Epstein Secrets

imbed as investors worried that the huge surplus of government debt hitting the market could trigger inflation. AIG to reduce debt by S25 billion NEW YORK - American International Group Inc. said Thursday it will reduce outstanding federal loans by $25 billion by giving the government a preferred stak

WASHINGTON - The Obama adminis- tration for the first time has transferred a Guantanamo Bay detainee into the Unit- ed States, flying the suspect to New Yon. early Thesday to face federal charges in the 1998 East Af- rica embassy bombings. US. Marshals took cus- tody of Ahmed Ghailani, a Tanzanian, at

alm Beach Post Staff IVriter Army National Guard Spec. Keith Maul lost his lower right leg and lower right arm to a gre- ;,,tnade in February near Baghdad, iiibut not his spirit. "I knew what the risk was 'when I signed uµ" said Maul, 20, wearing a Pittsburgh Pen- ins hat and a smile. "Now. I just

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o two legislators who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of political sensitivities. And a move to annex Kirkuk could ignite fighting with Baghdad, which is intent on holding on to the territory — particularly Kirkuk's resources — and could alienate Western allies, who fear that Iraq's fracturin

itzhak replied, nodding, suggesting that we talk through the idea in detail when I returned from New York. I was in my room at the Regency Hotel, on New York’s Upper East Side, when the phone rang on Saturday afternoon. I was dimly aware that the Tel Aviv rally had been going on back home, but was more focus

irst air-raid sirens wailed in Israel at about 2 a.m. on January 18, 1991, almost exactly 24 hours after the Americans began their bombing raids over Baghdad. I was home in Kochav Yair. Like other Israelis, we’d set up a sealed shelter. Though I felt a bit silly doing it, having assured the government Sadd

rol, survivable, uncuttable. The earliest large network built on the Baran’s principles became known as ARPANET, the Advanced Research Project Agency NETwork - a mesh of connections that, even today, serves as the backbone for parts of the Internet. Even with the risk of nuclear war (hopefully) long gone,

ost-World Trade Center wars generally - was that the Pentagon and the fighting services had been unready for what they faced. Soldiers had arrived in Baghdad with forest-colored uniforms, thin-skinned transport, tank- led battle plans - all wrong and mostly dangerous. The most feared weapons system of the

m Epstein. Epstein is said to have befriended former Harvard Presi- dent tarry Sununers. prominent law Professor Man Dershowitz, Donald Immo and New York Daily Areas Publisher Mon Zuekemian. And yet he managed for decades to maintain a low profile. lie avoids rating out and was rarely photo- graphed. A

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exico and the Virgin Islands. He a frequent con- tributor to Democratic Party candidates. He also donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003. Former New ' York Gov. Eliot Spitzer returned a $50,000 campaign contribu- tion from Epstein after his indictment, then resigned this year during his own sex scan

had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the role the military should play in postwar Iraq. Gen. Franks retired in mid-2003. with perfect timing. Baghdad had fallen, and he left the mess from that "fundamental misunderstand- ing" for someone else to dean up. The Army is supposed to publish unclassi