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209 articles tagged "Terrorism"
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DEBKAfile
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February 18, 2002, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon brushed aside the widespread criticism of his handling of Palestinian terror as politically motivated, when he addressed a Likud party faction meeting Monday, February 17. He declared brusquely that he doesn't need experts to advise him on how to combat terror.
DEBKAfile
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February 17, 2002, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's inner security cabinet meeting Sunday afternoon, February 17, faced the bald option between going to war proper against Arafat and his Palestinian Authority or hold off again and live with a savagely spiraling casualty toll - 14 Israelis dead in the last two weeks.
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February 12, 2002, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's policy-makers and military tacticians both came badly out of the first round of Palestinian rocket warfare. Notwithstanding the generals' claim that the armed forces were ready for this acute upturn in Palestinian violence, their deployment has been slow and unwieldy in the face of the new threat.
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February 10, 2002, 12:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political and military analysts note that Yasser Arafat has brought the full weight of his terror campaign to bear on Israel's cities and population centers; most of the Intifada toll has been borne by civilians. During Sharon's five-day absence in the United States, seven Israelis died at ...
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February 9, 2002, 4:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
If the death is confirmed of Antar Zouabri, head of Algeria's ultra-violent Armed Islamic Group, the global war on terror will have chalked up a major coup.
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February 8, 2002, 1:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian foreign minister Ali Maher said Monday night, January 7, that the "conflicting reports coming from Israel" on the Karine-A seizure arouse increasing doubts. In particular, he questioned Israel's assertion that the ship's course was set for the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip via the Suez Canal. Maher repeated ...
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February 7, 2002, 2:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Exactly 24 hours after Gen. Suleiman left - and one hour before Sharon boarded the plane for Washington - Arafat gave the signal for the first of a deadly series of terror strikes against Israeli civilians.
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February 5, 2002, 2:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in Jerusalem, Mofaz stated that the Palestinians' hostile intentions remained unchanged. As for Iran, he said he did not see that country attacking Israel tomorrow, but its instigation, guidance and arming of anti-Israel terrorists must be taken in conjunction ...
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February 4, 2002, 3:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
The next stage of the US-Israeli strategy for containing Palestinian terrorism will cut him off from the wherewithal for building up, replenishing and arming his militias and terror groups. In the Oval Office next Wednesday, Sharon and Bush will get down to the third stage.
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February 3, 2002, 3:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
a senior official Palestinian Authority official, talking to debkafilein Ramallah Saturday night, February 2, registered some changing Palestinian perceptions on certain issues: Ariel Sharon: We now understand that our campaign to unseat Ariel Sharon, which worked against at least two of his predecessors, is a non-starter for the ...
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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 29, 2002, 3:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mubarak's policy switch is the second major Middle East upheaval to be set off by George W. Bush's war on terror. It comes in response to upheaval number one, the coming together of Riyadh, Tehran, Baghdad and Gaza. It is also a personal triumph for President Bush, pulled off hours ...
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January 27, 2002, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Noon Sunday, January 27, after Yasser Arafat declared publicly that "one million martyrs are on their way to Jerusalem", the first woman suicide bomber detonated a massively powerful bomb-belt in the middle of the road on Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Street. The blast went up at the same place that a ...
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January 26, 2002, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile 's Washington sources report that the White House is holding back till next week the punitive actions against Yasser Arafat decided on at a top-level presidential forum convened by US president George W. Bush on Friday, January 25.
Called to the White House policy review on the ...
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January 23, 2002, 12:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his 20,000-man police force to take to the war field - a drastic step that moves his confrontation with Israel into the realm of full-scale belligerence. Militarizing his police force is more than just another blatant violation ...
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January 22, 2002, 1:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
The devout Muslim Yasser Arafat, who ignited the "al Aqsa Intifada" conflagration in September 2000, has developed a strong urge to attend Christmas Mass in Bethlehem. But he is in a cleft stick. To escape the Israeli siege holding him down in Ramallah, he must ask Israel for permission to ...
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January 22, 2002, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Of the 49 wounded, two women did not live through the night. One was 79-year old Sarah Hamburger, mother of four and grandmother of eleven. The second has still to be identified by a relative coming from Russia.
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January 21, 2002, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since the Israeli army's massive takeover of the Palestinian town of Tulkarm on the West Bank before dawn Monday, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has, according to debkafile's military sources, advanced the timetable for his planned Waterloo, the battle he sees as his last heroic stand. Confined to Ramallah ...
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January 19, 2002, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's exclusive military sources reveal the hitherto unknown fact that an Israeli submarine took part in the capture of the Palestinian arms smuggling boat, Karine-A, on January 3. Its part in the operation was to bring naval commandos belonging to the crack Israel naval Shayet 13 unit up ...
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January 18, 2002, 4:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US State Department still lists Syria as a sponsor of terror for the support and hospitality it extends to radical Palestinian groups, including Islamic Jhad and Hamas, and for backing the Lebanese Hizballah. Damascus has refused outright to take measures against those organizations. Yet senior Americans frequenting Damascus this ...
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