NOVANEWS Nov 7, 2010 November 7, 2010 Ex-Clinton strategist: Obama needs event ‘similar’ to OKC to ‘reconnect’ with voters Talk about a bad analogy: Appearing on television recently, former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser and current public relations executive Mark Penn suggested that President Obama needs a moment “similar” to the tragic terrorist attack on the Oklahoma City federal building, in order to “reconnect” with voters. READ MORE US involvement in Yemen edging toward ‘clandestine war’ President Obama is pledging stepped-up military and economic cooperation with Yemen in response to last week’s foiled terrorist operation aboard cargo planes that originated in the country. READ MORE Bush: Olmert asked me to bomb suspected Syria nuclear plant Former United States President George W. Bush wrote in his recently published memoirs that he considered ordering a U.S. military strike against a suspected Syrian nuclear facility at Israel’s request in 2007, but ultimately opted against it. ‘George, I’m asking you to bomb the compound,’ Olmert told Bush according to former U.S. president’s memoirs; Israel eventually reportedly destroyed the facility. READ MORE U.S. agencies were forewarned about suspect in 2008 Mumbai bombings A review being conducted for the director of national intelligence has found at least five cases in which U.S. agencies were warned that David Coleman Headley, who became a central figure in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, was training or working with Pakistani militants. READ MORE Army Reports Record Number of Suicides (CBS) After returning from Iraq in 2006, Staff Sgt. Sarah Campbell Hester was looking forward to enjoying life, newly married to a soldier who had also just returned from war. “He was just funny, he was the ultimate prankster, very solid with the unit,” Hester said. But secretly her husband was a man in crisis, unable to readjust to life after war. “Iraq changed him, he came back kind of an angry man,” Hester said. One month after their wedding, Richard Hester, 34, committed suicide. READ MORE UK Foreign minister–Israeli officials need not fear prosecution for alleged war crimes while in Britain Britain’s foreign minister has pledged that the UK will quickly amend a law that has allowed pro-Palestinian activists to request arrest warrants for visiting Israeli officials over alleged war crimes. William Hague, in Israel on Thursday, said that Israeli officials could be sure they would not face arrest in the UK. “We are quite clear that there is no problem in any official travelling to London,” Hague told Israeli channel 10 TV. READ MORE Court sentences man to death for collaborating with Israel BEIRUT: A Lebanese man was sentenced to death Friday on charges of collaborating with Israel. The Permanent Military Tribunal headed by Judge Nizar Khalil had demanded the death penalty for detained Gerges Elias Farah on charges of collaborating with Israeli authorities and providing them with information about military headquarters belonging to Hizbullah along with civilian structures. READ MORE Mosque blasts in Pakistan kill over 70 Two explosions killed at least 71 people in mosques in Pakistan’s north-west on Friday, officials said, after a relative lull in militant violence. In one attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up as Friday prayers were ending, killing at least 66 people, provincial government officials said. The attack occurred in Darra Adam Khel, a suburb of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province capital Peshawar. READ MORE Eli Yishai to Netanyahu: Push for the release of Jonathan Pollard during U.S. visit Shas chairman Eli Yishai sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend, in which he asked the PM to push for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard during his visit to the United States. READ MORE Iran suggests Turkey as venue for nuclear talks with major powers Iran is ready to hold talks with the major powers concerned about its nuclear program “as soon as possible” and Turkey may be the best venue for negotiations, its foreign minister said on Sunday. It was the strongest signal yet of Iranian interest in reviving talks that stalled a year ago, leading to tighter international sanctions against Iran over its refusal to curb its nuclear work and make it more accessible to UN inspections. READ MORE. IDF presents: Missile alerts on your cell phone Israel Defense Forces will announce Monday an NIS 27 million investment in a new cellular system that will alert citizens in case of a missile attack. Dear American Jews, if you love Israel – criticize it Today, your representatives will open your great annual convention, the General Assembly. Between New Orleans’ Marriott and Sheraton hotels, you will be sated with lectures and lecturers, panels and discussion groups. Some will be about you, and some will be about us Israelis. Once again, you will hear all the cliches – and Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu and Tzipi Livni, too. READ MORE Al-Qaeda is a ‘Western-made’ group, not Yemeni: PM Sana’a, Yemen – Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mujawar said on Saturday that al-Qaeda was a “Western-made” group and was not created by his country, the official Saba news agency reported. “Al-Qaeda is mainly a Western-made group,” Mujawar told ambassadors of Asian and African countries to Yemen. The militant group “was not created in Yemen at all as it is being alleged by those who propagate this perception internationally about Yemen,” he said, according to Saba. READ MORE Christians ‘on verge of extinction’ in Iraq, Muslim leader warns A Muslim leader is calling on the Iraqi government and US-led forces to step up their efforts to protect the Christian minority in Iraq from extinction. Navaid Hamid, Secretary of the South Asian Council for Minorities (SACM) and a Muslim, said the deadly attack last weekend on a church in Baghdad was a heinous crime that should be strongly condemned by the international community…READ MORE ‘Ashkenazi Law’ to face resistance in Knesset Despite the support of dozens of MKs, the so-called “Ashkenazi Law,” designed to reduce the cooling-off period for military figures entering politics, is likely to face a stiff battle in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, with a number of key ministers opposing the legislation. On Saturday, Intelligence Agencies Minister Dan Meridor became the latest Likud minister to express discomfort with what he labeled “personal legislation.” READ MORE
