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143 articles tagged "Terror"
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DEBKAfile
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March 13, 2002, 9:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
The terror attack Tuesday, March 12, in which six Israelis were killed and seven injured on the Matsuba-Kabri highway of W. Galilee had all the hallmarks of a military-guerrilla action. debkafile's military and intelligence sources report it was a combined operation by al Qaeda militants, newly based in ...
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January 30, 2002, 3:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first woman suicide bomber was identified Wednesday, January 30, as a Palestinian called Wafa Idris, 28, divorcee, who lived in the Al Amri refugee camp near Ramallah on the West Bank and worked as a volunteer worker with the Red Crescent. An arm of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the Al ...
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January 28, 2002, 4:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
A Pakistani Islamic group linked to al Qaeda, calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty, claims to be holding missing journalist, Daniel Pearl, 38.
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January 27, 2002, 4:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and intelligence director Prince Nawwaf are trying to extricate Yasser Arafat from Israeli confinement in Ramallah. The Saudi Press Agency quotes the crown prince as remarking: "Imprisoning a leader is a very strange situation." As to President Bush's harsh criticism of the beleaguered Palestinian leader, Abdullah ...
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January 24, 2002, 4:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two senior Israeli cabinet ministers responded instantly to the out-of-the-blue Hizballah mortar and missile barrage Wednesday evening against Israeli frontier positions on the Shaaba Farms sector, after three quiet months. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres held Iran responsible for provoking the Hizballah attack, while defense minister Binyamin ben Eliezer declared angrily ...
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January 14, 2002, 3:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
While pointing a sharply accusing finger at Iran, Israel suddenly finds itself on a high terror alert against an imminent terror threat from Iraq, timed for January 15 or thereabouts. Israeli security authorities are taking into account that Baghdad is capable of striking through its Palestinian terrorist surrogates.
DEBKAfile
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January 13, 2002, 3:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
The combined Iranian-Palestinian-Hizballah strategic threat to Israeli's security, made so much of by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon - and echoed by Israel's senior defense and intelligence officials - did not drop out of the sky when the Karine-A arms ship was intercepted ten days ago.
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November 25, 2001, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
By this act, Arafat and Nasrallah jumped the gun on the American war on terror. Instead of waiting for the United States to open its second front in the Middle East, the pair moved ahead with their combined terrorist front. In the face of the Bush administration's caution to world ...
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November 24, 2001, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, senior West Bank commander of the Islamist Hamas military arm, evaded every Israeli attempt to capture him for more than six years, the while planning and executing some of the most excruciating terrorist attacks ever inflicted on Israeli civilians. They included most recently the Tel Aviv disco ...
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November 5, 2001, 11:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
Forced under US and European pressure to reduce the heat in Bethlehem and Beit Jala, to the south of Jerusalem, he turns it at the northern end of the city - but not only there. Largely unreported, the Palestinian have ringed fresh targets in the western Negev inside Israel. For ...
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November 4, 2001, 11:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Up until 1982, when he burst on the Shiite terrorist world of Beirut, Mughniye was a member of Yasser Arafat's personal guard, Force 17, when the Fatah group was one of the fiercest warring militias of the savage Lebanese civil war.
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October 31, 2001, 12:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
On October 30, four days before an economic conference on the Middle East is due to open at Palma de Majorca, Germany announced it was transferring to the Palestinian Authority the sum of 250 million Deutschmarks. It may therefore be of interest to find out how the Middle East economy ...
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October 29, 2001, 12:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
The small provincial town of Hadera has the bad luck to be situated on Israel's narrow waist between the Mediterranean and the West Bank - minutes away from the Palestinian towns of Jenin ("SuicideCity") and Tulkarm. Hardly a month goes by without a Palestinian terrorist attack in its small, crowded ...
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October 17, 2001, 12:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Police sources report that the Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, 75, was shot three times at close range in the corridor of his hotel room at the Hyatt Hotel on French Hill in Jerusalem, as he came up from breakfast shortly before 7 am. His wife found him lying unconscious on ...
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October 6, 2001, 2:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Russian inquiry has always leaned towards the terrorist theory as the cause of the Siberian Airlines 1812 crash into the Black Sea last Thursday, October 4, in which all 67Israel passengers and 11 crew aboard were killed. Russian spokesmen played up the Ukrainian missile theory out of political considerations, ...
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September 16, 2001, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Washington sources report that, although the White House and secretary of state Colin Powell are conducting intensive diplomatic bargaining to broaden the US-led bloc for the coming military offensive against the international terror blight, Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney are determined to march on the enemy ...
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September 15, 2001, 11:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
The United States if going to war to avenge itself for the catastrophic hijack-suicide attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The first stage of the conflict, according to initial, conservative estimates, could last two to three years. Its success will determine the scope and timeframe of the ...
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May 9, 2001, 2:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Wednesday morning, the 220nd day of Yasser Arafat's "Al Aqsa Intifada", Israelis woke up to a fresh horror in a week filled with intensified bloodshed and terror: Two 14-year old youths, Kobi Mendel and Yosef Ishran, the day after they went missing, were found brutally stabbed, beaten and stoned to ...
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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 ...
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May 2, 2001, 12:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
In 2000, terrorist attacks increased by 8 percent, the number of persons killed rose by 74 percent, from 233 to 405. Nineteen were US citizens - 17 sailors of the USS Cole who died in an explosion in the port of Aden in 2000. This year's list of seven sponsor-states ...
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