Epstein Secrets

as that he is a senior member of the Oqaydat tribe, a highly powerful clan whose population straddles the Syrian-Iraq border. Following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, their territory became part of the conduit used by Syria to smuggle jihadi volunteers into Iraq, with Mr Fares playing an important role.

les the Syrian-Iraq border. Following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, their territory became part of

Syrian-Iraq border. Following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, their territory became part of the cond

ir Dutch bubble. This week, the Lebanese state paid its contribution to the institution, without fanfare and without tension between Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Hezbollah. Is anyone asking the obvious question: Why does Hezbollah seem so sanguine about the tribunal? Could it be that the party now believ

But Israel also has a short-term objective — and that is to play for time. Israel notes that its 1981 bombing of a nuclear reactor in Iraq set back Saddam Hussein's program — and did not result in some sort of massive retaliation. Something similar happened with the 2007 bombing of a Syrian installation. Neithe

e modest number of outside ground troops. They could be partly modeled on the protection we afforded Kurds in Iraq throughout the 1990s, even while Saddam was still in power. Alas, this task would be harder here. There is no natural geographic or demographic logic to any particular possible safe zone

ing of a nuclear reactor in Iraq set back Saddam Hussein's program — and did not result in some sort of ma

was formed, everyone perceived it as Hezbollah-controlled. It was thought that the party controlled the PM and all ministers. Today, Prime Minister Najib Mikati cannot be considered completely under Hezbollah's control. Mikati's under-the-table support for Syrian refugees in Tripoli and his recent stances

es Malaysia Rahman Khalid Honorary Chairman Vision 3 United Arab Emirates Abdulla-Janahi Abdullah II Ibn Al King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hussein Jordan Rovnag Abdullayev President SOCAR (State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic) Azerbaijan Derek Aberle Executive Vice-President and

a de Meo Angela Merkel Paolo Merloni Nikhil Meswani Mette-Marit of Norway Howard Meyers Erwann Michel-Kerjan John Micklethwait Azmi Mikati Najib Mikati Leonid V. Mikhelson Kunio Mikuriya Robert S. Miller Matthew Miller Patricia A. Milligan Yuri Milner Thomas V. Milroy Eric Mindich Scott Minerd