Epstein Secrets

ces reportedly killed more than 30 protesters on Friday and used attack helicopters in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour. The following day, Damascus announced that 120 police and security forces were ambushed and killed by terrorist elements in Jisr al-Shughour. There were reports of armed clash

ruling family, preferably the Crown Prince, to take charge as they believe no one outside the Khalifa family can deliver. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently appealed to the King of Bahrain for the release of his friend Hassan al- Sahaf. The publication of Kristofs column was timed to coincide wit

ants to topple the pro-Iranian al Assad does not mean it would be pleased with an EFTA00712375 extended situation in which nobody is in charge in Damascus. The Israeli viewpoint is similar. The Shiite government in Iraq fears Sunni terrorists being given free rein in the Syrian border area. As for the

sad's goons killing the Syrian opposition? Or the Iran of a young, dynamic populace hungry for democracy, dignity, and jobs, a population that, as Nicholas Kristof has reported recently in the New York Times, harbors little antipathy toward the United States and wants the same freedoms we all want, who are hei

table, at best. The protests started in mid-March in Daraa, in southern Syria, a city that has suffered from drought and neglect by the government in Damascus. The heavy hand of the ruling Baath party was particularly resented. Because it lies on the border with Jordan, and therefore in a security zone, all

en the Libyan rebels and President Nicolas Sarkozy, has said: "What is important in this affair is that the 'duty to intervene' has been recognised." Nicholas Kristof, writing in The New York Times, makes a similar point - "World powers have the right and obligation to intervene when a dictator devours his people."