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258 articles tagged "Egypt"
DEBKAfile
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September 10, 2008, 8:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Abu Ghait met secretly with Hizballah leaders in Beirut last week, DEBKA file's counter-terror sources report, and invited a delegation to pay a formal visit to Cairo. This is a stab in the back for Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and their ...
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August 31, 2008, 9:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that a new 11-point scheme, just developed by Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, provides for the bulk of the 3,000-strong force to be Egyptian. It will be presented to Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak Tuesday, Aug. 26.
When Secretary of State ... 
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August 29, 2008, 5:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's intelligence and counter-terror sources disclose that Egypt's interior ministry's security forces, airports, harbors, and border terminals were placed on the highest terror alert Sunday afternoon, Aug. 24, in response to information that an al Qaeda team or teams were heading for major strikes against specific targets.
Extra guards ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 7, 2008, 9:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that last week, Israel's negotiator Ofer Dekel returned from Cairo empty-handed. Prospects for the release of Gilead Shalit, two years after his abduction in a cross border raid from Gaza, had receded and, two weeks after it went into effect, the Gaza truce accord ...
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May 22, 2008, 8:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources point to disturbing policy contradictions in Israel's handling of the Palestinian Hamas. Ahead of French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner's arrival Tuesday, May 20, Jerusalem asked France to clarify the contacts made by an emissary with Hamas officials.
At the same time, prime minister Ehud Olmert ... 
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May 22, 2008, 8:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military source counted four armed Hamas assaults on the Gaza-Israel border fence Tuesday, May 20. They were made to press the Palestinian group's truce terms and demand for 350 jailed terrorists "with blood on their hands" as the price for kidnapped Israeli solder Gilead Shalit's freedom.
In ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 18, 2008, 8:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman Monday, May 12, presented the truce plan he negotiated with Hamas leaders in Cairo to Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni.
debkafile's sources report they essentially accepted the offer with some caveats and agreed ...
DEBKAfile
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April 21, 2008, 4:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
They are armed and driving around in four pickups preparatory to carrying out attacks, say Egyptian officials. Israeli Passover holidaymakers have been warned from Jerusalem of mortal danger from terrorists at the Sinai resorts popular with Israelis. The small numbers who entered through the Taba crossing for the festival which ...
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April 15, 2008, 7:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that, following the Palestinian attack on the Israel-Gaza border fuel terminal that supplies its own population, Hamas plans a mass protest Thursday, April 10 against the "Israeli and Egyptian blockade" of the Gaza Strip. Our sources report that a tough Egyptian message put Hamas ...
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April 8, 2008, 9:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources report that scholars at Cairo's al Azhar University, which is under tight government control, have issued an edict barring the sale of Egyptian oil and gas to "the Zionist enemy" as a betrayal of Islam. Ministers and lawmakers from all of Egypt's parties are ...
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March 28, 2008, 6:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
On television, he said, he was at a loss over who's who. The Egyptian president's remark quickly wiped the smile from the face of his host, President Vladimir Putin. The visit ended with an agreement for Russian companies to bid for contracts to build nuclear power plants in Egypt.
DEBKAfile
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March 26, 2008, 7:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
A US navy chartered ship preparing to enter the Suez Canal fired warning shots when approached by a small Egyptian motorboat Monday. Cairo reported an Egyptian trader on the motorboat, one of several trying to sell goods to passing ships, was killed and two others wounded. The US Navy said ...
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February 6, 2008, 4:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Highway 10 is the main route from northern Israel to Eilat in the south. Since Wednesday, the hotels, port facilities and IDF bases in an around Eilat, at Israel's southernmost point, have been on terror alert. Hundreds of armed Palestinian terrorists are believed at large in the vicinity of Sinai's ...
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February 2, 2008, 11:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: Cairo and Jerusalem have each accused the other of responsibility for the chaotic Palestinian influx from Gaza to Egyptian Sinai and the rising terrorist threat to both in consequence.
Despite official Israel denials, the defense ministry's political adviser Amos Gilead did visit Cairo last week to complain ... 
DEBKAfile
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January 28, 2008, 9:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Since Tuesday, Jan. 22, almost half Gaza's Palestinian population of 1.5 million has surged into northern Sinai, their gunmen and sheer numbers forcing Egyptian riot troops to stand back while taking 40 injured, some critically. The summons to Cairo was issued by Egyptian foreign minister Abdullah Gheit who appealed to ...
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January 2, 2008, 5:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources report that under the new arrangements the Israeli and Egyptian armies will work together. Their security teams meet at Nitzana on the Gaza border Sunday, Dec. 30, to establish a combined staff center for eradicating tunnel traffic from Sinai to the Gaza Strip. This was one of ...
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December 30, 2007, 8:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
As debkafile reported earlier, Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak was to deliver Israel's answers to the Egyptian truce-cum-prisoner-release proposal to their meeting Wednesday.
Saturday, debkafile disclosed the outline of the Egyptian proposal which is backed by Washington. 
DEBKAfile
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June 29, 2007, 6:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Hosni Mubarak's astonishing U-turn renders pretty pointless the conference he convened in Sharm al Sheikh Monday, June 25, to discuss the Hamas takeover crisis. Only Saturday, he denounced Hamas for staging an illegal coup. Sunday, June 24, our exclusive intelligence sources report an official VIP convoy headed by Hamas' ...
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April 18, 2007, 8:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prosecutor-General Abdul-Maquid Mahmoud said also two agents, an Irishman and a Japanese, are wanted in connection with the affair. Israel's foreign ministry responded: Unfortunately, tales like this one surface from time to time in Cairo and always prove unfounded.
DEBKAfile
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February 5, 2007, 7:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
In Cairo, State Prosecutor Hisham Badawi said Saturday that an Egyptian-Canadian, Mohamed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar, 31, had been arrested as an Israeli spy. He accused three Israelis of recruiting Attar when he lived in Turkey in Aug. 2001, identifying them as Daniel Levi, Kemal Kosba and Tuncay Bubay.
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