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ISIS Leader Killed in Raid by US Forces in Syria OCT 31 - NOV 6, 2019 ISSUE 632 AUSTRALIAN EDITION THEEPOCHTIMES.COM TRUTH AND TRADITION $3.00 TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES SPYGATE US Justice Department TRUTH and TRADITION Spygate Review Turns Into Criminal A CURE FOR Investigation: FAKE NEWS Reports SYNDROME IVAN PENTCHOUKOV The Justice Department’s internal re- GET YOUR view of spying on the Trump cam- paign has evolved into a criminal in- COPY vestigation, according to anonymous sources who spoke to the Associated NOW! Press and The New York Times. Attorney General William Barr as- SUBSCRIBE TODAY signed U.S. Attorney John Durham ReadEpoch.com.au on May 13 to review the origins of the Obama administration’s counterin- 02 8988 5600 telligence investigation of the Trump campaign. The designation as a formal criminal In investigation gives Durham’s team the the NEWS ability to issue subpoenas, impanel a grand jury, compel witnesses to give Continued on A6 U.S. President Donald Trump announces at the White House on Oct. 27 that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the ISIS ter- See rorist group, was killed in a military operation. PUZZLES on FIGHT AGAINST TERROR B6 ALY SONG/REUTERS Brazil’s SCANDAL RIDDEN ISIS Leader Killed in Raid Socialist Workers’ Party maintained its power through ties with the by US Forces in Syria São Paulo Forum, an or- ganisation dedicated to A Google sign is seen during the China socialism and fostering International Import Expo (CIIE), at organised crime in Latin U.S. President Donald Trump says America will ‘continue to the National Exhibition and Conven- America, Fernando De tion Centre in Shanghai, China on Nov. Castro writes. pursue the remaining ISIS terrorists to their brutal end’ 5, 2018. WORLD | A2 BIG TECH BOWEN XIAO Google Carries he fugitive leader of the ISIS ter- Baghdadi died after fleeing into a A brutal killer, one rorist group is now dead, President dead-end tunnel, Trump said, add- Chinese Communist “ Nothing in the past who has caused so T Donald Trump announced at the ing that during his final moments, much hardship and Party’s Message year has put on White House on Oct. 27, adding the ISIS leader was “whimpering display the Chinese that capturing or killing Abu Bakr and crying and screaming.” death, was violently About Religion Communist Party’s al-Baghdadi was a top national se- The terrorist leader had dragged eliminated—he will antipathy to liberty curity priority under his adminis- three children with him into the never again harm EMEL AKAN so much as the un- tration, tunnel, and as he reached the end rest in Hong Kong. ” another innocent man, The president noted that no U.S. of it, he detonated the explosive vest woman, or child. WASHINGTON—The official press- of U.S. Vice President Mike personnel died in the risky night- he was wearing, killing himself and fice for the spiritual practice Falun Pence time raid carried out by Special the children. Gong is sounding a warning: Beijing Operations forces in northwestern “His body was mutilated by the U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to influence U.S. public US | A6 Syria over the night of Oct. 26. A blast, but test results gave certain opinion by using a distorted and bi- large number of Baghdadi’s fighters and positive identification,” Trump ased narrative that portrays an ideal and companions were killed along said. AL-FURQAN/AP view of the Chinese Communist Party with him. Baghdadi lived his final moments when it comes to religious freedom. “ The SDF will get “Last night, the United States in “utter fear, panic, and dread— The Party employs this strategy us- more money if we brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist terrified of the American Forces ing major search engines, including can modernise the oil leader to justice,” Trump said. “Abu bearing down,” Trump said. Last Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, and Duck- fields. We’re not go- Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He was month, his administration an- duckgo, researchers say. ing over there to en- the founder and leader of ISIS, the nounced the killing of Hamza Bin When asked about Google’s role in rich America. We’re most ruthless and violent terror Laden, the son of Osama Bin Laden, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al- spreading Communist Party propa- over there to help organisation in the World.” Continued on A6 Baghdadi. Continued on A7 our allies, deny our enemy resources.” U.S. Senator Lindsay Gra- NICK ANSELL/REUTERS/POOL ham on the deployment of MIDDLE EAST CHINA troops to Syrian oil fields op- erated by American energy Insiders Reveal corporation ConocoPhillips. Lebanese Prime Upcoming Personnel US | A7 Minister Quits Changes at Chinese Amid Anti- Communist Party Rather than uphold Government Conclave WORLD PEACE Protests NICOLE HAO the U.N. is concerned with The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) establishing global gover- BEIRUT—Saad Hariri resigned as holds its fourth plenary session from nance and power, writes prime minister of Lebanon on Oct. Oct. 28 to 31. Following tradition, Brad Johnson. 29, bowing to one of the central de- Party leader Xi Jinping will make OPINION | A9 mands of anti-government demon- political rearrangements, including strators shortly after baton-wielding changing senior officials’ positions. Hezbollah supporters rampaged An insider told the Chinese- through the main protest camp in Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne speaks during a news conference at the language Epoch Times in a recent INSIDE Beirut, torching tents, smashing Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, Britain, on Sept. 9, 2016. interview that Xi will replace top plastic chairs, and chasing away Beijing officials in charge of man- World....................................... A2 AU-CHINA China....................................... A4 protesters. aging Hong Kong affairs, including US.............................................A6 Hariri said he was stepping down Morrison Government Says It Will Hold China Wang Zhimin, current director of AU............................................ A8 after hitting a “dead end” in try- the Hong Kong Liaison Office, and Opinion....................................A9 ing to resolve the crisis, which has Accountable on Human Rights Zhang Xiaoming, director of the FEATURES paralysed the country for nearly Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Of- Mind & Body............................ B1 two weeks. The protesters erupted fice within China’s State Council, a Travel....................................... B8 in cheers at the news. SYDNEY—Australian Foreign Minister Relations between Canberra and its cabinet-like agency. The resignation plunges Lebanon Marise Payne said Canberra will hold most important trading partner have The plenary session is a closed-door DON’T DELAY. deeper into turmoil and uncer- China to account on issues such as deteriorated in recent years amid ac- meeting, with roughly 370 elite CCP SUBSCRIBE TODAY. READEPOCH.COM.AU tainty as it grapples with a severe human rights, insisting that stay- cusations that China is meddling in officials attending. Beijing usually TEL: 02 8988 5600 economic and financial crisis that ing quiet on sensitive issues is not in Australian domestic affairs. Canberra keeps details secret until after the Continued on A2 Australia’s national interests. Continued on A8 Continued on A4 The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 to provide honest and uncensored news coverage of China. Based in New York City, our newsroom is dedicated to restoring accuracy and Accuracy integrity in media. We stand outside political interests and the pursuit of profit. And we stand against the systematic destruction of traditional culture by destructive ideologies & Integrity such as communism. A2 | WORLD OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 6 , 2019 Secret Alliances and Corruption: How the Socialist Workers’ Party Maintained Its Power in Brazil IGO ESTRELA/GETTY IMAGES FERNANDO DE CASTRO allows debates between leftist par- ties. However, Lula said in 2005 News Analysis that the organisation enables him This article is the first in a multi- to get involved in politics in other part series about the rise of social- countries without it looking like ism in Brazil and South America. political interference. RECIFE, Brazil—The election of The organisation’s meetings typi- conservative president Jair Bolso- cally conclude with the adoption of naro in 2018 brought an end to the a series of guidelines, dubbed “Final left-wing government of the Work- Declaration,” with the expectation ers’ Party, first elected to power in that member states adopt those Brazil’s 2002 general election. points of mutual agreement. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the president of Brazil from 2003 to Hidden From Public 2010 and was succeeded by Dilma The Brazilian press, according to Rousseff, who was reelected in 2014. Carvalho, has actively tried to pre- However, her mandate was inter- vent the actions of the forum from rupted in 2016 after her party had being disclosed to the public. been in power for 13 years. “Brazilian newspapers have al- Rousseff was impeached for al- ways hidden the existence of the legedly manipulating budget ac- São Paulo Forum, so that the popu- counts. Vice President Michel Temer lation would not know about the of the centrist Brazilian Democratic true face of the Workers’ Party, Movement Party assumed power, which has always sought to ally remaining in office until 2018. For- with drug traffickers and dictators mer president Lula has been impris- to gain power,” he said. oned since April 2018 for corruption When the Workers’ Party was in and money laundering. Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva talks with then-Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as he is government, the philosopher said The Workers’ Party was the source sworn in as the new chief of staff in Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on March 17, 2016. that their goal was to prevent the of various corruption scandals dur- Latin American communist regimes ing the time that Lula and Rous- of the Workers’ Party or other leftist Americas, and its aim is to imple- from being extinguished.
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