US, Israel act to stop Abbas quitting for fear of alternativesDEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 17, 2009, 1:20 PM (GMT+02:00)  Hardliner Abu Maher Ghneim in line to succeed Abbas The Obama administration and Netanyahu government are bending over backward to dissuade Mahmoud Abbas from going through with his decision to retire from public life both as chairman of the Palestinian Authority and head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which he now says is final, DEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report. His most likely successor is his deputy Abu Maher Ghneim, a died-in-the-wool rejectionist of negotiations with Israel | ||
IAEA wants to inspect three secret Syrian nuclear sitesDEBKAfile Special Report November 16, 2009, 10:53 PM (GMT+02:00)  The new IAEA report on Iran's formerly secret uranium enrichment site at Fordo near Qom also includes a section on Syria and a demand to inspect suspicious sites there too. The inspectors clearly suspect both Tehran and Damascus of concealing from the UN nuclear watchdog secret facilities related to nuclear weapons production. Tuesday, Nov. 17, an IAEA delegation will challenge Damascus' refusal to open three suspect sites to inspection. | ||
New IAEA report raises fear of more secret Iranian nuclear sites
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 16, 2009, 10:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UN nuclear watchdog's report on its inspection of Iran's second uranium enrichment site near Qom says that Tehran's belated declaration of its existence raises questions about more still secret facilities. Iran claimed building of the Fordu facility had begun in 2007 and its notification to the IAEA was therefore timely. The inspectors in its still restricted report refute this claim after finding that work began five years earlier in 2002.
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Iranian TV headlinesDEBKAfile Exclusive on US-Israel-Egyptian-Jordanian intelligence summit
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
November 14, 2009, 5:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday, Nov. 14, Iran's state Press TV ran verbatim DEBKAfile's exclusive disclosure on Nov. 12 of an extraordinary secret summit of the intelligence chiefs of four nations in Amman earlier this month to discuss the crisis over Iran's nuclear program and the possible outbreak of a regional war.
The Iranian medium gave this publication full credit for the exclusive, which ran as follows:
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Obama sends Bill Clinton to stop unilateral Palestinian state
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
November 14, 2009, 1:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
From Kosovo to Ramallah with opposite missions
Mahmoud Abbas has been warned by the Obama administration to give up his plan for a unilateral declaration of the Islamic Republic of Palestinian within 1967 or 1949 borders with Jerusalem is capital. ButDEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report he is forging ahead. His resignation stunt and obstruction of peace talks by demanding that Israel halt settlement activity first were drummed up to camouflage this plan.
Due in Ramallah Sunday, Nov. 15, on a mission to deter Abbas is a covey of US presidential emissaries led by former president Bill Clinton.
More details about Abbas' "Kosovo initiative" in the Special Report below.
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India's nuclear plants on alert for possible terror attack
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 16, 2009, 7:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chicago grocery owned by terrorism suspect
The Press Trust of India news agency reported that nuclear plants were put on alert Monday, Nov. 16 in the wake of the arrests in the United States of two suspects of complicity in the Mumbai attacks a year ago in which 171 people were killed. Headley is believed to have visited Indian states with nuclear sites during an advance surveillance tour of the Mumbai targets.
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