Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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Al Qaeda Could Easily Have Dipped into the Thriving Nuclear Black Market
- April 15, 2010
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The working papers put before the Nuclear Security Summit participants only covered the period up to 2005 – no current information. A very senior Western intelligence source says the nuclear black market has mushroomed to a scale that rivals the illicit movements of conventional arms and money.
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Has Washington Funded a New Al Qaeda Base in Somalia?
- April 15, 2010
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Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Salah Washington secretly diverted US funds for ending the Houthi war and fighting al Qaeda to jihadist leaders, hoping they would remove their bases from Yemen to Somalia. They've taken the money but not yet moved.
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Assad Is Modernizing Hizballah as His Defensive Shield for Damascus
- April 15, 2010
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The Syrian ruler Bashar Assad is afraid to strengthen his own armed forces lest they overthrow his regime in a coup d'etat. He is therefore building Hizballah up into a modern army as the shield for Damascus and his regime.
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New US Nuclear Policy Tipped over Beijing's Delicate Balancing Act
- April 15, 2010
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China will never countenance regional wars or any other upsets that destabilize the regimes governing its oil supplies – Iran, most of all. Beijing also relies on American leverage for keeping the Middle East stable. The US shift in nuclear policy caught China off-balance.
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After 2004, Al Qaida's WMD trail went cold
- April 15, 2010
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Al Qaeda could easily have acquired devices or materials in the last decade. But since 2004, there have been no real clues whether Osama Bin Laden acquired nuclear, biological or chemical weapons or intended using them in terrorist attacks.
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending April 15, 2010
- April 15, 2010
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A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending April 15, 2010
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American-Jewish leaders accuse Obama of abandoning Israeli security
- April 14, 2010
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Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress addresses an open letter to president Obama voicing the deep concern of Jews around the world – not only about the nuclear ambitions of an Iranian regime with genocidal intentions toward Israel, but the deterioration of US-Israeli relations and public feud.
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch writes: "I weep today because my president, Barack Obama has changed the relationship between the US and Israel. …our closest ally… has been demeaned and slandered." -
Why were 47 world leaders kept in the dark?
- April 14, 2010
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One reason why the Nuclear Security summiteers avoided the brass-tacks decisions for dealing with the threat of nuclear terrorism was that their working papers were only dated up to 2005 – nothing about the nuclear black market in the interim five years up until now.
The coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly out next Friday pinpoints illicit trading centers where nuclear materials and components are available to terrorists.To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly, click here.
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Scud missiles? Not yet across Syrian-Lebanese border
- April 14, 2010
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Syria has not actually handed Scud missiles, A or SS-1B, to the Hizballah in Lebanon – only positioned them on the border ready for transit – and taught two Hizballah brigades how to use them, debkafile's military sources report, refuting the flurry of press reports that these ground missiles are already in Lebanon.
Israel has warned Damascus via Washington that their crossover into Lebanon in violation of UN resolutions would spark military action on both sides of the Syrian-Lebanese border. -
Tehran: If Iran is attacked, nuclear devices will go off in American cities
- April 13, 2010
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This warning, along with an announcement that Iran would join the world's nuclear club within a month, struck at the heart of President Barack Obama's Nuclear Security Summit which opened Tuesday, April 13. The statement run by the Iranian publication Kayhan said: "If the US strikes Iran with nuclear weapons, there are elements which will respond with nuclear blasts in the centers of America's main cities."
debkafile: It was the first time Tehran had threatened America with nuclear terror.