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March 6, 2009, 6:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a brief statement Sunday, March 1, US film actress Annette Bening, in Tehran with a Hollywood delegation, said: "I hope we can be a bridge to open a dialogue between out two countries, confirming debkafile's report that president Barack Obama had launched his bid for talks with ...
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March 6, 2009, 6:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton detached two officials from her delegation in Jerusalem for a visit to Damascus "to explore some bilateral issues." Tuesday, March 3. In her meetings with Israel leaders, she pledged "everything we can to ensure Israel's security now and into the future" and repeated ...
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March 5, 2009, 9:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Employees at the data monitoring firm Tiversa discovered last week that the blueprints and other sensitive data of a helicopter in president Barack Obama's fleet had been gained online. The US Navy is investigating how a "malicious" source in Iran accessed the information. The targeted craft is not named. The ...
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March 4, 2009, 5:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda's friends struck in Lahore at the heart of the Obama administration's bid for a South Asian handle to resolve the conflict in Afghanistan - with knock-on effects in New Delhi, Tehran, Damascus and Gaza.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly's next issue analyzes some of the ground the new US president has covered ... 
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March 2, 2009, 12:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals how Richard Holbrooke, president Barack Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has moved in on White House interchanges with Tehran.
This is just one of the DEBKA-Net-Weekly exclusives featured in this week's issue out Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click DEBKA-Net-Weekly.com?ref=001">HERE.
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February 27, 2009, 10:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Contrary to widespread speculation, veteran diplomat Dennis Ross has been named special adviser to secretary of state Hillary Clinton for counsel on the broad area between Afghanistan and Egypt, according to Washington officials. President Barack Obama has decided not to appoint a presidential envoy for Iran, a post which Ross ...
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February 22, 2009, 8:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the US Senate foreign relations committee, crossed into Gaza Thursday, Feb. 19, after visiting the missile-battered Israeli town of Sderot. He stressed that his visit did not reflect "any shift whatsoever with respect to Hamas" and "...any nation that has rockets coming into it over ...
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February 17, 2009, 2:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, visits Damascus next week. debkafile's Middle East sources disclose that Assad's actions in the past year, including his stalled indirect peace track with Israel, have focused on breaking through to good relations with the future Obama administration.
The ... 
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February 14, 2009, 3:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
"In the coming months, we will be looking for openings... to start sitting across the table face to face" with Iran, said US president Barack Obama at a press conference early Tuesday, Feb. 10. He pledged all US tools in dealing with Iran - and that "includes diplomacy." Iranian president ...
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February 9, 2009, 6:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The new US administration has finalized its policies for the Middle East.
The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly shed first light on some of Barack Obama's key decisions on how to handle Iran and its nuclear program, future relations with Israel, the Palestinian question and much more. It offered answers to some of ... 
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February 8, 2009, 9:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The United States and Russia are bidding hard against each other to give the Lebanese army heavy weapons, a contest which Israeli diplomacy has failed to deter, debkafile's military sources report.
Defense ministry official Amos Gilead arrived in Moscow Friday, Dec. 19 too late to stop sophisticated Russian ... 
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February 8, 2009, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
The White House and Pentagon issued strong statements Tuesday, Feb. 3 about the dangers posed by the launch of Iran's first homemade satellite into space.
debkafile notes that none of the leading contenders in Israel's Feb. 10 general election, including the defense and foreign ministers - or even prime ... 
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February 3, 2009, 11:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
The White House and Pentagon voiced grave concern Tuesday, Feb. 3 over the launch of Iran's first satellite into space as the Islamic Republic continues to work toward developing long-range missile capability. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said any effort to develop missile delivery capability, continue an illicit nuclear program, ...
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January 14, 2009, 7:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Eight days before ending his two terms in office as US president, George W. Bush said: "There is still an enemy out there who wants to attack America and Americans." That is the most urgent threat facing Barack Obama.
On the Gaza conflict, Bush said: I'm trying for a sustainable ... 
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January 5, 2009, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The most up-to-date intelligence predictions of US nuclear experts is that by the end of 2009, Iran will have stocked enough weapons-grade fuel to build three nuclear bombs.
So what happened to the pledges made by the world powers over the years to keep nuclear weapons out of the Islamic ... 
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December 18, 2008, 7:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hundreds of students at Diyala University in Baquba carried banners demanding the release of Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who was arrested for throwing his shoes at visiting George W. Bush and calling him "a dog" - two ultimate Arab insults.
Two smaller demonstrations of support took place in Falluja and Baghdad, mainly by ... 
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December 16, 2008, 7:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a speech to a Gulf security conference in Bahrain, Dec. 13, US defense secretary Robert Gates offered the first authoritative presentation of the incoming administration's views on key regional security issues. He warned US adversaries they would be "sorely mistaken" to test the new administration in its early days, ...
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December 13, 2008, 4:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
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To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click DEBKA-Net-Weekly.com?ref=001">HERE. As part of the incipient thaw in US relations with Damascus, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has relayed a friendly message to Hamas political leader Khalid Meshaal through Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem's aides. The message, described ... 
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December 10, 2008, 7:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Americans began building up extra US naval, marine and air power in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf opposite India, Pakistan and Iran last week at the outset of the terrorist attack on Mumbai, debkafile's military sources report. Tehran threatens counter-attack if Washington uses the crisis to ...
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December 7, 2008, 10:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that in their talks in New Delhi and Islamabad Wednesday, Dec. 3, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and top US soldier, Adm. Mike Mullen, failed to tamp down the rising military tensions between India and Pakistan. Their talks were clouded by the threat ...
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