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November 3, 2003, 1:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon holds talks in the Kremlin Monday, November 3, with Russian president Vladimir Putin. These talks, according to debkafile's intelligence, Moscow and Washington sources, focus on Israel's place in the epochal global strategy Presidents George W. Bush and Putin ... 
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November 3, 2003, 12:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two features are emerging from the escalating wave of violence besetting Iraq: 1. The US military command in Iraq headed by Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is determined to pursue a course that he believes will lead to Saddam Hussein's capture. 2. US ground operations continue to go forward without adequate intelligence ...
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October 26, 2003, 4:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The guerrilla rockets that pierced the fortifications surrounding Baghdad's landmark al Rashid hotel early Sunday, October 26, missed their presumed target, US deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Nonetheless, the attack makes the thought-provoking memo penned by his boss Donald Rumsfeld ten days earlier look like a self-fulfilling prophecy. The rockets ...
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October 19, 2003, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
US officials in Tel Aviv are complaining about the "mixed" cooperation FBI investigators have encountered from Palestinian Authority security services in their inquiry into the remote-controlled bomb attack in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, October 15, that left three American security men dead and one injured. This was a polite ...
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October 15, 2003, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The explosion that blasted a CIA vehicle outside Beit Hanoun just after an official US embassy convoy entered the northern Gaza Strip through the Erez checkpoint represents a dangerous escalation of Palestinian terrorist aggression. It is a milestone, akin to the August 19 suicide strike ... 
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October 14, 2003, 12:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to one Damascus source, Syria has followed the Israeli air raid of a Palestinian site on its soil by secretly calling up 300,000 reservists to beef up its standing army of roughly the same number. This figure, in the view of debkafile's military sources, is implausibly high. ...
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September 22, 2003, 1:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Syrian Vice President Khalim Haddam Saturday, September 20, dismissed any suggestion of Damascus bowing to pressure from Washington - or being scared by economic sanctions. American threats are futile, he said. Syria does little business with the US; its main trading partners are European. ... 
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August 25, 2003, 1:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
The surprise scheme for stemming Palestinian violence came from an unexpected direction. Two powerful US senators, Richard Lugar (Rep-Indiana), chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee and Dianne Feinstein (Dem.-California) mooted the same idea at the same moment in Wolf Blitzer's weekly Late Edition over CNN Sunday, August 24.
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August 2, 2003, 10:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
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US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister John Howard are preparing a rejoinder to quell the domestic credibility crises Iraqi WMD skeptics have whipped up in their countries, with the help of anti-American, anti-war factions in politics and foreign intelligence ...
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July 28, 2003, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/saddam_black.jpg" align="right" border="0">The decision to kill Saddam Hussein's two sons Uday and Qusay when they were surrounded in a villa in Mosul - instead of taking them alive - was made by high-ranking officials in Washington to meet the overarching goal of showing the Iraqi people that Saddam ...
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July 20, 2003, 9:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas reaches the White House on July 25 seriously unempowered by Yasser Arafat, the very man whose authority he was appointed to curtail in order to stamp out Palestinian terrorism. His function is now openly described by Palestinian officials as "Arafat's messenger". The process of incapacitation ...
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July 7, 2003, 11:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
On July 6, the day before he took off for Cairo, Syrian President Bashar Assad signed Decree 408 in the name of the ruling Baath party. This bureaucratic measure hit the Syrian political system like a bolt from the blue. In a trice, the party which had governed ever corner ...
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July 1, 2003, 12:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Damascus filed only a mild protest at Washington's tardiness in repatriating the five Syrian soldiers captured by US troops when on June 18 when they attacked a convoy suspected of carrying Saddam Hussein in flight to Syria. The Syrians, three wounded, were handed back Monday, June 30. The Bashar government ...
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June 29, 2003, 11:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
What did the US President's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice really come to the Middle East for? To get the Abu Mazen-Dahlan team started on the war against Palestinian terror? Not a chance. They presented her with a list of demands a mile long when she met the duo in ...
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June 28, 2003, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
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For the Palestinians to begin upholding their June 4 Aqaba summit pledges, another strong shove was needed from Washington. It was administered this week in a telephone call from US secretary of state Colin Powell to Palestinian internal security minister Mohamed Dahlan. ... 
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June 25, 2003, 1:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
This exclusive report appeared for the first time in the last issue of debkafile's intelligence weekly published on June 20.
The Americans are secretly building two giant intelligence facilities in Iraq at a cost of some half a billion dollars, according to an exclusive report received from ... 
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June 24, 2003, 12:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli-Palestinian peace front remains stalled in defiance of the US secretary of state Colin Powell's generous assertion of progress towards an Israeli-Palestinian accord for the transfer of security responsibility on the Gaza Strip. He also commended the Palestinian Authority for its hard work to bring into place a cessation ...
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June 23, 2003, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
The loud chatter swirling around the stalled Middle East road map muffled the real news emerging from this year's World Economic Forum assembled on June 22 at Shuneh on the Jordanian coast of the Dead Sea. debkafile's exclusive sources report some of these items. For Washington, the focus ...
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June 17, 2003, 12:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Very shortly, Israelis will wake up to find their military forces pulling out of the northern Gaza Strip and Bethlehem and handing over the war on terror originating in those regions to Palestinian prime minister Abu Mazen and his internal security minister Mohamed Dahlan. The confusion Monday, June 16, over ...
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June 8, 2003, 12:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/Thumb.jpg" align="right" border="0">Leading Palestinian factions are marking the Aqaba summit period as open season for terror. Sunday morning, June 8, the three dominant groups, Fatah - with suicide arm al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Hamas and Jihad Islami, for the first time publicly admitted acting in unison to ...
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