Brzezinski: Last two US presidents tested early by al Qaeda attacks
November 10, 2008, 10:34 AM (GMT+02:00)
President Carter’s former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinsky says president-elect Barack Obama may be tested by terrorists after he takes office on Jan. 20.
Under a secret order, the Bush administration carried out strikes against al Qaeda in 5 to 20 countries, including Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states.
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For its first challenge to Obama, Tehran fans Middle East frictions
DEBKAfile Special Analysis
November 8, 2008, 6:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian FM Manouchehr Mottaki hands their scripts to radical allies
Iran’s rulers calculate that the more trouble they stir up, the sooner incoming US president Barack Obama will come running to Tehran to open a pre-inauguration back-door channel. Iranian agents and Hizballah are recruiting Palestinian militias in Lebanon for cross-border terrorist attacks in Israel.
Read more about this challenge for the incoming US president in the Exclusive Analysis below.
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IAEA finds man-made uranium traces at Syrian site bombed by Israel
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 10, 2008, 9:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian reactor
A senior Vienna-based diplomat reported Monday, Nov. 10, that the latest findings are significant enough for the nuclear watchdog to place Syria right after North Korea and Iran on its agenda for further investigation. Last June, UN inspectors collected the soil samples which yielded the uranium traces from al Kibar in northern Syria, where a nuclear reactor under construction was razed by Israel in Sept. 2007.
Syria has ignored recent requests from the IAEA to inspect three military sites suspected of housing nuclear facilities.
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Israelis turn away from national politics for local elections
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 10, 2008, 10:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some 4.8 million Israelis aged from 17 are eligible to vote in 159 local elections for 639 candidates Tuesday, Nov. 11. Only 148 candidates are being run by the main Kadima, Likud and Labor parties which prefer to husband their resources for the Feb. 10 general election campaign. Local council elections are therefore well separated from the national political scene. This is also how the voters prefer it.
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