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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50596-2004Apr28.html
Syria's Assad Defends Anti-U.S. Attacks in Iraq
(AP/Washington Post) - Syrian President Bashar Assad described armed attacks against U.S.-led troops in neighboring Iraq as legitimate "resistance" against foreign occupation, in remarks aired Wednesday on the pan-Arab al-Jazeera satellite station. Assad also compared militant Palestinian factions fighting Israel to the Iraqi insurgents.