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DEBKAfile
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November 5, 2007, 11:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice informed prime minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem Sunday, Nov. 4, that the US will not submit its own proposals to the coming Middle East peace conference at Annapolis. Olmert had already known for a week that President George W. Bush had come down ...
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November 4, 2007, 6:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our Middle East sources report the scheme was initiated by the State Department ahead of the forthcoming Annapolis peace conference in an effort to impart spiritual weight to the conference and so offset the empty chairs. US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will be back in the Middle East for ...
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November 4, 2007, 6:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice informed prime minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem Sunday, Nov. 4, that the US will not submit its own proposals to the coming Middle East peace conference at Annapolis. Olmert had already known for a week that President George W. Bush had come down ...
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October 31, 2007, 5:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our Washington sources report the US president George W. Bush is skeptical of the international Middle East conference his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice is trying to convene achieving anything much. He therefore sees little point in the event taking place. Rice, for her part, led the opposition to Israel's ...
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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, 8:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
This compromise by the Bush administration to meet Moscow's strong opposition to the proposed missile interceptor base in Poland and radar site in the Czech Republic was articulated by the US defense secretary Robert Gates Tuesday, Oct. 23, after his talks with Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek in Prague. Gates ...
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October 23, 2007, 7:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first hint that a strategic deal was brewing was dropped by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a news conference in Tehran last week, he alluded to a shift in the controversy with Washington which might settle his dispute with President George W. Bush on the US missile shield in ...
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October 23, 2007, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
The president joined Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak for an unplanned meeting in the office of US National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley Thursday, Oct. 18. The three-way meeting was expanded to an hour and pointedly centered on the Iranian nuclear issue as a rejoinder to the Olmert trip to Moscow ...
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October 23, 2007, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US vice president said Sunday, Oct. 21, in an address to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies: "Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions.''
If the Iranian regime continues to practice delay and deceit to buy time, the ...
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October 22, 2007, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The statement said the incident early Sunday, which also wounded a third sailor, involved only American personnel. There are no indications of terrorism or a base intrusion. At the same time, there was no official explanation of the nature of the incident or who fired the shots.
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October 22, 2007, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
At his first conference as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen said Friday: "From a military standpoint, there is more than enough reserve to respond if that, in fact, is what the national leadership wanted to do," he said. "And so I don't think we're stretched ...
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October 22, 2007, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US Navy reports the shootings took place early Monday. No explanation was given for the deaths and the sailors' names were not released. The incident is under investigation. debkafile's military source report: Bahrain houses the headquarters of the US Naval Forces Central Command: US Fifth Fleet, for ...
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October 19, 2007, 6:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US president said in answer to questions about the Russian president's visit to Tehran this week: '"We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel,' Bush said, referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding ...
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October 17, 2007, 11:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been shuttling all week between Israel and the Palestinians, with a stopover in Cairo. She was warned by all the officials she encountered that no starting-point for final-status negotiations on a Palestinian state - and therefore no agreed document for a Maryland ...
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October 17, 2007, 8:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
She told reporters aboard her flight that she has no expectations of a breakthrough.
And no wonder. She found Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert fighting the backlash among his Kadima and other coalition ministers by stepping away from Vice PM Haim Ramon and his unpopular proposals for meeting Palestinian demands ... 
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October 16, 2007, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our Washington and Middle East sources report the secret US message warns Israeli prime minister that the Bush administration has decided to go back to direct diplomacy with Syria during or before the international peace conference opening in Annapolis on Nov.26.
To calm Israel's unease about a US-Syrian track running over ...
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October 16, 2007, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, Oct. 15, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's Middle East heard two pointed statements from the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Olmert asked rhetorically: Was it absolutely necessary [after the 1967 war] to attach to Jerusalem the Shuafat refugee camp, Arb a Sawara, Walaje ...
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October 16, 2007, 11:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad picked Damascus as the coordinating center for the covert military and intelligence activities of the five anti-US governments in the Middle East and Latin America.
The new axis and its workings are uncovered exclusively in the coming issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly out on Friday. Don't miss ... 
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October 15, 2007, 4:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
TOPOFF 4 taking place between 15 and 20 October will set off fake radiological dispersal devices (RDD) or "dirty bombs" in Oregon and Arizona as well as Guam.
Vigilant Shield conducted by the Northern American Aerospace Defense Command will exercise its ability to mobilize resources for aerospace defense and control, maritime ... 
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October 9, 2007, 8:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report the package, discussed by US Pentagon and Israel defense ministry officials, aims at replenishing the seriously depleted Israel Air Force stocks of missiles, bombs and fuel to their level prior to the 2006 Lebanon war, ready for any potential war contingency. Some of these ...
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