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99 articles tagged "Middle East"
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DEBKAfile
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February 25, 2002, 1:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Probably no one was more surprised than Saudi Arabia's virtual ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, by the furor - including Israel president Moshe Katsav's offer to fly to Riyadh - raised by a single sentence he uttered in an interview to the New York Times columnist Thomas L, Friedman, ...
DEBKAfile
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January 9, 2002, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli government perceives the threat of a nuclear, biological or chemical attack as tangible enough to earmark a sizeable amount, the equivalent of US$50 million, for measures to protect the population. According to debkafile's intelligence sources, intelligence supporting this reading has reached Jerusalem from more than one ...
DEBKAfile
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December 4, 2001, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli tanks that halted their progress into the West Bank Palestinian hub town of Ramallah early Tuesday just 200 meters short of Yasser Arafat's headquarters were carrying out their orders with fine precision. They were told to surround, hem in, pin down and ground the Palestinian Authority chairman and ...
DEBKAfile
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November 4, 2001, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
As part of a fresh policy posture on the Middle East, President George W. Bush is reported to be preparing to receive Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a long-awaited first encounter on the occasion of the UN General Assembly session next week.
DEBKAfile
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October 28, 2001, 11:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
Arafat has no interest in ending his war against Israel; what he cares about is his place in Islamic history. When he launched his Al Aqsa intifada last September, he fought his holy war alone in the Arab and Muslim arena. Now he has powerful competition from the millionaire terrorist ...
DEBKAfile
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October 22, 2001, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
US secretary of state Colin Powell did not get very far in his attempts from Shanghai to convince Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that this time Israeli minister Ariel Sharon means business. He was no more successful in persuading Sharon to pull Israeli troops out of the seven Palestinian towns invaded ...
DEBKAfile
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September 19, 2001, 11:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the middle of his war of terror against Israel, the Palestinian leader was brought low and his violent methods fortuitously exposed and discredited worldwide by a savage terrorist attack against America. He came begging for a lifeline from... his victims. Inexplicably, Sharon extended it to him by accepting his ...
DEBKAfile
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September 16, 2001, 11:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's Palestinians sources, the imminent US strike against Iraq and its ultimatum to Syria are making the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat extremely jumpy. He is doing some hard thinking about his next steps and in what direction he should be steering his Palestinian Authority and his ...
DEBKAfile
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July 1, 2001, 11:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile 's Washington, Riyadh, Paris and Jerusalem sources reveal that one key element in the complex set of understandings was tied up in the talks held in the White House between President George W. Bush and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's last Tuesday, June 26. Another was finalized ...
DEBKAfile
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June 28, 2001, 12:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Bush said Tuesday that the two sides, Israel and the Palestinians, will have to decide when the violence has subsided enough to go back to the conference table. A day later, his secretary of state, Colin Powell, declared that the decision would be up to prime minister Ariel Sharon. ...
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 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 9, 2001, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's defense authorities are seriously preparing for extreme contingencies such as Palestinian missile attacks on the main international airfield or airliners in flight; mortar or Katyusha rocket attacks - not on a Gaza Strip settlement, but on a main Jerusalem Street, a Kfar Saba suburb, shopping centers in Hadera and ...
DEBKAfile
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May 7, 2001, 12:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Three months ago, debkafilefirst exposed the clandestine Lebanon-Gaza shipping route that smuggled weapons in tarred barrels for Arafat's war against Israel. We reported on the agreements negotiated last summer by the late Masoud Ayyad, colonel in Yasser Arafat's elite Force 17, for the Hizballah to become the Palestinian ...
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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February 14, 2001, 1:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Only a fragmentary picture of the exploits of Masoud Ayyad, colonel in Yasser Arafat's elite Force 17 and his contact man with the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah, emerge from the official disclosures. He is described by Israeli military spokesmen as having spent last summer in Lebanon, set up the Palestinian link ...
DEBKAfile
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February 9, 2001, 1:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Following the Likud leader's election victory Tuesday Feb. 6, Yasser Arafat took tangible steps to prepare the ground for the liquidation of the Palestinian Authority established under the 1993 Oslo accords with Israel and the transfer of himself and close clique to Baghdad. He will leave behind him a newly ...
DEBKAfile
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December 19, 2000, 2:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
President-elect Bush, who has already announced his administration will be fully engaged in the Middle East, has assented to his predecessor dealing with the negotiations in the remaining weeks of his presidency, with the proviso that all agreements are submitted to Bush for prior approval. He also wants both Palestinian ...
DEBKAfile
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November 29, 2000, 11:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egypt claimed Tuesday, Nov.28, it had arrested a 34-year old Egyptian engineer and charged an absent Russian accomplice, accusing both of supplying Israel with political, economic and military intelligence prejudicial to Egypt's national interests.
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