Epstein Secrets

ngs on whom America depended to help protect its interests. They were constant, if not always agreeable, companions. Egypt's Mubarak, Jordan's King Hussein, Tunisia's Ben Ali, Yemen's Ali Saleh, Morocco's King Hassan II, Saudi Arabia's kings Fand and Abdullah. The PLO's Yasir Arafat rounded out the gr

ghts abuses, authoritarian behavior, and faux reforms. Then there were the adversarial authoritarians. Here, a smaller group photo featured Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Syria's Assads (father and son), and Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi. America sought to check and constrain their power, even removing one through inva

nstrain their power, even removing one through invasion. But at times, the United States found common ground with them too. (See: cooperation with Saddam against the Iranian mullahs, and dancing with Assad on the peace process.) As pure and unadulterated dictators, however, they were incorrigible, be

Islamic Jihad's performance — it lobbed hundreds of rockets toward civilian targets in Israel and lost 14 fighters — increased the group's appeal, Ahmed boasted, noting that Hamas now has "different calculations and bigger responsibility. ... It has a lot to lose." `Policy incoherence' Indeed, as p

500,000 US troops to the kingdom to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from neighboring Kuwait. In the eyes of

-up to his 2010 reelection bid, Maliki's Electoral Commission disqualified more than 500, mostly Sunni, candidates on charges that they had ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. For the Obama administration, however, tangling with Maliki meant investing time and energy in Iraq, a country it desperately wanted t

Magazine that appears under the eye-catching headline, "The Man Who Broke the Middle East." The man in question is not Sykes or Picot or Nasser or Saddam or Khomeini or George W. Bush or Noun al-Maliki, but Barack Obama. I often agree with Elliott, but I could not let this one go by without a respons

it did not work. In late December, less than two months after Maliki's White House visit, Iraqi troops arrested yet another prominent Sunni critic, Ahmed al- Alwani, chairman of the Iraqi parliament's economics committee, killing five of Alwani's guards in the process. The real problem with America's

COVID infections, nearly 350,000 Sunday. An aggressive mutant variant no match for the country's underfunded medical system." The AP (4/25, Saaliq, Hussain) reports the 349,691 new cases on Sunday "brought India's total to more than 16.9 million, behind only the United States. The Health Ministry repor

ity from military bases outside Mogadishu," and a majority of them "belong to the clan of former presidents Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Sharif Sheikh Ahmed." The New York Times (4/25, Walsh, Mohamed, 20.6M) reports that the violence "followed months of tense talks between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mo

US is now pending. Mansur Mohamed Surur and Abdi Hussein Ahmed, two Kenyans currently at large, appear on

enyans currently at large, appear on the indictment as well. Kromah, Cherif, and Surur face additional charges of money laundering, while Surur and Ahmed are also charged with possession with intent to distribute over 20 pounds of heroin. According to Chris Thouless, director of the Elephant Crisis F

US is now pending. Mansur Mohamed Surur and Abdi Hussein Ahmed, two Kenyans currently at large, appear on

enyans currently at large, appear on the indictment as well. Kromah, Cherif, and Surur face additional charges of money laundering, while Surur and Ahmed are also charged with possession with intent to distribute over 20 pounds of heroin. According to Chris Thouless, director of the Elephant Crisis F

Foreign Policy Why Did Egypt's President Actually Fire His Generals? Mohamed Fadel Fahmy The Daily Beast Is Morsy Staging or Reversing a Coup? Hussein ',Dish Article 5 The Washington Post Egypt's Morsi defies predictions EFTA_R1_00298242 EFTA01883823 Ernesto London() Foreign Affairs Morsi M

pt, representing a quarter of the Arab world and strategically located on the Suez Canal and Afro-Asian rift -- is a power in its own right. Sissi, Ahmed, and Shehata's arrival might signal a desire to pursue a foreign policy more befitting of Egypt's prestige, an approach to the world that does not