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Obama’s Cry of “Yes We Can!” Won’t Work with Palestinians,

Because Any Deal Secured with Palestinians is “It Won’t Work”

Obama SAYS “Yes We Can” have a workable Middle East Peace

The REALITY in “Obama’s next FAILURE” Excerpt Is “No we Can’t”

The self-centered confidence of a novice won’t create True Peace,

But IT CAN DRIVE A Great Country Into A PIT Of Economic Collapse!

November 8, 2010

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Begin Excerpt from YNet News

Obama’s next failure

Op-ed: President fails to understand that PA has no desire, ability to secure deal with Israel

Moshe Elad

Published November 8, 2010, 11:05

The electoral defeat suffered by US President Barack Obama is not supposed to be connected to events in the Middle East. Seemingly, his downfall was a result of domestic policy failures. However, when examining Obama’s relationship with Abbas and Netanyahu, it’s hard not to conclude that on this front too, the US president can expect to lick some wounds.

Obama and his advisors fail to understand that that the Middle East crisis cannot be resolved with “Yes we can” slogans. Several previous presidents realized that the issue is complex, problematic, and beyond their abilities, thereby taking a step back. But not Obama. He will continue to exert pressure until he prompts a collapse, which would mean either a new flare-up, or escaping Palestinian Authority leaders.

What is misleading Obama and his people to such extent

? Seemingly, the West Bank presents a positive, encouraging façade: Security calm for the most part, hundreds of projects being built on the ground, reduced unemployment, and a growth rate that hasn’t been seen in years.

However, all these optimistic indications, most of which are economic, are only the storefront.

Behind the Palestinian façade we discover a very grim picture of despair and frustration. On the one hand, the Palestinian Authority has neither the desire nor the ability to reach a historic compromise with Israel.

On the other hand, the PA is having trouble withstanding the American and European pressure to implement such comprom

ise.

Obama fails to understand that as long as Hamas breathes down Abbas’ neck, the latter would not be able to realize America’s objectives. Why so?

The name of the game in the territories is zeal. To our regret, at this time the zeal is not found among Abbas and his people, but rather, among Hamas members.

We saw it already in the June 2007 events in Gaza. The PLO is perceived as satiated, corrupt and anachronistic, while the Palestinian public is eager for hungry, thin leadership with zeal, regardless of

the ideology it represents. For example, should Ahmadinejad present a Palestinian alternative, even he could represent the Palestinians.

Obama and his people are pushing Abbas to stop the incitement against Israel. How exactly can this be done? After all, generations of incitement cannot be erased with mere declarations.

Abbas himself does not believe in putting an end to incitement, as it would quickly prompt greater support for Hamas.

Israel to pay price

Very few Palestinians believe Abbas when he proposes, with US encouragement, the handover of areas under Israeli security control to the PA. Most Palestinians understand that the moment the IDF leaves any West Bank town, it may fall into the hands of Hamas, which will enlist the help of apolitical gangs.

Obama’s gamble on Abbas as the Palestinian leader disregards not only his failure to control the Gaza Strip, but also his inability to fully control the West Bank. There are towns and villages in the West Bank that “President Abbas” is afraid to go into – mostly traditional Hamas strongholds or areas controlled by gangs. This isn’t a president – it’s an “exiled ruler.”

A harsh debate emerged following the “You have a partner” campaign, where Israeli elements presented PA leaders as friends of Israel.

This campaign provoked great displeasure among residents of the territories and further eroded the PA’s status. “How can you call for ongoing armed conflict against peace partners?” Abbas was asked by those who wanted to highlight the doublespeak custom he adopted, just like his predecessor Arafat.

Meanwhile, the sight of security personnel destroying settlement products prompted ridicule, at most, among many Palestinians. “After all, there isn’t one settlement in the West Bank that was not built by the Palestinians,” say those who object to these ostentatious moves, adding that “some senior PA officials made their fortunes through ‘banned’ trade with settlers, so who are you trying to fool here

The underground current simmering in the territories threatens to turn into a huge wave that would topple Abbas and his people. Some more pressure from Obama would see Abbas declaring “let me die with Palestine.” And then, the American president will dispatch his spokesman to say: We tried, but it didn’t work. We’ll have to fix it.

In any case, Israel will be paying the price for it.

Moshe Elad is a researcher at the Shmuel Neeman Institute at the Technion. He also serves as a National Security Studies lecturer at the Western Galilee Academic College

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Future For Saudi Arabia Is Very Grim!

When Egypt falls to the King of the North

Saudi Arabia WILL fall by internal Revolution

And Become PART Of The Antichrist’s Caliphate!

November 9, 2010

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Daniel 11:40-43 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. [42] He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [43] But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

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Middle East Media Research Institute

Editor of Pro-Syrian Lebanese Daily: Saudi Arabia Has Lost, Should Join Iran and Syria

Special Dispatch No.

3350

November 5, 2010

Against the backdrop of the crisis created by Hizbullah over the indictment to be issued by the Al-Hariri tribunal, the editor of the pro-Syrian Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, Ibrahim Al-Amin, published two articles in which he called upon Saudi Arabia to increase its cooperation with Syria vis-à-vis Lebanon. He wrote that since Saudi Arabia has failed in its efforts to improve the political situation in Lebanon and Iraq, and since the pro-American camp in the Middle East has lost its struggle with the pro-Iranian camp, Saudi Arabia must acknowledge its defeat and start cooperating with Syria and Iran. Al-Amin added that if the crisis of the international tribunal is not resolved to Hizbullah’s and Syria’s sat isfaction, a conflict will break out that will not end with a political comprom

ise, as is usually the case in Lebanon, but with a decisive victory for Syria and Hizbullah.
Following are excerpts from the articles:

Saudi Arabia Must Realize that the American Project in the Region has been Defeated

In the first article, Al-Amin wrote: “The horizon for contacts between Saudi Arabia and Syria has not yet closed up completely, and the two sides’ mutual need for each other is reason enough to continue [these contacts]. But the fact that the outstanding problems between them have not found any real resolution in the last three years reveals that it is not possible to [just] turn over a new leaf and erase all former [difficulties]… Damascus, which has suffered greatly as a result of the Saudi policy [towards it] in the last five years, and which is still being subjected to the same pressures, feels unwilling to take an approach [aimed at] relieving or containing these pressures.

[Today] more than ever it wishes to acquire the ability to deal with the upcoming new wave in the conflict with Israel, which is the core issue.

“[The recent developments] – what is happening in Iraq, what is brewing in Lebanon, and what is expected to occur in the Palestinian territories – are all headed in the same direction. The tensions slowly spreading through some of the Gulf countries and in the south of the Arabian Peninsula [i.e., in Yemen], as well as the shift in the status and positions of Turkey, all have to do with the new strategic configuration that is emerging in the region, following the unexpected failure of the American project launched in response to 9/11.

“Much has been said about the Shi’ite crescent and the [new] Persian empire, and much has been said about the Shi’ite efforts to take over the region… There has also been talk about Syria’s involvement in an Iranian campaign aimed at taking over the Arab resources, among other [goals]. Saudi Arabia, then, must either take the role of a partner [in these developments] or the role of the defeated and disappointed [party].

“The involvement of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE in the American project – even if accompanied by disagreements [between these countries and the U.S.] – has become a real burden for the U.S. administration itself, because these regimes have played no effective role in confronting the local forces that are leading the most violent resistance to the American occupation.

Saudi Arabia has failed in suppressing the various jihadists, and it fears that at some point these will evolve into a revolutionary force that will overthrow the [Saudi] government. [As for] Egypt, it has not only failed to deter and suppress the Palestinian ‘resistance’ in Gaza and in the [other] Palestinian territories, it has also failed to gain any status in Sudan and in the Horn of Africa, and has found itself isolated from the other North African [countries].

“Regarding Jordan, the signs and data emerging from there… indicate a seething [under the surface] that can erupt at any moment in the form of a coup by [elements within] the regime or in the form of civil war. The most worrying development there at the moment is the plan to sell the country’s public sector, and the gradual dismantling of the military apparatus and its replacement with a security apparatus that provides services to external [forces].

“Turning to the UAE, the fact that its leadership chose to confront those coming from across the Gulf [i.e., from Iran] has placed it in a very embarrassing pos

ition. The systematic deportation of Lebanese, Palestinian, and other Arabs [from the country] by its security forces, on the grounds that they support the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, has reached the level of severe persecution.

The domestic repercussions of this [policy] have been apparent in the last few weeks, in the form of [various] sanctions and limitations imposed on the UAE press, with various excuses.

“Moreover, those in Palestine and in the neighboring countries are not expecting any real solution to emerge from the talks currently taking place [between the Palestinian Authority and Israel], whereas the facts on the ground indicate that the Israelis and the ‘resistance’ forces are both preparing for a new round of hostilities.
”
As for Lebanon, the American project that the March 14 Forces have been leading there has reached its end… The current developments are about to enter more sensitive phases, and there may be civilian casualties throughout [the country] – it all depends on the level of insanity and on the rhetoric that is getting shriller and shriller. But the solution will not be based on [the formula usually favored in Lebanon], where there is ‘neither a victor nor a loser’ – a [kind of] solution that has cost the Lebanese dearly again and again.

“The struggle is between two regional projects [that of the pro-American camp and that of the pro-Iranian camp], and Saudi Arabia should be the first country to realize this and to take the reasonable and intelligent course of action by agreeing to a redistribution of the resources in the Arab region. This will create a national equilibrium [in Lebanon] that will defend the people and

their identity, and prevent an explosion.

Sadly, the matter transcends the issue of the international tribunal and its indictments. All the bargaining will be to no avail – it will not [succeed in] either hobbling the ‘resistance’ forces or in bringing the corpse [of the American project] back to life, since [this project] died a long time ago, and it’s only the announcement of its burial that has been delayed.”[1]

In Both Iraq and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia Needs the Help of the Pro-Iranian Camp
In the second article, Al-Amin stresses that Saudi Arabia has failed in its efforts to steer the political processes in Iraq and in Lebanon and to dictate the makeup of their governments. Therefore, it should recognize its need for the help of Iran, Turkey, and especially Syria in handling the situation in both these countries.

Al-Amin also calls on the Saudis to join in the efforts to dismantle the Al-Hariri tribunal.

“In June 2009, Saudi Arabia funded the election campaign of the March 14 Forces in Lebanon, with the support of Egypt and the U.S. Not a single weapon was left unused in the campaign to keep the [supporters of] Syrian-Iranian axis from attaining a majority in the parliament. [But] the goal was not achieved. By cleaving to the reins of power, [the March 14 Forces only] succeeded in bringing the situation back to what it was immediately after May 7, 2008 [i.e., Hizbullah’s takeover of Beirut]. Thus, it failed in its efforts [to create] a new formula, whereby May 7 [2008] would be wiped out by June 7 [2009, namely the day of the elections].

” As a result, Saudi Arabia was forced to seek a true partnership with Syria in handling the Lebanese dossier.

This [partnership] was translated into an internal [Lebanese] agreement to the effect that the [Lebanese] parliamentary elections would be of no consequence, and thus the extensive [election] fraud perpetrated [by the March 14 Forces] by means of its campaign and [by manipulating] the voting, capital[-spending], and legal apparatuses would not change the facts on the ground…

“Saudi Arabia did not take a lesson from this, and repeated the same moves in Iraq. [It launched] a media and political campaign that accompanied the elections there, employing subterfuge to try and [circumvent] the solid political reality, and spending two billion dollars to support the parties of its choice… But the election results were not enough to change the [reality] in the Iraqi arena – especially since Saudi Arabia waged the campaign under the same slogan it had [used] in Lebanon: preventing the Syrian-Iranian axis from taking over [the country].

“The party Saudi Arabia supported [indeed] won a large number of seats in parliament – but this did not help it lead the country. It was months before the U.S. was finally convinced that [election] results achieved through sectarian incitement and political funding could not be [accepted]… Much mayhem had to occur before Iran and the U.S. – and recently also Syria – reached an agreement that the new Iraqi government could not be established based on Saudi Arabia’s dictates.

“Saudi Arabia was [thus] humiliated once again.

Now it is waiting for Syria’s efforts – in coordination with Iran and additional countries, especially Turkey – to yield a [Iraqi] government with a balanced national makeup, which that will prevent an explosion of civil [strife] even greater than what Iraq is experiencing today. Saudi Arabia must come to an understanding with Syria on this matter, otherwise it will be taking the wager of its life – [a wager that will most likely] end with [Saudi Arabia] withdrawing from the Iraqi [arena] and leaving behind it [nothing but] anarchy and destruction.

“The situation in Lebanon requires a different kind of rapprochement. Syria knows that it cannot rule there alone. [As for] Iran, its role in Lebanon is nowhere near as important as its role in Iraq.

Turkey, which has [only] begun to form ties of friendship in Lebanon, cannot purport to play a helpful role [there]. Syria is therefore compelled to try and reach understandings with Saudi Arabia on many Lebanese issues. The developments of the last five years give Syria much room for maneuvering, whereas Saudi Arabia feels the siege tightening around it, and has realized that relying on Egypt is not helpful these days…

“The talks that recently took place between Syrian President [Bashar Al-Assad] and Saudi Prince ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz bin ‘Abdallah, dealing with the situation in Lebanon,[2] reflected the true power[-relations] between the two sides in this arena. These [power-relations] mean that difficult times lie ahead for Lebanon, unless the ‘Arabs of America’ [i.e., the pro-U.S. Arab regimes] internalize the new order and acknowledge their defeat.

The Syrians have said plainly to the Saudis, the French and the Americans that the case [being reviewed by] international tribunal must be closed, because it can lead to a large-scale civil war. If these [countries] don’t listen, the developments in Lebanon will bring about the defeat [of the pro-American camp, regardless of] all its threats to leave anarchy and destruction behind it.[3]

Endnotes:

[1] Al-Akhbar (Lebanon), October 5, 2010.

[2] Prince ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz handles the contacts regarding Lebanon and Syria on behalf of his father, the Saudi king.

[3] Al-Akhbar (Lebanon), October 7, 2010.

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OBAMA FINALLY MAKES THE RIGHT MILITARY MOVE

AND IT GETS THE ATTENTION OF AHMADINEJAD

TO PUSH FOR NUCLEAR ACTIVITY MEETING

SO BACK TO THE CAT AND MOUSE GAME

TILL IRAN THINKS IT’S TIME FOR WAR

WHEN IT’S FULLY PREPARED FOR IT

Nove

mber 8, 2010

1. THE RIGHT MILITARY MOVE

Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report

Obama piles more military pressure on Iran – conspicuously

DEBKAfile Special Report

November 7, 2010, 8:21 AM (GMT+2:00)

Before taking off for Asia Saturday, Nov. 6, President Barack Obama ordered the Pentagon not just to beef up American and NATO military pressure on Iran but to do so as conspicuously as possible, DEBKAfile’s Washington and military sources report . At a special White House security consultation last week, Obama said it was time to plant America’s military option against the Iranian nuclear threat visibly and tangibly under the noses of Iran’s political and military decision-makers. In the last few days, three aircraft carriers, four nuclear submarines and marine assault units have piled up opposite Iranian shores.

Early Sunday, the influential Senator Lindsey Graham (R. South Carolina), member of the Armed Services and Homeland Defense committees, said: “The US should consider sinking the Iranian navy, destroying its air force and delivering a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guards.” In an address to the Halifax International Security forum, he declared “They should neuter the regime, destroy its ability to fight back and hope Iranians will take the chance to take back their government.”

Our Washington sources report that Senator Lindsey’s words were coordinated with the White House and Pentagon to underline the administration’s position.
Addressing the same forum, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak was pessimistic about diplomatic engagement halting Iran’s drive for a nuclear weapon. “Based on experience and looking at the example which they (the Iranians) are using, which is probably the North Korean example, you can easily see … the objective is to defy, deceive and deter the whole world,” he said.

On Saturday too, the Washington Post warned that tensions in the Middle East would heat up in the coming weeks. “While Americ an eyes were focused on the midterm elections,

a bitter conflict has continued between the United States and Iran for influence in

the Middle East.

Iran has put its weight behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s bid to stay in power and is said to have created a special task force in Baghdad to pressure Iraqi factions. Iran is said to have cut off covert subsidies to Shiite parties that refused to back Maliki.

After the election furor, President Obama must turn to this test – and discover whether Iran wants negotiations to reach a deal, or to kill time.”
Meanwhile, the French carrier Charles de Gaulle with strike force has joined the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Harry Truman and their strike forces in the Persian Gulf.

Three days earlier, Thursday, Tehran issued an unusual communiqué noting that a fourth nuclear submarine had been stationed opposite Iran, without further information

2. THE RESULT OF THE RIGHT MILITARY MOVE

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Iran proposes nuclear talks with West be held in Turkey

By ASSOCIATED PRESS and JPOST.COM

11/07/2010 13:04

Teheran says it has informed Turks that it’s willing to hold talks with US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany; adds that it’s “hopeful a time and agenda will be agreed upon soon.”

TEHERAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday proposed that a new round of talks with the United States and other world powers on its nuclear program be held in Turkey.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran has informed its “friends in Turkey” that it is willing to hold the talks there

Mottaki told a news conference that Iran is “hopeful a time and agenda will be agreed upon soon.”

Teheran has said it would be ready to hold talks with the six powers some time after Nov.

10. The six nations are the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

They suspect Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capability under the cover of a civil energy program. Iran denies any such claims.

Negotiations between Iran and the other powers foundered a year ago.

Since the break-off in talks, the United States, EU and the United Nations have stepped up financial sanctions on Teheran. The negotiations between Iran and the group of six nations stalled in October 2009 over a deal meant to ensure Iran could only use its stockpile of enriched uranium for fueling nuclear reactors and not for building bombs.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Saturday was pessimistic about the prospects of Iran ceasing its uranium enrichment program through talks with the West.

“Based on experience and looking at the paradigm which they [the Iranians] are using, which is probably the North Korean example, you can easily see… the objective is to defy, decei(ve) and deter the whole world,” Reuters reported Barak as saying at a news conference at an international security forum hosted by the German Marshall Fund.

“I would be happy to … end up finding myself wrong based on a future development, but I wonder whether this will be the case,” Barak added

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WORLD’S TOILETS ARE THE HOUSES OF OLD SATAN

RADICAL ISLAM CLERICS HAVE WEIRD BELIEFS

AND I THOUGHT I HAD HEARD EVERYTHING

COVER YOUR MOUTH WHILE YOU YAWN

OR SATAN WILL PEE IN YOUR MOUTH

WHILE YOU READ THE NEWSPAPER

November 7, 2010

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Middle East Media Research Institute

Egyptian Cleric Wagdi Ghoneim: If You Don’t Cover Your Mouth When You Yawn, Satan

Will Urinate in Your Mouth

Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Wagdi Ghoneim, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on August 13, 2010:

Wagdi Ghoneim: Don’t spend too long [in the toilet], because this is the house of Satan.

[Islamic] etiquette requires that we do not spend too much time inside.

Some brothers take newspapers and magazines into the bathroom. This is the house of Satan.

Today, some people even take their laptop in with them.

They sit with their laptop and begin surfing the Internet.

By God, you should get out, and then you can do whatever you like.

This is the “house of Satan,” you shouldn’t linger there. Some people even take their morning coffee inside, because they like to “smell” the coffee first thing in the morning. But that’s another thing.

We must enter quickly and leave quickly. Make sure you step out with your right foot.

That’s Islamic etiquette.

When they eat, some people act as if they are using a shovel. They use it do dig holes in the rice. God help us.

[…]

When you drink, don’t breathe into the glass. When I drink, I breathe three times. I breathe outside. I don’t blow missiles into the glass.

You should breathe outside the glass.

[…]

When you are about to yawn, cover your mouth

with your hand. When some people yawn, they open their mouths wide, as if they want to show you their wisdom teeth.

On top of that, they start making music… What’s this? Only God knows. You should cover your mouth. Muslim etiquette requires that you cover

your mouth. First, you should fight the urge to yawn, but if you must, you should cover your mouth with your hand.

If you don’t, Satan will urinate in your mouth.

Do any of you want Satan to urinate in his mouth? You don’t believe me? You can see that when someone yawns without covering his mouth, he goes like this… Get it? He tastes it.

[…]

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IRAN TOP AL QAEDA TACTICIAN TO AFGHANISTAN

AL QAEDA IS COMING ALIVE WITH IRAN’S HELP

FIRST US TARGETED ASSASSINATION IN GAZA

SAUDI ARABIA’S TWO FACES FOR AL QAEDA

IRAN-Al QAEDA TO OPEN ANTI-US FRONTS

November 6, 2010

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First US targeted assassination in Gaza pre-empts next Al Qaeda offensive

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

November 4, 2010, 1:18 PM (GMT+02:00)

A missile fired from an American warship in the Mediterranean hit the car in which Muhammad Jamal A-Namnam, 27, was driving in the heart of Gaza City Wednesday, Nov. 3 and killed him, DEBKAfile’s exclusive counter-terror sources report.

Namnam was an operational commander of the Army of Islam, Al-Qaeda’s Palestinian cell in the Gaza Strip. He was on a mission on behalf of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – AQAP to plan, organize and execute the next wave of terrorist attacks on US targets after last week’s air package bomb plot.

According to our sources, the Palestinian cell members were planning to infiltrate northern Sinai from the Gaza strip over the coming weekend and strike American personnel serving with the Multinational Force and Observers Organization – MFO, which is under American command and is stationed at North Camp, El Gorah, 37 kilometers southeast of El-Arish.

In a coordinated operation, Al Qaeda fighters hiding up in the mountains of central Sinai were to have attacked US Marines and Air Force troops stationed at the South Camp in Naama Bay, Sharm el Sheikh.

The twin attacks were scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 7, or the following day.

Our sources say that, just as US-Saudi intelligence cooperation led to the interception of package bombs from Yemen last week, so too US intelligence-sharing with Egypt and Israel foiled a major Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on American personnel in Sinai. Egyptian intelligence picked up on Namnam’s scouting forays of US forces and discovered him caching weapons and explosives ready for the Al Qaeda strike force’s arrival from Gaza.

Israeli intelligence tracked Namnam’s movements in Gaza City. It is quite likely, said a high-ranking Western military source in the Middle East, Thursday, Nov. 4, that the Israelis pinpointed Namnam for targeting by the US ship-borne missile that killed him.

Hamas security sources in Gaza now suspect that Israel had its own reasons for permitting new cars to be imported to the Gaza Strip for the first time in two years, knowing that they would be commandeered for the personal use of the chiefs of armed organizations, including Namnam. They believe Israel planted tracking devices in those vehicles.

The Palestinian sources also say that the blast which killed the Army of Islam man was unusually powerful and reverberated through most of the enclave.

Witnesses denied sighting Israeli UAVs or other aircraft over the skies of Gaza.

The Al Qaeda operative’s death by a US missile is the first American targeted assassination in the Gaza Strip against an Al Qaeda target.

Up until now, US missions of this kind took place in Iraq, Yemen and Somalia.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that, even after the abrupt passing of Al Qaeda’s operational commander in the Gaza Strip, the two MFO camps in Sinai remain on high terror alert. The Al Qaeda cell or cells assigned to hit the South Camp in Sharm el Sheikh are still at large, the objects of a massive manhunt by Egyptian forces.

It is also feared that Namnam’s own cells could split and sections head out to North Camp in northern Sinai to complete his mission.

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Saudi Arabia’s two faces for al Qaeda – in Yemen and Iraq

DEBKAfile Special Report

November 6, 2010, 12:36 PM (GMT+02:00)

Saudi intelligence, while giving Washington, Berlin and London three early warnings of an impending Al Qaeda -Yemen airborne terror offensive, was itself deeply immersed in the kingdom’s back yard organizing, mustering bombers and arming Al Qaeda-Iraq for its biggest operation in the Middle East –

the storm of anti-Shiite, anti-Iran violence which swept Baghdad Tuesday, Nov.

2 and left some 130 dead and 300 injured. Shiite Sadr City took the brunt of the attacks.

Iran Moves Top Al Qaeda Tactician to Afghanistan

Saif Al-Adel brings anti-US forces under one command.

Iran Tracks Al Qaeda through Saif Al-Adel

While not involved in the parcel bomb plot, Tehran must have known about it

US Military Buildup Continues

NATO is asked to draw up plans for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
Top Stories

Hizballah’s “zero hour” exercise for toppling Beirut government and war on Israel

Yemeni President bars US commando raid on al Qaeda plotters

Iran, Al Qaeda team up to open new anti-US fronts

DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly

November 2, 2010, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)

Tehran’s proactive interference in Afghanistan – kept quiet by Washington in the hope of a new round of nuclear talks bearing fruit – is offset by a quiet US buildup for military action against Iran. The next issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly out Friday reveals how the al Qaeda air package plot fit into the selective partnership between Tehran and al Qaeda and homes in on the areas where their schemes dovetail.

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