DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 6, 2008, 10:36 AM (GMT+02:00) Syrian troop deployment on Lebanese border Damascus is plotting a large-scale terror attack or the assassination of a Lebanese figure to drum up another pretext for invading northern Lebanon, according to Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora. Reporting this, DEBKAfile’s Beirut sources disclose that two senior US officials, deputy secretary of state David Hale and assistant defense secretary Mary Beth Long were sent post haste to Beirut in response to this warning, arriving on Oct. 5. Two brigades of the 4th Syrian Mechanized Division, numbering up to 10,000 men have been poised on the Lebanese border since last month, as DEBKAfilerevealed on Sept. 20, and are now on combat readiness. DEBKAfile Special Report October 6, 2008, 5:36 PM (GMT+02:00) On Wall Street, Dow Jones industrials dropped more than 300 points Monday, Oct. 6, to fall below 10,000 for the first time since 2004. It followed the selloffs in the first sessions in Asia, Europe and Russia since the US $700 bn bailout plan was enacted last week. Tel Aviv's morning recovery abruptly reversed to a 4.5 percent decline. Earlier, London’s FTSE slumped more than 8 percent, French stocks plummeted by 6 percent, the German DAX by 5.3 percent and Russia's ruble-denominated MICEX stock market was suspended after dropping more than 15 per cent. TOP STORIES October 6, 2008, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00) NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Monday he doubted that the world could stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. Therefore, as a result of Iran's nuclear activities, he would never expect Israel to abandon its own, "supposed nuclear arsenal." Scheffer added: "As we all know, Israel never admits to what it has, but I do not see very many arguments for the Jewish state to abandon its potential." DEBKAfile Special Report October 5, 2008, 1:08 PM (GMT+02:00) Local undercover officers of the Iranian-sponsored Hizballah established and funded this “new” Palestinian terrorist organization for “operations” under their orders, DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report. It described itself in a statement issued Saturday, Oct. 4, as a “Sunni jihad group which has nothing to do with politics”, and whose members are “former members of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jhad and leftist parties.” October 4, 2008, 9:57 PM (GMT+02:00) Russian strategic nuclear-armed bomber DEBKAfile’s military sources report that starting Monday, Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95 MS Bear-H strategic bombers will fly missions carrying the maximum combat payload and firing all cruise missiles aboard over sub-Arctic Russia and Belarus, close to Alaska. As part of the exercise, Russian ships armed with nuclear missiles docks at Syrian ports Wednesday, Oct. 8, Yom Kippur Eve, before continuing to the Caribbean for joint maneuvers with Venezuela, as DEBKAfile reported on Oct. 1. Click HERE Read our Special Report below on Russia’s maneuvers. Lebanese prime minister alerts US to Syrian terror plot as pretext for invasion
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