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“Officials” at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank have decided to name the main square there after the Iraqi officer (posthumously promoted to Colonel) who killed four US soldiers in a suicide attack <\/a>in Iraq this past week. <\/p>\n

Have I mentioned recently how Saddam Hussein has done more to enable the Palestinians to lose all credibility and sympathy in the US than anyone else I can think of?<\/p>\n

Hey, isn’t that a “UN-administered” refugee camp?<\/p>\n

(via Command Post<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Officials” at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank have decided to name the main square there after the Iraqi officer (posthumously promoted to Colonel) who killed four US…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1860,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/18\/the_massacre.html","url_meta":{"origin":3777,"position":0},"title":"The Massacre","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Apr-02 10:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In and amidst European and UN handwringing about what went down in the Jenin Refugee Camp, here's a truly fascinating interview in Al Ahram, an Egyptian newspaper, with a Palestinian...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1833,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/23\/the_battle.html","url_meta":{"origin":3777,"position":1},"title":"The Battle","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Apr-02 8:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Excerpts from an interview with an Islamic Jihad militant taken prisoner at Jenin. 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