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71 articles tagged "Middle East war"
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DEBKAfile
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August 7, 2001, 1:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since early this year, Saddam Hussein is estimated by debkafile's intelligence sources to have planted some 30 agents on the West Bank. They operate through the system for distributing Iraqi largesse to the bereaved families of Intifada victims, independently of the Palestinian Authority. Recruitment to the ranks is ...
DEBKAfile
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June 27, 2001, 2:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
While defense minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer wages his crusade against the outposts Jewish settlers planted at the Palestinians' favorite ambush sites against West Bank highway traffic, Israeli security authorities anxiously try to puzzle out the purpose of the latest Iraqi military moves in the Western Desert.
DEBKAfile
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June 5, 2001, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Friday, June 22, Sharon had the Shin Beit director, Avi Dichter give Arafat and Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service on the West Bank, 24 hours to arrest the scores of terrorists directly implicated in terrorism who appeared on the named list he put before them. ...
DEBKAfile
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May 20, 2001, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
In weekend telephone conversations, US officials told their Israeli counterparts that all their efforts to persuade Egyptian. Saudi and Gulf leaders to exercise their influence on Arafat were unsuccessful. Some of the answers they received, especially in Riyadh, were that the Palestinian leader was in a state of euphoria and ...
DEBKAfile
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May 19, 2001, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Until now, George W. Bush has said clearly he does not propose to involve his administration directly in the Palestinian-Israel showdown as did his predecessor, Bill Clinton. Various world statesmen, including Israeli politicians campaigning to revive the old diplomatic process, tried hard to tie up the Mitchell recommendations and the ...
DEBKAfile
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May 16, 2001, 12:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile military sources report that the tangible threats of which Israeli security authorities have received warning include mass-casualty strikes in civilian areas, whether by means of suicide bomber or booby-trapped cars, gunfire by sniper and ambush, raider forays into Israel settlements or urban locations, mortar attacks from the ...
DEBKAfile
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May 7, 2001, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Yasser Arafat is mustering powerful reinforcements for his second "Al Aqsa Intifada" front whose opening in Jerusalem and Temple Mount is scheduled for the Palestinian "Day of the Catastrophe" on May 15. His agents are busy raising strength among Israeli Arabs with the help of "Palestinian Hizballah" operatives smuggled in ...
DEBKAfile
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May 6, 2001, 3:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Palestinian sources make no secret of what their leader wants: to escalate the violence and bloodshed to reach a fresh climax on May 15, the day of Israel's founding, or the Palestinian Day of the Catastrophe, while at the same time extracting a White House invitation from ...
DEBKAfile
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May 1, 2001, 1:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Undismayed by the linguistic "misunderstanding" that left Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak red-faced after his Palestinian-Israel ceasefire goof Sunday April 29 - Peres blames the Arabic translator although TV footage shows the two men conversing alone - the Israeli foreign minister went on pushing his non-existent ceasefire in New York two ...
DEBKAfile
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December 28, 2000, 11:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's political and intelligence sources, Prime Minister Barak was led astray in his reading of Yasser Arafat's response to President Clinton's peace proposals by an incomplete piece of intelligence: Arafat had secretly set up a panel to prepare Palestinian option for acceptance of a treaty ending ...
DEBKAfile
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September 4, 2000, 2:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile sources in the Arab world report that the rumors flooding the Middle East about Saddam Hussein having contracted lymph cancer were started by the wily dictator himself. He feared that uncontrolled rumors would spark an upheaval in the ruling family and the army command and become a ...
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