Epstein Secrets

ending, or at least its timing, might have been different had the West not unequivocally defended freedom, including with the Marshall Plan, NATO, Radio Free Europe and the National Endowment for Democracy. The same kind of determination has yet to be mustered in response to Stalin's imitators in Belarus and Ce

carcely be more different. Haniyeh lives in a refugee camp and delivers sermons at Friday prayers. He has a politician's touch, but a tin ear: when Osama bin Laden was killed, he lamented the fall of "a Muslim and an Arabic warrior." Fayyad got a Ph.D. from the University of EFTA00700298 Texas and worked at

mpossible to verify independently for the time being8°. Very quickly after this event, two other persons were arrested, Afghan nationals this time. Radio Free Europe has been able to obtain a video where the two Afghans (who were allegedly trained to organise terrorist actions) confessed. But as explained in the

Qaeda's own vision of the Iranian neighbour. Al Qaeda opposed any official relations with Tehran, an 'enemy' to be opposed all the time. The goal of Osama bin Laden's organisation was to have its own routes out of Afghanistan, independent of the Iranian authorities' influence.40 At the end of 1990s, Tehran had mo

ing relationship for 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 B

“We need evidence,” adds 17-year-old Buhary El-Quasamy. When I point out that both Obama and al Qaeda agree on the basic facts that the U.S. killed bin Laden, she shrugs. “Well, I can say anything I want, too.” Such are the responses when the region’s leaders—and the press they controlled—have systematica