Iraqi resistance fighters killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded a third in an ambush in western Iraq, a military statement said on Sunday. A day earlier, seven Spanish intelligence agents and two Japanese diplomats died in separate attacks near Baghdad. A military statement said the U.S. troops were killed when a task force from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment was hit Saturday by rocket-propelled grenades and automatic fire east of the border town of Husaybah, 180 miles northwest of Baghdad. In Mahmudiyah, 18 miles south of Baghdad, assailants ambushed a team of Spanish military intelligence officers Saturday, killing seven agents. One Spaniard escaped the assault. Television footage of the aftermath of the ambush showed several bodies along a highway as cars, their headlights on, drove by at dusk. People milled around, and a young man - apparently aware he was being filmed - kicked his foot in the air over a body. Another rested his foot on a corpse, an arm raised in triumph. "We sacrifice our souls and blood for you, oh Saddam," some in the group chanted in Arabic, witnesses said. On Sunday, witnesses at the scene, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, said the Spaniards had been traveling in a pair of sport utility vehicles when men in a car behind them opened fire. One of the SUVs careered off the road into a ditch. The occupants fled the car and were shot at the roadside, perhaps by a second group of attackers involved in the ambush. On Sunday, the charred remains of the car could be seen in a watery ditch at the side of the road, with a group of villagers scavenging its parts. Witnesses said the four men in the second car were also killed at the side of the road nearby, apparently by a grenade. Blood could be seen on bushes nearby, and a broken pair of glasses lay on the road. "All of them are Jews," said 15-year-old Tareq Jassim, a villager at the scene Sunday. "All of them are occupiers." The two Japanese diplomats were killed by unidentified gunmen Saturday as they stopped to buy food and drinks at a stand outside the village of Mukayshifa on the road between Baghdad and Tikrit, Lt. Col. William MacDonald said Sunday. The diplomats, on their way to attend a reconstruction conference, were not traveling with a military escort, MacDonald said. The attacks on U.S. allies appear to be part of an effort to undercut the coalition. Insurgents also have targeted Iraqis seen as collaborating with the occupation authorities, such as police and local officials. The latest killings came more than two weeks after 19 Italians were killed in a car bomb attack in Nasiriyah. In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said there would be no change to Japan's plans to dispatch troops to support the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq. The deaths were the first of Japanese in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion. Spokesmen for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar also affirmed that the attack wouldn't cause Spain to end its presence in Iraq. President Bush called Aznar "to express his sympathies on behalf of the American people," White House spokesman Allen Abney said. Despite the spate of killings this month, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said the overall number of guerrilla attacks on coalition forces was falling off. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Iraqi's celebrate on the burned out car in which seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed in Iraq on Saturday, near the town of Suwayrah, 50 km south of Baghdad, Sunday, Nov 30, 2003. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)