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Iran's revenge: Syria and Hizballah join to sink Israeli warships
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12681] Tehran and its extremist and terrorist allies, having failed to abort Barack Obama’s initiative for direct Israel-Palestinian diplomacy, hit back with two belligerent steps. debkafile’s sources disclose Syria and the Lebanese Hizballah have set up a joint military command for sinking Israeli warships, and Hamas has brought all 13 Palestinian rejectionist groups [...]
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Some Trucked to US Emergency Stores in Israel, Some Goes to IDF
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12646] While most of the equipment goes through the US emergency depot in Kuwait and transferred to Afghanistan as needed, some key items have been absorbed by the Israeli Defense Forces.
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending September 2, 2010
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12649] A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending September 2, 2010
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They Set up Joint Command for Coordinated War against Israel
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12644] Bashar Assad and Hassan Nasrallah conclude a military cooperation pact for war against Israel on the premise that it will erupt in the near future. Damascus sets red lines for going to war against Israel.
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But Hamas Creates Facts with Innovative Terror Methods
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12647] Using new tactics imparted by Iranian Guards and Hizballah, Hamas terrorizes West Bank highways to sabotage US Middle East diplomatic initiative and topple Mahmoud Abbas.
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Syria & Hizballah Conclude Secret Pact for War on Israel
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12650] They have set up a joint military command as a powerful tool of war with red lines for generating Syrian participation in a Hizballah-Israel conflict and advance intelligence-sharing mechanisms. In its coming issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s exclusive sources detail the Syrian-Hizballah pact’s twelve clauses. We also uncover the outcome of Syrian-Hizballah meddling [...]
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A Hideaway for Secret Labs, Banned Nuclear Materials and Weapons
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12648] It didn’t’ take Iran too long to start using its new nuclear reactor at Bushehr as a safe hideaway for nuclear and secret weapons facilities.
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Radical Drive Gathers Momentum from the Mediterranean to Baghdad
September 3, 2010[Story ID: 12645] Syria and Hizballah collude to install a radical Shiite government in Baghdad, by forging an alliance between the two Iraqi Shiite foes – outgoing PM Nouri al-Maliki and radical cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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Hamas' new methods: Multiple small attacks by unknown imported terrorists
September 2, 2010[Story ID: 12601] Another drive-by shooting claimed by Hamas injured Moshe and Shira Morani from Maaleh Efraim at the Rimonim junction near Ramallah Wednesday night, Sept. 1. The couple saved their lives by fleeing their vehicle. debkafile: Hamas has adopted new methods for its latest campaign to sabotage peace talks: Frequent small attacks by cells [...]
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US Intel: Tehran pushes Hizballah hard to attack Israel
September 2, 2010[Story ID: 12573] Western intelligence sources report that on August 30, Hizballah put its forces on a state of war alert and issued a partial call-up of reservists, apparently in preparation for a major attack on Israel in response to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington or during the Jewish New Year festival starting on Sept. [...]
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Dutch hold two men on flight from Chicago on terrorist suspicions
September 1, 2010[Story ID: 12497] The Dutch public prosecutor said the two Yemeni men are being held on suspicion of a conspiracy to commit a terrorist criminal act. Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and Hezam al-Mursi were arrested at Schiphol on arrival from Chicago aboard United Airlines Flight 908 after US authorities had raised concerns about suspicious items [...]
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Dutch arrest two men on flight from Chicago on terrorist suspicions
August 31, 2010[Story ID: 12408] At Schiphol they were reportedly charged with preparing a terrorist attack. The
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Mysterious death of Russian military intelligence high-up in Syria
August 31, 2010[Story ID: 12409] Gen. Yuri Ivanov, 52, deputy head of GRU, the Russian military’s overseas intelligence arm of Russian military, was found dead in mysterious circumstances described in a terse official Russian eulogy as a tragic swimming accident “several days ago.” No further details were provided such as where he died. Although he apparently drowned [...]
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US to sell Israel massive military fuel stocks worth $2 bn
August 30, 2010[Story ID: 12324] On Aug. 6, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency informed Congress of the sale to Israel of 60 million gallons of unleaded gasoline, 284 million gallons of JP-8 aviation jet fuel and 100 million gallons of diesel fuel worth an estimated $2bn, saying: “Israel will have no difficulty absorbing this additional fuel [...]
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Iran develops primitive flying bombs for Israeli cities, nearby US targets
August 30, 2010[Story ID: 12323] The Karrar bomber drone unveiled by Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Aug. 22 is summed up by debkafile’s military sources as a primitive copy of an obsolete unmanned US cruise missile from the 1950s that was derived from the V1 “buzz bomb” which the Germans fired against London at the end of World War [...]
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Rival Iranian spy factions shoot it out on Tehran's streets
August 30, 2010[Story ID: 12325] On Aug. 23, just two days after Iran inaugurated its first nuclear reactor at Bushehr, debkafile’s exclusive sources report a shootout in the streets of Tehran flared between rival intelligence factions of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) – as mutual suspicions boiled over. IRGC nuclear directors suspect [...]
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Can Secret US-Russian Deal Extend to Containing Iran's Nuclear Aspirations?
August 27, 2010[Story ID: 12246] Obama has embarked on a new and dangerous track for bringing Iran to the negotiating table by interchanging tough measures with benefits. It looks now like heading for failure and ending with Iran acquiring a weapon.
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 26, 2010
August 27, 2010[Story ID: 12250] A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 26, 2010
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Obama weighs offer of US nuclear umbrella if Israel scraps Iran strike
August 27, 2010[Story ID: 12251] debkafile reports Israel is believed to have revived its military option against Iran – especially since Iran activated its first nuclear reactor at Bushehr on Aug. 21, thereby placing the Obama administration under enormous pressure. On top of the dire predictions of catastrophe planted on various US op-ed pages, Obama this week [...]