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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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June 23, 2003, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
The loud chatter swirling around the stalled Middle East road map muffled the real news emerging from this year's World Economic Forum assembled on June 22 at Shuneh on the Jordanian coast of the Dead Sea. debkafile's exclusive sources report some of these items. For Washington, the focus ...
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April 30, 2003, 10:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The tune played by the American intelligence's instrument of deep enemy penetration was "better than stunning", a Western intelligence source told DEBKA-Net-Weekly(as first reported in Issue No. 106 on April 25). US, British and Australian special forces were armed with a flood of data for forging contacts with Iraqi ...
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April 29, 2003, 7:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Several thousand adherents of the deposed Iraqi president gathered in his former power base of Tikrit Monday, April 28, to celebrate Saddam Hussein's 66th birthday. They bore his pictures aloft with congratulatory slogans. In Baghdad, retired US general Jay Garner, interim administrator in charge of Iraq's reconstruction, organized his second ...
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April 20, 2003, 12:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti, one of Saddam's three half brothers, was very much alive when American forces picked him up Thursday, April 17, despite the reports of his death in a coalition air raid of his home in Tikrit north of Baghdad last week. He had simply moved to another palatial ...
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April 20, 2003, 12:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
On August 18, 1994, the legendary Iranian singer Marzieh turned her back on her country. As a gesture of protest against the increasingly repressive Islamic regime in Tehran, she joined the armed Iranian armed opposition movement, Mujahideen I-Khalq, throwing in her lot with its leader and commander, Maryam Rajavi. Her ...
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April 17, 2003, 10:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the heat of war, General Tommy Franks played out his thesis that speed kills the enemy. A more nuanced formula may govern America's international strategy beyond Iraq. This formula was revealed by Jim Hoagland, Washington Post columnist, on April 13, as having been proposed by Condoleezza Rice, national security ...
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April 16, 2003, 2:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Although President George W. Bush and administration spokesmen have carefully skirted any explicit threat of military action against Syria, debkafile's military sources report that Sunday night, April 12, small teams of American undercover troops were already inside Syria marking out the hideouts of Saddam's close family, his top ...
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April 15, 2003, 10:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/BAssad.jpg" align="right" border="0">Round about noon on Sunday, April 13, US commanders realized that, while they were preoccupied with the civic needs of Baghdad, they were missing the biggest spectacle of the war - the 2003 Exodus from Iraq. Members of Saddam's regime in their thousands were pouring out ...
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April 13, 2003, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
Saddam's scientific adviser and liaison with the UN arms inspectors, General Amer Hammoudi Al-Saadi, was not the first Iraqi general to turn himself in to American forces. Just before closing its last edition on April 11,DEBKA-Net-Weeklyreceived the first fragmentary reports from its intelligence sources of another general who trod ...
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April 12, 2003, 8:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/Q1.jpg" align="right" border="0">While sharing the joy of the people of Baghdad in their newfound freedom, official US spokesmen have rightly pointed out that the war is not over. Saddam's statue may have been toppled but several hundred revelers in the streets of Baghdad do not mark the end ...
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April 10, 2003, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
fl!JUMHU.jpg>Early morning Wednesday, April 9, Day 21 of the war, as US troops moved into central Baghdad from the west, northeast and south, it dawned on Baghdad's roughly 6 million inhabitants that the Saddam regime was no longer visible. Very quickly, scenes of jubilation were mixed with riotous looting, first ...
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April 9, 2003, 7:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
By the end of Day 20 of the war, some of the creative dust dramatizing its progress had settled and some hard facts were surfacing. First, the true scale of the US thrust into the heart of Baghdad on Monday, April 7. The US 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, reaching its ...
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April 9, 2003, 1:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/TB.jpg" align="left" border="0">One of US war commander General Tommy Franks' favorite aphorisms for his troops is that speed can kill the enemy. He was as good as his word Monday morning, April 7, when he sent an armored column made up of two brigades of the 3rd Mechanized ...
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April 7, 2003, 10:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/bag5.jpg" align="left" border="0">While the images of American tanks rumbling through the streets of Baghdad Saturday, April 5, made stunning footage - certainly meant to impress on the Iraqi people and army that further resistance is useless, notwithstanding Saddam Hussein's walkabout the day before - debkafile's military ...
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April 6, 2003, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Even amid crucial battles in Iraq, US President George W. Bush has made the gesture of leaving his capital again this week for a second attempt to shore up his foremost war ally, British prime minister Tony Blair, in the fight for his political life at home. Although, according to ...
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April 5, 2003, 1:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Exclusive Middle East sources have tracked down the top Iraqi leadership's bolt-hole. It is a large 1,600-room luxury resort with 600 meters of private sandy beach in the Mediterranean coastal town of Latakiya called Cote d'Azur De Cham Resort, prepaid and chartered in toto by Baghdad. The ...
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April 2, 2003, 10:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US dawn assault against Ash-Shatra north of Nasiryah Monday, to seek out senior Iraqi regime and Baath officials directing the terrorist and guerrilla warfare against coalition forces, diverted attention from a far more critical American initiative. While Ash-Shatra is mostly under air assault, the American 101st Airborne Division's "screaming ...
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March 31, 2003, 3:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Iraq war is resolving itself into a battle of wits whose lines are deliberately blurred by the bravado, ambiguous maneuvers and half-truths propagated by both sides. The protagonists are US General Tommy Franks and Saddam Hussein. The score on Day 12 of the war is even. debkafile's ...
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March 31, 2003, 3:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Uday Hussein, faithfully obeying his father, immersed himself from April 2002 in creating a vast guerrilla-terrorist army 800,000 strong, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's intelligence sources. Its largest component, around 650,000, comes from the ubiquitous Baath party, the Saddam regime's eyes, ears and informers in every corner of Iraqi society, together ...
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March 30, 2003, 1:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
101st Airborne Steals March
Though slowed down, Thursday, March 27, US forces were holding to their lines of advance in the face of billowing clouds of sand and dust and the harassment of the hit-and-run raids staged by Iraqi irregulars determined to halt their advance and cut their supply routes. The ... |
