For a second straight day, thousands of Arabs took to the streets across the Middle East on Saturday to burn Israeli and American flags and express anger over the rising Palestinian death toll.

Some 5,000 protesters demonstrated in Amman, Jordan, some waving pictures of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and calling on him to attack Israel - as he did with missiles during the 1991 Gulf War.

They also appealed to Osama bin Laden, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. "Saddam, please strike Tel Aviv!" and "Bin Laden, you are dear to us, bomb Tel Aviv!" the protesters chanted before a squad of 200 police officers who kept them from a U.N. building.

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Source: http://www.middleeast.org/articles/2002/3/707.htm