DEBKAfile Special Report October 18, 2009, 6:51 PM (GMT+02:00) Gen. Nur-Ali Shushtari, terrorist commander dies himself in suicide bombing. Seven high-ranking Iranian officers, including at least two generals, and several tribal leaders were among the 31 people who died in a suicide bombing attack on their meeting in the Sistan-Baluchi provincial town of Pisheen early Sunday, Oct. 18. Tehran vowed swift retribution, soon after Parliament speaker Ali Larijani accused the US. Washington condemned the attack and rejected the charge of involvement. DEBKAfiled names one of the generals as covert commander of al Qods foreign terror bases in the Middle East. DEBKAfile Special report October 18, 2009, 1:38 PM (GMT+02:00) Hizballah's underground telecommunications network According to Hizballah's al Manar television, an Israeli unmanned aircraft blew up a wiretapping device planted between Houla and Mais al-Jabal in South Lebanon. The Lebanese armed forces attribute it to a breach in Hizballah's telecommunications network in the area; two cables of 50 meters were discovered - one for wiretapping, the other for broadcasting. DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 17, 2009, 4:37 PM (GMT+02:00) Israel's chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi The Netanyahu government's slow-moving, lackadaisical handling of the Goldstone report and UN Human Rights Council's allegation of Israeli war crimes in Gaza, played into the hands of a coalition formed to strip the Israeli military of legitimacy as a defensive strike force against Iran's fast-moving nuclear weapons program. Israel's army chiefs now face the problem of sending troops to defend their country knowing that some international body may accuse them of war crimes. Their government had seven months to compile a counter-dossier of recorded Palestinian crimes in ten years of murderous campaigns against Israeli civilians, men, women and children. Is it now too late? Read DEBKAfileExclusive Analysis below for answers. DEBKAfile Special Analysis October 16, 2009, 4:27 PM (GMT+02:00) Binyamin Netanyahu - personal defeat The UN Human Right Council's endorsement Friday, Oct. 16, sent the anti-Israel Goldstone war crimes report to the UN Security Council. Ultimately, this step could expose Israeli leaders to prosecution for war crimes. The damage was compounded by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's personal involvement in spearheading the campaign to have the report buried. Its endorsement has instead buried the peace process between Israel and Palestinian Authority - already shaken by Mahmoud Abbas' refusal to come to the negotiating table. DEBKAfile Special Report October 16, 2009, 3:56 PM (GMT+02:00) On Sept. 17, a Shin Bet-undercover police unit detained three Palestinians fabricating bombs and using pipes as components for rockets in a covert workshop in the Abu Dis village of Jerusalem, DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report. They worked in the grocery storehouse under the direction of an engineer. The terror cell planned a rocket assault on Jerusalem and Maaleh Adummim. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 13, 2009, 1:45 PM (GMT+02:00) Gen. Omar Suleiman - fed up with Hamas High-ranking Hamas officials in Gaza keep their sons, brothers, wives, cousins living in comfort in Cairo. Monday night, Oct. 12, Egypt's Mukhabarat (security service) began quietly rounding up hundreds of these Gazans and throwing them into jail for "questioning," DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report. Intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman finally got fed up with Hamas and its stubborn refusal to sign a reconciliation accord with rival Fatah blaming Iran and Syria. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 13, 2009, 1:46 PM (GMT+02:00) Leading Iranian reformer Mohammed Karroubi with supporters The probe announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, of one of the three presidential candidates defeated in Iran's June election looks like the first step toward using the tightly-controlled process of law to persecute the top dissenters who alleged that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in a fraudulent poll. Former Speaker Mohammed Karroubi is the first to pay the price for alleging that political detainees are subject to rape and torture. Tehran threatens swift retribution for suicide attack, Iranian speaker accuses Obama
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