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WAR ON TERROR: Palestinian "terrorists" have done it again. A Palestinian "terrorist" boy was caught on camera terrorizing this peaceful Israeli occupation tank, in Nablus yesterday. Oh my God! Israel has the right to defend itself against this Palestinian terror (Photo from Saudi Aljazirah, comments by Aljazeerah.info, 12/13/03).


TWO MORE PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS about to terrorize another peaceful Israeli occupation tank. The best way to deal with terrorists like these is killing their parents or brothers or sisters and demolishing their homes. Then, they will be full of hate towards the Zionist occupiers. Then, when they attack Israelis in revenge as suicide bombers, Sharon and his supporters say: We told you so, they are terrorists, and Oh my God, Israel has the right to defend itself (Photo from Alquds Alarabi and comments by Aljazeerah.info, 12/13/03).


The destruction left behind by the Israeli occupation forces, which launched an unprovoked aggression operation on the Rafah refugee camp, Gaza Strip. 5 Palestinians were killed, 18 were injured, and many children became homeless and orphans (Al-Anwar, 12/13/03).


President Arafat receives the Palestinian child, Ala, who was born in the Aida Bethlehem refugee camp last week with his martyr uncle's name written on his face, in what Palestinians saw as a miracle (Alquds, 12/12/03).


President George W. Bush talks to reporters at a news conference where his introduced his next choice for Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Alphonso Jackson. Bush said that Haliburton overcharged the US in Iraq. (Photo by William Philpott/Reuters, 12/13/03).


Masked Hamas members take part in a rally in the Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, in the 15th anniversary of the first Palestinian Uprising. (AFP, Arab News, 12/13/03).


A Palestinian woman looking from a hole created by an Israeli tank shell during an Israeli occupation raid in Jenin yesterday. (Al-Riyadh, 12/13/03).


In response to the Rafah massacre, in which Israeli occupation forces killed five Palestinians and injured 18, Palestinian resistance attacked a settlers' bus in Nablus. Seven Israeli settlers were injured and their microbus was set on fire. (Alittihad, 12/13/03).


A Palestinian jumps over an Israeli occupation military vehicles to through an object at an Israeli soldier. (Alkhaleej, 12/13/03).


A U.S. soldier guarding two Iraqis who were detained in Al-Ramadi yesterday (Al-Anwar, 12/13/03).


News about declining US oil and gas reserves led oil prices to increase by one dollar in one week.. (Al-Riyadh, 12/13/03).

Newly sworn-in Prime Minister Paul Martin (L) shakes hands with Clerk of the Privy Council Alex Himelfarb during the ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa December 12, 2003. Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and her husband John Ralston Saul are seated behind. (Photo by Jim Young/Reuters,

, 12/13/03).


Chirac, Schroeder, and Blair, during the Brussels summit about the Euro Constitution. (Al-Ra'i, 12/13/03).


Kuwaiti newspaper, Assiyassah, received three bomb letters from Beirut, Lebanon, targeting its editor-in-chief and two other journalists. (Alra'i, 12/13/03).


Supporters of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with their yellow flags, demonstrating in Gaza yesterday, in the 15th anniversary of the first Intifadha (Annahar, 12/14/03).


The US government allowed photos and video tapes of captured Saddam Hussain to be shown on TV, thus doing what he did when he allowed US prisoners of war to be shown on TV. US officials were outraged then because this was in violation of the Geneva Convention. Now, the US is violating the same Convention. This was on of the photos of the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussain, after being arrested by US occupation forces in Tikrit today. No weapons of mass destruction were found in the mud hole he was hiding in. (Reuters, 12/14/03).


U.S. soldiers pass a car destroyed in a car bomb blast outside a police station in village of Khalidiyah, some 35 miles west of Baghdad December 14, 2003. The car bomb killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens, witnesses and hospital sources said. (Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters, 12/14/03).


Palestinian women mourn Kamleh Al Shuli (20), and carry her infant son Nedal Sawalha, during her funeral in Asera village near the West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday. Kamleh was shot dead inside a taxi at an Israeli occupation checkpoint, when the trigger-happy Israeli soldiers opened fire. (AP Photo by Majdi Mohammed, Jordan Times, 12/14/03).


Families of Iraqis detained by the US authorities demonstrate demanding rights for prisoners in front of Abu Gharib prison, outside Baghdad. (AFP, Arab News, 12/14/03).


Palestinian and Israeli peace activists erecting a mock Sharon Wall then destroying it, during an anti-Wall demonstration in occupied East Jerusalem. (Annahar, 12/14/03).


Palestinian and Israeli peace activists erecting a mock Sharon Wall then destroying it, during an anti-Wall demonstration in occupied East Jerusalem. (Al-Anwar, 12/14/03).


An Iraqi killed by US soldiers in Tikrit yesterday (Annahar, 12/14/03).


480 US-recruited Iraqi soldiers out of 900 deserted the first military unit. (Al-Riyadh, 12/14/03).


Palestinian poet, Fadwa Touqan (84) died in Nablus yesterday. Fadwa was one of the most famous Arab poets for the last 50 years. (Saudi Al-Jazirah, 12/14/03).


Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, announcing that Europeans failed to agree on how to vote in the new Constitution. However, they agreed to establish a military force independent from NATO. (Al-Ra'i, 12/14/03).


Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, beating leftist demonstrators. 50 people were injured. (Al-Ra'i, 12/14/03).


Abdul Ghani Al-Mzoudi, the Moroccan Al-Qaeda suspect, who was released yesterday, is applying for asylum in Germany. (Al-Ra'i, 12/14/03).


The late Azeri leader, Haidar Aliyv, and his son and successor, Ilham Aliyv. Haidar (80) died in a Clevelank, OH, clinic after a long struggle with heart and kidney failures. (Annahar, 12/14/03).


Farah Wilayati presenting her papers to be a candidate in the coming Iranian Parliamentarian elections. (Annahar, 12/14/03).


Iranian reformist, Muhammed Ridha Khatami, the President's brother, speaking in preparation for parliamentarian elections. (Annahar, 12/14/03).


Turkish Cypriot Leader, Raof Dinktash after casting his ballot yesterday. opposition parties vowed to join the EU as part of a unified Cyprus if they won the elections this time. (Annahar, 12/14/03).


Funeral of Kamleh Al-Shooli (20), in the West Bank village of Assira, who was killed by Israeli occupation forces on Sunday, at a checkpoint (PMC, 12/15/03).


The daily humiliation of the occupation: An Israeli occupation soldier controlling the movement of Palestinians at a checkpoint inside their territory in the West Bank (Alquds Alarabi, 12/15/03).


Corporate Corruption: The Enron Connection. The U.S. Supreme Court said on December 15, 2003 that it would hear Vice President Dick Cheney's case for keeping his energy task force papers secret. Over a year ago, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the White House to either produce documents about the energy task force or provide a detailed list of the documents it was withholding, and why. Cheney is shown at an event November 12. (Photo by William Philpott/Reuters, 12/15/03).


General Perviz Musharraf, who took power by a military coup two years agao, escaped a second assassination attempt on his life yesterday (Arab News, 12/15/03).


Pakistani soldiers standing near the bridge that was the target of the assassination attempt on Perviz Musharraf yesterday (Annahar, 12/15/03).


Visiting Indonesian President, Megawati Sukarnoputri, between the Pakistani Culture Minister, Zubaida Jalal, and the Finance Minister, Shaukat Aziz, in Rawalpendi airport yesterday. (Annahar, 12/15/03).


US soldiers display $750,000 found in the same area Saddam was hiding in. (Assafir, 12/15/03).


The mud hole that Saddam used in hiding (Assafir, 12/15/03).


A view of the farm Saddam was hiding in (Assafir, 12/15/03).


Some Iraqis celebrating the arrest of Saddam. In Sunni areas, there were no celebrations. (Assafir, 12/15/03).


Turkish Cypriots casting their votes in the Turkish areas of Cyprus yesterday. (Assafir, 12/15/03).


Akbar Muhammad, Black Radical Book Fair, San Francisco, January 2004.	Marvin X, Black Radical Book Fair, San Francisco, January 2004.	Amiri Baraka, Black Radical Book Fair, San Francisco, January 2004.