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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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November 24, 2004, 10:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
On November 19, Lt. Col. Steve Iwicki, director of the Actionable Intelligence Department of the Army G2, announced that the 3rd Infantry Division's "units of action" due for shipment to Iraq will be equipped with the first unmanned vehicles of the Prophet collection system. He disclosed that in the next ...
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October 27, 2004, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
From DEBKA-Net-Weekly 178 of Oct. 22, 2004
This week, al Qaeda published what passes in jihadist circles for encyclopedias - not one but two. The first is the single-handed handiwork of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, better known for staging mass murders by suicide bombers and hostage beheadings in Iraq. He ... 
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October 3, 2004, 10:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
US military action is about to intensify in the wake of the declared US-Iraqi government vow to take over Iraq's rebel-held points by the end of October. The final preparations brought General John Abizaid, Iraq war and global anti-terror campaign commander, to Baqouba last week on an unannounced visit. According ...
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September 25, 2004, 6:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Thursday, September 23, US forces resorted to targeted assassination to dispose of Abu Anas al-Shami, a senior aide of the Jordanian al Qaeda mastermind, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in Baghdad. Locating and killing a high-profile member of Zarqawi's organization a few days after the capture of another top Zarqawi aide, ...
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September 21, 2004, 5:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
The only five Iraqi women held by the Americans are a long way from being inconsequential. They include two senior scientists attached to Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program: Dr. Rihab Taha, a microbiologist known as Dr. Germ, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, head of his anthrax project and member of ...
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September 15, 2004, 8:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's Iraq and intelligence sources, the violence surged after Washington and the interim Iraqi government spent two fruitless months deep in an earnest effort to end the insurgency by engaging the Sunni-Baath leaders on two tracks. A third was added this month. The first two were ...
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July 18, 2004, 11:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
New interim Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi is working hard and talking fast in an effort to reach a limited accommodation between his government, army and newly-created General Security Directorate and the different insurgent factions. At best, his government will confirm its control for the moment of parts of Baghdad ...
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June 29, 2004, 5:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Almost the first action taken by the interim Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi on Day One of Iraqi sovereignty, June 29, was to announce that his government would take legal custody of ex-ruler Saddam Hussein and eleven top ousted Baath leaders the following day. Among them, are Saddam's cousin Ali ...
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June 28, 2004, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US-led coalition administration of Iraq came to an end at a hasty, secretive ceremony in the most heavily protected corner of Baghdad Monday, June 28, 48 hours ahead of the scheduled June 30 date. US administrator Paul Bremer handed the document to interim president Ghazi al-Yawar, who was flanked ...
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May 8, 2004, 6:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The gallery of horror images rolling out of the US-run Iraqi Abu Ghraib prison onto media pages day by day - with much worse promised - has sharply altered the nature of the Iraq war, the attitudes of its combatants, the stakes held by the forces involved and the kinds ...
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May 5, 2004, 12:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The teaming up of al Qaeda terrorists with Iraqi guerrillas on a Middle East rampage against American, British, Jordanian, Saudi, Syrian and Israeli targets last month exposes three dangerous developments: A. Iraq has turned into a hub that radiates terrorist violence far beyond its borders as demonstrated by the April ...
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April 25, 2004, 5:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Before Black Saturday descended on Iraq on April 24, President George W. Bush had expected to quickly squash the various elements of the Iraqi insurgency and their spring offensive and was banking heavily on a decisive autumn offensive to stamp them out just before the presidential election. Before Saturday and ...
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April 14, 2004, 10:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Just a few hours after US Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt fielded a barrage of questions from Baghdad correspondents at noon Monday, April 11, he was outranked in a follow-up appearance. OC Central Command US General John Abizaid and commander of ground troops in Iraq Lt.-General Ricardo Sanchez took to the ...
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April 10, 2004, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Friday, April 9 - Day Six of the Shiite radical uprising - the tide turned in the Iraq war. US-led forces in Iraq were thrown back to the point they had reached exactly one year ago when Saddam Hussein's colossal statue was toppled by joyous Iraqis. They were faced, ...
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April 8, 2004, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
7 April:
10:00 Fierce fighting continued overnight and Wednesday morning against Shiite radicals and Sunni insurgents. In Baghdad's Sadr City, US strike jets carried out two sorties in 12 hours against strongholds of the 31-year old radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. Overnight 12 Marines were killed and 20 injured, in ... 
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April 8, 2004, 4:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since Wednesday, April 7, four Shiite delegations have been in secret negotiation with radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr in Najef for an end to the uprising he instigated five days ago in a half a dozen Iraqi cities including Baghdad. This is reported exclusively by debkafile's intelligence and ...
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April 7, 2004, 2:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
The third day of Moqtada Sadr's radical Shiite uprising saw US-led coalition forces under attack by both Sunnis and Shiites and the first extremely dangerous sign of a merger between the two fronts. debkafile's military sources report that US-led forces, instead of beginning to get a grip on ...
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April 5, 2004, 1:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the last 24 hours, Shiite radicals of Baghdad and southern Iraq have gone on the warpath, vying with the Sunni Triangle's al Qaeda and Baathist guerrillas in anti-US violence. One year after ending the combat phase of the Iraq war, the US-led coalition finds itself fighting therefore on the ...
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March 3, 2004, 12:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Ashoura Massacre in Baghdad and Karbala made Tuesday, March 2, Iraq's bloodiest day since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The victims - 182 dead, 550 injured - were Iraqi Shiite Muslims. Three million had turned out for the first time in three decades to observe the Ashoura festival commemorating ...
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March 1, 2004, 8:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The unanimous compromise on Iraq's draft constitutional achieved late Sunday, February 29, in Iraq's Governing Council calls for Islam to be the official religion of the country, but not the "sole source" of its legislation. Another clause states that no laws will be enacted in contradiction to the tenets of ...
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