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258 articles tagged "Egypt"
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October 30, 2006, 10:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
During the weeks of Israel's military operations to uncover Palestinian arms smuggling tunnels from Sinai into Gaza, Washington quietly sent over a military delegation of counter-terror experts to take a look at the situation on the Egyptian-Gaza and Egyptian-Israeli borders. Their first task was to find out how vast quantities ...
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January 18, 2006, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Disillusioned with the Egyptian performance, the Bush administration and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who brokered some of the Egyptian-Israel-Palestinian deals, have gone after the Mubarak government. They have left Israel and the dysfunctional security of its southwestern border hostage to their row with Cairo. Cairo is now considering pulling ...
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October 3, 2005, 10:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
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The emphatic advisory to Israeli travelers to stay clear of their favorite Sinai resorts for this year's High Holidays reflects incoming intelligence on the broadening threat posed by al Qaeda today. Since the Taba attacks exactly a year ago, the Islamist terrorist organization has ... 
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August 27, 2005, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Failing a government or Knesset veto of the still unsigned Israel-Egyptian military protocol, the Sharon government will make Egypt two if not three strategic gifts: naval control over the territorial waters off the Gaza Mediterranean coast up to Ashekelon, for one. A second unpublished clause will place within range of ...
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July 23, 2005, 8:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's terrorism sources note Al Qaeda struck in Sharm al Sheikh Friday night, July 22, just 24 hours after US secretary of state Rice landed in the Middle East. At least 75 people were killed, 200 wounded in a series of al Qaeda car bomb attacks minutes apart. ...
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July 5, 2005, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel`s proposed military protocol with Egypt for Egyptian border police to man the Philadelphi border route is under challenge by Israel`s Knesset. However, debkafile`s sources reveal that the Sharon government has also agreed to Egypt's deployment of commando troops, APCS equipped with night-vision equipment and helicopters along the ...
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April 30, 2005, 11:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
The latest twin attacks in Cairo stand out as landmarks because of three unique features revealed here exclusively by debkafile's counter-terror sources: 1. This was the first husband-and-wife suicide team ever mounted by al Qaeda or its associated organizations. These attacks were staged by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad ...
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February 22, 2005, 11:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's exclusive military sources disclose that Israel and Egypt are in the last stages of drafting protocols that set the time table and arrangements for Israeli military units to abandon the volatile Philadelphi border route cutting Rafah between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Armed Egyptian troops will move ...
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December 6, 2004, 12:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the first week of March, a senior Israeli intelligence official visiting Cairo collected a Note from president Hosni Mubarak informing prime minister Ariel Sharon that he had decided to let Azzam Azzam go. He was only waiting for the right moment to free the Israeli Druze textile engineer who ...
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June 7, 2004, 3:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Billed as a unilateral disengagement blueprint for removing Israel's civilian and military presence from the Gaza Strip, the diluted outline approved by the Israeli government Sunday, June 6, by 14 ministers to 7, actually opens an increasingly important back door for Egypt to establish an undercover presence in the West ...
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June 1, 2004, 12:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
Yasser Arafat is hopping mad with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak for trying to go behind his back and revive the Palestinian preventive security services of the Gaza Strip and West Bank under their former chiefs, respectively Muhammed Dahlan in the Gaza Strip and, with rather less authority on the West ...
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March 26, 2004, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
The process of selecting Gemal Jimmy Mubarak to succeed his 76-year old father as Egyptian president is nearly over, notwithstanding Mubarak Sr.'s denials. A book just out in Cairo, "Gemal Mubarak - Revival of National Liberalism," performs an excellent PR job on the incoming president. The book, clearly written to ...
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March 10, 2004, 3:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
More than seven years after his arrest in Cairo as an Israeli spy, Israeli Druze Azzam Azzam is coming home. debkafile's exclusive sources in Cairo have learned that his 15-year sentence with hard labor at the Limantorah prison south of Cairo is about to be commuted by order ...
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January 28, 2004, 6:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two senior Egyptian cabinet members, foreign minister Ahmed Maher and minister of intelligence Gen. Omar Suleiman, arrived in Ramallah Tuesday, January 27. They called on Yasser Arafat and Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qureia, who are not used these days to receiving visitors of such high rank. Their errand was to ...
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January 8, 2004, 5:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran announced prematurely this week that it had renewed full diplomatic relations with Egypt. It added, as a sweetener, that a street in Tehran had been renamed Intifada street from Khaled Islambuli street, after the Egyptian who assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981. Egypt denied that ties had yet been resumed, ...
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January 3, 2004, 8:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hours after an privately chartered Egyptian airplane crashed in the Red Sea at 04.44 local time on Saturday, January 3, just after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh, French Justice Minister Dominique Perben asked prosecutors to open a preliminary inquiry for manslaughter. The justice ministry in Paris said tactfully that the manslaughter ...
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July 27, 2003, 2:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
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General Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence - best known of late for his ceasefire efforts with Palestinian terrorist factions - arrived secretly in Tehran last Tuesday, July 22. There, he joined a group of his officers who have been cooling their heels in the Iranian ...
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The emphatic advisory to Israeli travelers to stay clear of their favorite Sinai resorts for this year's High Holidays reflects incoming intelligence on the broadening threat posed by al Qaeda today. Since the Taba attacks exactly a year ago, the Islamist terrorist organization has ... |
