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NOVANEWS by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report (Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t) The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to the torture of waterboarding and other White House-approved “enhanced interrogation techniques.” In a federal court filing, Justice backed away from the Bush administration’s statements that Zubaydah had helped plan the 9/11 attacks and was a close confidant to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as well as even earlier claims from the Clinton administration that he was directly involved in planning the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa. The US government’s retreat underscores yet another probl...

NOVANEWS * By: Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t * Illustration by Jared Rodriguez / Truthout The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about “high-value” detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11 attacks and was the No. 2 and 3 person in al-Qaeda. Additionally, Justice has backed away from claims intelligence officials working in the Clinton administration had also leveled against Zubaydah, specifically, that he was directly involved in the planning of the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa. Zubaydah’s name is redacted throughout a 109-page court document the government filed in US District Court in Washington, DC in response to 213 discovery requests Zubaydah’s attorneys made ...

NOVANEWS NEVER HAS AN AMERICAN CANDIDATE HAD SO MUCH TO HIDE AND DONE SO MUCH TO HURT AMERICA’S VETERANS AND MILITARY QUESTIONS JOHN MCCAIN DOESN’T WANT TO ANSWER: By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Time has come for John McCain to make some public disclosures.  Yes, we all remember his admissions of wrong doing during the Keating 5 incident and the drug theft problems his wife had.  These aren’t the questions we are asking.  We want to go back to where that reputation for heroism was made and to find out if, not all but any of it is actually true.  Many of us don’t feel that the apple fell far from the tree.  Dad, Admiral McCain, was responsible for the cover up of the USS Liberty scandal and had a reputation as an arrogant blowhard and totally incompetent military leader. However...

NOVANEWS March 31, 2010 By Naomi Klein  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100412/klein/print On March 18, continuing a long tradition of pioneering human rights campaigns, the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC) passed "A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES." The historic bill resolves to divest ASUC's assets from two American companies, General Electric and United Technologies, that are "materially and militarily supporting the Israeli government's occupation of the Palestinian territories"--and to advocate that the UC, with about $135 million invested in companies that profit from Israel's illegal actions in the Occupied Territories, follow suit. Although the bill passed by a vote of 16-4 after a packed and intense debate, the Pres...

NOVANEWS Gaza Demonstrators Support Campaign Following those protests, 119, predominantly muslim, young people were arrested.The youngest was 12. 83 have been charged with offences, the vast majority with public order offences which hold a maximum of 5 years imprisonment. 24 have already been sent to prison. Their sentences have ranged from 8 months to 2 years. The majority of them aged between 16-19 years of age. It is clearly stated both by the judge's own rhetoric and general analysis that the judge was passing a deterrence sentence....and that he will continue to do so....This is a political sentence, one criminalising the right to protest and using the muslim community as its example.... In addition to this, 33 complaints about police violence during the demonstrations have been regis...

NOVANEWS In recent days, Racist Zio-Freemason Dick Atkinson* sent out a letter signed by one of his dogs. This is a pack of lies and I’m not shocked but appalled that such a letter by Racist Zio-Freemason Atkinson is being used to harvest hate against people who disagree with his corrupt management. To us this is racist and unacceptable, and a sickness that should not be tolerated for long. Racial terminology and profanity have been used by thugs like Atkinson and his dogs. We feel it is the community’s responsibility to put an end to the dirty Zio-Freemasons. Hence we ask of you to correct such wrongs before the hate consumes more people and causes more pain for some. Racism is something that the better part of our community condemns and doesn’t allow. -------------------- * Zio-Freemason...

NOVANEWS Britain is one of the few countries where information gleaned via phone-tapping is not admissible as evidence in a court room. That is about to change as lawmakers and the intelligence services seek ways to present audio data without compromising the methods of how the security services gathered it in the first place. Surprisingly, many liberal and human right groups support the move, primarily because they see it as a way to speed-up trials.(4) On the other hand, the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) spokesman Amar Latif claimed that the police and special Branch are demanding information on undergraduates and post graduate students who join Islamic Societies at universities around the country. He said that Islamic Societies (ISOCS) refused to hand information over....

NOVANEWS DO NOT VOTE BNP I’m concerned that the Balsall Heath Company ‘FORUM’, led by Zio-Freemasons Racist Dick Atkinson’s invitation to the British National Party (BNP) to attend his election hosting night. The BNP is not a legitimate political party, it is a fascist organisation. There is not enough space in this newsletter to document exactly what the BNP stand for and what they have said on many issues. However I would like to draw your attention to a couple of recent examples. Firstly the resignation of the BNP candidate Nick Eriksson from the BNP list in London Assembly Elections who was exposed for writing a blog in which he wrote amongst other things: *‘I’ve never really understood why so many men have allowed themselves to be brainwashed by the feminist myth machine into believin...

NOVANEWS Salma Yaqoob (Respect Renewal-Sparkbrook) has been involved in extreme far right politics for a number of years. She described the 7/7 London bombings as ‘reprisal attacks’ against American aggression. Her response to the police raids in Birmingham, a year ago, ‘ you’ll remember that at the time it was reported that the raids were in connection with a plot to kidnap a British soldier and cut his head off and them place the video on the internet’. A responsible politician would have taken the opportunity to condemn the attacks. On January 28, 2008 Councillor Yaqoob said ‘speculation over an Iraq style kidnap and execution only served to heighten tensions between the police and Muslim community’.* Ms Yaqoob said’ The reality is that people are asking why are we being picked on, why...

NOVANEWS IN THEIR OWN WORDS Salma Yaqoob: *Musharraf ‘Pakistan under Musharraf supports the brutal occupation of Afghanistan by western troops. Musharraf has kidnapped hundreds of Pakistani men, and handed them over to the Americans. (13) The sooner Musharraf’s forced from power the better the chance that democracy can be given space to breathe. * The Americans wanted her ‘BHUTTO’ to do their dirty work in Afghanistan. Benazir Bhutto is an iconic figure in the context of being a woman who returned from exile to stand for election’ (14) (13) See US should leave Pakistan alone by Salma Yaqoob, the Muslim News 25.01.2008. (14) www.shirazsocialist.wordpress.com George Galloway on: *Musharaf : When the military staged an anti-democratic coup in Pakistan in 1999 Galloway wrote in his weekly colu...