A Hamas leader lauded the Iraqi insurgency against U.S. forces. Speaking in Beirut on Monday to mark the 1987 founding of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal said those Iraqis fighting U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq have turned the U.S. victory from a “threat” to the Islamic nation to “a point of strength, and a point of weakness for the American-Zionist plan in the region,” the Jerusalem Post said.
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