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January 7, 2007, 7:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US president has decided to shift John Negroponte out of the job of National Intelligence Director after 20 months and appoint him deputy secretary of state, as weighty backup for Condoleezza Rice. The USS John C. Stennis strike group will this month join the USS Dwight Eisenhower aircraft carrier ...
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January 6, 2007, 9:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
President George W. Bush is poised to stake every US resource to hand on a no-holds-barred military operation all the way to victory in Iraq, after first bringing Baghdad under control. The chips should all be lined up by the time he goes public next week on his new strategy ...
Baker-Hamilton Consensus Tactic Raises Question of Who Will Now Call the Shots in Washington on Iraq
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December 9, 2006, 7:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Big questions hang over the White House since Wednesday, Dec. 6, when former secretary of state James Baker and ex-congressman Lee Hamilton released their Iraq Study Group recommendations and charted a diplomatic strategy directly opposed to president George W. Bush's principles.
Has the report touched off of a battle over ... 
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December 6, 2006, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Recommendation 16: In exchange for Syrian actions and in the context of a full and secure peace agreement, the Israelis should return the Golan Heights, with a US security guarantee for Israel that could include an international force on the border, including US troops if requested by both parties.
Recommendation 17: ... 
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November 27, 2006, 2:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
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One of the most pressing pieces of business the US president George W. Bush must tackle in Amman later this week is the demand for an international conference on Iraq which must be dominated by a built-in agenda on the Palestinian-Israeli dispute. ... 
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November 18, 2006, 5:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The primary object of the new Spanish-Italian-French Middle East "peace plan" is to insert European military forces into the Gaza Strip after establishing themselves in the expanded UNIFIL in South Lebanon. The campaign will peak in the third week of December, when British ...
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November 12, 2006, 4:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, Nov. 13, former US secretary of state James Baker and ex-Congressman Lee Hamilton will present their recommendations on Iraq to President Bush in the Oval Office. Their audience will include an array of top administration officials.
The timing and composition of the conference indicate that the larger decisions are already ... 
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November 5, 2006, 5:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The sentence of death by hanging passed Nov. 5 by a tribunal of five judges in Baghdad against the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants was hailed by US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad as a "milestone" that closed the book on the former region. Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki ...
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October 30, 2006, 10:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
During the weeks of Israel's military operations to uncover Palestinian arms smuggling tunnels from Sinai into Gaza, Washington quietly sent over a military delegation of counter-terror experts to take a look at the situation on the Egyptian-Gaza and Egyptian-Israeli borders. Their first task was to find out how vast quantities ...
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October 2, 2006, 6:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
The nub of the new Bush administration's Middle East venture, on which US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice embarks Tuesday, Oct. 3, is an effort to lure Syrian president Bashar Asad over to the moderate pro-US Arab camp. This is pivotal to the main item on the agenda of her ...
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September 24, 2006, 5:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's exclusive military sources in Iraq and sources in Iran reveal that Turkish and Iranian air units as well as armored, paratroop, special operations and artillery forces are poised for an imminent coordinated invasion of the northern Iraqi autonomous province of Kurdistan.
Our sources pinpoint the target of ... 
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September 10, 2006, 11:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The question asked often in the articles, analyses and programs marking the 5th anniversary of the attacks on New York's Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington is: Why has al Qaeda never launched another attack in America on the same scale?
There are plenty of answers: a homeland security ... 
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July 11, 2006, 7:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four essential factors underlie the deadly upsurge of Shiite-Sunni sectarian savagery in Baghdad this week.
No one, including US forces, has stepped in to halt the sectarian cleansing operation engulfing Baghdad. The most powerful military force in Baghdad today is the radical Shiite cleric Moqatada Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. This fresh crisis sent ... 
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June 1, 2006, 2:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Condoleezza Rice spoke the language the European nations, Russia and China wanted to hear before she met their representatives in Vienna Thursday, June 1, to discuss their incentives package for cajoling Iran into abandoning its proscribed nuclear activities. The US secretary of state said the US was willing to join ...
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May 30, 2006, 6:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraqi PM announced Tuesday, May 30, he would be flying to the southern Iraqi town of Basra Wednesday to tackle the crisis posed by "oil gangs." Simultaneously, 1,500 American reserve troops were moved from Kuwait into Iraq.
debkafile reveals: The two moves were prompted by the same high-stakes crisis ... 
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May 6, 2006, 10:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
The abrupt resignation (ouster?) of Porter Goss as director of the Central Intelligence Agency lays bare the rocky state of America's most prestigious secret service amid critical missions on three fronts, Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on al Qaeda. US forces are not getting to grips with either of the ...
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April 26, 2006, 3:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Tehran was undaunted when US officials confronted its negotiators in secret talks with the steps taken by Saudi Arabia and Egypt to launch their own nuclear weapons programs as a deterrent to the Iranian threat. Iran's leaders countered the prospect of a ... 
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April 11, 2006, 3:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Little explanation - or even speculation - has been forthcoming for the abrupt decision by US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad to call off the Baghdad talks he was due to lead for Washington with an Iranian delegation on Saturday, April 8. ...
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April 10, 2006, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The United States and 25-member European Union, the main foreign donors to the Palestinian Authority, have suspended direct payments totaling $500-600 million a year to the Hamas government, as well as to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Washington has cut $400, while redirecting $105 to "augment ongoing humanitarian and democracy-building ...
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April 1, 2006, 11:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
During her two-day tour of northwest England, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice protested to the anti-US demonstrators dogging every footstep: "I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them, I'm sure. But when you look back in history, what will be judged will be, did you make the right ...
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