February, 2007

• 5 February

  2 key members of Mahdi Army killed

  BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two key members of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s political and military organization were gunned down just days before the U.S. and Iraqi forces planned to open a massive security drive in Baghdad.

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• 5 February

  War Enters the Classrooms

  The United Nations has indefinitely suspended elementary school classes for tens of thousands of Gaza City’s children following a weekend of unprecedented factional violence

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• 5 February

  Syria refuses to help refugees driven from Iraq

  More than 700 Palestinian refugees who have been driven out of Iraq are stranded in squalid tented camps on the Syrian border. Damascus is refusing to let them in, despite the wintry conditions and limited supplies of food, water, fuel and medicines.

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• 5 February

  افتتاح المعرض ( اسود ابيض ) لعائشة الرازم

  افتتح يوم السبت في الثالث من هذا الشهر شباط 2007Ù… وفي الساعة الخامسة مساءً المعرض التشكيلي للشاعرة والتشكيلية عائشة الرازم وقد حمل عنوان  ( اسود ابيض )تحت رعاية المهندس عامر البشير نائب أمين عمان; في جاليري سيزان للفنون / اللويبدة/ عمان / امتداد دوار باريس   جاء المعرض مفاجئاً جمهور الفن التشكيلي …

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• 4 February

  Iran says it will not freeze its nuclear work but promised to open up its disputed uranium enrichment facility to the media.

  Iran has vowed to defy a UN resolution calling for a freeze to its nuclear work but promised to open up its disputed uranium enrichment facility in Natanz to the media.

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• 4 February

  Progress in Baghdad will take time: U.S. general

  A U.S.-backed Iraqi security plan seen as a last-ditch attempt to halt violence in Baghdad will not produce results overnight, a U.S. general warned on Sunday, after a one-ton suicide truck bomb killed 135 people.

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• 4 February

  Africa Israel pulls out of Tnuva bid talks

  The dairy farmers’ bid for Tnuva Food Industries Ltd. has failed. Africa-Israel Investments Ltd. (TASE:AFIL; Pink Sheets:AFIVY) today notified the dairy farmers of the Israel

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• 4 February

  Syria says it foiled arms shipment

  Syrian customs officers have thwarted an attempt to smuggle arms to Lebanon through an Iraqi truck, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported Sunday.

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• 4 February

  Palestinian Factions Attempt Truce

  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas gunmen attacked bases of Fatah-allied troops with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades early Sunday, part of a four-day campaign by the Islamic militants to weaken

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• 4 February

  EU condemns suicide attack in Baghdad market

  BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Union on Sunday strongly condemned a weekend suicide attack in a Baghdad market which killed at least 132 people.

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