Debka 07-Dec-13
President Barack Obama addressed the Iranian nuclear and Palestinian issues in terms sympathetic to the Israeli case at the Saban annual forum in Washington Saturday, Dec. 7. On the final accord with Iran, he spoke of constraints to ensure Iran was prevented from attaining a nuclear weapon.
He then called on the Palestinians to accept that the current talks with Israel would produce, at best, a framework accord without full details of their dispute. It would also omit the Gaza Strip and provide for a transition period before a final settlement.
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December 8, 2013 Briefs
Netanyahu: Iran’s acquisition of nuclear arms would change history
In a video broadcast speech to the Saban Forum in Washington Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu replied to US President Barack Obama’s comments Saturday. Iran's acquisition of nuclear arms would "literally change the course of history," he said, because of its insane ideology and appetite for power. Israel must be assured that Iran will never be a “threshold nuclear weapons state.” The negotiators of a final accord with Tehran must also “demand that Iran change its genocidal policy toward Israel, he stressed.
A British helicopter makes forced landing on West Bank
The British report an RAF Chinook helicopter flying from Amman in Jordan to Cyprus has made a forced landing in the Jordan Valley near the West Bank town of Jericho due to engine failure. debkafile’s Israeli sources: Israeli Air Force fighters forced the British helicopter to land in the Jordan Valley near the Israeli settlement of Naama to investigate its intrusion of Israeli air space.
Al Qaeda in Syria acquires sarin: Russia concerned for Sochi Olympics
8 Dec. Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov announced Monday, Dec. 4, the formation of a special unit to deal with “Syrian radicals”- both within the North Caucasus republic and abroad. “Members…will be ready to interfere in the Syrian conflict if authorized by the Russian president.”
Russian and Syrian intelligence fear al Qaeda in Syria is plotting a spectacular attack on the Sochi Winter Olympics in February, possibly using sarin.This was one of the main topics of discussion between Binyamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin in Moscow Nov. 20.
According to a report by investigative journalist Seymor Hersh, in an article published in London on Dec. 8, Al Qaeda in Syria has got hold of sarin nerve gas and is ready to use it.
He quoted “a large number of American intelligence officials” who said that “the chemical attack on the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta on Aug. 21, in which more than 150 people died, may not have been carried out by Bashar Assad’s army but by Jabhat al Nusra [Al Qaeda’s Syrian branch].”
The sources quoted by Hersh charged that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry knew this and deliberately “manipulated the intelligence.”
December 9, 2013 Briefs
Most Americans don’t buy interim nuclear deal with Iran
A USA Today/Pew Poll found that 32 percent of Americans approve of the agreement and 43 percent disapprove. A majority of 62 percent said Iranian leaders aren’t seriously addressing international concerns about their nuclear program versus 29 percent who say they are.
Hagel on fence-mending visit to Islamabad
Chuck Hagel, the first US defense secretary to visit Pakistan in four years met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and visited the newly appointed Pakistan chief of staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif, at Army headquarters in Rawalpindi.
President Barack Obama addressed the Iranian nuclear and Palestinian issues in terms sympathetic to the Israeli case at the Saban annual forum in Washington Saturday, Dec. 7. On the final accord with Iran, he spoke of constraints to ensure Iran was prevented from attaining a nuclear weapon.
He then called on the Palestinians to accept that the current talks with Israel would produce, at best, a framework accord without full details of their dispute. It would also omit the Gaza Strip and provide for a transition period before a final settlement.
Top of the Document
December 8, 2013 Briefs
Netanyahu: Iran’s acquisition of nuclear arms would change history
In a video broadcast speech to the Saban Forum in Washington Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu replied to US President Barack Obama’s comments Saturday. Iran's acquisition of nuclear arms would "literally change the course of history," he said, because of its insane ideology and appetite for power. Israel must be assured that Iran will never be a “threshold nuclear weapons state.” The negotiators of a final accord with Tehran must also “demand that Iran change its genocidal policy toward Israel, he stressed.
A British helicopter makes forced landing on West Bank
The British report an RAF Chinook helicopter flying from Amman in Jordan to Cyprus has made a forced landing in the Jordan Valley near the West Bank town of Jericho due to engine failure. debkafile’s Israeli sources: Israeli Air Force fighters forced the British helicopter to land in the Jordan Valley near the Israeli settlement of Naama to investigate its intrusion of Israeli air space.
Al Qaeda in Syria acquires sarin: Russia concerned for Sochi Olympics
8 Dec. Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov announced Monday, Dec. 4, the formation of a special unit to deal with “Syrian radicals”- both within the North Caucasus republic and abroad. “Members…will be ready to interfere in the Syrian conflict if authorized by the Russian president.”
Russian and Syrian intelligence fear al Qaeda in Syria is plotting a spectacular attack on the Sochi Winter Olympics in February, possibly using sarin.This was one of the main topics of discussion between Binyamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin in Moscow Nov. 20.
According to a report by investigative journalist Seymor Hersh, in an article published in London on Dec. 8, Al Qaeda in Syria has got hold of sarin nerve gas and is ready to use it.
He quoted “a large number of American intelligence officials” who said that “the chemical attack on the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta on Aug. 21, in which more than 150 people died, may not have been carried out by Bashar Assad’s army but by Jabhat al Nusra [Al Qaeda’s Syrian branch].”
The sources quoted by Hersh charged that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry knew this and deliberately “manipulated the intelligence.”
December 9, 2013 Briefs
Most Americans don’t buy interim nuclear deal with Iran
A USA Today/Pew Poll found that 32 percent of Americans approve of the agreement and 43 percent disapprove. A majority of 62 percent said Iranian leaders aren’t seriously addressing international concerns about their nuclear program versus 29 percent who say they are.
Hagel on fence-mending visit to Islamabad
Chuck Hagel, the first US defense secretary to visit Pakistan in four years met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and visited the newly appointed Pakistan chief of staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif, at Army headquarters in Rawalpindi.
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