DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 17, 2013, 11:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Algeria’s military operation at the remote Ein Amenas gas field is over. Few of the 41 foreign hostages - Norwegian, British, Japanese, American, French – are thought to have survived although no definite numbers have been released. They were kidnapped Wednesday by North African al Qaeda wing (AQIM) raiders. This first al Qaeda attack on an African energy site is feared the portent of more terrorist strikes on oil and gas sites across Africa and possibly Arabia. Oil prices jumped 1.3 percent ...
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Netanyahu Returns to Iran Strike Option
US Hagel-Brennan nominations take US strategy in opposite direction.
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US Hagel-Brennan nominations take US strategy in opposite direction.
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Khamenei’s “Double Fork” Strategy
With no US threat of war, Tehran can comfortably delay nuclear deal.
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With no US threat of war, Tehran can comfortably delay nuclear deal.
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Zawahiri Designs Tactics for Brennan
Dodging US drones and its special forces while striking well-defined US targets.
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Dodging US drones and its special forces while striking well-defined US targets.
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Top Stories
- Iran to send monkeys into space
- Obama ready for first Iranian nuclear test
- No Cairo-Jerusalem hot line after Egypt hosts al Qods chief
- French terror alert after African operations
- US military option for Syria nixed before Hagel’s coming
- Syrian chemical weapons could be activated in 2 hours
- Obama sends intel official to Cairo on counterterrorism mission
- Russian warships back Assad’s bluster
- Ahmadinejad turned social crusader?
Headlines
Iran sends monkeys into space – so can place nukes anywhere on earth
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January 15, 2013, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monkey in space
Iran will parade its ballistic rocket achievements by sending monkeys into space next month. This was announced by Hamid Fazeli, head of the country’s space agency, Tuesday, Jan. 15.DEBKAfile: Since firing the first Iranian-made satellite, the 27-kilogram Omid, in February 2009, Tehran has developed a rocket with a payload capacity of 330 kilograms, capable of placing nuclear warheads anywhere on the face of the earth. The Iranians habitually mask advances in their nuclear and missile programs as pure scientific research.
Obama prepares public to accept first Iranian nuclear test
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January 15, 2013, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
A demonstration in Tehran
After US intelligence admitted it cannot detect or stop a Syrian chemical attack, US experts now estimate that Iran will not be able to produce enough weapon-grade uranium for one or bombs before mid-2014 “without detection by the West.” DEBKAfile: Barack Obama is preparing the world for the “surprise” of an Iranian nuclear test. The new, delayed dateline, moreover, is based on a false supposition. Already today, Iran has acquired or produced enough enriched uranium to build five nuclear bombs.
Despite US efforts, no Egypt-Israel “hot line.” Cairo hosts Gen. Soleimani
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January 14, 2013, 10:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
The new Israeli security fence along Egyptian border
The IDFs’ closure to civilian traffic of a 182-kilometer long security strip, 300 meters deep, along the Israeli-Egyptian border, resulted, DEBKAfile reports, from the failure of US Undersecretary of Defense Michael Vickers to breathe life into the US-Egyptian-Israeli partnership for combating terror during his Cairo trip earlier this month. Refusing to reactivate the Cairo-Jerusalem “hot line” for terrorism, the Egyptians were instead engaged in détente with Iran after Al Qods chief Gen. Qassam Soleimani paid them a secret visit.
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