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November 16, 2009, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
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November 16, 2009, 6:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama focused on the single subject of Iran when they met in Washington Monday, Nov. 9 - as did Netanyahu and French president Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 11. Iran also occupied the meeting between defense minster Ehud Barak and US defense ...
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November 14, 2009, 9:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
As pressure builds on the Obama administration to break its silence on the Nov. 5 shootings at the Ford Hood base, Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent who heads the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, announced he was launching a congressional investigation to find out whether the attack was preventable.
If the news ... 
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November 13, 2009, 2:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Speculation is rife in the US media about whether Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan's massacre of 13 servicemen at America's biggest army base, Fort Hood in Texas Thursday, Nov. 5 was motivated by terrorist ideology.
US officials are tightlipped on the question. Witnesses among the two score injured reported that while ... 
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November 7, 2009, 2:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's US intelligence sources report indications of impending war preparations against Iran after Tehran's rejections of the UN-brokered proposal to ship its enriched uranium overseas for further enrichment. These sources reveal that the administration is seeking congressional authorization to open America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR. Furthermore, the US-Israeli ...
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November 2, 2009, 7:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
By a voice vote, the House foreign affairs committee approved legislation Wednesday, Oct. 28 imposing sanctions on Iran's main gasoline suppliers, including British, French, Swiss and Indian firms.
debkafile adds: Tehran was thereby put on notice of unilateral US sanctions should it reject, quibble or procrastinate over the ... 
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November 2, 2009, 7:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US president's national security adviser James Jones said early Wednesday, Oct. 28: The United States will be ready to respond if Iran fails to take tangible steps soon to meet its commitments over its nuclear program. "Nothing is off the table," he warned. Jones delivered the keynote address as ...
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November 1, 2009, 7:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Los Angeles police placed the city's Jewish schools and synagogues on high alert Oct. 29. A 17-year old African-American man was released after being detained on suspicion of shooting two people in the North Hollywood Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue during the morning prayer Thursday. Police are hunting the gunman. ...
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October 30, 2009, 8:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
Eight American soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were killed in several roadside bombs in South Afghanistan Tuesday, Oct. 27, the day after 14 Americans died in helicopter crashes. With the deaths of two US troops Sunday, a total of 24 Americans, most of them military, have died in a 48-hour ...
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October 24, 2009, 8:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US and Israel launched Operation Juniper Cobra 10, the biggest missile defense exercise of their regular biennial drills, on Wednesday Oct. 21. Taking part in the two-week drill are 1,000 military personnel on each side. According to US military sources, the exercise which simulates the advanced capabilities of shared ...
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October 23, 2009, 5:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US justice department announced Wednesday, Oct. 21, the arrest of Tareq Mahanneh, 27, a resident of Massachusetts, on charges of conspiracy to commit terror attacks against US targets at home and abroad. He and fellow conspirators are suspected of planning to assassinate two members of a former US administration ...
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October 17, 2009, 4:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
A deceptive impression has been gained from the rash of FBI (preventive) arrests in recent weeks that a home-grown network of Islamist terrorists is raising its head to strike in the US, like the one which has taken shape in Britain.
However, in America, the cases were all in different ...
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October 13, 2009, 7:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Under cover of the Geneva encounter with Iran, US president Barack Obama has enlisted Russia, France and Israel for launching an ambitious new initiative designed to isolate Iran, deter Israel from a military strike and turn the big power order in the Middle East on its head.
Our latest issue out ... 
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October 13, 2009, 9:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama praised the efforts of the organizations represented by the National Counterterrorism Center which he visited Tuesday, Oct. 6, crediting them with al Qaeda's "lost operational capacity" and disappearing "legitimacy and credibility."
In its issue of Sept 25, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 415 offered a fuller and more accurate ...
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October 8, 2009, 9:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint US chiefs of staff, French chief of staff Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin and Israel's armed forces chief, Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi met secretly in Normandy, northern France Sunday, Oct. 4.
The three army leaders met to review the new military conditions emerging in the ... 
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October 7, 2009, 11:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bombs (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. debkafile's military sources report that top defense agencies and air force units are also working ...
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October 4, 2009, 2:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Barack Obama administered a cold shower to the Iranian delegate Saeed Jalili and European official Javier Solana, who earlier in day at the end of the six-power meeting with Iran in Geneva, smilingly announced a second round of talks would take place within weeks.
Obama's first condition for more talks ... 
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October 3, 2009, 3:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The latest paroxysm of Yemen's five-year war with the rebel Houthis has left more than 2,000 dead in less than a month and up to 150,000 homeless. Yemeni government troops are battling around 15,000 Iranian-armed and trained Houthi rebels dug into the northern Sadaa mountains on the Saudi Arabian border. ...
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September 28, 2009, 6:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
No organized terror network scale appears to have sprung up in America although the latest arrests appear to suggest that the country's transport systems and high-rise buildings are in danger.
The case of Najibullah Zazi, 24, the Afghan-born shuttle van driver, was the most serious. In other cases, unrelated to ... 
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September 26, 2009, 9:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Although US president Barack Obama managed to corral Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas into one room at the Waldorf Astoria New York Tuesday, Sept. 22, it was a cold, formal occasion, which in no way hauled the Middle East peace process out of its deep stalemate.
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