Epstein Secrets

he intelligence EFTA00636706 report. The "most dangerous and barbaric" of these al-Qaeda fighters are about 250 Chechens, based in the suburbs of Aleppo and coordinated by an operative known as Abu Omar al-Chechani, the report says. Joining this core group of foreign fighters are about 2,000 young

after Assad's departure, the Free Syrian Army would be ready to join the regular Syrian army in fighting them. An intelligence report prepared for the State Department by Idriss's colleagues paints a frightening picture of the growth of ISIS. According to this document, the group now includes about 5,500 foreign f

to persuade Assad to allow more goods into beleaguered areas. Assad has recently offered Moscow to allow goods into some encircled areas including Aleppo but only if there is a ceasefire. The rebels have looked with justifiable suspicion at the government's behavior on this score. Even if Geneva pro

ement and resentful withdrawal. After agreeing under political pressure to take the Zionists' side, he would withdraw from the issue, leaving it to the State Department, which generally opposed the Zionists. The State Department would then take a position unfriendly to AZEC, and the Zionist lobby would begin pressu

l Council. There was the senior diplomat who had grown weary of being a functionary of so sullied a regime. There was a businessman of means, from Aleppo, who was drawn into the opposition by the retrogression of his country. There was a young prayer leader, from Banyas, on the Syrian coast, who had

Marie Slaughter, a professor of politics and international EFTA_R1_00484985 EFTA01991848 affairs at Princeton, was director of policy planning at the State Department from 2009 to 2011. Ankle 3. The Independent (London) US raises alert over possible chemical weapons arsenal as world leaders meet Charlotte Mcdo

oms and Latakia for some time. Elaraby: When I flew to Syria 10 days after taking office, they also tried to tell me that there had been no riots in Aleppo or Damascus. I was told that gun battles had only occurred in a few towns near the border, because rebels had fired on security forces there. HOUSE_

r much of the past decade. Shortly after 9/11, in an effort to win Arab “hearts and minds” in the mold of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, the State Department poured hundreds of millions into a new public- diplomacy initiative, overseen by former ad executive Charlotte Beers and then Bush communications cza