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Israeli prime minister convenes urgent security forum Friday DEBKAfile Special report August 7, 2009, 2:36 PM (GMT+02:00) According to the official statement, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his security cabinet of six were briefed on Middle East developments at a special session Friday, Aug. 7. DEBKAfile's military sources report that an unusually large number of officials were brought together, indicating that an out-of-the-ordinary security development was afoot. They included the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, military intelligence chief Brig. Amos Yadlin, Mossad director Meir Dagan, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, OC Southern Command Brig. Yoav Galant and several more senior officers.  More...

Tehran prepares to declare three detained Americans "Israeli spies" DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 6, 2009, 10:20 PM (GMT+02:00) Ahmadinejad launches second term with fresh crisis with Washington On Aug. 5, the day of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inauguration as president, Tehran officials said they could not confirm or deny Iran was holding three American journalists detained on July 31 while crossing from Iraq into Iran on the Kurdistan border. According toDEBKAfile's Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing to claim the three captives, Jewish Americans, are Israeli spies, arousing fears in Washington and Tehran that the newly elected president plans to use his captives as a stick to humiliate the Obama administration and force an apology for the way it treated him.  More... Russian secret service helped Hizballah bust Israel's Lebanese spy rings DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 5, 2009, 2:35 PM (GMT+02:00) Russian FSB agent in action Western intelligence sources in the Middle East have disclosed toDEBKAfile that a special unit of the Russian Federal Security Service - FSB, commissioned by Hizballah's special security apparatus earlier this year, was responsible for the massive discovery of alleged Israel spy rings in Lebanon in recent months with the help of super-efficient detection systems.  More...