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747 articles tagged "Americas"
DEBKAfile
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January 2, 2010, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources note that in the past year, Washington was strangely deaf to a flood of notices from Saudi, Egyptian and Yemeni security agencies warning that al Qaeda networks had established themselves in Yemen and so gained a jumping-off base into the Arabian peninsula and across the ...
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January 2, 2010, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Had the White House National Security Council, US intelligence and counter-terror agencies properly studied al Qaeda's failed attempt to assassinate Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, deputy interior minister and commander of the Saudi anti-terror campaign in Yemen five months ago, they might have detected pointers to al Qaeda's latest terror offensive ...
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December 30, 2009, 8:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama, delivering his second speech in 24 hours on the failed airliner attack on Christmas day, said: "Data was not shared and a systemic failure occurred. I consider that totally unacceptable."
Human and system failures contributed to this catastrophic lapse in security, he said, adding: "It is my ... 
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December 30, 2009, 12:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
The failure of Lagos and Amsterdam airport security to detect the explosives the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab carried aboard two flights on Christmas Day was only a small side-effect of US intelligence policy-makers' flawed approach to al Qaeda. Security measures for US travel will be revised and enhanced, but until ...
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December 28, 2009, 1:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his eight months in office, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has gone back on his fundamental pledges as Likud leader to disallow Palestinian statehood, expand Jewish West Bank settlement, reject one-sided Israeli concessions to the Palestinians prior to negotiations and act firmly to oust Hamas rule of the Gaza ...
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December 25, 2009, 10:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
After extracting from Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu more time for engaging in dialogue with Iran free of the threat of a military attack or even sanctions, US president Barack Obama has offered Tehran three incentives for talking. Tehran's response has been hart-hitting: a new missile able to penetrate US ...
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December 25, 2009, 10:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the plainest authoritative US statement yet about military force against Iran, Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said: "My belief remains that political means are the best tools to attain regional security and that military force will have limited results. However, should the president ...
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December 19, 2009, 10:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
The main conclusions of state comptroller Michah Lindenstrauss's report, published Thursday, Sept. 3, do not address intelligence and political realities and will therefore not affect the US decision never to release Jonathan Pollard from the life sentence without parole given him in 1985 for spying for Israel, or ease his ...
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December 19, 2009, 10:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
After US Secretary of state Hillary Clinton warned Mahmoud Abbas on Oct. 31 that he was going against the wishes of president Barack Obama, the White House hauled out a heavy contingent of big American guns to make him see reason. They visit Ramallah Sunday, Nov. 15, to lean hard ...
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December 19, 2009, 1:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama's tough talk of sanctions has melted into soft soap for luring Iran into further dialogue. Adopting the reverse tactic, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sounds almost reasonable for a change, even as Tehran pushes its revolutionary goals as pugnaciously as ever. 
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December 17, 2009, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
US Air Force spokesmen confirmed this week that the hitherto secret unmanned, high-altitude stealth jet, the "Beast of Kandahar," was present at the big US air base of Bagram, in Afghanistan. Photos of the Beast on the Bagram tarmac - outside its regular base at Kandahar near the Iranian and ...
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December 13, 2009, 1:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
A senior official in the Obama administration described the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors' discovery of traces of highly processed plutonium at the bombed Syrian-North Korean facility at Dir a-Zur as a "smoking gun" - evidence of Iran's covert nuclear activities and proliferation, debkafile's Washington sources report.
The same ... 
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December 12, 2009, 11:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
After the hype evaporates from the Geneva encounter between the six powers and Iran and the raw emotions fade from the videotaped sight of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit, Israel is left to take stock of where it stands in relation to its enemies, Iran and the Hamas. The score ...
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December 5, 2009, 9:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian president Bashar Assad like the leopard has not changed his spots. After Washington opened the door wide to reconciliation, lavishing goodwill gestures and a procession of emissaries over several months, Assad has abruptly slammed it shut.
Wednesday, Aug. 12, he announced he was off to Tehran next week to ...
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November 30, 2009, 9:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
A dark horse is overtaking chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and NSA James Jones as President Barack Obama's most influential adviser. Revealing this, the latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly issue out Friday discussed how the new White House dynamic helped Moscow block stiff sanctions against Iran.
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November 25, 2009, 10:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chinese president Hu Jintao said clearly after meeting US president Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday, Nov. 17, that their governments disagree on tougher sanctions for Iran - or any other issue relating to the Islamic republic. In Moscow, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it was too soon to talk about ...
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November 23, 2009, 11:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago.
More about this tale of terror and suspense in the ... 
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November 23, 2009, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The broad strategic understandings sealed by US president Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at their recent White House talks are not to the liking of some their opponents at home, debkafile's Washington sources report. While disagreeing on construction in Jerusalem, they decided to cooperate on the ...
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November 21, 2009, 10:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two high-ranking teams of American CIA and DIA intelligence officials are conferring with their opposite numbers in Israel, in line with President Barack Obama's strategy for applying military heat to Iran as well as diplomatic pressure for an accommodation on its nuclear program, debkafile's military and intelligence sources ...
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November 18, 2009, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Abbas has been warned by the Obama administration to give up his plan for a unilateral declaration of the Islamic Republic of Palestinian within 1967 or 1949 borders with Jerusalem is capital. But debkafile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report he is forging ahead. His resignation stunt and ...
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