Obama to scrap US missile shield project in E. EuropeDEBKAfile Special Report September 17, 2009, 10:55 AM (GMT+02:00)  US missile shield: Scrapped or transferred? The Obama administration's decision to shelve the plan to install US missile interceptors and radar systems in Poland and the Czech Republic is to be announced later Thursday. In the face of strong Russian objections, the shield was promoted by the Bush administration to shield Europe from long-range Iranian ballistic missile attack. DEBKAfile reports that Barack Obama's decision prompted Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's surprise comment Monday, Sept. 14, that his government no longer rules out further sanctions against Iran. DEBKA-Net-Weekly in its coming issue (out Friday) will reveal how the shared US-Russian wish to avert an Israeli military strike against Iran produced Obama's decision to ditch the missile shield in East Europe. | ||
Sarkozy accuses Iran of hiding nuclear weapons program which threatens IsraelDEBKAfile Special Report September 16, 2009, 9:09 AM (GMT+02:00)  Nicolas Sarkozy: Plain talk at last The first Western leader to expressly admit knowledge of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said: "It is a certainty to all of our secret services. Iran is working today on a nuclear (weapons) program." He added: "We cannot let Iran acquire nuclear" weapons because it would also be a threat to Israel." | ||
Obama prepares to launch new Middle East program
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive
September 15, 2009, 8:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama's reviewed and revamped policy steps for the Middle East, including Iran - compiled after a series of false starts - are finally ready to go. But will they work?
Still under tight wraps, Obama's revised program for the region's crises gets its first world airing in the comingDEBKA-Net-Weekly - out next Friday.
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Israel: UN war crimes probe gives legitimacy to Hamas terror
DEBKAfile Special Report
September 15, 2009, 8:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinians fire missiles into Israel for eight years before Israel struck Gaza
A UN investigation led by former South African judge Richard Goldstone accused Israel of "war crimes and possible crimes against humanity" in its 33-day Gaza Strip campaign against Hamas which ended late January.
Although the panel found evidence that Palestinian armed groups, by firing rockets and mortars into Israeli civilian areas, were also guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the bulk of the 575-page report pointed the finger at Israel.
Jerusalem called the report "one-sided, shameful and dangerous."
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