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March 29, 2006, 12:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a dramatic reversal of his previous testimony, Zacarias Moussaoui, a confessed al Qaeda member, admitted Monday, March 27 that he was part of the 9/11 plot along with the British would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid.
It is worth recalling that Richard Reid received his training for preparing explosives, concealing them in ... 
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March 5, 2006, 2:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Every effort was made to end President George W. Bush's visit to Pakistan on a high note Saturday, March 4, despite the massive security blanket marring the event. Bush and his host, president Pervez Musharraf, were lavish in their praise of the strong strategic cooperation between them in the war ...
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February 19, 2006, 12:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Through all the inexorable stages of Hamas' rise to power in the Palestinian Authority, Israel's caretaker prime minister Ehud Olmert was struck with inertia. Now, at this late stage, Olmert's plan of action is as irrelevant as his rhetoric with regard to the real steps he and foreign minister Tzipi ...
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February 14, 2006, 5:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
The United States and Israel are working on ways to destabilize the Hamas-led Palestinian government, the New York Times reported Tuesday, Feb. 14. The plan is said to center largely on money and on Mahmoud Abbas playing his part.
Monday, Feb 13, Abu Mazen took the first step to bring ... 
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January 18, 2006, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Disillusioned with the Egyptian performance, the Bush administration and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who brokered some of the Egyptian-Israel-Palestinian deals, have gone after the Mubarak government. They have left Israel and the dysfunctional security of its southwestern border hostage to their row with Cairo. Cairo is now considering pulling ...
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December 14, 2005, 8:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
For the first since the US-led invasion of March 2003, post-Saddam Iraq stands on the threshold of a genuine tipping point. This is because the Sunni Arabs have finally made up their minds to vote in the Dec. 15 election for the 275-seat National Assembly that will determine the shape ...
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December 11, 2005, 2:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Shaul Mofaz may have talked from the top of his head when he threatened an economic siege of Gaza unless security measures at the Rafah crossing from Sinai started working. The prime minister's office slapped him down in a trice. But the PMO did not contradict Mofaz's assertion ...
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December 3, 2005, 2:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ten US Marines of the 2nd Division were killed and 11 injured while on foot patrol near Falluja Thursday, Dec. 1. They ran into a bomb trap made of several artillery shells. This disaster came at the worst possible moment for president George W. Bush. Just 24 hours earlier, he ...
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November 15, 2005, 1:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
The White House ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to stay over in Jerusalem until the deal for the Gaza Strip's international crossings was in the bag.
The breakthrough was announced after she met defense minister Shaul Mofaz Tuesday morning. It was achieved after Israel backed down from virtually all its ... 
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November 2, 2005, 2:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Oct. 21, DEBK-Net-Weekly 226 revealed: A top al Qaeda fugitive, the Libyan Hassan Qaid, one of a foursome who broke out of Bagram's high security jail on July 10, posted a memorandum to members claiming to expose the secrets of US prisons in Afghanistan - with their codenames. He ...
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October 21, 2005, 10:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas did not get much chance to lay down his usual list of demands and gripes in his talks at the White House with US president George W. Bush Thursday, Oct. 20. Instead, in contrast to the jovial mood of their joint news conference, Bush crushed ...
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October 20, 2005, 12:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen keeps himself afloat by braggadocio. He slaps down demands and stipulations as though he has a handful of aces. In actual fact, he arrived in Washington Thursday, Oct. 20 for talks with President George W. Bush and secretary of state Condoleezza ...
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October 6, 2005, 7:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, former top Pentagon analyst, pleaded guilty to three felony counts as part of a plea bargain. During the plea hearing before US District Judge T.S. Ellis, in Alexandria, Va., he admitted to leaking classified information to two members of the pro-Israeli lobbying group American Israeli Public ...
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September 6, 2005, 11:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
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While the Bush administration wrestles with the distress, turmoil and fury of Hurricane Katrina, US security and intelligence agencies, like their counterparts in Europe and the Middle East, are tensed nervously for some al Qaeda action to mark next Sunday's fourth anniversary ... 
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September 2, 2005, 11:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Five days after Hurricane Katrina devastated three Gulf states of the United States leaving thousands dead and one million homeless and in deep distress, President George W. Bush flew in. The horrifying spectacles of suffering and the immensity of the calamity were far worse than he imagined. The US president ...
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July 2, 2005, 2:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Wednesday, June 30, Steven Spielberg began filming in Malta the highly-charged account of the undercover Mossad team which was ordered by the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir to hunt down and assassinate Palestinian terrorists after the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The Palestinian Jihad Islami ...
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June 28, 2005, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
As Bush assures Americans that their country will win the war, former Iraqi preim minister Allawi, according to debkafile's military and intelligence sources, is playing a supporting role in Amman, Jordan. There, he is running a negotiating marathon with batch after batch of Sunni tribal leaders, guerrilla commanders ...
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June 20, 2005, 11:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Lebanese experts wonder how the Sunni Muslim interloper from the south, 35-year old Saad Hariri, who has a blood reckoning with Damascus managed to sweep the traditionally pro-Syrian north, which is dominated by such Damascus-friendly clans as the Maronite Franjiehs and the Sunni Karamis (Rashid Karami was ...
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June 18, 2005, 2:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice undertook tough, some would say impossible, missions in the first stops of her current Middle East tour - Ramallah and Jerusalem - although her projected trip to Cairo will not be a bed of roses either. She held heart-to-heart talks Saturday, June 18, ...
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June 13, 2005, 11:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration has given up on the battle against Iran's nuclear armament. This is the meaning of Washington's decision to back the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA's board vote Monday, June 13, to reappoint Mohamed ElBaradei as agency director for a fifth term. Israel thus finds itself alone in the ...
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