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71 articles tagged "Middle East war"
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DEBKAfile
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April 9, 2002, 10:34 AM (GMT+02:00)
The battle raging in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, the most savage and costly in life waged thus far in the counter-terror offensive Israel launched on March 29, will also determine its outcome. It will also decide if Yasser Arafat is doomed to stay locked in his two ...
DEBKAfile
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March 29, 2002, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
In an all-night session, the full Israeli coalition government approved an all-out, extended military offensive against terrorists, its instigators and supporters in every part of Palestinian territory - though not to deport Palestinian leader Arafat, as prime minister Ariel Sharon demanded. Instead, for "formulating terror strategy and building a coalition ...
DEBKAfile
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March 29, 2002, 10:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's extended military offensive against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah stronghold, launched Friday morning, March 29, quickly took on a wider regional context. By afternoon, debkafile's military sources began to pick up signs of unusual military movements in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
DEBKAfile
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March 23, 2002, 10:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarakescaped two known assassination attempts by Osama bin Laden and Egyptian Islamic extremists in 1993 and 1995. Since then, he takes no chances. Three weeks ago, according to debkafile 's intelligence sources, he was quietly warned that al Qaeda, the Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian militias ...
DEBKAfile
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March 15, 2002, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
First, it depends on the nature of US envoy Anthony Zinni's brief. If it is, as officially and publicly defined, to convince Palestinians and Israelis to suspend the grim cycle of violence and bloodshed and accept a truce - then the answer is: Not likely.
DEBKAfile
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March 14, 2002, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
In attempting to unscramble the Palestinian-Israel-Hizballah confrontation, US secretary of state Colin Powell faces the toughest assignment of his career. Its complexities persuaded him to ask the President for more time in the Middle East, well beyond the 48 hours first allowed him.
DEBKAfile
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March 9, 2002, 12:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ever since the capture of the Karine-A Palestinian arms smuggling boat on the Red Sea two months ago exposed Yasser Arafat's working relations with Iran, the Hizballah and Iraq, both America and Israel had an interest in keeping Arafat cornered in Ramallah for three main reasons.
DEBKAfile
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March 9, 2002, 12:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Tulkarm refugee camp was the third such location to be tackled by Israeli forces' new counter-offensive - after the Nablus camp of Balata and the Jenin camp - all on the West Bank.
DEBKAfile
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March 2, 2002, 12:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Friday night, March 1, on the third day of their first large-scale counter-terror operations in the refugee camps of Nablus and Jenin, Israeli armed forces, led by troops of the Golani infantry brigade, pulled back from the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin to its outskirts.
DEBKAfile
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March 1, 2002, 12:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel set out on Thursday, February 28, to break the back of the Fatah-Tanzim's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, by thrusting for the first time in force into the large Nablus and Jenin refugee camps, the main forward bases for the suicide assailants who plague Israeli towns, villages, roads and military targets.
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February 27, 2002, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
A glimmer of hope hung over the resumed trilateral security mission meeting at the US Ambassador's home in Herzliya Tuesday night, February 26. Present were Israeli Shin Beit director Avi Dichter, IDF General Command Planning Chief, Maj.-Gen Giora Eiland, Palestinian Gaza Strip Preventive Security Head Mohamed Dahlan, Palestinian General Intelligence ...
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February 23, 2002, 4:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
America's promised full-scale offensive against Iraq has been launched with small, discreet military steps. On January 4, our intelligence newsletter DEBKA-Net-Weekly (Issue 43) predicted the campaign would begin in February. On Friday, February 15, the first American Special Forces moved into northern Iraq from Turkey, a development first picked ...
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February 20, 2002, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ariel Sharon may not realize how fast Yasser Arafat is advancing on his goal of defeating yet another Israeli prime minister, exactly five years after a Palestinian bus-bombing campaign and strike against Tel Aviv's DizengoffCenter forced Shimon Peres to throw in the towel after only a year as prime minister.
DEBKAfile
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February 19, 2002, 12:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
The deadly spiral of terrorist attacks mounted by a coalition of Palestinian groups continues to climb. Not all of the strikes come off.
DEBKAfile
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February 17, 2002, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's inner security cabinet meeting Sunday afternoon, February 17, faced the bald option between going to war proper against Arafat and his Palestinian Authority or hold off again and live with a savagely spiraling casualty toll - 14 Israelis dead in the last two weeks.
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February 10, 2002, 12:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political and military analysts note that Yasser Arafat has brought the full weight of his terror campaign to bear on Israel's cities and population centers; most of the Intifada toll has been borne by civilians. During Sharon's five-day absence in the United States, seven Israelis died at ...
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February 8, 2002, 1:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian foreign minister Ali Maher said Monday night, January 7, that the "conflicting reports coming from Israel" on the Karine-A seizure arouse increasing doubts. In particular, he questioned Israel's assertion that the ship's course was set for the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip via the Suez Canal. Maher repeated ...
DEBKAfile
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February 7, 2002, 2:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Exactly 24 hours after Gen. Suleiman left - and one hour before Sharon boarded the plane for Washington - Arafat gave the signal for the first of a deadly series of terror strikes against Israeli civilians.
DEBKAfile
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February 5, 2002, 2:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in Jerusalem, Mofaz stated that the Palestinians' hostile intentions remained unchanged. As for Iran, he said he did not see that country attacking Israel tomorrow, but its instigation, guidance and arming of anti-Israel terrorists must be taken in conjunction ...
DEBKAfile
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February 4, 2002, 3:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
The next stage of the US-Israeli strategy for containing Palestinian terrorism will cut him off from the wherewithal for building up, replenishing and arming his militias and terror groups. In the Oval Office next Wednesday, Sharon and Bush will get down to the third stage.
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