 Egypt's abrupt shutdown of operations against tunnels revives missile flow to Gaza
Dateline: 2009-11-20 03:35:56 PT
Tuesday, Nov. 18, Egypt's special forces and engineering units suddenly shut down operations against the smuggling tunnels to Gaza without warning to Washington or Jerusalem, DEBKAfile's military sources report. US and Israeli requests for clarifications from Cairo were not answered. So the Obama administration signaled Egypt that if it continues to violate international accords, there will be consequences..
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Iran is advancing on dual nuclear bomb track: uranium plus plutonium
Dateline: 2009-11-19 07:36:29 PT
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the UN inspectors' October visit to Iran turned up dual-track progress in support of its nuclear weapons program: Feverish activity was registered in the production of plutonium at Isfahan as an alternative to the Fordo enriched uranium plant near Qom which starts up in 2011.The IAEA experts discovered 30 metric tons-IS of heavy water hidden in 600 tanks, each holding 13 gallons..
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 Israel Hits Gaza Tunnels, Weapons Plant
Dateline: 2009-11-19 03:15:05 PT
Military Says Action Is In Response To Recent Rocket Fire Against Jewish State
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Memo From Jerusalem: Peace Talks Hang in Balance Amid Effort to Dissuade Palestinian From Quitting
Dateline: 2009-11-18 18:00:04 PT
The Israeli security establishment is in a state of alarm over the possible departure of President Mahmoud Abbas, whom it considers a genuine moderate..
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Obama's Iran sanctions strategy is routed by Chinese, Russian rebuffs
Dateline: 2009-11-18 09:06:13 PT
Chinese president Hu Jintao said clearly after meeting US president Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday, Nov. 17, that their governments disagree on tougher sanctions for Iran - or any other issue relating to the Islamic republic. In Moscow, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it was too soon to talk about stepping up sanctions on Iran, if at all..
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 Obama warns Israel on settlements
Dateline: 2009-11-18 06:30:03 PT
US President Barack Obama says Israel's approval of new homes at a settlement in Jerusalem could lead to a "dangerous" situation..
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Al Qaeda-linked jihadis based in US plotted overseas ops
Dateline: 2009-11-18 04:05:59 PT
As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago.More about this tale of terror and suspense in the coming issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly out next Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE ..
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US, Israel act to stop Abbas quitting for fear of alternatives
Dateline: 2009-11-18 01:35:52 PT
The Obama administration and Netanyahu government are bending over backward to dissuade Mahmoud Abbas from going through with his decision to retire from public life both as chairman of the Palestinian Authority and head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which he now says is final, DEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report. His most likely successor is his deputy Abu Maher Ghneim, a died-in-the-wool rejectionist of negotiations with Israel.
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Controlled US-Israel discord on Jerusalem amid broader strategic understandings
Dateline: 2009-11-18 01:35:52 PT
The broad strategic understandings sealed by US president Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at their recent White House talks are not to the liking of some their opponents at home, DEBKAfile's Washington sources report. While disagreeing on construction in Jerusalem, they decided to cooperate on the looming nuclear threat from Tehran and to a high degree on the Palestinian question..
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Plan to Expand Jewish Area in Jerusalem Angers U.S.
Dateline: 2009-11-17 17:15:04 PT
Israel said it had advanced plans to expand a district of Jerusalem that Palestinians also claim, in a move likely to complicate the White House’s faltering efforts at peace talks..
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IAEA wants to inspect three secret Syrian nuclear sites
Dateline: 2009-11-16 13:21:22 PT
The new IAEA report on Iran's formerly secret uranium enrichment site at Fordo near Qom also includes a section on Syria and a demand to inspect suspicious sites there too. The inspectors clearly suspect both Tehran and Damascus of concealing from the UN nuclear watchdog secret facilities related to nuclear weapons production. Tuesday, Nov. 17, an IAEA delegation will challenge Damascus' refusal to open three suspect sites to inspection..
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India's nuclear plants on alert for possible terror attack
Dateline: 2009-11-16 09:51:59 PT
The Press Trust of India news agency reported that nuclear plants were put on alert Monday, Nov. 16 in the wake of the arrests in the United States of two suspects of complicity in the Mumbai attacks a year ago in which 171 people were killed. Headley is believed to have visited Indian states with nuclear sites during an advance surveillance tour of the Mumbai targets..
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IAEA sources: Site near Qom must be a military enrichment facility
Dateline: 2009-11-16 07:21:21 PT
Sources close to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna confirm that the four inspectors who visited the newly discovered Fordo site near Qom last month found a fortified underground installation designed especially for the production of highly-enriched uranium for nuclear weapons..
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New IAEA report: Iran has much to explain about second enrichment site
Dateline: 2009-11-16 07:21:20 PT
The UN nuclear watchdog's report on its inspection of Iran's second uranium enrichment site near Qom says that Tehran's belated declaration of its existence raises questions about more still secret facilities. Iran claimed building of the Fordu facility had begun in 2007 and its notification to the IAEA was therefore timely. The inspectors in its still restricted report refute this claim after finding that work began five years earlier in 2002. .
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Top US intelligence teams in Israel to discuss Iran
Dateline: 2009-11-15 23:50:58 PT
Two high-ranking teams of American CIA and DIA intelligence officials are conferring with their opposite numbers in Israel, in line with President Barack Obama's strategy for applying military heat to Iran as well as diplomatic pressure for an accommodation on its nuclear program, DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report. The latest IAEA report due out Monday, Nov. 16, should reveal its inspectors findings at the enrichment site near Qom..
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Iran digs hundreds of missile silos - some for misdirection
Dateline: 2009-11-14 13:06:07 PT
The Iranians are frenziedly digging hundreds of new missile launch silos in central and Western Iran in readiness for a US or Israeli attack on their nuclear installations, DEBKAfile's intelligence sources report. The Iranians are working at the same frantic tempo to turn out Shehab-3, Shehab-4 and Sajil-2 ballistic missiles, as well as a fourth secret ICBM which is believed designed to carry a nuclear warhead. .
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Obama sends Bill Clinton to stop unilateral Palestinian state
Dateline: 2009-11-14 04:49:58 PT
Mahmoud Abbas has been warned by the Obama administration to give up his plan for a unilateral declaration of the Islamic Republic of Palestinian within 1967 or 1949 borders with Jerusalem is capital. But DEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report he is forging ahead. His resignation stunt and obstruction of peace talks by demanding that Israel halt settlement activity first were drummed up to camouflage this plan. Due in Ramallah Sunday, Nov. 15, on a mission to deter Abbas is a covey of US presidential emissaries led by former president Bill Clinton.More details about Abbas' "Kosovo initiative" in the Special Report below..
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Syria's Assad hopeful on Israel talks, but with harsh words
Dateline: 2009-11-13 13:15:02 PT
Syrian President Bashar Assad says peace talks with Israel could resume if the Jewish state showed willingness to fully engage in the process.
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Mideast Radicals Fill Space Left by Peace Impasse
Dateline: 2009-11-13 02:30:03 PT
Backsliding in Mideast peace leaves opening for radicals to step up influence.
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Extraordinary US-Israel-Egyptian-Jordanian intelligence summit held in early November
Dateline: 2009-11-12 14:06:01 PT
The crisis over Iran's nuclear program and possible outbreak of a regional war occasioned an extraordinary secret conclave of the intelligence chiefs of four nations in Amman in the first week of November, DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources disclose. Hosted by the chief of Jordan's General Intelligence Service, Gen. Muhammad Raqed, it was attended by senior officials of the American CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, Israel's Mossad chief, Meir Dagan and military intelligence head Brig. Amos Yadlin and Egypt's intelligence minister, Gen. Omar Suleiman..
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