EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. A Palestinian man prays inside the al-Aqsa Mosque on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as Temple Mount, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Old City September 3, 2008. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking, and sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
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Grooms take part in a mass wedding ceremony in Riyadh June 24, 2008. Governor of Riyadh Prince Salman and a local group organized a mass wedding for about 1600 couples to help young people who are unable to afford expensive ceremonies because of the rising cost of living. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA) 

Shi'ite community members serve traditional dinner before the Ashura mourning session, at a high-tech Matam ''Sheie'a Mosque'', in the city of A'ali some 25 km (16 miles) south of Manama, January 16, 2008.
Shi'ite muslims mark the religious ceremony of Ashura in which Imam Hussein, one of Prophet Mohammad's grandsons, was killed in 680 AD. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed (BAHRAIN) 

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan encourages his daughter Princess Hassa (C) as she poses for photographers with France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde at a cultural exhibition in Abu Dhabi, January 15, 2008. Lagarde is part of the delegation travelling with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy in Abu Dhabi. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) 

U.S. President George W. Bush (L) and Saudi Arabia's Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, brother of King Abdullah, watch a traditional celebration dance outside the Al Murabba Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 15, 2008. REUTERS/Larry Downing (SAUDI ARABIA) 

U.S. President George W. Bush and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum are greeted by children during Bush's visit to the Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum House in Dubai January 14, 2008. The house serves as a Museum of Historical Photographs and Documents of the Emirate of Dubai. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) 

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) speaks with Riyadh Governor Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz during a visit to the palace of King Abdul Aziz, founder of the Saudi kingdom, in Riyadh January 14, 2008. REUTERS/Eric Feferberg/Pool (SAUDI ARABIA) 

Relatives of Saudis released from Guantanamo Bay gather in Riyadh September 6, 2007. Sixteen Saudis returned home on Thursday after the United States released them from a prison camp at Guantanamo Bay where foreign terrorism suspects are held. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA) 

Men stand at the site of a suicide bomb attack in village of Kahtaniya, one of two villages struck on Tuesday by garbage trucks packed with explosives, west of Mosul, northwest of Baghdad August 16, 2007. Angry members of a minority sect said on Thursday they feared annihilation and pleaded for help, after suicide attackers killed scores in possibly the worst such bomb attack of the Iraq conflict. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ) 

An Arab Gulf man rests on a main street in Riyadh August 14, 2007. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA) 

An Arab guest has a drink in the Chill Out ice lounge, the first to open in the Middle East, in Dubai August 13, 2007. REUTER/Ahmed Jadallah (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) 

An Israeli soldier (L) checks the identification card of a Palestinian man at the Haware checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus July 30, 2007. Israel is preparing to remove some of the roadblocks and checkpoints that restrict Palestinian travel in the West Bank as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after months of resistance, officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel (WEST BANK) 

A Jordanian Bedouin herdsman feeds a sheep with water in the desert area along the Iraqi-Jordanian border June 24, 2007. The kingdom has been hit with a heatwave in recent days, with temperatures hitting a record 40 degrees Celsius according to the meteorological office. REUTERS/Majed Jaber (JORDAN) 

A man stands at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad April 2, 2007. A car bomb killed two people and wounded nine others in the southern Bayaa district of Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz (IRAQ) 

A man prays outside the Islamic Cultural Center before the funeral for the ten victims of a Bronx residential fire in the Bronx borough of New York, March 12, 2007. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES) 

An elderly resident walks past a U.S. soldier from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Baghdad, October 29, 2006. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Raouf (IRAQ) 

Traders watch a quotation board at the Dubai stock exchange June 7, 2006. REUTERS/Asghar Khan (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) 

Investor Ahmed Al Gharabally looks up at a quotation board at the Dubai stock exchange December 7, 2005. UAE energy company Dana Gas's 2.1 billion dirhams ($560 million) IPO, which closed in October, attracted subscriptions worth 288 billion dirhams, surged more than 300 per cent in Tuesday's trading. REUTERS/Tamara Abdul Hadi Pictures of the Month December 2005 

Stock traders watch computer monitors at the Kuwait Stock Exchange in Kuwait September 13, 2005. Kuwait's share index topped 10,000 points intraday on Tuesday for the first time, as investors bet on firm corporate earnings for this quarter against a solid economic backdrop thanks to record oil prices. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee PP05090230 SM/TY 

A Japanese advanced troops soldier stand guard outside the Governor's House as Colonel Masahisa, commander of Japanese advance troops, meets province's governor in Samawa, southern Iraq January 20, 2004. Men and young children, many dressed in traditional dishdasha robes and keffiyah headscarves, waved and gave the thumbs up at the Japanese troops as they sped through the dusty streets of Samawa shortly after dawn, shouting "Japanese very good!" . REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama 

A Japanese advanced troops soldier stand guard outside the Governor's House as Colonel Masahisa, commander of the Japanese advance troops, meets the province's governor in Samawa, southern Iraq January 20, 2004. Men and young children, many dressed in traditional dishdasha robes and keffiyah headscarves, waved and gave the thumbs up at the troops as they sped through the dusty streets of Samawa shortly after dawn, shouting "Japanese very good!" REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama KM/jv 

Colonel Masahisa (L), the commander of the Japanese Forces advanced team, and Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Opelaar, commander of the Dutch military contingent of Royal Marines and Army, leave the Governor's House in Samawa, southern Iraq January 20, 2004 after talks with the provisional governor. Men and young children, many dressed in traditional dishdasha robes and keffiyah headscarves, waved and gave the thumbs up at the Japanese troops as they sped through the dusty streets of Samawa shortly after dawn, shouting "Japanese very good!" . REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama