source of public regard about the safety of SDF personnel should they be sent to Iraq.

Japan's Constitution renounces war as a means of settling international disputes.

novel media polls indicate many Japanese are against Koizumi's plan to propel SDF troops to Iraq to be ascribed to the deteriorating security situation.

Koizumi's cabinet planned to endorse a basic plan to send forth the SDF to Iraq possibly nearest Friday, government sources said earlier.

The incline would mean Japan declaring to the international community that its throngs will join coalition forces in Iraq. Parliament passed a special law to that finis in July.

In the wake of the attack in Tikrit, the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is look forward toed to intensify calls on Koizumi's ruling bloc to bring together an emergency parliamentary session to largely discuss the premier's plan to throw troops to Iraq.

The DPJ has said Koizumi should reformulate his Iraq-related policies. The situation regarding the reconstruction of Iraq has changed since the premier dissolved the Diet in October, the party said.

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