Hundreds of Palestinian students marched in the West Bank town of Bethlehem to express their support for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The students called the head of the Palestinian police in the territories a “coward and an agent of the Americans” after Maj. Gen. Ghazi Al-Jabali issued a recent ban on such marches.
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