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209 articles tagged "Terrorism"
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DEBKAfile
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December 1, 2001, 12:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli defense minister Binyamin bin Eliezer, accompanied by his deputy, Dalia Pelosof-Rabin, called on US envoy Anthony Zinni Friday night for what was described as an urgent meeting. A call of this nature on a Friday night is most unusual in Israel. That - and the fact that the minister ...
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November 30, 2001, 12:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Arafat has a long and cynical history of making American diplomats laughing-stocks at the expense of Israeli lives. The better he succeeds, the closer he comes to attaining his ambition of challenging Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar as hero of the Arab and Muslim world. His way of bidding ...
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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 10, 2001, 1:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Fresh foreign leads in the FBI's anthrax investigation point to the involvement of one or more German or Austrian biological or chemical researcher with pro-Nazi leanings, part of a complicated South American web linked to the Hizballah and fugitive Nazi communities, some of whom are also connected to Iraqi military ...
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November 9, 2001, 1:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
"There are responsibilities that come with being the representative of the Palestinian people," the national security adviser pointed out. "And that means to make certain that you do everything you can to lower the level of violence, everything that you can to root out terrorists." Those sentences are interpreted by ...
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November 8, 2001, 1:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's chief of military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Malka, has said that heads of Palestinian preventive security agencies are urging Yasser Arafat to put a stop to his campaign of terror. debkafile notes that this widely-reported quote, though accurate, was presented out of its general context. It was ...
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November 8, 2001, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
In turning down US-Euro mediation efforts, Arafat is therefore saying in effect: I, Yasser Arafat, will not destroy Palestinian unity while U.S. vice president Richard Cheney as long as defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld plan to shift the global anti-terror war to Lebanon and Iraq.
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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 31, 2001, 11:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two Palestinian security men were killed and one seriously injured Wednesday night in Qalqilya in a fierce firefight with Israel troops in the town. Their deaths brought to six the total of Palestinian terrorists killed in a day of intense Israeli counter-terror operations on the West Bank. Another ten wanted ...
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October 30, 2001, 12:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Those fragments, according to debkafile's military sources, were handed to the bereaved families by Chief Personnel Officer of the IDF, together with the recommendation to regard the men as lost in action. That recommendation has not been accepted.
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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 29, 2001, 12:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's intelligence sources have consistently claimed that the Hizballah never vouchsafed the slightest scrap of information because the group never held the three men, or the Israeli businessman Elhanan Tanenboim who was kidnapped in Europe at about the same time. This publication was alone in contending that the ...
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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 15, 2001, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Disregarding the Palestinian leader's three decades as the world's most innovative terrorist until the advent of Bin Laden, the British prime minister must surely have been informed that only ten moths ago, in January 2001, Arafat personally invited to Gaza - and later to the West Bank - the finest ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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May 14, 2001, 2:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian and Israeli Arabs have been called to stage large rallies on both sides of the Green Line. The A Ram checkpoint just north of Jerusalem has been designated for a joint protest with Palestinian demonstrators, as have other checkpoints around the capital. Yasser Arafat, before flying out of the ...
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