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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17652-2003Mar12.html
Palestinians Receive Checks from Saddam Hussein
(Reuters/Washington Post) Palestinian families received $245,000 in checks from Iraq on Wednesday. The family of a Palestinian suicide bomber received a check for $25,000. The other 22 families received $10,000 each. Officials of the Arab Liberation Front said Hussein has paid $35 million to the kin of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip and West Bank since September 2000.