Ahad, Oktober 09, 2005
Actors film a scene for the Ramadan television show in Syria. Syrian television is to launch a soap opera inspired by terrorism for the holy month of Ramadan that begins this week across the Muslim world.(AFP/HO)
A Jordanian woman passes by decoration lights displayed in the streets in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan in 2004. Thousands of impoverished Jordanian families reeling from recent price hikes are expected to receive
Muslim faithful wash with small containers of of water before prayers outside the central mosque in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday Oct. 4, 2005. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began in Nigeria and most parts of the Muslim world after the new moon was sighted early Monday. (AP Photo/George Osodi)
Muslim men shave outside the central mosque in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Oct. 4 2005. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began in Nigeria and most parts of the Muslim world after the new moon was sighted early Monday.(AP Photo/George Osodi)
A young woman sells food to customer in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began in Nigeria and most part of the world after the new moon was sighted early Monday. (AP Photo/George Osodi)
An unidentified man watches as Muslim faithful pray outside the central mosque in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began in Nigeria and most part of the world after the new moon was sighted early Monday.(AP Photo/George Osodi)
Muslim men pray outside the central musque in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Oct. 4 2005. The Islam holy month of Ramadan began in Nigeria and most part of the world after the new moon was sighted early Monday. (AP Photo/George Osodi)
A Palestinian boy holds a homemade sparkler firework after breaking the fast on the first day of Ramadan in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Smoke billows from the site where a suicide car bomb exploded outside the entrance to the high-security 'Green Zone' in Baghdad, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan for Iraq's Sunni Muslims. Thousands of US troops widened their sweep for Al-Qaeda insurgents in a new offensive along Iraq's Euphrates Valley, as Iraqi security forces braced for new attacks with the start of Ramadan.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)
An Iraqi Sunni family enjoys food at the end of the first day of fasting in Basra, Iraq, Tuesday Oct. 4 2005. Sunnis started the holy month of Ramadan a day earlier than the Shiites. Sunni Arab leaders threatened on Tuesday to boycott Iraq's crucial vote on a new constitution, angered by new rules by the Shiite-led parliament that make it nearly impossible for Sunnis to defeat it at the polls. U.S. and U.N. officials were trying to persuade the government to reverse the changes.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Underprivileged Iraqi children wait in line for soup to be handed out at the Abed al-Qader mosque in central Baghdad October 4, 2005. The soup kitchen was set up to help Baghdad's poor during the holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting and prayers for Muslims across the world. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber
Yemeni worker prepares an Ottoman cannon to be fired at sunset on Mount Noqum which overlooks the capital Sanaa October 4, 2005. The cannon shot announces the end of the fast. Observant Muslims around the world are forbidden to eat, drink, smoke or have sexual intercourse between sunrise and sunset during the month of Ramadan that began Tuesday in most Muslim nations. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Thai Muslims pray at the ancient Krue Se Mosque in the southern Thailand province of Pattani October 4, 2005. Muslims in Thailand begin the fasting month of Ramadan on Wednesday. Muslims scan the sky at night after the end of their lunar calendar's eighth month in search of the new moon to proclaim the start of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month during which observant believers fast from dawn to dusk. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad
An Israeli soldier looks on as a Palestinian boy carries a Ramadan lantern on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 4, 2005. Muslims scan the sky at night after the end of their lunar calendar's eighth month in search of the new moon to proclaim the start of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month when practising Muslims abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn to dusk and believe that good deeds are rewarded 10-fold. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
People struggle for meat to be distributed in a shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun in most of the Arab world today. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita)
Muslims pray on the night before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2004, at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Muslims believe Ramadan was the month when God began to reveal the holy book, the Quran, to the Prophet Muhammad 1,400 years ago. Aside from fasting, the month also is marked with special prayers, nighttime feasts and family get-togethers. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim
Acehnese pray at a mass grave for tsunami victims in the outskirts of Banda Aceh October 2, 2005 ahead of the holy month of Ramadan which is expected to start on Tuesday. Millions of Indonesian Muslims will fast from dawn until sunset during Ramadan. REUTERS/Tarmizy Harva