DEBKAfile Special Report March 22, 2009, 12:24 PM (GMT+02:00) By a fluke, the Free Galilee Brigades failed to bring off a multiple-casualty bomb attack on the Saturday night crowds at the Haifa Lev Mifratz shopping mall on March 21. But DEBKAfile's military sources report that security officials fear that the shadowy group, based in northern Israeli Arab villages and Jerusalem, is spreading its wings after killing 12 Israelis in a string of attacks since 2003. By good fortune, the bomb mechanism in an abandoned car failed to detonate and no-one was hurt. Had it worked, the casualty count would have run to scores. March 22, 2009, 8:59 AM (GMT+02:00) Israeli-made RISAT - first anti-terror satellite Upgraded, expanded Islamist terror tactics exhibited in Mumbai, Lahore and the Jordan Valley have stirred international counter-terror agencies to start retooling their counter-measures. India has overhauled its special forces and is preparing to launch Israel's RISAT satellite tailored to track terrorists; British security is focusing on securing the G-20 summit opening in London in April. Al Qaeda and Islamist allies' new tactics are outlined in DEBKAfile's Special Analysis below. DEBKAfile Special Report March 21, 2009, 2:06 PM (GMT+02:00) A game with Tehran Barack Obama can't win "We will watch and we will judge (the new U.S. administration) ... You change, our behavior will change," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme ruler in the northeastern city of Mashhad March 21 to thousands of worshippers, two days after US president Barack Obama offered a new beginning of diplomatic engagement. Tehran's flat rejection was broadcast by the highest authority in the land and the Shiite world to make its position crystal clear. March 21, 2009, 6:27 PM (GMT+02:00) Armed with warrants signed by the minister of international security Avi Dichter, hundreds of Israeli police prevented a string of Palestinian Authority-managed events celebrating "Jerusalem, Capital of Arab culture 2009" from taking place Saturday, March 21. Twenty Palestinians were detained. The law bans official Palestinian Authority activity in any part of Israeli territory. 
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