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Israel's borders undefended as Turkey backs new-old threats
- July 20, 2010
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Turkey's foreign minister Ahmed Dagutoglu met secretly in Damascus with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal Monday, July 19, as well as getting together with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al Hariri, to synchronize their operations against Israel.
In Israel, the successful tests conducted by the home-made Iron Dome defense system against short- and medium-range missiles won a showy press – even though it will not be ready for Hamas and Hizballah rockets for many months.
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Israeli generals win US high-tech ballistic missile tracking system
- July 18, 2010
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A ballistic missile fired at Israeli from any spot in the Middle East, be it Iran, Syria or South Lebanon, can now be tracked from launch by top Israeli commanders by means of the Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense System (ALTBMD) developed to protect NATO forces against missile threat and provided Israel by the United States.
For the first time, Israel's war commanders will be forewarned of an approaching ballistic missile, its estimated launch point and impact target.
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The missing Iranian nuclear scientist who keeps on turning up
- July 17, 2010
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The riddle of Iranian nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri, who disappeared in June 2009 while on a pilgrimage to Mecca, was never solved – even when he turned up in Washington and flew home to Tehran on July 14. The glimpses into his story DEBKA-Net-Weekly provided Friday in its latest issue fit a Cold War espionage scenario much more closely than this week's US-Russian spy swap in Vienna, because it brought the undercover war between the American CIA and the Iranian MOIS to a new climax.
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Syria massacres Kurds aided by Turkey's Israel-made drones
- July 17, 2010
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Syrian troops are locked in battle with Kurdish fighters since Assad's army blasted four northeastern Syrian Kurdish towns in late June, debkafile's exclusive sources report. Hundreds of Kurds are reported dead. The Syrian forces are backed by Heron spy drones Israel sold Turkey, which becomes the first NATO member to share advanced western military technology with a state that sponsors terror. In intense exchanges with Washington, Israel asks NATO command to take this up with Ankara.
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending July 15, 2010
- July 15, 2010
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A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending July 15, 2010