If attacked, Iran wants Syria to hit back at Israel. Damascus hedgesDEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 10, 2009, 5:16 PM (GMT+02:00)  Iran's defense minister Ahmad Wahidi DEBKAfile's military sources report that this message Iran's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi brought to Damascus where he is attending a session of the high Iranian-Syrian defense committee which went into its second day Thursday, Dec. 10. The Iranian visitor indicated that Tehran expects an Israeli attack within a month and wants to be sure its Syrian ally joins Iran in fighting back. But Damascus is holding back from total commitment. | ||
Are Osama bin Laden's whereabouts really unknown?DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report December 10, 2009, 10:58 AM (GMT+02:00) Nearly a decade after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden vanished, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's intelligence sources have a good sense of his present location. Find out about al Qaeda's new set-up and what bin Laden has in store - in our coming issue out this Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weeklyclick HERE . | ||
If attacked, Iran wants Syria to hit back at Israel. Damascus hedgesDEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 10, 2009, 5:16 PM (GMT+02:00) Iran's defense minister Ahmad Wahidi DEBKAfile's military sources report that this message Iran's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi brought to Damascus where he is attending a session of the high Iranian-Syrian defense committee which went into its second day Thursday, Dec. 10. The Iranian visitor indicated that Tehran expects an Israeli attack within a month and wants to be sure its Syrian ally joins Iran in fighting back. But Damascus is holding back from total commitment. | ||
Are Osama bin Laden's whereabouts really unknown?DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report December 10, 2009, 10:58 AM (GMT+02:00) Nearly a decade after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden vanished, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's intelligence sources have a good sense of his present location. Find out about al Qaeda's new set-up and what bin Laden has in store - in our coming issue out this Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weeklyclick HERE . | ||
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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