Brazil to sell Iran raw uranium, expand nuclear ties
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 9, 2009, 1:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Good friends Iranian, Brazilian presidents
Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim was in Tehran last week to prepare a state visit by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva early next year - ten days after president Mahmoud Ahmadienjad was in Brazilia. Last month, both he and Israeli president Shimon Peres visited the Brazilian capital.
Ahmadinejad like Peres faced hostile demonstrations.
However DEBKAfile's diplomatic sources report that President Lula opted for further expanding ties with Tehran and defending Iran's claim that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
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New unmanned US stealth jet based in Afghanistan gathers data in Iran
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 8, 2009, 2:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
US stealth jet drone in first photo
US Air Force spokesmen confirmed this week that the hitherto secret unmanned, high-altitude stealth jet, the "Beast of Kandahar," was present at the big US air base of Bagram, in Afghanistan. Photos of the Beast on the Bagram tarmac - outside its regular base at Kandahar near the Iranian and Pakistani borders - appeared in various Internet sites this week.
Designated RQ-170 Sentinel, it is the first jet drone ever developed for military use.
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Brazil to sell Iran raw uranium, expand nuclear ties
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 9, 2009, 1:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Good friends Iranian, Brazilian presidents
Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim was in Tehran last week to prepare a state visit by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva early next year - ten days after president Mahmoud Ahmadienjad was in Brazilia. Last month, both he and Israeli president Shimon Peres visited the Brazilian capital.
Ahmadinejad like Peres faced hostile demonstrations.
However DEBKAfile's diplomatic sources report that President Lula opted for further expanding ties with Tehran and defending Iran's claim that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
More...
New unmanned US stealth jet based in Afghanistan gathers data in Iran
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 8, 2009, 2:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
US stealth jet drone in first photo
US Air Force spokesmen confirmed this week that the hitherto secret unmanned, high-altitude stealth jet, the "Beast of Kandahar," was present at the big US air base of Bagram, in Afghanistan. Photos of the Beast on the Bagram tarmac - outside its regular base at Kandahar near the Iranian and Pakistani borders - appeared in various Internet sites this week.
Designated RQ-170 Sentinel, it is the first jet drone ever developed for military use.
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Chicago man charged in Mumbai terror plot, Pakistani ex-general detained
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 7, 2009, 1:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Police sketch of terror suspect David Coleman Headley
Pakistan-born US citizen David Coleman Headley, 49, first arrested in October in Chicago faces 12 counts of terrorist conspiracy to bomb public buildings in India and murder and maim individuals in India and Denmark, for which he could be sentenced to death.
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources revealed earlier that in Chicago, Headley and his accomplices ran al Qaeda's first known US-based headquarters for orchestrating worldwide terrorist operations.
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US to focus on uranium findings in Syria - evidence of Iranian proliferation
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
December 6, 2009, 1:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian reactor
A senior official in the Obama administration described the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors' discovery of traces of highly processed plutonium at the bombed Syrian-North Korean facility at Dir a-Zur as a "smoking gun" - evidence of Iran's covert nuclear activities and proliferation,DEBKAfile's Washington sources report.
The same traces were found at the Syrian nuclear research reactor near Damascus.
Washington intends to present these findings as solid evidence of the tie-in between the Syrian and Iranian military nuclear programs.
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Flaming row between Palestinian PM and US general puts security cooperation at risk
DEBKAfile's Exclusive Report
December 7, 2009, 3:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four-star US Gen. Keith Dayton on the Palestinian carpet
According toDEBKAfile's military sources, a loud shouting match erupted Sunday, Dec. 6, between Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad and US Gen. Keith Dayton, who is in charge of training 2,000 Palestinian commandos as the Palestinian Authority first ever effective security force.
The quarrel is serious enough to hang a question mark over US-Palestinian-Israel cooperation in the campaign against Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
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Hamas fires same heat missile as al Qaeda, Taliban use in Afghanistan
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 7, 2009, 3:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas' new heat warhead missile
Unlike Hamas' homemade primitive Qassams, the two advanced C5K anti-tank missiles fired at Israeli forces on guard duty outside Kibbutz Alumim Sunday, Dec. 6, are of foreign manufacture and must have been smuggled into the Gaza Strip very recently.
DEBKAfile's military sources note a repetition of the history of the 2006-2009 years, when the IDF stood by as Hamas upgraded its arsenal with sophisticated new munitions, only resorting to long-delayed action in January of this year.
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Netanyahu's settlement freeze does not buy US nod for attacking Iran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
December 5, 2009, 8:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak intimate that a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction is the price Israel is important to Israel's broader interest, such as Washington's nod for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. DEBKAfile reports that ordinary Israelis do not buy this argument.DEBKAfile's analysts examine the broad ramifications of Netanyahu's policies in the article below.
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