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To: KyrosL who wrote (83756)	3/19/2003 2:18:27 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

I disagree. They get a lot of info from Mossad, Aman, Israel FA, Turkey and about every "moderate" muslim secret service + the Kurds etc. Could be they have been manipulated for the right cause. (They pushed the $ by O.2% within the minute) but that's a side effect. It was funny to see how long it took the US to "correct" them.

To: KyrosL who wrote (83756)	3/19/2003 2:19:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

My impression of Debka is a couple of guys with a computer making up stories by extrapolating from the latest news. Sometimes they are lucky, most times they are not. But since they have a definite bias, they have acquired quite a following, even by some intelligent people. My impression is that debka is a "leak sink", mainly for Likud politicians and Israeli military intelligence. Their predictions tend to be wishful, from a far right Israeli perspective. But when they report "x happened" and x is in the Middle East, their track record is not much worse than the mainstream papers, and they report a lot more and a lot faster. You just have to filter for their slant. So that's why I read them. Besides, it's not a secret who runs debka. It's a bunch of ex-intelligence officers working from Jerusalem. I just saw an interview with them recently, I forget where.