Epstein Secrets

of the group's founders were either trained or fought in Afghanistan. Upon their return to Somalia, connections were forged with remnant members of Al-Qaeda's mostly defunct East African branch. The international jihadist strain within Al-Shabaab views its mission as protecting the Islamic Community world

tional. In fact, since 2011, there have been 51 Andrew Walker, "Special Report: What is Boko Haramr United States Institute of Peace, June 2012. 52 Human Rights Watch, "Nigeria: Massive Destruction, Deaths From Military Raid' 1 May 2013. 53 Amnesty International, "Nigeria: Deaths of hundreds of Boko Haram supsects

cy project fail. So no matter the original reasons for the war, in the end, it came down to this: Were America and its Iraqi allies going to defeat Al Qaeda and its allies in the heart of the Arab world or were Al Qaeda and its allies going to defeat them? Thanks to the Sunni Awakening movement in Iraq,

ns, with thousands more imprisoned and tortured or driven from the country. Many Syrian activists fear the toll may be far higher. A newly released Human Rights Watch report details that army units have been given "shoot to kill" orders in dealing with unarmed protesters. In the last two days alone, at least 150

a toug= stance and reject all compromises. These groups are affiliated with terror cells based in the Sinai Peninsula,=and some of them have ties to al-Qaida. In the past, they have already blo=ked the attempts of Egyptian intermediaries to broker a cease-fire. In the=days to come, Israel could face a si

ne people of one country." But inside Syria those =hanting "Christians to Beirut, Alawites to their graves!" have become =ore than a fringe element. Human Rights Watch and other groups have docume=ted cases of rebels executing Syrian soldiers and Alawites regarded as gov=rnment collaborators. Growing numbers of fo

ears (and trillions of dollars) after the United States went to war in Afghanistan to dismantle the jihadi state within a state of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. This is not a terrific denouement to America's post-9/11 wars. The blame game is in full swing. Aficionados of the counterfactual are having a fie

reports "exaggerated the death toll by a factor of 10, citing `more than 2,000 deaths' in Benghazi during the initial days of the uprising, whereas Human Rights Watch (HRW) later documented only 233 deaths across all of Libya in that period." Furthermore, when the United States and a few other NATO nations interv