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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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March 30, 2003, 1:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Assad to Saddam's Rescue
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 103 reported exclusively that, In two covert operations this week, US special forces blew up the Iraqi-Syrian pipeline carrying illegal Iraq oil exports from Mosul and Kirkuk to the Syrian Mediterranean oil terminal on the Banias for sale overseas, as well as the Syrian-Iraq railroad ... 
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March 27, 2003, 12:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Reverses
22:15 As night fell, Iraqi forces began pounding coalition troops around Nasiriya in central Iraqi with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. The column of Iraqi military vehicles heading south appeared to be making for Najef, where a battle with US troops earlier Wednesday exacted heavy Iraqi casualties; most disturbingly, a huge convoy ...
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March 26, 2003, 1:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
US Short of Troops for Baghdad Battle
Three days of violent sandstorms and low clouds are forecast for southern and central Iraq from Tuesday, March 25. For the Iraqis, this means a couple of days' respite; for the American and British, a scramble to shroud their tanks and equipment in canvas ... 
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March 24, 2003, 3:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Troops in First Encounter with Iraqi Republic Guards
After a tough day of facing Iraqi resistance and setbacks - the first American troops were taken captive and 12 were killed - America's Iraq War took an important military turn late on Sunday, March 23, as reported exclusively by debka More...
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March 22, 2003, 3:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Allied forces are stopping for nothing as they race towards Baghdad, Friday, March 21. Unfazed by the first serious Iraqi resistance encountered on the outskirts of the Euphrates River town of Nassariyeh, the main body of the force pressed on regardless, leaving a unit behind to engage the Iraqi troops. ...
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March 21, 2003, 6:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Thursday morning, March 20, the Iraqi military moved onto the offensive against the allied troop buildup on the Kuwait-Iraqi frontier and Kuwait itself. They loosed a barrage of artillery prompting an exchange of heavy fire. As the shells fell, coalition troops were ordered to don their bio-chemical protective suits. At ...
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March 20, 2003, 2:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
US war commanders grabbed the element of surprise after all. While most analysts and forecasters predicted a mighty aerial-missile blitz over Baghdad as the war's opener, the campaign began Wednesday, March 19 with a lighting advance by Marine forces into southern Iraq along the Shatt el Arb River towards the ...
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March 19, 2003, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tuesday, March 18, Saddam's eldest son rejected President George W. Bush's ultimatum Monday night for the Iraqi ruler and his sons to go into exile within 48 hours or face "military conflict launched at a time of our choosing." The loose presidential phrasing enabled the White House to consider advancing ...
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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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March 15, 2003, 12:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The two giant American B-1 multi-role long-range bombers that struck two military radar sites in West Iraq Friday, March 14, laid down markers for fully activating the western warfront of the Iraq campaign. The heavy bombers, not used in Iraq since 1998 Operation Desert Fox, hit a mobile anti-aircraft radar ...
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March 12, 2003, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
A few incautious words from US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday March 11 raised such shock and dismay at 10 Downing Street that before the day was out he had to backtrack. What he said was that the United Kingdom's role is unclear because of Tony Blair's difficulties in ...
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March 9, 2003, 10:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Since Wednesday night, March 5, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources, US supplies management teams of the US 1st Cavalry Division have been posted at four Turkish sea harbors, taking delivery of the equipment of the US 4th Infantry Division discharged after a long wait at sea. For weeks, twenty-six ...
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March 3, 2003, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Armed forces and counter-terror security forces across the Middle East are tightly tensed up in a high state of pre-war preparedness and anti-terror jitters - even amid the jubilation over the capture in Islamabad of al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Muhammed and the car bomb killing of Abu Musab Zarqawi's ...
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February 25, 2003, 10:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder makes a lightning, unscheduled trip to Moscow Wednesday, February 26, heading back home the same evening. What urgent business takes Schroeder to the Russian capital? According to debkafile's intelligence and Russian sources, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped into the bipolar crisis over Iraq ...
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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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February 24, 2003, 8:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The largest contingent so far of soldiers from neighboring Gulf countries arrived in Kuwait on Sunday, February 23. Despite snide remarks that troops from the oil rich sheikhdoms would turn up driving their own Jaguars and Ferraris, several hundred ground troops, sailors and airmen from the United Arab Emirates arrived ...
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February 22, 2003, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior military sources in Kuwait, asked by debkafile source, did not deny that special operations might already be underway in Iraq's southern oil fields. The same source said any assault on Iraq will have to carefully balance `hard strikes` with `soft overtures` to Iraqis most likely to capitulate ...
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February 19, 2003, 12:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
The muddle and uncertainty that have in the last three days confused perceptions surrounding the Iraq War in European and Middle East capitals are making way for some clarity. The pendulum can now be clearly seen to be veering towards "on" rather than "off". It is also possible to discern ...
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February 16, 2003, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Blix-ElBaradei arms inspection reports to the UN Security Council on their Iraq mission get briefer, more non-committal and less related to reality on the ground. Not surprisingly, their latest "findings" as presented on Friday, February 14, failed to dent established views; the advocates and the opponents of military action against ...
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February 11, 2003, 12:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
The world's key international bodies - the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union - are splitting fatally over the Iraq arms crisis. A NATO emergency session was deadlocked Monday, February 10, when three leading European nations, France, Germany and Belgium, encouraged by Russia - a ...
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