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News Photos, October 2007

 

 

 

 

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Iraqi Sunni vice president, Tareq Al-Hashemi, visiting Iraqi women's prison in Baghdad to find that most are girls or young women who were arrested just because they are daughters or wives of Iraqi men accused of being resistance fighters. They are suffering bitterly bringing shame on whoever arrested them and took them to the sectarian-government prisons (INA, 10/7/07).

US Soldier, 32 Iraqis Killed, Including 6 Executed by Death Squads, in an October 8, 2007 Report. Above: US soldiers during a house search in Ba'aqoub, on Friday, Oct 5, 2007 (INA, 10/8/07).

Photo taken on Oct. 7, 2007 shows a flooded street in Xiahu town of Ningde city, southeast China's Fujian province. Affected by Typhoon Krosa, the Xiahu town was waterlogged and some residents were trapped in floods. The frontier defense troops have rushed there to transfer trapped residents. (Xinhua Photo,Photo Gallery, 10/8/07).

Venezuela to become member of Andean Community trade bloc. Above: Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, left, in a CAN meeting (Answer, 10/8/07).

Soldiers and residents participate in a rescue effort at the wreckage of a military helicopter after it crashed near Ghori village, in a valley 18 km (11 miles) south of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan -administered Kashmir, Oct. 8, 2007. Four Pakistani soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed during a visit to Kashmir by President Pervez Musharraf on Monday to mark the second anniversary of an earthquake in the region, an army spokesman said.(Xinhua, 10/8/07).

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Palestinians and Israelis discuss outstanding issues, says Abed Rabo, Jerusalem is on top of these issues  (imemc, 10/9/07).

Two Iraqi Christian women were massacred by Australian security contractors in Baghdad today, Maro Awanis (48) and Geneva Jalal (30) were killed when Unity Australian security company guards fired at them in Baghdad today. Children in the car survived the massacre  (INA, 10/9/07).

US Soldier, 32 Iraqis Killed, Including 6 Executed by Death Squads, in an October 8, 2007 Report. Above: US soldiers during a house search in Ba'aqoub, on Friday, Oct 5, 2007 (INA, 10/8/07).

29 Palestinian refugees wounded in refugee camp fire on Iraqi-Syrian borders (PIC, 10/9/07).

Israeli occupation forces disperse Muslim worshippers with sonic bombs in Hebron, prevent many of them in Jerusalem, kidnap a Palestinian near Bethlehem. Above: Palestinian Muslim worshippers who made it to prayers of Al-Qadr night at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem (Ma'an, 10/9/07).

A soldier stands salute during a ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara's death, in central Cuban city Santa Clara, Oct. 8, 2007. Thousands of Cubans on Monday gathered at the mausoleum where Guevara's remains were placed in Santa Clara to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the capture and killing of Guevara in Bolivia. (Xinhua, 10/9/07).

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A sibling of Marou Awanis, one of two Christian women killed Tuesday in Baghdad by members of an Australian private security firm called Unity, mourns during a funeral service outside the Armenian Orthodox Virgin Mary Church, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, 10/10/07).

 Above: The suicide bombing near KDP offices in Mosul (PIC, 10/10/07).

A soldier stands salute during a ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara's death, in central Cuban city Santa Clara, Oct. 8, 2007. Thousands of Cubans on Monday gathered at the mausoleum where Guevara's remains were placed in Santa Clara to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the capture and killing of Guevara in Bolivia. (Xinhua, 10/9/07).

 

 

 
 

 

 

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