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September 26, 2009, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal's rejection of the Obama administration's Middle East approach was a lot more comprehensive than a blunt refusal to improve relations with Israel to help restart peace talks. <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Washington sources report that in closed-door talks with US leaders, including secretary ...
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September 25, 2009, 4:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Deputy US army chief, Gen. James Cartwright and defense secretary Robert Gates amplified President Barack Obama's statement on the US missile shield in East Europe in Washington Thursday, Sept. 17, by announcing that a new and better anti-missile missile system would be deployed in Israel and the Caucasus. <br/><span class="debka">debka ...</span></br/>
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September 25, 2009, 8:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the Afghanistan war, leaked to the US media, that without extra troops within the next year on top of the 66,000 already fighting there, the eight-year conflict "will likely result ...
After dropping Poles, Czechs, Obama places Israel in fourth place on his scale of defense priorities
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September 23, 2009, 12:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
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September 22, 2009, 8:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
As <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span> reported last week, US president Barack Obama will host Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at UN headquarters in New York Tuesday, Sept. 22. He is undeterred by Palestinian pre-conditions for the summit. But because Abbas refused to soften his ultimatum for a ...
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September 22, 2009, 11:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
Obama prepares to launch new Middle East program
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September 21, 2009, 4:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US will join other major powers in seeking an early meeting with Iran although Tehran's refusal to discuss its nuclear program was described by Washington officials as "disappointing." They said the Obama administration is consistent in its aim of dialogue with Iran and wants the meeting offered by ...
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September 20, 2009, 8:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the last 24 hours, by rare coincidence, two Islamic extremist leaders have shown public contempt for US president Barack Obama: Iran stands by its opposition to nuclear dialogue, the central plank of Obama's foreign policy platform, and al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden in an apparently new audio ...
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September 14, 2009, 12:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran is close to producing its first nuclear bomb - US diplomat<br/>
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September 14, 2009, 9:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
US State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley had only this to say to Iran's long-awaited "proposals" package Thursday night, Sept. 10: It's not really responsive to our core concern, which is Iran's nuclear ambitions," he said, adding: The measures do not address the status of Iran's nuclear ...
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September 14, 2009, 8:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration early Wednesday Sept 9 decided to schedule a tripartite US-Israeli-Palestinian summit at UN center in New York for Sept 22, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Washington sources report, the day before the US president meets Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at the UN General Assembly. <br/>The three leaders will declare ...</br/>
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September 12, 2009, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu drew a fast rebuke from Washington for his move to blunt vocal criticism from his pro-settlement Likud party by promising to approve hundreds of new homes on the West Bank ahead of a deal with Washington on a temporary construction moratorium. <br/>He is therefore maneuvering ...</br/>
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September 8, 2009, 3:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
In view of new information about Iran and North Korea's underground nuclear facilities, the US Air Force has asked to speed up the delivery of 10 to 12 giant Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bombs, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford. <br/>Unusually, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military ...</br/>
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September 7, 2009, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
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September 5, 2009, 10:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to the Warsaw newspaper <em>Gazeta Wyborcza,</em> Washington plans to scrap its plans to deploy anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic for defense against attacks from Iran. In deference to adamant opposition from Moscow, the Obama administration is looking at alternatives including Israel and Turkey. No immediate comment ...
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September 3, 2009, 8:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration signalled a new mood of compromise on settlement construction just ahead of the key talks in New York between Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak and prime minister's adviser Yitzhak Molcho and US envoy George Mitchell Tuesday, June 30. <br/>While the Israeli delegation was still airborne ...</br/>
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August 31, 2009, 9:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
A high-ranking US source told <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span> Wednesday night, Aug. 26, that some areas of understanding could be said to have come out of the four-hour meeting between British prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell earlier in London. He put it this way: The Obama ...
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August 28, 2009, 7:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Middle East and Washington sources do not expect anything much to come of the conversation Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell hold in London Wednesday, Aug. 28 - although the two governments are close to accord on a settlement standstill. <br/>This is ...</br/>
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August 26, 2009, 10:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and Yitzhak Molcho, special adviser to Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are tying up the last ends of an understanding on West Bank settlement construction between the Obama administration and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Washington sources disclose.<br/>The two officials ...</br/>
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August 18, 2009, 11:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syria's Assad plays hardball with Obama
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