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• •Peres announces early elections, Knesset sets date
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• •Syria, Hizballah on alert for Israeli action after US raid
• •Hamas would-be kidnapper intercepted by IDF-Shin Bet patrol
• •US official confirms Syria raid called by Damascus “serious aggression”
• •Mil Intel chief warns Syria still heavily arming Hizballah
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Syria, Hizballah on alert for Israeli action after US raid DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 27, 2008, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00) Israeli strike now feared by Hizballah and Damascus DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that Damascus and the Lebanese Hizballah have alerted their forces to a possible Israeli strike against Hizballah’s arms smuggling routes, supply sources, and stocks, using as a precedent the US cross-border raid which killed eight people at an al Qaeda base in northern SyriaSunday, Oct. 26. According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, intelligence analysts in Damascus, Beirut and Tehran have concluded that US Air Force planes, specifically those providing an umbrella for the helicopter-borne raid, flew over Israel before reaching Syrian skies.  More...

Peres announces early elections, Knesset sets date October 27, 2008, 7:54 PM (GMT+02:00) President Shimon Peres Israeli President Shimon Peres told the Knesset Monday, 27, to dissolve as soon as possible and set a date for an early election since none of its number is capable of forming a viable government to complete the House’s four-year term up until 2010. Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu laid out his platform for the voter on the economy, education and national security. Iran will not be a nuclear power, he declared. Ehud Olmert promised urgent business, such as the economy and the higher education crisis, would not be neglected during his transitional stint as prime minister.  More...

Mil Intel chief warns Syria still heavily arming Hizballah

October 26, 2008, 12:23 PM (GMT+02:00)

In his briefing to the cabinet’s Sunday session, the head of AMAN, Israeli military intelligence Brig. Amos Yadlin brought out some harsh security developments.

In readiness for another Lebanon war, he warned, Hizballah has acquired rockets ten times more powerful than the hardware leveled against northern Israel in the 2006 Lebanon war. Whereas in 2006, the Lebanese terrorists shot rockets carrying 30 tons of explosives, next time, said Brig. Yadlin, the payloads would pack a 300-ton punch.

Hizballah operatives move freely in and out of Syria which keeps on supplying them with large quantities of their weapons.