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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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February 17, 2004, 10:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some revealing details are now emerging about the $1 billion Great Bank Heist which Saddam Hussein's henchmen staged at the Iraqi National Bank in Baghdad on March 19, hours before the US "shock and awe" air raids. For instance, Saddam handwrote his cash demand on a plain sheet of paper ...
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February 14, 2004, 5:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The audacious Iraqi guerrilla assaults Saturday, February 14, on Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and mayoral compounds in Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, were a disastrous setback for US plans to smoothly transfer sovereignty into Iraq hands by June 30, according to debkafile's military analysts. President George W. ...
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January 19, 2004, 2:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
A new colony is quietly establishing itself in the Yemen capital of Sanaa as, one by one, Saddam Hussein's close family and senior loyalists settle into a new life as political exiles. "Little Baghdad" was discovered by debkafile's exclusive Persian Gulf sources, who note that almost every incoming ...
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January 8, 2004, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nizar Najoef, a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper "De Telegraaf," that he knows the three sites where Iraq's WMD are kept. The storage places are:
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January 5, 2004, 7:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
This week the US launched its six-month race to hand formal power over to the Iraqis themselves. June 30 is the planned completion date, after which Iraq will, at least in theory, take its own decisions (though the US continues to have up to 100,000 troops in the country). February ...
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December 16, 2003, 2:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
President George W. Bush was careful to sidestep specifics in his apparently candid answers to the questions showered on him by newspersons in the White House Monday, December 15. Calling the captured Iraqi dictator a "torturer" and "murderer", he said he had his own views about how "Mr. Hussein" should ...
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December 14, 2003, 6:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
A number of questions are raised by the incredibly bedraggled, tired and crushed condition of this once savage, dapper and pampered ruler who was discovered in a hole in the ground on Saturday, December 13: 1. The length and state of his hair indicated he had not seen a barber ...
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December 8, 2003, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Returning home Sunday, December 7, from a one-day visit to Kirkuk and Baghdad, US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he plans to accelerate even further the deployment of Iraqi security forces - even if it means putting them on the job with a bare minimum of training.
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December 3, 2003, 2:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
At Camp Udairi in Kuwait, US armament technicians are working extra-hard in giant hangars on a Christmas gift for US troops plagued by guerrilla attacks in Iraq. It is the Stryker, an eight-wheel drive armored combat vehicle, the first new armored carrier to enter service in the US army since ...
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November 30, 2003, 11:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
US ground forces commander in Iraq, Lt.-Gen. Ricardo Sanchez suffered the misfortune of mistimed optimism. Saturday, November 29, he told a news briefing that the number of Iraqi attacks had dropped by 30 percent in November. No sooner had a spoken then a succession of five deadly ambushes left 12 ...
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November 18, 2003, 10:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
For two months less one day, Saddam Hussein's gravelly voice was not heard once over the airwaves. On November 16, beginning the last week of Ramdan, an audiotape landed at the Dubai studios of al Arabiya describing the Iraqi people as made of a special kind of chemical that no ...
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November 3, 2003, 12:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two features are emerging from the escalating wave of violence besetting Iraq: 1. The US military command in Iraq headed by Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is determined to pursue a course that he believes will lead to Saddam Hussein's capture. 2. US ground operations continue to go forward without adequate intelligence ...
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October 27, 2003, 8:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the space of 48 hours, the Ramadan bombing offensive on Baghdad claimed upward of 40 dead - mostly Iraqis - and over 220 injured. It struck terror at the heart of the Iraqi capital, first targeting US administration and military headquarters at the heavily secured landmark al Rashid hotel, ...
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August 26, 2003, 6:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
This week, Al Qaeda came out and claimed responsibility for the huge truck bombing at UN Baghdad headquarters on August 19, in which 23 including senior UN representative in Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello lost their lives and some 150 were injured. The al Qaeda message appearing on an Arabic ...
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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 5, 2003, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/BEER.jpg" align="right" border="0">A close inspection of photos from inside the Mosul villa where Qusay and Uday were shot dead by American troops last month reveals beer bottles and a candy wrapper with what looks suspiciously like Hebrew lettering. Ironically, Saddam Hussein's sons and grandson may have spent their ...
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July 28, 2003, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/saddam_black.jpg" align="right" border="0">The decision to kill Saddam Hussein's two sons Uday and Qusay when they were surrounded in a villa in Mosul - instead of taking them alive - was made by high-ranking officials in Washington to meet the overarching goal of showing the Iraqi people that Saddam ...
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July 23, 2003, 1:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Late Sunday night, July 20 - or early Monday morning - Qusay Hussein, his 14-year old son Mustafa and his brother Uday arrived at the spacious villa estate of their father's cousin three times removed in the northeastern al Falah district of Mosul. Qusay habitually took his teenage son everywhere ...
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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 12, 2003, 6:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US troop withdrawal from the Iraqi town of Falluja only 50 km west of Baghdad on Friday, July 1, is the first major American military retreat since going to war against Iraq on March 18, 2003. It comes amid spiraling attacks on US troops by "unidentified" snipers and ambushers ...
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