Tue May 14, 2013
181 articles tagged "Lebanon"
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
May 18, 2007, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ass. Secy of State for Near East David Welch is due in Beirut for a surprise visit to underline American backing for Fouad Siniora's government.
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
May 14, 2007, 10:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was a typical concatenation of Middle East contrasts. Monday, May 14, Israel launched a four-day war game at civilian and military command levels. The lead actors are Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, the General Staff, regional commanders as well as the prime minister and defense minister. The ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
April 28, 2007, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Security sources said the boys, Ziad Ghandour and Ziad Qabalan, were killed a few hours after they were abducted. The streets of Beirut were suddenly deserted Thursday amid fears of violent reprisals by the boys' relatives and members of the Druze Progressive Socialist Party to which they were affiliated. In ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
April 28, 2007, 9:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanese army reports an Israeli army patrol crossed into Lebanon Thursday between the towns of Kfar Shuba and Shebaa in the eastern sector. Described as reaching to within 50-100 meters past the blue line border, they were forced to withdraw by UN peacekeepers. This report is denied by the ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
April 9, 2007, 10:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
The store, at a site near the disputed Chebaa Farms, contained 17 rocket launchers. Israeli military sources report that the Hizballah has almost completely restocked its Lebanon War losses.
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
April 4, 2007, 7:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ban went to Lebanon to follow up allegations that the arms embargo on Hizballah ordered by the UN resolution that ended the Lebanon war was not being enforced. Friday, the UN Secretary met with Lebanese security chiefs in Beirut to discuss ways of enhancing the Lebanese army's monitoring capabilities along ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
March 24, 2007, 9:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
After briefing the Security Council on his latest report, Serge Brammertz said Wednesday: "We have a clearer idea of the political context in which the crime occurred. We believe ...that the motive is most likely linked to his political activities." Asked if he was suggesting the former Lebanese prime minister ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
March 17, 2007, 9:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Belgian judge Serge Brammertz, who heads the UN commission probing the Hariri murder, asks for an extension of its mandate upon submitting its seventh report Thursday. The panel concludes that a single bomb killed the Lebanese politician Rafiq Hariri and 22 others in Feb. 2005. It has implicated top ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
February 15, 2007, 11:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
At 9:15 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13, the bombs tore through the buses at the ancestral village of the Gemayel clan, whose scion, anti-Syrian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel was also murdered last year. The buses were carrying demonstrators to a rally in Beirut Wednesday on the second anniversary of the murder ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
July 25, 2006, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
After overwhelming the Hizballah stronghold of Bin Jubeil in southern Lebanon Tuesday July 25, Israeli armed ground forces and tanks are preparing to sweep forward to sanitize the town's satellites.
Israel lost two tank personnel: 1st Lieutenant Lotan Slavin, 21 from Moshav Hatzeva, and 1st Sgt Kobi Smileg, 20, from Rehovot. Hizballah ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 9, 2006, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's intelligence and counter-terror sources report that Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal arrived in Damascus first thing Sunday morning Jan 8 with an royal order for President Bashar Assad to present himself without delay to King Abdullah in Jeddah. The Saudis were racing against time to put ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
October 21, 2005, 10:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
Converging evidence points at both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in the assassination plot against former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on February 14, 2005. This was the primary conclusion of UN investigator Detlev Mehlis whose interim report is to be submitted Friday to the UN Security Council and the Lebanese ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
June 20, 2005, 11:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Lebanese experts wonder how the Sunni Muslim interloper from the south, 35-year old Saad Hariri, who has a blood reckoning with Damascus managed to sweep the traditionally pro-Syrian north, which is dominated by such Damascus-friendly clans as the Maronite Franjiehs and the Sunni Karamis (Rashid Karami was ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
May 30, 2005, 4:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The stunning election victory in the Beirut region attributed to Saad Hariri, son of the assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, is no more than hyperbole. Nine of the 12 seats his camp carried Sunday, May 29, were sewn up in advance. The only stunning development was the hectic ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
April 4, 2005, 10:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president George W. Bush has set his face in his second term on extinguishing Middle East conflicts rather than starting new fires. The White House seeks formulae for avoiding war while yet somehow preventing radical Islamic groups from seizing power in Beirut and Ramallah through the ballot box. To ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 17, 2005, 4:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday, March 2003, Abu Mohammed Al Masri, or Farouq al-Masri was walking back to his store from regular prayers at the central mosque of the South Lebanese Ein Hilweh Palestinian camp when a parked white Mercedes exploded and killed him. "Al Masri" was quickly identified by Lebanese intelligence as Ahmed ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 24, 2003, 2:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
While agreeing to hand over several hundred Lebanese prisoners, Israel has adamantly refused to release Kuntar. The Hizballah have just as firmly labeled him the sine qua non for the deal. Officials in Sharon's bureau while dropping veiled hints are keeping the bargaining cards very close to their chests. All ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 17, 2003, 1:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
As Israeli eyes were riveted on the appalling effects of the synagogue bomb attacks in Istanbul on Saturday, November 15, their air force executed a stunning demonstration of might over Lebanon lasting several hours Sunday, November 16. debkafile's military sources reveal exclusively that 30-40 Israeli fighter-bombers zipped through ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
September 30, 2003, 11:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
The machinery is running for the Israel-Hizballah prisoner swap. Barring hitches, debkafile's intelligence sources report it is due to take place on a date between Wednesday October 22 and Friday October 24, depending on when the sky-gazing senior imams sight the next crescent moon and proclaim the start ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
September 23, 2003, 10:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hizballah secretary general, is an old hand at twitching Israeli nerves by dangling offers of information on prisoners, MIAs and fallen troops on terms that Israel cannot accept. The Israeli machinery dealing with prisoner recovery then swings into action expecting little more than a sign of ...
|
