Epstein Secrets

ministration said Assad's fall was inevitable but refused to make it so. Thousands died as Washington fiddled; instability and violence spread into Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan; and U.S. weapons leaked into terrorist hands. Now civil war has virtually engulfed the most strategic region in the world, making

ited States, episodes that contributed to a warning last week from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta that the United States was at risk of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor." After Mr. Panetta's remarks on Thursday night, American officials described an emerging shadow war of attacks and counterattacks already under w

Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. Article 3 Project-Syndicate Middle East Frenemies Bernard Haykel & Daniel Kurtzer Dec 13, 2013 -- Princeton — The recent interim nuclear agreem

xt step was then to directly humiliate the United States. September 11 marks the day of the worst attack on American soil since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Putin was once known as the first world leader to ring up George W. Bush and offer his condolences and support on that grim occasion. But 12 years

ilt Submarines Article 2. The Moscow Times Russia's Role in the Houla Massacre Alexander Shumilin Article 3. The Daily Star When Syria sneezes Lebanon gets the flu Murhaf Jouejati Article 4. The Wall Street Journal A Settlement Freeze Can Advance Israeli-Palestinian Peace Alan M. Dershowitz Ar

ing to make as it ramps up American defenses. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta — a key player in the Iran attacks — warned last year that the "next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyberattack that cripples our power systems, our grid, our security systems, our financial systems." IN March the

e was walking, talking and even work- ing a bit. It compared him to a resistant tropical See CASTRO. SA ► Hostilities escalate ahead of cease-fire Lebanon's Cabinet seems torn over Hezbollah disarmament. By HENRY CHU and BORIOU DARAGAHI Los Aviles news BEIRUT — By air and on land. Is- raeli forces an

eum attempting to justify Japan's militarist past. U.S. Ambas- sador Thomas Schieffer has said the museum, which paints the secret air attack on Pearl Harbor as an act of self-defense. is "very dis- turbing." About 1,000 protesters marched near the shrine Sunday evening, chanting for Japan to repent m