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Feb. 2, 2003 Israeli Arabs protest US stance on Iraq; call for attacks on US embassies By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Leaders of the Israeli Arab Islamic Movement protested Saturday against the possible US – led war against Iraq, calling on Arabs and Muslims to attack American embassies in the Middle East. Leaders told the gathering that they should go into the streets and attack US embassies, reports Channel 1. "Push the US out of Arab and Muslim lands. Attack their embassies. Bush is the only terrorist. America is the only terrorist", said a leader at the rally.

A second Birmingham woman has been found dead following a dispute over an arranged marriage. Student Balqis Akhtar, aged 20, was discovered with two gunshot wounds to her head in the village of Kangar, near Gujar Kahn, in Pakistan. She was sent abroad from her home in Birmingham for an arranged marriage but is said to have argued with her father about the match. Police in Pakistan have now launched a murder inquiry and are liaising with detectives in the West Midlands who are also investigating the death. News of the killing comes just days after Sahda Bibi, 21, of...

AMMAN — A 65-year-old father walked out of Criminal Court a free man on Tuesday after receiving six months in prison for killing his teenage daughter in Hiteen refugee camp in April 2002. The court invoked Article 98 of the Jordanian Penal Code, reducing Hussein Ahmad's charge because he killed his daughter in a “fit of rage.” The court said Ahmad stabbed his daughter Amal, 18, over 25 times following an argument only hours after signing a guarantee that he would not harm her. The victim had been missing for three weeks and was found by police in Aqaba, the...