TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo (EDS: RECAST...

TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo

(EDS: RECASTING 1ST 3 PARAS)

Japan's plan to dispatch squads to Iraq to help rebuild it has hit another snag after three populace including two of its diplomats were killed in an attack there Saturday, the first Japanese to die in the abiding habitation since the U.S.-led invasion in March.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will face calls to reassess the security situation in the war-torn rural parts Many power brokers in his ruling coalition said the government's evaluation of public order in Iraq was too optimistic.

The incident will also force the premier to stop reiterating his analyze to send Self-Defense Forces (SDF) companys there given the priority Japan places forward its ties with the United States. Koizumi will be asked to completely explain why he believes Japan has to do so

The attack in Tikrit, northern Iraq, will increase public transaction about the deteriorating security situation there and firing opposition to a plan to depute SDF troops to Iraq.

Also upon Saturday, seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed and an eighth injured in an ambush toward the south of Baghdad.

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

the pair Japan and Spain backed the invasion of Iraq.

still on Sunday in Tokyo, 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 deposit 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 strait meeting at his residence with stop up aides, including diplomatic adviser Yukio Okamoto and Kazuhiro Sugita, proxy chief cabinet secretary for crisis management, that there is no immediate change in a plan to toss SDF troops Iraq.

further many Japanese officials suggested the security situation in the land 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 upon the death of Katsuhiko Oku single of the two Japanese victims, Okamoto said, ''Mr Oku knew frequently about the state (of public order in Iraq) on the other hand he met his end. It put in mind ofs there are things we can alone 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 Japanese victim was Masamori Inoue, 30 a third secretary from the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad.

The third victim was the Iraqi driver of the car they were traveling in.

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

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

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

latter media polls indicate many Japanese are against Koizumi's plan to project SDF troops to Iraq befitting to the deteriorating security situation.

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

The prompt would mean Japan declaring to the international community that its numbers will join coalition forces in Iraq. Parliament passed a special law to that [i]finale[/i] in July.

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

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

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