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* When Indonesian supreme court judge Syafiuddin Kartasamita<br />

left home just after 8am on Thursday he had no reason to suspect<br />

anything was amiss - less than half an hour later he was dead<br />

29/07/01 B 26 7>8 Photograph<br />

* <strong>The</strong> military regime in Pakistan is preparing to execute a<br />

young illiterate woman despite mounting concerns from human<br />

rights groups 05/08/01 B 21 7>8 Photograph<br />

* Hundreds of people flocked to Brunei for the start the<br />

auctioning of 10,000 lots that once belonged to the business<br />

empire of the autocratic sultan's disgraced younger brother<br />

12/08/01 B 21 1>8 Photograph<br />

* East Timor's former resistance leader and current national<br />

hero, Jose Alexandre 'Xanana' Gusmao has announced he is<br />

willing to become the fledgling nation's first president 26/08/01<br />

B 21 5>6<br />

* Lawyers are launching the world's biggest ever class action<br />

against the British Geological Survey over claims it failed to<br />

spot deadly poisons during crucial tests on water in Bangladesh<br />

30/09/01 B 24 1>8 Photographs<br />

* Former Sri Lankan cricket captain, Arjuna Ranatunga, is on<br />

the verge of announcing his entry as a political candidate in<br />

<strong>December</strong>'s Sri Lankan general elections 04/11/01 B 26 7>8<br />

Photograph<br />

* <strong>The</strong> death camps of Burma 11/11/01 M 42>49 1>4<br />

Photographs<br />

* A new film about Lenin by the controversial Russian director<br />

Alexander Sokurov has provoked anger from a coalition of<br />

Indian writers and politicians after it was shown at a film festival<br />

in India 18/11/01 B 25 1>8 Photograph<br />

* President Bush made a personal intervention in the mounting<br />

diplomatic crisis that threatens war between India and Pakistan<br />

30/12/01 B 3 1>4 Photograph<br />

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: MIDDLE EAST<br />

* A televised speech by Saddam Hussein failed to convince<br />

doubters that he is alive and well 07/01/01 B 21 1>2<br />

* Police mete out lethal justice to Palestinian spies who are paid<br />

to turn family and neighbours over to Tel Aviv's feared security<br />

services 14/01/01 B 3 1>6 Photographs<br />

* Undercover Israeli soldiers posing as Arabs captured a young<br />

Palestinian woman suspected of luring an Israeli youth to his<br />

death via the internet 21/01/01 B 20 5>8 Photographs<br />

* Saddam Hussein is stronger than ever and a class of<br />

entrepreneurs are exploiting the UN embargo to make fortunes<br />

21/01/01 B 21 1>6 Photographs<br />

* Israeli army deserted by soldiers with a conscience 28/01/01 B<br />

21 1>4 Photograph<br />

* Fifty years ago Ariel Sharon terrorised a Palestinian village,<br />

now he will lead Israel 04/02/01 B 21 1>8 Photographs<br />

* Neal Ascherson assesses Israel's risk of new disasters as<br />

Sharon heads for power 04/02/01 B 21 1>5 Photograph<br />

* Britain broke its own ministerial guidelines banning the sale of<br />

weapons in a dispute in the Western Sahara 04/02/01 B 22 6>7<br />

* <strong>The</strong> murky world of expatriate life in Saudi Arabia has been<br />

rocked by the arrests of three Westerners for murder, but are<br />

they being framed? 11/02/01 B 19 1>6 Photographs<br />

* Ariel Sharon, the new Israeli Prime Minister, moved yesterday<br />

to unity a divided Israel and mollify world opinion by making a<br />

dramatic bid to woo senior left-wing figures into his government<br />

11/02/01 B 22 1>8<br />

* Britain and America vowed to launch fresh air raids against<br />

Iraq despite facing international isolation after Friday's stokes on<br />

radar sites near Baghdad 18/02/01 B 1 1>3 Photograph<br />

OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC <strong>2001</strong><br />

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* <strong>The</strong> Raid on Iraq: Bush signals a deadly intent 18/02/01 B<br />

20>21 1>8 Photographs<br />

* Iraq is set for nuclear weapons 25/02/01 B 22 5>7<br />

* Saudi Arabian authorities are flouting international law by now<br />

allowing British officials to visit a jailed Briton who faces public<br />

execution 25/02/01 B 7 6>7 Photograph<br />

* Outrage as the defiant Taliban blow away 1,700 years of<br />

history in central Afghanistan 04/03/01 B 21 1>6 Photographs<br />

* <strong>The</strong> Freud Society of Vienna has cancelled a lecture by<br />

Edward Said, the Palestinian-American professor, after members<br />

saw a photograph of him poised to hurl a stone at an Israeli<br />

guardhouse 11/03/01 B 21 1>6 Photograph<br />

* Palestinians turn backs on violence 18/03/01 B 22 1>8<br />

Photographs<br />

* As they bury their dead, Palestinians charge Bush with<br />

collusion in Israel's hardline tactics 01/04/01 B 23 1>7<br />

Photograph<br />

* Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban rulers have ended its<br />

opium trade - but the world hasn't noticed 01/04/01 B 26 1>7<br />

Photograph<br />

* A conference of revisionist historians of the Holocaust is due<br />

to go ahead in Jordan today despite an international outcry - see<br />

Holocaust, <strong>The</strong> 08/04/01<br />

* Jason Burke in Rafah, Gaza, sees the human tragedy endured<br />

by a people in the grip of mounting violence 15/04/01 B 21 1>8<br />

Photographs<br />

* Now Israel's leader has been forced to retreat 22/04/01 B 21<br />

1>5 Photograph<br />

* Pope John Paul began a historic pilgrimage to Muslin Syria<br />

yesterday with an urgent appeal for peace in the Middle East -<br />

see Pope John Paul 06/05/01<br />

* Afghanistan's worst humanitarian disaster since the Soviet<br />

invasion of 1979 is unfolding as drought, famine and renewed<br />

civil war drive 300 families a day into refugee camps 06/05/01<br />

B 19 1>8 Photographs<br />

* <strong>The</strong> dwindling community of Mishmar David is on the verge<br />

of making history by becoming the first of Israel's 279 kibbutzim<br />

to be disbanded 06/05/01 B 23 1>5 Photographs<br />

* Hatred going back centuries is unleashed as two Jewish<br />

teenagers are stoned to death 13/05/01 B 25 1>7 Photographs<br />

* Report from Paris where ministers and intellectuals want to<br />

halt the rise in sexist imagery 13/05/01 B 26 1>8 Photographs<br />

* <strong>The</strong> violence in the Middle East continued to escalate as Israel<br />

launched more air strikes against Palestinian targets 20/05/01 B<br />

2 8<br />

* Grief and defiance as Israel unleashes more air strikes<br />

20/05/01 B 23 1>6 Photographs<br />

* Grieving relatives are leading a groundswell of public fury<br />

over the shoddy building standards that led to Israel's worst ever<br />

civilian disaster 27/05/01 B 23 1>7 Photographs<br />

* <strong>The</strong> price of petrol could rise by more than 50p a gallon after<br />

Iraq, the world's second largest oil producer, yesterday<br />

announced it was stopping exports tomorrow - see Oil Industry<br />

03/06/01<br />

* Jewish mobs laid siege to a mosque near the site of Friday<br />

night's horrific bombing of a Tel Aviv nightclub 03/06/01 B 1<<br />

25 1>4<br />

* Israel's growing mood for full-scale hostilities in the aftermath<br />

of 18 deaths in a nightclub suicide bomb attack 03/06/01 B 25<br />

1>8 Photographs<br />

* Israeli brothel keepers have the right to buy and sell prostitutes

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