DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 7, 2009, 5:38 PM (GMT+02:00) A massive petrodollar influx would help A secret American delegation was sent by US President Barack Obama this week to solicit Saudi Arabian and other Gulf rulers for hundreds of billions of petro-dollars' investment in US and global economic stimulus plans, DEBKAfile's exclusive Gulf sources report. They came away empty-handed. The Gulf officials were informed on the quiet that Federal Reserve Governor Ben Benanke had been "premature" in his latest optimistic forecast. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 6, 2009, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00) Gen. Bahjat Suleiman One reason for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's urgent visit to Damascus Tuesday, May 5, according to DEBKAfile's intelligence sources, was to thwart a Saudi-Egyptian move to snatch the indirect Syrian-Israeli peace track backed by Washington from Turkey. The Iranian president came too late. Syrian president Bashar Assad had meanwhile decided to appoint one of his must trusted intelligence officers, Gen. Bahjat Suleiman, as Syrian ambassador in Amman and head of potential peace delegation. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 6, 2009, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00) India's biggest ever counter-terror exercise took place this week on the plains of Punjab near the Pakistan border.DEBKAfile's military sources disclose that the three-day maneuver ending May 5 was staged by massed mechanized and parachute units of the elite Kharga Corps trained by Israel military instructors in India and Israel in the arts of operating in areas fought over by Taliban and al Qaeda, possibly even with biological or radiological weapons. DEBKAfile Special Report May 6, 2009, 10:19 PM (GMT+02:00) US-Israeli differences played down but present Neither US president Barack Obama and Israeli president Shimon Peres hinted publicly that their conversation at the White House Tuesday, May 5,DEBKAfile left the two governments as out of tune as before on the handling of Iran's drive for a nuclear bomb. Obama and Peres also sidestepped a clash on the Palestinian question. TOP STORIES May 7, 2009, 12:51 PM (GMT+02:00) Sgt. Noam Adin Rechter, 20, from Mitzpe Netufa, was on operational duty as a paramedic when he was shot dead during routine IDF searches for terrorists and weapons in the West Bank village of Bir Zeit early Thursday, May 7. The IDF is investigating the circumstances of his death to find out whether it was caused by enemy action or friendly fire. Extensive searches were conducted in the neighboring Palestinian town of Ramallah. DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report May 4, 2009, 1:45 PM (GMT+02:00) Gates faces a surly welcome The comingDEBKA-Net-Weeklycontinues to track the broad impact of Barack Obama's bid for rapprochement with Tehran. After US envoy Dennis Ross failed to persuade American Arab allies there was no sell-out, defense secretary Robert Gates was dispatched Monday on a hasty fence-mending mission. Don't miss DEBKA-Net-Weekly's exclusive coverage of this fast-breaking epic. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weeklyclick HERE .
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Thursday, 7 May 2009
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