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The father of Fateh member Hashem Abo Hamdan holds the hand of his son in the rubble of his house after the Israeli occupation army demolished it in the Balata refuges camp in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday (REUTERS photo by Abed Omar Qusini, Jordan Times, 12/29/03).


Rescue efforts continued in the devastated Iranian city of Bam with fears now in Tehran from another earthquake (Alquds Alarabi, 12/29/03).


5 Afghan security officers were killed in a car suicide bomb near Kabul airport yesterday, in a Taliban attack. (Assafir, 12/29/03).


5 Afghan security officers were killed in a car suicide bomb near Kabul airport yesterday, in a Taliban attack. (Annahar, 12/29/03).


Two Israeli occupation soldiers placing explosives at the entrance of a Palestinian building in Nablus, which was destroyed yesterday (PMC, 12/29/03).


Israeli police arresting an Israeli peace activist during the protest against the Israeli forces shooting of Israeli and American peace activists (Annahar, 12/29/03).


Front side of the building which houses Bulgarian troops in Karbala, which was attacked by a suicide car bomb killing four and injuring scores of them. (Annahar, 12/29/03).


Procession of the Lebanese who were killed in the Benin plane crash, in Beirut airport yesterday. (Assafir, 12/29/03).


Iraqi children looking at the wreckage of an Iraqi car, which was crushed by a US tank in Samarra yestreday. (Assafir, 12/29/03).


Palestinian leader, Farouq Al-Qaddoumi, expressing his apology to the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Maher, in Cairo, for the assault on him at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem. (Assafir 12/29/03).


Palestinian youngmen throwing stones at a tank, which represents one of the symbols of the evil Israeli occupation of Palestine, in Nablus on Saturday. (Al-Ra'i, 12/28/03).


Austrian Red Cross rescue workers look for survivors with a sniffer dog, in Bam. (AFP, Arab News, 12/29/03).


Israelis conducting a blunt theft of Palestinian land by building this part of the Land-Grab Wall yesterday (Al-Hayat Aljadeda, 12/29/03).


An Israeli satellite, Amos2, was set in orbit by a Euro-Russian rocket in Kazakhstan yesterday (Assafir, 12/29/03).


The Sharon Land-Grab Wall in Abu Dies, segregating occupied East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. The Dome of the Rock of Al-Aqsa Mosque is seen in the background. (Alquds, 12/30/03).


US soldiers arresting a group of Iraqi youngmen in Mosul after killing three Iraqis during a house search in the city. (Al-Ra'i, 12/30/03).


Demonstrators in Gaza city demanding their government to work for the release of about 7,000 Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli prisons and detention camps. (Assafir, 12/30/03).


Funeral of the victims of the Benin plane crash in Beirut yesterday. (Annahar, 12/30/03).


U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft will recuse himself from the investigation into the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name and the Justice Department will name a special prosecutor, department officials said on December 30, 2003. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters, 12/30/03).


Ahmed Sidqi Ad Dajani (67) died in Cairo yesterday. Ad Dajani was a member of the Executive Committee of the PLO and a renown Palestinian intellectual (Assafir, 12/30/03).


Presidents Saleh of Yemen (left), Zinawai of Ethiopia, and Al-Bashir of the Sudan, in Addis Ababa yesterday. They criticized the Israeli-backed regime of Eritrea of causing troubles of the African Horn area. (Annahar, 12/30/03).


James Baker and Hu Jintao in Beijing yesterday. China promised to forgive some of its Iraqi debts. (Annahar, 12/30/03).


Iranian President, Muhammed Khatami, looking at the earthquake devastation of the city of Bam, yesterday. (Al-Ra'i, 12/30/03).


Iranian looters salvaging what they can from the earthquake-devastated city of Bam. (Al-Ahram, 12/30/03).


A Palestinian elderly woman trying to climb down an hilly back road as Israeli occupation forces close the roads between Palestinian cities and villages. (Alhayat Aljadeda, 12/30/03).


An Iraqi cigarette vendor is carried to his funeral after being killed in a roadside blast in a shopping area of Baghdad, Dec. 30, 2003. A roadside bomb exploded in a central Baghdad street Tuesday as a U.S. convoy drove past, killing at least one Iraqi civilian, witnesses said. (Photo by Faleh Kheiber/Reuters, 12/30/03).


Dairy cows feed on hay as Brandon Kampstra, son of dairy farmer Terry Kampstra, works on the tractor at their dairy farm in Sunnyside, Washington, December 28, 2003. (Photo by Robert Sorbo/Reuters 12/30/03).


Palestinians celebrating the Israeli failure to assassinate one of the Hamas military leaders, Jamal Ismael Al-Jarrah, known also as Abu Obaida. He was targeted with two missiles from Israeli Apache helicopters in Gaza City yesterday. He, his wife, and his brother left the car just before the first missile hit it. The missiles injured 11 Palestinians walking in the street, including two doctors, who were in their way to work. (Assafir, 12/31/03).


Another view of the angry Palestinian crowd after the Israeli assassination raid yesterday (Annahar, 12/31/03).


Armed to teeth Israeli occupation soldiers ready to kill, injure, and arrest Palestinians in Nablus. (AFP PHOTO by JAAFAR ASHTIYEHJordan Times, 12/31/03).


Ali Bin Feis, former Algerian Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the National Liberation Front (NLF). Bin Fleis is a serious contender in the coming presidential elections. President Boutafliqa managed yesterday to have a court issue a rule to ban the NLF, in a very dangerous development in Algeria, particularly because the NLF has the majority of seats in the Parliament. It is a heavy blow to democracy in the Civil War devastated Algeria (El-Watan of Algeria, 12/31/03).


French Interior Minister, Nicola Sarcouzi, and the Chairman of Al-Azhar Islamic University in Cairo, Shaikh Muhammed Tantawi, in a press conference yesterday. Tantawi supported the right of the French government to legislate against the Islamic headscarf at schools. He also urged French Muslim girls to observe the new law. (Assafir, 12/31/03).


Sirdar Dinktash, son of the Turkish Cypriot leader, visiting the Greek side of Nicosia, for the first time in 30 years, and seen greeted by Dimitris Christovias, the Speaker of the Greek Cypriot Parliament. (Assafir, 12/31/03).


Pakistani Prime Minister, Jamali, shaking hands with the MP Ghafour Ahmed, after the announcement that President Musharraf will relinquish his military status by the end of 2004. (Assafir, 12/31/03).


Some of the Bam earthquake survivors around fire, near their tent. (Annahar, 12/31/03).


Bulgarian President Barvlove during the funeral of his soldiers, who were killed in Iraq last week. (Annahar, 12/31/03).


Corpses of the two Thai soldiers, who were killed in Iraq last week. (Annahar, 12/31/03).


An Iraqi Arab tells US soldiers about what he saw during the demonstration, in which Kurdish militants killed 5 and wounded 20 Arab and Turkmen Iraqis, who were demonstrating against the Kurdish attempts to annex Kirkuk to the Kurdish autonomous region. (Alquds Alarabi, 12/31/03).


Iranian looters salvaging what they can from the earthquake-devastated city of Bam. (Al-Ahram, 12/30/03).