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MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Hours after recapturing a tiny, disputed Mediterranean island from Morocco, Spain offered Thursday to withdraw its troops if Morocco promised not to reoccupy the largely uninhabited rock. Foreign Minister Ana Palacio said Spain has ``no desire'' to stay in on the outpost known in Spanish as Isla Perejil -- Parsley Island -- and in Arabic as Leila, or Night. ``It desires to return to the status quo ... but for that it requires a serious status quo, with guarantees,'' Palacio said in remarks broadcast by Spanish radio Thursday morning. ``That is to say, if we leave,...