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DEBKAfile
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June 8, 2002, 5:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military and Middle East sources discovered that much of last week's US diplomatic bustle and hustle around the Israel-Palestinian conflict was camouflage for a secret channel of activity that added another brick to America's preparations for striking Iraq. CIA Director George Tenet, while on official business in ...
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June 4, 2002, 5:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
America has finally taken off the gloves to Arafat. This time, when CIA director George Tenet called on Yasser Arafat in Ramallah Tuesday, June 4, he gave it to him straight from the shoulder, according to a high-placed debkafile source. America, he said, expects the Palestinian leader to ...
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June 3, 2002, 5:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a lengthy speech to West Point graduates Sunday, President George W. Bush articulated a shift in his war on global terror. The familiar threats to "rout them out" or "find them wherever they are" were replaced for the first time by a warning to Americans "to be ready for ...
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May 29, 2002, 5:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
CIA Director George Tenet flies to Cairo or Jerusalem on Friday, May 31, to take charge of the final stage of the process. He will be joined in Jerusalem on Friday by Mubarak's political adviser Osama al Baz, who will inform the Israeli prime minister, defense minister and foreign minister ...
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May 14, 2002, 5:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12, Prince Abdullah, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Syrian president Bashar Assad met in the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, claiming they were ushering in direct Saudi involvement for the first time in the Palestinian problem. Oddly enough, given that agenda, the ...
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April 30, 2002, 4:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UK did not need a second invitation from George W. Bush to come roaring back to the Middle East to Yasser Arafat's rescue - with Javier Solana's European Union outfit riding in on its back.
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April 28, 2002, 4:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon needed a second vote at the Sunday, 28 April, cabinet meeting to swing a majority of 17 ministers against 8 in favor of President George W. Bush's proposal for lifting the month-long siege of Yasser Arafat in his shell-pocked HQ in Ramallah. The Bush proposal ...
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April 21, 2002, 5:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's decision to shut Prince Sultan air base east of Riyadh to US forces - and the manner in which the US evacuation was carried out -are a landmark in the oil kingdom's history. Never before has Saudi Arabia taken sole charge of its own security. The ...
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April 13, 2002, 11:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Arafat is kept in the picture by his allies - Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and the Hizballah. When the secretary of state said he had been given an eye opener, Yasser Arafat, understood his allies had been handed a grave caution. From his place of siege in Ramallah, the Palestinian leader ...
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April 5, 2002, 1:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
At the exact moment that Israel's long-awaited counter-terror operation began to bear fruit and prime minister Ariel Sharon was girding up to deal with the Iranian-Syrian backed Hizballah threat on the northern frontier, US President George W. Bush stood up in the Rose Garden and waved a red light. Thursday, ...
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April 2, 2002, 11:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
The tone of the diplomatic hair-splitting over timelines may be friendly, but, according to debkafile's political circles, it does not detract from the fact that the Sharon-Bush yearlong honeymoon is abruptly coming to a close. If he fails to toe the new Bush line, the prime minister may ...
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March 23, 2002, 1:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the light of the mounting opposition to the Iraqi operation US Vice President Richard Cheney's encountered in his 11-nation Middle East-Gulf, the White House is reported by DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military, intelligence and political sources to have fitted new goals around the Iraqi scenario, including also solutions to the acute ...
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March 19, 2002, 1:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
When US Vice President Richard Cheney began his whirlwind Middle East tour, only one regional leader was under US ultimatum. When he left, on Tuesday, March 19, there were two: Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. Neither is expected to surrender. debkafile's US and Israeli sources report that, as ...
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March 10, 2002, 5:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, March 10, the United States unexpectedly ordered 400 US troops lifted out of the battle area south of Gardez in the Afghan Paktia province. As helicopters carried the troops back to Bagram airbase, a US spokesman announced that the major part of the offensive against the al Qaeda and ...
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February 9, 2002, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
To underline their uncompromising position, US government spokesmen in Washington made haste on Saturday, February 9, to reject the Middle East positions articulated by European Union foreign ministers meeting in Madrid, recognizing Arafat as the only legitimate Palestinian leader. In a powerful vote for Arafat, France called for Palestinian elections ...
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February 3, 2002, 2:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
In its latest issue (No. 47, Feb. 1), DEBKA-Net-Weekly affirms from its sources in Washington that the Bush administration's decision on a final and irreversible break with Palestinian chairman Yasser Arafat was conveyed last week to friendly Arab and European governments. One source said: "Now we know that Arafat ...
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January 19, 2002, 7:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some broad strategy lines for the next stage of the US war against global terror are indicated in the special analyses appearing on this page. The most important, according to debkafile's intelligence sources, is a major military and political maneuver aimed at fashioning a US-ledMiddleEast-PersianGulf equivalent of the ...
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January 2, 2002, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
A US Sixth Fleet ship docked in Haifa two weeks ago carrying counter-measures for nuclear warfare, especially highly radioactive "dirty bombs", as well as vaccines and antidotes to counter biological and poison gas contamination, such as anthrax and smallpox.
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December 31, 2001, 8:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The war America has declared on terrorism is inching closer and closer to the Middle East. The Bush administration is counting on Ariel Sharon for a firm hand at Israel's helm. The new Labor leader will be strongly advised not to rock the government boat in Jerusalem, whatever this or ...
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December 22, 2001, 8:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The fragility of the national interim government sworn into office in Kabul Saturday, December 22, was underlined by one of the first tasks thrust on the new interim prime minister, the royalist Pashtun leader Hamid Karzai. On the day of his inauguration for a six-month period, he had to promise ...
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