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Funeral of Ashraf Al-Mubayedh (25) and his cousin Samir
Al-Mubayidh, who were killed by the trigger-happy Israeli
occupation soldiers east of Gaza City yesterday. Israeli
soldiers shot them at the face and the head with machine
guns and tank shells, which resulted in total damage to
the face and head of the two corpses. (Annahar, 1/25/04). |
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Lebanese Hizbullah leaders, Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid (L)
and Mustapha Dirani (R), appear in a Tel Aviv District
Court in this May 29, 2000, file picture. Israel and
Hizbollah confirmed on Jan. 24, 2004, that they would
exchange within a week an abducted Israeli businessman and
three Israeli soldiers presumed dead for 400 Palestinian,
23 Lebanese and 12 Arab prisoners. Under the deal, Obeid
and Dirani, both abducted in Lebanon and brought to Israel
as bargaining chips for Arad, will be among those
released. (Photo by Havakuk Levison/Reuters, 1/25/04). |
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| Captured Israeli soldiers
Swaid Omar, Avraham Binjamin and Adi Avitan (L-R) appear
in combination of undated official Israeli army handout
photographs released on Jan. 25, 2004. Israel and the
Lebanese resistance group Hizbollah confirmed Saturday
that they would exchange within a week an abducted Israeli
businessman and three Israeli soldiers presumed dead for
400 Palestinian, 23 Lebanese and 12 Arab prisoners. (Photo
by Reuters, 1/25/04). |
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Pseudo democracy:
British Member of Parliament, Jenny Tonge, expressed her
understanding of the Palestinian struggle. In reaction,
she was sacked of her Liberal Democratic Party, which
shows how much influence Israel exerts on British
political parties. (Alquds Alarabi, 1/24/04). |
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| Iraqi soldiers and a
policeman survey the scene where a car bomb exploded
January 24, 2004 in the heart of the volatile Iraqi town
of Samarra, killing at least two Iraqis and wounding
dozens. (Photo by Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters, 1/25/04). |
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| A Palestinian man reads about
a prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and Hizbollah,
in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 25, 2004. Two of
the most bitter enemies in the Middle East, Israel and
Hizbollah, will carry out the first stage of a
German-mediated prisoner swap Thursday, the leader of the
Lebanese guerrilla group said Sunday.(Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters,
1/25/04). |
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| Iraqi soldiers survey the scene
where a car bomb exploded January 24, 2004 in the heart of
the volatile Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least two
Iraqis and wounding dozens while a separate bomb attack on a
U.S. convoy killed two U.S. soldiers. (Photo by Ceerwan
Aziz/Reuters,
1/25/04). |
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| U.S. Army
soldiers survey the scene Jan. 25, 2004, where a car bomb
exploded the day before at the entrance to an American
military base in the Iraqi town of Khaldiya, killing three
soldiers and wounding six, hours after separate blasts
elsewhere left two servicemen and at least four Iraqis
dead. Witnesses said they saw a car ram a checkpoint
outside the base in Khaldiya, 110 km (68 miles) west of
Baghdad, and explode as a number of soldiers were getting
out of a vehicle. (Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters, 1/25/04). |
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| Samarra explosion which
resulted in a number of US casualties (Annahar, 1/25/04). |
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| US soldiers
examining the site of the Samarra explosion (Annahar,
1/25/04). |
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| Leader of the
Israeli opposition Labor Party, Shimon Peres, meeting with
the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Nabeel Sha'ath, in Davos,
Switzerland, yesterday. (Annahar,
1/25/04). |
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Anti-war and anti-globalization demonstrators in Davos,
Switzerland, yesterday. (Annahar, 1/25/04). |
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| Turkish Prime
Minister, Rajab Tayeb Erdogan, and the UN
Secretary-General, Koffi Anan, in Davos yesterday. Erdogan
said he was willing to mediate between Israel and Syria. (Annahar, 1/25/04). |
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| A snow storm hit
the Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. This scene was southwest of
Damascus. (Annahar, 1/25/04). |
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Secretary-General of Hizbullah: The prisoner swap will be
on Thursday (Annahar, 1/26/04). |
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| Reformist members of the
Iranian Parliament passed an amendment to the election law
to force Conservatives to back off from banning them to
re-run for election. (Annahar, 1/26/04). |
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| A US
Congressional delegation arriving in Tripoli, Libya,
yesterday (Assafir, 1/26/04). |
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An Iraqi woman and her children pass by US soldier in
Karadeh, Baghdad, where a bomb exploded destroying a US
vehicle (Annahar, 1/26/04). |
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| US soldiers blocking the
bridge between Khalidiya and Ramadi, Iraq, where three US
soldiers were killed on Saturday (Annahar, 1/26/04). |
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| US forces in Iraq lost a
chopper, its two-member crew and two other soldiers (Al-Ra'i,
1/26/04). |
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| The Japanese military
commander posing for a photo with Iraqi school children in
Samawa (Annahar,
1/26/04). |
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| Bill Gates
meeting with President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo yesterday. (Annahar,
1/26/04). |
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| From right to
left, prime ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and
Lebanon. They signed an agreement in Amman yesterday that
allows Egypt to sell the other three Arab states its
natural gas. The project costs $350 million. (Al-Anwar,
1/26/04). |
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| US soldiers and
helicopters searching for missing two US pilots and one
soldier in the Tigress River, in Mosol (Annahar, 1/27/04). |
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| The
Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall at Abu Deis, separating
occupied Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Three
governments are now objecting to the jurisdiction of the
International Court at the Hague over looking at case that
the Palestinian Authority presented against the wall. These
governments are Israel, the US, and
Australia, which stand alone against the whole
world, which refuses Apartheid and the Land-Grab that the
Sharon Wall represents (Assafir, 1/27/04). |
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Secretary-General of Hizbullah, Shaikh Hassan Nassrullah: The prisoner swap will be
on Thursday (Annahar, 1/26/04). |
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| Israeli soldiers ready to
carry coffins of Hizbullah fighters, who were buried in
northern Israel, to exchange them for dead Israeli
soldiers, on Thursday (Assafir, 1/27/04). |
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| US
and US-recruited Iraqi soldiers arresting an Iraqi youngman
after the first attack against Japanese troops at Ad Doura (Assafir,
1/27/04). |
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| Libyan leader,
Muammer Al-Qaddhafi, receiving a present from a US
Congressional delegation, which arrived in Tripoli, as a
proof of the breakthrough in US-Libyan relations. (Assafir, 1/27/04). |
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French President, Jacques Chirac, greeting the Chinese
leader, Hu Jintao, at Paris airport yesterday, an
extraordinary thing for a French president to do. (Annahar, 1/27/04). |
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| Reformist members of the
Iranian Parliament continue to sit inside the parliament
building in protest to banning them from re-running for
election. (Assafir, 1/27/04). |
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