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   Read more         Obama Will Give Syrian Rebels Arms  They will go to a leader fighting in Syria who wins his nod.   more   The US to Undertake Suez Security  A hi-tech security fence to be built to guard the waterway against terror.   more   Obama Is Ready for Talks with Iran  Negotiations come late, after Iran has crossed the nuclear threshold.   more       Top Stories    Salafists get more Grads through Sinai tunnels    Assad tests IDF responses on Golan and Gaza   Israel fires missile into Syria as Gaza front escalates   Does the Petraeus affair tie in with Benghazi?   Iran attacks US drone for Khartoum   Obama aims for December nuclear talks with Iran   Last Israel warning to Damascus against spillover   Iran suspends uranium enrichment 2 days before US vote   UK, France, Israel line up for action on Syria, Iran           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       Salafists keep up missile fire after most Palestinian Gaza groups buy a truce DEBKAfile Special Report November 12, 2012, 10:41 PM (GMT+02:00)            A rocket smashes through the ceiling of a Sderot home   Most Palestinians groups met in Gaza City Monday night, Nov. 12, to approve a ceasefire after a three-day, 300-rocket assault on Israel. But the Salafists stayed away, instead firing 5 heavy Grad rockets against Netivot, Beersheba and Ofakim and taking delivery of a fresh load of Grads through the Sinai tunnels, assisted by Tehran’s proxy, Jihad Islam. Yet Israel, Egypt and even Hamas continued to delude themselves that a ceasefire can work - although Israel’s top command reckons it will collapse within days.

 

  Read more       Israel tanks knock out Syrian mortars shelling Golan. Assad tests Israel’s resolve in Gaza too DEBKAfile Special Report November 12, 2012, 3:28 PM (GMT+02:00)          Bashar Assad provokes Israel to support Hamas   Another shell landed near an Israeli position on the Golan Monday, Nov. 12, less than 24 hours after Damascus promised to silence the mortar battery responsible for “stray shells.” The promise came after Israel fired a Tamuz guided missile into Syria as a warning shot.  Monday, Israeli tank fire knocked out the Syrian mortar battery. debkafile: Bashar Assad is provoking the Netanyahu government in the light of its restraint against heavy Palestinian missile fire from Gaza.

 

  Read more       Israel fires warning Tamuz missile into Syria as Gaza front escalates DEBKAfile Special Report November 11, 2012, 4:28 PM (GMT+02:00)            Advanced precision-guided Tamuz missile developed by Israel   Israel’s deteriorating security situation has erupted simultaneously on two fronts. Sunday, Nov. 11, the IDF fired a Tamuz precision guided missile at a Syrian mortar position as a warning after a stray mortar hit an Israel Golan defense post. It was the fourth incident in 10 days. On the Gaza front, the Palestinians shot Grad missiles at Beersheba – one was intercepted by Iron Dome – after shooting 60 missiles in less than 24 hours. They injured four Israeli soldiers Saturday, four civilians Sunday – apparent victims of Katyushas supplied by Hizballah.

 

  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";           Was an affair just a pretext for Petraeus’ resignation as CIA chief? DEBKAfile Special Report November 10, 2012, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00)          Paula Broadwell, author of Petraeus bio All In   The resignation of acclaimed national American hero David Petraeus as CIA Director is presented by his friends as an honorable act in the light of an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, 39 - and nothing else. An FBI probe of Broadwell for accessing his e-mail is cited. Neither explanation is really convincing. Republican Party faithful, smarting under Mitt Romney’s election defeat, are trying to connect it to an alleged cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the murder of four US diplomats in Benghazi. 

 

  Read more       Iranian attack on US drone – payback for Khartoum bombing  DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 9, 2012, 11:09 PM (GMT+02:00)            Iranian Su-25 fighter   Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi confirmed Nov. 9 that two Iranian SU-25 jet fighters had fired at an unarmed US MQ-Predator drone over the Persian Gulf a week earlier. debkafile: In September, Tehran twice warned that US targets would be at risk if Israel struck Iranian interests. After an Iranian missile factory was bombed in Khartoum, Iran and Sudan pointed the finger at Israel. In consequence, on Nov. 1, Iranian fighters shot at – and missed – the US drone.

 

  Read more       Obama aims to start nuclear talks with Iran next month DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 8, 2012, 11:10 AM (GMT+02:00)            They agree on direct talks - but not the date   US President Barack Obama aims to launch direct, fast-track nuclear talks with Tehran in December with a three month deadline for their conclusion, debkafile reports. His advisers warn him that Iran’s campaign for its June 14 presidential election kicks off in March and Tehran cannot be expected to commit to a resolution of their nuclear controversy by then.  Iranian strategists would prefer to hold off nuclear diplomacy for eight months until after their election “just as Tehran waited for the US vote.”

 

  Read more       DEBKAfile in Facebook    DEBKAfile on Twitter    You may read DEBKAon your Android device!                 Israel warns Damascus against Syrian Golan overflights DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 6, 2012, 8:54 PM (GMT+02:00)            Israeli Air Force F-16 planes on patrol over Golan   Israel has given Damascus a final warning that a military response would be forthcoming if its fighter aircraft infringed the airspace over the Golan demilitarized zones, debkafile reports. The warning, further ratcheting up border tension, was relayed through the UN Disengagement Observer Force in an effort to contain any spillover of the Syrian civil war across Israel’s border. It applied to any ordnance flying across the border and the entry of Syrian forces to the Golan demilitarized zones.

 

  Read more       Iran suspends uranium enrichment. Gesture to boost Obama’s reelection DEBKAfile Special Report November 4, 2012, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)          Medium-enriched uranium   Sources in Tehran put out word Sunday, Nov, 4, that Iran had suddenly suspended 20-percent uranium enrichment. An Iranian lawmaker called it a "goodwill" gesture ahead of a new round of talks with the US directly after the presidential election. Two days before the vote, Tehran is transparently throwing its weight behind Obama by suggesting to the American voter that he can solve the nuclear crisis without resorting to war and is Iran’s preferred partner for talks.

 

  Read more       London, Paris, Jerusalem line up for post-US vote action on Syria, Iran  DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 3, 2012, 11:14 AM (GMT+02:00)            First talks between Binyamin Netanyahu and President Francois Hollande   Israel, France and the UK lined up this week for possible military action on Syria and Iran after the US presidential election was over in four days time, debkafile reports. Binyamin Netanyahu spent two days (Oct. 31-Nov. 1) talking to President Francois Holland in France and, the next day, Defense Minister Ehud Barak landed in London, after the top US soldier Gen. Martin Dempsey spent several days in Israel. They all agreed on the unsustainability of current US Mid East on-hold policy after Nov. 6 - whoever was elected.

 

  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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