Tuesday, 25 August 2009


Mitchell meets Netanyahu without guidelines because Obama's Middle East Review is not ready

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 25, 2009, 11:13 AM (GMT+02:00)

Obama at Martha's Vineyard: Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan can wait

Obama at Martha's Vineyard: Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan can wait

DEBKAfile's Middle East and Washington sources do not expect anything much to come of the conversation Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell hold in London Wednesday, Aug. 28 - although the two governments are close to accord on a settlement standstill.

This is because US president Barack Obama went off on a holiday before his staff had finished the Middle East policy review he ordered. 
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The truth that keeps Brown mum on the Lockerbie bomber's release

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report

August 25, 2009, 9:49 AM (GMT+02:00)

The next DEBKA-Net-Weekly delves behind the obvious profit motive to discover what really drove the UK (and Scotland) to cut short Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrahi's life sentence for the 1998 Pan-Am bombing.

And why the furious dust-up between Washington and London?

Don't miss these new revelations - and more - in the coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly issue out Friday.

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Yemen is burning: US, Saudis, Egypt aid war on Iran-backed rebels

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

August 24, 2009, 9:45 AM (GMT+02:00)

Yemeni soldier displays captured Iran-made heavy machine gun

Yemeni soldier displays captured Iran-made heavy machine gun

In two weeks of warfare, the Yemen conflict has left more than 2,000 dead and up to 150,000 people homeless. Yet the Yemeni army has failed to break through to the Iranian-armed and trained Houthi rebel strongholds depite Saudi air force pounding.

This is the second war in less than a year in which US allies are pitted against Iran-backed forces. The first was Israel's three-week campaign against Hamas.

For further insights about this key war, read DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis below. 
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