Epstein Secrets

communique noted then how sophisticated the attack was, combining car bombs, suicide bombers and coordinated mortar fire. When ISIS swept through Mosul this month, the group freed another 2,000 to 3,000 veteran fighters from a prison outside the town. Though the U.S. official describes Baghdadi as

to pressure the then transitional government to change course, the Saudis were the first to praise the toppling of the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi. Riyadh pledged billions of dollars of economic aid to shore up the new government of now President Abdul Fatah Sissi and declared the Brotherhood a terror

Lebanon. This recent flurry of attacks in Hezbollah-friendly neighborhoods and in support of Sunni militants closely followed IS(IL)'s take-over of Mosul in Iraq and its move toward Baghdad. Evidencing the deteriorating security situation in Lebanon, a Saudi delegation recently met with Lebanese autho

gencies and resources. Saudi Arabia: Saudi King Abdullah appointed a new spy chief: Prince Khaled bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz, the former governor of Riyadh who most recently served for 45 days as deputy defense minister. The appointment comes at a time when Saudi Arabia is keeping a close eye on the Sun

idely changing regional landscape. Ten days before the Egyptian- Saudi meeting, Iraq, the Middle East and the whole world was jolted by the fall of Mosul, the second largest Iraqi city, to the group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The threat of the territorial disintegration of I

er an official visit or a working visit. On 20 June 2014 this rule was broken. On his way back from Morocco, where he was spending a vacation, to Riyadh, the Custodian of the Holy Places, King Abdullah Ben Abdel-Aziz of Saudi Arabia, made a stopover in Cairo International Airport where he met the ne