Epstein Secrets

he edge of the cliff, but they don't seem eager to jump. The mechanics of an eventual settlement are clear enough after Saturday's first session in Istanbul: Iran would agree to stop enriching uranium to the 20 percent level and to halt work at an underground facility near Qom built for higher enrichmen

rones, the way you went after terrorists was you sent your troops," says Goure. "You sent your Navy, you sent your Marines, like Reagan going after Qaddafi in the Eighties. You bombed their camp. Now you have drones that can be operated by the military or the CIA from thousands of miles away." The low

al-Sharia and other Islamist groups in Libya. At the end of November, members of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) met with oil corporations in Istanbul to secure $50 billion dollars worth of oil contracts. Oil production has returned to pre-revolution levels (1.6 million barrels per day); yet, in t

whose appointment was delayed until an appeals court cleared him of the Integrity Commission's finding that he had been closely associated with the Qaddafi government, took his oath in front the Libyan General National Congress (GNC). His appointment comes at a critical time for Libyan national security

omic Forum in Davos is a case in point. Erdogan accused Peres of "knowing well how to kill," and then stormed off the stage and boarded a plane to Istanbul. He returned to a hero's welcome. The highly publicized spat earned the AKP a badly needed boost ahead of local elections in March 2009. Erdogan's

Erdogan was one of the first world leaders to call on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down, yet one of the last to ask the same of Libya's Qaddafi. In Syria, meanwhile, the Turkish government remains unable to let go of Bashar al-Assad: It has condemned the violence but not the perpetrator. T

a way to present a compromise, you want to present it as a victory." Like other experts, he added a cautionary note. After an initial meeting in Istanbul last month that served mainly to test if Iran was willing to talk seriously EFTA_R 1_02205126 EFTA02721206 about its nuclear program, the United

hrain. It was only Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi's downfall that Saudi Arabia welcomed. Saudi-Syrian relations had been quite problematic under Qaddafi, who was once even accused of trying to assassinate Saudi King Abdullah. Turkey, of course, took the opposite tack, supporting all the uprisings,