http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/debka/ en-us Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:24:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026485/posts Exclusive: Limited US attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards bases in sight Debkafile http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026485/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010879/posts Israeli history has ruled that none lasted long when they came close to giving up vital security assets. Shimon Peres survived for a year in 1996 after his move to continue the concessions made under the Oslo Framework Accords; Ehud Barak was toppled in 2000 as head of government and defense minister when he shrank from fighting the Palestinian uprising and sought an accommodation with Yasser Arafat instead. Olmert is said to be on the point of giving up parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians and, according to a message carried by Turkish go-betweens to the Syrian ruler, offering to... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010879/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 01:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007303/posts Addressing a news conference in Washington, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday, April 25, the Pentagon is planning for “potential military courses of action” against Iran. He spoke of the Tehran government’s “increasingly lethal and malign influence” in Iraq. A conflict with Iran would be “extremely stressing” he said, but not impossible and “it would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability.” The admiral stressed the reserve capabilities of the Navy and Air Force. Adm. Mullen’s statement came four days after US defense secretary Robert Gates said he favored... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007303/posts#comment Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:11:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997169/posts The Le Ponant pleasure yacht was seized Friday in international waters opposite Somalia without passengers on route from the Seychelles to Aden Port and the Mediterranean after its first pleasure trip of the summer season in the Indian Ocean. The 32-man crew was taken hostage. Our shipping correspondent reports that the French Le Commandant Rouen warship was diverted from NATO’s Afghanistan operation to join the Yemeni coast guard in the hunt for and rescue of the captured craft. The Le Ponant caters to 64 high-profile luxury tourists, one of three owned by Le Compagnie Des Iles du Ponant, a... Debka.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997169/posts#comment Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:39:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935287/posts DEBKAfile Reports: Russia launches first naval power build-up in the Mediterranean in response to the US about-face on Iran December 5, 2007, 9:19 PM (GMT+02:00) Admiral Kuznetsov - first Russian carrier posted to Mediterranean President Vladimir Putin and defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov decided to send a sortie of six Russian warships, led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and the Moskva guided missile cruiser, to the Mediterranean. This will be the first prolonged stay of a Russian carrier to the eastern Mediterranean vicinity of Israel’s shores and waters patrolled by the US Sixth Fleet. On its decks are 47 warplanes... Debka File http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935287/posts#comment Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934211/posts In a radical about-face, White House officials suddenly “discovered” Monday, Dec. 3, that Iran had halted it nuclear weapons program four years ago, but has continued to enrich uranium and could have enough material to build a bomb between 2010 and 2015. This “discovery” appeared in the latest National Intelligence Estimate, together with the comment that Iran seems less determined to develop nuclear arms than previously believed and is more vulnerable to international pressure Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934211/posts#comment Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:34:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924563/posts President George W. Bush is developing a new strategy for tackling Iran’s determined pursuit of a nuclear weapons program. He sounded out French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on his new ideas when they came over separately for talks in the last few days. He is also in rapport with Russian president Vladimir Putin through confidential channels. Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924563/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:50:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918590/posts Al Qaeda's online community is threatening all out cyber war against counter jihadis. Bring. It. On. B- - - - - -. DEBKA: In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden’s followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold... mypetjawa.mu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918590/posts#comment Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:32:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907928/posts The Khorramshar News Agency, which is published by the ethnic Arab underground of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan, reported early Oct. 1 that the entire staff of Russian nuclear engineers and experts employed in building the nuclear reactor at Bushehr had abruptly packed their bags Friday, Sept. 28, and flew back to Russia. The agency’s one-liner offers no source or explanation. DEBKAfile have obtained no corroboration of its report from any other source. The story appears to have originated with the ethnic Arabs who live near the reactor or who come in contact with its Russian staff. If true, DEBKAfile can offer... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907928/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:12:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1904797/posts Saw this headline on another forum: DEBKAfile reports: Russians employed at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor suddenly depart in a body, according to local Arab sources Was wondering if Debka is ever right about things? What is their accuracy rate? Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1904797/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:22:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900837/posts The new aircraft, dubbed Saegheh (Lightning), was proudly unveiled before foreign correspondents at Tehran’s international airport Thursday, Sept. 20. Iran’s defense minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar boasted that the fighter is the equal of the American F-18 Hornet. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Saegheh comes nowhere near the capabilities of the F-18, which are deployed on US carriers and fly with the Marines. What the Iranians have done is to put together elements cannibalized from the US F-14 of the 1970s which revolutionary Iran inherited from the shah, and components of the Russian Sukhoi pepped up with ageing electronic equipment purchased... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900837/posts#comment Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:53:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898966/posts Minister of Expatriates, Butheina Shabaan, who is generally regarded as President Bashar Assad’s personal mouthpiece, made this statement Tuesday, Sept 18. It was a replay of the one first issued by a junior official on Sept. 6, together with the initial accusation that Israeli warplanes had invaded Syrian air space. The pugnacious minister also dismissed the reports published on the event as fiction and a pack of lies. Despite its repetitiveness, DEBKAfile’s American and Israeli sources interpret Shabaan’s statement’s coming now as important because it appears to indicate that the Syrian president, after due consideration, has come down on the... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898966/posts#comment Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:19:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891916/posts Looks like it is just breaking Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891916/posts#comment Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:54:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1887937/posts Sarkozy is first Western leader to speak out loud about US plan to bomb Iran August 28, 2007, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00) Bombing Iran: Catastrophic but real Addressing 180 French diplomats Monday, Aug. 27, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and the world must tighten sanctions while offering Tehran incentives to halt weapons development. “This initiative is the only one that can enable us to escape an alternative that I say is catastrophic: the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran,” he said. Sarkozy thus became the first important Western leader to declare with brutal frankness... Dekba Net Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1887937/posts#comment Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879082/posts The threat was picked up by DEBKAfile’s monitors from a rush of electronic chatter on al Qaeda sites Thursday, Aug. 8. The al Qaeda communications accuse the Americans of the grave error of failing to take seriously the videotape released by the American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gaddahn last week. “They will soon realize their mistake when American cities are hit by quality operations,” said one message. Another said the attacks would be carried out “by means of trucks loaded with radio-active material against America’s biggest city and financial nerve center.” A third message mentioned New York, Los Angeles and... debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879082/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:43:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871145/posts US Air Force B-2 Stealth Bombers Will Soon Be Fitted With Newly-Developed 15-Tonne Massive Ordnance July 23, 2007 DEBKAfile Reports American military sources say the gigantic new bunker-blaster is designed to hit fortified underground targets such as Iran’s uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz. It will be capable of drilling through many meters of earth or concrete. When it falls from a high altitude, the MOP – composed of 20% explosives, 80% hardened metal - will punch a hole in the toughest protective casing before exploding in depth. It is GPS guided. DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal that Israel’s RAFAEL has upgraded its... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871145/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:32:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854113/posts The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group, the US Navy's largest air carrier, will join the USS Stennis and the USS Nimitz carriers, building up the largest sea, air, marine concentration the United States has ever deployed opposite Iran. On its decks are the Carrier Air Wing CVW 1, whose pilots fought combat missions in the Gulf and Arabian Sea during 2006. The Air Wing is made up of F/Q-18 Super Hornet strike craft, the Sidewinders Strike Figher Squadron VFA-86, the 251st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron MFA, and the Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ 137... DEBKAfile http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854113/posts#comment Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:24:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853885/posts According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the US naval build-up off the shores of Iran marks rising military tensions in the region, accentuated by last week’s Hamas victory which has endowed Iran with a military foothold on Israel’s southwestern border. The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group, the US Navy’s largest air carrier, will join the USS Stennis and the USS Nimitz carriers, building up the largest sea, air, marine concentration the United States has ever deployed opposite Iran. This goes towards making good on the assurances of four carriers US Vice President Dick Cheney offered the Gulf and Middle... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853885/posts#comment Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:16:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852166/posts Russian president Vladimir Putin put teeth in his threats and his cynically helpful alternative suggestions regarding the deployment of US missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 304 disclosed on June 8 that the week before the G8 opened in Germany, Moscow released the long-withheld nuclear fuel for Iran’s atomic reactor in Bushehr. It was delivered 24 hours before Israel launched its new military imaging satellite Ofeq-7, bringing forward the Iranian threat to Israel, according to DEBKAfile’s military sources. One immediate result has been the stiffening of Tehran’s negative posture, sparking what nuclear watchdog director Mohammed ElBaradei called... Debka Net Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852166/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:22:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826392/posts Ali Lalrijani, Iran's senior nuclear negotiator and diplomatic wirepuller This view was leaked hours before the Israeli Winograd panel published its harsh criticisms of the Olmert government’s conduct of the war Monday, April 30, in Jerusalem. It represents another of the grave setbacks Israel has suffered in the wake of its failed management of the Lebanon war. President George W. Bush’s original judgment directly after the hostilities ended was quite different: “Hizballah attacked Israel; Hizballah started the crisis and Hizballah suffered a defeat in this crisis,” he said. The revised view was not conveyed to the Israeli government; it was... DEBKAfile http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826392/posts#comment Tue, 1 May 2007 10:03:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809386/posts The advice came from officers with US Central Command 5th Fleet HQ at Manama, who spoke of security tension, a hint at an approaching war with Iran. Arab sources report the positioning of a Patriot anti-missile battery in Bahrain this week; they say occupancy at emirate hotels has soared past 90% due mostly to the influx of US military personnel. They also report Western media crews normally employed in military coverage are arriving in packs. Thursday, March 29, Gen. Khaled al-‘Absi, Bahrain’s chief of air defense operations disclosed that new alarm networks had been installed and air defense systems upgraded... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809386/posts#comment Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806019/posts DEBKAfile reports: High alert at US and UK bases, Middle East armies on the ready lest Iran?s seizure of 15 British seamen Friday is only first Iranian reprisal action March 24, 2007, 1:08 PM (GMT+02:00) Our military sources report that Middle East and Persian Gulf nations as well as the US and UK are bracing for further Iranian marine, air or terrorist operations in Iraq and other places in reprisal for the sanctions measure before the UN Security Council in New York. On the ready too are the Saudi armed forces and some Israeli air and naval units. According to... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806019/posts#comment Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:18:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805287/posts DEBKAfile Exclusive: The French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force enter Arabian Sea. Iran launches a new naval war game They rendezvoused with the USS John C. Stennis Wed. March 21, for missions in support of Operation Enduring, Freedom and International Security Assistance Forces ISAF for the global war on terror. US and French carriers are sailing and operating in concert opposite Iranian shores for the first time. The Iranian Navy responded to the new arrival the following day by announcing a new series of military exercise in the Persian Gulf. DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that the... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805287/posts#comment Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:07:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794952/posts Iran’s dep. defense minister for eight years up until 2005 - and before that a prominent Revolutionary Guards General, Alireza Asquari, 63, has not been seen since his disappearance in mysterious circumstances in Istanbul on Feb. 7. The missing general has been identified as the officer in charge of Iranian undercover operations in central Iraq, according to DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources. He is believed to have been linked to – or participated in - the armed group which stormed the US-Iraqi command center in Karbala south of Baghdad Jan. 20 and snatched five American officers. They were shot outside... DEBKAfile http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794952/posts#comment Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:02:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788836/posts US troops in Iraq may attack nuclear and military targets in Iran when a high-casualty attack is traced to Tehran February 20, 2007 This new presidential directive extends the license President George W. Bush issued last month to US troops to capture or kill Iranian agents supporting Iraqi insurgency and al Qaeda attacks on American forces. It is causing great concern in Tehran's ruling circles - especially as the new license may well be applied when the downing of a large US helicopter ends in a heavy US death toll. Military sources report that American commanders in Iraq are studying... DEBKAfile Global Security Newsletter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788836/posts#comment Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:27:38 GMT