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747 articles tagged "Americas"
DEBKAfile
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May 19, 2009, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency Leon Panetta visited Israel two weeks ago to explore Israel's intentions with regard to a raid on Iran's nuclear facilities and its alignment with Egypt and Saudi Arabia for this shared objective.
Panetta showed Israeli leaders with a new US report which estimates first, ... 
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May 17, 2009, 4:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Only two weeks ago, Israel's chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, then visiting Washington, was denied interviews with US defense secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the US chiefs of staff Adm. Mike Mullen. He cut short his visit after seeing national security adviser Gen. James Jones and ...
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May 16, 2009, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
A secret American delegation was sent by US President Barack Obama this week to solicit Saudi Arabian and other Gulf rulers for hundreds of billions of petro-dollars' for investment in US and global economic stimulus plans, debkafile's exclusive Gulf sources report. They came away empty-handed.
Gulf officials were informed ... 
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May 15, 2009, 11:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
US defense Secretary Robert Gates has replaced top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan with a former Special Operations officer in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
Western military experts have long been critical of US and British war strategy in Afghanistan. 
DEBKAfile
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May 13, 2009, 7:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
An unnamed Syrian sources described Washington's decision of Friday, May 8, to renew US sanctions - because of the continuing threat Damascus posed to US interests "a routine measure" that would not affect dialogue between the two countries.
debkafile's Middle East sources say Obama is disappointed by Assad's ... 
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May 11, 2009, 10:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The exact location within Egypt from which US president Barack Obama will deliver another speech to the Muslim world on June 4 has yet to be determined, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday, May 8.
It is not clear if the US president was actually invited to visit Egypt. ... 
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May 11, 2009, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Neither US president Barack Obama and Israeli president Shimon Peres hinted publicly that their conversation at the White House Tuesday, May 5, debkafile left the two governments as out of tune as before on the handling of Iran's drive for a nuclear bomb. Obama and Peres also sidestepped ...
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May 9, 2009, 11:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
The coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly continues to track the broad impact of Barack Obama's bid for rapprochement with Tehran.
After US envoy Dennis Ross failed to persuade American Arab allies there was no sell-out, defense secretary Robert Gates was dispatched Monday on a hasty fence-mending mission. Don't miss DEBKA-Net-Weekly's exclusive coverage ... 
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May 8, 2009, 12:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration is preparing to welcome president Shimon Peres on May 5 and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu May 18 in Washington with pressing demands to follow its new Middle East line with regard to Iran, the Palestinians and Syria. debkafile's Washington sources report aa direct collision with ...
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May 5, 2009, 10:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
On March 27, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 390 revealed exclusively Barack Obama's plans "to transform the Khomeinist Islamic Republic's clenched fist against America into a helping hand by formally asking Tehran to permit the passage to Afghanistan of fresh US troops, weapons and supplies across Iranian territory."
In its follow-up of April 3, ...
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May 4, 2009, 1:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran is about to become a major fuel supplier to the West, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reports.
For the sake of dialogue and cooperation, Washington is ceding Tehran the chance to feed its natural gas into the 3,000 kilometer-long Nabucco pipeline project (from the Caspian to the EU via Turkey). The strategic-economic consequences ... 
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May 2, 2009, 1:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The only solid fact emerging from the fanciful "reports" traded between Western and Middle East media over the bombing of an Iranian arms convoy bound for Hamas in January is that Tehran's arms shipments to Hamas via Sinai and the Gaza tunnels continue at full spate.
Somehow, as the "reporting" ... 
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May 1, 2009, 10:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egypt's senior negotiator, intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman and his Israeli hosts discussed common interests ahead of the White House visits by Netanyahu, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
DEBKAfile
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May 1, 2009, 10:00 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile quotes senior Israeli military circles as staggered by the discovery that US president Barack Obama had approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army, half of whose manpower are Shiites loyal to Hizballah. This was taken as further proof that the US president is deaf ...
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April 30, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The joint Turkish-Syrian tank and armored infantry exercise backed by air power begins across the Turkish-Syrian border Monday, April 27, and lasts three days.
debkafile's military sources stress that it is the first joint military maneuver any NATO member, including Turkey, has ever carried out with Syria. It ...
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April 26, 2009, 5:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
How is Barack Obama handling the crisis?
In its latest issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly analyses its causes and effects - including the ways al Qaeda and its ilk may be expected to exploit this opportunity. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click DEBKA-Net-Weekly.com?ref=001">HERE. 
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April 25, 2009, 5:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney formally asked for the declassification of legal memos which proved that the CIA's interrogation techniques such as water-boarding worked. He stressed that the American people must have a chance to see "what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was, as ...
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April 24, 2009, 9:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the latest twist in the row over past CIA techniques for interrogating terrorists, President Barak Obama left the door open Tuesday, April 21, for the attorney general to decide whether to prosecute Bush officials who wrote the CIA memos allowing such interrogation methods as water-boarding.
DEBKAfile
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April 24, 2009, 9:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Even if Israel accepted a two-nation solution to its conflict with the Palestinians and removed every last settlement, Barack Obama would not be diverted from his global courtship of radical rulers led by Iran's Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Washington will seek to make Israel to follow its lead in ...
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April 21, 2009, 9:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the course of opening up US relations with Iran, the Obama administration was confronted April 18 with an unforeseen obstacle: A Tehran court convicted the US-born American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi of spying for the US and sentenced the 31-year old to eight years in jail.
debkafile's Iranian sources ... |
