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181 articles tagged "Lebanon"
DEBKAfile
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May 26, 2009, 8:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
During a videotaped speech haranguing Israel for staging threatening military maneuvers, Hizballah's leader Hassan Nasrallah Monday night, May 18, ordered the call-up of reserves and placed his terrorist militia on a state of war preparedness.
Earlier, our military sources reported that Hizballah was exploiting the alleged flight of suspected Israeli spies ... 
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May 6, 2009, 10:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources report that, by setting the key witnesses, four pro-Syrian Lebanese generals, free, the pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen Wednesday, April 29, effectively scrapped the international tribunal's mission to pursue the murderers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Their release "for lack of sufficient evidence" under ...
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April 29, 2009, 4:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
It is up to the pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen of the international tribunal seeking the murderers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri to decide whether the four Lebanese generals should stay in custody. They have been held for four years on suspicion of a hand in the Hariri murder ...
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February 27, 2009, 10:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
The rocket attack which slightly injured three Israelis in the Arab Christian village of Mailiyeh early Saturday, Feb. 21 is attributed by debkafile's counter-terror sources to the "Jihad Movement for Gaza" - a new terrorist organization operating out of the Ain Hilwa refugee camp near Sidon. No organization ...
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February 8, 2009, 9:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The United States and Russia are bidding hard against each other to give the Lebanese army heavy weapons, a contest which Israeli diplomacy has failed to deter, debkafile's military sources report.
Defense ministry official Amos Gilead arrived in Moscow Friday, Dec. 19 too late to stop sophisticated Russian ... 
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December 28, 2008, 2:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The rockets were disarmed shortly before their timing devices would have launched them against Nahariya and Maalot.
Israeli military sources are certain that Hizballah handed the rockets to Hamas terrorists at the Ain Hilwa camp in south Lebanon and guided them to the exact launching site for hitting the two Israeli ... 
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December 24, 2008, 12:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
In their contest to arm the Lebanese army with heavy weapons, the United States and Russia have no way of keeping them out of Hizballah hands; Shiite soldiers make up nearly half the force and Hizballah's hands are on the levers of the Beirut government. Israel's tardy diplomatic efforts to ...
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November 5, 2008, 12:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanese army confirms media report Saturday, Nov. 1, that the suspected head of a Mossad spy ring was picked up at his home in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley W. Lebanon, with several family members, after lengthy surveillance in Lebanon and Syria. He is not named in the report.
Investigators ... 
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November 1, 2008, 4:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
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In the past few weeks, Hizballah at the behest of Iran and Syria has commandeered the 7,800-foot Mt. Sannine, a strategic asset capable of determining the outcome of the next war, as DEBKA-Net-Weekly 356 revealed. Radar-guided missile positions and an early ... 
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October 18, 2008, 9:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
It would have been unthinkable for any Middle East Christian leader to pay his respects to the ayatollahs in Tehran before the indecisive Israel-Hizballah war of 2006 and the subsequent collapse of US and Israeli positions. But now, the once pro-West Lebanese Christian strognman, Gen. Michel Aoun, who has become ...
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October 11, 2008, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the US decided to withdraw Cobra military helicopters for the Lebanese army from emergency stores in Jordan after Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora alerted Washington to Damascus' plot for a large-scale terror attack or assassination to drum up a pretext for invading northern ...
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August 19, 2008, 9:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
The fervently pro-US, pro-Israeli Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, has decided to hold out no longer. He has thrown in his lot with the most extreme pro-Syrian, pro-Iranian, anti-Israel force in Lebanon, the Shiite Hizballah, which has gained veto power over the government in Beirut unopposed.
debkafile's Middle East ... 
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August 1, 2008, 12:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Fierce sectarian clashes left six dead and 33 injured, most caught in crossfire in the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli Friday. The figure rose to nine after a night of heavy fighting.
debkafile's military sources report that rocket-propelled grenade and sniper fire was exchanged all day between the largely ... 
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July 22, 2008, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our exclusive sources report that Lebanon's pro-Western Sunni majority leader Saad Hariri resorted to the unheard-of step of a secret visit to the Iraqi town of Najef to seek the help of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. He was desperate to check the Hizballah leader, Hassan Nasrallah's meteoric rise to power ...
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July 21, 2008, 10:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our intelligence sources report that control of the 7,800-foot Mt. Sannine peak, one the most prized strategic assets in the region, provides Iran, Hizballah and Syria with the perfect vantage point for radar-guided anti-air missiles and an early warning station to cover US Sixth Fleet movements in the eastern Mediterranean ...
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July 17, 2008, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The majority bloc headed by the incumbent Fouad Siniora holds 16 portfolios in the new Lebanese government, the opposition led by Hizballah - 11. President Michel Sleiman exercised his prerogative to name three ministers.
The numbers, debkafile's Middle East sources note, add up to the radicalization of the ...
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July 1, 2008, 8:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Twenty-two ministers, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert voted for the deal, over objections from three. The prime minister disclosed that the two Israeli soldiers whose handover was covered by the deal, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, are believed to have died shortly after they were taken captive two years ago ...
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June 13, 2008, 11:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Fresh fighting between Hizballah and pro-Western forces supporting prime minister Fouad Siniora flared in eastern Lebanon's Beqaa Valley and Alei in the Chouf hills east of Beirut Sunday. Government forces were deployed to restore order against Hizballah's anti-tank weapons and 60 mm in new president Michel Sleiman's first trial of ...
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June 6, 2008, 9:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
The IDF notified five bereaved families June 2 that some of the remains handed to Israel by Hizballah on June 1 had been identified as belonging to soldiers who had died in the 2006 Lebanon War and were buried.
They are the four crew members of the Yasur helicopter shot ...
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June 5, 2008, 8:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources report that the box of remains Hizballah sent to Israel on June 1 was a gesture made to impress the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier who was visiting Beirut before leaving for Jerusalem. Listed by the US and European Union as a terrorist organization, Hizballah ...
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