Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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Hamas' new methods: Multiple small attacks by unknown imported terrorists
- September 02, 2010
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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 of unknown perpetrators imported from Syria and Lebanon and carefully compartmentalized.
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Hamas gunmen murder four Israelis in ambush near Hebron
- September 01, 2010
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Hamas gunmen killed four Israeli civilians – all residents of Bet Haggai – in their car at the Beni Naim junction near Kiryat Arba Tuesday night, Aug. 31. They are identified as Yitzhak (47) and Tali (45) Ames, parents of six, Cochava Even Haim (37) and Avishai Schindler (24). Hamas warned there was worse to come. Its gunmen sprayed their vehicle with automatic fire then shot their victims at point-blank range.
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US Intel: Tehran pushes Hizballah hard to attack Israel
- September 01, 2010
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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. 8. Iranian pressure for an attack has intensified in the wake of the Palestinian Hamas's drive-by murder of four Israeli civilians on a road near Hebron gave Tuesday night Aug. 31.
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Dutch hold two men on flight from Chicago on terrorist suspicions
- August 31, 2010
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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 in their luggage, including box cutters, knives a cell phone taped to a medicine bottle and 7,000 dollars. Still, they were allowed to fly out of Chicago.
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Mysterious death of Russian military intelligence high-up in Syria
- August 30, 2010
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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 off the shore of Syrian Latakia, his body was recovered from Turkish waters ten days after he went missing.
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Iran develops primitive flying bombs for Israeli cities, nearby US targets
- August 29, 2010
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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 II. Even so, mass-produced with extended range, large swarms of these flying bombs could cause death and destruction if released over densely populated Israeli areas and US military targets.
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US to sell Israel massive military fuel stocks worth $2 bn
- August 28, 2010
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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 into its armed forces." debkafile notes the date: Ten days after a Japanese supertanker tanker carrying 200,000 tons of oil was attacked heading out of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Rival Iranian spy factions shoot it out on Tehran's streets
- August 27, 2010
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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 politicians of betraying nuclear secrets to the West, while the MOIS sees disloyalty in the Ahmadinejad clique. The incident was blacked out by the regime. -
Israel Erred in Assuming its Inaction on Bushehr Would Buy US Backing against the Palestinians
- August 26, 2010
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Netanyahu accuses Obama of reneging another set of understandings – both on Iran and on the talks with the Palestinians, raising suspicions in Washington that Israel plans to attack Iran.
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Tehran Threatens a Regional War If Guards Officers Are Indicted
- August 26, 2010
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The Hariri probe which started by fingering Syria and moved to Hizballah now homes in on Iranian Revolutionary Guards chiefs.