Israeli Army Kills Palestinian Boy
The Guardian, November 25, 2002
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops shot dead an 8-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus on Monday as hundreds of youths ignored a curfew and left their homes to attend school and throw stones at soldiers, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.

UN rejects Israeli stand on relief official’s death
Arab News, November 25, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 25 November 2002 — The United Nations voiced anger yesterday over Israel’s killing of a UN official in the West Bank, as Israel pressed ahead with military operations against Palestinians it says are behind bombings.

IDF arrests 40 in West Bank operations
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
In continued operations in the West Bank yesterday, the IDF arrested more than 40 Palestinians in raids in Bethlehem, Jenin, Hebron, Qalqilya and villages near Ramallah.

Israel Blows Up Mosque’s Gate, Besieges Church of Nativity
Islam Online, November 25, 2002
WEST BANK, November 24 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The Israeli occupation forces forcefully entered an old mosque in the city of Tubas in Jenin, in the northern section of the West Bank after placing it under siege.

Inside the Secret Campaign to Topple Saddam
Time, December 2, 2002
"..Israeli officials tell Time that Israeli special forces have been operating inside Iraq's western desert on reconnaissance and training missions, surveying 30,000 sq. mi. for places where Iraq might have hidden the missiles and launchers it kept after the Gulf War." - A shadow war has already begun, aiming to undermine the Iraqi leader and his defenses even before the first shot is fired.

Beilin, Palestinians said forging unofficial peace plan draft
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
A senior Palestinian official said Monday that an unofficial draft for a final peace accord has been drawn up by teams headed by ex-Palestinian information minister Yasser Abed-Rabbo and former Labor justice minister Yossi Beilin and will be signed at a ceremony to be held next month in Europe, Israel Radio reported.

U.S. expected to approve $14 billion aid request
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
Israel will today submit a request for $14 billion in economic aid to U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. President George Bush is expected to quickly approve the request - $4 billion in defense aid. and U.S. guarantees for $10 billion - with minor changes, Israeli sources said.

U.S. backtracks on Peres-Powell deal over settlements
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
The U.S. administration does not recognize the understandings relating to "natural growth" in the settlements that were worked out between former foreign minister Shimon Peres and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Tourism Minister: No pilgrims permitted to enter Bethlehem for Christmas holiday
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002 
Tourism Minister Yitzhak Levy said despite Palestinian requests, there will be no pilgrims admitted to the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem for Christmas, because of the recent increase in terror attacks, Israel Radio reported.

PLO central committee: Halt attacks against all Israelis
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
The PLO's Central Committee has called for "the end of all military action, particularly against Israeli citizens."

Palestinian boy shot dead, Israel continues with arrests
Al-Bawaba, November 25, 2002
An eight-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire Monday in the West Bank city of Nablus. The incident took place in the center of the city.

Israeli Army Kills Palestinian Boy
The Ledger, November 25, 2002
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops shot dead an 8-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus on Monday as hundreds of youths ignored a curfew and left their homes to attend school and throw stones at soldiers, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.

Arafat Gives Hook Highest Honorary Medal, U.N. Starts Probe
Islam Online, November 25, 2002
RAMALLAH, November 25 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat awarded slain U.N. official, Iain Hook the leadership’s highest honorary medal Sunday, November 24.

Palestinian boy, 8, killed by IDF gunfire in Nablus
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
An eight-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by IDF gunfire Monday in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Israel carries out 'anti-terrorist' census in reoccupied Bethlehem
Jordan Times, November 25, 2002      
AIDA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — “Who lives here?” asks the Israeli occupation army officer, backed up by half a dozen soldiers carrying out house-to-house searches in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp Sunday, building up what they call an “anti-terrorist” census.

Eyewitness Reports Facts About Killing of UN Worker
Palestine Chronicle, November 24, 2002
JENIN, West Bank (PC) - Caoimhe Butterly, an ISM worker, was injured in the same Israeli attack that killed UN worker Iain Hook, Project Manager of UNWRA earlier this week. Butterly reported to American professor, Annie Higgins, what she has witnessed and experienced concerning the circumstances in which she and her late UN colleague were shot.

Photo ops at the White House
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
What do U.S. officials think about the top names in the Israeli election campaign?:  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Administration has in recent days been demonstrating extreme caution when it comes to domestic politics in Israel.

Response to IDF Statement on the Death of Iain Hook, the UN Worker
UN Press Statement, November 24, 2002
Our preliminary findings into the circumstances surrounding the death of Iain Hook in Jenin do not concur with the statement made by the Israeli military that firing had been coming out of the UNRWA compound in Jenin.

Death of a UN worker
UN Press Statement, November 22, 2002
The United Nations regret to confirm that the senior manager of UNRWA’s Jenin camp reconstruction project, Iain Hook, was shot and killed this afternoon in the UNRWA office compound in Jenin camp.

Israel Holds without Charge Human Rights Worker
Islam Online, November 25, 2002
BETHLEHEM, November 24 (IslamOnline) - A former Amnesty International ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ is yet again in Israeli detention, following his arrest from his home in Dheisheh refugee camp outside Bethlehem.

Arab students live in danger, trapped between terrorists and racists
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002 
"We are always the accused, the extremists," adds Saher Kosini, a fourth year nursing student. "We are not protected and we are not allowed to protect ourselves.":  Mudir Mura, 19, is a first year pharmacology student at Hebrew University. He left the university dorms where he lives on Friday night, and made his way to the bus stop, on the main road of the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood.

Israel Restricts Freedom of Worship in Occupied Territory
Palestine Media Center, November 25, 2002
On the first Sunday since Israeli occupation forces (IOF) re-occupied the biblical birthplace of Christ, Palestinian Christian worshippers were prevented from attending services at the Church of Nativity. Elsewhere in the West Bank IOF raided a mosque in what they alleged was a search for a wanted militant.

Israeli troops keep Bethlehem residents from Sunday services
Jordan Times, November 25, 2002  
TROOPS PREVENTED Christians from praying at the church marking the traditional birthplace of Jesus on the first Sunday since Israel's reoccupation of Bethlehem, and in another part of the West Bank, soldiers searched four mosques for suspected resistance activists.

Soldiers interrupt services in Bethlehem
Gainesville Sun, November 25, 2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank - On the first Sunday since Israel reoccupied Bethlehem, troops barred Christians from worshipping at the Church of the Nativity, one of Christianity's most sacred shrines.

Israeli troops seal off Bethlehem church
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Monday, November 25, 2002
Bethlehem, West Bank --- On the first Sunday since Israel reoccupied Bethlehem, troops barred Christians from worshipping at the Church of the Nativity, one of Christianity's most sacred shrines. Soldiers in another part of the West Bank searched four mosques for suspected militants.

Mitzna: Arafat's a terrorist who didn't keep his promise
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002
Amram Mitzna, the newly elected chairman of the Labor Party, calls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a terrorist who broke a promise to prevent terrorism, Army Radio reports.

Muslim lawyers want Dershowitz disciplined
Boston Globe, November 24, 2002
Last spring, when Dershowitz proposed that Israel should bulldoze a Palestinian village every time a suicide bomber detonated himself, he touched off a controversy that continues today. Last week a group of Muslim lawyers asked the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers to punish Dershowitz - saying his position amounts to advocating a war crime.

Muslim Group Seek Punishment for Harvard Prof Proposing Destruction of Palestinian villages
Palestine Media Center, November 25, 2002
A group of outraged Muslim lawyers have filed a complaint against a Harvard Law School professor, who called for razing Palestinian villages and destroying Palestinian homes in response to attacks in Israel.

Abed Rabbo: PNA Ready to Resume Peace Talks with Israeli Peace Camp
Palestine Media Center, November 25, 2002
Palestinian Minister of Culture and Information, Yasser Abed Rabbo said Sunday that the Palestine National Authority (PNA) is ready to negotiate with the peace camp in Israel and resume the stalled peace talks.

Preventative Security Officials Deny Weapons Factory Accusations
Palestine Media Center, November 25, 2002
A high-ranking Palestinian security official denied on Sunday Israeli media allegations that the Palestinian Preventative Security apparatus in the Gaza Strip was preparing to build up a factory to produce weapons and explosives.

Briton killed in Jenin 'pleaded for ceasefire'
The Independent, November 24, 2002
Questions were mounting yesterday over the death of Iain Hook, the British United Nations relief worker killed in Jenin refugee camp, after it emerged that the Israeli army had failed to react to repeated telephone calls from Mr Hook pleading for a ceasefire so he could evacuate staff from the UN compound where he died.

International federation of journalists castigates Israel over bad treatment of journalists
Arabic News, November 25, 2002
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists said that Israeli border police who terrorized a group of journalists and assaulted a cameraman in West Bank city of Hebron reflected a "continuing mood of prejudice and intolerance" among Israeli security personnel in their dealings with media.

IFJ Accuses Israel After Journalists are Terrorised and Cameraman is Beaten Up
International Federation of Journalists, November 21, 2002
The International Federation of Journalists said today that Israeli border police who terrorized a group of journalists and assaulted a cameraman in West Bank city of Hebron reflected a "continuing mood of prejudice and intolerance" among Israeli security personnel in their dealings with media.

IDF: Gov't inattention to U.S. 'road-map' will damage Israel
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
The IDF and Foreign Ministry have warned that the government's inattention - due to the upcoming elections - to the United States "road-map" to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians will damage Israel because the necessary changes are not being made.

Israel to make official request for US loan
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002   
Israel will Monday make an official request to the US administration for $7-10b. in loan guarantees.

Meretz MK requests investigation into Palestinian workers being humiliated by soldiers
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002   
"Several thousand Palestinians entering Israel were ordered to leave shoes, jackets, money and cigarettes behind. The money was subsequently stolen."

Police arrest settlers in Samaria, Hebron
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002 
Police today arrested three Israelis near the Samaria community of Elkana on suspicion of uprooting and stealing olive trees from Palestinian groves.

Palestinians: 45 alleged terrorists arrested since start of Bethlehem incursion
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002   
Palestinian officials in Bethlehem are reporting that since the onset of the IDF incursion, a response to a Jerusalem suicide bombing attack in which 11 Israelis were killed, 45 Palestinians have been arrested.

UN investigates Jenin official's killing
BBC, November 25, 2002
Mr Hook is the first UN official killed in the intifada: The United Nations has begun an investigation into the killing of a British aid worker by Israeli soldiers in Jenin last week.

Hamas documents show it thinks Egypt sees it as alternative to PA
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002   
Hamas believes that Egypt views it as a possible alternative to the current Palestinian Authority and saw the talks in Cairo as a means to strengthen ties with the country, according to internal Hamas documents seized during the IDF raid on the Gaza Strip headquarters of the PA's Preventive Security Service (PSS) a week ago.

IDF nets 31 more fugitives in Bethlehem raids
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002     
The IDF has captured 31 fugitives in the "Chain Response" operation launched in Bethlehem after the suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus on Thursday morning.

Violence against women on the rise
Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2002
As Israel is set to usher in the UN-sponsored International Day to Prevent Violence Against Women Monday, incidents of such violence are rising, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet Sunday.

Bitter Harvest in West Bank: Violence curbs olive farming
Newsday, November 25, 2002
Yanoun, West Bank -- The annual olive harvest season used to be a bucolic time for Palestinian farmers such as Khader and Adnan Abu Haniyeh.

Israelis Pull Back From Bethlehem
ABC News, November 25, 2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank Nov. 25 — Israeli troops and armored vehicles pulled out of Bethlehem on Monday morning and residents started returning to the streets though the army insisted there had been no formal withdrawal.

Tension Intensifies in Bethlehem
Newsday, November 25, 2002
Bethlehem, West Bank - On the first Sunday since Israel reoccupied Bethlehem, troops barred Christians from worshiping at the Church of the Nativity, one of Christianity's most sacred shrines.

House Demolitions in Hebron
ICAHD, November 24, 2002
15 ICAHD and Ta’ayush activists spent the past three nights in Hebron in an attempt to thwart the planned demolitions of up to 18 Palestinian Homes.

Palestinians arrested in West Bank as Gaza Strip under total naval blockade
Al-Bawaba, November 24, 2002
Israeli troops entered the West Bank town of Qalqilya Sunday morning. According to Palestinian sources, troops placed a curfew on the city.

Israelis unleash new offensive after bombers attack naval boat
Arab News, November 24, 2002
GAZA CITY, 24 November 2002 — Israel pressed its offensive in the occupied territories yesterday rounding up around 40 Palestinians after an attack on an Israeli patrol boat left four sailors wounded.

Pressure mounts on Sharon to exile Arafat
The Guardian, November 23, 2002
Pressure was growing on the Israeli leadership yesterday to take the fateful decision to send Yasser Arafat into exile after the Jerusalem bus bomb that killed 11 people.

War, Whatever: Bush aide: Inspections or not, we'll attack Iraq
Daily Mirror November 22, 2002 
George Bush's top security adviser last night admitted the US would attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons.

80 Per Cent of Americans Can't Find Bush's Target
Daily Mirror November 22, 2002  
Is Iraq even in the world? Don't know, don't care. There'll be nothing left of it soon anyway..:  GEORGE Bush is on the brink of invading Iraq - but most Americans have no idea where the country is.

Man Who Blew Pentagon’s Cover in Vietnam Sees Déjà Vu
Islam Online, November 25, 2002
MIAMI, November 25 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A former defense analyst who gave the world the Pentagon’s secret history of the Vietnam War, sees parallels to the upcoming war on Iraq, a U.S. newspaper reported Monday, November 25.

Rep. Conyers' Letter to Ashcroft On the Monitoring of Iraqi-Americans
Truthout, November 20, 2002
Dear Mr. Attorney General: I write to ask for an immediate meeting with you so that we may discuss my concerns regarding your reported policy of monitoring the activities of all Iraqi-Americans.

US seeking pretext for war, says Iraqi official
Arab News, November 25, 2002
BAGHDAD, 25 November 2002 — World powers France, Russia and China urged Iraq to comply with UN weapons inspections ahead of the start on Wednesday of an 18-strong team’s make-or-break search for weapons of mass destruction as Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said the United States was seeking pretext for war.

Eastern Europe arms Saddam
The Guardian, November 25, 2002
Monday November 25, 2002
Yugoslavia is the hub for east European arms smugglers and military experts who have been supplying Saddam Hussein with crucial equipment and know-how to help him frustrate a US air campaign against Iraq.

Iraq: U.N. Plan Is Pretext for War
The Guardian, November 25, 2002
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - In a point-by-point protest, the Iraqi government complained to the United Nations Sunday that the small print behind the weapons inspections beginning this week will give Washington a pretext to attack.

Fear of war on Baghdad streets
Arab News, November 24, 2002
BAGHDAD, 24 November 2002 — Standing under a hot sun, Azad Najid Barzan rolled up his grimy trousers to show gouged scars on both legs. “That was in the war against Iran, but I survived,” he said.

War On Iraq: Le Snub
Daily Mirror November 23, 2002   
Personal rift over bust-up deepens as Blair and Chirac shun each other at Nato summit: Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac avoided head-to-head talks yesterday as a rift between them deepened.

Iraq sends stern message to U.N. as inspectors make preparations to start work
Al-Bawaba, November 24, 2002
In a long, stern letter to the United Nations, Iraq's foreign minister complained that the new Security Council resolution on weapons inspections provides a pretext for the United States to wage war against his country.

U.S. Peace Corps volunteers leave Jordan because of mounting security risk
Al-Bawaba, November 24, 2002
The U.S. Peace Corps has suspended operations in Jordan and withdrawn its 60 volunteers because of a raised security risk to American personnel, an agency official said Sunday, according to Reuters.

Yahoo! e-mail account of Saddam son blocked for ''security reasons?''
Al-Bawaba, November 24, 2002
Media reports indicated that the elder son of Iraqi President, Uday complained of having his e-mail blocked by Yahoo!, the world's leading e-mail provider. The account was apparently being blocked for American security reasons.

Al-Khazraji denies accusations addressed to him
Arabic News, November 25, 2002
Former Iraqi army chief of staff Nizar al-Khazraji who sought asylum to Denmark in 1996 denied accusations of war crimes addressed against him and stressed that he is a victim of a conspiracy based on lies.

Fighting talk
The Guardian, November 25, 2002
How likely is a war in Iraq? Going about my daily work in Cairo over the last week or so, I have put this question to a variety of people and have received almost every possible answer.

Clashes resume in Maan, two people killed
Al-Bawaba, November 25, 2002
Clashes between police and rioters left two people dead and several injured Sunday in the southern city of Maan.

One person killed, seven wounded, a curfew in Maan
Arabic News, November 25, 2002
Clashes renewed yesterday in the southern Jordanian city of Maan in which the Jordanian authorities have reintroduced curfew following the killing of one persons and wounding other seven.

Fresh clashes in southern Jordan
BBC News, November 24, 2002
Reports from Jordan say at least one person has been killed and several others injured, during renewed clashes in the southern town of Maan.

Jordan bars Palestinian pilgrims' path to Mecca
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002     
Some 3,000 Palestinian pilgrims have been stranded near the Allenby Bridge on the Jordan River for 10 days, after Jordanian authorities refused to give them permission to enter the kingdom on their way to Mecca.

War On Terrorism: Polling Organization Sets Sights on Government-Media Disinformation
Retro Poll press release, October 17, 2002
Poll results suggest public opinion polls don't reflect public's views - Poll Results

Material Witness Law Has Many In Limbo
Washington Post, November 24, 2002
Authorities have arrested and jailed at least 44 people as potential grand jury witnesses in the 14 months of the nationwide terrorism investigation, but nearly half have never been called to testify before a grand jury, according to defense lawyers and others involved in the cases.

Hand grenade erupts at Arab Bank Amman branch
MENA Report, November 25, 2002 
Jordan’s Arab Bank was a target for violence on Saturday when unidentified attackers threw a hand grenade at the roof of one of the institution’s Amman branches. The assault caused minor damage with no casualties reported.

Seized Palestinian tax money covers debt to Israeli utilities
MENA Report, November 25, 2002  
Israel’s finance ministry has appropriated 15 million new Israeli shekels ($3.2 million) of seized Palestinian Authority funds, to cover debts owed by the Palestinians to Israeli electricity, water and healthcare service providers.

Middle East music piracy on the rise
MENA Report, November 25, 2002  
Music piracy is an ongoing problem in the Middle East and has increased in the major markets, namely Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Al-Shara renews Syria's rejection to close al-Jihad offices: Road Map is an illusion
Arabic News, November 24, 2002
In statements to be issued today, the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara said that there is nothing called the "road map" and that the ideas proposed by Washington to settle the Palestinian question is just an attempt to fill the political vacuum in the region.

Morocco, United Arab Emirates, among 13 countries added to list of countries whose male nationals must register with U.S. government
Arabic News, November 25, 2002
US Attorney general, John Ashcroft, announced on Friday a new list of 13 countries (Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen) whose male citizens must register with the government.

Israel Military Industries reports debt of more than $.5 b
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002
The Knesset Finance Committee is planning to convene in emergency session to address a newly published debt of Israel Military Industries.

Netanyahu says Sharon could be his foreign minister
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002
Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered today to name Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as foreign minister in the next cabinet, if Netanyahu wins the Likud leadership race and heads the party in the forthcoming Knesset elections.

Ministerial panel approves $6.5 million aid package for 'Green Line' communities
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002 
A ministerial committee on social affairs today approved a NIS 33 million (about $6.5 million) special aid package for 11 Israeli communities along the so-called Green Line separating Israel from the West Bank.

US missionary death highlights Lebanese suspicions of evangelists
Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2002
Last week's killing of an American Christian missionary in southern Lebanon highlights the suspicion evangelists face in Lebanon from both Muslim as well as established Christian sects who accuse them of seeking conversions.

Visiting US professors protest against anti-Israel divesture
Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2002   
"Absolute hypocrisy" is the way Prof. Benjamin Sachs, a senior obstetrician/gynecologist at Harvard University, describes the efforts of US and European universities to rid themselves of securities from Israeli firms and companies that have dealings with Israel.

Lebanon doubts $4bn loan deal
BBC News, November 25, 2002
Not all donors agree on giving money to Lebanon: A $4bn loan package from international donors to help Lebanon tackle its public debt and avert a financial crisis has received a mixed reaction.

Sheinin: US guarantees boosted investment in 1990s
Globes, November 25, 2002
Economic Models CEO Yaakov Sheinin: Guarantees can provide otherwise unavailable financing for infrastructure.

Mofaz: Emergency team members killed in action seen as soldiers
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz ordered his office Monday to ensure that civilian members of emergency response teams who are killed or wounded in action be recognized by the security establishment as IDF soldiers.

Seized paper: Hamas wooing Egypt
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002
A document seized recently in an Israel Defense Forces raid in the Gaza Strip suggests that the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas saw the recent talks held with their arch-rival, Fatah, as a way to improve its ties with Egypt and get further funding for armed attacks against Israel.

Jordan Pizza Hut Fire Raises Questions About Anti-U.S. Attacks
Islam Online, November 25, 2002
AMMAN, November 25 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – In the wake of a series of anti-U.S. attacks in the Middle East region, including in Jordan, fires blazed at U.S. fast-food restaurant Pizza Hut in the southern Red Sea port of Aqaba Sunday, November 24, causing material damage but no casualties.

Fund For Supporting Palestinian Laborers Approved by ILO
Palestine Chronicle, November 24, 2002  
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The creation of a fund to help Palestinians with employment and social protection has received strong support from the United Nations International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Governing Body, which concluded a two-week session Friday in Geneva.

Panama arrests Israeli man in weapons probe
Ha'aretz, November 25, 2002  
An Israeli businessman whose name surfaced in an investigation of a cache of weapons ostensibly bought by Panama's police, but shipped instead to war-torn Colombia, has been arrested in Panama City.

Occupation Chronicle Events in Palestine
Palestine Media Center, November 25, 2002
Israeli aggression against Palestinian civilians persisted on Sunday. Palestinian security sources said Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) carried out dozens of detentions in the re-occupied city of Bethlehem and other location in the West Bank, including Tubas Village near Jenin, where IOF raided a mosque and detained its Imam (preacher).

Muslims, Jews break fast together at common table
Islamic Society of North America, November 22, 2002
In Room 108 of the Husky Union Building, close to 50 Muslim students knelt in prayer yesterday afternoon. In the opposite corner, more than two dozen Jewish students stood and quietly prayed. Their devotions completed, the University of Washington students mingled and shared a fragrant meal of lamb, chicken, salmon, rice and salad, prepared in accordance with Jewish and Islamic dietary requirements.

Egypt asks US to halt Israeli aggression
Jordan Times, November 25, 2002          
CAIRO (AFP) — Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Maher urged the United States Sunday to intervene to halt Israel's aggression against the Palestinian people and push for a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict.

Kingdom working to ensure 'road map' protects its interests
Jordan Times, November 25, 2002      
AMMAN — Jordan has worked hard and will continue lobbying to ensure that the “road map” for Mideast peace protects its national interests and meets all Palestinian demands, while also being acceptable to the Israelis, Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher said Sunday.