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Palestinian leader Abbas now willing to renew peace talks 
DEBKAfile Special Report April 26, 2010, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Tags:  US-Palestinians   US-Israel   Mahmoud Abbas  

Mahmoud Abbas

Palestinian Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas stated Monday, April 26 that he is willing to go back to negotiations with Israel, without pre-conditions, if the Arab League's monitoring committee session on May 1 approves. "Try me," he said in an exclusive interview with Israel Channel 2 TV's Ehud Yaari.
DEBKAfile notes that Abbas appears to have radically changed direction after 15 months of stalling against US efforts to restart the talks on one pretext or another.

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Moscow markets cruise missile launched from a freight container

DEBKAfile Special Report
April 26, 2010, 7:19 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Russian Club-K missile 

Russia's Club-K Freight Container cruise missile

This relatively cheap, extra-smart, easy-to-use Club-K Container Missile System, whichMoscow has put on the open market, allows cruise missiles concealed in freight containers to be launched from a prepositioned or moving land or sea platform. It is virtually undetectable by radar until activated. No wonder, Iran andVenezuela were keenly interested when the Club-K was put on the open market at the Defense Services Asia exhibition in Malaysia this week for $15 m.

In Iranian, Syrian or Hizballah hands, it would be a game-changer. 

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Al Qaeda in Yemen, fortified with diverted US funds, strikes British embassy
DEBKAfile Special Report
April 26, 2010, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Al Qaeda   Britain   US   Yemen 

British embassy, Sanaa

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 divertedUS funds which Yemen president Abdullah Ali Salah used  to try and bribe the Islamists to relocate inSomalia - without success.

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