Six nations may reveal data concealed by ELBaradei on Iran's nuclear progressDEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 31, 2009, 9:11 AM (GMT+02:00)  Iran is up to "weapon design" stage US, Israel and four other governments are urgently discussing the release of intelligence that Iran is running covert military nuclear projects parallel to its civilian program after Mohammed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, withheld this data from his last report, DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources disclose. The four governments are Britain, France, Netherlands and Japan. | ||
Was bomber who tried to kill Saudi prince an al Qaeda "mole"?DEBKAfile Special Report August 31, 2009, 4:33 PM (GMT+02:00) Al Qaeda Sunday, Aug. 30, identified the suicide bomber who slightly injured Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, son of the interior minister and nephew of King Abdullah, in Jeddah Thursday Aug. 27, as Abdullah Hassan Tali al-Asiri, known as Abul Khair. Islamist sites reported: "The hero martyr on the list of 85 wanted persons… managed to enter his palace, pass his guards and blow up a package." The communiqué suggested Asiri was apparently flow to Jeddah from Najran on the prince's private jet. | ||
Israeli Arab used membership of same gym to spy on Chief of Staff
DEBKAfile Special Report
August 31, 2009, 4:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Rauy Sultani, 23, from the Israeli Triangle town of Tirah was brought to trial before the Petach Tikva district court Monday, Aug. 31, accused of being recruited by the Lebanese Hizballah to spy on the Israeli chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi. Sultani is accused of grave offenses against state security, passing information to the enemy and contact with a foreign agent.
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Hamas leaders' priority is ending Gaza embargo rather than settling Shalit affair
DEBKAfile Special Report
August 30, 2009, 9:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas' military chief Mohammed al-Jabari
Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a timely statement Sunday, Aug. 30, dismissing the torrent of press reports from various foreign sources claiming that a prisoner swap for the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit was imminent.
DEBKAfile's Middle East sources disclose the real object of Hamas leaders' shuttle between Gaza, Cairo and Damascus as being a desperate attempt to lift the embargo clamped down on the Gaza Strip.
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