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• •Netanyahu invites Livni, Barak to join unity government
• •Iran stocks enough enriched uranium for first nuclear bomb
• •Barack Obama concludes secret pact with Saudi King
• •Progress in talks on sale of advanced Russian S-300 to Iran
• •Sen. Kerry leads first US Congressional visit to Gaza
• •Egyptian war game in Sinai practices rebuffing "Israeli attack"
• •Peres: Gaza disengagement mistake will not be repeated
• •Cabinet unanimously approves Olmert's demand to free Gilead Shalit first
• •New tennis ball-sized camera with 360-degrees range for Israeli infantry
• •Was the late ex-Iranian a US doctor or bio-weapon scientist?

Iran stocks enough enriched uranium for first nuclear bomb DEBKAfile Special Report February 20, 2009, 2:36 PM (GMT+02:00) Iran's heavy water reactor at Arak before covered by a dome The UN's nuclear watchdog reported Thursday, Feb. 19, that Iran's production of enriched uranium had been underestimated. It has stocked more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at Natanz alone. If enriched, it could produce more than 20 kilos of fissile material – enough for a bomb. French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner spoke Friday of a new enrichment plant capable of housing thousands of centrifuges the Iranians had built at a secret site. DEBKAfile reported on Nov. 28, 2008, that by February, Iran would have enough enriched uranium to approach production of its first nuclear bomb. This crosses a “red line” that for years Israel has said it would not accept.  More...

PM-designate Binyamin Netanyahu invites rivals Livni, Bark to join his government DEBKAfile Special Report February 20, 2009, 3:15 PM (GMT+02:00) Binyamin Netanyahu Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu's first action after his designation as prime minister by President Shimon Peres Friday, Feb. 20 was to announce he would start coalition negotiations by inviting Kadima's Tzipi Livni and Labor's Ehud Barak to join a unity government. A nuclear-armed Iran is the direst peril confronting Israel since its War of Independence, and a major world economic crisis could cost hundreds of thousands of Israelis their livelihood, he stressed.

Barack Obama concludes secret pact with Saudi King

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report

February 20, 2009, 12:24 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKA-Net-Weeklyreveals the terms of the accord US president Barack Obama has secretly forged with Saudi King Abdullah and the ways in which they plan to work together in the Muslim world, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.

Moscow in contrast is deepening its ties with Tehran.

The implications of this widening divergence are examined in the latest issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly out Friday. Also details of Saudi king's sweeping modernizing reforms and new appointments.