DEBKAfile Special Report July 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00) Israeli Air Force F-16C fighter-bombers Southern Nevadans were warned last week that 62 warplanes would take off twice a day from Nellis Air Force Base, home of 414th Combat US Training Squadron northwest of Las Vegas in the latest 11-day Red Flag exercise. A large number of Israeli F-16C fighter-bombers from IAF Squadron 110 are taking advantage of the opportunity for mock combat drills in large groups and bombing missions with live ordnance. DEBKAfile Special Report July 18, 2009, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile's military sources report that the IDF and northern command are urgently investigating how a large group of Hizballah terrorists and Lebanese villagers managed to rush the new border fence and hoist Lebanese and Hizballah flags at an unmanned Israeli lookout post at the foot of the Kfar Shaba Farms Hills. The incident occurred Friday, July 17. Later Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his movement would join the Lebanese government only if it accepted its anti-Israel platform. DEBKAfile Special Report July 17, 2009, 11:19 AM (GMT+02:00) Ex-president Hashemi Rafsjani holds key to Iranian crisis The former Iranian president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, broke his month-long silence on the violent street protests which erupted over allegations of fraud after Mahmoud Ahmadienjad's re-election on June 12. In a tensely-awaited sermon at Tehran University, Friday, July 17, he called for the release of the hundreds of arrested protesters. The prominent cleric said large numbers of Iranians still doubted the election result and something had to be done to allay those doubts. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 20, 2009, 7:07 PM (GMT+02:00) Tehran: Dismantle Israel's nukes, we have no weapon program Iran has posted a new package of "proposals" to the West in response to its offer of engagement on Tehran's nuclear activities. Foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said the "comprehensive and updated" package aims to prepare the ground for more "fluid interaction" with the West. "But we cannot speak of a Middle East without nuclear weapons without discussing the more than 200 nuclear warheads of the Zionist regime Israel," he said. DEBKA-Net-Weekly updated by DEBKAfile July 20, 2009, 11:38 AM (GMT+02:00) Only casualty of Al Qaeda's new stunt - bomb horses - from Gaza DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources reported that an aggressive new al Qaeda cell calling itself Jaljalat has been responsible for the last spate of cross-border attacks from the Gaza Strip. Our counter-terror sources report that Saudis, Yemenis and Egyptians who fought in Iraq and fled after being beaten down by US-led forces make up its hard core plus a score of Palestinian Hamas dropouts. Sunday, July 19, Israeli Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin confirmed DEBKA-Net-Weekly's disclosure. DEBKAfile Special Report July 19, 2009, 10:59 AM (GMT+02:00) Netanyahu: Take Jerusalem off the table Sunday, July 19, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply rejected the US demand handed to Israeli ambassador Michael Oran to halt construction of Jewish estate at the Shepherd's Hotel site in Jerusalem. Netanyahu stressed that hundreds of Arab residents have purchased apartments in the west of the city without difficulty and there is no bar on Jews buying or building on the eastern side of Israel's open, undivided capital. DEBKAfile Special Report July 18, 2009, 11:18 AM (GMT+02:00) Kavir Lut: Iranian desert site for coming A-test DEBKAfile's military sources reveal that Iran is in the last stages of construction of a nuclear test site in the Kavir Lut desert between Tehran and its eastern border with Afghanistan. The work is managed by the Iranian experts invited to attend North Korea's nuclear test this year. Two diplomats attached to the UN nuclear watchdog agency in Vienna confirmed to AP Saturday July 18 that Iran now has the means to test a weapon within six months. US, Israeli and British Air Forces in big war game over Nevada
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