Thursday, 11 June 2009

DEBKAfile Special Report

June 11, 2009, 8:33 AM (GMT+02:00)

Holocaust Museum on Washington cordoned off after shooting

Holocaust Museum on Washington cordoned off after shooting

James W. Brunn, 88, a rabid anti-Semite, neo-Nazi and white supremacist, shot and injured the guard, Stephen T. Johns, 39, in the Holocaust Museum entryway in Washington Wednesday, June 10 with a "long rifle." Return fire from his fellow guards stopped the attack before it reached the museum halls which were packed with some 2,000 visitors. Johns died of his wounds after being taken to hospital. 
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Wanted Hamas terrorists sheltered by 500 women in N. West Bank

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

June 10, 2009, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00)

Typical Palestinian sucide bomb vest

Typical Palestinian sucide bomb vest

DEBKAfile's Palestinian sources report that 500 Palestinian women in Nablus are providing wanted Palestinians with sanctuary and permitting their bank accounts to be used to whitewash Hamas revenues.

One of the Hamas operatives detained this week was found in possession of one-and-half million euros for establishing a stronghold in northern Samaria.

Three Hamas female suicide killers were captured this week in Qalqilya on a mission to murder six senior Palestinian Authority officers. 
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Fears in Beirut of Hizballah coup after its election defeat

DEBKAfile Special Report

June 8, 2009, 6:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

Saad Hariri triumphant in Beirut

Saad Hariri triumphant in Beirut

DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report Hizballah is reported in Beirut to have a backup plan ready to seize power if defeated at the ballot-box. Loss of Lebanon is a major setback for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chances in Iran's presidential vote Friday. 
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Obama kowtows to Damascus while Syria rigs Lebanese poll

DEBKAfile Special Report

June 6, 2009, 6:13 PM (GMT+02:00)

US troops carry coffin on last's terror victim in Mosul

US troops carry coffin on last's terror victim in Mosul

In less than a month after US president Barack Obama renewed sanctions against Syria over the Assad regime's involvement in terrorism. Another of his envoys, George Mitchell, is on his way to Damascus to explore the chances of renewed Syrian-Israeli peace talks. A US military delegation will discuss the expanded flow of terrorists from Syria into Iraq.

None of this, any more than the UN nuclear agency's discovery of "man-made uranium particles" near Damascus, has slowed the American dash to thaw relations with Syria. 
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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

First crash victims recovered

The day afterDEBKAfile'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 reportHERE)

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. 
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