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DEBKAfile
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April 21, 2009, 10:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Addressing US marines, Wednesday, April 16, US defense secretary Robert Gates said: "A strike probably would delay Tehran's nuclear program one to three years, it would unify Iranians, cement their determination to have a nuclear program and also build into the whole country an undying hatred of whoever hits them."
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April 21, 2009, 10:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly's latest issue examines how Barack Obama plays his key functionaries on this vital chessboard. How smooth is the cooperation between the White House, secretary of state Hillary Clinton and presidential envoys, Richard Holbrook for AfPak and George Mitchell for the Middle East?
This revealing D.C. close-up appeared in the ... 
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April 15, 2009, 2:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
For most of the past decade, Washington and successive Israeli governments have shunted over to "the international community" and "diplomatic engagement" Iran's hell-bent race for nuclear armament and the missiles for its delivery. New administrations have just taken over in the United States and Israel - but nothing has changed.
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April 13, 2009, 10:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Barack Obama's assurance that the US is not at war with Islam provided cold comfort in Riyadh and Cairo, where his drastic policy shift of detente with Tehran, first revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly last month, is causing jitters. According to debkafile's Middle East sources, Abdullah took the ...
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April 12, 2009, 9:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
The New York Police Department has put together a response plan that includes deploying extra officers, including heavily armed Hercules Teams, at synagogues, Jewish community centers and Israel diplomatic offices, out of concern that Muslim extremists might retaliate if Israel should attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said: More ...
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April 12, 2009, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
Washington and Tehran are accelerating the tempo of their exchanges, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reports. Keeping pace is Barack Obama's search for a fast military exit from Afghanistan.
In its latest issue, out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly continued to uncover exclusive details of this twin pricess. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click More... 
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April 12, 2009, 9:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
A North Korean long-range rocket lifted off from its coastal Musudan-ri launch pad early Sunday, March 5. Flying over Japan it appears to have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. When it came to the crunch, no one tried to intercept the North Korean rocket.
This was a serious setback ... 
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April 11, 2009, 8:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Amid a global economic meltdown, high-ranking delegations from 75 countries met at Sharm e-Sheikh Monday, March 2, and approve $5.5 billion for rebuilding the Gaza Strip ravaged during Israel's 22-day anti-terror operation last month.
Hillary Clinton will announce at her debut Middle East appearance as secretary of state a $900 million ...
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April 10, 2009, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Addressing the Turkish parliament, Monday, April 6, US president Barack Obama said the world should not give in to pessimism in the pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians despite the challenges. "Let me be clear," he said: "The United states strongly supports the goal of two states..." He asserted ...
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April 8, 2009, 7:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration is still working on the shape of the lead-partnership role it hopes to assign Iran in resolving the Afghanistan-Pakistan crisis, debkafile's military and Washington sources disclose. But US and Iranian officers have made enough progress in their backdoor exchanges to give Israeli leaders sleepless nights. ...
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April 7, 2009, 10:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
Turkish prime minister Recip Tayyep Edrogan is leaning hard on the White House for US president Barack Obama to meet Syrian president Bashar Assad. Edrogan says this will dramatize the address Obama plans to deliver from Istanbul on April 7 extending America's hand of peace to Muslims worldwide. It will ...
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April 4, 2009, 1:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Washington and Jerusalem are bracing for a flareup on the Syrian and Lebanese borders with Israel as the international tribunal for prosecuting the Rafiq Hariri assassins prepares to start sittings next Sunday, March 1. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has engineered a delay in full court hearings by insisting on ...
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March 31, 2009, 1:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The additional "gestures" Barack Obama's spokesmen promised Iran would follow on the presidential new year message may presage a dramatic U-turn on Iran, including even an astonishing offer of US-Iranian military and diplomatic cooperation - that is if the Islamic Republic decides to play ball.
The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly out Friday ... 
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March 30, 2009, 9:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US president Barack Obama announced that his administration would pump 4,000 more troops and funds into Afghanistan because "the safety of people around the world is at stake."
Obama stressed al Qaeda was present in Pakistan and Afghanistan and preparing more attacks on the United States. 
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March 28, 2009, 10:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Asked if the rise of a Netanyahu government would make peacemaking more difficult, US president Barack Obama told a televised news conference Wednesday night, March 25: "It's not easier than it was, but I think it's just as necessary." He added: What we do know is that the status quo ...
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March 18, 2009, 4:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's sources in the US Minneapolis-St. Paul report that the disappearance of dozens of young US-born Somali men in this area since last fall is under investigation by anti-terror authorities concerned they have been recruited to fight with al Qaeda-linked Islamist al Shabaab to topple the transitional federal ...
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March 16, 2009, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
In testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, US intelligence chief Dennis Blair warned that it would be difficult to convince Iran to give up its quest for nuclear weapons by diplomatic means. By 2010, he estimated, Tehran would have enough fissile material for a weapon.
DEBKAfile
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March 16, 2009, 9:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Arab mini-summit springs from Barack Obama's first venture into Middle East diplomacy.
Bashar Assad has made certain anti-Iranian gestures to prove himself worthy of admission to the pro-Western club led by Saudi King Abdullah and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak,. But is he willing to go all the way and cut Syria's strategic ... 
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March 12, 2009, 11:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
On Feb. 20, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 385 disclosed that from late December, agents of Saudi intelligence chief Prince Mogrin Abdul Aziz paved the way for Richard Holbrooke's mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan as Barack Obama's special envoy.
This initiative also laid the groundwork for US president Barack Obama's hint at possible ... 
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March 7, 2009, 6:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
After the 75 high-ranking delegations, led by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, leave Sharm e-Sheikh Monday, March 2, the $5.5 bn they pledged to aid Gaza's reconstruction may be channeled through the Palestinian Authority, but it will eventually end up strengthening Hamas and paying Iran for arming the Palestinian ...
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