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17Aug

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

RAMADAN KAREEM FROM NETANYAHU & OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS

NOVANEWS Jeff Halper August 11, 2010 Yesterday, the day before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, at 2:30 in the morning, workers sent by the Israeli authorities, protected by dozens of police, destroyed the tombstones in the last portion of the Mamilla cemetery, an historic Muslim burial ground with graves going back to the 7th Century, hitherto left untouched. The government of Israel has always been fully cognizant of the sanctity and historic significance of the site. Already in 1948, when control of the cemetery reverted to Israel , the Israeli Religious Affairs Ministry recognized Mamilla “to be one of the most prominent Muslim cemeteries, where seventy thousand Muslim warriors of [Saladin’s] armies are interred along with many Muslim scholars. Israel will always know to prote...

17Aug

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USA

U.S.A: ANOTHER FOOL ON THE MOSQUE ISSUE

NOVANEWS Harry Reid Is Just Another Fool on the Mosque ‘Issue’ August 16, 2010 by Michael Leon Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) - Harry Reid has just officially ended the entire controversy surrounding the supposed “ground zero mosque,” forever, by announcing that he is against it. Gutless swine like Reid represent well the cowardice of the Democratic Party. - By Alex Pareene in Salon He believes, of course, that the organizers of Park51 — a planned community center blocks away from and having nothing to do with the former site of he World Trade Center — have the right to build what they want on private property. He just thinks they shouldn’t, because it would upset Sarah Palin and Andrea Peyser and Mike Lupica. And a fireman. I am pretty sure that I read that a hero fireman 9/11 widow is agai...

17Aug

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USA

OBAMA'S RESPONSE TO PAKISTAN'S FLOODING

NOVANEWS August 16, 2010 by Michael Leon Pakistan Floods - The United States Government has provided food, shelter, medical supplies and other life sustaining items to help people in the flood-affected area and has pledged to provide approximately $76 million in assistance. National Security Advisor General James Jones described the U.S. relief efforts already underway to help combat this humanitarian crisis. - By Nikki Sutton at the White House In times of crisis, the American people have always stood up in support of those in need. President Obama has directed his Administration to stand with the Pakistani people and to assist them as they confront the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history. You can also contribute to the response effort by using your phone to text “SWAT” to 50555...

17Aug

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USA

BUSH FORMER AIDES SPEAK OUT IN DEFENSE OF MUSLIMS

NOVANEWS Two former Bush aides speak out in defense of the rights of Muslims, Bush is silent August 17, 2010 by Michael Leon By Joe Conason in Salon For Muslims around the world, George W. Bush and his decision to invade Iraq became symbols of Western arrogance, hostility and even religious supremacy. But neither Bush’s terrible foreign policy nor his personal and political connections with the religious right — where bigotry against Muslims runs rampant — prevented him from speaking out for religious tolerance and freedom on many occasions, especially in the aftermath of Sept. 11. He prided himself on that record, which had roots in his family’s long relationship with the Saudi monarchy.So why is the former president silent now, when a proposed community center and mosque in lower Man...

17Aug

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USA

THE MOSQUE: COURAGE, TRUTH & THE LAW

NOVANEWS August 17, 2010 by Bob Higgins The current hoo-hah over President Obama’s public statement of the obvious, that Muslims have the same rights as everyone else, to worship, to speak, to petition the government for redress, to get jiggy, and just about whatever Dude, has had the media, the Republicans and a few chicken shit Democrats obsessing through the weekend and deep into today, with no end in sight. This is, as usual, being driven by the same gang of Republicans who really don’t give a damn about the siting of this Islamic cultural center but do care deeply about sticking a knife in every vulnerable patch of flesh that the President and his party expose to their efforts. They hope only to drive a wedge between the electorate, at least the fraction o...

17Aug

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Afghanistan, USA

OBAMA'S AFGHAN STRATEGY IS NOT WORKING

NOVANEWS August 17, 2010 by Michael Leon By RIZWAN ASGHAR With every passing day there is growing perception in international media that President Obama’s Afghan strategy is not working. American public opinion in favour of Afghan war is rapidly eroding and majority of Americans think that situation is worsening in Afghanistan. A number of basic goals were set in Counter Insurgency Strategy (COIN) by President Obama almost a year ago. But none of them is near to be achieved. The first goal was to stabilize Afghanistan while pursuing a more effective civilian strategy. In it the main focus was on protecting major Afghan population centers along with agricultural areas and transportation routes. It was said that operations will be conducted in this way so that they would result in minimum ...

17Aug

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USA

US DEFENSE CHIEF CONFIRMS PLANS TO LEAVE OFFICE IN 2011

NOVANEWS August 16, 2010 by Michael Leon Secretary of Defense Robert Gates WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed Monday plans to leave office next year, saying he first wanted to make sure the start of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is on track. “I think that by next year I’ll be in a position where — you know, we’re going to know whether the strategy is working in Afghanistan,” Gates said in an interview with the American magazine Foreign Policy. “We’ll have completed the surge. We’ll have done the assessment in December. And it seems like somewhere there in 2011 is a logical opportunity to hand off.” Gates said it would be wrong for him to wait until January 2012 to try and hand over the reins as it could be tricky to “get a good candidate” in an...

17Aug

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USA

DID BUSH & BLAIR ORDER SCIENTIS'T MURDER ?

NOVANEWS August 15, 2010 by Gordon Duff BUSH/BLAIR MURDER VICTIM? Dr David Kelly was on a hitlist, says UN weapons expert as calls grow for full inquestBy Miles Goslett and Arthur Martin A leading UN weapons inspector last night added his voice to the growing clamour for a full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. Dr Richard Spertzel claimed Dr Kelly was on a ‘hitlist’ in the final years of his life. The former head of the UN Biological Section, who worked closely with Dr Kelly in Iraq in the 1990s, has written to Attorney General Dominic Grieve about the ‘mysterious circumstances’ surrounding the death. The weapons inspector’s body was found after he was unmasked as the source of a damaging BBC news report questioning the grounds for the Iraq war. Officially, he took his own lif...

17Aug

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USA

WHY THE MOSQUE SCARE THE AMERICAN RIGHT-WING

NOVANEWS Why the Mosque and Cultural Center Scare the American Right-wing August 15, 2010 by Michael Leon Ms. Michigan, an Arab-American destined to hell, say America's rightwing - That old-time religion, American xenophobia, is the vision, mission, objective, goal and message of the GOP political project. Without feeding bigotry and American nativism, there would be no Republican Party, period. There’s a reason people like Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and the ADL don’t want a mosque near ground zero, writes M.J. Akbar—it will prove that there’s nothing scary about Islam. And there goes the GOP political project. - By M.J. Akbar Can there be any rational reason for such subliminal fear of a house without a door? A mosque has no door; it is always open to anyone. Submission is the guidin...

17Aug

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USA

AMERICA: ANTI-MUSLIM HYSTERIA

NOVANEWS That’s why Muslims want to build a mosque at Ground Zero August 16, 2010 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat If Catholics around the world do not deserve to be linked to Nazism simply because Hitler happened to be a born Catholic, then Muslims around the world don’t deserve to be linked to terrorism simply because Osama Bin Laden, the leader of some fake terrorist organization happened to adhere to the extreme side of Islam. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Blue mosque, Istanbul, Turkey. President Obama said on Friday that he supports the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York, saying that opposing the project is at odds with American values. “Let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this countr...