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An Iraqi police officer views the destruction and a pool of blood, water and fuel July 28, 2004 after a car bomb exploded in Baquba, 40 miles north of Baghdad. A minibus packed with explosives blew up near a police station and a market, targeting police recruits, killing more than 70 and wounding 30 in the worst attack since the handover of power one month ago. (Photo by Ali Jasim/Reuter, 7/28/04).


Iraqi police carry wounded from a damaged shop, following an explosion in Baquba, July 28, 2004 in this frame grab taken from video footage. A minibus packed with explosives blew up near a police station and a market north of Baghdad Wednesday targeting police recruits, killing 68 people and wounding 30 in the worst attack since the handover of power exactly one month ago. (Photo by Reuters TV/Reuters , 7/27/04).


Arafat Adopts PLC Reforms, to Outline Policy in Speech; Qurei: Cabinet Has Enough Security Powers, Cabinet Reshuffle Probable. Arafat and Qurei showing solidarity on July 27, 2004. (PMC, 7/28/04).


Israeli occupation forces fired indiscriminately towards a group of youngsters in Beit Foureek, wounding Mohammed Al Hanani with a live bullet in the head, Ferass Al Hanani in the foot, Emad Al Hanani, Zaher Hanani, Ahmed Hanani, and Khaled Nasser Allah. All received treatment in the town's clinic. Read more about it: Israeli Occupation Forces Wound Six Palestinian Citizens in Beit Foureek, Demolish Four Houses in Khan Younis, and Arrest Many in Various Cities (IPC, 7/28/04).


Iraqi KifahTaha al-Mutari(R) who claims he was beaten by British troops while in custody arrives with lawyer Phil Shiner at the High Court in London at the beginning of a judicial review July 28, 2004. Laughing British soldiers tortured Iraqi detainees by beating and kicking them, pouring freezing water on their heads and forcing them to recite names of football stars, a court heard on Wednesday. (Photo by Kieran Doherty/Reuters, 7/28/04).


U.S. soldiers patrol around the ruins of an Afghan village near the Pakistan border in this U.S. Army image released July 27, 2004. An ammunition depot blew up near the Afghan capital after being hit by a rocket hours after a missile narrowly missed the Chinese embassy, and peacekeepers pointed to private armies as the main long-term security threat. (Photo by US Army/Reuters, 7/28/04).


Kenny Gluck and Marine Buissonniere hold a news conference at the MSF compound in Kabul, July 28, 2004. Medecins Sans Frontieres aid agency said it was leaving the Afghanistan after 24 years because it was too dangerous. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters, 7/28/04).


Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (R) embraces one of his former Navy crewmates after arriving in Boston for the Democratic National Convention, July 28, 2004. Kerry will formally accept his party's nomination at the convention July 29. Photo by Jeff Mitchell/Reuters, 7/28/04).


Presidents Assad of Syria (left) and Mubarak of Egypt in a Cairo meeting before the arrival of US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, to discuss sanctions on the Sudan. (Annahar, 7/28/04).


Israeli youngmen smoking the Shesheh bong in the Buraq/Wailing Wall area yesterday. Israeli police reported that Israeli extremists were planning to attack Alqsa Mosque, on top. (Annahar, 7/28/04).


Zionist Israeli extremists holding a model of their Third Temple that they plan to build after destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This photo was taken yesterday in the Buraq/Wailing Wall area. (Assafir, 7/28/04).


An injured being treated by medicos in SMHS hospital at Srinagar, capital of Kashmir. A person was killed and more than 35 people were injured in a grenade blast, that rocked the Baramulla Hospital on Monday afternoon on 7/26/04. (photo by altaf zargar, 7/28/04).

Israeli occupation forces stationed near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ganei Tal opened fire on two Palestinian citizens, Mohammed Adwan and Younis Al Abadla, killing them instantly. Israeli military sources claimed both citizens were attempting to infiltrate Ganei Tal in order to carry out an attack there (IPC, 7/29/04).


A Palestinian boy standing in front of his family's home, which was destroyed by Israeli occupation forces, together with five others homes, in Rafah yesterday (IPC, 7/29/04).


A terrorized Palestinian woman crying in front of an Israeli occupation soldier during an occupation raid on the Tulkarem refugee camp yseterday (Al-Ayyam, 7/29/04).


An Israeli occupation soldier terrorizing a Palestinian boy during an Israeli occupation raid on the Tulkarem refugee camp yesterday (PMC, 7/29/04).


Palestinian and international peace activists being fired at with gas bomb by Israeli occupation forces in Yabad, Jenins, yesterday (Alquds, 7/29/04).


A Palestinian male-nurse was wounded by Israeli occupation gunfire in the city of Khan Younis, according to medical sources. Ra'fat Eisa, 39, a nurse at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, was shot and wounded while on his shift at the hospital. Hospital officials asserted that Eisa was moderately wounded with shrapnel in the neck when Israeli occupation forces stationed near the illegal Israeli settlement of Neveh Dekalim opened fire on the hospital (IPC, 7/29/04).


In a videotape given to foreign news organizations on July 29, 2004, a masked man points an M-16 automatic rifle at the head of an Indian hostage, who was wearing orange clothing. Kidnappers holding seven foreign truck drivers hostage in Iraq threatened to kill one of them on Friday if they received no response to their demands. (Photo by Reuters (Handout), 7/29/04).


Vice presidential candidate John Edwards holds his daughter Emma Clair, while his wife Elizabeth holds their son Jack and daughter Catherine stands nearby after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 28, 2004. Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters, 7/29/04).


A U.S. Army soldier waits beside an overturned Bradley armored vehicle, which lost a track on Baghdad's airport highway and veered off the road July 29, 2004. The incident caused no injuries. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz, 7/29/04).


Chaldean Iraqis demonstrating in Arbil yesterday, in protest against the Allawi interim government for ignoring them and their concerns (Annahar, 7/29/04).


French Foreign Minister, Michel Barier, visiting the Sudanese Darfur province. He said that UN economic sanctions on the Sudan should be the last resort to solve the civil war problems (Assafir, 7/29/04).


Turkish Prime Minister, Rajab Tayeb Erdogan, meeting with former Iranian President, Ali Akber Hashmi Rafsanjani in Tehran yesterday. The two countries agreed on fighting the Kurdish secessionist movements in the region. (Annahar, 7/29/04).


Attallha Muhajirani, former Iranian Minister of Culture, and his wife Jamila Kadiwar. Muhajirani was arrested yesterday after failing to pay a bail worth of 20,000 euros. He was accused of marrying a second wife and not registering the marriage. His wife Jamila stood beside him and denied the story. She said that the Conservatives are doing this to him to prevent him from running for president after President Khatami. (Assafir, 7/29/04).


The Israeli occupation government continues its unprovoked assassinations in order to provoke Palestinian retaliation, which will be used as a justification for more Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people. Yesterday, an Israeli air strike killed two Fateh activists in the Rafah refugee camp, Amr Abu Setteh (32) and Zaki Abu Zarqa (40). Zahi Al-Ashqar (27) from the Islamic Jihad, was killed by Israeli occupation forces in Tulkarem. Two other Palestinians were killed near an illegal Israeli settlement in southern Gaza Strip (Assafir, 7/30/04).


Uzbek specialists investigate the scene of a blast in the prosecutor's office in Tashkent July 30, 2004. A series of simultaneous explosions struck the U.S. and Israeli embassies and the prosecutor's office in the Uzbek capital Tashkent Friday, killing at least two people and wounding five. (REUTERS/Str, 7/30/04).


Palestinians trying to remove body parts of the two Palestinian activists, Amr Abu Setteh and Zaki Abu Zarqa (read above), who were killed in an unprovoked Israeli occupation air raid on their car in the Rafah refugee camp yesterday (Alrai, 7/30/04).


Palestinian women and children on the rubble of their houses, sixteen of which were destroyed by Israeli occupation forces in Rafah yesterday (Alquds, 7/30/04).


Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry does a sound check on the podium at the Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004 before officially accepting his party's nomination on the fourth and final day of the convention. (Photo by Jim Young/Reuters, 7/30/04).


Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (2ndR) and his running mate John Edwards (R) arrive at a campaign rally with their wives Teresa Heinz Kerry (L) and Elizabeth Edwards (2ndL) in Boston, Massachusetts, July 30, 2004. Kerry, who accepted the nomination of his party at the Democratic National Convention in Boston July 29, was kicking off a national campaign bus tour. (REUTERS/ Mike Segar, 7/30/04).


A Palestinian boy crawling under the Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid barrier in the village of Masha, in the West Bank yesterday (Annahar, 7/30/04).


Iraqi interim deputy prime minister, Burhum Saleh, surrounded by his guards, examining the Baquba suicided car bomb scene yseterday (Annahar, 7/30/04).


Funeral procession of Iraqi police recruits who were killed in the Baquba suicide car bomb, yesterday (Annahar, 7/30/04).


Turkish Prime Minister, Rajab Tayeb Erdogan, meeting with the Iranian President, Muhammed Khatami, in Tehran yesterday. The two countries agreed on fighting the Kurdish secessionist movements in the region. They also agreed on a free trade zone between them. (Annahar, 7/30/04).


Srinagar - Kashmiri female students passing by an indian security officer after an attack on a hotel in Dal Lake on July 29, 2004. (Altaf Zagar, 7/30/04).

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