NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 10/21/2026*US EVACUATING MID-EAST*ISRAELI WARPLANES FLY IRAN ATTACK ROUTE*TRUCKER BLOCKADES ITALY*LEADING ISRAELI OPPOSITION POLITICIAN WILL NOT SERVE UNDER NETANYHU*YEMEN WAR*WITKOFF IN RUSSIA

 

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AMERICANS MILITARY AND CIVILIAN BEING MOVED OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST.

THE US PULLING MILITARY FORCES OUT OF JORDAN, QATAR AND KUWAIT.

THE US EMBASSY IN SAUDI ARABIA REDUCING ITS STAFFING.

THE STATE DEPARTMENT PLANNING STAFF REDUCTIONS OF OTHER EMBASSIES IN THE PERSIAN GULF REGION...Reuters-Dawn Pakistan

SUCH MOVES COULD SIGNAL THE IMMINENCE OF A RESUMPTION OF ALL-OUT HOSTILITIES WITH IRAN BY THE US OR ISRAEL.   

THEY COULD ALSO BE AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE FEAR IN IRAN TRIGGERING IRANIAN AGGRESSION THAT WOULD JUSTIFY US-ISRAEL AGGRESSION INVOLVING IRAN...OSINTdefender "X"

The Yemen War tonight two killed, two wounded by falling shrapnel from an attacking Houthi drone in Saudi Arabia.

The drone attacking an Aramco oil facility.   Those killed and wounded foreign workers...Saudi Press Agency-Dawn Pakistan

ISRAEL'S CHANNEL 12 REPORTING THAT DOZENS OF ISRAELI WARPLANES FLEW AN ATTACK ROUTE TO IRAN THIS WEEK.

BUT THEY RETURNED TO ISRAEL BEFORE ENTERING IRANIAN AIRSPACE.

SOURCES POINTING TO AN ATTEMPT TO PROVOKE IRAN JUST DAYS BEFORE ISRAEL'S OCTOBER 27TH ELECTION...TIMES OF ISRAEL

Iranian media reporting explosions in the southern Sirik region tonight.  The origin of the explosions not immediately known...

           DAWN PAKISTAN MID-EAST WAR BLOG

UPDATING THE DEVELOPING STORY ABOUT THE EFFORTS OF US ENVOY STEVE WITKOFF REGARDING THE UKRAINE WAR.

WIKTOFF HAS LEFT RUSSIA SAYING HIS TALKS WERE 'CONSTRUCTIVE' AND ARE LEADING TO THREE PARTY TECHNICAL TALKS INVOLVING THE US, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE...TASS RUSSIA...BARAK RAVID "X"

The US Supreme Court declining to lift a lower court judge's order keeping accommodations in place for transgender inmates in federal prisons.

Those policies included both medical treatments and 'social accommodations' like hair-removal devices.

Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissenting...The Hill

ITALIAN TRUCK DRIVERS ARE BLOCKING HIGHWAYS AND PORTS IN SOUTHERN ITALY.    

THE PROTEST OVER HIGH DIESEL FUEL PRICES HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MORE THAN A WEEK.

AS A RESULT, GROCERY STORE SHELVES ARE GOING EMPTY.  A PASTA FACTORY WAS FORCED TO SHUT DOWN OVER LACK OF GRAIN DELIVERIES.

SOUTHERN ITALY IS POORER THAN NORTHERN ITALY WITH HIGH COSTS A VERY SENSITIVE ISSUE.

BUT EVEN IN NORTHERN ITALY PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE STREETS IN MILAN RECENTLY TO PROTEST THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.    

INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE IN THE MIDST OF THE DEMONSTRATION WITH HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS LEADING ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONI TO DEPLOY 500 SOLDIERS...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

IN THE WESTERN PERSIAN GULF OFF THE COAST OF IRAQ A TANKER STRUCK BY AN UNKNOWN PROJECTILE.   NO INJURIES REPORTED...UKMTO "X"

Israeli politics Gadi Eisenkot whose Yachar Party leads Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Paty in the polling says he will not serve in a government led by Mr. Netanyahu.

There's talk of a possible rotation deal where both Netanyahu and Eisenkot alternate as Prime Minister.

Eisenkot says he does not support any deal making Netanyahu prime minister due to his responsibility for the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack.

The Israeli election is six days fromm today...Times of Israel

ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF STRAIT OF HORMUZ A TANKER STRUCK BY AN UNKNOWN PROJECTILE IGNITING A FIRE.     THE FIRE PUT OUT NO INJURIES REPORTED...UKMTO "X"

(UPDATED) IN THE YEMEN WAR THE SAUDIS SAY THEY INTERCEPTED FIVE ATTACKING HOUTHI DRONES.

THE HOUTHIS DENYING THE NOTION THEY WERE ATTACKING THE HOLY CITY OF MEDINA WITH DRONES.

THE HOUTHIS SAY ATTACKED A SAUDI RUN MILITARY CAMP IN ADEN.

THE UNITED NATIONS WARNING ABOUT THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN THE CITY OF TAIZ IN YEMEN.

TAIZ IS CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT BUT UNDER SEIGE BY HOUTH FORCES...DAWN PAKISTAN MID-EAST WAR BLOG

The markets today.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 360.21 points or .69 percent.

The NASDAQ rising 278.04 points or 1.05 percent.

At 452 pm New York Time the price of oil 97 dollars 52 cents a barrel down 30 cents or .31 percent. ..Marketwatch

US ENVOY STEVE WITKOFF IS IN RUSSIA.    

WITKOFF WILL DISCUSS PROPOSALS REGARDING THE UKRAINE WAR INCLUDING THE NOTION OF A THREE-WAY MEETING INVOLVING US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)