DEBKA-Net-Weekly 420 updated by DEBKAfile November 7, 2009, 2:41 PM (GMT+02:00) Safir-Omid space project set to go Iran is ready to launch its second homemade spy satellite, with the Safir 2 rocket (Messenger of Ambassador) already in position on its pad,DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report. If the second launch succeeds, it would mean that Iran has attained solid fuel-powered rockets with a range of 2,450-2,450 kilometers, which covers not only all of Israel but reaches as deep into Europe as the Polish capital of Warsaw. Tehran has also raised output at its uranium mine. DEBKAfile Special Report November 6, 2009, 9:38 PM (GMT+02:00) US Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan in two guises Speculation is rife in the US media about whether Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan's massacre of 13 servicemen at America's biggest army base, Fort Hood in Texas Thursday, Nov. 5 was motivated by terrorist ideology. US officials are tightlipped on the question. Witnesses among the two score injured reported that while firing two handguns, he shouted "Alahu Akbar!" That morning he was filmed in Muslim dress. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 4, 2009, 11:03 PM (GMT+02:00) Iranian weapons unloaded from Francop at Ashdod DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report that a mammoth arms train has been running to Hizballah for months via Egypt. They identify the ship which offloaded the arms shipment at the Egyptian port of Damietta, where it was picked up by theFrancop as the Iranian Visea, which is now on its way from the British port of Felixtowe to Hamburg, Germany. An international operation is afoot to apprehend the Iranian ship as of Wednesday, Nov. 4, when Israeli naval forces commandeered the Francop near Cyprus with hundreds of tons of Iranian arms bound for the Lebanese Hizballah. DEBKAfile Special Report November 5, 2009, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00) Saudi warplanes over Yemen Thursday, Nov. 5, a substantial Saudi armored infantry force and tank column crossed the border into Yemen to do battle with Iran-backed Houthi rebels the day after they killed a Saudi border guard. Saudi air force F-15 and Tornado jets have been bombing Yemeni rebel positions near the border with the southern Saudi Jizan province since Wednesday. "This is not a hit-and-run, this is a sustained action," said a Saudi official Thursday night. DEBKAfile Special Report November 4, 2009, 1:08 AM (GMT+02:00) Seized Hizballah arms ship The Antigua-flagged arms shipFrancopcommandeered by the Israeli Navy early Wednesday, Nov. 4, near Cyprus, carried 40 containers of hundreds of tons of Iranian arms for Hizballah, enough to keep Hizballah fighting for a month, said Israeli Navy commander Brig.-Gen Ronnie Ben-Yehuda in a news briefing Wednesday, Nov 3. The ship was intercepted in a joint Israel Navy-US Task Force 151 operation.Iran set to launch 200-kg spy satelite into orbit
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