http://www.debka.com/ DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security en Copyright 2000-2007 DEBKAfile Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:21:40 +0200 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:21:40 +0200 webmaster@debka.com (Debka.com Webmaster) http://www.debka.com/images/logo.gif http://www.debka.com/ <p>The three were hurt by flying stones between Jewish and Arab youths in the northern Israeli town of Acre Saturday night, Oct. 11. A third Arab apartment was torched after the occupants were safely evacuated. Mayor Lankry accused the police of being too soft in handling the violence in the town. </p><p></p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5641 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:21:40 +0200 <p>The G7 finance ministers and heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank started their meeting in Washington Friday night, Oct. 10. Euro zone countries meet with the IMF in Paris Sunday. They are desperately fighting the climate of fear hanging over the sellers-only markets worldwide, and must produce a plan to revive investors’ trust in the West’s financial system and government. The plan essentially entails partial government takeovers of crippled banks to restore the flow of credit. </p><p>Can this plan work after seven black days, in which the global stampede wiped $4.5 trillion off the value of shares world wide and threatens to dump the world into the worst slump in living memory? </p><p>Read <b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s Special Analysis below</p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5642 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:20:03 +0200 <p>Asked if Russia had promised Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert not to deliver S-300 systems to Iran, the foreign ministry spokesman in Moscow said Thursday, Oct. 9: "We have already repeatedly stated at the very highest political levels that we do not intend to deliver those types of arms to countries which are located in troubled regions." He carefully avoided mentioning Iran or Syria.</p><p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b> reported earlier: Russian military experts calculate that the window for an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities will shrink to 3-6 months if Moscow sells Iran (and Syria) the sophisticated S-300 system.</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5635 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:20:03 +0200 <p>After Syria moved tank units up to the Lebanese Beqaa Valley border Tuesday, Oct. 7, Israel raised the alert level on its borders with Syria and Lebanon and placed its Air Force and emergency first aid teams on standby in the event of Syrian or/and Hizballah attacks. Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions worldwide are also on high terror alert. Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said recently that his promised retaliation for the death of Imad Mughniyeh “is coming.”</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5638 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:20:03 +0200 <p>The melee erupted between Syrian special forces and suicide fighters of the Palestinian radical Fatah al-Islam in the Yarmoukh refugee camp in South Damascus. According to <b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s counter-terror sources, it was prompted by the arrest in Syria some weeks ago of the Palestinian group’s leader Shaker al Abassi, who is associated with al Qaeda in Iraq.</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5640 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:10:03 +0200 <p>On Oct. 3, <b><b>DEBKA-Net-Weekly</b> 367</b> reported that the capture of the Ukrainian arms vessel, Faina, had placed Somali piracy at the center of the war on terror. On Oct. 9, sixteen days after the Faina’s capture, NATO defense ministers meeting in Budapest finally agreed to send warships “soon” to Somali waters to safeguard vessels threatened by pirates.</p><p>The <b>DEBKA-Net-Weekly</b> exclusive is summarized now. </p><p> <b>To subscribe to <b>DEBKA-Net-Weekly</b> click <i><a href="http://www.debka-net-weekly.com?ref=001" target="_blank">HERE</a></i> </b> .</p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5639 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:20:03 +0200 <p>Tehran first identified the plane as an American Falcon which had mistakenly strayed into Iranian airspace and was forced down Monday, Oct. 6. In that report, the eight US officials aboard, including 5 senior military officials, were interrogated overnight and released after 24 hours. </p><p>Later, Tehran produced three different versions of the incident.</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5637 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:10:03 +0200