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747 articles tagged "Americas"
DEBKAfile
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January 27, 2003, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
America's UN ambassador John Negroponte responded angrily and immediately to the reports delivered to the UN Security Council Monday, January 27, by chief UN Inspector Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency head, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Those reports said in effect: We can't prove Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, ... 
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January 18, 2003, 10:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, January 19, Israel's defense minister Shaul Mofaz will present to the full cabinet session in Jerusalem his completed plan for meeting the hazards of a US-Iraqi war in the civilian, security and home front sectors. He will tell the ministers that the country is ready for the war. That ...
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January 15, 2003, 11:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
One major cause of the breakdown of Turkish-US understandings for the Iraq war is the surprise candidate the Bush team is promoting to rule post-war Baghdad: Jalal Talabani, 69-year old chief of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. This was reported exclusively inDEBKA-Net-Weekly No. 92on Jan. 10. Officials in Washington ...
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December 29, 2002, 10:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's intelligence and military sources report that Saturday, December 21 - or Sunday, December 22 - directly after his visit to London, Syrian president Bashar Assad traveled again - this time to a secret rendezvous with Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. He brought with him President George ...
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December 21, 2002, 7:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
December 18: From Powell to Blix:
Before you present your first report on the team's findings in Iraq to the UN Secretary and Security Council, may I remind you of our prior understandings: 1. You will specify that the December 7 Iraqi arms declaration denying possession of weapons of mass destruction is ... 
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December 7, 2002, 4:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Running circles around the UN arms inspection headed by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, the Iraqi government dropped a massive pile of documents - its reply to the UN Security Council demand for a full accounting of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - in the laps of the international media Saturday, ...
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September 17, 2002, 2:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraq's offer to unconditionally re-admit the UN arms inspectors thrown out four years ago has forged cracks in the UN Security Council, but not deflected the Bush administration's determination to remove the regime the US president called "barbaric" when he addressed a fund-raiser in Nashville, Tennessee, Tuesday, September 17. Taunting ...
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August 18, 2002, 4:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile 's military sources report that the United States and Israel have wound up their preparations for a mass terror attack using unconventional weapons. The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly (Issue 71, August 16), reported perturbation in Washington and Jerusalem over the fresh intelligence assessment that Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein ...
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August 5, 2002, 4:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
In total hush, the US has embarked on advance preparations deep inside Iraq for the coming offensive against Baghdad. In northern Iraq, these preparations are in the form of crash engineering projects.
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July 29, 2002, 3:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
This first contingent, also the smallest - no more than 30,000 to 40,000 troops - will attack from the north, setting out from US installations in southern Turkey, mainly the large air base at Incirlik. They will link up with US special forces already present in northern Iraq, US commando-trained ...
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July 27, 2002, 3:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political analysts view the American UN ambassador's landmark statement as strikingly significant in terms of the Bush administration's war on global terror and its relations with the Arab and Muslim world, as well as its perception of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the Jewish state's future in the ...
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July 23, 2002, 5:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Notwithstanding its avowed reluctance to boost its presence in Afghanistan, the United States has launched two critical military steps:
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July 21, 2002, 3:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile, with the help of its exclusive sources and analysts, is devoting to the subject a series of articles this week. The series consists of three articles which appears below. The first, detailing American moves. Subsequent articles will outline the ways in which Israel, the Palestinians and Arab ...
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July 13, 2002, 1:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
America has secretly built a new central command center for its Iraq offensive in the Eritrean port of Assab. The new facility also houses jumping off bases for the US air force and navy. While way off the beaten track, Assab has the great advantage of being positioned strategically near ...
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July 2, 2002, 4:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
On June 11, Saddam Hussein signed Military Directive 531 ordering commando units from the Republican Guards and special military intelligence combat units to head into northern Iraq. He had just received intelligence reports indicating that the US special forces and CIA personnel he knew to have landed in the northern ...
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July 1, 2002, 5:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
The international war crimes court was born in The Hague Monday, July 1 amid serious challenges to its authority. A few hours earlier, Sunday June 30, the United States announced its withdrawal from the international peacekeeping force in Bosnia unless the UN Security Council could, within 72 hours, produce safeguards ...
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June 30, 2002, 4:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Middle East is waiting with bated breath for the follow-up steps to President George W. Bush's landmark Middle East policy speech last Monday, June 23. No climb-downs are likely on any side. At the G-8 Summit in Canada last Wednesday, June 25, Bush said (if Arafat dug his heels ...
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June 16, 2002, 4:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Middle East statement/ communique/ address US President George W. Bush has promised this week has put the region on high suspense. Most of its prominent leaders have crossed the Atlantic to make sure of a word in the president's ear in good time. The Palestinians have registered their basic ...
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June 14, 2002, 4:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian government spokesman Abdllah Ramezanzadeh handled with extreme care the Tehran press reports of a US unmanned plane crashing late last month near the city of Korba in Iran's northwestern province of Kurdistan. He confirmed the crash, but said the wreckage had been scattered too widely in the mountainous region ...
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June 11, 2002, 4:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syria was the key issue on the Bush-Sharon agenda. The Palestinian issue figured no higher than third item down because of the broad consensus between the two leaders. The US president signed on to the Israeli prime minister's proposition that Yasser Arafat's administration has a long way to go towards ...
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