June 4-6

Today's News Photos


	The wife and children of Nasser Bakr, a Palestinian security officer, who was killed in cold blood by Israeli occupation soldiers in northern Gaza Strip, crying during his funeral yesterday (Alquds Alarabi, 6/4/03).


	Palestinian President, Yassir Arafat, greeting Abu Al-Sukkar, the longest held Palestinian prisoner of war, after his release yesterday (PMC, 6/4/03).


	Ahmed Jubara Abu Al-Sukker, the longest held Palestinian prisoner of war (since 1975), was released yesterday together with 80 others (Alquds Alarabi, 6/4/03).


	Iraqi Muslim clerics, Sunna and Shi'a, in anti-US occupation demonstration in Baghdad yesterday (Alquds Alarabi, 6/4/03).


	Iraqi Shiite demonstrators chant anti-US slogans, with the Al Rahman Mosque in the background, during a protest in Baghdad on Tuesday. Thousands of Iraqis gathered in an anti-US demonstration demanding the release of Shiite Sheikh Jassim Al Saedi who was arrested by US troops (photo by Murad Sezer/AP, Jordan Times, 6/4/03).

Prince Abdallah of Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, and President George Bush in Sharm El-Shaikh. (Arab News, 6/4/03).


	King Abdallah, Prince Abdallah, President Bush, President Mubarak, King Hamad, and Prime Minister Abbas, in Sharm El-Shaikh (Alquds Alarabi, 6/4/03).


	Bush to Abdallah: Give me five. (Alquds Alarabi, 6/4/03).


	Bush driving Arab leaders around in Sharm El-Shaikh (An Nahar, 6/4/03).


	President Bush wiping out the sweat from the forehead of Jamal Hilal, the US Arabic translator at Sharm El-Shaikh (An Nahar, 6/4/03).


	The G-8 heads of state with European representatives at the end of their summit after the departure of President Bush (An Nahar, 6/4/03).


	The European space station, Mars Express, was launched on a Russian Sayoz rocket in Kazakhstan yesterday. The 300 million Euro station aims at conduting explorations of the Red Planet for two years. (Alittihad, 6/4/0).


	Palestinian children sitting down watching an Israeli bulldozer destroying Palestinian property. (Alquds Alarabi, 6/5/03).


	Israeli settlers who live on confiscated Palestinian lands are angry, demonstrating against the Road Map and the Aqaba summit, in Jerusalem yesterday (An Nahar, 6/5/03).


	Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, President Bush, Prime Minister Arial Sharon, and King Abdulallah in Aqaba yesterday. (photo by Yousef Allan, Jordan Times, 6/5/03).


	A Chechen woman killed herself and 17 Russian pilots in a bus suicide bombing (Reuters, 1OL, 6/5/03).


	An Iraqi family rides jointly on a bicycle in Baghdad on Wednesday. The chronic fuel shortages across the country have been the scourge of Iraqi motorists with the demand of fuel estimated by the US at 2.5 million gallons per day, and a total of 6.3 million gallons distributed to date since the war (photo by Timothy A. CLARY/AFP, Jordan Times, 6/5/03).


	Tony Blair, responding to the frequent question: WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? that will haunt him and Bush until the WMD are found (An Nahar, 6/5/03).


	Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Arial Sharon shaking hands in Aqaba, with President Bush in between (An-Nahar, 6/5/03).


	Tens of thousands of the Chinese in Hong Kong remembering the 14th memorial of the Tianenmen Square massacre (An Nahar, 6/5/03).


	Iranian leaders in the memorial of Imam Khomeini (An Nahar, 6/5/03).


	George Bush in good mood with Mahmoud Abbas (An Nahar, 6/5/03).


	Colin Powell also in good mood, responding to the Palestinian cabinet member, Yassir Abed Rabbo (Alquds Alarabi, 6/5/03).


	But you can't beat this. Bush to Abdallah: Give me five. (Alquds Alarabi, 6/4/03).


	Bush driving Arab leaders around in Sharm El-Shaikh (An Nahar, 6/4/03).

It must be fun to be with Arab leaders.


	Demonstrators lifting pictures of President Arafat in Gaza yesterday, in support of their President who was intentionally marginalized in the recent two summits (An Nahar, 6/6/03).


	Israeli occupation soldiers blindfolding Palestinians after arresting them to be sent to detention camps and jails (An Nahar, 6/6/03).


	Palestinians demonstrated against the Israeli occupation, in its 36th sad anniversary, to be faced with tear gas bombs and bullets from Israeli occupation soldiers (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 6/6/03).


	A Palestinian boy trying to get his bicycle from the rubble of his family's home, which was destroyed by Israeli occupation forces, in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah, near the border with Egypt, on Thursday. (Jordan Times, 6/6/03, photo by Mohammed ABED/AFP)


	Five Palestinian students from Beir Zait University were wounded when Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire at them inside the university campus yesterday. (Alittihad, 6/6/03).


	An Iraqi boy raising his flag high above his house (Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 6/6/03).


	Israeli occupation settlers demonstrating against Aqaba summit (left) and Palestinians demonstrating against the Israeli occupation in the 36th memorial of the occupation. (Al-Ahram, 6/6/03).


	A US soldier watching a US bulldozer at work, at the Iraqi city of Fallouja, where a US soldier was killed and five were injured yesterday. (Alquds Alarabi, 6/6/03).

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