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Iran using PA as proxy against Israel - senior official
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January 13, 2002
The Jerusalem Post
JERUSALEM (January 13) - Iran's involvement in the Karine A arms smuggling affair is part of a larger effort to deter Israel from militarily trying to scuttle Teheran's nuclear program, according to a senior diplomatic official.
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THE MISSILE TRAIL - A Story Of Iran's Quest for Power - A Scientist Details The Role of Russia
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January 13, 2002
Washington Post Foreign Service
MOSCOW -- The first time Vadim Vorobei went to Iran in 1996, he was amazed by the number of foreign missile scientists wandering openly through Tehran. For the most part, they were people like him: elderly representatives of the old Soviet technological elite impoverished by the collapse of communism and willing to sell their services to the highest bidder.
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Crossing the lines
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January 13, 2002
The Jerusalem Post
(January 13) - The seizure of the 'Karine A' was but one victory in the IDF's continuing effort to prevent the smuggling of arms and other contraband into and through Palestinian Authority territory. Miriam Shaviv examines just how serious the problem is - and what must be done to make the borders less porous
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Simpson on Sunday: Teheran puts itself in the dock again
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January 13, 2002
Sunday Telegraph
AFTER a week of anger and miscalculation, Iran once more seems in danger of promoting itself to the top of the international hate list. The political and religious conservatives in Teheran have succeeded in worsening relations with the West and embarrassing the liberal president, Mohammed Khatami.
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Hezbollah vows to carry on attacks against Israel
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January 13, 2002
By Ha'aretz Staff and Agencies
The radical Shi'ite organization Hezbollah vowed over the weekend to continue pinprick attacks against Israel along the southern border of Lebanon.
"Hezbollah and the Islamic resistance are mobilized. They are always ready and they will not stop their activities along the border, and will ensure that the enemy does not rest," declared the senior party leader in charge of southern Lebanon, Sheikh Nabil Ka'uk.
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No al-Qaeda members in Iran, Kharrazi tells UN
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January 13, 2002
AFP
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - Foreign minister told the United Nations Saturday in New York that there were no members of chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network on Iranian soil, state radio reported.
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FM refutes Bush's remarks on presence of al-Qaeda members in Iran
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January 13, 2002
IRNA
Tehran, Jan 13, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi here on Sunday
morning denounced remarks made by the US President George W. Bush
claiming that some al-Qaeda members are on the Iranian territory.
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Palestinian Ambassador denies existence of Military relation with Iran
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January 12, 2002
AFP
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - The Palestinian ambassador to Iran Salah Zawawi said Saturday that "military relations have never existed" between Iran and the Palestinian Authority of leader Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinians Revise Number of Arrests in Weapons Shipment
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January 13, 2002
The NEw York Times
JERUSALEM, Jan. 12 — Palestinian officials said today that they had detained one man, not three as they had previously announced, for questioning in connection with a weapons shipment intercepted at sea this month by Israel.
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US resigned to 'six-year' search for Bin Laden
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January 13, 2002
The Sunday Times
THE worldwide hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the scattered fragments of his Al-Qaeda terror networks may last for at least six more years, according to US military planners who are preparing a long-term appraisal of the men and materials required to prevent any regrouping of the terrorist leader's followers, write Tony Allen-Mills and Jon Swain.
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US steps up hunt for the man groomed to succeed Bin Laden
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January 12, 2002
Independent News
With still no confirmation as to whether Osama bin Laden is alive or dead, the US is increasingly focusing on the hunt for the man it believes will take up control of the fractured al-Qa'ida network.
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Russian Lukoil ready to participate in Iran's oil projects
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January 12, 2002
IRNA
Moscow, Jan 12, IRNA -- President of Russian LUKoil Co Vagit Alekperov
said here on Saturday that his company is ready to take part in Iran's
oil projects.
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Arafat-Khamenei pact said clear to U.S., Mubarak betrayed, say officials
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January 12, 2002
Ha'aretz
CIA head George Tenet, and other senior figures in the U.S. intelligence-security establishment, have decided that information supplied by Israel concerning Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's personal involvement in the Karine A weapons ship affair is credible and accurate.
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Cyrus R. Vance, a Confidant to Presidents, Is Dead at 84
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January 13, 2002
The New York Times
Cyrus R. Vance, who after two decades in public service was appointed secretary of state, and who then took the rare step of resigning from the nation's highest cabinet post on a matter of principle, died Saturday afternoon at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He was 84.
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Iran hands over G-77 chairmanship to Venezuela
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January 12, 2002
IRNA
United Nations, New york, Jan 12, IRNA -- Iran's Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharrazi, here on Friday handed over the Islamic Republic of
Iran's chairmanship over the Group of 77 countries to Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez.
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