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Israel suspends Swedish press permits over anti-Semitic article DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis August 23, 2009, 5:33 PM (GMT+02:00) Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt - unnecessary bombast Israel's interior minister Ellie Yishai Sunday suspended the press credentials of Swedish correspondents working in Israel after the Swedish government refused to condemn an Aftonbladet article accusing Israel's military of stealing organs from dead Palestinians.DEBKAfile's political sources report that although this is clearly a contemporary sample of a classical anti-Semitic blood libel, the issue should have been settled diplomatically without the unnecessary bombast which surrounds it. More about this in DEBKAfile's Exclusive Analysis below.  Full article

DEBKAfile's unmasking of Iran's designated defense minister as terrorist spurred wide outrage DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 23, 2009, 10:36 AM (GMT+02:00) Designated Iranian defense minister is wanted terrorist Last Thursday night, Aug. 20, DEBKAfile first exposed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's defense minister Ahmadi Vadhidi as wanted by Interpol for the 1994 Buenos Aires atrocity, a massive bombing attack on the Jewish community center in the Argentine capital which left 84 people dead and hundreds wounded. This story, instantly picked up by world media (without attribution), spurred general outrage and protest. In the 1980s he was also responsible for kidnapping high US officials in Beirut and having them tortured to death.  More...