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Israel has marked Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin for
death following a suicide bombing that killed three Israeli
soldiers and a security officer in Gaza, Israel's deputy
defense chief said January 16, 2004. Yassin, seen at his
home in Gaza December 18, 2003, replied to the Israeli
threats sying, "We are seekers of martyrdom." (Photo by
Goran Tomasevic/Reuters, 1/16/04). |
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An Israeli soldier points his rifle
at a Palestinian woman and her child as they cross
the Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of
Nablus Thursday Jan. 15, 2004 after they were
turned back when trying to enter Nablus, which is
under curfew .
(AP Photo/Nassser Ishtayeh
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President George W. Bush lays
a wreath at the grave of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in
Atlanta, January 15, 2004. Standing to the left is Dr.
King's widow, Coretta Scott King. Several hundred
protesters loudly booed Bush on the anniversary of the
civil rights leader's birth. Protesters shouted "Bush go
home" and "peace not war" from behind a barrier of parked
buses across the street from King's grave. Photo by Larry
Downing/Reuters, 1/16/04). |
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The mother of peace activist Tom Hurndall, and his brother
hug Palestinian children
(Yahoo via Agence France-Presse, 1/16/04). |
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Israeli occupation soldiers pointing their guns at a
Palestinian mother and her little child at a military
checkpoint yesterday. (Alquds Alarabi, 1/16/04) |
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Chairman of the European
Commission, Romano Prodi, speaking before the Turkish
Parliament. He said that the unification of Cyprus is not a
condition for the Turkish membership in the EU. (Assafir, 1/16/04). |
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| Iranian
National Security Chairman, Hassan Rouhani, and French
Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, in Paris
yesterday. The French called for more freedom and less
restrictions in Iranian elections. The Iranian pointed
that the ban on Islamic head scarf is violation of
individual freedom of French Muslims. (Assafir, 1/16/04). |
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An Iraqi woman lifting a sign that says:
Wearing a
Head Scarf is a Woman's Right,
during a huge women's demonstration in Baghdad
yesterday. (Assafir,
1/16/04). |
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Palestinian children help
one-another to climb the Sharon Land-Grab Wall in Abu Deis,
in their way to school. (Assafir, 1/16/04). |
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Abbassi Madani, leader of the Algerian FIS, calling for a
truce between the government and the opposition parties.
He also called for the postponement of elections to avoid
further escalation of the crisis. (Assafir, 1/16/04). |
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Iranian reform member of parliament, Fatima Rakli, crying
while listening to a colleague talking about the decision
to bar reformists from re-running for elections. (Assafir 1/16/04). |
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Funeral of the Palestinian
Martyr/suicide bomber, Reem Al-Riyashi, wrapped in a Hamas
flag, in Gaza City yesterday. (Assafir,
1/16/04). |
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Young women wear head scarves in the
colours of the French flag during a protest Saturday in
Paris. The French government's proposed law would ban
Muslim head scarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian
crosses from public schools to keep them secular and avoid
religious strife. (AP/Laurent Rebours, 1/17/04)
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Iraqis view a bomb crater on a
rural road north of Baghdad, near the town of Taji, after
a fatal blast destroyed a U.S. Army Bradley fighting
vehicle, January 17, 2004. Guerrillas killed three U.S.
soldiers and two Iraqi civil defense officials in a bomb
attack as Washington insisted it would hand over political
power in Iraq in mid-2004 as scheduled. (Photo by Ali
Jasim/Reuters, 1/17/04). |
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Hamas
spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin arrives on his
wheelchair at Al-Mojammaa Mosque in Gaza City to attend
Friday prayers. (AFP, Arab News, 1/17/04). Earlier,
Israel announced that it marked him for death following a suicide
bombing that killed three Israeli soldiers and a security
officer in Gaza, Israel's deputy defense chief said January
16, 2004. However, Yassin replied to the Israeli threats saying,
"We are seekers of martyrdom." He also said that he had
nothing to do with military activities of Hamas. |
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| Shi'a Iraqis
during the Friday prayers. Demonstrations broke out after
prayers in support for their leader, Sistani, in his views
that direct elections have to be the way for forming the
new Iraqi government (Alquds Alarabi, 1/17/04). |
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Israeli reserve soldiers, who
refuse to serve in the Palestinian occupied territories,
demonstrating in the Kissovim crossing on the border with
Gaza Strip, and few meters away from another demonstration
by Zionist settlers who oppose withdrawal from the
Palestinian occupied territories (Assafir, 1/17/04). |
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President Bush and the US ruler of Iraq, Paul Bremer, in the
Oval Office in the White House. Consultations included
contacts with the Shi'a cleric, Sistani. (Assafir, 1/17/04) |
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The two highest Rabbis in Israel
visiting the Pope to ask him to interfere against "rising
anti-Semitism" in Europe. (Annahar, 1/17/04). |
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| Reformist
member of the Iranian Parliament, Bahrooz Afkahami, who is
also a movie director, photographing his colleagues who
stay in the Parliament as a protest to the decision
of the Conservative authorities not to allow them to
re-run for elections. (Assafir, 1/17/04). |
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Terrorized by an Israeli
soldier, a Palestinian child hides behind an Israeli
cement barrier in Abu Deis yesterday.. (Assafir, 1/17/04). |
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| Two US
soldiers at the moment of a roadside bomb exploding near
them in a Baghdad street. None of them was hurt. (Assafir,
1/17/04). |
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A US soldier running away from the place where a roadside
bomb exploded in a Baghdad street. (Annahar, 1/17/04). |
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| Lebanese demonstrators
protesting the execution of three convicts in Beirut
yesterday, with a sign that says: "Thou Shalt Not Kill." (Assafir,
1/17/04). |
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| South African
Zulu dancers performing in the opening ceremonies of the
World Economic Forum in Bombay, India, yesterday (Assafir,
1/17/04). |
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30 Japanese soldiers in a
farewell ceremony before leaving to Iraq, as an initial unit
in a 1,000 Japanese force to occupied Iraq. (Annahar,
1/17/04). |
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| U.S. Army soldiers search the wreckage
after a blast outside the headquarters of the U.S. led administration
in Baghdad January 18, 2004. A suicide bomber detonated half a ton of
explosives outside the U.S. seat of power in Iraq, killing at least 20
people in the deadliest attack since the capture of Saddam Hussein.
(Photo by Ali Jasim/Reuters, 1/18/04). |
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| An injured Iraqi man lies in
the road near burning wreckage after a car bomb attack in
Baghdad, January 18, 2004. At least 20 people died and
another sixty were wounded in a car bomb attack outside
the main coalition headquarters in Baghdad Sunday, a U.S.
military spokeswoman said. (Photo by Reuters Tv, 1/18/04) |
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President Arafat receiving the Foreign Minister of the
Check Republic, Tsiril Svoboda, who came to affirm the
Check support for the Palestinian people and their elected
President despite Israeli-US pressures (Al-Ayyam,
1/18/04).
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| Syrian
President, Bashar Al-Assad, receiving Qatari Foreign
Minister, Hamad Bin Jassem. The unscheduled visit is
believed to be in relation to the recent Israeli
invitation for Assad to visit Israel, as the Qatari FM
played a similar role when he carried a US message to
President Saddam Hussain to leave Iraq if he wanted to
avoid war. (Annahar, 1/18/04). |
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Muhammed Riza Khatami, Deputy
of the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, during prayers
inside the Parliament, as reformists set inside in protest
for preventing them to re-run for elections. (Annahar, 1/18/04). |
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Pakistani President, Musharraf, received with continuous
protest in Parliament. Some opposition leaders left,
others shouted, "Down with dictatorship" and "Musharraf,
go home." (PMC, 1/17/04). |
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Iraqis carrying peaces of the US vehicle which was destroyed
with a bomb in Taji yesterday. (Annahar, 1/18/04) |
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Swedish artist, Joyilla Skolin,
and the Israeli artist, Dror Filler, in front of the artwork
that was destroyed by the Israeli Ambassador in Sweded, Zvi
Matsael. The artwork was part of an exhibition about
genocide in the Swedish Historical Museum. The Ambassador
got mad when he saw the photo of Hanadi Jaradat, the
Palestinian Suicicde bomber, whose brother and fiance were
killed by Israeli occupation forces, which triggered her
suicide revenge. The Ambassador was driven out of the
Museum. (Annahar, 1/18/04). |
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| The photo of the Palestinian
lawyer, Hanadi Jaradat, who avenged the Israeli killing of
her brother and her fiance by a suicide bomb in Haifa. The
photo was pasted on the mast of a Snow White boat sailing
over a red pool, symbolizing the Israeli bloodbath in the
occupied Palestinian territories. The Israeli Ambassador
got mad and destroyed the artwork by throwing an electric
wire he took from the wall, which exposed everybody in the
Museum to the risk of electricution (Alittihad, 1/18/04).
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Anti-globalization protest in
the Bombay World Economic Forum. Because of continuous
wars and invasions, the US is portrayed in international
gatherings as the force behind globalization, which is
perceived as a new form of imperialism. (Al-Ra'i, 1/18/04). |
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"Hijab is our choice," Headscarf is our
right." and "No to racist secularism" were some of the slogans Muslim
women lifted in front of the French Embassy in London, part of a
worldwide anti-French intolerance yesterday. (Annahar, 1/18/04) |
French Muslim women wearing
headscarves in protest to the racist law banning them from wearing their
Islamic headscarf in government facilities (Al-Ra'i, 1/18/04). |
January 17, the Universal Day
for supporting the right of women for wearing hijab, decent Islamic
clothes (Al-Ra'i, 1/18/04). |
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