Nov 7-9

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Hanan Ashrawi receiving the Australian Peace Prize for 2003. It was a victory for those who resisted the Israeli pressure. Congratulations to Ashrawi, to the Prize Committee, and to the Prime Minister of New South Wales who stood fast against internal and external pressures (Annahar, 11/7/03).


The Palestinian activist, Amina Joudah Manssi, leaving an Israeli occupation court after being sentenced to life in prison (Annahar, 11/7/03).

A video grab image shows helicopters hovering over the crash site of a U.S. helicopter near the city of Tikrit, Iraq, Nov. 7, 2003. An American Black Hawk crashed near Saddam Hussein's hometown in Iraq on Friday, killing at least four people on board in the second deadly downing of a U.S. helicopter in five days. American officers based at one of Saddam's former palaces in the northern town of Tikrit, close to where the helicopter crashed, said it was not yet known whether guerrillas had shot it down. Photo by Reuters Tv/Reuters , 11/7/03).


A video grab image shows U.S. soldiers walking past the wreckage of a vehicle after a U.S. soldier died following an attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Nov. 7, 2003. In the northern city of Mosul, an ambush on a convoy killed one soldier and wounded six others on Friday, Sgt. Kelly Tyler of the 101st Airborne Division told Reuters. In a separate attack in the town, a roadside bomb wounded three U.S. soldiers. (Photo by Reuters Tv/Reuters, 11/7/03).


In a serious development, elements of the Kurdish militia of Jalal Talabani are patrolling streets of Arab Baghdad (Assafir, 11/7/03).


A car was blown up during confrontations between Saudi police and opposition militants in Riyadh yesterday (Arab News, 11/7/03).


Former Mauritanian President and the main opposition presidential candidate was arrested for two hours yesterday, then released in a atmosphere of intimidation just the night before elections, in which five candidates oppose the incumbent president! (Annahar, 11/7/03).


Putin and Berlusconi during the EU-Russia summit in Italy. Putin told Europeans that Russia will not succumb to blackmailing in the Yukos case. (Annahar, 11/7/03).


Contrary to what the Israeli government announced, Israeli occupation soldiers still block the road between Ramallah and Beir Zait, preventing Palestinians from passing to and from them. (Assafir, 11/7/03)


Michael Howard was elected as the leader of the British Conservative Party. It seems that Britain is going to have its first Jewish Prime Minister as a result of the BLiar Iraq fiasco (Assafir, 11/7/03).


Palestinian Muslims praying outside the walls of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem while being watched by Israeli occupation police (Alquds, 11/8/03).


A Palestinian boy running away from an Israeli tank after throwing a stone at the symbol of oppression (Alhayat Aljadedah, 11/8/03).


A Palestinian woman crying when she knew that her son was killed by Israeli occupation forces, in Gaza yesterday (Al-Khaleej, 11/8/03).


A U.S. Army Apache helicopter flies over an Abrams tank guarding the entrance to the crash site of a Blackhawk helicopter in the northern Iraq town of Tikrit November 7, 2003. The crash killed six people on board, and U.S. soldiers said it had been probably been shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade. (Photo by Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters, Annahar, 11/8/03)


Iraqis protest at the US-led administration’s headquarters in Baghdad on Friday. (Arab News, 11/8/03).


Coffin of Major Kopcheck (44) the first Polish military officer to be killed by the Iraqi resistance, in Karabala (Annahar, 11/8/03).


Mauritanian President, Wild Tayei, casting his vote in yesterday's presidential elections (Assafir, 11/8/03).


Mauritanians lining up to cast their votes in the Friday presidential elections. Opposition candidates accused the government of several fraudulent actions (Alquds Alarabi, 11/8/03).


Russian President, Vladimir Putin, visited Paris after the Rome EU-Russia conference. President Chirac accompanied him to the airport in an unusual move for a French president. Yukos and Chechnya were on top of the agenda but Iraq and Palestine were also there. (Annahar, 11/8/03).


Russian communists remembering the Bolshevik revolution, in the Moscow Red Square (Assafir, 11/8/03).


The body of one of the gunmen who tried to seize the airport tower is wheeled out of the compound on Saturday in Manila as government troops, wearing black, responsible for ending the siege watch from the side. Former Air Transportation Office Chief Panfilo Villaruel and a companion tried to take over control of the airport main control tower but were later killed in an assault by government troops. - AP(Khaleej Times, 11/8/03).


Yassir Abed Rabbo and Youssi Bellin announcing in Al-Ram, East Jerusalem, yesterday, that the Geneva Accord is getting international support. (PMC, 11/8/03)


An Israeli occupation soldier opening the gate of the Apartheid Fence neat Hableh village in the West Bank allowing Palestinian children to cross to their school. (PMC, 11/8/03).


Birds fly across the full moon covered by the Earth's shadow during an early morning total lunar eclipse in the Jordanian capital Amman on Sunday. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 11/9/03).


Five people were killed (four Arabs and an Indian) and 99 were injured in a suicide bomb in Al-Muhaya residential complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters reported 30 killed, 100 injured). Most of the victims were Arab children. There are only four foreign families in the complex, which is composed of 200 families. The rest are Arab families (Bab, Saudi Aljazirah, 11/9/03). More photos below.


	Palestinian and Israeli peace activists, from Ta'ayush and Gush Shalom, demonstrating against the Apartheid Wall, near Al-Sawahira village, East, Jerusalem yesterday. (An Nahar, 11/9/03).


Palestinian and Israeli peace activists, from Ta'ayush and Gush Shalom, demonstrating against the Apartheid Wall, near Al-Sawahira village, East, Jerusalem yesterday. (Alhayat Aljadeedah, 11/9/03).


	A Palestinian girl looking from between blocks of the Apartheid Wall near Al-Sawahira village. (An Nahar, 11/9/03).


	Stop the Wall protests yesterday. (Al-Khaleej, 11/9/03).


An Iraqi boy collects unused bullets at a bullet casings dump in Baghdad. (Reuters, Arab News, 11/9/03).


	Iraqi civilians watching one of the military confrontations yesterday. (Al-Khaleej, 11/9/03).


	US soldiers in the war zone in Fallouja, near an Abrams tank, which was destroyed earlier. (An Nahar, 11/9/03).


	Supporters of the Japanese ruling party, Liberal Democrats, lining up to cast their votes yesterday. (An Nahar, 11/9/03).


	An Iraqi arrested in Tel Al-Mahjar, south of Kirkuk. He was believed to be one of the closest aids to President Saddam Hussain. (An Nahar, 11/9/03).


	IAEA President, El-Baradeie, receiving the Iranian Security chief, Rohani, in Vienna yesterday. (An Nahar, 11/9/03).


Al-Muhaya residential complex after the suicide explosion (Al-Riyadh, 11/9/03).		One of the victims of Al-Muhaya suicide explosion (Al-Riyadh,11/9/03).	Saudi National Guard soldiers near Al-Muhaya residential complex after the suicide explosion (Bab, 11/9/03).	Al-Muhaya explosion in Riyadh, aired by Al-Arabiya TV (Al-Riyadh, 11/9/03).