'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.

Strategy & planning, Planning, Rabin, Yitzhak, Company business planning, Assassination, Hussein, Saddam

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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.

Italy, United States, Berlusconi, Silvio, Journalists, Intelligence officers, Casualties, Friendly fire casualties (Military science), Friendly fire (Military science), Iraq War, 2003-, Sgrena, Giuliana, Calipari, Nicola

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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.

Public affairs, Palestine, Political activity, Influence, Political aspects, Palestinian Territories, Palestine (Historical region), Abbas, Mahmoud, Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Arafat, Yasir, Querei, Ahmed

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