Bill proposed by Democratic state senator passes chamber, if signed into law will prohibit New York universities and colleges from paying dues to ASA and other academic organizations that boycott Israel...
Tehran has capacity to break out to bomb if it wishes, intelligence chief James Clapper tells Senate, but would be detected if it tried to do so... General Aviv Kochavi says that while number of missiles aimed at Israel has decreased, their accuracy and lethality has been dramatically improved... Sources say Assad's regime will miss next week's deadline to send all toxic agents abroad for destruction... Israel arrests 16 operatives running HQ in east of city; 2 indicted over al-Qaeda plot to bomb convention center, US Embassy... US and Israeli buffer zones under Syrian rebel control designed to contain al Qaeda advancesDEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 28, 2014, 7:17 PM (GMT+02:00) The Obama administration announced Tuesday, Jan. 28, that selected Syrian rebel militias would receive American light weapons including anti-tank – but not anti-air – rockets. And Friday, Jan. 24, an Israeli intelligence officer disclosed that his government was “rethinking” its neutrality policy in the Syrian war owing to the massing of 30,000 al Qaeda fighters on its Syrian border. These rebels are already taking delivery of American and Jordanian arms and training, and receiving logistical, medical and possibly intelligence assistance from Israel. Mostly local militias, they are assigned with manning two security buffer zones taking shape in southern Syria and warding off attempts by al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) to reach Jordanian and Israeli borders. Israel for instance will carry on proffering medical aid and evacuating injured Syrians from the south – its most conspicuous form of support. The plan has taken around 10 months to mature, starting from the deployment of 15,000 US special forces troops at the King Hussein Air Base at Mafraq in April 2013. The incoming units set about converting parts of the base into facilities for Jordanian military instructors to drill Syrian rebel fighters, before sending them back to Syria equipped with American weapons. Two security sectors are taking form in South Syria. One enclave, 45 km long and 75 km wide in the south west, is wedged between the Jordanian and Israeli borders. (See attached map). The second enclave is being rolled out further north (see map), to eventually give Syrian rebel militias control of a 30-km wide strip running the 60-km length of the Syrian-Israeli Golan border which, including Quneitra, has a population of around 300,000. US clamps down for the first time on virtual Bitcoin currencyUS government agents Tuesday arrested Charlie Shrem, CEO of the Bitcoin Exchange BitInstant, at Kennedy airport charging him with laundering money for customers of the online drug bazaar Silk Road. The US attorney in the southern District of New York said Shrem had helped Robert Faiella sell more than $1 million worth of bitcoins to Silk Road customers. He was arrested at his home in Cape Coral, FL, for allegedly running an underground bitcoin exchange. The two were charged with conspiracy to launder money and operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. After fiercely criticized by Minister Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says 'Palestinian state should be a demilitarized entity that recognizes the Jewish state'... Large blast strikes western Syrian port city according to Lebanese news websites. Palestiniain sources claim Israel behind attack; Israeli security sources decline to comment... |
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