Iraqi President Saddam Hussein praised the Palestinian suicide bomber who killed 20 Israelis last Friday in Tel Aviv. The bomber “took revenge not only for the Palestinian people,” Iraqi papers quoted Saddam as saying, “but also for the Iraqi people for sanctions which are, in essence, Zionist.”
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