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By Greg Evensen - December 24, 2009
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National Irish Bank Stop Handling Cash
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Unemployment funds going ‘absolutely broke’
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IDF blockades Palestinian Tulkarm after terrorists murder rabbi
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 25, 2009, 7:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
Murder scene outside Shavei Shomron, West Bank
Israeli forces placed the Palestinian West Bank town of Tulkarm under blockade Thursday night, Dec. 24, after Palestinian terrorists murdered Rabbi Meir Avshalom Chai, 45, father of seven, in a drive-by attack on his car close to his home in Shavei Shomron. He died of a head wound shortly after his car was hit by 10 bullets. The Fatah suicide wing, al Aqsa Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack.
A senior IDF officer told DEBKAfile that the cooperative ties Palestinian, American and Israeli security forces and intelligence arms have developed over the past year now face their first critical test on the ground. They depend on Palestinian units in Tulkarm being willing and able to capture Rabbi Chai's murderers and hand them over to Israel. If they fail this test, Israel forces will have to go in and take up the pursuit.
This development would undo the unwritten US-Israeli-Palestinian deal, whereby Israel has removed dozens of checkpoints on West Bank roads and withdrawn its troops from Palestinian cities, because it would demonstrate that the Palestinians cannot be trusted to maintain security and law and order in the regions under their authority.
Overnight, Israel put roadblocks back on a number of northern West Bank roads in case the Fatah killers were hiding in the area of the attack between Einav and Shavei Shomron and had not reached Tulkarm.
According to an earlier report, Palestinian security forces informed the Israeli units sweeping the area that a burning car had been spotted in an olive grove of the Palestinian village of Atzira al-Shamaliya. They assumed it belonged to the terrorists and had been torched to destroy clues to their identity.
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that the West Bank, Jerusalem and towns in central Israel have been on elevated terror alert for some weeks now. The state of preparedness was raised again Thursday night.
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Imam of Fort Hood gunman reported dead in Yemen raid
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 24, 2009, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
American Anwar al-Awkali preached to Ford Hood killer, 9/11 hijackers
An unnamed Yemeni official Thursday, Dec. 24 reported the death of Anwar al Awkali, imam of the mosque frequented by US. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who murdered 13 US military personnel at the Ford Hood, Texas last month. Hasan is also said to have been in email correspondence with Awkali who praised him for killing Americans for more than a year.
Awkali was imam of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque, attended also by three of the 9/11 hijackers.
The Yemen state news agency claimed the same air strike killed at least 30 al Qaeda fighters at a meeting Thursday in the eastern province of Shabwa to plan revenge for the Yemen government's Dec. 17 raids in the capital Sanaa and the southern province of Abyan, in which 34 jihadis were killed and 17 arrested.
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources advise caution in accepting both Yemen reports before they are reliably confirmed. The raids last week later have been attributed not to the Yemeni air force as claimed but more likely a US seaborne strike either by drone or cruise missile. The White House did not deny reports that those strikes were ordered by President Barack Obama in person.
If cruise missiles were used, it would be the first time since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. .
Our military sources add that the Yemeni authorities are highlighting successes, real or inflated, against al Qaeda to divert attention from their serious reverses in the campaign to quell the Iran-backed Houthi separatist rebellion in the North, notwithstanding Saudi military intervention, US assistance and, as DEBKAfile now reports, the recent arrival of a Moroccan commando unit.
Egypt, Saudis secretly draft Palestinian statehood motion for Security Council
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
December 24, 2009, 11:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Jerusalem today
DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf emirates and the Palestinian Authority are secretly drafting a UN Security Council motion granting Palestinian statehood within the pre-1967 war borders of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jerusalem its capital. This group is working under tight wraps, using diversionary tactics, to keep the US and Israel from discovering their scheme. Libya, or if it is elected to the Security Council, Lebanon will table the motion.
Saudi King Abdullah, President Hosni Mubarak and Mahmoud Abbas have decided that if the US vetoes their resolution, Abbas will resign down finally as chairman of the Palestinian Authority and his place will not be taken by any member of his administration. Abbas keeps on saying his decision to resign is irrevocable with this development in mind and the dilemma it will pose Washington and Jerusalem: According to the Palestinian constitution, the Speaker of the Palestinian legislature, Dr. Abdel Aziz Duaik, of Hamas, fills the absent chair.
However, according to our sources, the three Arab leaders are banking on the US being constrained from voting against the motion by president Barack Obama's avowed support for Palestinian statehood - albeit omitting to predetermine its borders. The Americans may simply abstain, leaving 10-12 Security Council members out of 15 to carry the resolution. Abdullah, Mubarak and Abbas are counting on their resolution
carrying the same huge impact as the Nov. 27, 1947 UN vote approving the establishment of two states in partitioned Palestine. They believe it will put an end once and for all to discussions on the future borders of a Palestinian state; any Israeli presence across the 1967 boundaries, civilian or military, will be illegal and in clear breach of an explicit Security Council resolution.
This move has sent Abbas on extensive travels in recent months with frequent side-trips to Riyadh and Cairo. It was also discussed during Mubarak's visits to the Gulf this week.
The Palestinian leader, our sources report, has secured endorsement pledges from Russia, China, France and Britain, as well as the African, South American and Asian representatives on the Security Council.
According to DEBKAfile's Jerusalem sources, the Netanyahu government shows no signs of anticipating this hostile diplomatic gambit and the foreign ministry does not appear it is ready to pre-empt it or fight back.
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