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Madrid - Spanish police have zeroed in on six Moroccan suspects in the train bombings that killed 201 and injured more than 1,600 other commuters, a Spanish newspaper reported Tuesday. One of the five, Jamal Zougam, was arrested over the weekend along with four other people. The other Moroccan suspects are still at large and may be linked to al-Qaeda, according to El Pais, Spain's largest daily newspaper. Washington - President George W. Bush said countries must stand "side by side" with the Iraqi people and not withdraw their troops from the country in the wake of the bombings in Spain. The people responsible for the Madrid bombings "are cold-blooded killers," Bush told reporters in the Oval Office. "They'll kill innocent people to try to shake our will. That's what they want to do." Bush's comments come as Spain's prime minister-designate, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, said he would pull out 1,300 Spanish soldiers serving in Iraq by July if the United Nations doesn't take over operations in the country. Beijing - China declared itself free of human cases of avian flu Tuesday, the same day that a Thai factory worker became the 23rd person in Asia to die of the disease this winter. The Chinese Agriculture Ministry says there have been no new cases of avian flu reported in China for 29 days. As a result, it ended a quarantine order.
