Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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Pirates or rogue Iranian Guards suspected in Hormuz tanker blast
- July 29, 2010
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The Japanese supertanker M. STAR was damaged in an attack near the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, July 28. One lifeboat was blown off the ship and a large dent made in its hull.
debkafile: Most unusually, US Navy and Iranian officials agreed that the the damage to the tanker, the first attacked in the strategic straits, was caused by an explosion by an unknown hand and must be contained before it gets out of control. -
Bodies of six Israeli airmen and Romanian captain found at helicopter crash site
- July 28, 2010
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Romanian and Israeli search and rescue teams Tuesday recovered seven bodies from the wreckage of the Israeli Air Force CH-53 Yasur transport which crashed Monday afternoon, July 26, in the high Carpathian Mountains of central Romania. The helicopter came down Monday afternoon during a joint Israeli-Romanian Blue Sky 2010 military drill. Six Israeli Air Force servicemen and one Romanian Air Force captain were aboard the craft.
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Ahmadinejad: US and Israel plot wars within three months
- July 27, 2010
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debkafile's Iranian sources quote President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying: "We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot, according to which they seek to launch a psychological war on Iran. They plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months," he said, without specifying which countries were the subjects of the alleged conspiracy, only hinting that Israel was directly involved.
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Hizballah raises Mideast tension to sabotage four Arab rulers' Beirut visit Friday
- July 26, 2010
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Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri Monday, July 26, consigned another 1,500 troops to the country's southern border. debkafile: Their mission is not just to guard French peacekeepers, but to fend off a Hizballah provocation of Israel to disrupt the landmark visits led by Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian president Bashar Assad to Beirut Friday. Nasrallah says he will blow up any bid to weaken Syrian-Hizballah ties.
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Ex-CIA chief Hayden: Military action against Iran "seems inexorable"
- July 25, 2010
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Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden said Sunday, July 25, that during his tenure (under President George W. Bush), a strike was "way down the list" of options. But now it "seems inexorable" because no matter what the US does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.
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Hizballah saber-rattling over its expected indictment in Hariri murder
- July 25, 2010
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Hizballah's leader Hassan Nasrallah used threats of violence to toss back the bomb placed under his movement by word that the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon intends to indict high Hizballah security officials for the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
debkafile's military sources report that the tribunal's investigators have linked eight of the 20 cell phones found at the scene of the murder to Hizballah's special security and intelligence apparatus and senior commanders.
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More Israeli appeasement of Turkey begets four flotilla probes
- July 24, 2010
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The decision to send back the four flotilla boats used by the Turkish IHH terrorist sponsors of Hamas, was Israel's fourth gesture of abject appeasement in a week to Ankara, despite its policy of undisguised hostility towards the Jewish state, debkafile's military sources report.
Notwithstanding all the evidence to the contrary, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers appear determined to keep their heads stuck in the sand and delude themselves that appeasement will restore the rosy ties of yore.
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending July 22, 2010
- July 22, 2010
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A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending July 22, 2010
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Erdogan Charges Traitorous Military Chiefs with Sabotaging Kurdish War
- July 22, 2010
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The Turkish prime minister is going to extreme lengths to blacken his military commanders, such as plotting to overthrow his regime and sabotaging the war against Kurdish rebels, reaching as high as the chief in staff.
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Iranian Intelligence Rides High on Amiri Case
- July 22, 2010
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The CIA has launched an internal inquiry to find out how they fell into the Iranian intelligence net and decide how to restore its credibility against a flood of Iranian "revelations."