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61 articles tagged "Europe"
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DEBKAfile
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March 20, 2007, 1:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
EU foreign policy executive Javier Solana offered cooperation to recover the territory which Syria lost to Israel in 1967 at his meeting with Syrian president Bashar Assad in Damascus Wednesday. Damascus has made Western, including US, cooperation against Israel the price for playing its part in ending the violence in ...
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September 16, 2006, 3:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
A firestorm of Muslim rage was ignited by a lecture on the theme of Faith and Reason that Pope Benedict XVI gave at Regensburg University in Germany Tuesday, Sept 12.
The fury that beset the Muslim world recalls the tempest which greeted the Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper earlier ... 
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June 4, 2006, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The raid was carried out amid fears of a new terror attack to coincide with the first anniversary of the July 7 London transport attacks, that left 52 commuters dead and hundreds injured. It was guided by "specific intelligence" that a bomb was assembled ready for use.
First, an explosive ... 
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May 20, 2006, 2:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration accuses the Europeans of going behind America's back to assemble an apparently innocuous proposal which is rife with hidden dangers.
In the first place, not one, but several light water reactors are on offer. In the second, Iran will get an almost unlimited supply of fuel rods containing ... 
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March 11, 2006, 11:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, 64, was found dead in his cell at The Hague early Saturday, March 11. His lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic announced a few hours later that Milosevic had told him Friday that he feared he was being poisoned in the UN detention facility. He at once passed ...
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January 30, 2006, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
After a series of muddled statements and zigzags, wishful thinking prevailed in London and Brussels after all. The European Union, led by the Middle East Quartet, agreed to release financial aid to a Palestinian government taken over by a terrorist organization.
"We give them three months to assess the situation. We ... 
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December 20, 2005, 7:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ernst Uhrlau, Angela Merkel's new head of the BND, Germany's foreign intelligence service, is revealed by debkafile's counter-terror sources as the man behind Berlin's secret decision to trade German archeologist Susanne Osthoff kidnapped in Iraq on Nov. 25 for the jailed Hizballah terrorist wanted in America, Mohammad Ali ...
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November 7, 2005, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The violent riots spreading across France took several worrying directions Sunday night, Nov. 6, and Monday. The mostly Muslim gangs of youths began surging out of the immigrant suburbs to invade town centers; they fired their first gunshots at policemen; the number of torched cars peaked to 1,400; and disturbing ...
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October 1, 2005, 11:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel and Greece are about to sign a strategic pact. It will cover arms transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, joint military exercises and cooperation in combating terrorism. Greece is now keen on modernizing its army and turning it round to cope with Islamic terror on its borders instead ...
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July 29, 2005, 11:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our counter-terror experts say Hassan Osman displayed the escape skills of a highly trained terrorist operative. His ability to pass through borders from country to country places him high up in al Qaeda's ranks. He must have been senior enough to know about and call on secret logistical back-up in ...
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July 21, 2005, 7:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
1. For the first time al Qaeda terrorists struck without concealment, in broad daylight, in a European city. They obviously found the new security measures London put in place after the July 7 attack permeable.
2. For the first time, al Qaeda carried out two consecutive attacks in the same city ... 
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June 1, 2005, 2:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Holland's potential rejection of the European Union constitution Wednesday, June 1, in the wake of France now looks like another nail in the euro's coffin. Tuesday's initial seven-month low against the dollar of one euro: $1.2350, steadied slightly the next day at around $1.2320 Wednesday. But for several weeks, the ...
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November 27, 2004, 12:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Italy's military electronics, aircraft and military industries are preparing to take off - boosted by heavy injections of American and Israeli expertise. The Bush administration has approved cooperation arrangements between Israeli and Italian military, aircraft and electronic industries in the manufacture of weapons systems for electronic warfare and surveillance based ...
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November 15, 2004, 12:00 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Netherlands authorities still resort to a dozen roundabout locutions to avoid admitting that their country has been invaded by hidden al Qaeda cells. That word is still taboo in liberal Holland, even after the country was shocked out of its complacency by the ritual murder on November 2 of ...
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April 6, 2004, 10:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
On April 4, Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, 35, alias "The Tunisian", suspected ringleader of the Madrid train bombings, was one of the terrorists who blew themselves up Saturday night in the southwestern Madrid suburb of Leganes when Spanish police closed in on their hideout. Spanish interior minister Angel Acebes said ...
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March 20, 2004, 1:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources, the Madrid train bombings in which 201 Spanish commuters were murdered and 1,400 injured, were not the work of an al Qaeda offshoot or affiliate. Like the attacks in the United States, they were conceived, planned, orchestrated and directed by Osama bin ...
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March 13, 2004, 10:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Officially, Spain's political parties cut short their election campaign three days before polling in deference to the anguish and shock of the most brutal terrorist attack since the 9/11 assaults on New York and Washington. Thursday, March 11, three crowded commuter trains were blown up in Madrid, killing 199, injuring ...
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February 25, 2004, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's counter-terrorism sources in Washington, al Qaeda's backbone and that of its partner, al-Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad are intact and fully operational. The Egyptian half of al Qaeda in particular has led a charmed existence. Since America`s 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, only two senior Jihad operatives have ...
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February 18, 2004, 5:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) has been engaged in a last ditch attempt to rescue the European aid program to the Palestinians from total cutoff. Palestinian Authority`s coffers, which depend on foreign handouts for 60 percent of their revenues, are depleted. American aid is already lost, since Washington ...
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January 19, 2004, 11:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian president Bashar Assad is a very worried man. In a typical reflex action, he sent his Hizballah proxy to shoot up an Israeli military tractor, killing one Israeli soldier and injuring another, on the very day, January 19, that a group of Syrian opposition leaders based overseas held its ...
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