Obama asks Netanyahu for more time for dialogue with IranDEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 10, 2009, 8:13 AM (GMT+02:00)  No cameras for this meeting President Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu talked for more than an hour and a half in the White House Tuesday, Nov. 9, all but fifteen minutes without advisers. There were no cameras and the usual post-meeting press briefings, joint communiques and interviews were cancelled. DEBKAfile reported Monday: US official sources admitted Monday, Nov. 9, that Tehran had firmly blocked every Obama compromise on offer. Obama's Iran engagement and Middle East peace initiatives have both run into the sand. | ||
Congressional probe to say if Fort Hood shooting was worst post-9/11 terror attack in USDEBKAfile Special Report November 9, 2009, 7:22 PM (GMT+02:00)  Sen. Joe Lieberman: Independent probe essential As pressure builds on the Obama administration to break its silence on the Nov. 5 shootings at the Ford Hood base, Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent who heads the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, announced he was launching a congressional investigation to find out whether the attack was preventable. If the news reports were true, "the murder of these 13 people was… the most destructive terrorist act committed on American soil since 9/11," he said. | ||
Al Qaeda may be fighting with Yemeni rebels against Saudi Arabia
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
November 8, 2009, 10:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi Prince Khaled bin Sultan inspects troops on Yemen border
Saudi Arabian and Iran-backed Yemeni rebel spokesmen agree on two aspects of their clashes on the Saudi-Yemen border: Sunday, Nov. 8, was the fifth day of their battle and both sides had taken dead and wounded. Otherwise, DEBKAfile's military sources report, the state of combat is hard to pin down in one of the most desolate parts of the world. It now looks as though some Al Qaeda fighters have crossed the border into Jizan to fight the Saudi army alongside the Houthis.
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