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Iran to send aid ship to Gaz_
War tensions rise as Pakistan moves troops to Indian border, cancels army leaves
DEBKAfile Special Report

December 26, 2008, 8:39 PM (GMT+02:00)


Indian Air force marks 5,000 terror targets
DEBKAfile's military sources report some 20,000 troops of Pakistan's 14th Division are said to have been diverted from the Waziristan border region with Afghanistan to the Line of Control in Kashmir and the international border with India. This is a loss of one-fifth of the total Pakistani force fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Border tensions shot up Friday, Dec. 26, exactly one month after Islamist Lashkar e-Taibe terrorists struck the Indian town of Mumbai.
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An Iranian aid ship due to dock in Gaza in 12 days
DEBKAfile Special Report

December 26, 2008, 7:03 PM (GMT+02:00)

Iran's Red Crescent will send an aid shipment to the Gaza strip "in the face of the Israeli blockade," according to a state broadcast Friday. The cargo of 2,000 tonnes of food and medicines accompanied by 12 Iranian doctors will sail from Bandar Abbas, HQ of the Revolutionary Guards Navy, and arrive Tuesday, Jan. 6.

Announcement of the shipment was made by the Bandar Abbas provincial Red Crescent director Ahmad Navvab, in order to deter the Israeli navy from interfering with or seizing the vessel.
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Lebanese sappers defuse 13 rockets pointing at N. Israeli cities

December 26, 2008, 12:25 AM (GMT+02:00)


RAAD Katyusha rocket pointing at Nahariya
The rockets were disarmed shortly before their timing devices would have launched them against Nahariya and Maalot.

Israeli military sources are certain that Hizballah handed the rockets to Hamas terrorists at the Ain Hilwa camp in south Lebanon and guided them to the exact launching site for hitting the two Israeli towns. Their point was to demonstrate that Hamas could hit Israel with rockets not just from Gaza but also from a second front in Lebanon in the event of an Israeli military operation against Hamas.
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Tehran deflects Hamas SOS to threaten intervention against an Israeli attack
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

December 25, 2008, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00)


Hamas leader Khalad Meshaal gets runaround from Tehran
Hamas appealed to Tehran and Hizballah Thursday, Dec. 25, asking for Iran's support by threatening to intervene if Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip, DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report.

Tehran did not to reject the SOS out of hand but inform Hamas that Iran was awaiting developments and closely following Israel's military operation to see how it evolved.

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert strongly urged Gazan Palestinians to stand up to Hamas and stop them shooting missiles to ward warding off an Israeli military operation.
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Gaza clash impending – Israel air strikes versus Palestinian long-range missiles
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

December 24, 2008, 8:58 AM (GMT+02:00)


Israeli Air Force prepares for action
The fifty or so missiles and rockets Hamas sent crashing into Israel Wednesday, Dec. 24, along with dozens of mortar rounds, represent no more than a quarter of its capabilities, DEBKAfile's military sources report. They calculate that the fundamentalist Palestinian group can shoot 200 missiles a day with devastating consequences.

The Israeli cabinet took into account that Hamas would counter effective Israeli air strikes by fielding its long-range missiles against Ashdod and Beersheba.
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TOP STORIES
•Pakistan-Indian war tensions shoot up
•An Iranian aid ship due to dock in Gaza in 12 days
•Lebanese sappers defuse 13 rockets pointing at N. Israeli cities
•Tehran deflects Hamas SOS for intervention against Israel
•Iran drastically modifies its nuclear weaponization strategy
•Turkey joins the Middle East nuclear arms race
•Gaza clash impending – Israel air strikes versus Palestinian long-range missiles
•US: Russia's S-300 missiles to Iran - Israel's decision point

Turkey joins the Middle East nuclear arms race
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive

December 25, 2008, 10:32 PM (GMT+02:00)

This is revealed for the first time by DEBKA-Net-Weekly.

Instead of condemning Iran with the West, the Turks are saying: If Tehran can do it, so can Ankara.

Read all about this epic development in our latest issue out this Friday.

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Iran drastically modifies its nuclear weaponization strategy
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report

December 25, 2008, 10:32 PM (GMT+02:00)

In the coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly, you can read for the first time about a new decision by Islamic republic rulers to rethink the tempo of their nuclear armament program in the light of the Obama administration's promised engagement policy. Tehran homed in on the Obama-Clinton plan to appoint a senior Iranian outreach coordinator.

Don't miss this and many more exclusive revelations in the next issue of DNW 277 out Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.

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Washington asks Israel to clarify first sale of spy drones to Russia
DEBKAfile Special Report

December 25, 2008, 10:33 PM (GMT+02:00)


Heron 2 spy drone
The Russian Kommersant reported Tuesday, Dec. 16 that Gen. Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russia's armed forces, visited Israel in November for talks on the purchase of a first batch of the unmanned reconnaissance drones which Georgia used successfully in its conflict with Russia last August.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that the sale, if finally approved by the defense ministry in Tel Aviv, would be Israel's first advanced hardware sale to Russia.
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US: Russia's S-300 missile sale to Iran marks Israel's decision point
DEBKAfile Special Report

December 23, 2008, 12:05 AM (GMT+02:00)


Russian SA-300 long-range anti-air missile in action
An American military intelligence official says Russia's sale of S-300 long-range missiles to Iran presents a "decision point for Israel, since once the anti-aircraft system is in place it could deter any strike" against Iran's nuclear sites.

DEBKAfile's military sources point to the confusion contrived by Moscow about the state of the consignment. Nonetheless, an American source said Tuesday: "The US believes it is taking place."

For DEBKAfile article of Dec. 18, first disclosing that the transaction had gone through, click HERE
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US-Russian race to arm Lebanon with heavy weapons
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

December 20, 2008


First 10 Cobras reach Lebanon
The United States and Russia are bidding hard against each other to give the Lebanese army heavy weapons, a contest which Israeli diplomacy has failed to deter, DEBKAfile's military sources report.

Defense ministry official Amos Gilead arrived in Moscow Friday, Dec. 19 only to watch his train leaving the station: Sophisticated Russian S-300 air defense systems were already speeding toward Tehran to guard its nuclear sites and MiG-29 fighter jets had been pledged to Lebanon.

In Washington, too, Israeli diplomats pleaded in vain with Bush administration leaders to refrain from giving Lebanon tanks and a fleet of combat helicopters. Ten Cobras have led the way. They argued that there are no safeguards against American hardware falling into the hands of the Lebanese terrorist Hizballah, whose leaders vowed again Friday to destroy the Jewish state by launching a regional conflagration.

The spillover has a precedent: In the Israel-Hizballah war of 2006, the Lebanese army, then only...
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Without a Shadow Cabinet and Clear Policies, Likud leader May Lose February election
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

December 8, 2008


Binyamin Netanyahu must level with the voter if he wants to be prime minister
The Israeli voter will want to know the name of the defense, finance and foreign ministers in Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu's shadow cabinet well before general election date of Feb. 10, 2009. He – and she – are desperate for a fresh, credible team capable of addressing its deep concerns about a nuclear-armed Iran, a missile-battered southwest and an impending economic recession. Netanyahu will have to take this into account. He will have to roll up his sleeves as soon as soon as the list of candidates is chosen by the 99,000 registered Likud voters on Dec. 8 and set about building an alternative transition team.

This is a matter of top urgency for the following reasons:

1. Prime minister Ehud Olmert's coalition cabinet is in an advanced state of decomposition. For months, its dominant figures - Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak, foreign minister Tzipi Livni and finance minister Ronnie Bar-On - have been incapable of reaching decisions on one vital issue after another. They are...
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US forecasts: Iran will have makings of 3 A-bombs by end of 2009
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

December 8, 2008


Sejil: Iran's newest test-fired ballistic missile
The most up-to-date intelligence predictions of US nuclear experts is that by the end of 2009, Iran will have stocked enough weapons-grade fuel to build three nuclear bombs.

The first will be ready for assembly by the time Barack Obama is sworn in as US president on January 20, 2009; the second shortly after Israel’s February 10, 2009 general election produces a new prime minister, and the third by the end of the year.

Iran may deny the latest IAEA conclusion that it has stockpiled 630 kg of low-enriched uranium, enough to upgrade a nuclear weapon. But Tehran’s limited on-and-off cooperation with the nuclear watchdog leaves it wide open to the suspicion of a secret location churning out enriched uranium far from the declared Natanz facility.

So what happened to the pledges made by the world powers over the years to keep nuclear weapons out of the Islamic Republic’s hands, including declarations by US and Israeli leaders that their military options remained “on the table?”

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Has Livni buried the two-state solution of Israel-Palestinian dispute?
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

December 13, 2008


Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni
Foreign minister and aspiring prime minister Tzipi Livni used an apparent paradox to bury the two-state solution. In a speech she gave to high school pupils Thursday, Dec. 11, she said: "The place for Israeli Arabs to exercise their national aspirations is a future Palestinian state - not Israel, which is the Jewish national home." Livni's next comment: "No single Palestinian refugee will be admitted to Israel" was a roundabout message in the same vein to the Israeli Arab minority (a steady one-fifth of the population).

She clarified this later by saying that while Israeli Arabs would not be forced to leave or lose their civil rights, "those who wished to realize their national aspirations should look elsewhere," namely to a Palestinian state when it rises.

But what Palestine was she talking about? For now and in the foreseeable future, there are two – one ruled by Hamas in Gaza and one by Fatah on the West Bank, as the foreign minister knows very well.

America and European...
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Ehud Barak Holds IDF on Leash against Hamas Missiles, Hizballah Rockets
DEBKAfile Special Analysis

November 24, 2008


Israel defense minister holds chief of staff in check
“To all the warmongers among you I say I am not minister of war but minister of defense.”

This emotional statement was delivered by Ehud Barak Monday, Nov. 24, to his many critics at a briefing session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. He went on to lambast Iran for its energetic pursuit of its nuclear program while deceiving the world. Israel does not rule out any option against a nuclear-armed Iran, he said, “but the less said about this better.”

DEBKAfile’s military sources suggest that Barak take his own advice. While never short of words and promises, his performance in deeds is seriously wanting.

Minutes after he spoke, the Society for Recording Terror-Induced Trauma Cases published figures which should have made him rethink his positions: 55% of Sderot’s citizens had witnessed Qassam missile blasts; 28.4% were made dysfunctional by post-traumatic effects; while 33.6% of the town’s schoolchildren aged 13-18 suffered from severe learning disabilities. ...
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Iran Challenges Obama by Hiking Tensions on Israel’s Borders
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

November 24, 2008


Israeli tanks in Gaza
The strategy the Islamic regime has charted for the new US president hinges on fanning tensions on Israel’s northern and southern borders while putting a damper on the various Middle East peace initiatives. Syria was therefore discouraged from returning to its indirect peace track with Israel and Hamas ordered to boycott Egypt’s bid to patch up the quarrel between the Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.

Tehran’s object is to show Barack Obama who holds the whip hand in the Middle East and force him to seek urgent talks to defuse rising tensions.

At his first news conference as president elect, Obama said Friday, Nov. 7, that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was “unacceptable” and its support for terrorist organizations “must cease.” He ducked a reporter’s question about whether he had read the letter of congratulation sent him by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and when he would answer.

But Iran had already laid out its strategy for the incoming president, jumping in the day before the US...
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If the situation was truly dire, five-fifths of the Pakistani force would be moved to the Indian border.

Instead all we have is grandstanding, posturing, and blustering. It's just a show for domestic consumption.

Debka? What a laugh

you dont need troops if you have nuclear weapons..

Nuclear weapon is also the best shield. The enemy will be afraid to strike a country which houses a nuclear bomb.

at least im giving you people some information..not posting threads like i cant shit and the turd is hanging from my ass what should i do??

i really like this website..but sometimes its nothing but a dear abbey forum..wtf is wrong with some of you people??..

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