Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin
Dec. 19, 2002

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
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Palestinian poet in official Palestinian daily:

"Iraq will be a graveyard for the American soldiers."

By Itamar Marcus

At a ceremony in Gaza, under the heading "Palestine and Iraq in the same
trench", 25 Palestinian families of Shahids [those who died for Allah]
received grants from Saddam Hussein totaling $280,000. Sketches of Arafat
and Saddam Hussein appeared together on a poster beside the Iraqi and
Palestinian flags.

During the ceremony support was expressed for Iraq in its coming battle with
the United States and one of the speakers, the poet Omar Halil Omar,
"praised the role of Iraq and the Commander Saddam Hussein, and stressed
that Iraq's land will be a graveyard for the American soldiers..." [Al
Hayat Al Jadida, Dec. 19, 2002]