Epstein Secrets

al community might now be grateful to them again. There is concern in the US and Israel that Syria's chemical weapons might fall into the hands of al-Qaida or Hezbollah. Just imagine if the danger now involved what proliferation experts call "loose nukes". The unspoken motivation of both attacks was t

apegoat for the Sinai attack David Ignatius Article 2. TIME As the Sinai Goes, So Too the Golan Heights? Tony Karon Article 3. Foreign Policy Jim Baker: Realists have been successful stewards of foreign policy Josh Rogin Article 4. The Washington Post Ignoring foreign policy won't make it go awa

the country."4> Of course, the Russians have more to worry about. Neither the =aliban nor Saddam Hussein had any plans to attack the United States (al=Qaeda was a different matter). The Islamic State, meanwhil=, has thrown a thousand Chechen fighters into battle, and who knows what m=ght happen if these

ny others I expected him to com=ine the "kinder and gentler" domestic policy of his father=with the realist foreign policy symbolized by his father, Jim Baker and Br=nt Scowcroft. Instead W. doubled down on all the elements of the old Q=804oconservative movement" policy and left utter wreckage in his rake.

that eight years and more than 100,000 lives later defines "well"). Obama has been more in the mold of George H. W. Bush and his secretary of state, Jim Baker, when the Eastern bloc was throwing off Moscow's shackles. Offer encouragement and stability, give a few speeches about freedom, but otherwise let th

as killed. With the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks a few weeks away, it's possible to use this evidence to sketch a vivid portrait of al- Qaeda, drawing on material contained in more than 100 computer storage devices, including thumb drives, DVDs and CDs, and more than a dozen computers or ha

rs from mistrust between his Egyptian faction of al-Qaeda and other operatives, such as Atiyah. • Bin Laden was suffering badly from drone attacks on al-Qaeda's base in the tribal areas of Pakistan. He called this the "intelligence war," and said it was "the only weapon that's hurting us." His cadres complain