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Exlcusive
November 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago.
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Controlled US-Israel discord on Jerusalem amid broader strategic understandings
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
November 18, 2009, 4:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Dubbed the Super Arrow
The broad strategic understandings sealed by US president Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at their recent White House talks are not to the liking of some their opponents at home,DEBKAfile's Washington sources report. While disagreeing on construction in Jerusalem, they decided to cooperate on the looming nuclear threat from Tehran and to a high degree on the Palestinian question.
The US will continue to invest in the Arrow 3 missile interceptor.
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Egypt's abrupt shutdown of operations against tunnels revives missile flow to GazaDEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 20, 2009, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00)  A "strategic" smuggling tunnel for arms Tuesday, Nov. 18, Egypt's special forces and engineering units suddenly shut down operations against the smuggling tunnels to Gaza without warning to Washington or Jerusalem, DEBKAfile's military sources report. US and Israeli requests for clarifications from Cairo were not answered. So the Obama administration signaled Egypt that if it continues to violate international accords, there will be consequences. | ||
Iran is advancing on dual nuclear bomb track: uranium plus plutoniumDEBKAfile Special Report November 19, 2009, 4:29 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile's military sources report that the UN inspectors' October visit to Iran turned up dual-track progress in support of its nuclear weapons program: Feverish activity was registered in the production of plutonium at Isfahan as an alternative to the Fordo enriched uranium plant near Qom which starts up in 2011. The IAEA experts discovered 30 metric tons-IS of heavy water hidden in 600 tanks, each holding 13 gallons. | ||
Obama's Iran sanctions strategy is routed by Chinese, Russian rebuffs
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 18, 2009, 6:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Obama runs slap into Great Wall of Chinese no
Chinese president Hu Jintao said clearly after meeting US president Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday, Nov. 17, that their governments disagree on tougher sanctions for Iran - or any other issue relating to the Islamic republic. In Moscow, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it was too soon to talk about stepping up sanctions on Iran, if at all.
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