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Palestinians vow to take dead man's place fighting in Iraq.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
BURJ EL-BARAJNEH, Lebanon _ Relatives say an Apache helicopter gunship killed Thayir Naif Osman on the road to Baghdad before he could take up arms against the U.S.-led forces. But the 29-year-old Palestinian's funeral on Tuesday evening in this refugee camp in southern Beirut spurred hundreds more non-Iraqi Arabs to vow to take his place.
Hoisting Osman's wooden coffin onto their shoulders, young Palestinian and Lebanese men jammed Burj el-Barajneh's narrow roads, waving Iraqi flags, chanting to the beat of a drum and firing off Kalashnikovs in a deafening chorus. The throng spilled into a neighboring suburb, drawing an ever-increasing number of participants into the 90-minute burial procession.
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