A bout 200 Skinheads and other right-wing extremists demonstrating here Saturday evening mixed anti-Semitic with anti-Israel and anti-American slogans in a demonstration of support for Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
Wearing black shirts reminiscent of Mussolini’s fascist brigades, they marched down the Appian Way in the center of Rome chanting, “Another Scud on Tel Aviv,” and waved banners reading,”Israel will not win.”
“Only the fascists have not forgotten that the Americans bombed Italy” during World War II, a newspaper quoted one marcher as saying.
Fliers announcing the pro-Iraq rally showed a U.S.Marine being kicked in the rear by a shaven-headed youth while another ripped an Israeli flag.
The leaflets exhorted against “the imperialist and Zionist war”
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