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- •Syrian offhand about US sanctions, policy reversal
- •Obama to address Muslim world again – from Egypt
- •Obama's SOS to Gulf emirs: Invest in US and global economies
- •US-Israel rift on nuclear Iran unabridged by Obama-Peres talks
- •Israeli elite unit officers in big Indian anti-terror exercise
- •Saudis, Egypt snatch US-backed peace track from Turkey
- •Belarus fronts Russian Iskander-M missile sale to Iran, Syria
Obama's SOS to Gulf emirs: Invest in US and global economies
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 8, 2009, 1:40 AM (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' for 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.
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Saudis, Egypt snatch US-backed peace track from Turkey. Assad is willing
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 6, 2009, 12:05 AM (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.
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Obama to address Muslim world again – from Egypt
May 8, 2009, 11:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The exact location within Egypt from which US president Barack Obama will deliver another speech to the Muslim world on June 4 has yet to be determined, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday, May 8.
It is not clear if the US president was actually invited to visit Egypt. But Gibbs stressed: "The scope of the speech, the desire for the president to speak, is bigger than where the speech was going to be given or who's the leadership of the country where the speech is going to be given."
From Egypt, Obama travels June 5 to the German city of Dresden and the former Nazi death camp at Buchenwald.
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US-Israel rift on nuclear Iran unabridged by Obama-Peres talks
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.
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Israeli elite unit officers in big Indian anti-terror exercise
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 6, 2009, 1:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
Indian elite Kharga Corps
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.
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