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Israeli occupation soldiers point their weapons at Palestinian demonstrators during clashes at a construction site of Israel's Apartheid Land-Grab Wall in the West Bank village of Beit Oula, near Hebron, November 21, 2004. (REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun, 11/21/04).     Iraqis chanting anti-US slogans as a U.S. occupation soldier approaches them at the scene of a car  bomb explosion in central Baghdad on November 20, 2004 (Alrai, 11/21/04).     A British occupation soldier stops Iraqi civilians at a check-point in the desert near camp Dogwood, 25 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, November 21, 2004. The same Israeli occupation tactics are being used now in Iraq  (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters, 11/21/04).     A British occupation helicopter flies behind Iraqi civilians approaching a check point set up by British occupation soldiers in the desert near camp Dogwood 25 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq November 21, 2004. British forces stepped up brutal occupation measures to resemble the Israeli tactics in Palestine, as seen above (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj, 11/21/04).     An Iraqi boy carries a piece of wreckage following a car bomb attack, while chanting anti-U.S. slogans, in southern Baghdad November 21, 2004. The car bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy (Reuters, Ali Jasim, 11/21/04).     US Soldiers evacuating comrades after fighting with the Iraqi resistance in Baghdad yesterday (Al-Ahram, 11/21/04).     US soldiers firing at a Falluja neighborhood yesterday (Alrai, 11/21/04).     Palestinian demonstrators throw stones at an Israeli occupation vehicle during clashes at a construction site of Israel's Apartheid Land-Grab Wall, in the West Bank village of Beit Oula near Hebron November 21, 2004. (REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun, 11/21/04).

An Israeli undercover occupation army unit, disguising in a Palestinian civil car , broke into a Baitonya, near Ramallah, street where four Palestinian citizens, linked with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, were driving, opened machine guns on the car killing three of them instantly and arresting the fourth. Above, relatives crying after the assassination (IPC, 11/22/04).     One of the three Palestinians who were assassinated by an Israeli death squad near Ramallah yesterday (Al-Ayyam, 11/22/04).     Palestinians stand around a car were undercover Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 21, 2004. It occurred just before the arrival of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to smooth the way for a Jan. 9 Palestinian presidential election to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat. (21 Nov 2004 REUTERS/ Ammar Awad, 11/22/04).     The Iraqi resistance set six oil fields on fire north of Baghdad yesterday for the first time. Previously, oil pipelines were attacked but oil fields were spared. (Alrai, 11/22/04).     PLO Politbureay Chief, Farouq Qaddoumi, and Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouq Al-Shara, meeting in Damascus yesterday. (Alrai, 11/22/04).     US Assistant Secretary of State, William Burns: The US backs Palestinian elections (IPC, 11/22/04).     Sudanese women fetching drinking water in Darfur yesterday (Alrai, 11/22/04).     Millions of locusts are attacking Arab states in north Africa and the Middle East. The Egyptian clerics in Al-Azhar issued a religious statement encouraging Egyptians to eat it. Yemenis, however, don't need a religious edict. They have been waiting impatiently for the arrival of locusts to hunt it and eat it or salt it for future consumption (Alrai, 11/22/04).

Supporters of Ukraine's opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko take part in a rally in Kiev's main Independence Square, November 23, 2004. Ukrainian opposition chief Yushchenko told tens of thousands of protesters to march to parliament, where an emergency session on a disputed presidential election was to begin shortly. (Photo by Mykola Lazarenko/Reuters, 11/23/04).     Colin Powell shaking hands with Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho yesterday (Al-Ayyam, 11/23/04).     Six US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Monday. Some of them were killed when their convoy was attacked on a Bghdad Bridge, above (Al-Khaleej, 11/23/04).     Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on a three-day official visit to Spain, greets students after a meeting at Madrid's Complutense University, November 22, 2004. Chavez's fence-mending visit to Spain sparked political uproar when Madrid for the first time backed his allegations that the previous Aznar government supported a coup against him. (Photo by Sergio Perez/Reuters, 11/23/04).     U.S. Army soldiers from the 82nd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Infantry Division, burning a second floor of a Falluja house where some Iraqi resistance fighters were suspected to have holed up, according to US military sources, on November 22, 2004. (REUTERS/HO, 11/23/04).     Palestinians and Jordanians attend a rally in Amman November 23, 2004. Hundreds of Jordanians flocked to the Associations complex in Amman on Tuesday to take part in a rally held to commemorate the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (REUTERS/ Ali Jarekji, 11/23/04).     Secretary of State Colin Powell watches two Palestinian election officials work at the Central Election Commission in the West Bank town of Jericho, November 22, 2004. Members of the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators urged Israel on Nov. 23 to ease restrictions on Palestinians before January elections to choose a successor to late President Yasser Arafat. Photo by Pool via Reuters (IPC, 11/23/04).

Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures while sitting in a wheelchair during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, November 22, 2004. Hu Jintao is in Cuba on an official two-day visit. Castro is recovering from a fall on October 20. Castro is recovering from injuries he sustained in a fall on October 20. (REUTERS/Claudia Daut, 11/23/04).	A U.S. Marine guards a handcuffed Iraqi detainee in the beleaguered western city of Falluja, on 21 Nov 2004 (REUTERS/Akram Saleh, 11/23/04).	An Iraqi child watching a US soldier shooting (Alquds Alarabi, 11/23/04).

Palestinian teenagers, Montaser Hadada, 15, AND Amer Shabat,16, were killed with bullets by Israeli occupation soldiers who also injured several others in the Palestinian city of Nablus today (IPC, 11/21/04).	Mohammad Khalil Shehada,20, from the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Nusairat, was shot dead by the trigger-happy Israeli occupation soldiers early on Sunday morning to the south of Dair El-Balah City, middle of Gaza Strip (IPC, 11/21/04)..	Palestinian demonstrators protesting a construction site of Israel's Apartheid Land-Grab Wall, in the West Bank village of Beit Oula near Hebron November 21, 2004. (IPC, 11/21/04).