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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53882
"Palestinians' 'Saddam Street' funded by U.S.
Major thoroughfare in West Bank honors executed Iraqi dictator"
Posted: January 22, 2007
2:16 p.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JERUSALEM – Palestinians in the northern West Bank have named a major street after late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that was funded – along with the surrounding municipality – by the United States Agency for International Development.
Following Saddam's hanging earlier this month, thousands of Palestinians gathered in the Yaabid municipality, just outside of the northern West Bank town of Jenin, to hold a vigil in his honor.
According to Arabic media reports translated by Palestinian Media Watch, local Palestinian municipal leaders and members of armed factions in Jenin named a school and the municipality's main street after Saddam.
WND confirmed with local leaders the Yaabid street currently bares Saddam's name.
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The Palestinian daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida stated the street's dedication was meant to emphasize the "values of Arabness and Jihad, which [Saddam] represented."
But USAID held a ceremony in July 2005 marking its contributions of $402,000 for paving the Yaabid municipality's main street – now named after Saddam – as well nearly two miles of inner streets. The American agency also contributed to the reconstruction of the city's main entrance.
USAID regularly funds reconstruction efforts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, usually hiring local crews to carry out the construction.
USAID's office in Tel Aviv confirmed to WND it coordinated the Yaabid municipality's paving and reconstruction projects.
David Snider, a USAID spokesman, said his agency was not aware the street was renamed after Saddam."
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