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October 19, 2008, 8:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly has exclusive details on the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's foreign policy transition team, and its plans for US confrontation with Iran and detente with Syria (begun by Bush) to be launched upon Obama's entry to the White House.
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October 17, 2008, 1:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
European indexes declined sharply after heavy losses across Asia. Japan's Nikkei plunged 11.4%, its biggest loss in two decades. Trading in Wall Street saw moderate upward trends after a disastrous Wednesday when the Dow Jones tumbled 8 pc and S&P 9%. The situation on Main Street was simply summed up: ...
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October 17, 2008, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
In statements Tuesday, Oct. 14, President George W. Bush and treasury secretary Henry Paulson explained that the Federal Reserve's $250 bn buyout of stakes in US banks was a short term measure to alleviate the credit crisis.
Washington sources told debkafile that the $700bn package approved by Congress ... 
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October 16, 2008, 10:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
The G7 finance ministers and heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank met in Washington Friday night, Oct. 10. Euro zone countries meet with the IMF in Paris Sunday. They are desperately fighting the climate of fear hanging over the sellers-only markets worldwide. Their plan entails partial government ...
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October 11, 2008, 1:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Oil prices suddenly slumped Tuesday, July 8, as predicted by DEBKA-Net-Weekly on June 27, under the impact of the secret American-Iranian talks embarked on last month to solve burning issues by diplomatic engagement. These talks between the US and Iranian delegations, ... 
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October 9, 2008, 5:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday, Oct. 4, the Bush administration indefinitely shelved its plans to set up a diplomatic outpost in Iran. Tehran has taken advantage of America's financial crisis to ditch informal understandings.
Israel has lost out twice: First by heeding the Bush admninistrations's demands to refrain from military action against Iran and ... 
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October 9, 2008, 5:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president George W. Bush went over Israel's head last week and promised Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to hand on to his successor as done deals the issues covered in the talks Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni held with Palestinian leaders, debkafile's Washington ...
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October 5, 2008, 9:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
The House of Representatives voted 263 votes to 171 to approve the $700 bn bailout bill Friday, Oct. 3, after it was passed by the Senate. Congress's initial rejection of the measure Monday sent US and global stocks into free fall.
The package includes amendments added by the Senate which provides ... 
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October 4, 2008, 6:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency has approved the $15.2 billion sale of 25 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Israel with an option for another 50. debkafile's military sources report the stealth aircraft will enhance Israel's air-to-air and air-to-ground defenses: It is armed with advanced radar for striking ...
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October 2, 2008, 4:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Taking the legislative lead in the financial crisis, the Senate is to vote Wednesday evening, Oct. 1, on Bush's $700 billion rescue package rejected Monday by the House. New amendments embodied in the package include a one-year increase in federal insurance for deposits of $250,000 instead of $100,000 to help ...
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October 1, 2008, 5:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Huge US Air Force transports have ferried the high-powered FBX-T anti-missile radar to Israel's Nevatim Air Base south of Beersheba. debkafile's military sources report that the transportable radar surveillance/forward-based X-band radar was accompanied by some 120 American European Command personnel.
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September 28, 2008, 9:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Economists warned Friday afternoon, Sept. 26, that if Congress fails to act in time, there will be "bloodbath" on world markets. The warning followed a rebellion in President George W. Bush's own Republican party which disrupted negotiations on the verge of approving the $700 billion package approved by the White ...
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September 26, 2008, 9:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, Johm McCain and Barack Obama, agreed Wednesday night, Sept. 24, that the financial crisis was close enough to catastrophe to set partisan considerations aside and help President George W. Bush push his $700 billion bailout package through Congress before the markets open Monday. The president ...
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September 24, 2008, 12:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
CIA director Michael Hayden, speaking in Los Angeles Tuesday, said the destruction of the Syrian reactor - as a result of intelligence collaboration with a "foreign partner" who first identified the facility's purpose - spoiled a project "that could have provided Syria with plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Hayden stressed that Al ...
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September 23, 2008, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nobel Prize Laureate Eli Wiesel urged UN delegates to walk out when the Iranian president rose to speak Tuesday. The gathering outside UN Center was also addressed by Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik and former minister Natan Sharansky. Hillary Clinton decided not to attend when she heard that Sarah Palin would ...
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September 21, 2008, 6:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Eight Yemeni soldiers, six assailants and 2 civilians were killed in an al Qaeda suicide car bombing, RPG rocket and shooting attack on the US embassy in Sanaa, Wednesday, Sept. 17. No embassy staff members were harmed in the five explosions reported by a US official. The rockets started a ...
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September 18, 2008, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
European markets began Thursday, Sept. 18, to respond to the billions pumped by central banks. In Japan, another $14 billion was injected to steady the market. In Tel Aviv, the major banks were targeted for sell-only bids.
Russia's stock and bond markets stayed closed Thursday after trading was halted Wednesday after ... 
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September 16, 2008, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
Lehman Brothers, the fourth biggest American investment bank, filed for bankruptcy early Monday, leaving 30,000 jobless worldwide and $600bn in debt on what some called the most catastrophic day in a century for global financial markets.
The European Central Bank injected 30 billion to steady the markets, followed by the Bank ... 
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September 15, 2008, 6:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime minister Ehud Olmert summoned defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni for an urgent consultation on Iran Wed. Sept. 10, as the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier headed out to the Mediterranean.
America will then have four aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea ... 
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September 14, 2008, 10:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
The day before the seventh anniversary of al Qaeda's Sept. 11 attacks on the US, Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said of the war which followed those attacks: "I'm not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can."
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