Thursday, 22 October 2009

ElBaradei's ruse helps Iran keep on enriching uranium for a nuke

DEBKAfile Special Report

October 21, 2009, 9:50 PM (GMT+02:00)

Dr. ElBaradei

Dr. ElBaradei

Mohammed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, pulled a rabbit out of his hat Wednesday, Oct. 21 to save the Vienna talks with Iran on the future of its enriched uranium from breaking down on its third day. He put before the US, France and Russia and Iran a draft proposal and gave them until Friday to come back with their answer.

The only officials to come smiling out of the aborted meeting were the Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalilee and his aides. But strangely enough, it was greeted with happy applause in the West. 
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Obama challenged by Gates and military on Afghanistan

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report

October 21, 2009, 9:08 AM (GMT+02:00)

The coming DEBKA-Net-Weeklygoes behind the scenes in Washington for a close look at the major dispute on exit policy holding up strategy decisions on Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama and his White House team are ranged on one side, challenged heatedly by defense secretary Robert Gates and military chiefs, on the other.

The two arguments are examined in depth, along with more exclusives, in the next DEBKA-Net-Weekly issue out Friday.

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US-Israel drill simulates missile attacks from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza

DEBKAfile Special Report

October 21, 2009, 9:12 AM (GMT+02:00)

AEGIS BMD launch

AEGIS BMD launch

The US and Israel launched Operation Juniper Cobra 10, the biggest missile defense exercise of their regular biennial drills, on Wednesday Oct. 21. Taking part in the two-week drill are 1,000 military personnel on each side. According to US military sources, the exercise which simulates the advanced capabilities of shared air defense systems, sends a message to Tehran that America will support Israel's defenses in attacks from Iran or its allies in the region. 
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New Iranian missiles for Gaza, Syria tops up Hizballah's rocket stocks

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

October 20, 2009, 11:43 AM (GMT+02:00)

Iran's Fajr-5 could hit Tel Aviv from Gaza

Iran's Fajr-5 could hit Tel Aviv from Gaza

Iran is making a huge effort to smuggle to the Palestinian Hamas Fajr-5 ground-to-ground rockets that bring Tel Aviv within range of the Gaza Strip. DEBKAfile's military sources also disclose that Syria, Iran's second ally with an Israeli border, has decided to transfer one-third of its missile stockpile to the Hizballah in Lebanon, topping up its arsenal with medium-range rockets that can cover central as well as northern Israel.
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Iran threatens to invade Pakistan, "crushing response" for US, UK

DEBKAfile Special Report

October 19, 2009, 11:39 AM (GMT+02:00)

Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief Mohammed Ali Jafari

Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief Mohammed Ali Jafari

The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafary, Monday, Oct. 19, threatened "crushing" retaliation against the US, UK and Pakistan including the invasion of its eastern neighbor. Tehran links all three to the suicide bombing attack in Sistan-Baluchistan Sunday, Oct. 18, which killed 42 people including seven senior Guards officers. 
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US foils terror plans to attack US administration leaders, shoot up shopping malls

October 21, 2009, 5:59 PM (GMT+02:00)

The US justice department announced Wednesday, Oct. 21, the arrest of Tareq Mahanneh, 27, a resident of Massachusetts, on charges of conspiracy to commit terror attacks against US targets at home and abroad. He and fellow conspirators are suspected of planning to assassinate two members of a former US administration and obtain automatic weapons for shooting sprees in two American shopping malls. 
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Israel may file terror charges in international courts against Hamas leaders

DEBKAfile Special Report

October 21, 2009, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00)

Defense ministry officials say a dossier cataloguing Hamas crimes against humanity year after year can be compiled from voluminous records in short order and submitted to the international court, as DEBKAfile suggested in its special analysis on Oct. 17 of the fallout from Judge Goldstone's war crime allegations against Israel and the Netanyahu's government ineffective counter-measures.

To read the analysis, click HERE 
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Karzai disappoints Washington by going second round Nov. 7

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

October 20, 2009, 8:51 AM (GMT+02:00)

Hamid Karzai gambles again

Hamid Karzai gambles again

Had Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai bowed out between rounds, negotiations would have begun with his rival Abdullah Abdullah for a national unity government in Kabul with an eventual role for Taliban; the process of ending the war in Afghanistan could then have started unfolding. As it turned out, the sitting president did not balk at his loss of a majority due to fraudulent ballots and assented to a run-off vote on Nov. 7. 
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Hizballah telecommunications knocked out in another mysterious explosion

DEBKAfile Special report

October 19, 2009, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00)

The mysterious explosion which knocked Hizballah's military telecommunications network out of commission Saturday night, Oct. 17, had evolved by Sunday morning into three Israeli wiretapping devices buried in the hills of Houla in South Lebanon which were discovered and blown up.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that Hizballah and the Lebanese army got together on this story to cover up the extent of the damage to Hizballah's military telecommunications network. 
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