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Scores of Iraqis were arrested by US forces and US-led Iraqi forces in Mosul, Tikrit, Baquba, and Samarra on Sunday (Saudi Aljazirah, 3/6/05).


U.S. military personnel line up along the wall of a local Iraqi home as they prepare to enter and search houses in a targeted area just outside of Al Karmah, near the Iraqi beleaguered city of Falluja, March 6, 2005. (Reuters/Ho, 3/6/05).


Lebanon's Hizbollah leader Shaikh Hassan Nasrullah walks to a news conference in Beirut March 6,2005. Hizbullah, Lebanon's most powerful party, threw its weight against Syria's opponents, calling for a peaceful mass rally in central Beirut in support of Damascus and against Western meddling. (Reuters, 3/6/05).


Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad addresses parliament in Damascus March 5, 2005. Syria will gradually start to pull its troops out of Lebanon but the withdrawal would not mean the absence of a Syrian role there, Assad said. (Photo by Khaled Al-Hariri/ Reuters, 3/5/05).


Maria Rosa, wife of slain Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari, follows his coffin on arrival at Rome's Ciampino airport March 6, 2005. Italy is to give a posthumous award for valour to secret service agent Calipari, who was instrumental in the release of hostage Giuliana Sgrena, and then saved the reporter's life by acting as a human shield as the car was riddled with bullets on their approach to Baghdad airport. (REUTERS/ Chris Helgren, 3/5/05).


Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister, El-Molqi, in Ramallah yesterday (IPC, 3/6/05).


Iranian Security Chief, Hassan Rouhani, addressing a conference about nuclear technologies in Tehran, on Saturday (Annahar, 3/6/05).


German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, shaking hands with female university students in Abu Dhabi on Saturday (Annahar, 3/6/05).


The stone against the Bulldozer: The Palestinian-Israeli truce has allowed Israeli bulldozers to continue stealing Palestinian lands and denied Palestinians using arms to resist the Israeli occupation. Above: A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to throw a stone at Israeli border police during clashes at the construction site of the Israeli Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall near the West Bank village of Beit Surik. (07 Mar 2005 REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic).


Iraqis in Ba'aquba demonstrating yesterday demanding the US withdrawal from Iraq (Assafir, 3/7/05).


Iraqi Civil War Scene: A US-recruited Iraqi soldier (hiding his face) guards an Iraqi detainee following a raid in Baghdad, March 7, 2005. Iraqi resistance attacked Iraqi soldiers security forces with a suicide car bomb, mortars and land mines killing 24 of them in various cities. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/ Reuters, 3/7/05).


US soldiers arresting an Iraqi man in Hitt with help from a US-recruited Iraqi soldier. In two weeks, US forces arrested 470 Iraqis in Al-Anbar. Yesterday, two Iraqi homes were demolished as a collective punishment for two families in Hitt because of finding weapons there (Annahar, Alittihad, Al-Khaleej, 3/7/05).


Iraqis reading a poster supporting the Iraqi government deportation of 10,000 Arabs living in Iraq. Iraqi police and armed forces have been cracking down on Arabs. Palestinians also have been targeted (Alquds Alarabi, 3/7/05).


Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (R) and his Lebanese counterpart PresidentEmile Lahoud shake hands after signing an agreement to pull Syrian troops back to Lebanon's eastern Beka'a Valley by the end of March in Damascus March 7, 2005. (Photo by Khaled Al-Hariri/Reuters, 3/7/05).


The coffin of slain Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari is carried by members of Italy's armed forces into Rome's Saint Maria degli Angeli church during a state funeral March 7, 2005. Italy paid homage to the intelligence officer killed in Iraq by U.S. forces, giving him a full state funeral that was tinged with anger over how he was gunned down while protecting a freed Italian hostage. (Photo by Max Rossi/Reuters, 3/7/05).


President Bush on March 7, 2005 nominated United Nations critic John Bolton to be the new U.S. ambassador to the world body. Bolton speaks at a program hosted by the Tokyo American Center and the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo on Feb. 7. Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters, 3/7/05).


Moroccans demonstrating in Rabat yesterday demanding release of 408 Moroccan prisoners of war held by the POLISARIO (Assafir, 3/7/05).


A pro-Syrian Lebanese protester beats himself with a knife beside a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad near the Syrian intelligence headquarters in Beirut March 6, 2005. Syria will start pulling back its forces in Lebanon to Beka'a valley on Monday, Lebanon said, in the first stage of what Syria says will be a swift two-phased withdrawal of its troops. (REUTERS/ Stringer, 3/7/05).


A pro-Syrian Lebanese protester beats himself beside a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad near the Syrian intelligence headquarters in Beirut March 6, 2005. (Alquds Alarabi, 3/7/05).


Iraqi authorities arrive at the scene after a powerful suicide bomb exploded in central Baghdad early March 9, 2005. A suicide bomber in a garbage truck packed with explosives killed two policemen near a Baghdad hotel and police found 41 corpses, shot or decapitated, south of Baghdad. (Photo by Akram Saleh/ Reuters, 3/9/05).


Lebanon is not Ukraine, Georgia, or Romania (where the US intervened and changed governments), said Hizbullah leader Shaikh Hassan Nasrullah (C), surrounded by bodyguards as he addressed Lebanese demonstrators in central Beirut March 8, 2005. About five hundred thousands of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbullah that dwarfed previous Lebanese protests demanding that Syrian troops quit Lebanon. (08 Mar 2005 REUTERS/ Damir Sagolj).


Lebanese people wave flags as they listen to Hizbullah leader Shaikh Hassan Nasrullah addressing the crowd during a pro-Syrian rally in central Beirut March 8, 2005. About five hundred thousand of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbullah that dwarfed previous Lebanese protests demanding that Syrian troops quit Lebanon. (08 Mar 2005 REUTERS/ Sharif Karim).


The Chechen President, Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed by Russian forces in the village of Tolstoy, near Grozni yesterday. Maskhadov announced a unilateral ceasefire last month, but this was not reciprocated by the Russian government. (Assafir, 3/9/05).


An Israeli occupation soldier forces a Palestinian young man at gunpoint to take off his clothes to make sure that he has no weapons, in the old city of Hebron (Assafir, 3/9/05).


Making Turkish coffee in her kitchen, Amani Al-Hissi, 25, from Al-Shati refugee camp, in Gaza, who lost her eyesight after having been shot by Israeli occupation soldiers on 18/12/1987, when she was 6-year-old, Read more about her in today's issue: Vision of Amani Al-Hissi: A Palestinian Girl Made Blind By Israeli Soldiers (WAFA, 3/9/05).


The Palm Beach Post of Florida ran an online video showing recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers, like the one above (Alrai, 3/9/05).


The Palm Beach Post of Florida ran an online video showing recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers. Above: Iraqis with their hands on the wall at the presence of two US soldiers (Alrai, 3/9/05).


About five hundred thousand of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbullah that dwarfed previous Lebanese protests demanding that Syrian troops quit Lebanon. (Assafir, 3/9/05).


	About half a million Lebanese chanted, what's written on the poster, Syria = Yes, France = Stop, USA = Out, 1559 = Death, during this demonstration of gratitude to Syria, yesterday (AP, 3/8/05).


Lebanese people wave flags as they listen to Hizbullah leader Shaikh Hassan Nasrullah addressing the crowd during a pro-Syrian rally in central Beirut March 8, 2005. About five hundred thousand of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbullah that dwarfed previous Lebanese protests demanding that Syrian troops quit Lebanon. (08 Mar 2005 REUTERS/ Damir Sagolj).


A Lebanese woman shouts slogans and holds up a banner during a pro-Syrian rally in central Beirut March 8, 2005. About five hundred thousand of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut on Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbullah that dwarfed previous protests demanding that Syrian troops quit Lebanon. (08 Mar 2005 REUTERS/Sharif Karim).

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