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181 articles tagged "Lebanon"
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DEBKAfile
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December 25, 2007, 12:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Yet Syrian foreign minister Walid Moualem Thursday accused the US of blocking a purported "Syrian-French attempt" to settle the crisis in Lebanon and France of failing to distance itself from the "American role."
debkafile: The Lebanese opposition led by Hizballah and backed by Syria and Tehran are holding out ... 
DEBKAfile
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December 17, 2007, 9:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
The huge explosion in the Christian village of Baabdeh east of Beirut targeted the officer named to succeed as chief of staff after Gen. Michel Suleiman is elected president. A Mercedes rigged as a car bomb detonated as Brig al-Hajj's vehicle passed by.
debkafile's Middle East sources: The terrorist ... 
DEBKAfile
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December 5, 2007, 8:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our Middle East sources reveal that Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal and Syrian dep. foreign minister Faisal Mekdad quietly finalized the deal at the Middle East conference in Maryland on Nov. 27 - unbeknownst to President George W. Bush.
To arrest Lebanon's slide back into Syria's arms, the US and ... 
DEBKAfile
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November 26, 2007, 1:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
His order to the army to take control of security and declaration of state of emergency is pronounced unconstitutional by the anti-Syrian Fouad Siniora government which announces it will stay in power. debkafile's Middle East sources say the power vacuum in Beirut creates a volatile situation. Hectic negotiations ...
DEBKAfile
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November 20, 2007, 11:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, Iranian foreign minister Manuchehr Mottaki, Syrian foreign minister Walid Mualem and French special emissary Jean-Claude Cousseran, sought to negotiate an end to the crisis over the Lebanese presidency, which falls vacant on Nov. 24. Cousseran tabled the names of the six candidates listed by the Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Sfeir, ...
DEBKAfile
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October 29, 2007, 3:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nawaf Mussawi, one of the leaders of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shiite movement, has threatened: "We will treat US soldiers in Lebanon like an army of occupation."
militia. On Sept. 7, 2007, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 317revealed: "The US army undertook to establish within six months, four Lebanese commando brigades trained to ... 
DEBKAfile
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October 17, 2007, 10:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
The air base, according to debkafile's military sources, will be located at Kleiat in northern Lebanon roughly 75 air miles from Damascus, which these days doubles as a shared Syrian-Iranian military hub and Tehran's eastern Mediterranean forward base. (see map) The American air installation will also lie 22 ...
DEBKAfile
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October 10, 2007, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
They fled during the four-month standoff between Fatah Islam rebels and the Lebanese army which ended a month ago. From Wednesday, 100 families are allowed to return every day. Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora has circulated a message to Arab rulers with the evidence of Syria's complicity in the radical ...
DEBKAfile
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October 2, 2007, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
The pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite group has seized on Sharon's accidental detention, in the course of a suspected murder probe in Beirut, to depict him as belonging to a 250-strong Israeli spy ring equipped by the German BND external intelligence with German passports. The 32-year old Sharon is said to have ...
DEBKAfile
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September 26, 2007, 7:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
A boycott by the Hizballah-led pro-Syrian opposition forced the postponement of parliament's vote for a new president from Sept. 25 until next month. Anti-Syrian lawmakers remain holed up in the Phoenicia Hotel, which is sealed by concrete blocks and thousands of Lebanese soldiers and police diverting traffic, since the anti-Syrian ...
DEBKAfile
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September 25, 2007, 8:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli foreign ministry, stating that Daniel Moshe Sharon, 32, was not on any government mission in Lebanon, asked Germany to try and get him out of prison.
He was arrested by sheer chance on Friday after a Lebanese security officer suspected of shooting dead Moussa Hussein al-Shaalan in the Hizballah ...
DEBKAfile
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September 22, 2007, 7:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The paper reports without attribution that Daniel Moussa Sharon was arrested and handed over to the Lebanese military intelligence service Friday, Sept. 21, after the Lebanese police chanced upon him and found he held dual German and Israeli citizenship. He was said to have visited Lebanon eleven times in two ...
DEBKAfile
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September 20, 2007, 12:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Antoine Ghanem, 64, was a possible candidate for the presidency in an election to replace the pro-Syrian Emil Lahoud. Next week, the Lebanese parliament convenes for the vote.
The blast occurred near the house of ex-president Amin Gemayel, whose son industry minister Pierre Gemayel, was murdered last November in a series ... 
DEBKAfile
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September 7, 2007, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
This injunction was included in Gen. Michel Suleiman's order of the day marking the Lebanese army's victory over al Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam Monday after a four-month battle at the northern Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli.
debkafile's military sources say the battle raging against a pro-Syrian Palestinian Islamist faction ...
DEBKAfile
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September 2, 2007, 11:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
At least 30 Palestinian Fatah al-Islam fighters reported killed, 34 were captured in the final battle Sunday, Sept. 2, in which five Lebanese troops also died, according to the Lebanese army. An unknown number escaped. The fate of their leader, Shaker al-Abassi is not known.
debkafile's counter-terror sources ...
DEBKAfile
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August 28, 2007, 12:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi intelligence services cited warnings that a stolen BMW was being readied to commit "a terrorist act against Saudi interests in Lebanon," a diplomat said.
debkafile adds: The threats came from pro-Syrian elements seeking to halt Riyadh's involvement in the quest for a solution to Lebanon's political crisis shortly ...
DEBKAfile
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August 26, 2007, 12:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
The civilians, 26 women and 33 children were brought out by the Lebanese army from the Nahr a-Bared camp during a temporary truce agreed after three months of fighting. Two of the children and three women were injured and taken to hospital.
DEBKAfile
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August 8, 2007, 4:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Gemayel, a former president, alleges irregularities and demands a rerun, after losing by just over 400 votes, about 0.5% of the ballot.
He ran for the Christian Metn constituency in place of his son, Pierre, a cabinet minister, who was shot dead last November. The winner represents Michel Aoun's pro-Syrian ...
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July 18, 2007, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Tanzanian contingent, attacked as it drove across the Qassmiyeh bridge near the port town of Tyre, suffered no casualties. One vehicle was damaged. Six Spanish peacekeepers were killed in the first attack.
debkafile reports: Hizballah has moved the command center of its southern brigade to the Tyre region, ... |
