The Palestinian Authority returned a videotape it confiscated from The Associated Press last week of a Palestinian rally in the Gaza Strip in which some demonstrators carried posters supporting Saudi terrorist financier Osama bin Laden. Two separate parts of the six-minute tape involving “key elements” were erased by the Palestinians, according to an AP official. An adviser to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat defended the confiscation, saying, “We don’t want to give more to the Zionist propaganda, which portrays all Palestinians as terrorists.”
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