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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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January 6, 2007, 9:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
President George W. Bush is poised to stake every US resource to hand on a no-holds-barred military operation all the way to victory in Iraq, after first bringing Baghdad under control. The chips should all be lined up by the time he goes public next week on his new strategy ...
Baker-Hamilton Consensus Tactic Raises Question of Who Will Now Call the Shots in Washington on Iraq
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December 9, 2006, 7:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Big questions hang over the White House since Wednesday, Dec. 6, when former secretary of state James Baker and ex-congressman Lee Hamilton released their Iraq Study Group recommendations and charted a diplomatic strategy directly opposed to president George W. Bush's principles.
Has the report touched off of a battle over ... 
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December 6, 2006, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Recommendation 16: In exchange for Syrian actions and in the context of a full and secure peace agreement, the Israelis should return the Golan Heights, with a US security guarantee for Israel that could include an international force on the border, including US troops if requested by both parties.
Recommendation 17: ... 
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November 18, 2006, 5:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The primary object of the new Spanish-Italian-French Middle East "peace plan" is to insert European military forces into the Gaza Strip after establishing themselves in the expanded UNIFIL in South Lebanon. The campaign will peak in the third week of December, when British ... 
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November 5, 2006, 5:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The sentence of death by hanging passed Nov. 5 by a tribunal of five judges in Baghdad against the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants was hailed by US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad as a "milestone" that closed the book on the former region. Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki ...
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September 24, 2006, 5:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's exclusive military sources in Iraq and sources in Iran reveal that Turkish and Iranian air units as well as armored, paratroop, special operations and artillery forces are poised for an imminent coordinated invasion of the northern Iraqi autonomous province of Kurdistan.
Our sources pinpoint the target of ... 
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July 11, 2006, 7:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four essential factors underlie the deadly upsurge of Shiite-Sunni sectarian savagery in Baghdad this week.
No one, including US forces, has stepped in to halt the sectarian cleansing operation engulfing Baghdad. The most powerful military force in Baghdad today is the radical Shiite cleric Moqatada Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. This fresh crisis sent ... 
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June 10, 2006, 12:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The final breakthrough in the long pursuit of the most blood-stained terrorist of them all, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, came from Jordan. The source was Ziyad Halaf al Karbouli, also known as Abu Hufeiza, one of the lowlifes Zarqawi employed to attack and rob ... 
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May 30, 2006, 6:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraqi PM announced Tuesday, May 30, he would be flying to the southern Iraqi town of Basra Wednesday to tackle the crisis posed by "oil gangs." Simultaneously, 1,500 American reserve troops were moved from Kuwait into Iraq.
debkafile reveals: The two moves were prompted by the same high-stakes crisis ... 
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May 15, 2006, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the past two weeks, Iran has been pumping into Iraq two types of extra-lethal weapons in very large quantities. They have already taken their toll in the shooting down of two military helicopters - one American and one British - and an estimated 19 deaths of US military personnel.
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December 27, 2005, 3:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The decision by the Iraqi Supreme Court to disqualify 90 delegates who were elected to parliament on December 15, most of them Sunni Muslims, because they were once members of the Baath Party, echoes the decision reached in the middle of 2003 by Paul Bremer, the first US administrator for ...
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December 3, 2005, 2:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ten US Marines of the 2nd Division were killed and 11 injured while on foot patrol near Falluja Thursday, Dec. 1. They ran into a bomb trap made of several artillery shells. This disaster came at the worst possible moment for president George W. Bush. Just 24 hours earlier, he ...
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August 8, 2005, 11:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Coded electronic signals bandied in recent days among al Qaeda Middle Eastern elements across secret Internet sites all carry the same message: the supreme leader, Osama bin Laden, has come out of hiding in Afghanistan and set out, or is about to set out, for Iraq. This is the sense ...
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August 3, 2005, 9:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Thirty-eight US troops have died in Iraq in ten days.
Wednesday, August 3 was the worst. A Marine amphibious assault vehicle struck a roadside bomb outside Haditha, killing 14 members of Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) and an interpreter. One Marine was injured. ... 
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June 28, 2005, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
As Bush assures Americans that their country will win the war, former Iraqi preim minister Allawi, according to debkafile's military and intelligence sources, is playing a supporting role in Amman, Jordan. There, he is running a negotiating marathon with batch after batch of Sunni tribal leaders, guerrilla commanders ...
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April 5, 2005, 8:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
While Israelis by and large would rather not think about the prospect of future Palestinian terror, Palestinian terror chiefs are keenly tracking the tactics employed by Iraq's insurgents and their al Qaeda allies to see what they can learn. They are already deep into a test program for extending the ...
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March 7, 2005, 8:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Iraq's newly-elected National Assembly holds its first session in Baghdad in nine days time, to embark on the road to democratic institutins - a new president, deputy presidents, prime minister, government and constitution. However, Iraq's Kurds and their Turkomen neighbors have been moving forward ... 
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January 27, 2005, 11:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Despite the Iraqi Sunni boycott, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's imprecations against the general election, and the unprecedented level of bloodletting, an certain number of the 40,000 polling stations across the country will almost certainly open on time Sunday, January 30. That was one of the starting points on which Gregory Hooker, ...
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January 20, 2005, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
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How President George W. Bush fills the key post of secretary of defense will be one of the pivotal decisions defining the second term he inaugurates with pomp and pizzazz in Washington Thursday, January 20. Much as he may praise Donald Rumsfeld for ... 
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January 2, 2005, 12:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
On December 16, the deposed Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein was allowed to see his lawyer, Khalil Duleimi for the first time. With no one else present and no time limit, Saddam spoke his mind freely. debkafile's Exclusive Middle East sources reveal here the main contents of the Duleimi's ...
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