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

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out commitment." That observation stands. It explains the Obama administration's enthusiasm for a massive, drone-led assassination campaign against al-Oaeda terrorists. And it applies with particular force to a prospective, U.S.-led attack on the Syrian government in response to its use of chemical wea

f aid gets cut off and Egypt says, `We're going to war with Israel,' " said Nathan Brown, a Middle East scholar at George Washington University and the Carnegie Endowment. "Egypt's attitude toward Islamic terrorism — right now, they're on the same page as Fox News." Sure, if aid is suspended gulf states will send mo

ed—insisted that the group involved in the attack "claims an affi=iation with al Qaeda," as if that was the same as an actual relationship with co=e al Qaeda's remaining leaders. Fox News commentator and Washingt=n Post columnist Charles Krauthammer dismissed the story as an effort "to protect Hillary [Clin

it only because we didn=92t give the "good guys" big enough guns? =br> As Muasher, a former Jordanian foreign=minister and now a vice president at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, put it in an interv=ew: 'Three years of the Arab uprising have shown the bankruptcy of all the ol= political forces in the Arab worl