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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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February 9, 2003, 5:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday night, February 8, in the Iraqi-Kurdish city of Suleimaniyeh, al Qaeda and Iraqi military intelligence fired their first shot of the US-Iraq war - by assassination. They used their shared surrogate, the extremist Kurdish Ansar al-Islam of northeast Iraq, to eliminate the top command of the pro-American Patriotic Union ...
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February 8, 2003, 9:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
The disclosure that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon opens formal ceasefire talks with the Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Abu Ala next Monday, February 10, appears inconsequential and beside the point at a time when one war or more looms over the Middle East, together with other potential horrors. However untimely ...
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February 4, 2003, 8:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
With the approach of American military action against Iraq, the United States and its war allies, including Israel, have gone on top alert to steel themselves against a multi-pronged mega-terror offensive assault. According to debkafile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly's exclusive counter-terror and intelligence sources, six entities have come together ...
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January 27, 2003, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
America's UN ambassador John Negroponte responded angrily and immediately to the reports delivered to the UN Security Council Monday, January 27, by chief UN Inspector Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency head, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Those reports said in effect: We can't prove Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, ... 
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January 25, 2003, 8:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
While still holding out on permission for a full-scale, 80,000-strong US invasion force to be stationed in Turkey, the Gul government has ceded part of America's requirements. DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military and Turkish sources say Ankara will make bases available for the landing of 25-30,000 US troops for the first stage ...
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January 21, 2003, 9:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Fired four months ago from Saddam Hussein's inner bodyguard detail, Jassem Abdullah - not his real name, but one of several aliases - lives in Amman in fear of his life. He moves from place to place taking his secrets with him. As a member of the elite trusted group ...
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January 20, 2003, 11:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two senior UN officials, chief arms inspector Hans Blix and nuclear controller Mohamed ElBaradei, handed Saddam Hussein an epic diplomatic victory Monday, January 20 - no doubt acting on a nod from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. They gained the Iraqi ruler yet a further stay of military action until ...
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January 20, 2003, 7:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hans Blix, chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq and Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the internationial nuclear agency, have not turned up any Iraqi scientists or civilians to interview outside the country's borders. After two days of negotiations with Iraq officials in Baghdad, they came out with a 10-point accord that ...
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January 18, 2003, 10:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, January 19, Israel's defense minister Shaul Mofaz will present to the full cabinet session in Jerusalem his completed plan for meeting the hazards of a US-Iraqi war in the civilian, security and home front sectors. He will tell the ministers that the country is ready for the war. That ...
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January 18, 2003, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last week's "discovery" by UN arms inspectors of a dozen empty chemical 122 mm missile warheads at an Iraqi ammunition dump in Ukhaider, 70 miles south of Baghdad, was not the outcome of intelligence but subtle Iraqi manipulation. The UN inspectors were led by the nose to their discovery.
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January 15, 2003, 11:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
One major cause of the breakdown of Turkish-US understandings for the Iraq war is the surprise candidate the Bush team is promoting to rule post-war Baghdad: Jalal Talabani, 69-year old chief of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. This was reported exclusively inDEBKA-Net-Weekly No. 92on Jan. 10. Officials in Washington ...
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January 13, 2003, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The conversation held by Turkish minister of state Kutsad Tuzmen in Baghdad Sunday with Saddam Hussein went on for two hours and twenty minutes and was described officially as an important and useful development for Turkish-Iraqi relations. Tuzmen was the bearer of a written message to the Iraqi ruler from ...
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January 11, 2003, 4:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The new Turkish government has performed a spectacular about-face with respect to US war plans for Iraq and its post-Saddam aftermath, a large monkey wrench that is bound to throw off Washington's timeline for launching its war offensive against Iraq. This partly explains the pressure building up from Britain and ...
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January 5, 2003, 12:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
The official announcement that Israel's anti-ballistic missile Arrow 2 system is to be tested Sunday, January 5, in "difficult and unusual flight conditions, in a complex targeting environment", raises questions - especially when US defense officials have come especially to observe the first nearly simultaneous launching of four Arrow missiles, ...
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January 4, 2003, 10:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly'sintelligence sources report mounting fears within US and Israeli counter-terrorism agencies that al Qaeda's three command centers are preparing mega-terror attacks for US and Israeli targets. They believe that, for the time being, al Qaeda has foregone a nuclear, radiological or chemical option in favor of biological warfare, because ...
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December 29, 2002, 10:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's intelligence and military sources report that Saturday, December 21 - or Sunday, December 22 - directly after his visit to London, Syrian president Bashar Assad traveled again - this time to a secret rendezvous with Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. He brought with him President George ...
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December 25, 2002, 8:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
The conference held in Turkey on Tuesday, December 24, between Israel's chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon and Turkish army chief Gen. Hilimi Ozkok, wrapped up the arrangements made by the US, Israel and Turkey for concerted action in the approaching war with Iraq. The operations of their air ...
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December 21, 2002, 7:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
December 18: From Powell to Blix:
Before you present your first report on the team's findings in Iraq to the UN Secretary and Security Council, may I remind you of our prior understandings: 1. You will specify that the December 7 Iraqi arms declaration denying possession of weapons of mass destruction is ... 
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December 7, 2002, 4:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Running circles around the UN arms inspection headed by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, the Iraqi government dropped a massive pile of documents - its reply to the UN Security Council demand for a full accounting of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - in the laps of the international media Saturday, ...
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November 9, 2002, 7:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Both the US-UK-Iranian alliance and Iraq have in the last two weeks beefed up their elite units in southeastern Iraq. The US-led assault force has two primary missions:
A. Within the 60 days assigned to the UN inspectors for completing their report, the troops aim to assert military control over all ... |
