Posted on 09/19/2003 5:38:20 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
The Game plan called for the president from Texas to meet the Texas team, but the National Basketball Association champion San Antonio Spurs were forced to postpone their scheduled White House visit to meet with President George W. Bush (news - web sites) because of Hurricane Isabel(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)
A US tank passes by as a crane removes a burned American military truck after US troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah on Sept.18, 2003. The Bush administration has asked Turkey, Pakistan and South Korea (news - web sites) to send a total of up to 40,000 troops to Iraq (news - web sites) as part of a global U.S. drive for help to secure the country still wracked by violence, officials from the nations told The Associated Press. The recruiting drive by Washington is aimed at relieving the burden of the 140,000 American troops spearheading theIraq occupation force in a country where U.S.-led forces are coming under frequent attack. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Palestinian children watch an Israeli tank during Israeli army operation in the West Bank City of Jenin.(AFP/Saif Dahlah)
========= Israel =========
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) talks to the press. Israel considers the UN General Assembly resolution urging it not to remove Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) from the West Bank "meaningless."(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)
United Nations (news - web sites) Permanent Representative to Israel, Dan Gillerman, addresses an emergency session of the United Nations on the illegal Israeli action in Occupied East Jerusalem, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
Jewish settler Shahar Dvir Zelinger is taken by Israeli police officers to a Jerusalem court.(AFP/Alex Kolomoisky)
Three young Palestinian women swim fully covered in the Mediterranean Sea at Gaza City Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Friday is the traditional day of prayer and rest. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
A Palestinian boy gestures as he shouts to Israeli soldiers in a tank to move back during clashes in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Israeli troops in tanks and armored vehicles entered Jenin and the adjacent refugee camp, taking over eight homes and conducting searches for suspected militants. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
Fire from a molotov bomb thrown by Palestinian demonstrators is spread atop an Israeli army armored personnel carrier during clashes in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Israeli troops in armored vehicles entered Jenin and the adjacent refugee camp, taking over eight homes and conducting searches for suspected militants. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
Shahar Dvir-Zeliger, center, a Jewish settler, is escorted to the court in Jerusalem Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Dvir-Zeliger was charged Friday with stealing weapons from the Israeli military, and prosecutors said he was procuring arms for Jewish vigilantes suspected of killing eight Palestinians.(AP Photo/Baubaua, Eyal Warshavsky)
An Israeli soldier looks through his army vehicle during an operation in the West Bank town of Ramallah.(AFP/Jamal Aruri)
A Palestinian elderly walks by, as in the background the construction site by Israeli authorities of part of the separation fence between east Jerusalem area, seen in distance top left, and the West Bank village of Abu Dis, at top right, is seen Friday Sept. 19, 2003. The authorities will seize Palestinian land to build the fence, including the soccer field bottom, belonging to the Al Quds University campus. Israel says the barrier, that draws U.S. opposition, is necessary to keep suicide bombers from crossing over and has already completed about 150 kilometers (90 miles) of fences, trenches, razor wire and concrete walls; it could eventually run more than 600 kilometers (375 miles), depending on the final route. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Palestinian youths hurl stones at a bulldozer, used in the contruction by Israeli authorities of part of the separation fence between east Jerusalem area and the West Bank village of Abu Dis, during a protest against it, Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Israel says the barrier, that draws U.S. opposition, is necessary to keep suicide bombers from crossing over and has already completed about 150 kilometers (90 miles) of fences, trenches, razor wire and concrete walls; it could eventually run more than 600 kilometers (375 miles), depending on the final route. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
========= Hamas...not just for suicide bombers anymore =========
Palestinian police officer Muhammed el Sheikh, left, sits in a hospital bed as unidentified relatives look on in Gaza City, Friday Sept. 19, 2003. El Sheikh said he was beaten and kidnapped by Hamas members during clashes with police Thursday night. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A Palestinian boy plays on the beach at the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Friday is the traditional day of prayer and rest. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
A Palestinian woman holding an AK-47 rifle shouts slogans against President Bush (news - web sites) during a demonstration at the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein El-Hilweh in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday Sept, 19, 2003. About 1,000 Palestinians demonstrated Friday after Bush accused Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) of undercutting chances for peace in the Middle East and told Palestinians they need a new leader committed to fighting terror if they hope to stop the cycle of violence with Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) listens while attending Friday prayers inside his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah Friday Sept. 19, 2003. ( AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
A masked Palestinian youth shouts from behind a burning barricade prior to clashes with Israeli border police in Abu Dis in east Jerusalem September 19, 2003. Israel's defense minister said on Friday Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Qurie can prove himself a peace partner only by launching a crackdown on militant groups once he takes office. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
How Security Council members voted on the motion criticising Israel
over its threats towards Arafat the serial murderer, beloved terrorist of the EU and UN.
========= Ramallah =========
Arafat the murderer on hearing the UN vote.
========= The California Recall =========
Former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) (L) campaigns with California Governor Gray Davis at the African American Voter Registration, Education and Participation Project in Los Angeles, September 19, 2003. In the latest in a series of dramatic twists, a federal appeals court agreed to reconsider its controversial ruling delaying the Oct. 7 California ballot on whether to recall Governor Gray Davis and elect a replacement. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
President George W. Bush (news - web sites) will meet the leaders of France and Germany, two of the most vocal critics of his policy in Iraq (news - web sites), on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next week, officials said. Bush speaks after hosting a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the presidential retreat, Camp David, Maryland, September 18, 2003. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger gestures while answering a question during a press conference at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento on September 18, 2003. Schwarzenegger unveiled political reforms he plans to implement if he wins the October 7 recall election. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)
U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow (L) speaks with Pakistani Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz during a news conference in Islamabad September 19, 2003. Snow said on Friday that Pakistan was a key ally in the 'war on terror' and had made 'enormous strides' in curbing money laundering used to finance militant groups. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)
California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante (R) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites) chat following a rally at Pacifica of the Valley Hospital September 17, 2003 in Sun Valley, California, to oppose the recall election. California's political war raged on two fronts as lawyers fought over an appeals court's decision to postpone the Oct. 7 recall election and candidates soldiered on as if the ruling never happened. (Jim Ruymen/Reuters)
The embattled board of the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites) on September 19, 2003 named the head of an investment management firm to lead the search for a successor to departed chairman Richard Grasso. BlackRock Inc. Chairman Laurence Fink will lead the search, a source familiar with the situation said shortly after a meeting of the exchange's board. Grasso is shown at a press conference on June 5, 2003. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)
Part of a beachfront home lays smashed in the sand at South Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, September 19, 2003 after Hurricane Isabel struck the previous day. Sixteen people died after Hurricane Isabel pounded the U.S. East Coast, shutting down Washington for the second day o and cutting power to 5.5. million homes and businesses. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
Edward Destefano looks at what is left of his house in Harlowe, North Carolina on September 19, 2003 after Hurricane Isabel tore through the area late on September 18, destroying homes and forcing several residents to be evacuated. The nearby Neuse River flooded a large portion of the Harlowe community. (Ellen Ozier/Reuters)
A woman walks from a tree damaged home in Falls Church, Virginia on September 19, 2003. Washington D.C. area residents are today cleaning up after Hurricane Isabel swept through the region overnight. Hundreds of thousands of Virginia residents are still without power. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The card of former Iraqi defense minister Sultan Hashem Ahmad al-Tai, one of the 55 most wanted officials of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s ousted regime.(AFP/Robert Sullivan)
Al-Jazeera Kabul correspondent Taysir Alluni. Yemeni President Ali Addullah Saleh has called on Spanish premier Jose Maria Aznar to release Alluni, who has been charged with belonging to al-Qaeda.(AFP/Al-Jazeera-HO)
US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites)(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)
A model walks the runway wearing a copper leather jacket and matching bra and a metallic slash skirt during the presentation of the Donna Karan Spring 2004 Collection in New York, September 19, 2003. REUTERS/Mike Segar
A model walks the runway wearing a cream colored deep v-cut front slash dress during the presentation of the Donna Karan Spring 2004 Collection, in New York, September 19, 2003. REUTERS/Mike Segar
United States Air Force General Richard Myers (L) chats with Polish General Czeslaw Piatas in Warsaw September 19, 2003. Myers, the top U.S. military officer, is on a whirlwind tour of the Balkans, Hungary and Poland -- a staunch ally of the U.S.-led war to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). REUTERS/Maciej Figurski/FORUM
Gen. Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, talks with Gen. Czeslaw Piatas, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army during a welcoming ceremony in Warsaw Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Myers came to Poland for talks with Polish defense officials on Iraq (news - web sites), the war on terrorism and NATO (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
Gen. Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, gestures as Polish Gen. Czeslaw Piatas, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army looks on during a welcoming ceremony in Warsaw Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Myers came to Poland for talks with Polish defense officials on Iraq (news - web sites), the war on terrorism and NATO (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik talks during an interview with AFP.(AFP/File/Rabih Moghrabi)
An Iraqi boy on a bicycle stops to look at a U.S. soldier guarding a smoldering pile left after an explosion alongside a road in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Friday Sept. 19, 2003. No injuries were reported in the incident. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
An American soldier in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Sept, 19, 2003 stands guard over the flag draped bodies of unidentifed soldiers who died late Thursday evening, after their squad was ambushed while on patrol. The coordinated attack against U.S. forces cost the lives of three soldiers and wounded another two.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
Iraq (news - web sites)'s largest oil refinery in the northern town of Baiji. Iraqi oil smugglers have siphoned up to 2,500 tonnes of oil a day out of the country, giving British-led coalition forces in southern Iraq one of their biggest headaches.(AFP/POOL/File/Stan Honda)
Kamel al-Kilani (R) is sworn in as Iraq (news - web sites)'s new Finance Minister. Kilani and two other officials from the Iraqi interim government are part of the 28-member delegation to attend an upcoming IMF (news - web sites)/World Bank (news - web sites) meeting.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)
The 1,300 year-old Al-Jaam'e Al-Kabeer mosque in Aqra, Iraq (news - web sites), is seen Friday, Sept. 19, 2003. Aqra is a small Kurdish town 460 kilometers, 287 miles north of Baghdad (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
Abdullah Hashim Ahmad, 54, younger brother of Iraq (news - web sites)'s last defense minister sits near a photo of his brother at their diwan, or reception hall, in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 19, 2003. Former Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Iraq's last defense minister under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), surrendered to the American general in charge of the north of the country Friday after weeks of negotiations, a Kurdish mediator said. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
Maria de Fatima, 48, a member of the MST (Landless Workers Movement) holds up a sign saying 'genetically modified foods, dont swallow that!' during a protest outside of thew Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on Friday Sept. 19, 2003. Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will decide on Sept 22 whether to legalize genetically modified soybeans planted in a key southern agricultural state where 70 percent of the crop is currently cultivated illegally. The government's blessing would be a victory for U.S.-based Monsanto Co., which wants to sell the its Roundup Ready soybean seeds in South America's largest country and recoup lost profits from widespread illicit use. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Relatives and close friends of former Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Iraq (news - web sites)'s last defense minister gather at their diwan, or reception hall, in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 19, 2003. Ahmad, Iraq's last defense minister under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), surrendered to the American general in charge of the north of the country Friday after weeks of negotiations, a Kurdish mediator said. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
Iraqi Kurds choose prayers beads at a street market in Aqra, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday, Sept. 19, 2003. Aqra is an old small Kurdish town 460 kms (287 miles) north of Baghdad (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer sits under a portrait of Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk with an aide de camp standing at the left during a meeting of the National Security Council at the Cankaya presidential palace in Ankara on Friday, Sept. 19, 2003. Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, top army commanders and other members of the council met to discuss a U.S. request for troops for an international force to help stabilize Iraq (news - web sites), a show of force that would give Turkey a strong say in the neighboring country and help boost ties with Washington. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Two Shi'ite Muslims cry during the Friday prayers sermon at the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf September 19, 2003. A car bomb attack three weeks ago outside the mosque -- the holiest site in Shi'ite Islam -- killed top cleric Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim and fueled tensions in Iraq (news - web sites). Iraq's former defense minister, seen at Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s side in what is thought to have been the ousted leader's last public appearance, surrendered to U.S. forces on Friday, an Iraqi mediator said. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby
U.S. troops opened fire on a car carrying an Italian diplomat who holds a senior position in Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S.-led administration, killing his Iraqi interpreter, American military sources said September 19, 2003. Pietro Cordone, senior adviser on culture for the U.S.-led authority, was unhurt, Italian Foreign Ministry sources said. Cordone has been leading efforts to recover priceless antiquities looted from museums and archeological sites since the fall of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). In this photo, U.S. army soldiers search for the explosive devices west of Baghdad. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters
Iraq (news - web sites)'s former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, number 27 on Washington's wanted list of former top officials under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), has surrendered to U.S. forces, a mediator said September 19, 2003. Dawood Bagistani, a local human rights official who has acted as go-between in talks with Ahmed, told Reuters the surrender would be officially announced later at a news conference in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. (Reuters - Handout)
Iraq (news - web sites)'s former defense minister Sultan Hashem Ahmad Al-Tai standing in front of the ministry of military production in Baghdad.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)
American soldier Col. James Hickey, commander of the 1st brigade, 4th mechanised Infantry division, in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), briefs the press Friday, Sept. 19, 2003 about an incident late Thursday evening, Sept. 18. Three U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded when they engaged Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists in Uja, Iraq, 8km (5 miles) south of Tikrit. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
U.S LT Corbin Sawyer, of the 3rd Battalion 124th Infantry Regiment of the Florida Army National Guard plays ping pong with Iraqi children at the al-Maghrib Community Centerin Baghdad Thursday Sept. 18, 2003. Until the April 9 ouster of Saddam Hussein, the center was a sleazy night spot frequented mainly by men. In May, the 3rd Battalion, 124th Regiment of the Florida National Guard heeded the call of local residents and began transforming the place into a community center. Amid rising American casualties and Iraqi discontent, authorities in charge of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq are studying several measures to ease the burden on ordinary citizens, including shortening the curfew in Baghdad and withdrawing U.S. troops from selected cities. (AP Photo/Mstr Sgt James Bowman/Florida National Guard
Pfc. Guillermo Rodriguez, 24, of El Paso Texas, from the 362 Psychological Operations company in Al-Hambr, near Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003, picks up grass and rubish on poorly maintained equipment at a local pumping station. U.S. soldiers are helping the town with their water problems. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
Miss New Hampshire Candace Glickman waves after winning the 2003 Miss America (news - web sites) swimsuit preliminary competition at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Mary Godleski)
Miss New Hampshire Candice Glickman is shown during the 2003 Miss America (news - web sites) preliminary swimsuit competition at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. Thursday Sept. 18, 2003. Gilckman won the swimsuit portion . (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)
Miss California Nicole Lamarche is shown during the 2003 Miss America (news - web sites) preliminary swimsuit competition at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003. Lamarche won the swimsuit competition. ( AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)
A model wears a black rib tank with lilac satin bustier and black stretch cotton skirt during the Behnaz Sarafpour Spring 2004 fashion show, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Singer Britney Spears (news) is featured on the cover of the October 2003 issue of 'Rolling Stone' magazine in this undated publicity photograph. Spears is interviewed in the magazine about her celebrated kiss with singer Madonna (news - web sites) at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards in September 2003 in New York. NO SALES NO MAGS REUTERS/Rollingstone/Handout
Monkeys, shown here eating popsicles, are aware of injustice according to a study from Emory University.(AFP/File/Mufty Munir)
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Hard work, ConservativeMan55. Good job.
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, heroes of 3rd Battalion at the al-Maghrib Community Center
with Iraqi children, FREED BY THE USA.
========= Basra =========
In Basra, Iraq, in the Hawizeh Marsh. Destroyed under the rule of Saddam Hussein
it once covered 8,000 square miles. At last there is hope for these people, FREED BY THE USA..
Tia
So are dogs if you ask me. ;)
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