The Obama administration has elevated its military intervention in Yemen by deploying Predator drones against Al Qaeda strongholds at a secret new US base in Al Hodaydah on Yemen's Red Sea coast, DEBKAfile's exclusive military sources disclose. The UAVs were brought in after two explosive parcels were mailed from Yemen last month, the handiwork of US-born Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki. CIA director Leon Panetta selected the site of the covert base in January. It was finished in April. The Yemen-based AQAP leader proclaims himself "the new Osama bin Laden." As DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals in its next issue out on Friday, Al Awkali claims to usher in a new brand of Islamist terror against America, one that is practical and is divorced from religious and moral constraints.Al Qaeda's Bin Laden-Zuwahiri era is dead, he says. There are more urgent missions than Afghanistan. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly,click here US Defense Secretary Robert Gates rapped Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's knuckles for his comment in New Orleans Sunday, Nov. 7, that "Iran must be made to fear a military strike against its nuclear program." Gates shot back: "I disagree that only a credible military threat can get Iran …to end its nuclear weapons program." DEBKAfile: The Obama administration is building up military pressure on Iran and resents the Israeli prime minister's bid to force the pace beyond its calibrated momentum.
Yemen wants $6bn to fight Al Qaeda • Govt. spokesman Hauser: Jerusalem building will continue. Dispute with US is blown out of proportion • Pentagon has no explanation for mysterious missile-like object seen streaking over LA Tuesday • Jalili: Iran will not discuss its nuclear program in coming talks with world powers • Widespread alert for Palestinian plots to abduct Israeli soldiers • Netanyahu says: Jerusalem is no "settlement" • Building there never affected peace talks in 40 years • He was responding to Obama's comment in Jakarta that new building plans in Jerusalem were "unhelpful to the pursuit of peace" • Israel's top soldier: The IDF stands against a wide range of threats from terror to war in South and North • The nature of these threats has recently changed, said Gen. Ashkenazi • In a future war populations must be evacuated • US Sen. John Kerry tells Turkey to mend ties with Israel • Some 150 lawmakers from 50 countries gather in Ottawa for 2nd international conference for combating anti-Semitism • On agenda: "New globalizing, virulent, lethal anti-Semitism" recalling 1930s atmospherics • Former Swedish Dep. PM Per Ahlmark: The most dangerous anti-Semites in the past wanted to make the world "free of Jews" • Today, they want to make the world "free of a Jewish state" • 
Saif Al-Adel brings anti-US forces under one command.
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While not involved in the parcel bomb plot, Tehran must have known about it.
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NATO is asked to draw up plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
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