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DEBKAfile
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December 1, 2008, 10:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
This is reported by TIME magazine.
debkafile's Washington sources add that prime minister Ehud Olmert accused the Bush administration of establishing relations with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas Over this issue, Olmert's meeting with president George W. Bush at the White House Monday, Nov. 23, intended to be a ... 
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November 24, 2008, 7:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
This weekend sees make-or-break efforts by Western finance ministers and international financial institutions to produce a plan that will drag their economies back into equilibrium before the world's markets open Monday, Oct. 13. They are working to the dread drumbeats of turmoil, panicky investors and looming recession, which some economists ...
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November 22, 2008, 10:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview to AP that the exit routes practiced through Turkey and Jordan would determine "what the challenges might be." Both governments support the effort.
debkafile's military sources report that the US army chief's statement Nov. ... 
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November 16, 2008, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Although the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have yielded no agreements on core issues, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has decided that a departmental panel will "summarize" their transcripts and hand them over to her successors.
debkafile's political sources report that this means that any thought, hypothesis or suggestion floated ...
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November 16, 2008, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
President Carter's former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinsky says president-elect Barack Obama may be tested by terrorists after he takes office on Jan. 20.
Under a secret order, the Bush administration carried out strikes against al Qaeda in 5 to 20 countries, including Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Persian ... 
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November 10, 2008, 10:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said Saturday, Nov. 8, forcefully rejected US president-elect Barack Obama's comment Friday that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons was unacceptable and its support for terrorist organizations cease. "This signifies the same erroneous policy as the past, said Larijani. "If the United States wants to change its ...
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November 10, 2008, 10:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly disclosed al Qaeda's plan to test the mettle of the incoming US president Barack Obama by opening a third anti-US war front in the Horn of Africa - in addition to the raging conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Details of Osama bin Laden's ticking, third-front bombshell were ...
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November 10, 2008, 10:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The United States' longest presidential campaign ever was hard fought up to the last minute by Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and John McCain of Arizona. Long lines of voters promised a record turn-out of more than 130 million.
Many Israeli-American voters voted for McCain as a safer choice for ... 
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November 7, 2008, 10:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
The outgoing US president George W. Bush gathered the White House staff Thursday, Nov. 6, to stress that their primary task in the 75 days left of his administration is to ensure a successful transition to Barack Obama. The incoming president received his first intelligence briefing from Central Intelligence Director ...
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November 6, 2008, 2:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
John McCain has conceded defeat. According to partial results, the Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama carried 51 percent of the vote (40,339,687) and 349 electors compared with McCain's 48 percent (37,866,221) and 161 electors in 48 states.
McCain urged all Americans to offer their goodwill and support for the new ...
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November 5, 2008, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Unnamed US officials named a Syrian network that funneled fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq. The Syrians called the raid a terror operation.
And another enigma: What made George Bush go for it now, just before his exit, when for years the US kept its hands off? More questions - and ... 
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November 4, 2008, 9:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, Oct. 31, Libya paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate families of the American victims of terrorist attacks committed in the 1980s and linked to Muammar Qaddafi. The US government agreed to pay out $300 million dollars in compensation for the 41 Libyans, including Qaddafi's stepdaughter, killed in ...
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November 4, 2008, 9:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's military sources, the removal of Syrian forces is intended to punish the US twice for last Sundays' commando raid in northern Syria. First, the 8th Army's removal opens the Iraqi border open to the free passage of al Qaeda, Fatah al-Islam and Iraqi insurgents for ...
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November 2, 2008, 9:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
A US counterterrorism official said Monday, Oct. 27, that American special forces killed the head of a Syrian network that funneled fighters, weapons and cash in to Iraq when they raided Abu Kemal 7 km inside Syria Sunday. The unnamed official said the raid targeted the home of Abu Ghadiyah, ...
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October 31, 2008, 10:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
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Following the incipient thaw in US relations with Damascus, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sent a message to Hamas' Khalid Meshaal. debkafile's Middle East sources also reveal that on Oct. 21, Syria completed its encircling deployment of Lebanon after an unacknowledged nod ...
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October 30, 2008, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
The two neo-Nazis, Paul Schlesselman, 18, and Daniel Cowart, 20, were accused before a court in Jackson, Tennessee, Monday, with possessing an unregistered firearm and conspiracy to steal from a licensed gun dealer. The two men allegedly planned to assassinate Barack Obama after a murder spree, shooting 88 black people ...
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October 26, 2008, 11:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
US intelligence's amended estimate, that Iran will be ready to build its first bomb just one month after the next US president is sworn in, is disclosed by debkafile's Washington sources as having been relayed as a guideline to the Middle East teams of both presidential candidates, Senators ...
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October 23, 2008, 8:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
The top-secret meeting, aimed at putting US-Russian bilateral relations back on their pre-Georgian crisis track, was arranged in top secrecy and took place in neutral Helsinki Tuesday, Oct. 21. US sources said the meeting was requested by Moscow.
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October 21, 2008, 1:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview with the Arabiya TV, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice pledged Friday, Oct. 17, that Washington would "never permit Syria to intervene militarily in Lebanon."
debkafile's military sources add: From Sept. 14, 6-8,000 Syrian troops have been massed on the North Lebanese border, as this ... 
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October 19, 2008, 8:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has decided not to treat the Palestinian issue as a top priority if he wins the Nov. 4 election, debkafile's Washington exclusive sources reveal. The Middle East experts on the senator's transition team advised him there was no hurry to address the ...
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