DEBKAfile Special Report April 26, 2010, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: US-Palestinians 
US-Israel Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas stated Monday, April 26 that he is willing to go back to negotiations with
DEBKAfile notes that Abbas appears to have changed direction after 15 months of stalling against US efforts to restart the talks on one pretext or another. The US Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, who left the
In answer to a question, Abbas said he had nothing against Binyamin Netanyahu and is ready to talk to him. He is
He stressed that certain issues had been agreed and settled in talks with Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni, then foreign minister. One of those issues was security in the areas to be handed over to the Palestinian state. It had been agreed that NATO personnel under
Settlement blocs and territory swaps would be subject to negotiation between the Palestinians and
Asked about Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayad's pledge to establish a Palestinian state by 2011, Abbas said clearly: "We are against unilateral steps."
Regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, he said there had been good progress in the quest for reconciliation between his Fatah movement and Hamas.
Last Friday, the Palestinian leader speaking to his Fatah party appealed to President Barack Obama to "Impose a solution" of the
In the meantime, as DEBKAfile reported, the Obama administration met
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 26, 2010, 7:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Russian Club-K missile
This relatively cheap, extra-smart, easy-to-use Club-K Container Missile System, which
In Iranian, Syrian or Hizballah hands, it would be a game-changer.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
April 25, 2010, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: centrifuges Iran nuclear Pakistan
Iran introduced its nuclear program much earlier than previously believed. Ex-foreign minister Velayati now discloses that in 1986, he brought the first centrifuges from
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 26, 2010, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Al Qaeda Britain US Yemen
The British embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa shut down Monday, April 26, after an al Qaeda suicide attack on the ambassador's convoy and a clash with gunmen outside the embassy. According to first reports, one person was killed, but Ambassador Tim Torlot is safe.
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that al Qaeda recently received an extra boost from secretly diverted
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