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San Francisco Bay Area / Michael Moore film a hot ticket / 'Fahrenheit 9/11' energizes the anti-Bush multitudes

Ibrahim and co-counsel Catherine Mabille visited the Bay Area to discuss the case recently. Chronicle photo by Michael Maloney

When saving a life is worth risking your own
- A talk with lawyers on Nigerian stoning case

SF gallery owner targeted for painting of Iraqi prisoner abuse

Photos of Abuse

Photos of Military Coffins

Biggest American trade pact yet / Agreement's details await negotiation, despite nearly a decade of preliminaries Miami riot police fire on protesters outside a Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting. Authorities made dozens of arrests.     Associated Press photo by Alan Diaz

Basra, Iraq. March 22, 2003
Man carries body of small girl
killed during the siege of Basra.
Photo: Amr Nabil, AP

Images: Civilian Victims of the Anglo-
American Aggression in Iraq

Iraqi's move to take cover as British
tanks open fire on Iraqi positions on
the outskirts of Basra Sunday,
March 30, 2003. The Iraqi army
returned fire with a mortar
attack. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

U.S. troops move through Cologne, Germany, in March 1945. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo via Associated Press

Experts question the parallel to rebuilding after WW II

Peaceful S.F. crowd
protests stance on
Iraq / At S.F. rally,
200,000 seek
alternative to U.S.
war

Sharon Wickham
holds a giant peace
sign as she walks up
Market Street in
protest of the
possible U.S.
invasion of Iraq.
2/16/03
Chronicle photo by Kat Wade

In Paris two protesters painted
their faces with American flags
on one side and death masks
on the other side. 2/15/03

From Paris to London to Rome
to Athens, thousands upon
thousands of demonstrators
turned out Saturday 2/15/03 to
protest a possible war against
Iraq. The crowd of 750,000
in London was said to be the
largest ever for a demonstration
in the British capital.

Story

In downtown Tokyo, a group of
masked student demonstrators
mock President Bush during a
rally 2/15/03 to protest the
possible war with Iraq.
Associated Press photo by
Koji Sasahara

Story

Lying naked on a dung-laden pasture,
a group called Unreasonable Women
Baring Witness hopes to bring attention
to those against going to war with Iraq.
Photo courtesy of Donna Sheehan, Jan. 2003

An aerial photo shows thousands
of anti-war demonstrators marching
in downtown San Francisco on
January 18, 2003.
Chronicle photo by Kim Komenich

Hundreds of women protest in Mexico City
the murders of women in the northern city of
Ciudad Juarez, Monday, Nov. 25, 2002. Some
280 women have been killed in the last decade
in Cuidad Juarez, across the border from El Paso,
Texas, said first lady Martha Sahagun de Fox.
In the past, Juarez police have confirmed at least
75 cases where women were raped and murdered. (AP Photo/ Ismael Rojas)

Tens of thousands of flag-waving, whistle-
blowing protesters march through the streets
of Florence, November 9, 2002 to denounce
a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq. More
than 400,000 people from across Europe
joined the demonstration, holding aloft a sea
of rainbow-colored, multi-lingual banners.
Photo by Andrea Comas/Reuters

Fardin (left) is a six
year old boy who
was severely
traumatized by the
bombing of his
neighborhood. Since
the bomb fell, killing
9 neighbors, he has
stopped talking and
walking.

Photo gallery

Farida Hassan, standing, weeps over the
flower-strewn coffin of her 19-year-old
daughter, Meisoun Hassan, killed during
the 7/28/02 attack on a bus. The women
are members of the Israeli Druze community.

A man tries to help a wounded woman after a bomb
went off at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

July 31, 2002
Photo by David Guttenfelder

Story

American environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill, 28,
was arrested along with seven other demonstrators
7/19/02 outside the offices of Occidental Petroleum,
a U.S. oil company in Quito, Ecuador. She was later
deported.

Hill --who had spent two years living 180 feet off
the ground in a redwood tree to protect a stand of
thousand-year-old redwoods in California-- said she
was outraged by the destruction she witnessed along
an oil pipeline route carved through Ecuador's forests.

Story

Sharbat Gula, the "girl with the eyes,"
the "Afghan girl,"symbol of a war-weary
country. Appeared on the cover of the
June 1985 National Geographic.
Photographer: Steve McCurry.

Now, after 17 years, she has been found.

Video: A Life Revealed

Amber Goodwin, 17, who
is pursuing a career in animal
behavior, works with Thunder,
an American Bald Eagle at the
West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center.

December 1, 2001
Photo: Paul Stephen

Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, daughter of assassinated Israeli
leader Yitzhak Rabin who began a peace process with
Palestinians, resigned her cabinet post July 23, 2002 in
protest at the army's reoccupation of Palestinian towns
in the West Bank. Rabin-Pelosoff, seen in this February
1999 file photo as she attends the memorial
commemorating the 77th birthday of her late father, was
named deputy defense minister in the broad coalition of
right-wing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last year.
Photo by Havakuk Levison/Reuters

A Palestinian woman stands by
a pile of blankets she recovered
from her destroyed home at the
site of an Israeli air strike in
Gaza City, Wednesday, July 24,
2002. An Israeli warplane
attacked a house in the Gaza Strip
early Tuesday, killing at least 15
people, including Salah Shehadeh,
commander of the military
wing of Hamas.
Photo AP/Vadim Ghirda

Photo series

A Palestinian Christian woman lights candles inside the
Nativity Church in Bethlehem July 23, 2002 during a lift
of the curfew. Israel's killing of the top Hamas militant
on Tuesday will probably prompt fresh attacks by the
Islamicgroup and undermine efforts to capitalize on a
period of relative calm in the Middle East, analysts said.
Photo Laszlo Balogh /Reuters

Hava Rexha, the oldest woman
in Albania at 121 years old, hugs
Xhersi, one of her great grand-
children at her home in Shushice,
on July 8, 2002. Hava's one
resentment was being forced to
wed at 14 to a man who claimed
to be 30but was "about 60 and
married twice before as well."
That was in 1894, 20 years
before the outbreak of the First
World War. Rexha celebrates
her 122nd birthday on Aug. 14.
Photo by ArbenCeli/Reuters

Kashmiri Muslim women pray on a hilltop
near the shrine of Sakhi Zain-ud-din Wali,
a Muslim saint, in Aishmuqaam, 80 Kilo-
meters (50 miles) South of Srinagar, India.
The farming community in South Kashmir
celebrates the festival of lights in the last
week of April, marking the beginning of the
agricultural season. Farmers begin plowing
their fields after a winter recess.

(Saturday, April 27, 2002) Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Cheikha Rimitti: The 79-year-old
matriarch of rai, Algeria's vibrant
street music... is still performing
with swagger and style. Rimitti,
who is from Oran -- the Algerian
city that gave birth to rai --
recorded her first album in 1936,
at a time when few women sang
in public in Algeria. Her songs
about poverty and sex established
her reputation as a leading figure
of rai, which literally means
"opinion" or "way of seeing."

Photo courtesy of Sonodisc

Story

A Palestinian woman weeps atop the
rubble of what was once her house.
The Jenin refugee camp in the northern
West Bank was deluged for days by
Israeli and Palestinian gunmen.

(Wednesday April 17, 2002)
Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

An elderly South Korean woman who was
forced into becoming a "comfort woman",
providing sex for Japanese forces during
World War II, screams in front of the
Japanese embassy in Seoul. Hundreds of
riot police held off demonstrators protesting
against the refusal of Japan to revise
controversial history textbooks. Japan
rejected South Korean government
demands to revise history textbooks
accused of glossing over Japan's wartime
atrocities, sparking anger across South
Korea. (Monday, July 9, 2001). Photo: AFP

Veiled Pakistani women join hands during
a protest rally to observe a general strike
in Islamabad. The strike was observed
across the country against the Pakistani
military government's support of the U.S.-
led military campaign against Afghanistan.
Businesses remained closed in major cities
of the country. (Friday, November 9, 2001)

A woman prays at the 2.5-mile-long
Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. On the last day of the year,
thousands traditionally throw white
flowers into the sea before midnight
and make a wish to the African sea
goddess Yemanja.

(Monday, December 31, 2001)
Photo: DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS/AP

Indonesian Muslim women pray during
an evening Ramadan prayer at Istiqlal
mosque, the largest in Southeast Asia, in
Jakarta, Indonesia. Muslims all around the
world are now entering the second week
of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic
calendar, where they abstain from food,
drinks, sex and other pleasures from dusk
dawn 'til dusk to renew themselves.

(Saturday, November 24, 2001)
Photo: Dita Alangkara/AP

A Palestinian woman and children pass
Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia checkpoint
on the road from Jerusalem to the West
Bank town of Ramallah December 7, 2001.
Israeli warplanes bombed the Palestinian
Authority's main police headquarters on
Friday, wounding at least 18 people in fresh
retaliation for deadlysuicide attacks in the
Jewish state. REUTERS/Nir Elias

Photo gallery

Israeli women react at the scene
of a suicidebomb attack in Jerusalem.
At least 17 peoplewere killed and more
than 80 injured when a suicide bomb
blast ripped through a crowded street
of Jerusalem.
(August 9, 2001) Isaac Harari/AFP

A mother lifts her burka to speak to her daughter as they flee the battle-ravaged northern city of Kunduz.    November 19, 2001 http://www.time.com/time/asia/photoessays/afghan_women/7.html

Covered in cuts and scrapes,
Fermina Bibi, 7, lies in a hospital bed
at Civil Hospital in Quetta, Pakistan.
She and her brother were reportedly
injured when their home in Kandahar
was hit during a U.S. airstrike.
Casualty reports could not be
independently verified.
(November 2, 2001)

Najeeba Mugal, 13, right, and her sister Laleema,
newly arrived Afghan refugees stand in the 12 square-
foot mud house they share with their family. The
United Nations has warned of a potential humanitarian
catastrophe as tens of thousands of Afghans are
expected to seek refuge in Pakistan to avoid an
anticipated military showdown between the U.S. and
its allies and the Taliban regime.

A Palestinian woman mourns Mohammad Samur
during his funeral in Khan Yunes refugee camp in
theGaza Strip. Samur, 23, died of his wounds
about an hour after being shot by Israeli troops
during an exchange of fire in the West Bank town
of Beit Jala, following its occupation by the Israeli army.

(Thursday, August 30, 2001). Emmanuel Pain/AFP

An Afghan refugee and her son wait at the Nusakambangan
Prison Colony in Central Java, Indonesia. About 140 Afghan
refugees are being detained on the notorious prison island
after their boat, which was en route to Christmas Island,
Australia, sank in rough seas on Aug. 17th.

(Saturday Sept. 1, 2001) David Longstreath/AP

Tzotzil women sit behind
a rope marking off Zapatista
territory in Polhó, Chiapas, Mexico. June 2000.

Photo essay

A woman and her three children struggle up a muddy trail in the
highlands of Chiapas after fleeing escalating political violence in
their village. They left with only what they could carry.
Photo by Allan Barnes, Dec. 27, 1997 in Chiapas, Mexico.

Munira Subasic and Suhra Malic, both Srebrenica survivors, watch, along with Subasic's granddaughter Sara, as General Radislav Krstic is found guilty of genocide. The UN war crimes tribunal convened in The Hague detailed Krstic's role in the 1995 killing of 8,000 Moslems in Srebrenica.

Photo: Fehim Demir/AFP