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Radioactive devices continue to go astray: reportSeventy-five radioactive devices used in Canadian medicine and
industry went astray in recent years - almost one-third of them dangerous enough to cause people harm, newly
released figures show.
Topix.net Monday, March 30, 2009Pakistani Taliban blamed for Lahore police academy attakc, 23 deathsPakistan's interior
minister held the local Taliban responsible for the brazen shooting-grenade attack on
morning parade at the police academy in Lahore Monday, March 30, killing 23. They held 400-500 cadets hostage inside the building for eight hours before being overpowered by a Pakistani force. Some 90 wounded men were admitted to Lahore's hospitals. Three out of 10-25 gunmen were apparently captured and four were killed or committed suicide.DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources: The police academy attack continued the series launched in Mumbai in Nov.
2008 which demonstrated the Islamist terrorists' new modus operandi.
DEBKAfile Monday, March 30, 2009Obama may meet Assad in Istanbul to dramatize outreach to MuslimsTurkish prime
minister Recip Tayyep Edrogan is leaning hard on the White House for US president Barack Obama to meet Syrian president Bashar Assad. Edrogan says this will dramatize the address Obama plans to deliver from Istanbul on
april 7 extending America's hand of peace to Muslims worldwide. It will also telegraph a strong message to the new Netanyah-Barak-Lieberman
government that the Obama administration wants
israel to go back to the Turkish-mediated peace talks with Syria.
DEBKAfile Monday, March 30, 2009Obama is weighing military, diplomatic cooperation with TehranThe additional "gestures" Barack Obama's spokesmen promised Iran would follow on the
presidential new year message may presage a dramatic U-turn on Iran, including even an astonishing offer of US-Iranian military and diplomatic cooperation - that is if the Islamic
republic decides to play ball.The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly out Friday discussed this and other surprising steps which Obama has in store. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE .
DEBKAfile Monday, March 30, 2009Brits Admit RenditionThe admission by Great Britain's Defense
minister, John Hutton, that the UK participated in the US practice of extraordinary rendition has outraged for UK human rights activists and policy makers....
About Monday, March 30, 2009Inconclusive on Iraq Withdrawal?A quick read of comments by Representative John McHugh (R-New York)
following a White House conversation with Obama, Biden, defense secretary Gates, and joint chiefs head Mullen, suggests internal politicking,...
About Monday, March 30, 2009US looks to stem Afghan drug tradeAmerican authorities are planning a broad new campaign against terrorist financing networks in Afghanistan, sending in dozens of federal drug enforcement agents to help stem the country's massive opium trade, the Associated Press has learned.
Topix.net Monday, March 30, 2009Terrorists kill 20 police in Pakistani shootoutGunmen armed with rifles and hand grenades attacked a police training academy in eastern Pakistan today,
killing 20 officers and wounding dozens in a brazen assault that underscored the growing threat militancy poses to the U.S.-allied,...
New Zealand Herald Monday, March 30, 2009How did an US air strike in Sudan morph into an Israeli attack?DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources trace how an
air strike on an Iranian arms convoy bound for Gaza, uncorroborated by witnesses or any other direct evidence, is being puffed up by flights of fancy between West and the East. "Sources" in Sudan and Egypt attributed the attack to US planes based in Djibouti, whereupon Washington "sources" hit back by pinning it on
israel. The US, Sudan, Egypt and
israel each have their own stakes in playing up or playing down the event. Find out why in DEBKAfile's Special Report below.
New York Times Monday, March 30, 2009Surprise in Riyadh: Saudi King Abdullah names Sudairi Prince Nayef second in lineRiyadh is in uproar over the Saudi King Abdullah's snap
decision to promote the interior
minister Prince Nayef, 76, his half-brother from the rival Sudairi clan, to second deputy prime
minister. This places him in direct line to the throne as the incumbent Crown Prince defense minister Prince Sultan lies on his deathbed. DEBKAfile's Saudi experts: Prince Nayef is the closest of any senior member of the royal house to the fundamentalist, radical religious elements of Saudi society, unlike the reforming, modernizing King Abdullah.
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