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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 to DEBKAfile'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. More...

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. More... Chicago man charged in Mumbai terror plot, Pakistani general detained DEBKAfile Special Report December 7, 2009, 10:32 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. More... 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. More...