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G8 skips Iran sanctions to boost secret US opening to Revolutionary Guards
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 30, 2010, 3:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Obama US-Iran G8 Canada

Canadian FM chairs G8 parley

DEBKAfile's Washington and Iran sources disclose that the G8 ministers meeting in Gatineau, Quebec, agreed to leave the door open to dialogue with Iran after they were discreetly informed that the Obama administration had launched a secret bid to engage Iran's radical Revolutionary Guards in nuclear talks.
The initiative aimed at bypassing Iran's hardline political leaders and ayatollahs.
It was first revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly 436 on March 12.

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Putin: We will destroy culprits of Moscow Metro bomb blasts
DEBKAfile Special Report
March 29, 2010, 10:58 AM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Al Qaeda Moscow subway Terror

Victims evacuated from Moscow blast

Two female suicide bombers hit the two central Moscowunderground rail stations in coordinated attacks during the early Monday rush hour of March 29, killing at least 39 people, injuring many more. The first exploded in the second car of the train at the Lubyanka station near the Kremlin and the Federal Security Services headquarters. The second blast hitKultury Park station near Gorky Park. North Caucasian Al Qaeda offshoot believed behind ...

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US researchers postulate Israeli tactical nuclear strike on Iran
DEBKAfile Special Report
March 28, 2010, 11:30 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Iran nuclear Israel US

Tactical Nuclear Weapon

Scenarios of a potential Israeli attack on Iran - usually without US assent - abound in Washington in the last 24 hours. They contrast sharply with the impression Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is conveying that he and President Barack Obama were of one mind on Iran when they met last week. Two CSIS researchers cite the belief in some US military circles that Israel, lacking a one-off capability for strikingIran, will resort to tactical nuclear weapons.

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