'92 Israeli Plan To Kill Hussein Is Reported
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Israeli news reports have divulged a 1992 plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein. The military operation was cancelled after five Israeli soldiers died while training for the attack. The strategy was to kill Hussein at the funeral of his uncle, Khairallah Tilfah who raised him after his father died before he was born. Hussein had also married Tilfah's daughter, Sajida. Called Operation Bramble Brush, the Israeli soldier members of the elite military unit Sayeret Matkal would have landed near Tikrit where the funeral would have been held. The goal was to kill Hussein when he traveled to the funeral.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2003
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ITALIAN HOSTAGE, RELEASED IN IRAQ, IS SHOT BY G.I.'s
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Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq, was traveling to an American base with the Italian intelligence officers who orchestrated her release when U.S. troops fired on the car, killing one intelligence officer and wounding the journalist.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2005
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Even During a Day of Unity, Signs of Conflict on Horizon
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The death of Yasser Arafat has led to a precarious situation in Palestine, in which politicians hope that the unity surrounding his death will continue.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2004
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