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Al Qaeda-linked jihadis based in US plotted overseas ops

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exlcusive

November 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)

As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago.

More about this tale of terror and suspense in the latest issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly out next Friday.

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Obama's Iran sanctions strategy is routed by Chinese, Russian rebuffs

DEBKAfile Special Report

November 18, 2009, 6:09 PM (GMT+02:00)

Obama runs slap into Great Wall of Chinese no

Chinese president Hu Jintao said clearly after meeting US president Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday, Nov. 17, that their governments disagree on tougher sanctions for Iran - or any other issue relating to the Islamic republic. In Moscow, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it was too soon to talk about stepping up sanctions on Iran, if at all.
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Controlled US-Israel discord on Jerusalem amid broader strategic understandings

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

November 18, 2009, 4:25 PM (GMT+02:00)

Dubbed the Super Arrow

The broad strategic understandings sealed by US president Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at their recent White House talks are not to the liking of some their opponents at home, DEBKAfile's Washington sources report. While disagreeing on construction in Jerusalem, they decided to cooperate on the looming nuclear threat from Tehran and to a high degree on the Palestinian question.

The US will continue to invest in the Arrow 3 missile interceptor.
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Obama sends Bill Clinton to stop unilateral Palestinian state

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

November 18, 2009, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00)

From Kosovo to Ramallah with opposite missions

Mahmoud Abbas has been warned by the Obama administration to give up his plan for a unilateral declaration of the Islamic Republic of Palestinian within 1967 or 1949 borders with Jerusalem is capital. But DEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report he is forging ahead. His resignation stunt and obstruction of peace talks by demanding that Israel halt settlement activity first were drummed up to camouflage this plan.

Due in Ramallah Sunday, Nov. 15, on a mission to deter Abbas is a covey of US presidential emissaries led by former president Bill Clinton.

More details about Abbas' "Kosovo initiative" in the Special Report below.
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What exactly did Obama and Netanyahu discuss?

DEBKA-Net-Weekly

November 16, 2009, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)

And why the deep mystery? DEBKA-Net-Weekly's latest issue out Friday was the first publication to reveal the content of the one-on-one Oval Office conversation they held on Nov. 9.

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Obama Enlists Both Clintons to stop a Palestinian state

November 14, 2009, 1:54 PM (GMT+02:00)

Bill Clinton heads from Kosovo to Ramallah

After US Secretary of state Hillary Clinton warned Mahmoud Abbas on Oct. 31 that he was going against the wishes of president Barack Obama, the White House hauled out a heavy contingent of big American guns to make him see reason. They visit Ramallah Sunday, Nov. 15, to lean hard on him to back off his plan for a unilateral declaration of the Islamic Republic of Palestinian within 1967 or 1949 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, following the Kosovo example of 2008, according DEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources. Obama took advantage of the Sadan Forum's sixth session taking place in Jerusalem Saturday to assign key participants to this mission, including former president Bill Clinton, governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, five US congressmen and several presidential advisers including Dennis Ross.
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No Homegrown US Islamist Terror Network proven by FBI arrests

October 17, 2009, 4:14 PM (GMT+02:00)

Born in Afghanistan, suspected of terror in New York

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 states, unrelated to each other and the suspects reeled in were small fry. The case of Najibullah Zazi, 24, the Afghan shuttle van driver, was the most serious. In other cases, unrelated to the first, a Jordanian Muslim was detained trying to blow up a Dallas office tower and two American Muslims were taken in for questioning. In contrast, local jihadi networks in Britain managed to attack the London railways system in July 2005, killing 51 people, tried and failed to plant liquid explosives on seven transatlantic airliners bound for the US from Heathrow in 2006, and staged an attack on Glasgow airport in June 2007. No organized terror network on this 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.
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Israel is the loser from the Geneva encounter, Shalit tape release

October 17, 2009, 4:13 PM (GMT+02:00)

Pulling the wool over international eyes

After the hype evaporates from the Geneva encounter between the six powers and Iran and the raw emotions fade from the videotaped sight of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit, Israel is left to take stock of where it stands in relation to its enemies, Iran and the Hamas. The score is Israel - nil; Iran and its ally Hamas - two up. In the first place, Iran has gained substantially from the Obama administration's decision to abandon the US demand for Iran to freeze uranium enrichment as the precondition for talks. This US surrender has awarded Tehran the legitimacy for retaining its "nuclear right." Then, too, the Geneva conference became the platform for the world powers to agree to hold up sanctions if Iran transferred three-quarters of its low-enriched uranium (1,179,4 tons out of 1,451,4) to a Russian plant for further enrichment. The deal for Israel to receive a recent video-tape of the kidnapped Israel soldier Gilead Shalit from a secret Hamas prison in return for 20 female Palestinian prisoners cost Hamas nothing. In fact it gave the Islamists' tarnished terrorist image a badly-needed lift after more than three years of denying his human rights as their captive.
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Obama's anti-Iran missile defense overhaul is fraught with danger

October 3, 2009, 3:01 PM (GMT+02:00)

The day US president Barack Obama announced he was abandoning plans for a missile shield and radar position in Poland and the Czech Republic Thursday, Sept. 17, Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak was quoted as saying in a press interview: "Iran does not constitute an existential threat against Israel" and "I am not among those who believe Iran is an existential issue for Israel." Responding to a question about Iran's nuclear program, he went on to say: "Israel is strong, I don't see anyone who could pose an existential threat," although he did view Iran as a challenge to the whole world. Asked in private what he meant, Barak shifted slightly by explaining: At this minute, Iran does not threaten Israel's survival." Are we to understand from these statements that the Iranian menace has suddenly gone away? Hardly, when Friday, Sept. 18, the Israeli minister's reply came from the horse's mouth: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again termed the Holocaust "a lie" and declared "Israel has no future."
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Saudis reject Obama's plan for ties with Israel: Top urgency is Iran threat

September 26, 2009, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)

Saudi FM Saud al Faisal in Washington

Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal's rejection of the Obama administration's Middle East approach was a lot more comprehensive than a blunt refusal to improve relations with Israel to help restart peace talks. DEBKAfile's Washington sources report that in closed-door talks with US leaders, including secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the Saudi prince urged the US to get off their backs on the Israeli-Palestinian issue and deal more seriously and effectively with top-urgency action for stopping Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb. Our Gulf sources note that the Saudi foreign minister thus reaffirmed in public the rejection of President Barack Obama's Middle East policies which he encountered when he met King Abdullah in Riyadh on June 3, namely, Israel must surrender on all core issues with the Palestinians before peace negotiations even begin.
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