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3 July 2010 Washington, D.C. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Special points of interest:

 CIA’S PANETTA SAYS CIA director Leon Panetta Tensions of a potential US-Iran A number of US intelli-
NEW SANCTIONS
AGAINST IRAN PROBA- admitted last week that Iran showdown appeared closer early gence officials within
BLY WON’T WORK 1 has enough low-enriched Friday, when President Barack “intelligence circles” are
uranium for two nuclear
 US IN SHOW OF FORCE Obama signed into law a series of speculating that official
POSITIONS MARINE AND bombs that could be con-
NAVAL POWER WITHIN
structed within two years. energy sanctions, the toughest yet, Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh
THE RED SEA REGION 1
against Iran's nuclear weapons who died by an unknown
 IRAN’S DEFENSE MINIS-
TER ISSUES STERN
It is believed that if Iran con- program. hand in Dubai last January
WARNING AGAINST tinues to be unimpeded by was “not targeted for death
SEARCHES OF ITS SHIPS
OR PLANES 1
any world power, that within Iran's defense minister Gen. but for capture as a live
two years of building its first Ahmad Vahidi issued a stern hostage against the release
 INTELLIGENCE OFFI- two nuclear warheads Tehran warning warned that searches of
CIALS BELIEVE MAH- of Gilead Shalit - along
MOUD AL-MABHOUGH will have acquired enough its ships or planes would have
WAS NOT TARGETED
fissile fuel to build another with half a dozen high-
FOR DEATH-BUT FOR "dire consequences" for world value Hamas operatives.”
CAPTURE IN DUBAI LAST five to six bombs and another
JANUARY 1
10-12 by 2015. security and the Middle East in
particular. The hostage operational act
Panetta essentially admitted was aborted when Al-
that every effort to stop Iran's US defense secretary Robert Mahbouh died of the drug
movement for a nuclear Gates announced that the US had that was supposed to have
ADDITIONAL READING overhauled its missile defense
bomb had failed. When medicated him to a degree
asked whether the new sanc- plans following intelligence that of rendering him useless to
http://www.scribd.com/ Iran could fire "scores or hun-
tions against Iran would resist and allow them to get
doc/32272465/ISRAEL%
work, Panetta said: "Probably dreds" of short- and medium- him out of the Dubai hotel.
E2%80%99S-SECURITY– range missiles against Europe –
not."
http://mexidata.info/ more than one or two at a time. The abduction team leader
id2676.html 1 is said to have aborted the
Truman, USS Dwight D. Ei- mission, left the dead man
http://mexidata.info/ senhower and 10,000 combat in place and “told the
id2539.html would-be abductors to get
WASHINGTON personnel.
out of Dubai fast and scat-
As Iranian sanctions against Sources indicate the presence ter.”
http://www.scribd.com/
doc/33806087/Dismantled
Tehran appear to be useless of the USS Nassau (LHA-4)
and of no moment, mixed Amphibious Ready Group The remaining high-risk
-Russian-Intelligence-
signals from Washington 24th Marine Expeditionary acts were apparently
http://mexidata.info/ indicate the deployment of a scrapped.
Unit around the Gulf of Aden
id1971.html 1 third aircraft carriers near and Red Sea. This military
Iran's shores. It is common knowledge
movement (“show” of force)
that Moscow maintains ties
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Amphibious assault ships and with Hamas who were de-
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cant posturing of marine and
up to 4,000 marines and navy mocratically elected by the
naval strength within the
are part of this placement. US Palestinians.
http://www.scribd.com/ Persian Gulf (Red Sea
strength in these waters is of
jbrewer31 Ocean) in many months.
three carriers - USS Harry S.