THOMAS ROBERTS, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Thank you for kicking off a new week with CNN Student News! From the CNN Center, I'm Thomas Roberts. The man with the plan: Find out how General David Petraeus hopes to bring peace throughout Iraq. A friendly message. Meet the president's Colombian counterpart, and find out what's next on Mr. Bush's Latin American trip. And a somber ceremony. Reflect on the three-year anniversary, of the day that changed thousands of lives in Spain.

First Up: The Fight for Iraq

ROBERTS: First up, a big weekend meeting in Iraq. Syria, Iran, and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council sat down for historic talks in Baghdad Saturday. The main priorities: Stopping the violence, and helping the Iraqi government get on its feet. The overall tone of the meeting was described as friendly, and Iraq's foreign minister said another gathering was in the works. At the same time though, sectarian, or religious violence flared up again between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. Jennifer Eccleston illustrates Iraq's most pressing challenge.

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JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN REPORTER: A car bomb detonates in a central Baghdad neighborhood killing dozens of Shia pilgrims who were coming home from a religious commemoration of Arbayeen. Dozens more were injured and 14 more were killed this day in blasts across the capital. On Saturday, 25 people were killed in three separate attacks. Now, this weekend's uptick in violence came as international envoys gathered in Baghdad for talks on how to stabilize this country and bolster this Shia dominated government. Two mortars fell near that conference, but no one was injured. Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Baghdad.

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Petraeus' Plan ROBERTS: The reporter you just saw is actually embedded with coalition forces in Iraq's Anbar province. That means she's assigned to work with a particular military group... and it gives her a first-hand look at what troops and their leaders are doing to secure Iraq. Case in point: A one-on-one interview with the top U.S. military commander in Iraq. Once again, here's Jennifer Eccleston.

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JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN REPORTER: He's back, but this time he's the man in charge. Now, as the top commander in Iraq, he's revisiting the troops, and studying what is an ever evolving battlefield. General David Petraeus, commander of multinational forces, has a daunting task to secure this country. And it all starts here in the restive Anbar province, a major fault line in the fight to secure Iraq, a major front in the fight to secure its capital.

GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS: Al Anbar has been a terrorist route from Syria all the way into Baghdad. In fact, it's almost a dagger pointed at Baghdad.

ECCLESTON: A route not only for terrorists but for weapons too. Smuggled across the border ending up in Ramadi, Falluja and Baghdad. In the past, American and Iraqi operations cleared Hit and other Iraqi cities of insurgents, often fighting street by street. When they were secured, coalition forces moved out and the insurgents moved back in. The local population suffered.

PETRAEUS: The insurgents have killed their sheikhs, their sons, their brothers, and they've had enough of that.

ECCLESTON: That game of cat and mouse, according to American forces, has come to an end. Iraqi Police and Army, American soldiers and Marines increased their presence on the streets, created firm bases, a permanent presence in and around the city. A signal to residents they are here for the long run.

PETRAEUS: That makes all Iraqis feel as if they have a stake in the success of this new Iraq. And that's absolutely vital. And again, we will certainly try to help provide the opportunity for them to do that without worrying about whether they can get to work that day or their child will be kidnapped on the way to school.

ECCLESTON: A plan so simple that it's now become a model for all of Anbar. The same model that General Petraeus now wants to replicate nationwide. Part of being the new man in charge means providing a simple connection, showing that boots on the ground matter. Getting out, and meeting with those that are influential in the communities, like Sheihk Hikmat, who also happens to be the mayor of Hit.

PETRAEUS: I think one of the crucial factors as we discussed is in fact the tribes. They have just had it. So you have the right circumstances where the right commander with the right unit with the right mindset with good Iraqi partners can all of a sudden achieve a breakthrough.

ECCLESTON: A public relations breakthrough today, but for the Iraqi public, they hope, perhaps a long term partnership in the making. Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Hit, Iraq.

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Bush Latin America Trip Update

ROBERTS: President Bush continued his Latin America trip with a stop in Colombia on Sunday. Bush's visit to Bogota ...the nation's capital... was the first by a sitting U.S. president in more than 20 years. A red carpet welcome greeted the president as he arrived for a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and to pledge continued support for the U.S. ally. But the visit also prompted protests...As demonstrators took to the streets chanting anti-Bush messages. About 150 people destroyed barricades and threw rocks at police, leading to reports of dozens of arrests.

Shoutout

AZUZ: Time for the Shoutout! President Bush's next stop is in Guatemala. Which of these countries is Guatemala? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A, B, C or D? You've got three seconds--GO! On this map of Latin America, B represents Guatemala! It's a country a little smaller than the state of Tennessee. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

Somber Anniversary

ROBERTS: Across the Atlantic ocean, a new monument has been established to commemorate a tragic moment in Spain's recent history. Sunday marked the three-year anniversary of deadly attacks in the country's capital city of Madrid. There's still some controversy over who's to blame for the attacks. Al Goodman has the report on the memorial ceremony and the anger that followed.

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AL GOODMAN, CNN REPORTER: Three years after the Madrid train bombings, Spain's King Juan Carlos, inaugurates a glass monument to the victims. A hundred and ninety one people killed that day, and more than eighteen hundred wounded. The monument now rises up from Atocha station, where two of the four trains were hit. A memory hard to bear for many in the crowd.

RITA BETANCOURT, VICTIM'S MOTHER: The monument is for our son and all of the victims, including those injured, so they won't be forgotten.

GOODMAN: The couple lost their only child, a 17-year-old son. For them, flowers have become part of a ritual of remembrance.

ALBERTO TENESACA, VICTIM'S FATHER: We leave flowers on the eleventh day of every month where the authorities told us our son died.

GOODMAN: Outside, crowds come to reflect on that horrible day. Inside, others come to the underground portion of the monument, which looks up to the glass cylinder outside.

PILAR MANJON, PRESIDENT, VICTIMS ASSOCIATION: It's important that they remember 191 people were killed by Islamic terrorism. For us, that's important.

GOODMAN: The president of the Victims Association also lost a son, on one of the commuter trains. The crowd shouts, 'we're with you, Pilar.' But then, the mood suddenly changes. Some shout at a man with the Spanish flag, 'You, the fascists, are the terrorists. After the brief ceremony was over, tempers flared surrounding the monument. Another sign of the deep political division here over the train bombings and their aftermath. Spain's left and right, accusing each other of lying about who's responsible for the bombings. Zapatero, you're not alone, the crowd shouts in favor of the prime minister. But only the night before, the Socialist prime minister was the butt of a huge conservative rally. Blasting his policy on the Basque separatist group ETA. Many conservatives say ETA secretly helped Islamic terrorists in the train bombings. But at the trial of 29 defendants in the train bombings, now in its second month, prosecutors say Islamic terrorists, not ETA, were responsible for the attacks. All defendants profess innocence, all deny any link to ETA. Al Goodman, CNN, Madrid.

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Before We Go

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Goodbye

ROBERTS: And that rounds up all our stories for the day! More Headline News just around the corner; For CNN Student News, I'm Thomas Roberts.