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140 articles tagged "Intelligence"
DEBKAfile
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March 19, 2004, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
No secret agent ever admits freely to being spy, certainly not someone like internationally known political cartoonist ex-Israeli Ranan Lurie, who today resides in New York. So it was not surprising that in his exclusive interview with debkafile, the artist, whose finely detailed caricatures of world leaders are ...
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March 16, 2004, 12:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
In just a few weeks, X will step out from the extraordinary cover under which he lived and operated in secret for half a century as a spy for the Israeli Mossad and US Central Intelligence Agency. He does not promise to tell quite all, but what he has to ...
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March 8, 2004, 1:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the last five months, Israel's central intelligence agency has undergone a metamorphosis in typically deep hush. Once fabled for planting its agents anywhere and everywhere where important military or diplomatic happenings were played out, the Israeli Mossad has retired from the business of espionage and turned itself into a ...
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December 31, 2003, 10:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Obtaining satellite photographs of Israel nowadays is just a matter of placing a credit card order with one of the international consortia marketing images from outer space. A paying customer can obtain photos with a resolution of between 80 cm and one meter, good enough to spot a tank or ...
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December 28, 2003, 7:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda's determined assassination attempts on Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf on December 14 and again on the 25th bring to mind an ominous sequence that preceded the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York and Washington. Two days earlier, on September 9, al Qaeda assassins murdered Ahmad Shah ...
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September 15, 2003, 10:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Teheran's confidence in its ability to press on with its prohibited nuclear weapons program while blowing hot and cold on international threats was rudely shattered last week. Against all its expectations, a tough US-backed ultimatum was tabled and carried by the International Atomic ... 
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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 ...
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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 ...
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August 19, 2003, 9:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
US intelligence has dissected the makeup of the guerrilla groups lurking in Baghdad and points north in an area enclosed by Tikrit, Haditha, Fallujah and Baquba. They have come up with some alarming findings: 1. Since late June, Chechen terrorists have been coming to Iraq to join the anti-American offensive. ...
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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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July 14, 2003, 1:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, July 14, American forces in Iraq suffered their 32nd death since May 1 when a military convoy was assaulted with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns while patrolling the Mansour district of Baghdad. Another six troops were injured. The attack took place on the anniversary of the 1958 overthrow of ...
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July 9, 2003, 10:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Violent three-way clashes in Tehran marked the July 9 anniversary of the brutally suppressed student demonstrations of 1999, despite the Islamic regime's advance crackdown against the pro-democracy student movement. Hundreds of hard-line Islamic vigilantes, police and students milling about outside Tehran University got into running battles Wednesday night. Police clashed ...
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June 25, 2003, 1:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
This exclusive report appeared for the first time in the last issue of debkafile's intelligence weekly published on June 20.
The Americans are secretly building two giant intelligence facilities in Iraq at a cost of some half a billion dollars, according to an exclusive report received from ... 
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May 7, 2003, 1:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Americans are sitting tight on the extremely valuable Iraqi intelligence archives discovered at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad and at sub-departments of Saddam's clandestine machine never before known to exist. The only data released are a few leaks to the British media calculated to help prime minister Tony Blair ...
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March 16, 2003, 2:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
A secret Washington-sponsored mediation effort, in progress since early March, has just about run its course in the diplomatic twilight zone behind the emergency summit taking place at Praia Da Vitoria in the Azores Islands of Portugal Sunday, March 16, between US president George W. Bush and the two European ...
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February 25, 2003, 2:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
All may not be well for Adib Shaaban, senior aide to Saddam's powerful son Uday and Iraq's highest-ranking would-be defector. His attempt to flee to the United States, first revealed exclusively in DEBKA-Net-Weekly 97 (February 14), may not have come off. First a recap: Shaaban -- charged with Uday's ...
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January 21, 2003, 9:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Fired four months ago from Saddam Hussein's inner bodyguard detail, Jassem Abdullah - not his real name, but one of several aliases - lives in Amman in fear of his life. He moves from place to place taking his secrets with him. As a member of the elite trusted group ...
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January 20, 2003, 7:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hans Blix, chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq and Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the internationial nuclear agency, have not turned up any Iraqi scientists or civilians to interview outside the country's borders. After two days of negotiations with Iraq officials in Baghdad, they came out with a 10-point accord that ...
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January 18, 2003, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last week's "discovery" by UN arms inspectors of a dozen empty chemical 122 mm missile warheads at an Iraqi ammunition dump in Ukhaider, 70 miles south of Baghdad, was not the outcome of intelligence but subtle Iraqi manipulation. The UN inspectors were led by the nose to their discovery.
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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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