The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

in the same way that football clubs transfer players 10/06/01 B
19 7>8
* Iran's voice of moderation has landslide win over the clerics
10/06/01 B 20 1>6 Photograph
* The Palestinians and Israel are resorting to propaganda as the
main weapon in their fight for world opinion 17/06/01 B 17 1>6
Photographs
* While Israel's hawkish Prime Minister rails against Yasser
Arafat as the 'head of a gang of terrorists', he sends his son to try
to negotiate a settlement with the Palestinians 01/07/01 B 19
1>8 Photographs
* A leader of the Palestinian fighters in Rafah in the Gaza strip
says the ceasefire is withering on barren and bloody ground
08/07/01 B 23 1>6 Photograph
* The battle for land spawns a brutal new group of Jewish
vigilantes 22/07/01 B 17 1>8 Photographs
* Israel tries to kill top Arafat aide in missile attack on car
05/08/01 B 19 1>6 Photographs
* Comment by Edward Said on Israel 12/08/01
* Police and protesters clash as lorries take away tons of secret
documents from captured Palestinian HQ 12/08/01 B 17 1>5
Photographs
* Masked boys wave Hamas flags at the funeral of two
Palestinian protesters killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza strip
12/08/01 B 2 5 Photograph
* As Israeli security forces maintain a high alert for suicide
bombers this weekend, the stranglehold on Gaza continues
19/08/01 B 20 4>8 Photograph
* Jews and Palestinians are queuing up to secure their escape as
the bloody cycle of violence shows no sign of ending 26/08/01
B 17 1>6 Photographs
* Israel kills aide to Gaza security chief 02/09/01 B 17 7>8
* The Taliban rulers in Afghanistan have started a trial of
Christian aid workers accused to preaching Christianity
09/09/01 B 16 1>6 Photographs
* Iran wants tourists to sample regal luxury in the city where
Darius held court 09/09/01 B 19 1>6 Photographs
* All that stands between the West and a flood of heroin pouring
out of Afghanistan are the poorly armed, poorly paid border
patrols of Iran - report from the front line of the real war on
drugs 09/09/01 M 26>30 1>4 Photographs
* Kabul empties as the US decides 16/09/01 X 22>23 1>6
Photograph
* The Islamic mindset 16/09/01 X 22>23 4>6 Photographs
* The Muslim world has to change, it cannot forever attribute all
its ills to America, writes the Iraqi dissident, Kanan Makiya - see
Terrorism 07/10/01
* Chastened Israel pledges support for Bush but fears remain
that America favours Arabs 07/10/01 B 23 1>6 Photographs
* Prince Leila Pahlavi, the daughter of the Shah of Iran, died
alone, aged just 31 in a London hotel room - see Pahlavi, Leila
14/10/01
* Eight die as Israel hits back 21/10/01 B 4 1>8 Photographs
* Report from Beit Rima where doctors struggle to cope with the
victims of Israel's bloody assault on the West Bank in pursuit of
'terrorists' 28/10/01 B 24>25 1>8 Photographs, map
* Defiant Israelis abandon pull-out 28/10/01 B 3 8
* Palestinians must have a state says US 04/11/01 B 23 7>8
* Even George Bush wants to see a new film about the suffering
OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC 2001
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in Afghanistan under the Taliban 04/11/01 R 5 1>7 Photographs
* The inside story of the battle for Afghanistan 18/11/01 X 1>8
1>8 Photographs
* US commits to Palestine 18/11/01 B 23 1>8 Photograph
* Women were banished from Iranian stadiums after the 1979
revolution but last week the mullahs relented and let 40 Irish
women attend a crucial world cup game 18/11/01 B 8 1>8
Photographs
* A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews
and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled
from a leading journal, Human Immunology - see Science
25/11/01
* The case against Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, for
the 1982 massacres in Lebanon's Sabra and Chatila refugee
camps will open this week 25/11/01 B 24 1>6 Photographs
* Secret US plan to launch war against Iraq - see International
Affairs: U.S.A. 02/12/01
* Carnage as suicide bombs hit Jerusalem 02/12/01 B 1, 3 1>6
Photograph
* Interview with Uri Geller who's famous the world over for
bending spoons and who's now planning to bring peace to the
middle east - see Geller, Uri 09/12/01
* Gaza Diary by Sandra Jordan 09/12/01 B 20 6>7 Photograph
* The Palestinian leader wants his force to arrest militants - but
some recoil at orders to act against their own families 09/12/01
B 20 1>5 Photograph
* Tony Blair fears a major split with America over the Middle
East peace process 16/12/01 B 2 2>7 Photographs
* Report on Palestine's Martyrs 16/12/01 B 21 1>7 Photographs
* One of Saddam Hussein's most senior henchmen was the
organiser of repeated trips to Baghdad by Labour MP George
Galloway 23/12/01 B 10 6>7 Photograph
* New Afghan leader vows to build an era of peace 23/12/01 B
2 2>6 Photograph
* Women continue to cover up in Afghanistan, reluctant to be
the first to take off the burqa 30/12/01 B 18 1>6 Photographs
* Kabul Diary by Peter Beaumont 30/12/01 B 19 1>4
Photograph
* Revealed: Egypt's empire was built on breeze blocks 30/12/01
B 20 1>4 Photographs
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: RUSSIA
* Russia's beleaguered atheists have formed a new society to
campaign against the growing power of the Church in
government 07/01/01 B 22 1>8 Photograph
* Museum recalls a regime from Gorbachev's era that Russians
prefer to ignore 14/01/01 B 21 1>6 Photograph
* MI6 accused of abusing mentally ill son by parents of Russian
diplomat who became a spy 28/01/01 B 24 1>8 Photographs
* Tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky, owner of Russia's largest media
group, spectacularly fell out with the clique that runs the
Kremlin - see Media 04/02/01
* Report from St. Petersburg were prostitution and drugs are
fuelling a huge rise in HIV infections 11/02/01 B 25 1>6
Photographs
* Should Western banks do business with a Russian aluminium
giant accused of murder, extortion, fraud and money laundering?
- see Financial Institutions 18/02/01
* As the ageing Russian space station Mir, nears its watery
grave, millions mourn the passing of a national status symbol