Epstein Secrets

ion led by King Mohammed VI arrived in Bamako on February le, and Algerian President Bouteflika hosted Malian President Keita and his delegation in Algiers in January. Summit meetings in Mauritania and Niger in recent days have underscored the regional concern for continued insecurity in the northern pa

The optimism surrounding the end of the deadlock was served a sobering blow when a double suicide car bombing targeted an Iranian cultural centre in Beirut on February 19th, killing at least four. The incident served as a rude reminder of the cabinet's massive political challenges, which have become mor

we dubbed the “submarine door” system outside the cockpit — to protect El Al pilots from future attacks after one of its planes had been hijacked to Algiers in the summer of 1968. It was also the same kind of plane — a Sabena flight, hijacked to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport — which I stormed, before sunr

ted plan — a raid by helicopter into a Fatah-dominated area in southeastern Lebanon, during one of Arafat’s intermittent, morale-boosting visits from Beirut — to assassinate him. My immediate superior, the army’s head of operations, was all for our doing it. But the chief of military intelligence said no.

we dubbed the “submarine door” system outside the cockpit — to protect El Al pilots from future attacks after one of its planes had been hijacked to Algiers in the summer of 1968. It was also the same kind of plane — a Sabena flight, hijacked to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport — which I stormed, before sunr

ted plan — a raid by helicopter into a Fatah-dominated area in southeastern Lebanon, during one of Arafat’s intermittent, morale-boosting visits from Beirut — to assassinate him. My immediate superior, the army’s head of operations, was all for our doing it. But the chief of military intelligence said no.