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US speeds up its own and Gulf allies' preparations for clash with Iran
DEBKAfile Special Report January 31, 2010, 12:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Gulf Emirates military deployment Saudi Arabia US-Iran

Aegis, US anti-missile missile

The Obama administration took the unusual step Saturday night, Jan. 30, of leaking word to major US media that the United States, Saudi Arabia and Gulf allies - the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain - have accelerated the deployment of new defenses - naval and anti-missile - against possible Iranian missile attacks or Hizballah sabotage.

The 10,000-strong US contingent posted in Saudi Arabiawill be ...

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Iranian Basijj plots UK embassy seizure
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
January 30, 2010, 7:44 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Ahmadinejad Basijj Britain Iran US-Iran

British embassy in Tehran

DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that the Basijj militia chiefs have a plan to seize the British embassy inTehran. Western intelligence agencies monitoring Iran have warned Londonthat radical groups are secretly preparing to overrun the British embassy buildings and living quarters and take the diplomats hostage, replicating the siege of the US embassy in 1979.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad favors the plan ...

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CIA chief Panetta holds talks on Yemen in Cairo and Israel
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
January 29, 2010, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00)

CIA Director Leon Panetta

The director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, paid secret visits toCairo and JerusalemThursday, Jan. 28, to prepare the ground for expanding US military intervention in Yemen against al Qaeda strongholds, thereby opening a fresh front in the war on Islamist terror organization.
He asked for an Egyptian expeditionary force to back up US special forces and the use of Egyptian airfields as jumping off bases for US air ...

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