http://www.debka.com/ DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security en Copyright 2000-2007 DEBKAfile Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:05 +0300 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:05 +0300 webmaster@debka.com (Debka.com Webmaster) http://www.debka.com/images/logo.gif http://www.debka.com/ <p>Syrian Social Nationalist Party’s units entered Beirut to support Hizballah’s advancing occupation of Sunni West Beirut districts.</p><p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s Middle East sources report that Thursday night, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman refused to obey prime minister Fouad Siniora’s order to declare a state of emergency for the crisis created by Hizballah’s declaration of war against the government. The general warned that if the government enacted an emergency, he would order the troops to return to barracks. </p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5252 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:49:05 +0300 <p>Two spectators and a paratrooper were seriously injured when he was swept off course by a gusting wind and landed at the edge of a crowd watching a free fall- aerobatic spectacle over Tel Aviv beach. Five more spectators suffered minor injuries.</p><p>Across the country, during the day, after a night of fireworks and free entertainment in town centers, Israelis were out on family picnics in national parks and nature spots and visited open military installations and historical sites, museums and galleries.</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5250 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:40:03 +0300 <p>Thursday night, May 8 the court gag order imposed on the police investigation against the prime minister was partially lifted. Olmert immediately denied the charge published against him of bribe-taking, admitted only accepting political campaign funds which never reached his pocket and said he would only resign if indicted.</p><p>The charge against him is of receiving from an outside party or parties hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes over a period spanning his terms as mayor of Jerusalem and minister of trade and industry between 1999 and 2005. </p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5251 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:40:03 +0300 <p>President George W. Bush accused Syria of “supporting terrorism…pursuing weapons of mass destruction and missile programs including the recent revelation of illicit nuclear cooperation with North Korea.” He said Syria was also undermining US and international efforts with respect to the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq.” Syria’s actions were held to be “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States.”</p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5249 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:20:03 +0300 <p>Gunfire and explosions filled the streets of Beirut Wednesday, May 7 in violent confrontations between pro-Western Siniora government and Iran-Syria-backed Hizballah forces. <b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s sources report both have ordered a general call-up of their adherents. </p><p>During the day, Hizballah blocked the roads leading to the airport nd vowed to keep it under siege until the Siniora government goes back on the decision announced Tuesday, May 6, to shut down the private telecommunications network Iran installed for the group and reinstate the pro-Hizballah airport director Gen. Wafiq Shuqeir.</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5248 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:40:03 +0300 <p>Our next issue offers an exclusive account of Tehran’s military preparations for an American military strike - coupled with Hizballah’s preparedness to hit Israel</p><p>Don’t miss this and more information-packed revelations in the next <b>DEBKA-Net-Weekly</b> issue out Friday.</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=5246 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:41:40 +0300 <p>Former American UN ambassador John Bolton said that while a hostile Iranian response harming US interests existed, the damaged inflicted by Tehran would be far higher if Washington took no action. He was quoted by the UK Telegraph as urging therefore that Washington order air strikes against the Revolutionary Guards Corps camps training Iraqi insurgents.</p><p>A US spokesman last week confirmed <b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s earlier disclosure that the IRGC’s al Qods Brigades had drafted Hizballah personnel to support Iraq’s Shiite militias and train them at facilities in Iran. </p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5247 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:41:11 +0300 <p>A joint Israeli military-border police raid of the northern Jerusalem Palestinian district turned up a large secret weapons cache Monday, May 5. Seven men were arrested on suspicion of engaging in terrorism and arms trafficking. <b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s military sources report this was Israel’s first large-scale counter-terror operation in the Jerusalem municipal area.</p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5241 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:40:25 +0300 <p><b><b>DEBKA-Net-Weekly</b> 347</b> 2 first disclosed May 2 that Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, America’s staunchest ally in the royal house, Minister of Defense and head of the Sudairi branch of princes, is dying of cancer at his villa in Geneva, Switzerland. </p><p>His brother, interior minister Prince Nayef, is standing by in Riyadh expecting to succeed him. And he will not have too long to wait before he reaches the throne. King Abdullah, at 85, is praised by Western analysts for the wise reforms he has introduced but some of the younger princes say he is no longer up to coping with his royal duties. </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><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5238 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:41:27 +0300