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747 articles tagged "Americas"
DEBKAfile
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June 28, 2009, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama appears to be on course for a military showdown with North Korea, Iran and Syria's nuclear collaborator. US satellites and the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain are shadowing a North Korean vessel suspected of carrying weapons for Myanmar.
Obama's non-confrontational stance on the Iran crisis ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 28, 2009, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In less than a month, aides in Washington and Jerusalem have transmuted the head-on clash forecast for the first meeting between Binyamin Netanyahu has Israel's prime minister and US president Barack Obama Monday, May 18, into a warm, amicable encounter, debkafile's political analysts say.
This is less thanks ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 26, 2009, 9:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
As the Islamic Republic slides deeper into unrest eight days after its disputed presidential election, the fate of Iran's nuclear resources is becoming a pressing matter of concern, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's Washington sources reported Friday, June 19. Iran's nuclear program is far more advanced than generally acknowledged in the West; so ...
DEBKAfile
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June 25, 2009, 4:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
"The United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic Iran and is not interfering in Iran's affairs," said US president Barack Obama at a news conference in Washington Tuesday, June 23. "The Iranian people can speak for themselves." He added: "But we must also bear witness to the courage ...
DEBKAfile
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June 12, 2009, 6:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
During his two days in the Middle East, crowned by a speech from Cairo to the world's Muslims on June 4, US president Barack Obama cemented a new coalition between the US, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, cutting out the special US-Israel relationship, debkafile's regional sources report. This dramatic ...
DEBKAfile
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June 12, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Western sources report that President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell presented Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas with a new American plan for swapping territory when they met in Ramallah Wednesday June 10. debkafile's sources report that this plan holds the prospect of leaving the major Jewish West ...
DEBKAfile
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June 12, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton roughly rejected any secret Bush agreements with Israel on expanding settlements. She meant to have the last word and shut down the Obama administration's settlement freeze argument with Israel. But she only threw fresh fuel on the fire.
It is now a straight issue ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 11, 2009, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
James W. Brunn, 88, a rabid anti-Semite, neo-Nazi and white supremacist, shot and injured the guard, Stephen T. Johns, 39, in the Holocaust Museum entryway in Washington Wednesday, June 10 with a "long rifle." Return fire from his fellow guards stopped the attack before it reached the museum halls which ...
DEBKAfile
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June 9, 2009, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli president Shimon Peres' task in Washington on May 4-5 is to blunt the sharp edge the White House is honing to force Israel to toe the new Washington line on the Palestinians, Syria and Iran.
Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu can expect the full force of a bludgeon to be ...
DEBKAfile
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June 7, 2009, 11:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama stressed the need for mutual respect and tolerance among the world's faiths, denigrated al Qaeda and extremism, said the US "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," will respect all elected peaceful governments provided they respect their peoples in his much awaited speech to ...
DEBKAfile
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June 5, 2009, 9:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US president Barack Obama's Saudi visit June 3 was planned as extra weight for his widely-anticipated speech the next day in Cairo for easing US-Muslim tensions.
Al Qaeda's two top leaders poured vitriol on the Obama presidency Tuesday and Wednesday as reported HERE. debkafile's Middle East sources ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 5, 2009, 9:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a National Public Radio interview Monday, June 1, US president Barack Obama stood by the need for Middle East negotiations "that will lead to peace" - part of which is a freeze on settlements.
debkafile, in a special report below, underlines the need for the Netanyahu government ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 4, 2009, 4:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region or on us," US defense secretary Robert Gates said Saturday, May 30. But he insisted the next step in negating Pyongyang's ambitions would be political, not military. debka
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DEBKAfile
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May 30, 2009, 11:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, issued his most serious warning yet about the approach of a nuclear-armed Iran: "Most of us believe that Iran is one to three years from developing a nuclear weapon... But they are moving closer..." he told ABC's "This Week" ...
DEBKAfile
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May 27, 2009, 3:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
For the sake of warding off a surprise Israel attack on Iran, US president Barack Obama accepted a six-month deadline for testing Tehran by diplomacy - without pressing Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to endorse a Palestinian state. Both gave ground in their first ice-breaking encounter.
Why did the White ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 24, 2009, 11:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Washington sources report that overshadowing their outwardly easy conversation was the US president's growing inclination to meet Iran halfway on uranium enrichment, taking up the Anglo-German proposal for an international monitoring mechanism strict enough to preclude Iran's attainment of weapons-grade enriched uranium.
Asked later to comment, Netanyahu ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 23, 2009, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
The new US president's dramatic global policy shifts have easily dwarfed the knotty Israeli-Palestinian peace issue handed down from one US president to the next over decades. Barack Obama's outstretched hand to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Iran's best friend in the Americas, on April 17, at the summit of American leaders ...
DEBKAfile
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May 22, 2009, 10:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barak Obama stood by his demand for a Palestinian state while Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu continued to avoid this formula in their talks at the White House Monday, May 18, their first since both took office. Still the atmosphere in the three-and-a-half hour conversation was friendly and ...
DEBKAfile
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May 20, 2009, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's PressTV agency reran debkafile's exclusive Saturday, May 16: "Washington has secretly warned Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani that he would lose support of US troops based in the country, if Doha insists on Citing getting close to Tehran officials, debkafile reported."
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DEBKAfile
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May 20, 2009, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
This statement by a senior American official amounts to Washington's endorsement of Israel's presumed nuclear capability as long as Iran persists in continuing to enrich uranium in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, debkafile's political sources report.
This obstacle removed, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu can ask president ... |
