DEBKAfile Special Report September 26, 2009, 9:31 PM (GMT+02:00) Najibullah Zazi under arrest No organized terror network scale appears to have sprung up in America although the latest arrests appear to suggest that the country's transport systems and high-rise buildings are in danger. The case of Najibullah Zazi, 24, the Afghan-born shuttle van driver, was the most serious. In other cases, unrelated to the first, a Jordanian Muslim was detained trying to blow up a Dallas office tower and two American Muslims were taken in for questioning. But all the suspects reeled in were small fry. More about this in DEBKAfileSpecial Report below. DEBKAfile Special Report September 25, 2009, 7:53 PM (GMT+02:00) Bekkay Harrach threatens German voter in al Qaeda's name In a new audiotape posted Friday, Sept. 25, al Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden warns Europeans they should pull their troops out of Afghanistan or share America's blame. The tape with German subtitles against his still image appears two days before Germany's general election. Last week an al Qaeda, German-speaking spokesman warned Berlin to remove its troops from Afghanistan or face extreme retaliation. Last week, Bekkay Harrach, who grew up in Bonn and relocated to an al Qaeda base in the Pakistan tribal area of Waziristan, ordered Berlin to withdrew its 4,200 troops from Afghanistan within two weeks after its election or face a widespread terror offensive. DEBKAfile Special Report September 25, 2009, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00) Mojahedin Khalq No. 3 Mehdi Abrishamchi locates Iran's covert detonator plant. Diplomats attached to the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA disclosed Friday, Sept. 25, an Iranian letter to its director Mohamed ElBaradei admitting the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant in addition to Natanz. The letter coincided with US president Barack Obama's statement when he opened the G20 summit in Pittsburgh accusing Iran of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, which he said had been hidden for years from international inspectors. The disclosure follows the revelation by Iranian dissident exiles in Paris Thursday that Iran was developing detonators for setting off a nuclear bomb. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 23, 2009, 12:20 PM (GMT+02:00) Iran's AWACS destroyed in parade collision Up above a big military parade in Tehran on Tuesday, Sept. 22, as Iranian president declared Iran's armed forces would "chop off the hands" of any power daring to attack his country, two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran's only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for coordinating long-distance aerial operations, DEBKAfile's military and Iranian sources disclose. The disaster was a serious blow for Iran, leaving its air force and air and missile defenses without "electronic eyes" for surveillance of the skies around its borders. TOP STORIES DEBKAfile Special Report September 25, 2009, 3:04 PM (GMT+02:00) Triple line-up against Iran in Pittsburgh In a dramatic joint appearance in Pittsburgh, Friday, Sept. 25, Presidents Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy and prime minister Gordon Brown accused Iran of concealing a second uranium enrichment plant near Qom for years from international inspection. Taking time out from the G20 summit, they went on live television to declare their willingness for a concerted effort to stop Iran attaining nuclear weapons by the end of 2009. DEBKAfile Special Report September 24, 2009, 4:16 PM (GMT+02:00) In an impassioned speech to the UN General Assembly Thursday, Sept 24, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the United Nations' most important mission today is to prevent "the tyrants of Tehran" from acquiring nuclear weapons, because the marriage of religious fanaticism and weapons of mass destruction would endanger the world. He slammed the UN report which held Israel guilty of war crimes in its Gaza operation last January, accusing its authors of "equating terrorists and their victims." Israel must be sure that peace talks with the Palestinians don't produce "another Gaza." DEBKAfile Special Report September 24, 2009, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00) Another UN sesssion, another flaming diatribe The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinjad's excessive oratory, matched by the shuffle of Western delegations led by the US leaving the UN General Assembly chamber, have been a typical feature of every new UN General Assembly session in the last three years. This time, his attacks on the US and Israel were not less inflammatory, but they were countered by the new Russian willingness to consider sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program in president Dmitry Medvedev's conversation between US president Barack Obama. DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report September 25, 2009, 4:17 PM (GMT+02:00) Berlin is on notice to pull German troops out of Afghanistan or face a nationwide Al Qaeda campaign, as the forthcoming DEBKA-Net-Weeklydiscloses exclusively. Five years ago, Osama bin Laden bent Spain to his will by blowing up Madrid trains. He plans to repeat his success against Germany - this time under a new generation of commanders. Our latest issue out Friday revealed the hows and whens of the latest al Qaeda plot.No homegrown terror network found in America by FBI arrests
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