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The lone survivor of a Sudanese airliner that crashed into a hillside while attempting an emergency landing is seen in this image from video on July 8 in Port Sudan. The airliner crashed into a hillside killing 116 people and leaving one survivor, a 3-year-old boy found injured but alive amid the wreckage. (AP, Khaleej Times, 7/9/03).
Palestinian children demonstrating in the Manger Square, in Beithlehem, demanding the release of 8,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons and detention camps (Alhayat Aljadedah, 7/9/03).
About 8,000 Palestinians are detained in Israeli prisons. They were rounded up from streets and from their homes during the Israeli military campaign. Palestinians demand their release for peace to happen (Alquds Alarabi, 7/9/03).
The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had a slap on the rest yesterday, all what the Parliament did to him for lying to the nation regarding the reasons he went to war on Iraq. (An Nahar, 7/9/03).
Senegal: President Bush standing at the step of the door of no return, where captured Africans used to be forced to cross to slavery (An Nahar, 7/9/03).
Pro-US Liberians welcoming the US miliary assessment team. (An Nahar, 7/9/03).
A US army Blackhawk helicopter patrols above the site where a US Humvee vehicle was destroyed in an explosion on Baghdad's airport road on Tuesday. Two soldiers were wounded in the attack (photo by Faleh Kheiber/Reuters, Jordan Times,  7/9/03).
Another US military vehicle destroyed by another Iraqi attack, near Khan Dari, West of Baghdad yesterday. (An Nahar, 7/8/03).
The US occupation authority issued a new Iraqi dinar, in which a picture of the Arab scientist Al-Hassan Bin Al-Haitham replaced a picture of Saddam. (Saudi Aljazirah, 7/9/03).
The foreign and defense ministers of France and Russia in the Red Square, in Moscow, during an exhibition about former French President Charles De Gaul (An Nahar, 7/9/03).
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Nine-year-old Iraqi Ashwaq (L) smokes a cigarette as her friend Omar, 12, sniffs glue June 27, close to Fardous or Paradise Square in Baghdad. The children, orphans, spend nearly all the money they beg on solvents to sniff. According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the number of children living in the streets of Baghdad has increased since the US-led war that toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in April. UNICEF is preparing a study to assess the magnitude of the problem, which did not exist before (AFPphoto, Jordan Times, 7/10/03).

President Bush and President Mbeke in Pretoria, yesterday (An Nahar, 7/10/03).
Pretorial anti-war on Iraq activists protesting President Bush's visit to South Africa, yesterday (An Nahar, 7/10/03).
Muhammed Al-Fateh Othman, the three-year old Sudanese boy who survived the plane crash two days ago, on his bed in a Khartoum hospital. He fell on a tree and was held by its branches (An Nahar, 7/10/03). 
Iranian President, Muhammed Khatami, receiving the head of the International Atomic and Energy Agency, Muhammed Al-Barade'i, whose job is to harass Islamic countries while ignoring Israel's arsenal of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons (An Nahar, 7/10/03).
The Funeral of the Palestinian Iyad Salamish, who was killed by Israeli occupation soldiers inside his home in Burqeen, Jenin, yesterday (Teshreen, 7/10/03).
Palestinians continue demanding the release of about 8,000 Palestinians detained by Israeli occupation forces during the 3-year Uprising (Al-Ayyam, 7/10/03).
The Egyptian Envoy, Mustafa Al-Buhairi (left), Al-Rantissi (right), and Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin (middle), in Gaza yesterday. (An Nahar, 7/10/03).
The Israeli Segregation Fence built on Palestinian lands as a new border between Israel and the West Bank, near Qalqilia. It allowed Israelis to steal more Palestinian lands and to keep Palestinian populations under control. (An Nahar, 7/10/03).
Enjoying liberation: Arab Iraqis forced out by Kurds from their houses take refuge in a former Iraqi military camp. (An Nahar, 7/10/03).
Iraqi artifacts stolen from the Iraqi National Museum and discovered by the customs police in Jordan. Stealing Iraq's history continues in the hills outside the town of Naibor, about 200 kilometers to the Southeast of Baghdad. (An Nahar, 7/10/03). 

 

 

 

 

An Israeli occupation soldier stands guard in front of a Palestinian bulldozer trying to open the West Bank road from Teel Village to Nablus on Thursday. Some scuffles occurred when Palestinians tried to reopen the road closed by the Israeli army. The driver of the bulldozer was detained (photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH/AFP, Jordan Times, 7/11/03).
Continuous Palestinian demonstrations demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention camps (Alhayat Aljadedah, 7/11/03).
A sick Iraqi baby lies on a hospital bed while a woman breastfeeds another ill infant in the background at Basra's infants hospital on Thursday. The 500-bed hospital is suffering from shortages in all its supplies and has not received any sort of financial aid or donations from anyone since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime on April 09, according to one of the doctors (AFP photo, Jordan Times, 7/11/03).
The Libyan leader, Mu'ammer Al-Qaddafi, arriving at the African Union annual conference meeting, in Maputo, yesterday (An Nahar, 7/11/03).
Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahatir Muhammed, welcoming Al-Azhar University President, Shaikh Tantawi, to the Conference of Islamic Scholar in Kuala Lampur, yesterday (An Nahar, 7/11/03).
Nizar Hamdoun, the former Iraqi Ambassador to the US died in New York after a long struggle with cancer. Iraqis conducted a respectable funeral for him after the body had arrived in Baghdad. (Alquds Alarabi, 7/11/03).
The sister (2nd L) wife (R) and daughter (top R), names witheld, cry prior to the funeral procession of Nizar Hamdoon, Iraq's 1990s envoy to the United Nations, at their home in a western suburb of Baghdad on Thursday (photo by Ahmad AL-RUBAYE/AFP, Jordan Times, 7/11/03).
Muhammed Al-Sahaf, former Iraqi Information Minister, arrived in Abu Dhabi yesterday to live there with his family (Al-Riyadh, 7/11/03).
Iraqi policemen demonstrating against the US military oresence inside Iraqi cities yesterday (Al-Riyadh, 7/11/03).
Two US soldiers body- searching an Iraqi, in Bakouba, yesterday (An Nahar, 7/11/03).
US soldiers taking some Iraqi vendors for investigation after covering their heads and faces with paper bags, yesterday (An Nahar, 7/11/03).
Volunteers and police prepare to retrieve a body from the site of a bomb explosion in Karachi on Friday. A powerful bomb shattered windows in an office building in Pakistan's troubled port city of Karachi, killing two people, including a security guard, police and witnesses said. ( AP, Khaleej Times, 7/11/03).
The body of a Russian explosives expert, who was killed when he tried to dysfunction a bomb planted by a Chechen woman in front of a Moscow restaurant yesterday. (An Nahar, 7/11/03). 

 

 


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