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An Iraqi soldier gestures in the foreground as others work at the scene of a car bomb explosion outside an Iraqi army recruiting center in southern Baghdad March 2, 2005. In one of the two suicice bombings today, at least six men lining up to join the Iraqi Army were killed and over 20 were injured by the blast. (Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters, 3/2/05). Israeli Occupation Forces Arrest Palestinian Supreme Judge and Lawyers in Jerusalem, Israeli Illegal Settlers Confiscate More Land in Hebron (IPC, 3/1/05). Israeli occupation soldiers attacked yesterday a peaceful demonstration against the illegal Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall in the Beit Sureek village, in the West Bank, causing suffocation of several Palestinian demonstrators out of the tear gas canisters fired at them (IPC,  3/1/05). Anti-Katsav demonstrations in Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne, protesting the Israeli President's visit to Australia, demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and Arab territories (Assafir, 3/2/05). Ziyad Al-Khasawneh, the Jordanian lawyer who is the spokesperson of the international team of lawyers defending the captured Iraqi President, Saddam Hussain. Al-Khasawneh said in a press conference in Tokyo yesterday that US forces isolate the Iraqi President from the outside world. He is not allowed to meet with his lawyers or family members and imprisoned in a very small room. He added that Saddam is not allowed to watch TV, listen to the radio, or read newspapers. He knows nothing about what's going on in Iraq and the world. Al-Khasawneh described the tribunal intended to try the Iraqi President as lacking international standards (Assafir, 3/2/05). Egyptian police preventing demonstrators from Al-Ghad (Tomorro) Party from getting out of the Justice Palace building to the streets of Cairo to protest the arrest of the Party leader, Ayman Nour. (Assafir, 3/2/05). Uruguay's new President Tabare Vazquez (L) and his vice-president Rodolfo Nin Novoa are cheered during a procession through downtown Montevideo, after their swearing in ceremony, March 1, 2005. Vazquez was sworn in on Tuesday to head the first leftist government in 175 years in Uruguay, and the seventh in Latin America. (REUTERS/ Stringer/ Uruguay, 3/2/05). South American and European dignitaries attending the inauguration of the Uruguayan President Tapari Vasquez. President Chavez of Venezuela and da Salva of Brazil were among the prominent guests. Uruguay has become the seventh Latin American country to be ruled by socialist and communist parties, after Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Cuba. US Secretary of State, Condaleezza Rice, shaking hands with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, during the Blair-stunt-one-day meeting that pledged financial support to the Palestinian Authority in return for allowing the US to supervise the re-organization of Palestinian security forces (Annahar, 3/2/05). Condi Rice meeting with Abbas in London, wearing a culturally-insensitive mini skirt . (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 3/2/05). A Palestinian security officer preventing a fighter from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin refugee camp from firing his gun in the air yesterday. The Brigades members protested preventing them from meeting the new Palestinian Interior Minister, Nassr Yousuf, who was in a visit to the camp. They wanted to convey to him their complaints but his security guards prevented them. Following the incident, Yousuf fired the security leaders in Jenin and met with the members of Al-Aqsa Brigades. (Annahar, 3/2/05). Qatari officials giving the German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, a bottle of a product in a petro-chemical plant yesterday (Annahar, 3/2/05).

3 US Soldiers,15 Iraqis Killed, Scores Injured in Attacks on Police, Interior Minister Survives Twin Suicide Car Bombs, Kirkuk Gas Pipeline on Fire. Above: Smoke rising following the Thursday Baghdad suicide bombings. (Alittihad, 3/4/05). Iraqi soldiers stand guard in a street after two car bombs exploded in Baghdad March 3, 2005, near Iraq's Interior Ministry killing at least five policemen and wounding several others. (Photo by Thaier Sudani/Reuters, 3/3/05). Israeli occupation soldiers at the gate of the Palestinian Alquds (Jerusalem) University, as they surrounded it after imposing curfew on the two Palestinian Jerusalemite neighborhood of Izeriyah and Abu Dis (Al-Ayyam, 3/3/05). Palestinian young men throwing stones at Israeli occupation soldiers during a protest against confiscating Palestinian lands in Beit Surik, in the West Bank yesterday. (Al-Khaleej,  3/4/05). Anti-US Lebanese demonstrators yesterday  (Alquds Alarabi, 3/3/05). President George W. Bush (L) speaks with former Presidential Candidate, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) after Kerry paid tribute to the late baseball great Jackie Robinson in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building in Washington, March 2, 2005. At the event, Bush and members of congress bestowed the Congressional Gold Medal on the African American Baseball star, who broke racial barriers in the professional baseball league during the 1940s. (,REUTERS/ Jason Reed 3/3/05). A Kashmiri tries to dig out his truck buried under snow on a key Kashmir highway in Shaitani Nallah, 195 km (about 120 miles) north of Jammu, March 1, 2005. The mountainous 300 km (185 mile) Jammu-Srinagar highway was reopened for traffic on Tuesday after being closed for 12 days due to avalanches and landslides that killed at least 278 people in the Himalayan region. Picture taken March 1, 2005.(REUTERS/ Stringer/india, 3/2/05).

A Palestinian demonstrator trying to avoid a tear gas bomb thrown at him and other demonstrators during a protest against the Israeli Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall in the village of Dair Ballout, in the West Bank yesterday (Reuters, 3/5/05). Italian journalist, Giuliana Sgrena, who was shot at by US forces as she and Italian guards were approaching the Baghdad airport yesterday. She was injured and an Italian intelligence officer was killed (Alrai, 3/5/05). Giuliana Sgrena after releasing her in Baghdad and before leaving to the airport. (Saudi Aljazirah, 3/5/05). An Iraqi man looking at what remained of a car bomb in Baquba yesterday. At least 2 US soldiers and 8 Iraqis were killed in Baghdad, Baquba, and Ramadi. (Saudi Aljazirah,  3/5/05). Iraqi police officers inspect debris from a car bomb which was detonated as a U.S. armored convoy passed by, in Baquba, 70km (43 miles) north of Baghdad, March 4, 2005. One civilian died and 3 were wounded in the blast.(REUTERS/Stringer/iraq, 3/5/05). An elderly Iraqi man speaks to U.S. Marines conducting a security operation in the city of Hit, west of Baghdad, March 4, 2005. 2 US soldiers and 8 Iraqis were killed on Friday attacks. (REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili, 3/5/05).  An inside view of the Great Hall of the People as delegates attend the opening session of the National Peoples' Congress in Beijing March 5, 2005. China's parliament opened its annual session on Saturday and is poised to approve a bill seen ratcheting up tension with Taiwan and personnel changes that will finally give President Hu Jintao all levels of power (REUTERS/Jason Lee,.3/5/05). National People's Congress chairperson Wu Bangguo (C) speaks as Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) and Premier Wen Jiabao listen during the National People's Congress session in Beijing March 5, 2005. China's parliament opened its annual session on Saturday and is poised to approve a bill seen ratcheting up tension with Taiwan and personnel changes that will finally give President Hu Jintao all levers of power. (REUTERS/Claro Cortes iv, 3/5/05). A Palestinian youth hurls a stone towards Israeli occupation soldiers during a protest at the Israeli Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall near the West Bank village of Beit Surik, March 4, 2005. (REUTERS/ Mahfouz Abu turk, 3/5/05).

Giuliana Sgrena after releasing her in Baghdad and before leaving to the airport. (Saudi Aljazirah, 3/5/05).	A Palestinian youth hurls a stone towards Israeli occupation soldiers during a protest at the Israeli Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall near the West Bank village of Beit Surik, March 4, 2005. (REUTERS/ Mahfouz Abu turk, 3/5/05).	An inside view of the Great Hall of the People as delegates attend the opening session of the National Peoples' Congress in Beijing March 5, 2005. China's parliament opened its annual session on Saturday and is poised to approve a bill seen ratcheting up tension with Taiwan and personnel changes that will finally give President Hu Jintao all levels of power (REUTERS/Jason Lee,.3/5/05).