Tue May 14, 2013
220 articles tagged "Hizballah"
DEBKAfile
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April 25, 2007, 4:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
April 15, on the eve of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hizballah and Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders staged a grand ceremony at the Imam Ali base in northern Tehran to celebrate the launch of Hizballah's anti-air missile wing.
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April 9, 2007, 10:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a televised speech, Hassan Nasrallah said will he confront what he called attempts by the (anti-Syrian) parliamentary majority to change Lebanon's identity - even if it takes 50 years. He attacked the international tribunal set up to try the culprits behind the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq ...
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April 8, 2007, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hizballah's Hussein Kumati claimed the two Israeli soldiers abducted by the Lebanese Shiite group are treated as humanely in accordance with Islamic dictates.
Karnit Goldwasser said the Hizballah official's claim does not prove he is alive or well. The Lebanese captives held in Israel are allowed to communicate regularly and ... 
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March 13, 2007, 6:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
For the first time in its 20-year history as a reviled international kidnapper, Hizballah is demanding that its representatives be allowed to hold direct talks with Israel.
One conjecture by Israeli intelligence officials is that Hizballah has been told to offer to trade information about Goldwasser and Regev for word ... 
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February 23, 2007, 1:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Brig-Gen Yossi Baidatz reporting this to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee was interrupted by defense minister Amir Peretz who disputed this data as relating to Hizballah's "potential strength."debkafile notes: The official Israeli government line is that Hizballah came out of the war weaker.
Baidatz added Qassam missile ... 
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February 20, 2007, 11:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Moscow guaranteed the shoulder-carried SA-18 "Grouse" Igla 9K38 was sold to Damascus under the strict prohibition of its transfer to Hizballah, debkafile notes. The pledge was given to the US and personally by Russian president Vladimir Putin to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.
DEBKAfile
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January 29, 2007, 6:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
The bunkers contained food and digging tools - apparently used by Hizballah before the war of summer 2006. They were blown up in a controlled explosion.
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January 24, 2007, 1:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
On arriving in Paris Wednesday, Jan. 24, prime minister Fouad Siniora said that Lebanon has been paying the price of "imposed decisions coming from outside, like Iran and Syria."
DEBKAfile
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July 15, 2006, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The disaster that overtook one of the Israeli Navy's state of the art warships, Ahi-Hanit, was thoroughly planned in advance by an enemy which managed to take Israel's military commanders by surprise. It has shocked Israel's military to a degree comparable to the profound effect on US forces of al ...
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June 5, 2006, 8:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Gulf sources suspect that the tough talk indicates that a secret dialogue is afoot somewhere in the world and has reached the stage of muscle-flexing, or even a point of decision. These same sources did confirm the existence of bilateral negotiations three months ago in Washington and ...
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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 22, 2005, 3:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
This was the first time the Hizballah had sent a specially-trained motorbike commando unit into action. Its mission was to kidnap Israeli soldiers and bring them to Beirut for a macabre display in Lebanon's Independence Day ceremonies Tuesday, Nov. 22. This was to be an act of defiance against Israel ...
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August 31, 2004, 7:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas-Hebron claimed responsibility for the double suicide attack Tuesday, August 31, on two crowded Beersheba buses, which left 15 Israelis dead and up to 100 injured. The twin blasts hit passengers, passing vehicles and pedestrians on the busy main street of this southern Israeli town, the first such attack inside ...
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July 26, 2004, 1:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The super-confident Lebanese Shiite terrorist group Hizballah was twice jolted out of its complacency this month and forced to accept that its innermost core had been penetrated and its eight-year old links with Palestinian terrorists laid bare. Word reaching Israel's intelligence sources is ... 
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April 20, 2004, 3:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has produced a new master plan which he presented this week to the Hamas leadership group appointed to succeed Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the second Hamas leader Israel killed in less than a month. Their identities are a closely-kept secret on the orders of supreme Hamas leader ...
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February 10, 2004, 2:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian president Bashar Assad's advisers tried hitching a ride on the second stage of the Hizballah-Israeli prisoner swap - the one requiring the handover of information on the long missing Israeli navigator Ron Arad. Assad's men went to work on Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi when he came to Beirut ...
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January 27, 2004, 2:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli-Hizballah POW-abductees-DIA deal going into effect Thursday is even more lopsided than first reported, as discovered by debkafile's intelligence sources from unpublished elements of the accord. Tuesday, January 27, the Israeli government published the lists of prisoners to be released two days hence for the bodies of ...
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January 26, 2004, 3:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
The original date of publication for prisoner swap between the Hizballah and Israel was Friday, January 30, after it had begun - or even the next day, post factum, according to debkafile's Middle East sources. However, Israeli's POW negotiator Brig. (ret) Ilan Biran warned the German mediator, Ernest ...
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January 24, 2004, 1:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
The announcement Saturday, January 24, only marked the end of Part One of the agonizing, frequently-stalled negotiations for the exchange of prisoners, abductees and bodies between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah. The tireless German mediator, Ernest Uhrlau, said he had every reason to hope that the second part ...
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March 13, 2002, 9:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
The terror attack Tuesday, March 12, in which six Israelis were killed and seven injured on the Matsuba-Kabri highway of W. Galilee had all the hallmarks of a military-guerrilla action. debkafile's military and intelligence sources report it was a combined operation by al Qaeda militants, newly based in ...
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