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Riyadh and Arab Gulf see Shiite hands behind Iraqi Sunni leader's slaying DEBKAfile Special Report June 12, 2009, 6:57 PM (GMT+02:00) Scene of Iraqi Sunni leader's murder DEBKAfile's Gulf sources report that the assassination Friday, June 12, of Hareth al-Obaidi, head of the Iraqi Accordance Front bloc, is seen as a major disaster for the Sunni Arab world and an omen of worse to come. Fears of a systematic liquidation of Sunni leaders in Iraq at the hands Iraqi and Iranian Shiites figured large in US president Barack Obama's last conversation with Saudi king Abdullah in Riyadh on June 3 just before his Cairo University speech. More... Three blasts in Pakistan kill 11 people including prominent anti-Taliban cleric June 12, 2009, 5:51 PM (GMT+02:00) Maulana Sarfaz Naeemi, who promoted a fatwa declaring suicide bombings un-Islamic, was himself killed by suicide bombers with three others Friday, June 12. In Peshawar, drive-by terrorists shot up the house of the Lt. Gen. Masood Aslam, commander of the Pakistani military offensive against Taliban. More... Two radical Muslims identified on crashed Air France flight DEBKAfile Special Repor June 10, 2009, 9:40 PM (GMT+02:00) First crash victims recovered The day after DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources' revelation of Tuesday, June 9, that French security was going through the doomed Air France flight's passenger list for suspected terror links, the Paris weekly L'Express reported a link had been found. (Read DEBKAfile's exclusive report HERE) French security agents dispatched to Brazil identified two names on the passenger list which also appear also on highly-classified documents listing radical Muslims considered a threat to France. More... Who disengaged the auto-pilot on doomed Air France plane? DEBKAfile Special Report June 12, 2009, 5:44 PM (GMT+02:00) Brazilian divers pull Air France tail fin out of ocean After the recovery of 24 bodies, some personal possessions and large sections of the doomed Air France A330, there is still no understanding of what happened aboard the craft in the few short minutes before the crash. Some experts are not excluding a terrorist attack. Read more about this in DEBKAfile Special Report below. Full article Terrorism not ruled out in Air France crash mystery DEBKAfile Special Report June 9, 2009 Divers pull Air France tail fin out of Atlantic Ocean A week after Air France A330's unexplained fatal dive into the Atlantic June 1, DEBKAfile reports from Paris that US, French and Brazilian investigators have begun going through the list of more than 200 passengers on the flight from Rio to Paris with a tooth comb. They are looking at the victims' countries of origin, family, social and denominational associations for possible clues to the mysterious disaster. After the recovery of 24 bodies, some personal possessions and large sections of the doomed aircraft, there is still no understanding of what happened aboard the craft in the few short minutes before the crash when its automated monitoring systems transmitted a series of 24 error messages indicating the shutdown of critical systems. As long as the fog surrounding the tragedy remains impenetrable, a man-made disaster cannot be ruled out. Both the French defense minister and Pentagon have said there were no signs that terrorism was involved in the crash. This was short of an... In full Print Facebook E-Mail Related articles: So who did bomb the Iranian arms trucks in Sudan? Why London and Sderot Alike Are Not Safe from Jihadist Terror Israel Goes through the Motions of a Home Front Drill