Epstein Secrets

Arab alliance which led Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait around 20 years ago, while prior to that, he had established the Arab Cooperation Council with Baghdad, Amman and Sana'a to remain a partner in the security of the Gulf where more than two and a half million Egyptians work, and where the largest Arab

he National Security Council and State Department during the Clinton administration, Malinowski today is responsible for delivering the messages of Human Rights Watch -- an international NGO that spends some $50 million annually -- to policymakers and EFTA00712794 government officials in Washington. He also has

laring that he "leads Iraq's most inclusive government yet." It didn't take long for those words to boomerang. No sooner had Mr. Maliki returned to Baghdad than he launched what looks like an attempted coup against the country's top Sunni leaders. Though the outcome is still in doubt, Iraq's fragile po

ns, with thousands more imprisoned and tortured or driven from the country. Many Syrian activists fear the toll may be far higher. A newly released Human Rights Watch report details that army units have been given "shoot to kill" orders in dealing with unarmed protesters. In the last two days alone, at least 150

ders, and its own course can be dramatically affected in some cases. Whether from ripples of the European fiscal crisis or flare-ups of violence in Baghdad, it is easy to be whipsawed by events. The trick for any president, of course, is in not seeming to be whipsawed, even as his challenger presents h

d of this month. "This makes it impossible to speak of a transfer to civilian rule at the end of June," Heba Morayef, a Cairo-based researcher with Human Rights Watch, said Sunday night. "It was a soft coup to start with, but now it's pretty blatant." Trading fraud allegations Shafiq's campaign issued a statemen

een dealt with successfully, at least from an American point of view at that time. It was the time when Bush asked Jay Gamer, the first proconsul in Baghdad, if he wanted to do Iran after Iraq.56 Did this development mean that Afghanistan became a collateral victim of US opposition to Iran? With the pas

nistan at the very 4 On the weapons given and the work done by the Iranians to make sure the Hizb-i-Wandat received its 'fair amount' of arms, see Human Rights Watch, Afghanistan: Crisis of Impunity. The Role of Pakistan, Russia and Iran in fueling the civil war, July 2001, pp.35 to 39. http://www.hnv.org/report.

laid siege to Samarra, the site of one of Shiism's most storied shrines. It would be no surprise if the next few weeks brought them to the gates of Baghdad. But an assault on Baghdad, or even its capture, would be an illusory victory. It can only end in defeat — and the strengthening of the insurgents'

reports "exaggerated the death toll by a factor of 10, citing `more than 2,000 deaths' in Benghazi during the initial days of the uprising, whereas Human Rights Watch (HRW) later documented only 233 deaths across all of Libya in that period." Furthermore, when the United States and a few other NATO nations interv