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747 articles tagged "Americas"
DEBKAfile
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June 4, 2003, 7:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Both prime ministers put their best feet forward and pronounced the words that President George W. Bush wanted to hear at the end of their 90-minute summit in the idyllic Red Sea resort of Aqaba on Wednesday, June 4. What will happen to all those noble sentiments after the US ...
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June 1, 2003, 1:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
How should Osama bin Laden, Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein interpret the latest American moves in relation to Iran and the war on terror? debkafile offers some answers from its counter-terror analysts and Palestinian sources:Yasser Arafat. After a period of extreme trepidation over Saddam's downfall and the appointment ...
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May 31, 2003, 1:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
On May 1, US President George W. Bush landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln opposite the San Diego coast of California and declared, "Combat operations in Iraq have ended." Thirty days later, US Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, commander of American mili8tary forces on the ground Iraq, said: ...
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May 26, 2003, 1:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli government's narrow endorsement of the Middle East road map on Sunday May 25 - and acceptance of a Palestinian state at the end of the road - far from removing the obstacles to peacemaking, accentuates the difficulties facing the next stages. debkafile's US and Israeli security ...
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May 24, 2003, 11:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration is engaged in one of the most sensitive and ambitious geo-strategic projects ever undertaken by any US presidency - comparable to landmark events like the termination of the Cold War, the opening up of Communist China to the world back in the 1970s and detente with the ...
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May 12, 2003, 2:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
As he demonstrated during US secretary of state Colin Powell visit this week, Mahmoud Abbas - Abu Mazen - is endeavoring to earn the job of first Palestinian prime minister by keeping three balls up in the air at once: He wants to prove his "reformist" credentials to Washington and ...
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May 7, 2003, 1:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Americans are sitting tight on the extremely valuable Iraqi intelligence archives discovered at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad and at sub-departments of Saddam's clandestine machine never before known to exist. The only data released are a few leaks to the British media calculated to help prime minister Tony Blair ...
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May 4, 2003, 12:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
Syria is reported by DEBKA-Net-Weekly's intelligence sources as having secretly disposed of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction by moving them into eastern Lebanon for burial in the Beqaa Valley. Iraq's biological weapons may be there too. They were interred deep under the heroin poppy and cotton fields in ...
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April 30, 2003, 10:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The tune played by the American intelligence's instrument of deep enemy penetration was "better than stunning", a Western intelligence source told DEBKA-Net-Weekly(as first reported in Issue No. 106 on April 25). US, British and Australian special forces were armed with a flood of data for forging contacts with Iraqi ...
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April 30, 2003, 1:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
As night follows day, a Palestinian terrorist attack was bound to follow the approval of the new Abu Mazen government on Tuesday, April 29, in Ramallah. In fact, it was carried out during the night between its approval and swearing in Wednesday morning April 30 as the first supposedly reform ...
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April 29, 2003, 7:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Several thousand adherents of the deposed Iraqi president gathered in his former power base of Tikrit Monday, April 28, to celebrate Saddam Hussein's 66th birthday. They bore his pictures aloft with congratulatory slogans. In Baghdad, retired US general Jay Garner, interim administrator in charge of Iraq's reconstruction, organized his second ...
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April 27, 2003, 1:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
US secretary of state Colin Powell's forthcoming Middle East tour starting in Cairo on May 1 has evoked two responses in Israel: Depression in one camp at the all-too familiar prospect of crushing pressure for "confidence-building" gestures to encourage peacemaking in the face of spiraling terror. Perkiness in the opposite ...
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April 22, 2003, 1:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first great pilgrimage to Karbala that Iraqi Shiites were permitted to make in almost 30 years, starting Tuesday, April 22, may prove the defining event in the US-Iran contest for influence over Iraq's majority Shiite community. The freedom to commemorate the 7th century death in battle of Imam Hussein, ...
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April 21, 2003, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, April 20, Damascus surrendered a top official of the Saddam Hussein's regime, one of the eight granted sanctuary (as listed by debkafile last Friday, April 18), Republican Guards secretary Kemal Mustafa al Tikriti, who is married to Saddam's youngest daughter. The Syrians pushed him across the border ...
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April 20, 2003, 12:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti, one of Saddam's three half brothers, was very much alive when American forces picked him up Thursday, April 17, despite the reports of his death in a coalition air raid of his home in Tikrit north of Baghdad last week. He had simply moved to another palatial ...
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April 20, 2003, 12:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
On August 18, 1994, the legendary Iranian singer Marzieh turned her back on her country. As a gesture of protest against the increasingly repressive Islamic regime in Tehran, she joined the armed Iranian armed opposition movement, Mujahideen I-Khalq, throwing in her lot with its leader and commander, Maryam Rajavi. Her ...
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March 15, 2003, 12:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The two giant American B-1 multi-role long-range bombers that struck two military radar sites in West Iraq Friday, March 14, laid down markers for fully activating the western warfront of the Iraq campaign. The heavy bombers, not used in Iraq since 1998 Operation Desert Fox, hit a mobile anti-aircraft radar ...
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March 11, 2003, 2:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
From midday Monday, March 10 - early morning in Washington, the odds shortened sharply for an early launch of the American war offensive against Iraq - according to debkafile's military sources. Some sources predicted it would go forward even before the crucial Security Council voting session on the ...
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February 22, 2003, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior military sources in Kuwait, asked by debkafile source, did not deny that special operations might already be underway in Iraq's southern oil fields. The same source said any assault on Iraq will have to carefully balance `hard strikes` with `soft overtures` to Iraqis most likely to capitulate ...
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February 19, 2003, 12:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
The muddle and uncertainty that have in the last three days confused perceptions surrounding the Iraq War in European and Middle East capitals are making way for some clarity. The pendulum can now be clearly seen to be veering towards "on" rather than "off". It is also possible to discern ...
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