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Fast Forward CIA Succeeds in Iran Spying: Report
The CIA has been operating stealth surveillance drones deep inside Iran for the last three years, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The drones were operating freely above hundreds of suspicious facilities, before the aircraft, named the RQ-170 Sentinel, crashed within Iran in December. According to U.S. officials, the drones, that have been scouring dozens…
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Fast Forward Gunter Grass Banned From Israel Over Poem
Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared Sunday that German Nobel laureate Gunter Grass is a persona non grata in Israel, after Grass published a poem last week which was highly critical of Israel and its policies. Yishai harshly condemned Grass’ poem, and said that he is declared a persona non grata in Israel for wearing SS…
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Fast Forward Eilat Rocket Has Little Effect on Tourism
The firing of a Grad rocket at Eilat late Wednesday night has not scared off tourists and there were no cancelations, foreign or Israeli, at local hotels yesterday. If the security situation does not worsen in the next few days, then the tourism industry expects no real effect on Passover holiday business. Shabtai Shai, director…
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Fast Forward Egypt Military Tightens Security in Sinai
Egyptian forces launched an extensive military operation in the northern Sinai on Saturday, sending in hundreds of soldiers in an apparent bid to reinforce dwindling security in the desert peninsula. News of Egyptian maneuvers came just days after suspected Sinai militants fired a volley of Grad-type Katyusha rockets a residential area in the southern Israeli…
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Fast Forward Obama Tells Iran No Objection to Civilian Nukes
President Barack Obama has recently passed a message to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Washington Post reported on Friday, which signaled that the United States would agree to an Iranian civilian nuclear program if they proved they were not developing a nuclear bomb. According to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, a senior columnist…
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Fast Forward British Billionaire Helped Illegal Outpost Survive
In response to a 2006 Peace Now petition to evacuate the Migron outpost in the West Bank, the High Court of Justice ruled in 2007 that the land on which the Migron people were living was privately owned by Palestinians and the outpost had to be evacuated within a few months. It can be exclusively…
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Fast Forward Iran and Hezbollah Boost Aid to Assad
Iran and Hezbollah have significantly stepped up support for embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, Western intelligence reports have revealed. The reports say that Iranian officers and Hezbollah militants have supplied arms to Syrian troops and trained them, to aid Assad in his months-long effort to crack down on anti-regime protests in the country. They also…
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Fast Forward Israel Puts Troops on Alert for Passover
Israel placed its forces on high alert Friday, ahead of the week-long Passover festival which begins at sunset, and Easter celebrations in Jerusalem. Heightened security was in place all over the country, a police spokesman said, with the emphasis on public places, and a large police presence in the Old City of Jerusalem, the focal…
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