With painting of Jesus Christ, top left, and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top right, late Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, bottom left, and former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, bottom right, Palestinian painter Waleed Ayyoub adds the last touches on a painting he drew of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama joined the nation's earliest voters Tuesday as people around the nation began lining up to cast ballots in a historic election pitting Republican John McCain against the man seeking to become the first black president in U.S. history. AP Photo logo AP Photo 15 months ago

With painting of Jesus Christ, top left, and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top right, late Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, bottom left, and former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, bottom right, Palestinian painter Waleed Ayyoub adds the last touches on a painting he drew of Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama joined the nation's earliest voters Tuesday as people around the nation began lining up to cast ballots in a historic election pitting Republican John McCain against the man seeking to become the first black president in U.S. history.

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  1. A Yemeni youth stands inside a grocery store featuring pictures of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, left, in San'a, Yemen, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. Security forces killed two suspected al-Qaida militants in clashes outside the Yemeni capital on Monday, officials said, as the U.S. and British embassies extended their closure for a second day because of threats of attack by the terror group's offshoot here.
  2. This image taken from al-Lafeta TV channel on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein center pose with his sons Uday, left and Qusay right. The channel is broadcast on a satellite station that alternately calls itself "al-Arabi" ("An Arab") and "al-Lafeta" ("The banner"). It began broadcasting across the Arab world on Friday, the first day of Eid al-Adha, an important holiday of the Islamic calendar, and the anniversary of Saddam's execution by hanging three years ago.** IMAGE FROM TV - TV OUT.
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  4. Members of different organisations and ministries hold up their banners during a rally against the return of Saddam Hussein's Baath party, in Amara, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, February 9, 2010.
  5. Iraq's former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad February 8, 2010. A ban on election candidates accused of links with Saddam Hussein's Baath party threatens to drag Iraq into civil war, a former prime minister and head of a group seen as a strong contender in the polls said on Monday. Picture taken February 8, 2010. To match interview IRAQ-ELECTION/BAATH.
  6. Iraq's former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gestures while answering questions during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad February 8, 2010. A ban on election candidates accused of links with Saddam Hussein's Baath party threatens to drag Iraq into civil war, a former prime minister and head of a group seen as a strong contender in the polls said on Monday. Picture taken February 8, 2010. To match interview IRAQ-ELECTION/BAATH.
  7. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second right, is backdropped by a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, as he stands during a Fatah council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.
  8. Palestinian women wave flags in front of a banner depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and late Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin during a rally marking the anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement in Al-Eizariya, on the edge of Jerusalem January 2, 2010.
  9. Vatican envoy to Israel, French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, has his hand raised by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) before their meeting at Arafat's headquarter in the West Bank city of Ramallah in this May 2, 2002 file photo. A woman lunged at Pope Benedict and caused him to fall to the floor at the start of his Christmas Eve mass on December 24, 2009. Etchegaray, 87, who has been in frail health recently, fell to the floor "in the confusion" and was taken away in a wheelchair. He suffered a broken femur and will have to undergo surgery but is not in serious condition.
  10. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) jokingly pushes Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (C) into the Laurel cabin on the grounds of Camp David as U.S. President Bill Clinton watches during peace talks, July 11, 2000. Arafat and Barak were insisting that the other proceed through the door first. Camp David is the venue where Egypt and Israel made peace in September 1978, and the Laurel cabin was the site of many of the meetings. REUTERS/Win McNamee.
  11. Palestinian girls dance in front of a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as they participate in a celebration marking the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.
  12. Huge portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are seen during a rally marking the Fatah movement's 45th anniversary in the West Bank Hebron, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.

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