Thursday, 23 October 2008




Palestinian murders Israeli octogenarian, injures border guard in Jerusalem suburb
October 23, 2008, 5:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
The assailant stabbed and shot a Police Border Guardsman who found him loitering around schools on Vardinon Street at the center of the southern Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. He then set upon 86-year old Avraham Ozri, a local resident, who died of his injuries later in hospital. The policeman took the terrorist in custody after shooting and injuring him.
Police are investigating whether he infiltrated Jerusalem from the West Bank or is a resident of an Arab village of southern Jerusalem, source of several terrorist attacks in Jerusalem this year.
Tehran wants Barack Obama in the White House, rules out war
DEBKAfile Special Report
October 23, 2008, 11:19 AM (GMT+02:00)

Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani
During a visit to Bahrain, Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday, Oct. 22, that Tehran would prefer Democratic senator Barack Obama in the White House next year. He also ruled out any US attack on his country.
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources note that Larijani, one of the most powerful voices in Tehran’s conservative camp and close confidant of supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would not have spoken out without top-level sanction.
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An Israeli Air Force instructor and cadet killed in training crash in Negev
October 22, 2008, 9:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Reserve Major Mattan Assa, 24, from Yavne, and Private Ilan Carmi, 19, Herzliya, were killed Wednesday, Oct. 22, when their training plan crashed 30 minutes after takeoff from the IAF’s Hatzerim base near Beersheba. The plane, a French-made Fouga Magister, remodeled and renamed Zukit by the IAF, was on a low-flying exercise. No emergency signal was received by the control tower before the crash.
IAF commander Maj.-Gen Ido Nehushtan has set up a team of inquiry.