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DEBKAfile
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December 17, 2001, 8:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The conversation between US defense secretary and the interim Afghan defense minister is described by sources in Kabul as correct and direct, but neither warm nor conclusive. According to those sources, they differed chiefly on three points. . .
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December 15, 2001, 8:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US truce envoy, Anthony Zinni, quickly understood that his chances of brokering a Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire were nil as long as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to lift a finger against Palestinian terrorists. On the assumption that the Palestinian Authority was on the verge of collapse, Zinni was pressed into ...
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December 15, 2001, 3:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report key American military movements in the last two weeks in the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and Middle East that radically shift the strategic focus of the US war on terror westward, bringing Iraq, Lebanon and its Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley into range.
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December 6, 2001, 8:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian may try last-resort maneuvers, but he cannot escape the joint American-Israel sword poised over his head. Neither can he hope for any world leader to reach out and rescue him. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and his dwindling pro-Oslo adherents may try, but they will do so in ...
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December 5, 2001, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile 's political analysts note President Bush's striking departure from the line taken by his predecessors. President Clinton, who engaged intensely and personally in Middle East peacemaking, worked according to the premise that if enough Israeli concessions were forthcoming to satisfy Palestinian national aspirations, a Middle East peace ...
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November 26, 2001, 9:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a sign of the times, retired US Marines General Anthony Zinni has been put in command of American Middle East peace diplomacy for the next two weeks. His landing in the region coincided with the US Marine landing in Afghanistan.
DEBKAfile
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November 26, 2001, 9:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
This new drive follows weeks of frustration in their hunt for the super terrorist. Concentrating on the Marouf area 80 miles south of Kandahar and the southeastern Uruzgan province between Kandahar and Kabul, which is traditional Pashtun country, the hunters have been hobbled by lack of precise intelligence. Even the ...
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November 24, 2001, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
switching sides in mid-battle is a traditional feature of Afghan warfare. Saturday, one particularly large group of around 600 high Taliban officers with their men was granted safe passage from Konduz all the way through to the Taliban's second stronghold of Kahandar in the south with their weapons. US Special ...
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November 21, 2001, 9:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
Escalating border clashes, incursions and a massive Indian army buildup on the Line of Control in the disputed province of Kashmir in the last 48 hours are some of the most threatening side-effects of the Afghan war, bringing two nuclear powers close to flashpoint.
DEBKAfile
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November 18, 2001, 10:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration has clearly placed Arafat, Assad and countries harboring terrorists on notice to actively fight the blight, or take the consequences. All Washington wants to hear is what Mubarak is doing to root out the extremist Egyptian Jihad Islami and the jihadist Takfir al Hajira, how Assad is ...
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November 13, 2001, 8:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Saturday, Dedcember 30, President Musharraf was informed from Washington that freezing the assets of the two militant Kashmiri groups Delhi has accused of the attack - Jaish e-Mohamed (Army of the Prophet Mohamed) and Lakshar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pious) - was praiseworthy but not enough. He must order them ...
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November 7, 2001, 10:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
This former Soviet republic has some key strategic advances going for it in Washington - and not merely as a forward base for the Afghanistan war effort: It is largely unpopulated - 80pc empty desert - and therefore eminently suited to a large-scale military forward presence; three-quarters of its 4.25 ...
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October 24, 2001, 10:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Clearly, a rupture in US-Israeli relations is not at hand, notwithstanding the heavy warnings. If anything, the US president appears to be losing patience with the Arab and Muslim world, friends and foes alike. Whereas Monday, the Bush Administration announced warfare would be suspending in honor of the Muslim month ...
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October 22, 2001, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
US military chiefs had banked on the four main Afghan cities of Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat, falling into US hands with Taliban bases three weeks before the onset of heavy winter snows. That estimate has been revised. Now, the United States will have to do one of two things: ...
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October 9, 2001, 10:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
On Sunday, October 7, exactly 1 hour and 50 minutes before the first US air bombardment, two light planes took off from Kahandar airport, without lights. They appeared on the radar screens of US attacking bombers for five minutes before vanishing, never to be traced until now. According to the ...
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October 6, 2001, 2:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military and intelligence sources report that Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, in a single 70-minuted conversation o September 23, eleven days after the terrorist assaults in New York and Washington, agreed on the deployment of tactical weapons. This is an epic shift in the global ...
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September 16, 2001, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Washington sources report that, although the White House and secretary of state Colin Powell are conducting intensive diplomatic bargaining to broaden the US-led bloc for the coming military offensive against the international terror blight, Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney are determined to march on the enemy ...
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September 15, 2001, 11:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
The United States if going to war to avenge itself for the catastrophic hijack-suicide attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The first stage of the conflict, according to initial, conservative estimates, could last two to three years. Its success will determine the scope and timeframe of the ...
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June 27, 2001, 11:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
For Washington, tackling Arafat is only one part of the larger picture. The Bush administration's short-term objective is to keep the Palestinian-Israeli conflict manageable - and therefore inconclusive, so as to be uninflammable in regional terms. Arafat must content himself with just a few shooting incidents a day, both sides ...
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June 25, 2001, 12:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
on Monday, June 25, just as Ariel Sharon was on the point of leaving New York for his White House meeting with President Bush, Arafat chose his moment to signal an end to this arrangement. According to our Palestinian sources, Arafat personally assigned his gunmen to open fire Monday afternoon ...
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