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An Iraqi man covers his face while viewing fire raging at an oil pipeline complex near the Iraqi refining centre of Baiji, north of Baghdad, January 14, 2005. Iraqi resistance gunmen have fired a rocket on the 24-pipeline complex, setting a fire that will take days to control, witnesses and oil officials said. (REUTERS/ Sabah Hamid, 1/15/05).


Palestinians carry the body of 11-year-old Omar al Grenawi, who was killed today by Israeli occupation soldiers, on January 14, 2005 (Photo by Suhaib Salem/ Reuters, 1/14/05).


An Israeli soldier standing on the site of the Palestinian resistance attack, which resulted in killing three Palestinian fighters and six Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip border crossing yesterday. (Assafir, 1/15/05).


An elderly Palestinian man coming out of a hole in an Israeli-built barrier to stop Palestinian movement between two neighborhoods in Al-Aizeriyeh, in occupied East Jerusalem (Assafir, 1/15/05).


Iraqis lining up to get their empty gas cylenders replaced with full ones in Al-Sadr City in Baghdad yesterday. (Annahar, 1/15/05).


US soldiers questioning an Iraqi woman in her home (Alquds Alarabi, 1/15/05).


U.S. Army soldiers survey an overturned Humvee vehicle following a blast in Baghdad, January 14, 2005. The vehicle was overturned by the force of a blast caused by a roadside bomb, which went off as a U.S. military convoy was driving past on a highway in the al-Dora district of Baghdad. The U.S. Army in Iraq did not have an immediate confirmation regarding the incident. (REUTERS/ Atef Hassan, 1/15/05). Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday together with five Beshmerga Kurdish soldiers. Iraqi resistance also captured 15 national guards and freed 38 prisoners (Annahar, 1/15/05).


Mahmoud Abbas is sworn in as Palestinian President to succeed late President Yasser Arafat, in Ramallah, January 15, 2005. Abbas called for a cease-fire with Israel and talks on a final peace settlement. (Photo by Pool/ Reuters, 1/15/05).


The Palestinian American thinker, Hisham Sharabi (1927-2005), died in Beirut yesterday after long struggle with cancer (Alquds Alarabi, 1/15/05).

Sri Lankan Muslims pray for an identified infant killed in the tsunami, prior to the infant's burial in the town of Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast, January 14, 2005. The deadly Dec. 26 (REUTERS/Arko Datta, 1/16/05).

Eight Palestinian Citizens Killed As Israeli Occupation Forces Go On Rampage (Annahar, 1/16/05).

Palestinians carry a youth after he was shot by Israeli soldiers in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, January 15, 2005. Israeli troops killed six Palestinians in two separate incidents in Gaza on Saturday, local witnesses and hospital staff said. (REUTERS/ Mohammed Salem, 1/16/05).

Mahmoud Abbas (C) is sworn in as Palestinian President to succeed Yasser Arafat, in Ramallah January 15, 2005. (REUTERS/ Jerry Lampen, 1/16/05).

U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division conduct a foot patrol while looking for witnesses to an attack by insurgents on a convoy in the central Iraq area of Udaim Nahia, January 16, 2005 (REUTERS/Nikola Solic, 1/16/05).

U.S. Army soldiers check a burnt-out truck that was attacked on a road connecting the Iraqi cities of Baquba and Kirkuk, in the central Iraq area of Udaim Nahia, January 16, 2005.(REUTERS/Nikola Solic, 1/16/05).

Masked Iraqi resistance gunmen roam al-Atiba'a street in the western Iraqi city of al-Ramadi, January 15, 2005. (REUTERS/ Stringer/iraq, 1/16/05).

A Russian protester holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin during a rally of protest in St.Petersburg, January 15, 2005. At least 15,000 pensioners blocked the center of St.Petersburg on Saturday to protest against changes to the state benefit system, the largest demonstration in Russia's second city for a decade. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk, 1/16/05).

A U.S. Soldier stands guard near a group of women while his comrades search the house, during a raid in Mosul, January 15, 2005. (REUTERS/ Zohra Bensemra, 1/16/05).


Muslim pilgrims perform tawaf, a circling procession around the Ka'aba, at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, January 17, 2005. Tawaf is a seven-times counter clockwise circling of the Ka'aba shrine, and continuously reciting the talbiyah. Talbiyah is praising God starting with the saying "Labayk Allahuma Labayk" which means: 'At Thy service, Oh Allah, at Thy service.' (REUTERS/ Zainal Abd halim, 1/17/05).


Muslim pilgrims pray at Al-Masjid Al-Haram, the Grand Mosque, in Makkah January 17, 2005. About two million Muslim pilgrims gathered for their Haj, pilgrimage, this year. The Haj is one of five main Islamic obligations, to go on a haj at least once during his or her lifetime, if affordable. Prophet Muhammad had said that a person who performs haj properly will return as a newly born baby, free of all sins. (REUTERS/ Zainal Abd halim, 1/17/05).


Pilgrims throng the Grand Mosque in Makkah for prayer around Al-Qa'aba, in preparation for the Haj, pilgrimage rituals. (EPA, AN, 1/17/05).


Palestinian boys hurl stones at an Israeli occupation army vehicle during clashes in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank City of Nablus, January 17, 2005. (REUTERS/ Abed Omar qusini, 1/17/05).


A security guard surveys the room at an election voting station after it was attacked in the southern Iraqi Shi'i city of Basra, January 17, 2005. Iraqi resistance fighters also detonated a suicide car bomb at police headquarters in the Iraqi town of Baiji, killing at least 10 people, and shot dead eight Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters, 1/17/05).

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas (L), meerting with the Japanese Foreign Minister, Nobotaka Mashimora (R) in his office in Ramallah yesterday. During his visit to Israel, Mashimora asked Israelis to stop selling weapons to Japan's neighbors. (Annahar, 1/17/05).

King family members joined by others sing the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" to end the 37th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Service, on January 17, 2005 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (REUTERS/Tami Chappell, 1/17/05).

A U.S. Army soldier guards detained Iraqis while looking for witnesses to an attack by Iraqi resistance gunmen who were firing from a palm grove in a village north of the Iraqi town of Baquba on January 17, 2005. The men were released after brief questioning. (REUTERS/ Nikola Solic, 1/17/05).


US soldiers body-searching Iraqi children on Saturday (Alrai, 1/16/05).	Kuwaiti security forces exchanged fire with Kuwaiti armed dissidents in the Ali Sabah Al-Salem neighborhood, south of Kuwait city today (Islam Memo, 1/15/05).	Iraqis mounting a burning US supplies truck after being attacked on Saturday (Al-Khaleej, 1/16/05).


Malaysian office workers wait for the power to be restored during a power failure in Kuala Lumpur City Centre. Power failures hit several parts of Malaysia on Jan 13. (REUTERS/ Stringer, 1/15/05).	Kuwaiti security forces exchanged fire with Kuwaiti armed dissidents in the Ali Sabah Al-Salem neighborhood, south of Kuwait city today (Islam Memo, 1/15/05).	Acehnese Muslim women attend Friday prayer at the grand mosque in the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra January 14, 2005. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon, 1/15/05).

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