Epstein Secrets

r, Tunisian police fired tear gas to disperse 200-300 Salafi Muslims who were attempting to set up preaching tents in a residential area in southern Tunis. The incidents have sparked fears in the press that Tunisia may be entering an Algeria-esque "black decade." What has occurred, however, more accur

ership agreement outlining the relationship between their countries post-2014, senior Afghan and US officials were back at the negotiating table in Kabul on May 11th to iron out the details of the agreement. The key issue under discussion remains the nature of a post-2014 US military presence and the

a: Secular opponents of Tunisia's Islamist-led government are hoping to emulate their counterparts in Egypt. A "Tamarod" (rebellion) was launched in Tunis on July 4th, with participants claiming that 180,000 signatures have been gathered for a petition that calls for the dissolution of the Islamist-dom

ional ally. The new government is also reaching out to neighboring Afghanistan: Prime Minister Sharif's special adviser on national security visited Kabul July 21st. For more information please contact: Maureen Quinn at or .uit ct_joinstorg or Camilla Reksten-Monsen at or •The International Peace

the country's first democratically elected leader, died Thursday at age 92. In "a hasty ceremony hours after Essebsi died at a military hospital in Tunis," the leader of parliament, Mohamed Ennaceur, "took over as interim president" until an election is held. The AP cautions that "Essebsi's death whil

that happens we can begin to withdraw US forces." Reuters (7/25, Sediqi, Jain) reports the call came as "three bombs rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 45, officials said." The attacks coincided with a visit by JCS Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, wh

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no reason other than that he was poor and could do nothing about it. It is November 2010. Within hours protests begin in Sidi Bouzid. They spread to Tunis. 81Then Tripoli. Then Damascus. You watch as the anger, moving on once-invisible technological lines of video and text, demolishes the stability of a

hurning away in war and peace. The “tactical” level is the most practical. It’s the choice to use machine guns instead of tanks to secure a street in Kabul, for instance, or to buy up gold for a central bank or permit high-frequency stock trading. Tactics are where policy decisions crunch into reality. T

ndrews Air Force Base, and by midmorning she was in the Oval Office conferring with President Obama. The night before, as her plane was en route from Tunis, they had agreed that the vote of the United Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on Libya meant that it was now decision time on launchi

evelopment challenges and global conflicts often seem intractable, and that has to be a little discouraging at three in the morning in the skies over Kabul or Cairo. “You can’t just look at these conflicts and issues and say, ‘O.K., that’s been solved,’” Hillary says to me at the end of an interview, sta