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NOVANEWS Pro-Zionist King `Abdullah personally expressed his outrage at the Zionist repression of Palestinians. Seen dancing above in the Janadiriyyah conference. Picture taken by his nephew, Prince Bandar bin Salman.

NOVANEWS "Amnesty International has called on the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a Lebanese national, whose death sentence for charges relating to "sorcery" was upheld by a court last week. If the higher courts reject his appeal, 'Ali Hussain Sibat, a former television presenter for a Lebanese satellite TV station, who gave advice and predictions about the future, could be executed at any time."

NOVANEWS "“I owe my Lexus to Khomeini and my Lexus Coupe to Bin Laden," John Esposito of Georgetown University joked."

NOVANEWS I have pointed out at the height of Jumblat's alliance with the neo-cons in DC during the Bush administration that the man had a history of anti-Semitic pronouncements. But all that was ignored because he was then serving Israeli interests. There was a time when I would read Jumblat's name daily in the US press because his statements were seen as an affirmation of the Bush doctrine. Jumblat the other day is back at insulting the Jewish people: saying that they can't be trusted. But then again: all of Israel's Arab friends, beginning with the Nazi anti-Semite, Anwar Sadat, are rabid anti-Semites.

NOVANEWS "A man working on a mine clearing team was injured on Tuesday when a cluster bomb exploded in Deir Qanoun near Tyre in South Lebanon. Hussein Yassin Mrad, 37, was injured while working with the Norwegian People’s Aid mine clearing team. He was transported to a local hospital and his injuries were reported to be mild. The bomb that exploded was a remnant of Israel’s summer 2006 war on Lebanon. Zio-Nazi army dropped about 4 million cluster bombs over millions of square meters of South Lebanon during the last 48 hours of the conflict." See: www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS A curious and rather disturbing story in Haaretz: It is not easy to scare Simone Dinah Hartmann, but lately she has been fearing for her life. Although she resides in serene Vienna, Hartmann is not convinced the law enforcement officials in Austria are sufficiently aware of the dangers threatening her. Her concerns come in the wake of the racist and anti-Semitic neo-Nazi Web site alpen-donau.info (in German) recently posting her photograph accompanied by derogatory comments – basically marking her as a target for assassination. Hartmann, an energetic and opinionated woman in her thirties, is the driving force behind Stop the Bomb, an international organization which for several years has been waging an aggressive campaign against firms and governments in Europe that maintain comm...