February 2003 Peace Activists Photos


Part of the Bahrain anti-war demonstration (20,000), on Friday (Alquds Alarbi, 3/1/03).	20,000 anti-war demonstrators protested the US imminent war on Iraq in Bahrain, yesterday. They Arabian Gulf tiny state functions as the major US naval base in the region. (An Nahar, 3/1/03).


About 140,000 Egyptians demonstrated in a Cairo stadium against the US-UK war on Iraq (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 2/28/03).	Anti-war Sudanese demonstrators in Khartoum (Alquds Alarabi, 2/28/03).	About 140,000 Egyptians demonstrated in a Cairo stadium against the US-UK war on Iraq (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 2/28/03).	.


Japan (Teshreen, 2/27/03)	Pakistan (Alquds Alarabi, 2/27/03).	Bangladesh (Teshreen 2/27/03)	.


Spanish Anti-war demonstrators occupying the closed embassy of their country in Baghdad yesterday, denouncing their government for participating in the coming wa against Iraq (Ad Dustour, 2/26/03).	Another view of the Cairo anti-war rally organized by Egyptian opposition parties (An Nahar, 2/28/03).


Hundreds of thousands of the Spanish people demonstrated against the US War on Iraq and against the Aznar government, which betrayed the Spanish people by participation in the war. (Ad Dustour, 2/24/03).	Anti-war demonstrations in front of the US embassy in Prague, Check Republic. (An Nahar, 2/24/03).	3,000 Egyptian lawyers and 7,500 students demonstrated against the US imminent war on Iraq. The demonstrators could not leave their premises to the streets because of the heavy presence of police forces, which blocked entrances and gates. (Alquds Alarabi, 2/24/03).


VIVE LA FRANCE, ARAB LEADERS GO TO HELL This was in Cairo University, Egypt, yesterday, where anti-riot police is deployed to prevent students from leaving the universiy campus into the streets. Popular upport for Iraq is not tolerated in pro-US regimes in the Middle East (An Nahar, 2/23/03).	Bobm Texas, they have oil, too! There are still human beings on Earth. Peace activists in Germany, Italy, and the US (Los Angeles) demonstrated yesterday against the US-UK-Isaeli war on Iraq. This photo was taken for a protest in front of the US Rhine Mein airbase, in Frankfurt, Germany. (An Nahar, 2/23/03).	Anti-war demonstrator in front of the Turkish Parliament, protesting his country's participation in the coming onslaught on Iraq. His sign says: "War is a Crime" (An Nahar, 2/25/03).


Thousand of Pakistanis demonstrated against the US war on Iraq in Moultan, yesterday (Teshreen, 2/22/03).	Thousand of Pakistanis demonstrated against the US war on Iraq in Moultan, yesterday (Teshreen, 2/22/03).	Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrated in front of the UN headquarters in Beirut, yesterday after the Friday prayers (The Daily Star, 2/22/03).


Al-Ahram Weekly (2/20/03).	Anti-war demonstrated in Dhaka, Bangladesh, against the US-UK war on Iraq (An Nahar, 2/21/03).	London says "No" to the Bush-Blair-Sharon War (Al-Ahram Weekly, 2/20/03).


Lebanese and Palestinian school children in Sidon, protesting the war on Iraq (The Daily Star, 2/19/03).	(Tishrin, 2/19/03)


Women from various nationalities demonstrated against war in Muscat, Oman (An Nahar, 2/17/03).	No war against Iraq (Alquds Alarabi, 2/17/03).	The Sydney anti-war demonstration (An Nahar, 2/17/03).


Jordanians against war (Ad Dustour, 2/16/03).	A view of largest demonstration in the world, 3 million Italians, against the US-UK war on Iraq (Al-Ayyam, 2/16/03).	A view of the one million London demonstration against the US-UK war on Iraq (Alquds, 2/16/03).


Thousands of anti-war protesters carry posters as they march through Johannesburg on Saturday. (Reuters, AN)	Protesters prepare to march along with a banner displaying the words “Make Tea Not War” ahead of an anti-war march in London on Saturday. (Reuters, Arab News, 2/16/03).	Millions of Italians echoing the Pope's opposition of war on Iraq (An Nahar, 2/16/03).


In Athens, thousands of Greeks protested near the US Embassy. Police used tear gas (An Nahar, 2/16/03).	In Cairo, Egyptians demonstrated near the US Embassy with heavy presence of police (An Nahar, 3/16/03).	This beautiful Belgian demonstrated to stop the US-UK impending war on Iraq. She wants to live in a peaceful world. (An Nahar, 2/16/03).


In Berlin, more than half a million Germans demonstrated against the US-UK war on Iraq (An N)	In Paris, a quarter of a million French protested the US-UK impending war on Iraq (An N, 2/16/03).	In New York, about 150,000 Americans protested the Bush adminstration's war on Iraq (An Nahar, 2/16/03)


Rome, 3 million people, rejected aggression and war for oil (AnN, 2/16/03).	2 Millions for peace in Madrid (An Nahar, 2/16/03).	More than a million in London, rejecting oil wars (Arab News, 2/16/03).


An Iraqi young woman selling roses on Valentine's Day, in Baghdad (An Nahar, 2/15/03)	Protesters hold a banner during an anti-war on Iraq protest outside the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 2/15/03).	Indonesians against the war (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 2/15/03).


ustralia started the world rejection of war on Iraq (150,000). Alquds alarabi (2/15/03).	Anti-war on Iraq demonstrators in Melborn, Australia. Majority of people are for peace. (An Nahar, 2/15/03).	Shaikh Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of Hamas, leading anti-war on Iraq rally in Jabalia, Gaza Strip (Alquds, 2/15).


Spanish students demonstrating in front of the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Mardrid, protesting their government's pro-war on Iraq position.(An Nahar, 2/14/03).	An Iraqi holding a candle during a demonstration against the Munich conference on security policy, which is attended by US Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in Munich on Friday – (AP, Khaleej Times, 2/8/03).


Thai Muslim protesters wave anti-US banners in front of the US Embassy in Bangkok on February 6. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 2/7/03).	No to war on Iraq (Al-Ahram Daily, 2/7/03).	A German woman lighting a candle in protest to the US war on Iraq. The protest was held against the Munich conference on security policy, which is attended by US Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in Munich on Friday (Alquds, 2/8/03).


Anti-war demonstrators in Amman, Jordan, lifting the picture of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussain and the Jordanian and Palestinian flags (An Nahar, Jordan Times, 2/2/03).	Russiand demonstrated against the US war on Iraq, yesterday (An Nahar, 2/2/03).	German anti-war demonstrators protesting the provocations of UN inspectors, in Baghdad, yesterday. (An Nahar, 2/3/03).


European volunteers in their bus, passing by the Italian city of Milan, in their way to Baghdad, to form a human shield against the impending US war on Iraq (Alquds, 2/1/03).	Aabout 3,000 Swiss students demonstrated in Geneva, yesterday, lifting the head of Lady Liberty with bloody tears coming out of her eye. The sign says: "Stop the massacre" (before it happens), in reference to the coming war. (An Nahar, 2/1/03).	Anti-war demonstrators in Cairo, lifting pictures of the former Egyptian President Nasser, protesting the US impending war on Iraq (An Nahar, 2/1/03).


About 30,000 participants in the International social alliance demonstrated in Poto Alegro, Brizil, yesterday against war and calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state (An Nahar, 1/29/03)	Yes, some parliaments are not rubber stamps to the executive branch. This is a member of the European Parliament lifting a sign of "Nor War for Oil," while the European Foreign Minister, Solana, giving a speech about Iraq (An Nahar, 1/30/03).


The British peace activist, Ken Okefe, standing beside a bus lauded with peace activists who volunteered to be human shields, in their way to Baghdad (An Nahar, 1/26/03).	The shadow of a protester falls on an anti-war banner during a demonstration in Bombay on Monday. About 1,000 protesters shouted anti-US and anti-war slogans as they marched through the streets of Bombay. (Alquds Alarabi, Arab News, 1/28/03)	Anti-War activists representing Pakistan Scholars Society burning the US flag in protest to the impending war on Iraq (An Nahar, 1/28/03).


Europeans against the US war on Iraq (Alquds Alarabi, 1/24/03).	About 100,000 people from 153 countries demonstrated in Porto Alegrez, Brazil, protesting globalization and war. The protested was in connection to the annual Davos meetings (Alittihad, 1/25/03).	Pakistani nunns demonstrating in Lahore, in protest to the US war on Iraq (An Nahar, 125/03).


British anti-war demonstrators protesting the coming war on Iraq, in front of the British Parliament (Alquds, 1/22/03).	Protesters demonstrate against a possible war on Iraq outside the U. S. Embassy in Jakarta on January 22. (Reuters, Khaleej Times, 1/22/03).	Most of the British oppose the war on Iraq. This was part of the weekend demonstrations against the war (Alquds Alarabi, 1/22/03).


About 300,000 Americans demonstrated against war on Iraq, in Washington DC, on Saturday (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 1/19/03).	Thousands of people gather to protest against likely war in Iraq, as part of worldwide demonstrations, in Tokyo on Saturday. (AFP, Arab News, 1/18/03).


Anti-US war on Iraq demonstration in Lahore, Pakistan (Al-Kifah Al-Arabi, 1/19/03).	Anti-US war on Iraq demonstration in Washington DC, USA (Al-Kifah Al-Arabi, 1/19/03).	Anti-US war on Iraq demonstration in Paris, France (Al-Kifah Al-Arabi, 1/19/03).


Anti-war demonstration in Demascus, Syria (Al-Ittihad, 1/19/03).	Anti-war on Iraq demonstraton in Gaza, Palestine, on Friday (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 1/18/03).	Palestinian refugees in Ain El-Helweh, Lebanon, demonstrating against the US war on Iraq, on Friday, carrying pictures of Saddam Hussain and Yasser Arafat (Alquds, 1/18/03).


Damascus demonstrators against war on Iraq (aljazeera.net, 1/18/03).	Amman, Jordan, protest against war on Iraq (aljazeera.net, 1/18/03).	Moscow demonstrators against war on Iraq (aljazeera.net, 1/18/03).


150 naked women in California protested the war on Iraq with their naked bodies, writing NO WAR here, and PEACE in another picture. The group was headed by the actress Donna Shihan (An Nahar, 1/16/03).	Protesters from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament stand Monday on the shores of Loch Long where British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is berthed in Scotland (photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Reuters, Jordan Times, 1/14/03)	British peace activists continue to protest British build up for attacking Iraq with the US (Alquds Alarabi, 1/15/03).

Alquds Alarabi, (11/7/02)

Al-Ahram Weekly (10/10/02).

A group of anarchists present a banner during an anti-NATO demonstration in Prague on November 20. NATO said on Wednesday it was building multinational rapid response teams to turn attacks with chemical and biological weapons from potential catastrophes into manageable crises. (Khaleej Times, 11/21/02).


About ten thousand people demonstrated today in Sydney, Australia, against war on Iraq (aljazeera.net, 11/30/02).	Thousands of Bahrainis demonstrating yesterday on Jerusalem Day, in support for the Palestinian people and in protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestine (aljazeera.net, 11/30/02).


Women from all continents against Sharon and the Israeli occupation of Palestine.		Filipino activists chant anti-Australian slogans during a rally outside the Australian embassy in Manila. The Philippines branded Australia's proposal to allow pre-emptive strikes against militants in other countries as bizarre and said foreign troops are not welcome without Manila's consent (Khaleej Times, 12/3/02).

Turkish Islamist protesters chant slogans as they burn a British flag in an anti-war rally in Istanbul on December 29 in which around 2,000 demonstrators demanded Turkey not to assist the United States in the event of war in neighbouring Iraq (Khaleej Times, 12/30/02).

A demonstration against US war on Iraq, in Pakistan, on Friday (Alquds Alarabi, 1/4/02).

Protesters shout slogans as they carry banners in the western Turkish city of Izmir on Saturday during a demonstration against a possible US-led war against Iraq. (Reuters, Arab News, 1/5/03).

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