DEBKAfile Special Report December 14, 2009, 11:08 PM (GMT+02:00) Threatens Abbas, Muhbarak, two Kings Abdullah Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second top leader, denounced US president Barack Obama's Middle East policy as "nothing but a new stage in the Crusader and Zionist campaign to subjugate and humiliate us… and our religion" in a statement posted on an Islamist website Monday, Dec. 14. He also slammed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Saudi king Abdullah and Jordan's monarch as "Arab Zionists." By unusually listing them by name, Zawahiri is seen by DEBKAfile's terror experts as directly threatening those leaders. DEBKAfile Special Report December 14, 2009, 11:06 AM (GMT+02:00) Defense minister Ehud Barak As Israel wrestled with a fateful decision on Iran's nuclear issue and war tensions building up around its borders, defense minister Ehud Barak went to war on the military-yeshiva "Hesder" contract, under which seminary students are conscripted - most volunteering for combat units - along with their studies. Raising the specter of mutiny in the armed forces, Barak Sunday, Dec. 13, expelled the West Bank Mt. Bracha yeshiva from the contract when its dean, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, refused a summons to a hearing with the minister on charges of inciting student-soldiers to refuse orders affecting the status of Jewish settlements on conscientious grounds. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 14, 2009, 11:02 PM (GMT+02:00) Palestinian issue sinks on regional priority scale Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brushed off Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal's offer to mediate an end to the bloody Yemen civil war between Saudi-backed government forces and rebels supported by Iran, DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report. The Hamas leader carried a Saudi proposal to the Persian Gulf regional summit taking place in Manama which focuses on the Iranian nuclear issue and the Yemen war, whereby Tehran would state it does not support the Yemeni Houthi rebels and will not furnish them with arms.Al Qaeda's No. 2 condemns Obama's Mid East policy after terror ring smashed in Lebanon
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