Epstein Secrets

es of such clandestine attacks. "Drones have really become the counterterrorism weapon of choice for the Obama administration," says Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who helped establish a new Pentagon office devoted to legal and humanitarian policy. "What I don't think has happened enough is takin

raq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Libya. Drones routinely patrol the Mexican border, and they provided aerial surveillance over Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In his first three years, Obama has unleashed 268 covert drone strikes, five times the total George W. Bush order

in December 2011, ISIS did not follow them home. "In its various incarnations," notes Daniel Byman, a counterterrorism expert who is a professor at Georgetown, the Islamic State "focused first and foremost on its immediate theater of operations." Although ISIS was happy if people inspired by its message s

Saudi Arabia. After the war was won, thousands stayed to deter Saddam, and to enforce no-fly zones over Iraq. Before the Gulf War, the Saudi native Osama bin Laden and his associates had focused on supporting the Mujahedeen, who were fighting to repel the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan with assistance from th

n December 2011, ISIS did not follow them home. "In its various incarnations," notes Daniel Byman, a counter-terrorism expert who is a professor at Georgetown, the Islamic State "focused first and foremost on its immediate theater of operations." Although ISIS was happy if people inspired by its message st

Saudi Arabia. After the war was won, thousands stayed to deter Saddam, and to enforce no-fly zones over Iraq. Before the Gulf War, the Saudi native Osama bin Laden and his associates had focused on supporting the Mujahideen, who were fighting to repel the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. But after the U.S.S.R