Epstein Secrets

won the decisive victory of a three-week-old campaign to dislodge jihadists when they paraded through the mud-built streets of the mystical town of Timbuktu. Not waiting for Nigerians, Senegalese, Ivoirians and various other African forces to arrive, some 2,900 French troops, accompanied by a thousand-p

o these realities? Intellectual history says no. People almost never change their underlying narratives or unconscious frameworks. Moreover; in the South and rural West, where most Republicans are from, the Encroachment Story has deep historic and psychological roots. Anti-Washington, anti-urban senti

Muslim Civil War in Africa Melik Kaylan July 13, 2012 -- The recent spate of attacks on Muslim historic and religious sites in the ancient city of Timbuktu calls to mind the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan over a decade ago. The Taliban, of course, were obliterating the icon

long-overdue volte-face. To prevent this change, they are trying to find non-existent external threats — or not to counter their emergence from the South, especially as it has no capabilities to do that. Russia is warned that it may lose its positions in the Middle East. Simultaneously, it is repeate

nd by the fierce ascendancy of radical Islamists, who have imposed a strict form of Shariah law on the region and now control the principal towns of Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal. The Islamists have also embarked on a campaign of destroying religious shrines that has drawn condemnation from the United Nations

confirmed by a Mujao spokesman in Gao in a telephone interview, and by the Malian government in a statement later from Bamako, the capital. In the South, a Climate of Violent Repression While much alarm has been expressed about the extremist ministate in northern Mali, the situation in Bamako, the c