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resistance fighter, Samir fouda (22) was killed during an
attack with another fighter from Jihad on Nitsarim, in Gaza
Strip. Three Israeli soldiers were killed, several soldiers
were injured. The attack was in the 8th anniversary of the
Israeli assassination of the Fat-hi Al-Shikaki, the former
Jihad leader in Malta (Alittihad, 10/25/03). |
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Three Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians were killed
during confrontations yesterday. Two of the
Palestinian were civilians, an 11 year-old child and a 32-year
old mentally ill man. The Israeli soldiers were killed in the
Nitsarim settlement in northern Gaza Strip. The attack was a
joint Hamas-Jihad operation in the 8th anniversary of the
Israeli assassination of the Jihad leader, Al-Shikaki. (Assafir, 10/25/03). |
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Four
Palestinians were killed yesterday. Two were resistance
fighters from Hamas: Bilal Said Hamouda from Dair El-Balah
refugee camp and Samir Fouda from Jabaliya refugee camp. The
two civilians were Muhammed Hithit (11) who died by injuries
from the Israeli raid on Nussairat last week, and Ismael Ayad
(35) from Beit Lahya, in northern Gaza Strip. (Al-Khaleej,
Alittihad, 10/25/03). |
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Iraqis gathering in al-Souq area, Ad Doura, which was the
scene of a missile attack on US forces yesterday. Three US
soldiers were killed and twenty were injured. (Assafir, 10/25/03). |
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| The
Sharon Israeli government published its plans for the final
route of its Land-Grab Wall. It divides Palestine into
separated parts (cantons), encircles Arab East Jerusalem,
and isolates the Jordan valley from the Palestinian
territory. It destroys any hope for a viable and independent
Palestinian state (Alquds, 10/25/03). |
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| The
Sharon Land-Grab Wall and Fence is designed to annex
Palestinian lands to Israel under the excuse of security.
Here, the Fence passes to the east of the illegal Israeli
settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, which is built on
confiscated Palestinian lands. (Al-Ayyam, 10/25/03). |
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Palestinian boy sitting in the yard of his home in the
village Mas'ha, in the West Bank, just near the Wall that
the Israeli government has erected to annex more Palestinian
lands, in this case this boy's land. The Sharon government
announced that it would annex the Palestinian Jordan valley
(PMC, 10/25/03). |
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About 1.5 million Italians demonstrated in various cities
against the new retirement law of the Berlusconi government. (Annhar,
10/25/03). |
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Sabah Abou Al Wafal (L) plays with her son, one of the
Egyptian twins, Mohamed Ibrahim in Dallas, on Friday. The
formerly conjoined 2-year-old twins saw each other
face-to-face for the first time on Friday. (AP, Khaleej
Times, 10/25/03). |
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King Fahad Academy in Bonn was a target of surveillance by
German intelligence who video taped a speech made by a
lecturer in which he spoke about Jihad. Professor Anes B was
forced to leave the academy and the country. This incident
shows that mosques in the West are under surveillance. (Alquds
Alarabi, 10/25/03). |
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Spanish Prime
Minister, Aznar, announcing that the European Union will
contribute $1.5 billion in the reconstruction of Iraq.
Kuwait, the main direct regional beneficiary of the war on
Iraq donated an equal amount ($1.5 billion. Saudi Arabia
pledged $1 billion, and Japan pledged $5 billion. The Bush
administration announced earlier that it would use $20
billion out of the $87 Iraq war budget in reconstruction. (Annhar,
10/25/03).
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U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (C) speaks to
Lt.Col. Steven Russell (L), commander of the U.S. Army 4th
Infantry Division 1-22 Infantry regiment, as they watch
Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) trainees, at the military
base in Tikrit, 120 miles north of Baghdad, in this October
25, 2003 photo. The Baghdad hotel at which Wolfowitz was
staying was evacuated after a series of blasts October 26,
2003. A U.S. defense official said Wolfowitz was unharmed.
(Photo by Pool/Reuters , 10/26/03) |
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Rooms of Baghdad's Rashid Hotel show damage after a series
of explosions rocked the building early October 26, 2003.
Anti-American guerrillas blasted the Baghdad hotel where
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying
with a barrage of rockets on Sunday, but the No. 2 Pentagon
official survived unharmed, U.S. officials said. (Photo by
Chris Helgren/Reuters, 10/26/03). |
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Three Palestinian apartment buildings are blown up by the
Israeli army in the Gaza Strip town of al-Zahrah Oct. 26,
2003. The Israeli army blew up three 13-story Palestinian
Authority buildings in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as part of
what it said was a military operation. (Photo by
Stringer/Israel/Reuters , 10/26/03). |
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Thousands of Americans demonstrated on Saturday, in
Washington DC, demanding an end to the US occupation of Iraq
(Alquds, 10/26/03). |
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U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter burns after crashing as
another one flies away carrying injured in Tikrit, 110 miles
north of Baghdad, October 25, 2003. Five U.S. soldiers were
wounded when their helicopter crashed and came under Iraqi
attack from rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), a U.S.
military spokeswoman said. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 10/25/03). |
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| Thousands of
Americans protesting the war and the occupation of Iraq and
demanding the return of US troops. Tens of thousands
assembled in Washington on Saturday (Reuters, 10/25/03).
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Peace activists march in Washington,
October 25, 2003. Thousands rallied to protest U.S.
policy in Iraq, the first major demonstration since
President George W. Bush declared an end to major
combat in the war on Iraq. (Mannie Garcia/Reuters,
10/25/03) |
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| US anti-war
demonstrators in Washington on Saturday demanding the return
of US forces from Iraq. (Annahar, 10/26/03). |
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Iranians wearing coffins in protest to their government's
nuclear agreement with the EU foreign ministers. (Assafir,
10/25/03). |
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| East African
(EGAD) leaders in Kampala, supporting the Sudanese peace
agreement (Assafir, 10/25/03). |
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Syrian Vice President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, welcoming a
14-party Iraqi delegation. He expressed solidarity with the
Iraqi people but ruled out sending Syrian troops. (Annahar,
10/26/03). |
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| Thousands of
South Koreans demonstrated in Seoul yesterday in protest
against sending more South Korean troops to Iraq. (Annahar,10/26/03). |
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Iraqi police evacuate a wounded man from the International
Committee of the Red Cross Baghdad headquarters October 27,
2003. Bombers struck at least three times in Baghdad at rush
hour, killing at least 18 people near a Red Cross building
and two police stations. (Photo by Chris Helgren/Reuters,
10/27/03) |
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Rescuers carry the burned body of a man
from the rubble of a blast site in the Baghdad suburb
of Sha'ab October 27, 2003. Bombers struck at least
three times in Baghdad at rush hour, killing at least
18 people near a Red Cross building and two police
stations. (Photo by Nikola Solic/Reuters, 10/27/03) |
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| An Israeli
occupation soldier with his gun controlling the gate of a
Palestinian elementary school. (Alayyam,
10/28/03). |
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U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz speaks briefly
in a press conference after the Katyosha attack on Al-Rashid
where he stayed in Baghdad. . (Annahar, 10/27/03) |
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| A
US employee leaving Al-Rashid Hotel after the attak. (Annahar,
10/27/03). |
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| US
soldiers pulling a container of an electric generator, which
was used as a launching pad for the rockets that hit
Al-Rashid Hotel (Annahar, 10/27/03). |
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The rubble of three
buildings after they were blown up by the Israeli
army in the Gaza Strip town of al-Zahrah Oct. 26,
2003. (Annahar, 10/27/03). |
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| The
three 13-story Palestinian apartment buildings were blown up
by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip town of al-Zahrah Oct.
26, 2003 in retaliation for a resistance attack that
resulted in killing three Israeli soldiers. (Annahar,
10/27/03). |
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Ramadan
sweets
A man is pouring qatayef
batter on the griddle as people queue Sunday for the sweets
at a western Amman bakery, an hour before Iftar.
Traditionally served during Ramadan, qatayef is usually
stuffed with cheese or nuts. Jordan and several other Arab
countries marked the first day of the Holy Month on Sunday
(Photo by Rami Abdelrahman, Jordan Times,
10/27/03). |
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An Iraqi man arranges
narghile (shesheh) waterpipes at his shop in Baghdad on
Sunday (afp photo, Jordan Times, , 10/27/03). |
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| A
shop vendor stacks dates in a Dubai, UAE, vegetable market
in preparation for the fasting month of Ramadan. (Reuters,
Khaleej Times, 10/27/03). |
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Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, meeting a 70--member
delegation of Iraqi socialist, nationalist, and Nasserite
political parties. Syrian troops. (Annahar,
10/27/03). |
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| Mummy of Ramsis
I has arrived from Atlanta, US, to Cairo, Egypt, after 140
years in Canadian and US museums. (Annahar,10/27/03). |
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