Epstein Secrets

first freely-elected President. The stock market, when it reopened the following Monday, July 2, hit a nine-year high. Subsequently, when President Morsi ordered the Parliament—which was dissolved by the military based on a Constitutional Court ruling—to reconvene on July 8, the market tumbled 4.2 per

urate barometer of the level of political tension during the nation's historic political transition. On June 30, Muslim Brotherhood-backed candidate Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt's first freely-elected President. The stock market, when it reopened the following Monday, July 2, hit a nine-year high. Subs

the court's action calling it a coup and took to the streets in protest. In Yemen, the army regained control over three towns previously held by al- Qaeda. President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi continues to wrestle for control of the military from former President Saleh's family and friends. On June 18, th

's scapegoat for the Sinai attack David Ignatius August 10 -- In firing Egypt's chief of intelligence for his alleged failings in Sinai, President Mohamed Morsi sacked a general who has won high marks from U.S., Israeli and European intelligence officials — and who, ironically, has been one of the Egyptian

ai. EFTA_R1_00537930 EFTA02029049 This week's shuffle is bound to raise concerns among U.S. and Israeli officials about the security policies of Morsi's government and its seemingly mutual self-protection pact with the Egyptian generals who still hold considerable power through the Supreme Counci

actor with an agenda independent of the mainstream Syrian opposition, given the growing reports of the emergence on the battlefield of various al- Qaeda affiliated jihadist groups. Syria's borders with Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq have become increasingly porous — Sunni insurgents and jihadists once en

el and Egypt must take convincing action now to uphold the treaty.&n=sp; Last November, when hostilities erupted in Gaza, Egyptian President =ohamed Morsi mediated a swift resolution, even providing a guarantee for t=e cease-fire with Gaza's ruling Mamas. Morsi thus implicitly 11 EFTA_R1_001 07024 E

th of Iran's involvement in the fig=ting. It is entirely conceivable, in other words, that a post-Assad regime in Syria would be explicitly pro=96a1 Qaeda or even more openly pro-Iran. Either result would be unacceptab=e to Israel. Of course, an extended civil wa= in Syria does not serve Israel's inte

by itself spawn something new and workable to take its place is just that, mere hope. In his Delphic interview with Time, former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi put it this way: "The world is now much more difficult than it was during your revolution. It's even more difficult. The world. More complicated,

t against an independent Kurdish state within the next decade. Syria and Iraq are in a state of implosion; Middle Eastern borders are up for grabs. Qaeda affiliates have already done their grabbing. They control wide swathes of Syria and Iraq 13 years (and trillions of dollars) after the United States