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   Read more         First Israel-Iranian Cyber Battle  Israel brought down the “Mongrel of Tehran” with a plain steel cable.   more   Erdogan Collides with Assad  Obama’s U-turn on Syria lets Turkey off the hook for direct action.   more   Bibi Will Move to the Center  An Israeli centrist government for joining US in March showdown with Iran.   more       Top Stories    All Iran’s enrichment plant now moved into Fordo   Netanyahu’s security lite. Khamenei’s prize for Hizballah   New intelligence: Syrian rebels are too few to win   Panetta: Iranian cyber attacks are spreading   IDF on guard for Iranian-Hizballah drones from Gaza   Turkish army on high state of readiness   Netanyahu to campaign on stop nuclear Iran ticket   US-Israeli October attack on Iran – or lone Israeli strike?   UAV intrusion: Iranian act of belligerence           var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="698/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="125"; var zflag_height="125"; var zflag_sz="6";         var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="699/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="125"; var zflag_height="60"; var zflag_sz="39";         var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="700/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="125"; var zflag_height="125"; var zflag_sz="6";         var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="701/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="125"; var zflag_height="125"; var zflag_sz="6";          Headlines       All of Iran’s advanced enrichment centrifuges now removed to Fordo  DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 16, 2012, 8:30 PM (GMT+02:00)            Iran's IR-2 centrifuge   Iran has finished transferring all its uranium enrichment plant to Fordo, placing it in an “immune zone,” against bombardment. In so doing, Tehran beat the clock before President Barack Obama faces presidential contender Mitt Romney in a foreign policy debate and responded to the EU's tightened sanctions against its nuclear program. debkafile: Iran plans to go forward next and convert its centrifuges from 20 percent to 60 percent enrichment of uranium, a short step before the 90 percent weapons grade.

 

  Read more       Netanyahu’s security lite vs Khamenei’s $1 m UAV reward to Hizballah DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 15, 2012, 10:14 PM (GMT+02:00)            Iran tests the Karrar bomber drone   Ten days after Hizballah launched an Iranian stealth UAV into Israeli air space undetected, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unveiled his new security doctrine in a Knesset speech confirming elections on Jan. 22, 2013. He said that his light but firm finger on the trigger had given Israel seven years without war. Iran’s leader Khamenei, in contrast, handed Hizballah a $1 m prize for the sending the spy drone in a blatant act of belligerence. He rewarded the Iranian UAV designers with a Porsche car each.

 

  Read more       New W. intelligence: Syrian rebels don’t have the numbers to win DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 15, 2012, 9:20 AM (GMT+02:00)          Israel's MI Chief Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi on Syrian Golan border   The revised estimates compiled by US and French intelligence agencies on the relative strength of Syrian government and rebel forces have given Washington and Arab capitals backing the Syrian opposition pause.  The Obama administration built its policies around an estimated 70,000 rebel fighters, whereas the new figure, disclosed by debkafile’s intelligence sources, appears to be around 30,000 – one tenth of them Al Qaeda-linked jihadis. Challenging Washington, French President Frances is urging direct intervention now to save the Syrian revolt.

 

  Read more        var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="702/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="125"; var zflag_height="125"; var zflag_sz="6";         var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="703/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="125"; var zflag_height="125"; var zflag_sz="6";      More articles below      var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="1140/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="300"; var zflag_height="250"; var zflag_sz="9";           var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="1141/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="300"; var zflag_height="250"; var zflag_sz="9";           var zflag_nid="794"; var zflag_cid="1142/2"; var zflag_sid="2"; var zflag_width="300"; var zflag_height="250"; var zflag_sz="9";           Spreading Iranian cyber attacks hit Israeli military, US financial and Gulf oil targets DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 13, 2012, 5:39 PM (GMT+02:00)             An Iranian cyber offensive has hit US banks, Israeli military defenses, Saudi oil and Qatari gas websites. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the US will retaliate for a “cyber Pearl Harbor.” The Wall Street Journal reports 100 Iranian hackers are conducting the offensive. debkafile: Tehran is telling Washington that US-led sanctions will continue to be punished and further pressure on Syria’s Bashar Assad will be met with assaults on Israel’s military or even nuclear sites. Without a response, Iran will keep going.

 

  Read more       IDF on guard for Iranian-Hizballah drones from Palestinian Gaza DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 12, 2012, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)            Remains of the Iranian drone downed by Israel   Hassan Nasrallah’s threat Thursday night of more UAV’s over Israel aroused concern in the Israeli high command that Iranian drones had been smuggled into the hands of the Palestinian Hamas extremists ruling the Gaza Strip. The Hizballah leader implied that Tehran or Hizballah might ask Hamas to release drones over Israel, possibly in coordination with UAV intrusions from Lebanon. All three would celebrate a drone double shot as a major feat against the Zionist enemy – especially after the successful Iranian UAV incursion last Saturday.

 

  Read more       Turkey's army on high state of readiness, first step for Syria no-fly zone DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 11, 2012, 8:24 AM (GMT+02:00)            Turkish armed forces on full alert   War tensions over Syria shot up again early Thursday, Oct. 11, when the Turkish army was placed on high readiness and its chiefs pledge stronger responses to Syria. An authoritative US source told debkafile that Turkey had - by forcing a Syrian civilian flight en route from Moscow land in Ankara and banning flights over Syria - begun creating a no-fly zone over Syria. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta again cited the threat of chemical warfare. US sources don’t expect Assad or Iran to take Turkish actions lying down.

 

  Read more       DEBKAfile in Facebook    DEBKAfile on Twitter    You may read DEBKAon your Android device!                 Netanyahu’s dilemma: Campaigning on a security ticket when Iran calls the shots DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 9, 2012, 10:43 PM (GMT+02:00)          Binyamin Netanyahu prepares for the Israeli voter - and Iran   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to run for election on the stop-nuclear-Iran ticket opens the door for President Barack Obama, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah to put an oar in to determine its results. Obama may seek a breakthrough with Iran to impress the American voter and put a spoke in Netanyahu’s wheel; the Iranian and Hizballah leaders may fabricate a grave security crisis to test Netanyahu with a major predicament in mid-campaign. They are all are playing for high stakes.

 

  Read more       US sources: US, Israel plan October Surprise. Others: Israel can do it alone DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 9, 2012, 1:53 PM (GMT+02:00)          Israeli KC-135 refueling craft   Israeli Patriots were not deployed against further Iranian drone incursions but potential Iranian/Hizballah missile attacks from Lebanon or Syria. debkafile: US intelligence now warns President Obama that Iran’s nuclear breakthrough will be much earlier than predicted - late November, only seven weeks off. A Congressional Research Dept. report concludes Israel has sufficient air force and refueling capacities to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, including Fordo, alone. The two findings led to the new Foreign Policy proposal of a joint US-Israeli “October surprise.”

 

   Read more       UAV intrusion: Iranian act of belligerence against US and Israeli military targets DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 7, 2012, 8:45 AM (GMT+02:00)          Israeli search for enemy UAV fragments   Before it was shot down, the large helicopter which breached Israeli airspace Saturday flew over the IDF’s southern facilities, Beersheba and the Israeli Air Force base at Nevatim. It likely had surveillance equipment for recording and beaming back to its Iranian controllers the electronic signatures of the Dimona nuclear reactor’s air defenses and the American X-band radar station linked to the US X-band station in Turkey – the “forward eyes” of the US-Israeli shield against Iranian ballistic missile attack. The UAV should have been shot down much sooner.

 

  Read more        $(document).ready(function() {$.get('/choice', function(data) {$('#choice').html(data);});});            DEBKA-Net-Weekly    A sampling from past issues  Free Trial Demo Subscribe      Iran-Syrian Defense Pact Invoked DEBKA-Net-Weekly  #552 August 10, 2012         Bashar Assad and Saeed Jalili   Iran’s Saeed Jalili visited Beirut and Damascus for military coordination with Bashar Assad and Hassan Nasrallah on their respective roles in retaliating for a potential US/Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites and the regime in Damascus being squeezed into a danger zone. They decided that in either case, the mutual Iranian-Syrian defense pact would be invoked.

 

  Read more       Obama’s Dilemma: Attack Iran First? DEBKA-Net-Weekly  #551 August 3, 2012            Iran’s fast-advancing mega-fortification for its nuclear sites gives Israel and its current military capabilities no more than three months for a disruptive - not destructrive - attack on its nuclear program with conventional weapons. A delay will make a tactical nuclear strike the only feasible option. That is the dilemma US President Barack Obama must resolve.

 

  Read more       A Syrian Kurdish state rises from the ashes DEBKA-Net-Weekly  #551 August 3, 2012            The US has quietly crafted a new Kurdish state in northern Syria. It is linked to the self-governing Kurdish republic of Iraq and defers to its rulers. Turkey and Iraq feel betrayed by Barack Obama, fearing their own Kurdish minorities like Iran’s Kurds will be swallowed up by the long dreamed-of expanding Kurdish entity.

 

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  Read more       Saudis are buying nuclear-capable missiles from China DEBKAfile Exclusive Report  July 4, 2012, 9:48 AM (GMT+02:00)             

      The Saudis, not invited to join negotiations either on Syria or Iran, have gone ahead with their own plans for beating Iran to the nuclear draw.

   

 

  Read more        NM.init({ClientID: 9});        US & Russia Deploy in Syria – Double Prey for Al-Qaeda DEBKAfile Exclusive Report  June 19, 2012, 3:35 PM (GMT+02:00)               debkafile postulates Syria’s division into spheres of influence as the big powers move in.

 

  Read more       Al Qaeda targets Riyadh, Jeddah and Sderot. Saudi cell had chemicals DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 26, 2012, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)            Found in possession of terror cells in Saudi Arabia   For the first time, a thread links the triple rocket attack on the Israeli town of Sderot, with the two terrorist cells captured in Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – Sunday, Aug. 26, debkafile reports. Both were conceived by Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula. AQAP has ordered its Sinai cells and Egyptian and Palestinian offshoots to step up their attacks and hold Israeli towns, Eilat and Sderot, hostage against pursuit. Fears that chemicals held by the Saudi cell may have reached Sinai.  

 

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