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Outside the White House on 3-22-2003 held by Washington attorney - 'Heil Bush'
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High-School Protestors Outside the White House on 3-22-2003
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High-School Protestors Outside the White House on 3-22-2003
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Iyad Allawi - US selected and protected Iraqi 'Interim Prime Minister'
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Iyad Allawi - 'Interim Iraqi Prime Minister' chosen and protected by the Americans
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Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom shakes hands with Cam Kerry, brother of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, during a meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Cam Kerry, who is a convert to Judaism and also John Kerry's political adviser, is on a visit in Israel to promote his brother's candidacy for the U.S presidency.
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A Palestinian lifts his shirt to be checked by Israeli soldiers at the Howara checkpoint at the main entrance to the West Bank city of Nablus July 14, 2004.
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Relatives of arrested Fatah militant Ala Abdel Karim Safafi, accused of involvement in several suicide bombings in Jerusalem, look at the debris of his house after it destroyed by the Israeli army, in the Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, July 13, 2004. Israel has demolished the homes of thousands of people in the West Bank and Gaza since it began the policy of destroying the homes of Palestinian militants in August 2002.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat holds a newspaper during a meeting at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 14, 2004. An Israeli contingency plan for the event of Yasser Arafat's death says Israel must prevent his burial in Jerusalem and predicts chaos in the Palestinian territories accompanied by regional instability.
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Palestinians look at the body of regional commander of Islamic Jihad militants, Noman Tahaineh, in the West Bank city of Jenin, July 13, 2004. Israeli troops killed Tahaineh as soldiers fired on a car containing wanted men as they tried to escape capture, military sources said.
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A Palestinian youth hurls stones at Israeli army vehicles during clashes in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 13,2004.
Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini
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Palestinian farmers ride past a watchtower along the controversial Israeli security barrier in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, July 12, 2004. Arab states on Monday sought an emergency session of the U.N. General Assembly to demand that Israel comply with a World Court ruling that its West Bank security barrier is illegal and must be dismantled.
Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters
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Palestinian masked militants of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militia linked to Fatah movement, march with their rifles during a demonstration supporting Beit Hanoun residents, at Palestine Square in Gaza city, Monday July 12, 2004. Arabic on headband reads ' Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade '.
(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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The Likud Leadership of Israel - Olmert, Sharon, Silvan, Netanyahu
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A Palestinian boy searches in the rubble for belongings after Israeli army bulldozers demolished his house in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip.
(AFP/Said Khatib)
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Sharon's Cabinet Votes to Stay in power during Knesset 'no confidence' vote - Olmert, Sharon, Silvan, Netanyahu
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The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are turning against their own government - 17 July 2004
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Al-Aqsa Brigade Fighters Have Become More Active in Occupied Palestine
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Al-Aqsa Brigade Fighters Have Become More Active in Occupied Palestine and begun to challenge the rule of Yasser Arafat and the 'Palestinian Authority' set up the by Israel and the U.S. in the mid 1990s.
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George Bush and neocons keep pointing to Iran - a member of the 'axis of evil'
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The General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.
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United Nations Security Council in New York City.
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Reforms, the American way - published in Jordanian daily Al-'Arab Al-Yawm, July 25, 2004.
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Published in Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal, July 25, 2004
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House of Bush and House of Saud - The explosive book by Craig Ungar
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he wants to see hundreds of thousands of American Jews emigrate to Israel.
(ABCNEWS.com - 24 July 2004)
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Paris Hilton - One of the images of America seen around the world, including the conservative Muslim world
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The French-gift Statue of Liberty is often caricatured at home and abroad in modern times
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The Democratic Party Boston Convention in July 2004
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The American Secretary of State, with the American chosen 'interim Prime Minister' of Iraq, announcing on 28 July 2004 'Muslim' forces to come to Iraq with Saudi help and money.
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Flags from Around the World
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Lieutenant John Kerry Now Prides Himself for his Vietnam exploits
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Bush and all the senior figures in the Rose Garden on 2 August 2004 - 'We Are At War'
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Over a hundred thousand link hands in human chain from Gaza to Jerusalem in protest against plan to dismantle Jewish settlements and withdraw the army from Gaza - 25 July 2004
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Washington is becoming more of a fortress city as government declares additional 'security alerts' - 3 August 2004
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Old Veterans Hired by Republicans Attack Kerry's War Record 'Unfit For Command'
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Several of the recording artists who make up "Vote for Change" are shown in this photo released in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004. Members of the group will perform in a series of fund-raising concerts in nine swing states before the presidential election in an effort to unseat President Bush. From left are Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard: Boyd Tinsley of the Dave Matthews Band, Jackson Browne; Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks, Steven Van Zandt from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks, Patti Scialfa of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, John Mellencamp, Nick Harmer of Death Cab for Cutie and R.E.M's Mike Mills.
AP Photo/Vote for Change, Danny Clinch, HO
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The New Attack Kerry Book - Unfit For Command
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Palestinian Resistance Remains Deeply Felt Throughout the Occupied Territories
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Israel's Vast network of Settlements and Fortifications (2002)
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The U.N. 'Partition of Palestine Plan' - 1947
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Palestine 1947
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American Jews Have the Most Powerful Foreign Policy Lobby in Washington
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American Patriot Missiles Are Now Widely Deployed
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Dennis Ross and other Jewish lobbyists have had great involvment in U.S. government policies in the Middle East.
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Israel has continually expanded settlements throughout the Occupied Territories Since 1967
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Israel has continually expanded settlements throughout the Occupied Territories Since 1967
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Al Qaeda Leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri from Egypt
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U.S. Ambassador and Israeli Lobby official Dennis Ross in Jerusalem
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Iyad Allawi put in power in Iraq by U.S. Ambassador Paul Bremer
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U.S. official Dennis Ross with PA official Ahmed Qureia
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Iran's Defense Ministry carried out a field test of the latest version of its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile on August 11, 2004 state television reported. Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said last week Iran was working on improvements to the range and accuracy of Shahab-3, which defense experts say Tehran could use to strike arch-foe Israel or U.S. military bases in the Gulf. A truck carrying the medium range missile is seen during a military parade south of Tehran September 22.
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An Iraqi militiaman, loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr, carries a rocket propelled grenade launcher past a closed tourist stall in the southern city of Najaf, August 11, 2004. U.S. marines said they were preparing a final assault on Iraqi Shi'ite militia in the holy city of Najaf, after a radical cleric ordered his men to keep fighting even if he was killed.
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Iraq is centrally located at the heart of the Arab and Muslim worlds.
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A well-armed Capitol Police officer patrols in front of the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday. While the Capitol Police have increased their presence across the grounds, the Library of Congress Police are facing a staffing shortage and struggling with day-to-day duties.
Roll Call
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The American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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The American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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The American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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The American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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The American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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The massive American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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The American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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The American attack on Najaf and Shia Islam in August 2004 will have historical ramifications.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf unveils the Heritage Museum on the eve of 58th Independence Day of Pakistan, in Islamabad, August 14, 2004. Musharraf vowed on Saturday to crush Islamic militancy, saying there would be no let up in the Muslim nation's biggest ever crackdown on al Qaeda operatives and other radicals.
8-14-04
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Soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Cav. from Fort Hood, Texas, stop a pick-up truck with family members trying to get a critically wounded man to hospital from a neighborhood outside of Sadr City after clashes with other soldiers just down the street Saturday Aug. 14, 2004.
(AP Photo/David P. Gilkey, Pool)
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An Iraqi civilian looks at the debris left after U.S. warplanes bombed the largely Sunni city of Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, after a series of clashes, Saturday Aug. 14, 2004. The U.S. military said about 50 militants were killed in the operation, but police Maj. Saadoun al-Dulaimi said 12 people were killed, including three policeman, and 36 were injured. 8-14-04
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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American soldiers aboard a Bradley armored vehicle move towards Al-Sadr militant positions in the world's largest cemetery in the holy Shiite city of Najaf Thursday Aug. 12, 2004.
(AP Photo/Tod Pitman)
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Mahdi army soldiers take a break near the Ali Imam shrine during the ceasefire called to hold negotiations between the Iraqi government and the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq Saturday Aug. 14, 2004.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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American soldiers look towards Mahdi army positions at the the world's largest cemetery in the holy Shiite city of Najaf Thurday Aug. 12, 2004.
(AP Photo/Tod Pitman)
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Avraham Burg, once Speaker of the Knesset: "We are not a state of evil or a society of evil. But we have lost the sensors of evil. We are obtuse. We are blind. We do not feel and we do not see."
(Eyal Warshavsky/BauBau)
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Arash Miresmaili kisses the Koran after becoming world judo champion. He withdrew from Olympics competition in Greece after drawing Israel as his first competitor.
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Iyad Allawi was appointed by and is protected by the U.S.
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Ralph Nader Finally Began Speaking Up About Israeli Power in Washington in August 2004.
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Mahdi Army soldiers and supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, who have set up camp at the ancient Imam Ali mosque, the holiest Shiite shrine in Najaf, rest after the U.S. military suspended operations against Sadr's fighters. 14 August 2004
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The 'rebellion' escalates in Iraq from Najaf to Basra - 14
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The 'rebellion' escalates in Iraq from Najaf to Basra - 14 Auust 2004
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Iraqis loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist pictures of al-Sadr as they rally in the Imam Ali mosque complex while clashes take place between US and Iraqi soldiers with Sadr's militia in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, Monday Aug. 16, 2004.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqis loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist pictures of al-Sadr as they rally in the Imam Ali mosque complex as clashes take place between US and Iraqi soldiers with Sadr's militia in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, Monday Aug. 16, 2004.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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The historic battle for Najaf in August 2004.
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Ashraf Jahangir - New U.N. Envoy to Iraq - August 2004
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Muslim Fighters Defending the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf - 15 August 2004
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The Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq was built in the 8th century A.D.
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Iraqis loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist pictures of al-Sadr as they rally in the Imam Ali mosque complex as clashes take place between US and Iraqi soldiers with Sadr's militia in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, Monday Aug. 16, 2004.
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Iraqi supporters of radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr (pictures) demonstrate against US occupation in front of Najaf's Imam Ali shrine, one of the holiest religious sites for Shiite Muslims.
(AFP/Karim Sahib)
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Iran's Shahab missile at a military parade in Tehran.
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There is rage throughout the Palestinian Occupied Territories Against the Israeli Military Occupation and U.S. support for Israel.
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Israeli Settlements Continue Arising and Expanding throughout the West Bank - August 2004
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The Cave of John the Baptist - found in August 2004
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Historic Fighting Between Muslim Iraqis and U.S. occupation troops in August 2004 in Najaf.
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Historic Fighting Between Muslim Iraqis and U.S. occupation troops in August 2004 in Najaf.
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Muqtada Sadr has become the symbol of popular militant resistance to the American occupation of Iraq - August 2004
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BIG FLOAT: Iran's Shahab-3 missile is shown at a Tehran military parade in 2000. Iran tested an upgraded Shahab-3 Aug. 11, two weeks after Israel tested its Arrow II antimissile.
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UN Forces Remain on Israel's borders with Lebanon and Syria as well as in the Sinai
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Iraqi journalists have frequently protested their treatment by U.S. and Regime throughout Iraq.
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Mahdi army fighters loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist their weapons as violence continues in the al-Sadr stronghold of Sadr city neighbourhood in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday Aug. 18, 2004.
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Najaf, Iraq - 17 August 2004
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Najaf, Iraq - 17 August 2004
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Najaf, Iraq - 17 August 2004
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Iraqis loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist pictures of al-Sadr as they rally in the Imam Ali mosque complex as clashes take place between U.S. and Iraqi soldiers with Sadr's militia in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, Monday Aug. 16, 2004.
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Iran Has Missiles that can strike throughout the region including Israel. On 18 August the Iranian Defense Minister even publicly threatened a possible 'pre-emptive' against the U.S.and Israel.
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Muktadr Al-Sadr - Trying to follow in his revered father's footsteps.
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A U.S. Army soldier passes under unidentified portraits while searching a school building for insurgent snipers near the cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004
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A U.S. special operations sniper locks on a target near the cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004.
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A Mahdi army soldier loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr carries a rocket propelled grenade launcher during clashes with British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004.
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Mahdi army soldiers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr take positions during clashes with British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004.
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President George W. Bush has a brain cramp
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U.S. Army soldiers, no names given, take cover in a fortified position during an attack by numerous snipers in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004. Explosions and gunbattles persisted Thursday through the streets of the holy city of Najaf, which has been wracked by violence since the Shiite militant uprising began two weeks ago.
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Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist an image, right, showing Imam Ali, left, and Imam Hussein, right, with Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, front, father of Muqtada al-Sadr, as other followers hold pictures of Muqtada al-Sadr, at the Imam Ali shrine as clashes between the al-Mahdi army and U.S. and Iraqi forces take place near the shrine in the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq - Aug. 19, 2004.
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Smoke rises from a building in Najaf hit by a U.S. aerial assault on 19 August 2004
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Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist a portrait of al-Sadr at the Imam Ali shrine as clashes between Mahdi army fighters with US soldiers and Iraqi forces take place near the shrine in the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq - Aug. 19, 2004.
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A U.S. Army sniper, no name given, lays low in a fortified position during an attack by numerous snipers in Najaf, Iraq - Aug. 19, 2004.
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Najaf's historic centre is bombarded overnight as US and Iraqi forces move closer to the Imam Ali shrine on 19 August 2004
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A Mehdi fighter loyal to Moqtada Sadr looks towards American positions close to the Imam Ali shrine. 19 Aug 2004
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Najaf's historic centre is bombarded overnight as US and Iraqi forces move closer to the Imam Ali shrine. 19 August 2004
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Followers of Moqtada Sadr hoist a portrait of the radical Shia cleric at the Imam Ali shrine as his Mehdi Army fighters clash with US soldiers and Iraqi forces nearby. 19 August 2004
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For centuries, the world’s 120 million Shiite Muslims have revered the gold-domed mosque of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib — named after the slain cousin and son-in-law of Islam’s prophet Muhammad — as a place of pilgrimage.
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A handcuffed Mohammed Salah, an Arab-American from the Chicago, Ill., area, makes a V-sign as he is taken by Israeli border police to a meeting with a judge at the Ramalah military court in the occupied West Bank, in this May 24, 1993 file photo. Salah is one of three Palestinian activists indicted by U.S. officials Friday, Aug. 20, 2004, on charges they participated in a lengthy racketeering conspiracy to provide money for terrorist acts in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
(AP Photo/Jacqueline Arzt)
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Supporters of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al Sadr walk past Najaf's Imam Ali shrine, August 21, 2004. Fighters loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were firmly in control of Najaf's Imam Ali mosque, defying efforts by Iraq's U.S.-backed government to end a radical Shi'ite rebellion.
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US-led forces have pounded Najaf to quell Shia resistance - BBC Caption 22 August 2004
BBC - 22 Aug 2004
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Patrick Buchanon on 'Where The Right Went Wrong'
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Marines stood guard on Saturday over some of the 29 captives taken in a night raid of a suspected Mahdi Army haven in Kufa, Iraq
NYTimes, 22 August 2004
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Napoleon's Folly - Napoleon's attempt to seize Egypt in 1798 was a major Western incursion into the Middle East. The French general, defeated by the British, quickly left Egypt although some of his troops remained for the next three years.
Credit: © Christie's Images/Corbis
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The French-engineered Suez Canal, shown under construction, opened up a sea route from Port Said on the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. The canal was opened in 1869, intensifying European competition in the Middle East.
Credit: © Bettmann/Corbis
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British forces gather around the Great Sphinx at Giza in 1882.
Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
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The British turned Cairo into a colonial city turning such property of the Mamluk rulers like the Gezira Palace of the Khedive of Egypt into a colonial enclave. Today the palace is part of a hotel, complete with garden dining and a piano bar.
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By the early 20th century, Europe had carved up much of the Middle East and Africa.
Credit: Geoffrey Gaudreault, NPR
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A senior Iranian military official said on August 15, 2004 that Israel and the U.S. would not dare attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest missiles, news agencies reported. Iranian officials have made a point of highlighting the Islamic state's military capabilities in recent weeks in response to some media reports that Israeli or U.S. warplanes could try to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities in air strikes. A truck carrying Iran's Shahab-3 medium range missile is seen during a military parade south of Tehran September 22.
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Aron Gandhi, grandson of the late Mahatma Gandhi, under a poster of Jordan's King Abdullah, during a news conference in Amman August 24, 2004. Ghandi who showed his solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian refugees had right of return and the right to establish their independent state.
REUTERS/Ali Jarekji - 23 Aug 2004
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A Palestinian woman opens the door to Israeli soldiers searching houses in Nablus.
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A Palestinian stone thrower takes position in front of a burning barricade during clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Nablus, August 22, 2004. Palestinians accused the United States of destroying the Middle East peace process after Washington signaled it could accept some growth of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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Smoke is seen rising near the Imam Ali shrine as militants loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fight with U.S. and Iraqi forces in fierce battles in the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq Monday Aug. 23, 2004.
(AP Photo/Mohammed Hussein)
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A U.S. soldier escorts an unidentified insurgent, captured in central Iraq (news - web sites) August 21, 2004. A U.S. military aircraft and ground artillery launched several strikes on suspected Shi'ite militant positions in the besieged southern city of Najaf late Monday, Reuters witnesses said. At least 12 blasts were heard in the city as an AC-130 plane was heard circling above.
(U.S. Army/Reuters)
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Elderly Iraqi Shi'ite man Bakka Ibrahim, 79, rests during his weekly visit to the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf August 23, 2004. All the action didn't prevent the 79-year-old man from sitting on a step and seeking spiritual comfort in the golden shrine, his weekly routine since he was a young boy. Fierce fighting broke out around the shrine and pieces of shrapnel landed in the courtyard of the mosque held by followers of a radical Shi'ite cleric. (
Chris Helgren/Reuters
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie holds a poster of imprisoned leader of the Fatah (news - web sites) movement Marwan Barghouti, during a rally to support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons in East Jerusalem, August 24, 2004. Israel declared its hospitals off-limits on Tuesday to the 2,800 Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, saying they could be treated in makeshift facilities behind bars if taken ill. 'I am not prepared for there to be a situation where the lives of patients and medical teams are endangered in our hospitals as a result of us having to admit these murderers,' Health Minister Danny Naveh told Army Radio.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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An Israeli soldier guards arrested Palestinians in a school in the Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, August 24, 2004. The Israeli army rounded up more than 300 Palestinians between the ages of 16 and 50 and formally arrested at least one in a sweep into a West Bank refugee camp on Tuesday.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
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Israeli soldiers escort blindfolded Palestinians as they are taken into custody from the courtyard of a school at the Askar refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday Aug. 24, 2004. Israeli troops raided the camp Tuesday, rounding up hundreds of its male residents in a high school courtyard and detaining them, according to witnesses. The raid came just a day after Israeli troops withdrew from Nablus, which the army claims is a center of militant activity, after more than a week of a series of searches and arrests in the city's center.
(AP Hoto/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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An Israeli oldier stands amid detained Palestinians in the courtyard of a school at the Askar refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday Aug. 24, 2004. Israeli troops raided the camp Tuesday, rounding up hundreds of its male residents and detained them, according to witnesses. The raid came just a day after Israeli troops withdrew from Nablus, which the army claims is a center of militant activity, after more than a week of a series of searches and arrests in the city's center.
(AP Hoto/Nasser Ishtayeh
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The Americans and their new Baghdad Regime try to put down the Iraqi rebellion of August 2004 centered in Najaf.
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A U.S. Army sniper takes position Tuesday near the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq. 24 August 2004
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An elderly Iraqi man feeds pigeons in Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, August 23, 2004. Fierce fighting broke out around a shrine in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf Monday, and pieces of shrapnel landed in the courtyard of the mosque held by followers of a radical Shi'ite cleric. 24 Aug 2004
REUTERS/Chris Helgren
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Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen, loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, hold up their weapons as they chant in support for their leader following clashes with coalition and Iraqi forces in the southern city of Basra August 22, 2004. U.S. tanks advanced to within 800 yards of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday after talks on surrendering control of the shrine at the center of an 18-day siege ran into trouble.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
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Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen, loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, deploy during clashes with coalition and Iraqi forces in the southern city of Basra, August 22, 2004. U.S. tanks advanced to within 800 yards of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday after talks on surrendering control of the shrine at the center of an 18-day siege ran into trouble.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
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An Iraqi militiaman, loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, looks through the scope of his sniper rifle during clashes with coalition and Iraqi forces in the southern city of Basra August 22, 2004. U.S. tanks advanced to within 800 yards of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday after talks on surrendering control of the shrine at the center of an 18-day siege ran into trouble.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
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Armed Iraqi militiamen, loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, take positions during clashes with coalition and Iraqi forces in the southern city of Basra, August 22, 2004. U.S. tanks advanced to within 800 yards of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday after talks on surrendering control of the shrine at the center of an 18-day siege ran into trouble.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
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Palestinian women hold pictures of their dear ones during nationwide Hunger Strike - August 2004
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Top Pentagon Generak - Christian Evangelican William Boykin - declared in 2002 'My God Is Bigger Than Their God'
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Painting 'The Wall' by Mary Ann Lederer
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Donald Rumseld brought the nation's top Israeli Lobby Jewish neocons to top positions in the Pentagon.
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Donald Rumseld brought the nation's top Israeli Lobby Jewish neocons to top positions in the Pentagon.
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Palestinian Young People Have Flocked to Join and Support Hamas
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Saladin united the Arabs from Damascus to Cairo, leading Arab armies in a successful campaign against the European Crusaders in late 12th century.
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Iraqis wave an Iraqi flag and hoist a picture of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr in Kufa as they chant slogans after a mortar attack in Kufa, Iraq on the day Ayatollah al-Sistani returns to Najaf.
AP - 26 August 2004
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Iraqis demonstrate for radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on the day Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani returns to Najaf.
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A man is given treatment after a suspected mortar attack on the main mosque in Kufa - 26 August 2004
26 August 2004
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Victims are tended in the garden of the main hospital in Kufa after it ran out of space inside. 26 August 2004
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Iraqis in the Kufa mosque continue to chant slogans in favour of their Shia leaders after the attack. 26 August 2004
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Shia faithful march from Kufa to Najaf in anticipation of their spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's arrival at the holy city. 26 August 2004
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Bloody scenes as gunmen thought to be 'Iraqi police' open fire on the marchers in Kufa heading toward Najaf at the behest of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - 26 August 2004.
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A boy is rushed to hospital after being seriously wounded in the attack on the march from Kufa to Najaf called by Ayatollah al-Sistani on 26 August 2004
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Meanwhile Mr Sistani's supporters from all over Iraq heed his call to meet in Najaf. His image adorns minibuses heading from Baghdad to the holy city.
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Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Returned to Najaf on 26 August 2004
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U.S. Forces in Najaf, Irag on 26 August 2004 with the Shrine of Imam Ali down the main street.
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Another Israeli Spy Scandal Erupted in Washington in late August 2004.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell was forced at the last moment to cancel his visit to Athens to attend the closing ceremonies at the 2004 Olympics.
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Undersecretary of defense Douglas Feith worked with alleged mole Larry Franklin, according to some sources in Washington.
(AP - 28 August 2004)
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Douglas Feith, Senior Official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, with alleged Israeli spy Larry Franklin.
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Jonathan Pollard - Spy for Israel arrested in 1985 but it took 13 years for the Israelis to end their coverup and admit he was their spy.
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Bush and the top officials in his Administration dealing with the 9/11 Report in August 2004.
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Athens Police Put Down Anti-American Demonstrators in Advance of Visit by Secretary of State Powell which was then cancelled.
28 August 2004
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Anti-US Demonstrations Forced U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to Cancel Visit to Athens and the closing Olympics Ceremony.
27 August 2004
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Iranian Missile on Display Warning Israel Not to attack.
August 2004
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami with a picture of Ayatollah Khomeni in the background.
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The struggle with the U.S. empire has Arabs and Muslims engaged as rarely before.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FH28Ak01.html
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The largest demonstration at a political convention in history greeted the Republicans to New York on 29 August 2004
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Palestinian women with pictures of their killed or arrested sons
August 2004
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Palestinians Protest Against Israeli Occupation and U.S. Policies
August 2004
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Biggest Political Provention in Convention History in New York on 29 August 2004
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Douglas Feith, long-time Israeli activist was made the #3 top civilian at the Pentagon when George W. Bush became President.
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Douglas Feith, long-time Israeli activist was made the #3 top civilian at the Pentagon when George W. Bush became President. The alleged Israeli spy working closely with the Israeli-Jewish lobby, Larry Franklin, was hired by Feith to work on Iranian intelligence.
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Douglas Feith, long-time Israeli activist was made the #3 top civilian at the Pentagon when George W. Bush became President. The alleged Israeli spy working closely with the Israeli-Jewish lobby, Larry Franklin, was hired by Feith to work on Iranian intelligence.
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Protestors were arrested all over New York City during the Republican Convention at Madison Square Garden.
1 Sept 04
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A protest sign is held up behind U.S. President George W. Bush as he delivers his speech to the delegation during the final night of the 2004 Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 2, 2004. The protester was removed from the convention hall by authorities.
Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters
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Israeli soldiers walk beside an army vehicle as they prepare to move into the Palestinian refugee camp of Deir al-Balah near the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in Gaza strip September 2, 2004. Israeli forces blew up two large apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) on Thursday, destroying the homes of hundreds of Palestinians, two days after suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel.
(Gadi Kabalo/Reuters)
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Khaled Mashaal, leader of the Palestinian Hamas Islamic militant group, right, and Salah Kuftaro, the youngest son of Syria's late Grand Mufti Ahmad Kuftaro, pray at the ancient Omayyad Mosque in old Damascus before Salah's father was buried in Abu al-Nour Foundation in Damascus, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004. Some 50,000 mourners marched in Kuftaro's funeral, a day after he died of heart attack, at the age of 89.
(APA Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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Palestinian gunmen from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group affiliated with Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, march during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004. Thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel ended an 18-day hunger strike on Thursday, with representatives saying that Israel had agreed to meet key demands, Palestinian sources said.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A Palestinian woman stands on the rubble of her house after two large apartment blocks were blown up by Israeli troops during a raid on the Khan Younis refugee camp southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces blew up the apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip, destroying the homes of hundreds of Palestinians two days after suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel. 2 Sept 04
(Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
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A Palestinian man sticks a portrait of a prisoner on the statue of the unknown soldier in Gaza City in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.
(AFP/Mohammed Abed)
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Nassim Jabari, 22, is seen in this undated picture released by his family. Jabari was one of two Hamas bombers from the West Bank city of Hebron who blew themselves up in two buses in Beersheba on 31 August 2004, killing themselves and 16 other people.
(AP Photo) - 2 Sept 04
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Ahmed Kawasmeh, 26, is seen in this undated picture released by his family. Kawasmeh was one of two Hamas bombers from the West Bank city of Hebron who blew themselves up in two buses in Beersheba on 31 August 2004, killing themselves and 16 other people.
(AP Photo)
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Palestinian Mohammed Kawasmeh, cousin of suicide bomber Ahmed Kawasmeh, 26, looks at the destruction to the family home after it was destroyed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Hebron Sept. 1, 2004. Kawasmeh was one of two Palestinian suicide bombers who blew themselves up almost simultaneously on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on 31 August, killing 16 Israelis and wounding more than 80. The Kawasmeh clan is one of the largest in Hebron, and had dispatched five suicide bombers in recent years. Israeli troops destroyed Ahmed Kawasmeh's family apartment, arrested three of his brothers and sealed off Hebron.
(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is surrounded by bodyguards as he speaks to students on the first day of classes at Mamlachti Gimmel School in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gestures as he speaks to students on the first day of classes at Mamlachti Gimmel School in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gestures as he speaks to students on the first day of classes at Mamlachti Gimmel School in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004.
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Palestinian Hamas supporters chant slogans during a demonstration in support of a double-bombing in Israel, in Gaza City - Aug. 31, 2004. The militant group Hamas claimed responsibilty for a double bus bombing in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba the day before that killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 80, in what appeared to be the first Palestinian suicide bombings inside Israel in six months, rescue officials said.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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During the Bush-Cheney Government that came to power in 2001 the Pentagon became taken over by Israeli-connected Jewish 'neo-cons' at the highest levels as never before.
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Israel and the Pentagon have become more intertwined than ever during the Bush/Cheney Administration
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Judge Holds NYC in Contempt for illegal arrests of demonstrators at GOP Convention
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Judge holds NYC in Contempt for Illegal Arrests to hamper protests at GOP Convention
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Bush Promises 'Safer World' at GOP Convention
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Aljazeera has become a thorn in the side for both the U.S. and the Arab 'client regimes' it sponsors in the region.
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Ariel Sharon has guided Israel to its current dangerous moment in history.
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Some of the most scathing criticism in the special Hollinger International report on 31 August 2004 was reserved for Richard N. Perle, a member of a Pentagon advisory board, shown here on Meet the Press in February, 2003.
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Haim Saban, who turned cartoons into a multibillion-dollar fortune, has an office overlooking Los Angeles, but his world view centers on Israel. - NYTimes Photo Caption on 5 Sept 2004
NYTimes
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Haim Saban, who turned cartoons into a multibillion-dollar fortune, has an office overlooking Los Angeles, but his world view centers on Israel. Saban was a frequent guest in the Clinton White House, and soon after Al Gore's defeat paid the Brookings Institution a considerable sum to turn its Middle East program, now renamed for him, over to long-time Israeli lobbyist Martin Indyk.
NYTimes - 5 Sept 2004
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National Guard records show that George W. Bush didn’t meet the commitments, or face the punishment. Boston Globe - 8 Sept 2004
(AP File Photo)
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A member of the audience pulls a demonstrator's hair as he forces her out of an auditorium where President Bush (news - web sites) was addressing a crowd of supporters at Byers Choice in Colmar, Pa. Thursday Sept. 9, 2004.
(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Edgar Bronfman 'Bought' the World Jewish Congress for himself in 1980.
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George Bush with his nemesis Michael Moore
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Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri began with opposition to President Sadat's signature of the first Camp David Agreement in 1978.
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The economies of the 'first world' have been floating on a sea of plentiful relatively inexpensive oil for many years.
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Yasser Arafat in Ramallah where the Israelis have had him penned up for years.
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Mark Bruzonsky's article about 9/11 appeared in this European Edition of Playboy in October 2001
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More than 35 killed in Baghdad on 12 Sept 2004 as U.S.Helicopter Gunships Attack Crowd in City
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U.S. Helicopter Gunships Attached Crowds in Baghdad on 12 Sept 2004 Killing this TV Reporter
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Al Gore as pictured on top of the DrudgeReport on 13 Sept 2004
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Major Hurricanes in 2004 on top of other weather changes prompted British PM Tony Blair to finally speak up.
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U.S. Helicopter Gunships Attacked a crowd in Baghdad on 12 Sept 2004.
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Humor is sometimes more telling than straight facts.
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Israel's fragmenting of the once Holy Land into crazy divides
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The National Council on U.S. Arab Relations - 'Restoring Arab-U.S. Mutual Trust and Condence...'
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Arms Corporations, Oil Companies, and Arab Client Regimes sponsor the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington
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The book that further exposes 9/11, Iraq, and the Neocons - Chaim of Command by Seymour Hersh
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The 'War on Terror' Has Additionally Morphed Into a 'War on Freedom'
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Washington investigative journalist Seymour Hersh
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Large Quantities of Bunker Busting Bombs Sold by U.S. to Israel in Sept 2004.
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CLEANING UP SIGNS OF HATE: Rabbi Stanley Wagner of Denver's BMH-BJ Synagogue wiped a swastika from the synagogue's wall this spring. The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the US has risen this year.
CSM - 15 Sept 2004 - JOHN LEYBA/THE DENVER POST/AP/FILE
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With settlements, roadblocks, by-passroads, and all kinds of restrictions, the Israelis have total control of the Palestinians and no real Palestinian State is possible under these conditions.
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Iraq Exploding in Anguish As American Military Occupation Expands
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'Ridiculous' To Blackball 'Cat Stevens' of old from U.S. shores says Yusef Islam. Israel hands seem all over this one.
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Bruce Springsteen and other top musicians decided to speak up about Bush, America, and their country during the 2004 election.
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Is Iran Next? Cover of In These Times, 28 Sept 2004
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The president praying in a scene from "Faith in the White House" first shown at Republican Convention in September 2004.
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On 1 October 1918 T.E. Lawrence and Arab forces took Damascus from the Ottoman Turks in advance of the British army advancing from Palestine.
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Farnaz Fassihi traveled to Afghanistan to cover the war against the Taliban. She is now in Iraq for the Wall Street Journal.
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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Hamas militant Khaled Amreet, who was killed in an Israel missile strike Saturday, during his funeral in Gaza City, Sunday Oct. 3, 2004. Israel's premier warned that his army's largest operation in Gaza in four years would expand, after troops left dozens of dead and rows of houses destroyed, aiming at stopping Palestinian rocket attacks on border towns.
(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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Bush and Kerry Complete to take Power in Washington - Compliments of Jibjab.com
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WASHINGTON -- Washington artist Kayti Didriksen's painting "Man of Leisure, King George" depicts President Bush in the well-known style of Manet's "Olympia", as he is presented with his crown by a depiction of Vice President Dick Cheney. The cartoonish painting has been taken down from the wall at the City Museum of Washington, awaiting a more welcoming venue.
(10/11/04 AP photo)
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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah -- Images of President Bush, top, and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, make up a corn maze. The maze will be open to the public on Sept. 24. The labyrinth is eight acres in size and has more than three miles of twists and turns.
(09/20/04 AP photo)
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LUGANO, Switzerland -- The world's most pierced woman, Elaine Davidson from Brazil, a resident in the Scottish city of Edinburgh, poses for a photographer during the 6th Ti-Tattoo Convention. Davidson claims to have upwards of 1,900 piercings, and has an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.
(08/27/04 AP photo)
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LAS VEGAS -- Rick Roufus, left, delivers a blow to the body of Taro Akebono of Japan during the third round of the K-1 Battle of Bellagio III at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Roufus won the fight by a unanimous decision.
(08/07/04 AP photo)
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ISLAMORADA, Fla. -- A tractor-trailer was dangling from the side of a bridge in the Florida Keys following an accident. It was hanging by only one of its rear tires, which was hooked onto a concrete guardrail. The truck's cab did not go over the guardrail.
(07/26/04 AP photo)
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TEL AVIV, Israel -- Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque walks at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv. The young monkey began recently walking exclusively on her hind legs after a stomach ailment nearly killed her, zookeepers said.
(07/20/04 AP photo)
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MENLO PARK, Calif. -- A Shell gas station owner put up this sign again as gas prices increase in the area. The owner put up the sign last year when prices climbed.
(05/17/04 AP photo)
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WASHINGTON -- Image released by the FBI of the the letter containing ricin sent last year to the White House that threatened to turn Washington into a "ghost town" if new trucking safety regulations went into effect.
(02/23/04 AP photo)
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Air Force One rises above the grandstands along the super stretch at Daytona International Speedway while taking off during the NASCAR Daytona 500 . President Bush arrived before the race, talked with drivers and gave the command for drivers to start their engines before watching the race.
(02/15/04 AP photo)
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A slightly raised square patch appeared on President Bush's back in the first debate.
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Washington artist Kayti Didriksen's painting "Man of Leisure, King George" depicts President Bush in the well-known style of Manet's "Olympia", as he is presented with his crown by a depiction of Vice President Dick Cheney. But the Washington Museum closed down the display shortly after it opened.
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John Kerry campaigning in Florida in October 2004.
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Pierre Salinger Charged that Gulf War I was a 'plot' by the US and Israel
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Satire on America's 'New World Order'
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Satirical Fun poked at the intelligence-challenged American President during the 2004 campaign.
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The Washington Crusaders satirized on a movie poster
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America Faces a More Hostile and Skeptical World that ever before in its history.
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Poking fun at President George Bush's intellectual 'limitations'
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'I See Stupid People Everywhere'
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The Bush Family Connection to Big oil and International Oil is considerable to say the least.
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The Bush Dynasty brings on much satire from the American left.
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American politics is now polarized as rarely before in history.
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The scene outside a movie theater in Jenkintown, Pa. as a Bush supporter grabs a Kerry supporter by the throat. Both men Vietnam Veterans, seem to symbolize a nation bitterly divided over war.
22 Oct 2004
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From left, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.,former President Bill Clinton, and former President Jimmy Carter celebrate at their "Unity Day" party in this March 25, 2004, file photo in Washington. Just over his recovery from heart surgery, Clinton will campaign for John Kerry in the election's closing days, beginning with an appearance Monday, Oct. 25, 2004, with Kerry in Philadelphia.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah -- Images of President Bush, top, and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, make up a corn maze. The maze will be open to the public on Sept. 24. The labyrinth is eight acres in size and has more than three miles of twists and turns.
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Spiritual Leader Ovadia Yosef of the Shas Party in Israel.
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The U.S. and Israel have been publicly warning and secretly preparing to attack Iran
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The U.S. and Israel have been publicly warning and secretly prepa
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On 27 October with just a week left in the U.S.election campaign Secretary of State Colin Powell went very public gain with warnings to Israel not to attack Iran
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Sentiments Among Many in the U.S. and around the world...
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The U.S.-UK Anglo-American Alliance symbolized by George Bush and Tony Blair
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A charicature of the Bush Presidency
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George Bush a few days before the November 2004 election
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John Kerrey a few days before the November 2004 election.
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Mrs. Arafat - living in Paris in self-exile for years with mother and family.
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Yasser Arafat on his way to Parisian Hospital on 29 October 2004
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Osama Bin Laden addressed the American people just days before the American election.
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OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD: A store in Jerusalem sells skullcaps festooned with the Bush-Cheney logo. Most Israelis support the US president.
CMS - 1 Nov 2004
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Others see the U.S. far differently than do the Americans themselves.
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Iranians walk past a mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy on their way to take part in a demonstration in Tehran November 3, 2004. Thousands of Iranians gathered in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran to mark the 25th anniversary of the taking of the embassy during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
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Pictures of the American dead in Iraq are superimposed over a picture of the re-elected American President
Michael Moore
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The American President on the Campaign Trail in October 2004
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Iranians demonstrate in Tehran in November 1979 after takeover of American embassy.
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Iranians demonstrate in Tehran in November 1979 after takeover of American embassy.
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George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States
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With Yasser Arafat Hospitalized in Paris the Palestinian people ponder their fate.
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Bush is seen very differently and negative beyond American shores. This cover from the Daily Mirror in London on 4 November 2004 a day after Bush's reelection.
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Ahmed Qureia tries to consolidate power and legitimacy with Arafat's image in the background.
11-04-04
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London's The Independent newspaper upon the reelection of George Bush in the U.S.
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The cover of The Daily Mirror in London on 19 Oct 2004.
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Yasser Arafat came to personally symblize the Palestinian quest for independence, Statehood, and historical justice.
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American journalist Mark Bruzonsky and Palestinian journalist Muna Hamzeh at dinner with Yasser Arafat in 1985 at Kubba Palace near Cairo. Both journalists are available for media interviews and commentary and can be reached at 202 NUMBER1 (202 686-2371) and Press@MiddleEast.Org.
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Mark Bruzonsky meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in November 1977 discussing with him the possibility of making a visit or sending a message to Israel
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ARAFAT FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE: Several dozen people hold a vigil in front of the Percy military hospital in Clam where Palestinian president Yasser Arafat is in coma.
5 Nov 2004
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The American and Israeli approved Palestinian Prime Minister using the imagery of Arafat attempting credibility he lacks among his own people.
5 Nov 2004
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Yasser Arafat has symbolized Palestinian nationalism for more than a generation.
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A few Palestestinans and supporters outside the Paris hospital where Yasser Arafat is 'between life and death'.
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An Iranian woman walks past an anti-American mural in Tehran.
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Children clean the grave of Yasser Arafat's sister at the family plot in the Gaza Strip, a possible burial site for Arafat.
(Mohammed Salem -- Reuters)
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Yasser Arafat with King Hussein and Bill Clinton
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Yasser Arafat in 1981
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Shimon Peres wrote this book shortly after the 'Oslo Peace Process' with Yasser Arafat's 'Palestinian Authority' began in the mid 1990's.
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Yasser Arafat and King Hussein in 1983.
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Yasser Arafat with Yitzhak Rabin on 13 Sept 1993.
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Yasser Arafat in April 2003
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Yasser Arafat with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
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Yasser Arafat with American President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993.
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Yasser Arafat on the cover of Time Magazine in 1968.
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Yasser Arafat with Bill Clinton and the State Department promoted 'Seeds of Peace' organization.
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Wellwishers light candles at the makeshift shrine for ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in front of the Percy Military Teaching hospital in Clamart outside Paris Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004. Arafat was clinging to life in intensive care, but a senior aide denied Sunday he was in a coma.
(AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Mahmoud Abbas, secretary-general of the PLO executive committee (L) and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie (R) sit under a portrait and around the empty chair of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat during a meeting at Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 7, 2004.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Palestinian artists work on a large banner in support of leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Palestinian artists work on a large banner in support of leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Palestinian policemen walk pass by a poster of their leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004, at Arafat's previously destroyed Gaza headquarters.
(AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
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Palestinian schoolgirls walk past a large banner being painted in support of leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004. Arafat, 75, remained in the intensive care unit of a French military hospital on Sunday, with new confusion about his condition. Palestinian officials have said in recent days that he is in a coma.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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A boy lights candles in front of a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat outside the Percy Military Hospital in Clamart near Paris.
Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters
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Palestinian artists work on a large banner in support of leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Palestinian artists work on a large banner in support of leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Nov. 7, 2004.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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A Palestinians girl holds a poster of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) during a rally to show their support for him at the French Cultural Centre in Gaza City, November 7, 2004. Arafat lay critically ill in a French hospital as doctors struggled to diagnose his illness and Palestinian militants pressed for more power in decision making if he dies.
REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat security guards listen to a radio broadcast carrying news on Arafat's health situation in a room inside Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004.
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Palestinian policemen listen a news on the radio about Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 6, 2004. Yasser Arafat lay in a critical condition in a French hospital on Saturday and militants pressed Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie to give them decision- making powers in a temporary unified leadership if he dies.
REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel
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Graffiti are seen on the concrete wall separating the West Bank village of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004 .
(AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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U.S. troops observe activity on the Syrian side of the border from thier position on the Iraqi side at the Abu Kamal border crossing Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004. Bulldozers are shoving sand into a 4-meter-high barrier along Syria's border with Iraq, where authorities say round-the-clock patrols and new observation towers are stopping the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq as American and Iraqi forces prepare for a major assault on Fallujah, Iraq.
. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi).
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Syrian bulldozers work on reinforcing a sand barrier along the Syrian-Iraqi border on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004. Authorities say round-the-clock patrols and new observation towers are stopping the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq (news - web sites) as American and Iraqi forces prepare for a major assault on Fallujah, Iraq.
(AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).
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Pipe Major Scott Taylor, 24, plays his bagpipes on the Jurf-Al-Sukhr Bridge over the Euphrates River in Iraq (news - web sites), during a checkpoint operation Sunday Nov.7, 2004. British troops of the Black Watch battle group have taken up a 'forward operating position' on the east bank of the Euphrates river.
(AP Photo/Maurice McDonald, pool)
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Warrior armoured vehicles of the Black Watch Battle Group cross the Euphrates River on the Jurf-Al-Sukhr Bridge in Iraq, Sunday Nov.7, 2004. British troops of the Black Watch Battle Group have taken up a 'forward operating position' on the east bank of the Euphrates river.
(AP Photo/Maurice McDonald, pool)
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Greg McPherson, 19, keeps watch as Iraqi school children pass a warrior armoured vehicles on the east bank of the Euphrates River in Iraq, during a checkpoint operation Sunday Nov.7, 2004. British troops of the Black Watch battle group have taken up a 'forward operating position' on the east bank of the river.
(AP Photo/Maurice McDonald, pool)
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Greg McPherson, 19, looks out over the Euphrates River from the Jurf-Al-Sukhr Bridge in Iraq (news - web sites), during a checkpoint operation Sunday Nov.7, 2004. British troops of the Black Watch battle group have taken up a 'forward operating position' on the east bank of the Euphrates river.
(AP Photo/Maurice McDonald, pool)
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Yasser Arafat at the Grave of Nasser in 1970 in Cairo.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat speaks to his wife Suha Arafat, during a conference on Palestinian children in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip, in this April 5, 1995 file photo. Suha Arafat accused Arafat's top lieutenants of seeking to grab power from her ailing husband Monday, Nov. 8, 2004, prompting three top officials to postpone their trip to the Paris hospital where Arafat has been hospitalized for twelve days.
(AP Photo/Nabil Judah)
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat salutes while attending the Palestinian Islamic Christians Conference at his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Aug. 10, 2004.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is shown during a meeting at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Sept. 26, 2004.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)
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A Gaza City billboard of Arafat on display during the Oslo years.
(Photo: Nigel Parry)
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he international media have flocked to the Percy military hospital in Paris, where Yasser Arafat is in a coma.
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Across the West Bank and Gaza ordinary Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim, offer prayers for the Mr Arafat.
11-09-04-BBC
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At Mr Arafat's compound in Ramallah, a portrait hangs over members of his security services as they wait for news.
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Some Palestinians in Gaza visited the grave of Mr Arafat's sister, in the southern town of Khan Younis.
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The Palestinian leader's image remains a common sight throughout Gaza and the occupied territories
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News of his declining health is all the more shocking given that he had left Ramallah for Paris looking alert on 29 October 2004.
BBC-11-09-04
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Palestinian children wait to cross a street in Gaza City in front of a painted mural of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) Tuesday Nov. 9, 2004. Arafat is in a coma and his condition worsened overnight, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday in Clamart near Paris, and a Palestinian official who met with his doctors said 'only God knows' whether the Palestinian leader will survive.
(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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A portrait of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) is seen on a tree at a Palestinian police checkpoint near the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004. Yasser Arafat is in a coma and his condition worsened overnight, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday in Clamart near Paris, as Palestinian officials sought to visit their critically ill leader ignoring his wife's angry objections.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Palestinian policemen carry a poster of President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) during a show of support gathering in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 9, 2004. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie saw Yasser Arafat in a French hospital on Tuesday after doctors said the Palestinian leader had slipped into a deeper coma, a Palestinian source at the hospital said.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
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A portrait of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) is seen on a tree as Palestinian policemen stand by at a checkpoint near the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004. Yasser Arafat is in a coma and his condition worsened overnight, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday in Clamart near Paris, as Palestinian officials sought to visit their critically ill leader ignoring his wife's angry objections.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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An elderly Palestinian man stands in the cemetery where members of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's family are buried in the Khan Younis refugee camp southern Gaza Strip - November 9, 2004.
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A Palestinian man monitors a printing press producing 10,000 posters with a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) in a printing plant in the West Bank city of Ramallah Tuesday Nov. 9, 2004. Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's condition worsened overnight, hospital officials said Tuesday, and the coma he has been in since Wednesday has deepened. Gen. Christian Estripeau, spokesman for the Percy Military Training Hospital outside Paris, said the deterioration in the Palestinian leader's condition marks 'a significant stage' and that the prognosis was uncertain.
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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A member of the Jews United against Zionism group wait outside the Percy Military Hospital in Clamart near Paris where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) is receiving treatment, November 9, 2004.
REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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Mahmoud Abbas (L), Secretary-General of the PLO executive committee, and Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath (R) wait in the V.I.P terminal at the Alenbey Bridge crossing point between Israel and Jordan just before they leave on their way to Paris November 8, 2004. Palestinian officials hoping to see Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) arrived at a French military hospital on Tuesday where their 75-year-old leader was in a deep coma.
Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters
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Hillcrest Memorial Park caretaker Rob Hawkins makes repairs Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004, to one of 444 flags that fly at the Hermitage, Pa., cemetery in honor of the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days. During the hostage crisis, that began on Nov. 4, 1979, a flag was errected each day as a way of remembering those in captivity.
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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David Roeder shouts and waves as he arrives at Rhein-Main U.S. Air Force base in Frankfurt, Germany from Algeria on January 21, 1981. Roeder was among 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days after their capture at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
DEU (AP Photo)
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Iran's revolutionary guards corps soliders stand guard over wall of the former U.S Embassy as Iranians burn anti-U.S banners during celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004. Militant students stormed in the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
(AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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Iranians burn a U.S. flag outside of the former U.S. Embassy in a gathering marking the 25th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004.Thousands of Iranian students gathered outside the former American embassy in Tehran on Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1979 storming which led to the year-long 'hostage crisis' between Iran and the United States.
(AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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Yasser Arafat Has Symbolized Palestinian Nationalism for more than 45 years.
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Arafat's Embattled Ramallah Headquarters where he was imprisoned for nearly three years may become a shrine and a Mosque to his legacy.
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Karzai of Afghanistan and Musharraf of Pakistan meet in October 2004
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The Communist Party and Boshevik Nationalism remain alive in Russia today.
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The U.S. and Israeli choice to head the Palestinian Authority they set up 10 years ago is Abu Mazen - here in Paris as Yasser Arafat died in November 2004.
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Artists work on a banner in support of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City as Arafat dies at hospital in Paris - 9 Nov 04.
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Natorei Karta joins hospital vigil. Rabbis Yisrael Dovid Weiss, Moshe Berr Beck and Moshe Arye Friedmann pay their respects at a makeshift altar for PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in Clamart, France - 9 Nov 04
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PA bids to prevent post-Arafat chaos. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei gives a press conference following a meeting with Palestinian factions in Gaza City - 9 Nov 04
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Israel unfazed by demands for Temple Mt. Burial. Kach activists celebrate in Jerusalem after hearing reports on Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's demise - 5 Nov 04
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China Makes Its Move Into the crucial Middle East region.
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PLO Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas(L) Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath(C) and Prime Minister Ahmad Qurie(R) talk to journalists in Paris November 9, 2004. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was very ill but his brain, heart and lungs were still functioning, Shaath said.
Jack Dabaghian/Reuters - 9 Nov 04
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Democratic Party Senator Zell Miller gave the 'Keynote' Address at the Republican Convention in New York.
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Yusuf Islam, third from right, formerly known as the rock star Cat Stevens, shows the Gorbachev Foudation Man for Peace 2004 award after receiving it from former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, right, and Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, second from right, in Rome Wednesday Nov. 10, 2004. Islam received the award before start of the 5th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates conference in Rome. Men at left are with the Italian chapter of the Gorbachev Foundation.
(AP Photo/Corrado Giambalvo
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A cartoon can be worth a thousand words as well...
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Yasser Arafat's body arrived in Cairo the night before for a State Funeral on 12 November 2004
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Yasser Arafat - Funeral in Cairo, Burial in Ramallah - 12 November 2004
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Yasser Arafat - State Funeral in Cairo, Burial in Ramallah - 12 November 2004
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Yasser Arafat in the end was killed at a time when creation of a free and independent Palestinian State remained far from being accomplished.
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Yasser Arafat in the end was killed at a time when creation of a free and independent Palestinian State remained far from being accomplished.
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Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon fought each other and killed each others peoples all of their lives.
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Abed Fatah, 33, PA employee - I am so sad because he means so much to so many people. My father died 10 days ago. I am more than sad now. Arafat means life for me. He made history. No Arab leader stood with our cause. Arafat stood to fight when he was a student and a poor man. He tried everything to build freedom and our state. Israel poisoned him and history won’t forget that. But Arafat is not dead. Now I will fight for freedom by any means. But there is no leader like Arafat and the others can't be trusted.
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Bothania Hamdan, 22, poet -- This morning when I woke up and heard that Arafat has died, I couldn’t believe it. I feel very, very sad. Arafat is everything. Arafat is the symbol. Arafat means Palestine. Arafat was a peacemaker. He worked a lot for Palestinians, for our rights. He tried everything, sometimes under such difficult circumstances. He tried the peaceful way and failed because the Israelis didn’t let him succeed. He always wanted peace.
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Elham Sarhan, 38, babysitter -- Today is a very sad day. Arafat fought for Palestinian people, and he never gave up and God be with him. He did great things for the Palestinian people, he fought for them, he tried and tried and he never got what he wanted. But he was a fighter. He brought us to the attention of all the world – who we are and what our cause is. Otherwise we would have been erased from the map. Arafat is in our hearts, he still exists, he hasn’t died.
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A soldier beneath a mural depicting Yasser Arafat.
Picture: Getty - Scotsman, 12 Nov 04
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The alliance between the U.S.and Israel,and between George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon, is remaking the world for good or bad.
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Throughout the world the U.S. and Israel are much reviled for what they have done over decades of warfare and deceit.
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One of the most powerful women ever in American foreign policy circles - Condoleeza Condi Rice
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Yasser Arafat with his possible successor Marwan Barghouti
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Yasser Arafat continues to symbolize the Palestinian quest for freedom and independence.
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Marwan Barghouti is probably the most popular Palestinian leader even as he is held in an Israeli prison.
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Suha Tawil, 'wife' of Yasser Arafat, is reviled to the extend she could not go back to Ramallah for the burial of Yasser Arafat on 12 November 2004.
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MEReport.com Front Page on 11-15-04
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The U.S. and Israel are widely distrusted around the world for policies of deception and war.
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Liberal Canadian MP Carolyn Parrish is shown in this handout still photo from video from a television show stepping a U.S. President George Bush doll.
11-18-04
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Video of U.S. soldiers shooting in the head defenseless wounded resistance fighters in a Fallujah Mosque reverberated around the world.
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The Ameicans destroyed the City of Mosques in Iraq -- Fallujah -- shortly after the American election in November 2004.
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Huxley's Brave New World is a paradigm for many of what is happening in today's United States.
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Abu Ala and Abu Mazen - with strong U.S. and Israeli support - step into the void left by Yasser Arafat's death.
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Ahmed Yassin and Yasser Arafat were both killed by the Israelis in 2004.
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Readership of MER has increased nearly 200% in the past few months.
11-17-04
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Palestinian students hold a memorial service for the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, seen in portrait at right, at the unknown soldier tomb in Gaza Saturday Nov. 20, 2004. After the one-man rule of Yasser Arafat, Palestinians say they are eager and able to build the first real democracy in the Arab world, despite trepidation over the dangers lurking on the road to Jan. 9 elections.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Demonstrators angry over U.S. policy in Iraq protest in Santiago, Chile, as world leaders attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie (L) and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas pray at the beginning of a Palestinian parliament session in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 23, 2004. The dominant Palestinian political faction Fatah on Monday named Mahmoud Abbas as its candidate to succeed the late Yasser Arafat in a presidential election scheduled for January 9, 2005, officials said.
Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters - 11-23-04
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Armed basijis, women volunteers wearing black chadors, attend a rally by 100,000 paramilitary forces in a show of strength in the southern suburbs of the Iranian capital Tehran, on Wednesday Nov. 24, 2004.
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Picasso made Guernica in Spain live on in haunting memory. Now the imagery is reborn in the devastation of Fallujah in Iraq
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Marwan Barghouti, a prominent leader of the Palestinian uprising, raises his handcuffed hands as he enters the courtroom for his murder trial in the Tel Aviv District Court in this Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002 file photo. Associates of Marwan Barghouti said Wednesday, Dec. 1 2004, that he has decided to run for president, reversing an earlier decision and throwing Palestinian politics into disarray. 1 Dec 2004
(AP Photo/Eitan Hess-Ashkenazi, Pool)
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When four American Jews working for the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) lobby on Capitol Hill were subpoenaed by the FBI on 2 December 2004, some news organizations mistakenly said the American Jews were 'Israelis'.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, center, talks to Azzam Azzam, left, an Israeli-Arab jailed in Egypt since 1996 after being convicted for spying for Israel, his wife Amal, right, and Azzam's son, front left, during a visit to Azzam's village of Mughar in northern Israel, Monday Dec. 6, 2004. Azzam, who has maintained his innocence, was freed Sunday in exchange for six Egyptian students arrested by Israel in August for allegedly crossing the border illegally and planning to kidnap soldiers.
(AP Photo/Gil Cohen Magen, Pool)
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This view is conventional wisdom throughout much of the Middle East.
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Another view that is conventional wisdom throughout the Middle East region and much of the world.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon casting his ballot in the Likud vote on coalition talks with Labor. 9 Dec 2004
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - A Palestinian boy rides a horse in front of concrete wall separating the West Bank village of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem January 16, 2004.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - An Israeli border policeman fires teargas canister during a protest by Palestinians against the construction of the controversial Israeli security barrier in the West Bank village of Az-Zawiya June 20, 2004.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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A Palestinian militant climbs a rope over a crowd during a rally by the Hamas organization in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya December 10, 2004.
REUTERS/Mahmoud Shanti
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Ahmed Siyam, 11, the brother of 7-year-old Palestinian Rana Siyam, shot and killed by Israeli forces, shows a photograph of her in the family house, at Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday Dec. 10, 2004.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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A masked Palestinian militant of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with the Fatah movement, holds posters showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat holding a picture of the Israeli-jail imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi.
(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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Under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers, background top, a boy holds a Palestinian flag as men perform their traditional Muslim Friday prayers, during a demonstration at a construction site where Israel is building part of its controversial separation barrier, in the southern West Bank village of Idna, near the city of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. Israel insists the barrier is necessary for its security, while Palestinians say it is a land grab.
(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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A Palestinian boy holds an election poster of jailed presidential candidate Marwan Barghouthi during a rally for the Fatah (news - web sites) movement in Rojeeb village near the West Bank city of Nablus, December 10, 2004.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
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A Palestinian artist paints murals of late the President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) (R) and Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) leader Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza, December 10, 2004.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
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A Palestinian artist paints a mural of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza December 10,2004
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites), left, talks with Labor Party opposition leader Shimon Peres, right, during a ceremony for Independence Day, marking the 56th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, in Jerusalem on April 27, 2004.
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Palestinian artist Baha Al Khedra paints a mural of interim Palestinian leader and presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas, close to a painting of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), right, in Gaza city, Friday Dec. 10, 2004.
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Rami Siyam, a brother of 7-year-old Palestinian Rana Siyam, shot and killed by Israeli forces, mourns over her body in the morgue of Nasser hospital at Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday Dec. 10, 2004.
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - A Palestinian protester lies on the ground as Israeli border police try to arrest him during a demonstration against the construction of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank village of Biddu April 7, 2004.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Palestinian medics carry four children with the youngest being six month old (R), who were wounded after an Israeli tank fired a shell while they were sleeping at their home, in Beit Lahiya town north of Gaza Strip (news - web sites) October 6, 2004. Israeli tanks shelled a town in the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, killing three Palestinians and wounding 10 children in their houses, witnesses and medics said.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem REUTERS
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Palestinian security officers protect the coffin late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, inside Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 12, 2004. Yasser Arafat was buried on Friday in a chaotic scene of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realise his dream of a Palestinian state.
REUTERS/Oleg Popov
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A Lebanese soldier (C) stands guard as dozens of Palestinian refugee children wait to see Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmud Abbas in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. 12-09-2004
(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
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A Palestinian refugee holds a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (L) and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmud Abbas during a crowded rally at the Rashidiyeh refugee camp in southern Lebanon. 12-09-04
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A Palestinian armed guard stands behind Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmud Abbas (R) and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei during their visit to the Rashidiyeh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. 12-09-04
(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
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Relatives of 7-year-old Palestinian Rana Siyam, shot and killed by Israeli forces, mourn over her body in the morgue of Nasser hospital at Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday Dec. 10, 2004.
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Palestinian artist Bahaa al-Qudra puts the final touches on his portrait of Palestinian Liberation Organisation chairman Mahmud Abbas in one of the main streets of Gaza City.
(AFP/Mohammed Abed)
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Israeli soldiers shoot tear gas at Palestinians during a protest at a construction site of Israel's controversial West Bank barrier in the village of Edna, near Hebron.
(AFP/Hossam Abu Allan)
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Palestinian members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades hold pictures of late president Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and Fatah (news - web sites)'s jailed West Bank leader Marwan Barghuti in Rojeeb village during a gathering in support of Barghuti.
(AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
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A masked Palestinian gunman from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) takes part in a rally in the refugee camp of the West Bank town of Jenin
(AFP/Saif Dahlah)
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Palestinian security officers protect the coffin late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, inside Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 12, 2004. Yasser Arafat was buried in a chaotic scene of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realise his dream of a Palestinian state.
REUTERS/Oleg Popov
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PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie speak during a news conference in Amman December 9, 2004. The two Palestinian leaders said on Thursday that they will visit Kuwait next week, the highest level visit since Iraq (news - web sites)'s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
REUTERS/Majed Jaber
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Palestinian youths walk next to posters of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), right, and imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, who is one of the candidates for the upcoming Palestinian elections, in Gaza city, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004.
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Palestinians gather a round the bodies of four Palestinians who were killed by Israeli soldiers, during their funeral in Rafah refugee camp southern of Gaza Strip (news - web sites) December 9,2004. Israeli troops killed four Palestinians at a flashpoint Palestinian town on the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said. Israeli military sources confirmed troops shot at a group of men spotted near the frontier at Rafah.
REUTERS/ Mohammed Salem
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Palestinians inspect the damage to militant leader Jamal Abu Samhadana's car after an Israeli missile strike in the southern of Gaza Strip (news - web sites) December 9, 2004. Jamal Abu Samhadana, head of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an umbrella group of militant factions, survived an Israeli missile strike on his car in Gaza on Thursday in Israel's first apparent assassination attempt in the Palestinian territories since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) died in a Paris hospital.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Palestinians mourn over the bodies of four Palestinians during their funeral in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004. The Israeli army said it shot at four suspicious figures crawling toward the Egyptian border late Wednesday, wounding at least two. Palestinian medics recovered the four bodies in the area of the incident.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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A Palestinian school girl waits for a friend in front of wall graffiti, which reads in Arabic, 'Hamas', in Gaza City. US judge ordered four Islamic charities accused of raising money for the militant Palestinian group Hamas to pay 156 million dollars in damages to the parents of a teenager slain in the West Bank.
(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)
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Joyce and Stanley Boim get into a cab outside federal court in Chicago Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, after three Islamic charities and an alleged fund-raiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas were ordered to pay $156 million to the parents, whose 17-year-old son, David, was shot and killed by terrorists on Israel's West Bank eight years ago. The Boims, Americans who moved to Israel in 1985, sued under a U.S. law that allows victims of terrorism abroad to collect damages in American courts from organizations that furnish money to terrorist groups.
(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Norway's Minister of Development Hilde Frafjord Johnsen (R) welcomes Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath to the donors conference in Oslo. Shaath urged the world community to provide 4.5 billion dollars in reconstruction aid to help the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) lay the foundation for an independent state.
(AFP/Scanpix/Richardsen Tor)
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qureia, top, follows interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas out of an airplane at Beirut airport, Lebanon, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2004. Top Palestinian leaders made their first visit to Lebanon since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and his PLO guerrillas were driven out of the country more than two decades ago, in a sign of fast improving relations after Arafat's death.
(AP Photo/Adnan Hajj Ali)
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Israeli soldiers scuffle with foreign peace activists during a protest at the construction site of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank village of Budrus.
(AFP/Abbas Momani)
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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Islamic Jihad activist Amir Islam during his funeral in Gaza City. Islam, 22, is one of two fighters from the radical Palestinian group who were killed in air strikes after an Israeli soldier died in an explosion
(AFP/Mahmud Hams)
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Members of the armed wing of Hamas claim responsibility for an attack against Israeli troops during a press conference in Gaza City December 7, 2004. Four Palestinian militants and an Israeli soldier were killed Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s death, raising the prospect that renewed violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
Photo by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
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Amnah Kamil the mother of Islamic Jihad militant Mahmoud Kamil Dobie holds a picture of her son as she sits with grandchildren Mohammed, 4, left, and Saja, 2, at the family house in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004. An elite Israeli army unit was suspended in recent days and the army is investigating whether soldiers killed the wounded Palestinian militant while he was in custody, army officials said. (
AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas
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A Palestinian militant from Hamas stands with a rocket launcher as he takes a position during clashes with Israeli forces in eastern Gaza City, Tuesday Dec. 7, 2004. Israeli troops moved into the neighborhood early Tuesday after militants set off explosives in a booby-trapped chicken coop killing one Israeli soldier and wounding four, the Israeli army and militants said. Four militants were killed and seven Palestinians, including two teenagers, were wounded, Palestinian officials and militants said.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Members of the armed wing of Hamas, Izz eldeen al-Qassam Brigades, claim responsibility of an attack against Israeli troops during a press conference in Gaza City December 7, 2004. An Israeli soldier and two Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting since Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s death, raising the prospect that renewed violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
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Israeli soldiers scuffle with Israeli and foreign peace activists as they try to block construction at a site where a section of Israel's separation barrier is being built in the village of Budrus, near the West Bank town of Ramallah , Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security, while Palestinians say it is a land grab.
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Yahoo Provided Wrong Caption Showing How Little Is Understood by U.S. Media: Israeli soldiers surround Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouthi(C) as he was prevented from entering Hebron's old city during a campaign stop, December 6, 2004. Barghouthi is considering pulling out of the presidential race to avoid splitting his mainstream Fatah (news - web sites) faction, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker said after visiting him in jail.
Photo by Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters
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A wounded Palestinian is carried to hospital after Israeli's military fired a missile during a raid in the central Gaza Strip (news - web sites), December 7, 2004. An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian militant were killed in Gaza in a resurgence of violence that could threaten efforts to instill calm before a Palestinian election for a successor to Yasser Arafat (news - web sites).
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
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(From L to R) Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei, Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) (PLO) Chairman Mahmud Abbas and Syrian Foreign Minister Faruk al-Shara meet in Damascus.
(AFP/Louai Beshara)
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Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) (PLO) chairman Mahmud Abbas (pictured) and prime minister Ahmed Qorei are making the first visit by the Palestinian leadership to Syria since 1996 this week as part of efforts to open a new chapter in the often troubled relationship with Damascus.
(AFP/Mohammed Abed)
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Palestinian artist Baha al-Khedra paints a mural of jailed West Bank Fatah (news - web sites) leader Marwan Barghuti at his studio in Gaza City.
(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)
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A Palestinian artist paints a large poster of jailed Fatah (news - web sites) leader Marwan Barghouthi in the street of Gaza city December 3, 2004. Marwan Barghouthi, 45, a popular uprising leader jailed by Israel, faced mounting criticism at home and abroad for his decision to run in a Jan. 9 presidential election to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat (news - web sites).
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
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An Islamic Jihad militant waits outside a mosque in Khan Younes. Israeli soldiers killed a leading member of the armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in the north of the West Bank.
(AFP/File/Christophe Simon)
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A Palestinian man touches a giant poster of Fatah's jailed leader and Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) presidential candidate Marwan Barghuti at his electoral office in Ramallah.
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Palestinian Mukbel Barghuti, brother of Fatah's jailed leader and Palestinian Authority presidential candidate Marwan Barghuti, stands in front of a giant poster of his brother at his electoral office in Ramallah.
(AFP/Awad Awad)
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Palestinian representative to the United Nations and nephew of Yasser Arafat, Nasser Al-Kidwa, right, hands the late-Palestinian leader's medical records to caretaker President of the Palestinian Authority Rauhi Fattouh at Arafat's former headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Saturday Dec. 11, 2004. Al-Kidwa handed over the medical records Saturday to Palestinian Authority officials, but did not reveal any new information on what led to his demise.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Palestinian students from the American University of Jenin pray over the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday Dec. 12, 2004. Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the candidate of Arafat's Fatah movement, is considered the front-runner in the Palestinian Jan. 9 election to choose Arafat's successor. Jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, however, has received strong support in recent polls, though pressure has increased on him to drop out in recent days. 12-12-04
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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BBC News Flash - Barghouti Out of Palestinian Race
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Senior Jewish Neocon in the Bush Administration Elliot Abrams is in charge of the Middle East at the National Security Council.
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Professor Rashid Khalidi teaches at Columbia University after the death of Edward Said.
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Elliot Abrams - Bush Administration National Security Council Middle East Director
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Professor Rashid Khalidi teaches at Columbia University in the Edward Said chair.
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People hold a painting with an image of slain Shiite cleric Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr with Arabic sign for "No" with Britain, Israel and the United States depicted as dogs during prayer in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City Friday Dec. 17, 2004.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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The U.S., and Israel, now have Iran militarily surrounded.
Asia Times - 16 Dec 2004
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The powerful Israeli/Jewish Lobby is thought to intersect with a network of 'dually-loyal' personalities and kindred spirits as the boundaries in this special case of Israel between loyalities and spying is not quite clear.
antiwar.com
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'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East' - a unique Multimedia CD made by Tiger Media in Canada in 1996.
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'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East.' 10 Top Middle East Experts Uniquely Share their Views and Experiences.
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'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East' - a unique Multimedia CD made by Tiger Media in Canada in 1996.
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Ten Middle East Experts Discuss the 'Peace Process' in this unique multimedia CD published by Tiger Media in Canada in 1996 - 'Lines in the Sand - The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East.'
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A Palestinian woman walks next to posters of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and a inflatable Santa Claus in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday Dec. 20 2004. For the first Christmas season in five years, Israel and the Palestinians are cooperating to boost tourism to encourage Christian pilgrims to visit the Holy Land during the holiday.
(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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A group of self-serving American Palestinians who have cashed in over the years is now being pushed forward by the Abu Mazen-led Regime, the Americans, and the Israelis. Pictured here: Omar Kader, Jesse Oweida, Reema Ali, George Salem, Ziad Asali, Rashid Khalidi, George Hishmen, Talat othman, Naila Asali. Others not pictured include: Rafi Dajani, Hussein Ibish, Nino Kader, Hani Masri, Alfred Khoury, Rashid Khati, Marwan Atalla.
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A sign instructing people to stop sits atop a holiday message posted by Israeli tourism, as Israeli border police officers wait for vehicles at the main checkpoint leading into the West Bank town of Bethlehem Thursday Dec. 23, 2004. For the first Christmas season in five years, Israel and the Palestinians are cooperating to boost tourism to encourage Christian pilgrims to visit the Holy Land during the holiday.
(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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Interim Palestinian leader and presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas, left, sits in the chair that was reserved in previous years for the late Yasser Arafat during the Christmas midnight mass at the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem Friday Dec. 24, 2004. Caretaker of the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) Rawhi Fattouh is seated second from left.
(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Palestinians carry the bodies of three Fatah militants killed by Israeli troops during their funeral in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, December 24, 2004. Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian militants in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm Friday, medics said. The shootings occurred hours before Christmas celebrations were to begin in another West Bank town, Bethlehem, site of Jesus' birth.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
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A bowling pin signed by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (C) sits between those of pop singer Deborah Gibson (L) and actor Omar Epps in a case at Bowlmor Lanes in the Greenwich Village section of New York, December 23, 2004. The bowling alley, that boasts celebrity customers, said it was returning $1.3 million reported to have come from Yasser Arafat (news - web sites).
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams/Reuters
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Palestinian relatives of Rami Abu Aker, who was killed in an explosion on Thursday, mourn during his funeral at the Khan younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza strip, December 24,2004.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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The young Palestinian brother of Rami Abu Aker, who was killed in an explosion on Thursday, cries during his funeral at the Khan Younis refugee camp southern Gaza strip December 24, 2004.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Palstinians pass a large mural of Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza city December 26, 2004. Prominent Palestinian figures appealed for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
Photo by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
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Interim Palestinian leader and presidential front-runner Mahmoud Abbas is surrounded by his bodyguards as he is cheers by his supporters during a rally to mark the 40th anniversary of Fatah movement's foundation in Gaza City, Friday Dec. 31, 2004. Thousands of Palestinians gathered at the Palestinian Legislative council to mark the anniversary of the 1965 founding of Fatah.
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Interim Palestinian leader and presidential front-runner Mahmoud Abbas speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005. Palestinians are going to the polls on Jan.9 to elect the successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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An illustration of the extra-legal U.S. plans for indefinite imprisonment and 'interrogation' without sufficient evidence for trial and without any legal process.
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'DeathDealer' - From Page 1 of the Washington Times on 4 January 2005.
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Interim Palestinian leader and the front-runner in the upcoming presidential elections Mahmoud Abbas, center, greets his supporters during a campaign rally in the old city of the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday, Jan. 6 , 2005. During the rally Abbas described Israeli leader Ariel Sharon as a partner for peace talks and said he hopes negotiations will resume soon after the weekend elections. Palestinians go to the polls Jan. 9 to elect a successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Interim Palestinian leader and presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas holds a child during a campaing rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday Jan. 7, 2005. Palestinians are going to the polls on Jan. 9 to elect a successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
.(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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Shiite Muslims chant slogans prior to the beginning of Friday prayers, in Baghdad's Shiite enclave Sadr city, Friday, Jan. 7, 2005. The poster contains portraits of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, center, his late father Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, and uncle Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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From the DrudgeReport on U.S. Inauguration Day, 20 Jan 2005
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Bill Dixon sits in the lobby of the Madison Hotel, where he waited to join a friend for a reception for Vice President Cheney. 20 Jan 2005
(Tetona Dunlap -- The Washington Post)
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Palestinian police deployed across the northern Gaza Strip on Friday to prevent rocket fire on Israeli communities. 21 Jan 2005
AP
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