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Interview: Osama bin Laden Denied Involvement in 9/11

Translated by BBC World Monitoring Service.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Bin Laden’s statements in this interview are markedly different from those made in the alleged Osama video tapes.

In this interview, Osama bin Laden expresses his views regarding the loss of life on 9/11.

Black January

January 8th unfolds; Two goings-on entwined:
Lasantha Remembered on his Fourth Death Anniversary
& Sri Lanka's hassled ramble towards the Slaying of its Judiciary

(LOS ANGELES) - Another year has dawned, and the opening week of this brand New Year ‘Twenty Thirteen’ has already come to a hazy conclusion.

And then comes along that horrific day of this ‘Black January’.

`Israel`s Palestinian Propagandist: Khaled Abu Toameh, Hasbara Agent`

By all appearances, Khaled Abu Toameh, has taken it upon himself to act as Israel’s advocate and propagandist in the international media.

(LONDON) - Observers of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict know there are organizations whose intent is to spread the worst possible news and information from the Arab and Muslim worlds.

A Sudanese Genocide in Egypt?

“One need only look to Egypt’s immediate neighbor, Sudan, and its bloody history, to know where the former may be headed”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Moderates, secularists, and Christians recently demonstrated in mass at Tahrir Square.

They even besieged the presidential palace—is all too familiar.

APN Welcomes Hagel`s Nomination for Secretary of Defense

Attacks on Senator Hagel for his record on Israel and the Middle East are disconnected from Hagel's actual record and his qualifications for the office of Secretary of Defense.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Americans for Peace Now welcomes President Obama's nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel to be America’s next Secretary of Defense and urges the Senate to confirm the nomination expeditiously.

APN reaffirms its earlier statement, which strongly rejects attacks on Senator Hagel's record on Israel and Middle East-related issues.

In Kabul, Widows and Orphans Move Up

The women I visited today are moving on up; single desperate mothers with children moving up the slope into a cold vacuum, fleeing the streets and daily business of a city that can't feed or use them.

(KABUL) - Yesterday, four young Afghan Peace Volunteer members, Zainab, Umalbanin, Abdulhai, and Ali, guided Martha and me along narrow, primitive roads and crumbling stairs, ascending a mountain slope on the outskirts of Kabul.

Above us, women in bright clothing were navigating the treacherous roads with heavy water containers on their heads or shoulders. I marveled at their strength and tenacity. “Yes, they make this trip every morning,” Umalbanin said, as she helped me regain my balance after I had slipped on the ice.

Hindus Ask Pope to Take Lead in His Call for Dialogue

Rajan Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, said that serious and honest interfaith dialogue was the need of the hour and Pope should take the lead in organizing one.

(RENO) - Hindus have welcomed call for dialogue by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and have asked him to take the lead in organizing one.

In his annual address to the members of diplomatic corps accredited to Holy See on January seven in Vatican City, Pope reportedly said: “… building peace through dialogue is no longer a choice but a necessity!”

Ha`aretz: The Wrong Lesson

It behooves the state to retract its decision to bar Palestinian prisoners from taking classes at the Open University as quickly as possible.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Since 2011, Palestinian prisoners have been barred from taking classes through the Open University.

A government committee set up in 2009 decided that academic studies constitute "various privileges that are above and beyond what the law requires."

Palestinian Political Prisoners Not Allowed to Pursue Their Education

Israeli Prison Service (IPS) allows for criminal prisoners to study at the Open University, where the political prisoners are stripped from this right.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE PNN) - On Tuesday 25th December, Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision that bans Palestinian political prisoners inside Israeli jails from pursuing their education at the Palestinian Al-Quds Open University.

The court's Judge, Asher Grunis, said in his decision that the prisoner's right to education is not included in the Israeli law.

Elder, Elder, Who`s got the Elder?

Native people, like all of us, have been manufactured.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Indigenous nationhood, like Democracy or Christianity, is a wonderful idea; and wonderfully absent, in practice.

None of us have ever actually experienced these ideals - and yet how passionately we pretend to. In truth, we settle for cheap facsimiles of these visions that our various rulers convince us are the Real Deal.