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A massive car bomb explosion caught the motorcade of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri February 14, 2005, killing at least twelve people, including al-Hariri and some of his body guards, security sources said. Al-Hariri poses in this April 13, 2002 file photograph. (Reuters, Jamal Saidi, 2/14/05).


Lebanese civilians carry the body of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri killed after a car bomb explosion in Beirut, February 14, 2005. A massive car bomb killed al-Hariri on Beirut's waterfront on Tuesday, witnesses and security sources said. At least twelve others, some of them his bodyguards, also died. (REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir, 2/14f5).


A Lebanese man shouts for help for a wounded man near the site of a car bomb explosion in Beirut, February 14, 2005. A massive car bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri on Beirut's waterfront on Tuesday, witnesses and security sources said. At least twelve others, some of them his bodyguards, also died. (Reuters, 2/14/05).


General view of the scene of a car bomb explosion in Beirut February 14, 2005. A massive car bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri on Beirut's waterfront on Tuesday, witnesses and security sources said. At least twelve others, some of them his bodyguards, also died (REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir, 2/14/05).


Palestinians in Gaza celebrating the return of the corpses of 15 martyrs, who were killed in battle with the Israeli occupation forces. The Israeli gesture was one of the results of the Sharm El-Shaikh summit (Reuters, 2/14/05).


A Palestinian man holds up a picture of his daughter, who is imprisoned together with about 8,000 Palestinian activists for opposing the Israeli occupation of their country. demonstrators called for the release of the Palestinian prisoners in front of the International Red Cross Committee office in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 14, 2005. (REUTERS/ Nayef Hashlamoun, 2/13/05).


A Kurdish man walks away from a burning Iraqi oil pipeline, following an explosion 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of of the northern city of Kirkuk, February 14, 2005. The oil pipelines in the region have been the target of repeated attacks by the Iraqi resistance. (Annahar, 2/13/05).


Filipino policemen gather evidence after a bomb attack in Manila's Makati financial district, February 14, 2005. Explosions in the business district of the Philippine capital and two southern cities on Monday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 100, with besieged Abu Sayyaf rebels claiming two of the attacks. (Reuters, Erik De Castro, 2/14/05).


Syrian Vice President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, sitting devastated between Baha Al-Hariri, son of Rafiq Al-Hariri, and the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, in the house of Rafiq Al-Hariri. Khaddam came to Al-Hariri's family in Beirut to offer Syria's and his personal condolences but he collapsed, dispelling the rumors about any Syrian involvement in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister (Assafir, 2/16/05).


Lebanese mourners carry flags of the Socialist Party loyal to Druze leader Walid Junblat and the portrait of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri during his funeral procession in Beirut February 16, 2005. Tens of thousands of Lebanese marched in the funeral procession of Hariri, killed in a bombing yesterday. (Photo by Jamal Saidi/Reuters, 2/16/05).


28 Iraqi Sunni and Shi'i Muslim leaders and Imams met in a conference in Um Al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad. Shi'i supporters of Al-Sadr came to take a united position with the Iraqi Sunni leadership towards participation in the political process. Their main condition for such participation is that other Iraqi parties demand the US withdrawal from Iraq and that the US should announce a schedule for withdrawal (Assafir, 2/16/05).


Wadha Ashoor, mother of Sabri Fayez Al-Rujoub (16), grieving over the body of her son who was killed yesterday by Israeli occupation soldiers who left him bleed to death denying him to be rescued by an ambulance in his village of Doura, near Hebron. (Assafir, 2/16/05).


Israeli Peace: An Israeli occupation soldier passing by the Palestinian 16-year-old boy, Sabri Al-Rujoub, who was killed by Israeli occupation soldiersin Doura, Hebron, Monday. Sabri was walking beside an Israeli occupation bulldozer when he was shot dead for suspicioun of having a knife. Israeli occupation soldier prevented an ambulance from taking him to hospital and left him bleed to death. (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 2/15/05).


Ala' Hani, 14, another Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in Ramallah, on Tuesday, despite the truce (Assafir, 2/16/5).


Palestinians protesting, in vain, against the confiscation of their lands to be used for the construction of the Israeli Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall, on Tuesday. (Assafir, 2/16/05).


Turkish police disbanding Kurdish demonstrators protesting the arrest of Ocalan, in Istanbul yesterday (Assafir, 2/16/05).


Israeli Occupation Forces Violate Truce, Kill 3 Palestinians, including Boy. Above is a funeral of a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 2/17/05).


Israeli Settlers Carry Out a Series of Attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank (IPC, 2/17/05).


Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas (R), meeting with the US Security Coordinator, William Ward, in Ramallah yesterday (IPC, 2/17/05).


Lebanese mourners carry flags of Lebanon and of the Socialist Party loyal to Druze leader Walid Junblat and the portrait of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri during his funeral procession in Beirut February 16, 2005. (Al-Mustaqbal, 2/17/05).


An estimated quarter of a million Lebanese people took to the streets of Beirut in an outpouring of anger and grief for the funeral of assassinated premier Rafiq Al-Hariri. Observers said the funeral was the largest in Lebanese history. (Gulf News, 2/17/05).


A British occupation soldier communicating with an Iraqi woman in a southern Iraq village yesterdy (Ad Dustour, 2/17/05).


Iraqi oil pipelines on fire as a result of a resistant attakc near Baiji yesterday (Teshreen, 2/17/05).


An Iraqi car on fire after being hit with fire from US soldiers in Tuz Khormatu. An Iraqi woman was killed and a man was wounded in the car (Teshreen, 2/17/05).

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