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Iranian Basijj plots UK embassy seizure
- January 30, 2010
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<p> <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Iranian sources report that the Basijj militia chiefs have a plan to seize the British embassy in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tehran</st1:city></st1:place>. Western intelligence agencies monitoring <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> have warned <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> that radical groups are secretly preparing to overrun the British embassy buildings and living quarters and take the diplomats hostage, replicating the siege of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> embassy in 1979, when extremist students held the staff hostage for 444 days. Those students were the early nucleus of the radical Revolutionary Guards Corps.<br /> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region> maintains two embassy compounds in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tehran</st1:place></st1:city> – one …
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Iranian Basijj plots UK embassy seizure
- January 30, 2010
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<p> <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Iranian sources report that the Basijj militia chiefs have a plan to seize the British embassy in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tehran</st1:city></st1:place>. Western intelligence agencies monitoring <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> have warned <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> that radical groups are secretly preparing to overrun the British embassy buildings and living quarters and take the diplomats hostage, replicating the siege of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> embassy in 1979, when extremist students held the staff hostage for 444 days. Those students were the early nucleus of the radical Revolutionary Guards Corps.<br /> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region> maintains two embassy compounds in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tehran</st1:place></st1:city> – one …
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Hamas hedges on Israel's blame for death of kidnapper of two soldiers in 1989
- January 29, 2010
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<p> Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, founder of the Hamas' Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades, died in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 20 and his body reached Damascus on Jan. 28, according to a statement from Izzat Rishq at Hamas headquarters in the Syrian capital early Friday, Jan. 29. He accused <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place> of his assassination without specifying its circumstances; later, Hamas released another statement indicating that he died in suspicious circumstances which are being investigated. <br /> Before that, on Jan 19, the movement reported that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had just died of a severe bone ailment the day after he arrived in …
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CIA chief Panetta in Cairo and Israel for secret talks on Yemen
- January 29, 2010
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<p> The director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, paid secret visits to <st1:city w:st="on">Cairo</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city> Thursday, Jan. 28, to prepare the ground for expanding US military intervention in Yemen against al Qaeda strongholds, thereby opening a fresh front in the war on Islamist terror organization.<br /> In <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cairo</st1:city></st1:place>, he met Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, defense minister Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi and intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman. They discussed an Egyptian expeditionary force for <st1:country-region w:st="on">Yemen</st1:country-region> to fight al Qaeda combatants alongside <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> special forces. Panetta requested for the use of Egyptian military …
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending Jan 28, 2010
- January 28, 2010
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<p> <span style="color:#b22222;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><strong><a name="OLE_LINK43"></a><a name="OLE_LINK33">January 21, 2010 Briefs</a></strong></span></span></p> <p> <o:p></o:p></p> <p> <o:p><span style="color:#b22222;"> </span></o:p></p> <ul> <li> Netanyahu: <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> is stopping infiltration by work seekers as growing numbers raise domestic jobless figures and affect demographic balance.<o:p></o:p></li> <li> Obama admits he overestimated his administration's ability to persuade <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> and Palestinians to resume peace talks.<o:p></o:p></li> <li> Both proved unwilling to make bold gestures for moving the process forward. </li> </ul> <p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34); "><strong>Partial Syrian reserve call-up sparks border tension with Israel</strong></span></p> <p> <o:p></o:p></p> <p> <o:p> </o:p></p> <p> <strong>22 Jan</strong>. Friday, <st1:city w:st="on">Damascus</st1:city> ordered a Level 4 …