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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.