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209 articles tagged "Terrorism"
DEBKAfile
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November 16, 2002, 11:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Seventeen Israelis have died in two major Palestinian acts of terror in the last six days, confronting Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's fresh top team with their first stiff challenge. The men who will have to come up with answers are defense minister Shaul Mofaz, foreign minister Binyamin Netanyahu and ...
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November 11, 2002, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The terrorists Yasser Arafat's Fatah admitted sending to Kibbutz Metzer on the Israel-West Bank border carried out their killing rampage on Sunday, November 10, concurrently with the Fatah-Hamas conference taking place in Cairo under the European Union's aegis.
Far from being mutually contradictory, the two events fit neatly together. Sunday night, two ... 
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November 9, 2002, 10:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
bureaucratic mix-up in London Friday, November 8, forced British officialdom into the unwilling admission that international terrorists may now wield a nuclear threat and it could be aimed at Britain.
On Thursday, November 7, Tom Ridge, US homeland minister and senior member of the Bush cabinet, said to the center ... 
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November 6, 2002, 10:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Egypt, with quiet American encouragement, is engaged in a complicated diplomatic maneuver to persuade the Hamas to halt its suicide-murder attacks on Israelis by setting up meetings in Cairo between PLO representatives and the Damascus-based leaders of the Hamas: Khaled Mash'al and Abu Marzuk. This initiative comes from officials in ...
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October 28, 2002, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The assassination early Monday October 28 of USAID staffer Lawrence Foley in Amman was carried out the day after a bomb belt carried by a Palestinian suicide killer murdered three Israeli officers and injured 19 Israelis just outside the town of Ariel on the West Bank.
Not only did the ... 
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October 19, 2002, 1:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reveals that the long-lost al Qaeda leader, Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, is alive and inSaudi Arabia. He is believed to have landed secretly at the end of September, shortly before the latest upsurge of international terrorist attacks against the French oil tankerLimburg, the shooting of American Marines ...
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September 24, 2002, 4:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's readers were not taken aback by the Israeli Shin Beit's (Security Service) disclosure on September 23 that it had custody of a three-man Palestinian cell from Ramallah who trained in Iraq with Iraqi instructors in the execution of strikes against Israeli targets - in the company of ...
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September 11, 2002, 2:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
The members of the Palestinian Legislative Assembly ought to have remembered when they set about forcing a showdown with Yasser Arafat that he relishes the challenge of turning setbacks into victories. Just before the hitherto tame lawmakers forced a vote of no confidence in his 21-man cabinet Wednesday, September 11, ...
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September 2, 2002, 11:26 AM (GMT+02:00)
On August 14, after repeated delays, the Israeli security cabinet finally held a special meeting to review the country's preparedness for unconventional warfare. It decided to vaccinate 15,000 "first response" personnel against smallpox, as a first stage of a general vaccination campaign against a possible bio-weapons attack originating in Iraq ...
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August 20, 2002, 6:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
After 12 years of obscurity in Libya, Abu Nidal surfaced in late 1997, taking up residence in Cairo with a small band of trusted partisans. What was Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak thinking of when he opened the door to this notorious purveyor of death? Thereby hangs an extraordinary tale, which ...
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August 14, 2002, 6:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Today's sea pirates could not be more different from the romantic buccaneers of old Hollywood movies; they are organized in ruthless armed gangs, some of them paramilitary in nature and backed by powerful figures in various Third World regimes. Some belong to organized criminal organizations. These lawless gangs are equipped ...
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August 12, 2002, 6:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi foreign minister Saud al Faisal's disclosure to the Washington Post of Sunday - August 11, that Iran had expelled to Saudi Arabia 16 al Qaeda fighters - was Riyadh's riposte for the damaging briefing presented recently by a Rand Corp analyst to a Pentagon advisory board. The briefing described ...
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July 31, 2002, 11:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
The difficulty of identifying the seven victims killed and more than 76 injured was complicated by the severe nature of their wounds and the fact that many were foreign nationals who were rushed to hospital unconscious. Some of the critically wounded underwent emergency surgery before regaining consciousness.
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July 30, 2002, 5:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
On July 29, Yasser Arafat posed with Rev. Jesse Jackson in Ramallah before cameras and roundly condemned "suicide terrorism".
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July 24, 2002, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
Various politicians lost no time in capitalizing on the genuine shock, condemnation and remorse in Israel and overseas over the death of children and civilians in Monday's Israeli F16 warplane bombing of a residential district of Gaza City. More than one previous attempt to hit the Hamas's top gun, Salah ...
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July 16, 2002, 11:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
The expert ambush laid for the Bnei Brak-Immanuel bus 189 Tuesday, July 16, left seven Israelis dead. Eight of the 16 injured are fighting for their lives. The hospital had to deliver a badly hurt pregnant woman of a premature baby by Caesarian incision, in an attempt to save both ...
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July 15, 2002, 11:34 AM (GMT+02:00)
The dozens of Hizballah operatives, members of the notorious Imad Mughniyeh's security and intelligence networks, who have infiltrated the West Bank and Gaza Strip since late last year, significantly enhanced the capabilities of the Palestinian terrorist networks.
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July 7, 2002, 11:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hesham Mohamed Hadayat was no stranger toEl Al's Los Angeles airport office.
According to debkafile's counter-terror sources, the man who murdered two Israelis on the El Al ticket line at Los Angeles airport on July 4th worked for the American Mercury ground service company from 1993 (one year ...
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June 25, 2002, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ten days before President George W. Bush told the Palestinians to remove their leaders if they wanted a state (on June 24), an intelligence report landing on his desk informed him that Arafat had jumped the gun on the presidential statement. Instead of instituting democratic reforms, the Palestinian leader had ...
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June 22, 2002, 11:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The slaughter of innocents inflicted on Israel this week by Palestinian murderers is unparalleled since the days of Nazi Germany. No longer are Israelis murdered singly; whole families are being wiped out while asleep, riding buses, celebrating.
The terror stalking every corner of the country lends the term holocaust a ... |
