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323 articles tagged "Iraq war"
DEBKAfile
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November 9, 2002, 7:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, November 8, while international attention was fixed on the UN Security Council vote by 15 to nothing in favor of the US-UK-Ireland ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, US aircraft dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets over Iraqi troop concentrations that are building up in southwest Iraq, calling on them ...
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October 5, 2002, 1:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The nearly 2 million inhabitants of Greater Tel Aviv, like the rest of the country, feel entitled to credible information about any potential threats from Iraq. If Israeli officials believe American estimates and figures are exaggerated or wide of the mark, they ought to set the record straight. Their failure ...
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October 5, 2002, 12:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his radio address Saturday, October 5, President George W. Bush further sharpened the options in advance of his major address to the nation Monday, October 7. He said: "If the Iraqi regime persists in its defiance, the use of force may become unavoidable."
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September 23, 2002, 4:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The weathervane of US-Israel relations has begun to hover between fair and cloudy as the Bush administration's assault on Iraq approaches. debkafile's Washington and Jerusalem sources say the trouble is not related to Israel's isolation of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah - that episode is closely coordinated with the ...
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September 21, 2002, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources point to the danger of Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein attempting to turn the tables on the American offensive against his regime by stealing a leaf from the Bush administration's newly- enunciated first-strike strategy.
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September 17, 2002, 2:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraq's offer to unconditionally re-admit the UN arms inspectors thrown out four years ago has forged cracks in the UN Security Council, but not deflected the Bush administration's determination to remove the regime the US president called "barbaric" when he addressed a fund-raiser in Nashville, Tennessee, Tuesday, September 17. Taunting ...
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September 8, 2002, 3:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
The importance of the massive US-UK air raid over Western Iraq Friday night, September 6, cannot be exaggerated. Although the Bush administration is bidding hard for broad international support for the US offensive against Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction, debkafile's military sources report that, since ...
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September 2, 2002, 3:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
A select group of Iraqi district governors was ushered into Saddam's palace-bunker late last month expecting a last briefing from their president on contingencies for a US offensive. But DEBKA-Net-Weekly's sources in the Gulf report they were treated instead to a long harangue from Saddam on public sanitation in ...
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September 2, 2002, 3:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
On August 14, after repeated delays, the Israeli security cabinet finally held a special meeting to review the country's preparedness for unconventional warfare. It decided to vaccinate 15,000 "first response" personnel against smallpox, as a first stage of a general vaccination campaign against a possible bio-weapons attack originating in Iraq ...
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August 18, 2002, 4:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile 's military sources report that the United States and Israel have wound up their preparations for a mass terror attack using unconventional weapons. The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly (Issue 71, August 16), reported perturbation in Washington and Jerusalem over the fresh intelligence assessment that Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein ...
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August 12, 2002, 6:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Notwithstanding official denials, the 4,000 US troops who began landing in Aqaba Monday, August 12, will be transferred to the northeast Jordanian desert region bordering on Iraq. Officially, they have come for a three-week joint exercise with the Jordanian army. But debkafile's military sources report that the American ...
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August 10, 2002, 6:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
America's offensive against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq has begun as an exercise in gradualism rather than a D-Day drama. debkafile's military sources report that tens of thousands of US, British, French, Netherlands, Australian troops may take part in the campaign, openly or covertly, but not in massive ...
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July 29, 2002, 3:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
This first contingent, also the smallest - no more than 30,000 to 40,000 troops - will attack from the north, setting out from US installations in southern Turkey, mainly the large air base at Incirlik. They will link up with US special forces already present in northern Iraq, US commando-trained ...
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July 28, 2002, 1:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has decided after much agonizing and consultation to keep Egypt out of the upcoming American campaign against Iraq. This exclusive information reaches debkafile from sources in Cairo and Madrid - Mubarak's last port of call. He has also decided not to permit the US ...
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July 13, 2002, 1:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
America has secretly built a new central command center for its Iraq offensive in the Eritrean port of Assab. The new facility also houses jumping off bases for the US air force and navy. While way off the beaten track, Assab has the great advantage of being positioned strategically near ...
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July 13, 2002, 1:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
An assessment of the current Turkish political turmoil's potential for holding up the US campaign against Iraq, is the errand bringing US deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz to Ankara next week. Incirlik and Adana, where the US air force bases its F-15, F-16 and AWACS aircraft, are important launch ...
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July 9, 2002, 10:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
US war planners have decided that their most useful strategic asset for the coming offensive against Saddam Hussein is the 2.5 million Turkomans of north and central Iraq - even more than the Kurds.
DEBKAfile
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July 2, 2002, 4:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
On June 11, Saddam Hussein signed Military Directive 531 ordering commando units from the Republican Guards and special military intelligence combat units to head into northern Iraq. He had just received intelligence reports indicating that the US special forces and CIA personnel he knew to have landed in the northern ...
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June 8, 2002, 5:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military and Middle East sources discovered that much of last week's US diplomatic bustle and hustle around the Israel-Palestinian conflict was camouflage for a secret channel of activity that added another brick to America's preparations for striking Iraq. CIA Director George Tenet, while on official business in ...
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March 23, 2002, 1:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the light of the mounting opposition to the Iraqi operation US Vice President Richard Cheney's encountered in his 11-nation Middle East-Gulf, the White House is reported by DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military, intelligence and political sources to have fitted new goals around the Iraqi scenario, including also solutions to the acute ...
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