Epstein Secrets

nderwater drones. The ships will stay out of the narrow Strait of Hormuz, to avoid direct interaction with Iran's navy. In advance of the exercise, the United States Navy earlier this summer doubled the number of minesweepers in the region, to eight vessels. The deployments are part of a larger series of military rei

day after. In fact, Egypt will soon conduct a poll on the new constitution, and parliamentary elections will follow to appoint the MPs for the new Constituent Assembly. Cairo realizes that there are still unsettled affairs between Egypt and Iran, most importantly regarding Iran's relations with the Arab Gulf count

's clear that the group the Brotherhood is wedded to its ideology and cannot admit anything that might call its basic philosophy into question. But the United States and others should not accommodate the Brotherhood's alternative reality. This is not to say that we have to agree on everything. Policy differences

e now rivals. "Salafis are against drafting a constitution. They think it is the Koran," grumbled Merhezia Labidi, the vice chairwoman of Tunisia's Constituent Assembly and a member of Ennanda. Salafis are deepening the divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and challenging the "Shiite Crescent," a term coined by

and North Africa's transitional democracies. Yet to do so effectively requires U.S. policymakers to recognize both the strengths and weaknesses of the United States' development machinery. The United States can and should exploit its expertise across its public and private sectors, but it should not always pair

Center for Global Development. Ahram Fierce debates plague final drafts of Egypt's constitution Gamal Essam El-Din 20 Aug 2012 -- The 100-member Constituent Assembly has finished three quarters of the country's new constitution; as it prepares to reconvene post Eid, unresolved issues continue to cause contention