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61 articles tagged "Europe"
DEBKAfile
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January 17, 2004, 9:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
An undiplomatic act by Israel's ambassador to Sweden has switched the spotlight on a virulent strain of anti-Semitism sweeping West Europe that draws its moral legitimacy from demonizing the Jewish state. What better symbol of this hybrid object of hate than the exhibit whose plug ambassador Zvi Mazel furiously pulled? ...
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December 2, 2003, 1:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
The glitzy ceremony in a Geneva auditorium on December 1 did very little to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace - it was more a Palestinian hate Israel platform - but a great deal to place Yossi Bailin, the Israeli co-author of the unofficial peace accords, on the road to realizing his political ...
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November 29, 2003, 3:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Turkey: Police brought a suspect in his twenties, caught Tuesday, November 25, when he tried to cross the border into Iran on a fake passport, to the wrecked Beit Israel synagogue for a reconstruction of the suicide bombings of two Istanbul synagogues on November 15. The manacled man was described ...
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October 28, 2003, 12:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
No punches were pulled this time. The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was at his most abrasive on Tuesday, October 28, when assailed with moral lectures from a group of 170 visiting European parliamentarians from 24 countries. Asked by Irish parliamentarian David Norris how Israel could talk about "executing (sic) ...
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August 30, 2003, 4:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
British premier Tony Blair may have hoped that the resignation of his most un-lamblike communications and strategy adviser Alastair Campbell might deflect some of the heat of the Hutton Inquiry and limit the damage of the Kelly affair. That sacrifice will be in vain. Some British commentators saw the shock ...
DEBKAfile
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August 23, 2003, 3:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Blair government faces a serious test of its survival next week when its highest officers are questioned by the Hutton Inquiry into the sudden death of its senior bio-weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly on July 17. The circumstances leading up to that death forced British prime minister Tony Blair ...
DEBKAfile
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August 16, 2003, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
fl!KEL2.jpg>In the first week of the Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Dr. David Kelly the BBC's credibility and professionalism were on the line. Next week, the limelight will shift to the Blair government's official spin doctors - 10 Downing Street's communications chief Alastair Campbell, who is ...
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May 15, 2003, 11:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
When European Union's foreign affairs executive, Javier Solana, turned up in Riyadh Wednesday, May 13, his purpose was not to condemn the al Qaeda suicide killers' horrendous triple attacks two days earlier on Riyadh compounds housing many European expatriates - or even to comfort the many European victims in hospital. ...
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May 5, 2003, 12:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
The suicide terror attack at the Blues cafe Mike's Place near the US Embassy in Tel Aviv last Wednesday, April 30, was made possible by grave security lapses - British and Israeli. British security and intelligence services have paid in the past - and will continue to pay long and ...
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March 12, 2003, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
A few incautious words from US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday March 11 raised such shock and dismay at 10 Downing Street that before the day was out he had to backtrack. What he said was that the United Kingdom's role is unclear because of Tony Blair's difficulties in ...
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February 11, 2003, 12:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
The world's key international bodies - the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union - are splitting fatally over the Iraq arms crisis. A NATO emergency session was deadlocked Monday, February 10, when three leading European nations, France, Germany and Belgium, encouraged by Russia - a ...
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December 11, 2002, 3:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The turning of a blind eye in certain, select cases has produced some strange anomalies in the global war on terror. debkafile's counter-terror experts note some striking instances. The most recent was the case of the North Korean cargo vessel, intercepted by a Spanish warship on terrorist patrol ...
DEBKAfile
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November 17, 2002, 10:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
The North Ireland Executive has been suspended for the fourth time since devolution in the aftershock set off by the disclosure of a spy ring which operated out of the Stormont offices of the Irish Republican Army's political wing for two and a half years. Our intelligence sources report that ...
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September 17, 2002, 5:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, September 15, the Macedonian voter overwhelmingly returned to power the former Social Democrat prime minister Branko Crvenkovski, dumping the ruling coalition led by the nationalist VMRO minister Ljubco Georgievski and partner, the moderate Democratic Party of Albanians. Both were widely accused of corruption.
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July 18, 2002, 5:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
The shadowy November 17 terrorist group that for 27 years eluded the Greek police has finally tripped up on a single mistake: It used the same 45-caliber gun for at least half dozen of the 23 political assassinations it committed from 1975. That gun was preserved and is now in ...
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June 29, 2002, 9:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
The surprise resignation of retired Army General Wayne A. Downing as deputy national security adviser to the president for combating terrorism, on Thursday, June 27, is bad news for the road ahead of America's war on terror, according to debkafile's intelligence sources.
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June 24, 2002, 5:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
The next radical Islamic terror attack in America could well originate in a corner of the Balkans, where a new jihad force is taking shape quietly and unhindered. In its last issue, published on Friday, June 21, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources reported that close to 20,000 fighters, battled-hardened veterans and ...
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May 12, 2002, 5:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday night, May 11, debkafile was informed by its American and European sources of an explicit policy departure by the European Union: Following the Bethlehem episode, that ended in the banishment of 13 senior terrorists outside the Middle East, the deportation of 26 to the Gaza Strip and ...
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April 2, 2002, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
As the French presidential election campaign peaked, a spate of serious arson attacks on Jewish synagogues forced reluctant French leaders to address the country's long-running and fast-spreading anti-Semitic campaign with action.
DEBKAfile
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February 24, 2002, 4:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
A freshly-carved hole in an underground passageway next to the US embassy on Via Veneto in Rome was one of several ominous signals that the al Qaeda terror network has resumed its terror offensive against the US and Europe.
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