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Obama: Mid East conflict costs US "blood and treasure" 
DEBKAfile Special Report April 15, 2010, 9:53 AM (GMT+02:00) 
Tags:  Middle East peace   Obama  

Stands by new Mid East direction

President Barack Obama confirmed the radical shift in US Middle East policies Tuesday, April 14, by commenting that conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up "costing significantly in terms of both blood and treasure" - an echo of the words of Gen. David Petraeus.
His comment fueled his public feud with Israel, in which prominent American Jewish leaders have weighed in protesting that his tough new demands ofIsrael would deny it defensible borders and jeopardize its security

American-Jewish leaders accuse Obama of abandoning Israeli security
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 14, 2010, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  American-Jewish leaders   Obama 

WJC President Ronald Lauder

Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress addresses an open letter to president Obama voicing the deep concern of Jews around the world - not only about the nuclear ambitions of an Iranian regime with genocidal intentions toward Israel, but the deterioration of US-Israeli relations and public feud.
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch writes: "I weep today because my president, Barack Obama has changed the relationship between the US andIsrael. …our closest ally… has been demeaned and slandered."

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Scud missiles? Not yet across Syrian-Lebanese border
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
April 14, 2010, 1:03 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Hizballah   Scuds   Syria 

Syria holds self-propelled Scud ready to hand to Hizballah

Syria has not actually handed Scud missiles, A or SS-1B, to the Hizballah in Lebanon - only positioned them on the border ready for transit - and taught two Hizballah brigades how to use them, DEBKAfile's military sources report, refuting the flurry of press reports that these ground missiles are already in Lebanon.
Israel has warned Damascus viaWashington that their crossover intoLebanon in violation of UN resolutions would spark military action on both sides of the Syrian-Lebanese border.

 

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Why were 47 world leaders kept in the dark?
DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly
April 14, 2010, 2:46 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  nuclear security summit 

Nuclear Security Summit April 2010

One reason why the Nuclear Security summiteers avoided the brass-tacks decisions for dealing with the threat of nuclear terrorism was that their working papers were only dated up to 2005 - nothing about the nuclear black market in the interim five years up until now.
The coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly out next Friday pinpoints illicit trading centers where nuclear materials and components are available to terrorists.

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Tehran: If Iran is attacked, nuclear devices will go off in American cities
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 13, 2010, 6:53 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Barack Obama   Iran nuclear 

Iran threatens US with nuclear terror

This warning, along with an announcement that Iran would join the world's nuclear club within a month, struck at the heart of President Barack Obama's Nuclear Security Summit which opened Tuesday, April 13. The statement run by the Iranian publication Kayhan said: "If the US strikes Iran with nuclear weapons, there are elements which will respond with nuclear blasts in the centers of America's main cities."  
DEBKAfile: It was the first time Tehranhad threatened America with nuclear terror.

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