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Two million pilgrims arrive in Mecca for Hajj ritual.Above: Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims praying around Al-Ka'abah, part of the Haj pilgrimage to the House of God in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The culmination of Haj will be on Saturday, December 30, when pilgrims celebrate Eidul Adha. They will be followed by Muslims around the world. (Ma'an, 12/27/06).     Confrontations Between Palestinian Farmers Defending their Lands in Salamuna (above) and Israeli Occupation Forces Grabbing Lands for the Apartheid Wall (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 12/27/06).     Confrontations Between Palestinian Farmers Defending their Lands in Salamuna (above) and Israeli Occupation Forces Grabbing Lands for the Apartheid Wall (Al-Ayyam, 12/27/06).     7 US Soldiers, 44 Iraqis Killed in Attacks, US-Installed Court Upholds Death Sentence to Captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussain, Execution Within 30 Days. Above: An injured US soldier (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 12/27/06).     An Iraqi man looking at a pile of destroyed cars, following a car bomb explosion in Baghdad yesterday (Alittihad, 12/27/06).     Transitional Federal Government soldiers patrol in the streets of Burhakaba in Somalia, Tuesday, Dec 26, 2006. Read More: US Supports the Ethiopian Invasion and Occupation of Muslim Somalia  (AP Photo, 12/27/06).     US Supports the Ethiopian Invasion and Occupation of Muslim Somalia. Above: Ethiopian invaders (Al-Khaleej, 12/27/06).     2 Latvian Soldiers, 111 Iraqis Killed, Ba'ath Party Threatens to Retaliate Against US Interests Worldwide if Saddam is Executed. Above: Devastated Iraqis grieving death of relatives (Al-Khaleej, 12/27/06).     2 Latvian Soldiers, 111 Iraqis Killed, Ba'ath Party Threatens to Retaliate Against US Interests Worldwide if Saddam is Executed. (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 12/27/06).      Sunni Muslim Iraqi leader, Hareth Al-Dhari, told Al-Nahar newspaper that the Shi'i death squads are sponsored by US forces, US-backed Iraqi government, and Iran (Al-Nahar, 12/27/06).  US Supports the Ethiopian Invasion and Occupation of Muslim Somalia. Above: A Somali resistance fighter in Mogadishu yestrday (Alquds Alarabi, 12/27/06).

Pilgrims offer Isha prayers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Wednesday before leaving for the nearby tent city of Mina at the start of the annual pilgrimage. (AFP, Arab News, 12/28/06).     5 US Soldiers, 28 Iraqis Killed on Thursday, Saddam's Attorney Warn the US Against Executing the Captured Iraqi President, Who is a Prisoner of War. Above: Grieving Iraqi women (Alquds Alarabi, 12/28/06).     A Transitional Federal Government soldier passes a dead Islamic Courts Militia in Bur Haqaba, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Baidoa, Somalia Thursday, Dec 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Guy Calaf/pool, 12/28/06).     Iraqi children pass by a vandalized mural of the former captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussain in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2006, a day after Iraq's highest court upheld his death sentence and ordered him hanged within 30 days. (AP Photo/Bassem Daham)     Ethiopian Invading Forces Enter Mogadishu Without Fighting, Islamic Courts Fighters Retreat to South Somalia. Above: Resting Somali resistance fighters (Al-Khaleej, 12/28/06).     5 US Soldiers, 28 Iraqis Killed on Thursday, Saddam's Attorney Warn the US Against Executing the Captured Iraqi President, Who is a Prisoner of War. Above: A wounded US soldier being rescued (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 12/28/06).     A US soldier during a house search in Iraq yesterday (Al-Khaleej, 12/28/06).     The Gates of Qalqilia: A Testimony of the Brutal Israeli Occupation of Palestine (PNN, 12/28/06).     Nasser Laham, the Editor in Chief of the Ma'an news agency (Ma'an, 12/28/06).

Muslim pilgrims performing the haj climb the Jebel al-Rahma (Mount Mercy) at the plain of Arafat, near Mecca, December 29, 2006. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji, 12/29/06).      A new book by Ury Dan reports on the assassination of the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat. The author said that Sharon ordered the assassination after receiving a green light from the US President, George Bush (Ma'a, 12/29/06).     The Israeli occupation government has started building a new illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank, in defiance of the whole world, enjoying full protection and assistance from the US government (Ma'an, 12/29/06).     In devastated Iraq, the land of the two rivers, an Iraqi woman carrying plastic containers in her way to fill them with water (Alquds Alarabi, 12/29/06).       Somalis watch US-backed Ethiopian occupation forces advancing to their capital of Mogadishu. Somalia is the third Arab state occupied directly by foreign invaders after Palestine, and Iraq. Most of the rest of Arab states are indirectly occupied through foreign military bases or parts of their lands are occupied by foreign invaders (AP, 12/29/06).     In a file photo provided by the Iraqi News Agency Iraqi President Saddam Hussain speaks during a televised address Dec. 20, 1998 in Baghdad, Iraq. State-run Iraqiya television says, Saturday morning, Dec. 30, 2006, that President Saddam Hussain has been hanged. (AP Photo/INA, file, 12/29/06).