Epstein Secrets

ting editor and the author of The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Story of America's War in Afghani

ms into perpetrators. Since the Hama slaughter of 1982, the Alawites have consolidated their control of the country. According to the Syria scholar Radwan Ziadeh, they comprise the vast majority of Syria's roughly 700,000 security and intelligence personnel and military officer core. In fact, they constitute

as the pressure on Assad increases. The second wild card is sectarian violence between dissident Sunn

nbul of the so-called National Salvation Council, but Syrian authorities blocked it. A road map for the opposition was sketched in an interview by Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at George Washington University who closely follows the dissident groups. He said he has contacted people who might attend the

as the pressure on Assad increases. The second wild card is sectarian violence between dissident Sunn

nbul of the so-called National Salvation Council, but Syrian authorities blocked it. A road map for the opposition was sketched in an interview by Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at George Washington University who closely follows the dissident groups. He said he has contacted people who might attend the