Holbrooke: Strongman of Obama's foreign policy
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report
February 26, 2009, 12:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Richard Holbrooke, presidential envoy
DEBKA-Net-Weeklyreveals how Richard Holbrooke, president Barack Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has moved in on White House interchanges with Tehran.
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Obama postpones naming presidential envoy for Iran
DEBKAfile Special Report
February 25, 2009, 4:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Contrary to widespread speculation, veteran diplomat Dennis Ross has been named special adviser to secretary of state Hillary Clinton for counsel on the broad area between Afghanistan and Egypt, according to Washington officials. President Barack Obama has decided not to appoint a presidential envoy for Iran, a post which Ross had been expected to fill. For now, the diplomat will not be involved personally in the Iranian issue.
DEBKAfile's Washington sources report that Obama is signaling that for the time being the direct open talks with Tehran promised in his campaign are not about to take off.
Ahmadinejad in Djibouti plants Iranian foot in E. Africa
DEBKAfile Special Report
February 24, 2009, 9:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a series of accords with Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelle Tuesday, Feb. 24, establishing technical and vocational centers in the East African state and supporting development projects. A new protocol opened an Iranian credit line for Djibouti, whose president commended the cooperation between two nations belonging to the "great Islamic Ummah."DEBKAfile: Tehran continues its expansionist drive beyond the Middle East to the Horn of Africa, including Somalia and Eritrea.
New Saudi-funded terrorist group suspected of Katyusha attack from Lebanon
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
February 21, 2009, 9:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Lebanese soldier examines rocket launcher
The rocket attack which slightly injured three Israelis in the Arab Christian village of Mailiyeh early Saturday, Feb. 21 is attributed byDEBKAfile's counter-terror sources to the "Jihad Movement for Gaza" – a new terrorist organization operating out of the Ain Hilwa refugee camp near Sidon. No organization has taken responsibility for the attack.
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Turkey is backing out of Western orbit. Where to?
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Analysis
February 25, 2009, 1:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly analysts examine the options facing Turkey as its estrangement from the US and Europe solidifies: Will this NATO member turn to Russia and the Caucasus, the Arab world or Iran?
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Damascus may heat up Syrian-Lebanese-Israel borders over Hariri tribunalDEBKAfile Special Report February 26, 2009, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)  Bashar Assad failed to persuade Washington to delay Hariri tribunal Washington and Jerusalem are bracing for a flare-up on the Syrian and Lebanese borders with Israel as the international tribunal prosecuting Rafiq Hariri's assassins starts sittings next Sunday, March 1. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has engineered a delay by insisting on tight security measures for the court. But Washington has refused to postpone its hearings which Syrian president Bashar Assad sees as a ticking bomb for his regime. He may therefore retaliate. Read more in DEBKAfile's Exclusive Report below. | ||
New Israel killer drone can take out Iran's S-300 anti-air missileDEBKAfile Special Report February 25, 2009, 12:01 PM (GMT+02:00)  Israeli drone can hit anti-air missile before its activation The Iranian media were first to disclose that the sophisticated Israeli Harop drone is capable of targeting the Russian radar-equipped S-300 anti-air missile before it enters attack mode . DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel's Harop killer-drone can travel 1,000 km to patrol an assigned area and loiter there until a hostile target is exposed when its 23-kilo warhead strikes. | ||
Iran's first nuclear reactor starts "pilot stage" at Bushehr Wednesday
DEBKAfile Special Report
February 25, 2009, 8:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr - ready to go by August
The preliminary phase of Iran's first reactor, built with Russian help at the southern town of Bushehr, was marked by a ceremony Wednesday, Feb. 25. Our sources report that Iranian nuclear teams will first activate the 1,000-MW reactor's sections in sequence with the help of advanced Russian computers flown in to monitor their progress. Russia's state Rosatom Atomic Corporation, Sergey Kiriyenko declined to say when the reactor would be fully operational.
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Netanyahu's three candidates for defense
DEBKAfile Special Report
February 25, 2009, 11:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sources close to prime minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu reported Wednesday night, Feb. 25, that his three candidates for defense are in descending order the incumbent Ehud Barak, head of the Labor party, Shaul Mofaz of Kadima or Moshe Yaalon of Likud. All three are former chiefs of staff.
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