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473 articles tagged "Syria"
DEBKAfile
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November 11, 2007, 7:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and defense minister Ehud Barak made welcoming sounds about Syria's possible presence at the conference, as though they had come up with the plan after careful consideration. In fact, debkafile's Middle East and intelligence sources report, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice presented ...
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November 7, 2007, 11:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration is applying the stick-and-carrot treatment to Syrian president Bashar Assad. Three days after secretary of state Condoleezza Rice invited Damascus to the Annapolis peace conference at a meeting in Ankara with Syrian foreign minister Walid Mualem, the US Treasury for the first time imposed stiff sanctions and ...
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November 3, 2007, 10:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Dr. ElBaradei put in the request before his outburst Sunday, Oct. 28, against the US and Israel "for taking the law into their own hands" by bombing Syria's nuclear compound.
debkafile reports Dr. ElBaradei requested any imagery, data or other evidence of such activity in Syria. He also turned ... 
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November 2, 2007, 2:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Documents signed by Syrian president Bashar Assad contain directions for the transaction. On some, Assad added in his handwriting that 100,000 tons of Durham wheat should be shipped to North Korea every year for five years. The total value of $120 million is equivalent to the price of a North ...
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October 27, 2007, 11:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Bashar Assad was personally involved in Damascus' nuclear deal with Pyongyang. Documentary proofs of this, obtained from the presidential bureau and signed by Assad in person, are now in the hands of the US and Israeli intelligence services, debkafile's intelligence sources report. In one, Assad hands down ...
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October 26, 2007, 2:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
For the first time since they began working together, President George W. Bush and his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice are visibly divided on two major foreign policy issues, both related to Israel: The Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, which is still sans date, participants or agenda, and Israel's ...
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October 24, 2007, 8:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
Diplomatic sources reported to AP that US intelligence agencies had sent the satellite images to the Inernational Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. debkafile's intelligence sources report that the credibility of the data Israel presented to Washington before the air strike continues to be questioned in some Washington quarters.
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October 17, 2007, 10:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources report exclusively that Thursday night, Oct. 11, Syria placed its civil defense services on a state of preparedness and mobilized their reservists.
Government and military hospitals across Syria have also been alerted. In contrast, there is no change in the deployment of Syrian forces along the border with Israel ... 
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October 11, 2007, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, Oct. 1, Syrian president Bashar Assad claimed to the BBC that Israel had struck an empty military installation on Sept. 6 and that for Syria to retaliate militarily would be playing by "Israel's rules." debkafile's intelligence sources report the Israeli military thereupon lifted its month-long ban on ...
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October 10, 2007, 8:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
The American military commander in Iraq accuses the Brigade, which is responsible for sponsoring external terrorism, of fomenting violence in Iraq and training and equipping militias to attack US troops. In some cases, they direct operations that have killed US soldiers, said Gen. Petraeus, speaking to reporters at a U.S. ...
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October 6, 2007, 9:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview with the BBC's Arabic program, Syrian president Bashar Assad said military response was always an option. This need not be missile for missile, or bomb for bomb. There are other ways, he said, in reference to what he called an Israeli attack on a deserted military installation. ...
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September 23, 2007, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Minister of Expatriates, Butheina Shabaan, who is generally regarded as President Bashar Assad's personal mouthpiece, made this statement Tuesday, Sept 18. It was a replay of the one first issued by a junior official on Sept. 6, together with the initial accusation that Israeli warplanes had invaded Syrian air space.
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September 20, 2007, 12:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
These charges, which followed the alleged Israeli air incursion over Syria, plus reports that Syria was holding technology or materials relating to North Korea's nuclear program were dismissed by the foreign ministry in Pyongyang as groundless and misleading.
No reason was offered for the postponement of the six-party talks due to ... 
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September 18, 2007, 5:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Leaves have also been canceled at IDF bases as Israel braces for a possible Syrian reaction to the incident in the coming hours.
Israeli official spokesmen declined to comment on the Syrian News Agency claim that Israeli warplanes entered its air space from the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday night and flew ... 
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September 18, 2007, 12:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Those sources say Syria has mobilized armored, missile, air crews and air defense units - partly in readiness for repeats of alleged Israeli incursions of Syrian airspace and partly in response to the partial call-up in Israel which began beginning last Thursday, Sept 6. The Syrian armed forces are on ...
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September 6, 2007, 3:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Syrian News Agency SANA says Syrian air defenses opened fire on Israeli warplanes which entered its air space from the Mediterranean Sea heading northeast at dawn Thursday, forcing them to leave. The IDF spokesman said they know nothing of any such incident.
No" human or material loss" was caused, according ... 
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August 31, 2007, 9:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
This double message was brought to Jerusalem last week by Edward P. Djerejian from unpublicized meetings he held in Damascus with president Bashar Assad and Syrian military and intelligence chiefs. This former US ambassador to Israel and Syria reported that Assad is willing to drop his prior conditions for talks ...
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August 28, 2007, 1:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
The redeployment of commando units close to Israeli lines on the slopes of Mt Hermon has raised temperatures in Israel. Military sources comment that these Syrian units, especially trained for cross-border raids, are now in position to make a grab for Israeli territory or a surprise attack on the Israeli ...
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August 19, 2007, 2:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Aug. 3, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported that Syrian president Bashar Assad is in danger from, of all countries, his closest ally, Iran. The Islamic rulers in Tehran have begun to perceive him as an unreliable element in the radical Crescent of Influence they are striving to build across Iraq, Syria, ...
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August 19, 2007, 8:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
"Israel knows we don't want war. We should always be ready to respond to Israeli aggression, but Syria will not start a war," Shara said Tuesday.
"People will not accept anything less than Israeli withdrawal from the whole of the occupied Golan Heights, he added. "Any Syrian preparations were defensive, while ... |
