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181 articles tagged "Lebanon"
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DEBKAfile
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June 3, 2008, 9:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
The claim appears to Al-Sapir.
The German Der Spiegel reports that a German agent has brokered a two-stage prisoner swap deal which awaits Israel's decision. debkafile's sources comment that the deal outlines Hizballah's demands which Israel has been rejecting for two years. According to the German paper, Israel will receive ...
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June 3, 2008, 7:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hizballah's Al Manar television reported the handover of the remains of soldiers who fell in the 2006 war across the border to Israel on Sunday June 1, after the Israeli citizen Nasim Nisr convicted of spying for the Lebanese Shiite terrorists was deported to Lebanon at the end of his ...
DEBKAfile
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May 27, 2008, 7:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanese army's chief of staff, Gen. Michel Suleiman, voted president Sunday, May 25, by 118 deputies to 6 abstentions, has begun talks on a new government.
debkafile's Middle East analysts report: The enormous relief felt by the Lebanese people at finally having a president after 18 months of ...
DEBKAfile
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May 27, 2008, 9:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Hizballah leader defied their directives to avoid signing the inter-factional peace accord and instead keep on fighting, according to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's exclusive sources. Hassan Nasrallah thus emerged as the strong man of Lebanon and beyond.
Don't miss the coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly's revelations on the next stage of this extraordinary multilateral ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 25, 2008, 6:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Heads of the pro-government majority factions and the Hizballah-led opposition reached an agreement in the Qatar capital early Wednesday, May 21, aimed at pulling Lebanon back from the brink of civil war. A president, lacking since last November, will be elected immediately, a new government will be formed with 11 ...
DEBKAfile
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May 20, 2008, 10:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly offers exclusive revelations on the internal and regional dynamics of multicultural Lebanon's fall into the Iran-dominated Shiite net. Why wasn't it stopped? 
DEBKAfile
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May 18, 2008, 2:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that three weeks before Hizballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speedboats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel's Haifa and Ashdod ...
Analysis: Lebanese army will not step in before Hizballah fights pro-government forces to the finish
DEBKAfile
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May 16, 2008, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report: After six days of fighting between government loyalists and Hizballah leave close to a 100 dead and 200 wounded, the Lebanese army's demand that all combatants lay down their arms will go unheeded until the Shiite terrorists decide they have achieved their goals.
Hizballah ...
DEBKAfile
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May 15, 2008, 5:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report: Hizballah's advance on two key Lebanese locations Saturday, May 10 had immediate effect on the strategic balance between the Iran-backed Shiite group and Israel. Sidon in the south, Lebanon's second largest city, which provides Hizballah with control of a continuous coastal strip from its ...
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May 13, 2008, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: In the second winning round of its war on the pro-Western Siniora government, Hizballah pounded the Druze strongholds of anti-Syrian Walid Jumblatt in the Mt. Lebanon hills east of Beirut all day Sunday, April 11. When the Druze leader asked his rival Talal Arselan to broker ...
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May 13, 2008, 10:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian Social Nationalist Party's units entered Beirut to support Hizballah's advancing occupation of Sunni West Beirut districts.
debkafile's Middle East sources report that Thursday night, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman refused to obey prime minister Fouad Siniora's order to declare a state of emergency for the crisis created by ... 
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May 10, 2008, 6:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources: After seizing control of Sunni West Beirut and besieging the seat of the pro-Western government, Hizballah fighters Saturday, April 10, turned their guns on Sunni Muslim centers in the rest of Lebanon. Some 20 fatalities are reported in three days of combat.
debkafile sources ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 10, 2008, 5:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Gunfire and explosions filled the streets of Beirut Wednesday, May 7 in violent confrontations between pro-Western Siniora government and Iran-Syria-backed Hizballah forces. debkafile's sources report both have ordered a general call-up of their adherents.
During the day, Hizballah blocked the roads leading to the airport nd vowed to ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 9, 2008, 1:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Lebanon's pro-Western Siniora government has declared illegal Hizballah's private telecommunications network installed in southern and eastern Lebanon and the southern Shiite suburbs of Beirut. debkafile reported some weeks ago that the network is military and was installed by Iran to prepare its Lebanese proxy for war with Israel.
Beirut ...
DEBKAfile
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May 5, 2008, 1:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Members of the alleged al Qaeda cell are charged with conducting missile attacks against Israel from South Lebanon and planning attacks on UN peacekeepers. Another three members are still at large. The Beirut police believe they are followers of the al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi and ...
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April 2, 2008, 10:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's intelligence sources comment: Canadian former prosecutor Daniel Bellemare, in assigning the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri to an anonymous "criminal network" of individuals, seems to deviate strongly from the ten previous reports made by his predecessors.
Both Detlev Mehlis of Germany and Serge Brammertz ... 
DEBKAfile
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April 1, 2008, 12:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his first report Friday, March 28, Daniel Bellemare of Canada, head of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission, also connects this criminal network, or parts thereof, with 20 subsequent "terrorist attacks" in Lebanon that killed 61 people and injured close to 500. Eleven targeted anti-Syrian politicians and journalists.
The ...
DEBKAfile
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February 5, 2008, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday night, Feb. 3, a routine Israeli military border patrol came under gunfire outside the village. They soldiers fired back. The Lebanese reported two dead on their side of the border. There were no Israeli casualties. Israeli reinforcements arrived on the scene. This was the first cross-border shooting incident from ...
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January 11, 2008, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
No one was injured. Rocket fragments found on the balcony of a home in the northern Israeli town were first explained by Israeli security officials as old ordnance from the 2006 Lebanon War. This assessment was revised later Tuesday morning. Residents reported explosions during Monday night.
debkafile's military sources ...
DEBKAfile
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January 11, 2008, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanese army and UN peacekeeping force have increased patrols on their of the border, matched by Israel on its side after two terrorist attacks Tuesday, Jan. 8. Three Katyusha rockets were fired against the northern Israeli town of Shlomi, causing no casualties, and a few hours later, two Irish ...
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