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Palestinian Resistance Factions Agree to Extended Period of Calm. Above: Palestinian leaders Al-Hindi (middle) and Al-Zahar (right) in Cairo yesterday. (IPC, 3/18/05). Egyptian intelligence chief, Omar Sulaiman, announcing an end to the Inter-Palestinian Conference in Cairo that extended the truce with Israel until the end of 2005 (Assafir, 3/18/05). Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi touches his head as he attends a meeting in Rome, March 16, 2005. U.S. Berlusconi was accused of bowing to pressure from the United States after he apparently backtracked on an announcement that Italian troops would start withdrawing from Iraq this September. 'It's a world record. The withdrawal of an announced withdrawal in half a day,' said Francesco Rutelli, leader of the opposition, center-left Daisy party. (Reuters, 3/18/05). A Palestinian Boy Wounded by Israeli Gunfire in Tulkarem (IPC, 3/18/05). US Under-Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, during a press conference yesterday. President Bush nominated Wolfowitz to become President of the World Bank, rewarding him as the architect of the invasion of Iraq. (Assafir, 3/17/05).

Warnings Of Jewish Extremist Attacks against Al Aqsa Grow (IPC, 3/19/05). Red Cross members and security forces inspect the damage of a bomb blast site in east Beirut March 19, 2005. A car bomb exploded in a mainly Christian eastern suburb of Lebanon's capital early on Saturday, wounding six people. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/ Reuters, 3/19/05). A demonstrator wears a mask depicting U.S. President George W. Bush during an anti-war demonstration in central London to mark the second anniversary of the start of the US-UK war on Iraq, March 19, 2005. (Photo by Stephen Hird/Reuters, 3/19/05). Arab Orthodox Community Denies Involvement, Urges Trial, Archimandrite Atallah Hanna (above): Deal is Conspiracy to 'Judaize' Arab Jerusalem (IPC, 3/19/05). Israeli illegal settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories urging their government to expel the Palestinian Arabs from their lands. (IPC, 3/19/05). Pakistan's long range surface to surface missile Shaheen II takes off from an undisclosed location during a test flight on March 19, 2005. Pakistan on Saturday successfully test-fired a long-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, the latest in a series of tests in one of the world's flashpoints. (Photo by Reuters, 3/19/05). Rebiya Kadeer (C), a Muslim Chinese dissident, talks to journalists at the Reagan National Airport in Washington March 17, 2005. China freed Kadeer, one of its highest profile political prisoners on Thursday and Washington opted not to seek a U.N. rebuke of Beijing's rights record days before U.S. Secretary allowing her to go abroad just days before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits China. (17 Mar 2005 REUTERS/HO) French President, Jacques Chira, hosting a Paris meeting including Putin, Zapatero, and Schroeder to coordinate policies towards Syria, Iran, and Iraq. (Annahar, 3/19/05). President Bush nominated Robert Portman to be the new US Trade Representative, who will be in charge of negotiations with various countries concerning trade with the US. (Assafir, 3/18/05).

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Algiers in preparation for the Arab summit. PLO Urges Arabs Not To Pressure Palestinians, Arab FMs Reach Consensus on Redrafted Jordanian Proposal (PMC, 3/20/05). A Palestinian elderly woman complaining to God from the Israeli occupation injustice of taking her land she inherited from her ancestors for thousands of years (Alhayat Aljadida, 3/20/05). Shaikh Hassan Nassrullah paid a visit to the Mufti of Lebanon in a show of national-Islamic unity after the Beirut bomb yesterday (Annahar, 3/20/05). Anti-War demonstrators in Athens protesting the US-UK occupation of Iraq in the second anniversary of the US-UK invasion (Alrai, 3/20/05). Smoke and fire coming out from the Doha blast yesterday. More: 60 Injured in Doha Blast (Al-Khaleej, 3/20/05). An Iraqi police truck, which was hit by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk killing three policemen and injuring seven (Aljazirah, 3/20/05). Dr. Amina Wadud seen leading Friday prayer at a SoHo gallery in New York City. Muftis of Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as Shaikh Qaradhawi of Qatar opposed the Beda'a (negative innovation) saying it contradicts with Islamic teachings. (Arab News, Annahar, 3/20/05). Leaders of the Palestinian Greek Orthodox community in a press conference announcing that they will start a hunger strike in protest to the selling of the Church property to Jewish investors in occupied East Jerusalem. (Al-Ayyam, 3/20/05).