DEBKAfile Special Report September 5, 2009, 5:19 PM (GMT+02:00) Iran's IAEA delegate Ali Asghar Soltanieh Barack Obama has been in the White House for nine months and Binyamin Netanyahu in the Israeli prime minister's office six months. Both have spent precious time batting the numbers of settlement apartments to and fro instead of taking resolute steps to thwart Iran's spectacular advances on the road to a nuclear weapon. DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources note that Tehran has made good use of this time for the longest strides towards its objective than at any time since its program was surreptitiously launched. DEBKAfile Special Report September 5, 2009, 12:29 PM (GMT+02:00) Binyamin Netanyahu wins points Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu drew a fast rebuke from Washington for his move to blunt vocal criticism from his pro-settlement Likud party by promising to approve hundreds of new homes on the West Bank ahead of a deal with Washington on a temporary construction moratorium. As DEBKAfile disclosed on Aug. 30, the US and Israel are close to a deal in which they concur on roughly 80 percent of all settlement issues and agree to disagree on the remainaing 20 percent. 
Iran edges close to capacity for building first nuke, fitting a missile's nuclear warhead
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Al Qaeda's threat brings out extra Hamas security forces in Gaza City
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
September 5, 2009, 5:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Salafi Jalalat organization set up by al Qaeda in the Gaza Strip has vowed to avenge what it called the massacre inflicted by Hamas on one of its cells, Jund Ansar Allah, when their partisans clashed in the southern town of Rafah on Aug. 14. At least 30 were reported dead on both sides and more than 150 injured.
Hamas intelligence was tipped off to a Jalalat plot to strike its government centers over this weekend, aiming to emulate the Baghdad outrage of Aug. 19.
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