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However, Secretary General Kofi Annan is widely seen as weak, ineffective,
and possibly corrupt. As we have noted before, a concerted effort -- led by
the United States -- seems to have been underway for some months now to force
Annan out of office. Might this terrible disaster be the catalyst to finally
drive him out? It is entirely possible, and we must carefully watch the news
as it develops. If the world body deems Annan to be incapable of coordinating
such a massive regional and global effort, we might see him removed and replaced
by a strong, charismatic leader who could galvanize nations throughout the
world into a coordinated effort of rebuilding -- a rebuilding which is likely
to greatly modernize each of the 11
nations impacted by this tsunami.
Who might this new United Nations Secretary General be? Since President Clinton
left office, we have heard repeated calls for him to be the next UN Secretary
General. We are not predicting that he will be, but just pointing out that
he very well might be elected to that position. Such a move would place a
most powerful , charismatic Illuminist at the head of the UN at a most important
juncture in world history.
C. As the death toll passes 174,000, we hear reports that might push
the final figure toward 1,000,000!
NEWS BRIEF: "Indonesia
Needs Help, Death Toll Expected To Exceed 400,000", Bernama.com,
December 30, 2004
"KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- The death toll in Aceh , the region
worst hit by last Sunday's tsunami, may exceed 400,000 as many affected areas
could still not be reached for search and rescue operations ... the estimate
was based on air surveillance by Indonesian authorities who found no signs
of life in places like Meulaboh, Pulau Simeulue and Tapak Tuan while several
islands off the west coast of Sumatra had 'disappeared' ... the latest death
toll of more than 40,000 in Aceh and northern Sumatra did not take into account
the figures from the other areas, especially in the west of the region."
Since the tsunami reached upward to 45
feet in some areas, we would not be surprised to hear that entire villages,
cities, and islands have been annihilated. Current news reports seem to be
hinting that the true death toll is going to be much, much higher than the
nearly 200,000 now being reported. Let us now go back to our featured article
to see how completely destroyed some of these towns seem to be.
"Aerial surveillance found the town of Meulaboh completely destroyed
with only one building standing. The building, which belonged to the military,
happens to be on a hill ... there were about 150,000 residents in Meulaboh,
which was located 150km from the epicentre of the earthquake while Pulau Simeuleu
had a population of 76,000." (Ibid.)
This news is positively staggering! In the town of Meulaboh, the only sign
of the town is one building standing! Where are the 150,000 citizens of this
city? Aerial surveillance should be seeing tens of thousands of survivors
milling about a devastated city, but no, we are told that all pilots can see
was one building left standing, but no people.
Survivors in other parts of the region now have to be concerned with the
onset of disease.
"Rusdihardjo said that at this time international help, especially in
the form of medicines, clean water, food and clothing, were desperately needed
by Indonesia to aid survivors in Aceh 'Now we are worried about the outbreak
of diseases such as cholera, the work of disposing corpses and the absence
of clean water following the contamination of water sources', he said."
(Ibid.)
D. Right on cue, a scientist warns that such a tsunami could hit
the United States one day, while a Russian scientist issues a similar warning
to South America.
NEWS BRIEF: "'Day
After Tomorrow' scenario could play out here", Leo Standora
and Paul H.B. Shin, Raiders News, 20 December 2004
"A British researcher insists that it's only a matter of time before
a killer tsunami like the one that swamped south Asia hits New York and the
East Coast. The stage was set for the mega-disaster in 1971, when an eruption
loosened a 12-mile-wide chunk of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Islands.
If and when the 500 billion tons of barely hanging rock finally barrels into
the Atlantic, it could make the disaster flick 'The Day After Tomorrow', look
like a joke, experts say. Prof. Bill McGuire, of the Benfield Hazard Research
Center at University College in London, said the largest tidal wave ever would
race across the Atlantic at up to 600 mph and hit New York as well as shorelines
from the Caribbean to Boston. Towering waves of up to 75 feet would engulf
the city, traveling miles inland, destroying everything in their path, he
told the Daily News .... It would take the wave eight to 10 hours to race
across the Atlantic after the massive volcano hits lands in the ocean."
Cutting Edge has posted similar news articles in past months. It seems that,
just as we are trying to cope with the news of one major disaster, we hear
one or two more. A Russian scientist has similarly warned South America.
NEWS BRIEF: "Russian
Scientist Predicts Massive Tsunamis in South America", MosNews,
30 December 2004
"A Russian scientist has warned that a deadly tsunami like the one that
devastated south-east Asia over the weekend could strike in places like Ecuador,
Peru, and Columbia. Yevgeny Dolginov, a professor of geological studies at
the Russian University for Peoples’ Friendship, estimated the risk to
areas around the world using a theory based on tectonic plate movements ...
“I feel it is necessary to warn the embassies of countries located around
the equator about the possibilities of massive earthquakes in the near future,”
Dolginov was quoted as saying ... Among other possible danger zones, he named
Equatorial New Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria and Gabon."
Given the ability of scientists to cause massive earthquakes anywhere in
the world at any time, residents of these countries would do well to heed
these warnings. Furthermore, virtually every South American country warned
is a "Non-Integrating Gap" country, whose governments are ripe for
a "Regime Change" triggered by some national calamity.
II.
Israel apparently has a "Unity Government", as Prime Minister Sharon's
office announced a firm agreement with Peres.
NEWS BRIEF: "Sharon
seals new Israel coalition", BBC News, 30 December 2004
"Israeli PM Ariel Sharon and opposition leader Shimon Peres have agreed
a compromise deal which paves the way for a new coalition government. Correspondents
say Mr Peres' precise role had been the final obstacle to forming a coalition.
This was held up by a constitutional ban on having more than one vice-prime
minister, a title Mr Peres had sought. Mr Peres has agreed to become deputy
premier - making him the most senior person in government after Mr Sharon
... A new national unity coalition could now be formed as early as next week.
"Mr Sharon's office released a statement saying: 'Peres will be named
as number two to the prime minister and will be considered the most important
member of the cabinet after the head of government'."
It appears that Israel now has the kind of stable, firm-footed government
it needs if it is to forge ahead with forced evacuations of Jewish settlements
located throughout the areas which are designated to be controlled by the
Palestinians. As we have repeatedly stated before, what is really occurring
here is what Cutting Edge predicted many years ago, when we noted that the
Palestinians were the descendents of the "House of Esau" of Obadiah
15-18 (Related prophecy found in Isaiah 34). Israel is separating the populations
so she may fulfill the prophetic annihilation of the Palestinians.
We have written three articles on this most important subject:
* NEWS1422
-- "THE COMING PROPHESIED ANNIHILATION OF THE PALESTINIANS
-- TODAY'S HOUSE OF ESAU" -- In this article, posted in
October, 2000, we noted that, before Israel could annihilate the Palestinians
in fulfillment of this prophecy, she would have to separate the Jewish population
from the Palestinian, so she would not kill her own people. We envisioned
some sort of barrier, with the removal of the far-flung Jewish settlements
as the last step. This prediction is coming true in our Daily News.
* NEWS1620
-- "ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER STATES THAT ISRAEL WILL CREATE "BUFFER
ZONES" TO PHYSICALLY SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM PALESTINIANS"
- We posted this article in late February, 2002
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-- "JEWISH PROFESSOR ACCUSES SHARON GOVERNMENT OF PLANNING 'ETHNIC
CLEANSING OF ARABS IN ISRAEL'!"
Jewish
Settlements In West Bank
Note that this map concerns only the Jewish settlements in the West Bank,
not the Gaza Strip, located southward off this map, bordering Egypt. Israel
is planning to give up control of all the Gaza, which is controversial enough.
But, as every discerning person realizes, if the Israeli government is going
to prevent the Jewish settlers in the West Bank from being killed along with
the Palestinians, every settlement in this area will have to be pulled out.
With this idea in mind, the following news story makes a great deal of sense.
Just hours after news agencies revealed that Sharon and Peres had reached
a Unity Government agreement -- thus guaranteeing the forced evacuation of
the Gaza Strip -- Sharon's deputy, Olmert, dropped the next bombshell: after
withdrawal from Gaza, Israel was going to evacuate settlements in the West
Bank. The story below reflects Sharon's immediate denial.
NEWS BRIEF: "PM
Sharon Denies Olmert´s 'Disengagement-2' Plan", Israeli
National News, December 30, 2004
"PM Sharon's Bureau rejects the idea raised by Minister Olmert in The
Jerusalem Post today, according to which a second disengagement plan from
additional areas in Judea and Samaria is on the way. 'There is no option of
sitting and doing nothing', Olmert was quoted as telling The Jerusalem Post
today. 'Israel's interest requires a disengagement on a wider scale than what
will happen as part of the current disengagement plan'. He said that this
will need to happen whether or not a viable peace partner emerges on the PA
side. Olmert was the first government minister to allude to the current disengagement/withdrawal/expulsion
plan ..."
Prime Minister Sharon immediately denied what his Deputy Defense Minister
had just publicized. He did so on the basis of political expediency, not on
the basis of truth. As this above map illustrates, Israel has no choice but
to pull these settlements out of the West Bank area if they are to carry out
the plan to completely eradicate the Palestinians.
However, Sharon simply had to deny what Olmert said, because the time has
not yet arrived for the full truth to be told to the beleaguered Israeli people.
Let them first get used to the idea of unilaterally withdrawing from The Gaza
and then spring the rest of the plan upon them. However, Olmert did not go
out on his own in making this "shocking" revelation; he most likely
was acting as a "stalking horse" for Sharon. In the past, Olmert
has broken bad news for the Israeli people, followed by a Sharon denial, followed
by his original remarks being carried out.
III.
An American family who has just lost their son to Depleted Uranium poisoning
blames the government and has the opportunity to air their grievances over
NBC TV News!
NEWS BRIEF: "Metro Family Blames Death on War Related Illness",
KSHB NBC News, Kansas City, December 29, 2004
"The family of a metro soldier fears he died from a war-related illness.
They shared their story exclusively with NBC Action News. 35-year-old Army
Sergeant Clay Garton spent 16-months in Iraq. His family says ammunition used
by soldiers poisoned him. They claim he was exposed to depleted uranium dust
during a rescue mission in Fallujah in May .... Clay’s dad Duane Garton
says, 'Thirty-five years I had the boy. He went through 16 months of hell,
he come back, and they didn't do nothing for him. That's what I don't understand,
why they couldn't do something for him. They just let him lay there and keep
going down and down'."
"A memorial fund has been set up to benefit Clay Garton's three children.
To donate, call the Raytown branch of the Bank of America at (816) 979-6292."
You can hear this actual NBC
News program video. Listen carefully and you will weep. You will
see the agony in the eyes of the father of Sgt. Garton and the pain in the
face of his mother. When the father says that the Army did absolutely nothing
for his son, even as he was deteriorating, you will recognize the truth behind
the term, "throw away soldiers", a term an author from American
Free Press used to describe the Pentagon's attitude toward our soldiers in
Iraq. A retired Army Major friend of mine used the same term in late March,
2003, as Coalition Forces were invading Iraq. (Read Newsletter
December 18, 2004, Paragraph II)
We have been hoping that the news about the disaster being caused by Depleted
Uranium Munitions would begin to spread throughout the American population,
for only then do we have a hope of turning the attitude of this country in
the right direction. Right now, too many Americans believe the government
lies and belief that the war in Iraq is essential to the global war on terror.
Thus, we were encouraged when the NBC News reporter which you will see in
this video, above, states that the knowledge of this D.U. poisoning is spreading
throughout America.
People need to start asking tough questions, like, why did we invade when
we knew Weapons of Mass Destruction were not present in Iraq? We supposedly
invaded in order to prevent Saddam from killing more of his own people, as
our government alleged that he killed over 300,000 Iraqi citizens. However,
American Foreign Policy has never revolved around removing a tyrant who was
killing massive quantities of his own people. Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda,
killed between 300,000
- 500,000 of his own people, but American soldiers were never
sent to invade his country.
No, the Bush Administration did not invade Iraq for either reason. We invaded
Iraq because the Illuminati had decided decades ago that Iraq is the main
point of emphasis during the final drive to the New World Order. The Bible
predicted that such a foreign army would come against Iraq in the Latter Days
(NEWS1804),
giving us just one more exciting example as to how the Illuminati Plan to
produce their Antichrist fulfills Bible prophecy!
How did the Pentagon respond to this family whose son was just lost to Depleted
Uranium poisoning?
"The government contends the health risks are low." (KSHB NBC News,
Ibid.)
Does the Pentagon really expect Americans to believe that there is a "low
health risk" when soldiers are breathing in uranium dust? Is that what
you believe?
We would encourage you to read the following additional sources of Depleted
Uranium information:
* Video on the Presidential campaign website for Congressman
Dennis Kucinich
* News Story accompanied by video: "Daughter
of Soldier Contaminated with Depleted Uranium in Iraq Born with Deformities"
* Several
Cutting Edge Indepth Articles - One article quotes a retired
Indian Navy Admiral warning that dust irradiated with uranium are blowing
1,000 miles from the the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, thus spreading
the nuclear holocaust throughout the Middle Eastern Region. Other articles
describe the physiological devastation wrought by D.U. contaminated dust lingering
in the body.
* "How
Depleted Uranium Weapons Are Killing Our Troops" -- Accompanied
by Pictures
* "Pentagon
Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic Weapons: Use Constitutes A War Crime"
Before we leave this subject, we offer the following news story to demonstrate
that the Army views its soldiers coldly as "throw away" soldiers,
not really caring about their welfare, nor how they will cope with the rest
of their lives after being shattered in Iraqi combat. The kind of inhumanity
demonstrated by this story is the same kind of inhumanity I witnessed time
and again when in Army Intelligence during the Vietnam War. An individual
grievance against the Army was only possible in the most unlikely instance
where a Congressman or Senator intervened on behalf of the poor soldier. But,
for every one soldier for whom a higher authority intervened, there were probably
several thousands who were just victimized because they were powerless, and
the Army simply did not care.
NEWS BRIEF: "Yanks
go to bat for injured G.I.", by Deborah Kolban, New York
Daily News, December 31, 2004
"After losing an arm in Iraq, Orange County soldier Robert Loria came
home - only to be slapped with a $6,000 bill for a lost helmet and sleeping
bag and travel expenses to and from the hospital. To make matters worse, the
Army took the money out of Loria's bank account - leaving him stranded in
Fort Hood, Tex. Yesterday, Loria's fortunes turned 180 degrees. At a special
ceremony at the Department of Veterans Affairs Museum on W. Houston St. in
Manhattan, the New York Yankees gave the Bronx Bombers fan a check for $25,000.
The check comes on top of the $6,000 debt being forgiven by the Army - thanks
to the efforts of Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-Middletown) and Sens. Chuck Schumer
and Hillary Clinton.
"A special Army task force is looking at the cases of 19 other injured
veterans who may have had payroll situations similar to Loria's. 'We want
to make sure nobody goes through this again', Clinton said yesterday. Loria
lost his arm when a roadside mine blew up as he was driving a fellow soldier
to the hospital."
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VIDEOIV.
Wracked by a growing international criticism firestorm over American use of
extreme torture since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, the Justice Department
rewrote their original memo to acknowledge that prisoner torture does, indeed,
violate American law and International law.
Remember, the reality is that this type of torture has been occurring since
the 9/11 attacks!
NEWS BRIEF: "Rewritten
Justice Department Memo Says Torture Violates U.S., International Law",
By Curt Anderson Associated Press Writer, 12/31/2004
"WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department released a rewritten legal
memo on what constitutes torture, backing away from its own assertions prior
to the Iraqi prison abuse scandal that torture had to involve 'excruciating
and agonizing pain'. The 17-page memo omitted two of the most controversial
assertions made in now-disavowed 2002 Justice Department documents: that President
Bush, as commander in chief in wartime, had authority superseding U.S. anti-torture
laws and that U.S. personnel had several legal defenses against criminal liability
in such cases. The new document said torture violates U.S. and international
law."
"Critics in Congress and many legal experts say the original documents
set up a legal framework that led to abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq,
in Afghanistan and at the U.S. prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba ... The Justice Department memo, dated Thursday, was released less
than a week before the Senate Judiciary Committee was to consider Bush's nomination
of his chief White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, to replace John Ashcroft
as attorney general."
"Most of the original memos were signed by then-assistant Attorney General
Jay Bybee, who was writing in the shadow of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks
as government officials scrambled to confront a new terrorist foe. Bybee is
now a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco."
If Bybee is a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
then we understand how Bush and Ashcroft could be so bold as to argue that
the President had the right to hold prisoners without charges, without trial,
torture them, and summarily execute them, without the court having any say
whatsoever! [NEWS1885;
Posted January 6, 2004)
The plain truth of the matter is that the Bush Administration began indirectly
torturing people soon after the 9/11 attacks, as our posting of such news
articles can be found on our Daily News Updates as far back as November, 2001.
What Bush officials wwere doing was transfering the victim to a foreign country
in which torture was an accepted practice. Read this following news story
carefully:
NEWS BRIEF: "Jet
Is an Open Secret in Terror War", By Dana Priest, Washington
Post Staff Writer, Monday, December 27, 2004
"The airplane is a Gulfstream V turbojet, the sort favored by CEOs and
celebrities. But since 2001 it has been seen at military airports from Pakistan
to Indonesia to Jordan, sometimes being boarded by hooded and handcuffed passengers.
The plane's owner of record, Premier Executive Transport Services Inc., lists
directors and officers who appear to exist only on paper. And each one of
those directors and officers has a recently issued Social Security number
and an address consisting only of a post office box ... the CIA uses to conceal
involvement in clandestine operations. In this case, the agency is flying
captured terrorist suspects from one country to another for detention and
interrogation.
"The CIA calls this activity 'rendition'. Premier Executive's Gulfstream
helps make it possible ... Since Sept. 11, 2001, secret renditions have become
a principal weapon in the CIA's arsenal against suspected al Qaeda terrorists,
according to congressional testimony by CIA officials. But as the practice
has grown, the agency has had significantly more difficulty keeping it secret.
According to airport officials, public documents and hobbyist plane spotters,
the Gulfstream V, with tail number N379P, has been used to whisk detainees
into or out of Jakarta, Indonesia; Pakistan; Egypt; and Sweden, usually at
night, and has landed at well-known U.S. government refueling stops ... Human
rights groups are working on legal challenges to renditions, said Morton Sklar,
executive director of the World Organization for Human Rights USA, because
one of their purposes is to transfer captives to countries that use harsh
interrogation methods outlawed in the United States. That, he said, is prohibited
by the U.N. Convention on Torture.
"The CIA has the authority to carry out renditions under a presidential
directive dating to the Clinton administration, which the Bush administration
has reviewed and renewed."
It should come as no surprise to anyone that, since Bush officials had gotten
away with torturing "Al Qaeda" prisoners since the early days after
9/11, this practice was then boldly spread to the military prisons in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Listen:
NEWS BRIEF: "War
Crimes", Editorial, The Washington Post, Thursday, December
23, 2004
"THANKS TO a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and other
human rights groups, thousands of pages of government documents released this
month have confirmed some of the painful truths about the abuse of foreign
detainees by the U.S. military and the CIA -- truths the Bush administration
implacably has refused to acknowledge. Since the publication of photographs
of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the spring the administration's whitewashers
-- led by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld -- have contended that the
crimes were carried out by a few low-ranking reservists, that they were limited
to the night shift during a few chaotic months at Abu Ghraib in 2003, that
they were unrelated to the interrogation of prisoners and that no torture
occurred at the Guantanamo Bay prison where hundreds of terrorism suspects
are held. The new documents establish beyond any doubt that every part of
this cover story is false ... the documents show that the abuse of prisoners
was already occurring at Guantanamo in 2002 and continued in Iraq even after
the outcry over the Abu Ghraib photographs.
"The Bush administration refused to release these records to the human
rights groups under the Freedom of Information Act until it was ordered to
do so by a judge. Now it has responded to their publication with bland promises
by spokesmen that any wrongdoing will be investigated. The record of the past
few months suggests that the administration will neither hold any senior official
accountable nor change the policies that have produced this shameful record
... For now the appalling truth is that there has been no remedy for the documented
torture and killing of foreign prisoners by this American government."
(Ibid.)
V. "Al Qaeda" terrorists have allegedly
carried out their first attempt at assassinating one of Saudi Arabia's Royal
Family! Oil prices immediately surged.
NEWS BRIEF: "Riyadh
Attack Was First Al Qaeda Attempt on Life of Saudi Royal – Prince Mohammed
bin Nayef", DEBKAfile Exclusive Report, December 30, 2004
"The night in Riyadh was torn Wednesday, December 29, by three huge
explosions – not just the two officially confirmed. They were followed
by long bursts of gunfire in northern and eastern Riyadh. DEBKAfile’s
exclusive counter-terror sources reveal that the three car bomb blasts were
part of an al Qaeda attempt on the life of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdelaziz,
son of the Saudi interior minister, deputy minister and director of the ministry’s
security unit which runs the war on terror. This was the first attempt by
Osama bin Laden’s organization to assassinate a member of the Saudi
royal family. It is a pivotal event in that it sharply escalates the terrorist
offensive besetting the kingdom and raises the stakes on both sides ... Had
the assassination plot against Prince Mohammed succeeded, a major upheaval
would have ensued – destabilizing not only the oil kingdom but sending
tremors around the Arab and Muslim Middle East as well."
The Royal House of Saud has long been under terrorist attack. If this oil-rich
kingdom can be brought down and her oil denied to the Western world, the economies
of all industrialized nations will immediately convulse. Even though Saudi
Arabia has been in the forefront in producing the most radical of Islamic
militants, her government has remained staunchly pro-Western when it comes
to providing oil to the world.
Terrorist attacks against the heart of the Saudi government have been evolving
into more sophisticated operations. We can only hope such attacks never actually
succeed.
VI. Events in Iraq remained bloody, with militants
scoring some heavy hits against American interests. The ability
to hold elections on January 30 was called into question, once again.
NEWS BRIEF: "Mortar
strike sets fire to Iraqi oil refinery", IOL News, December
31 2004
"Baghdad - A mortar strike set fire to Baghdad's Dura oil refinery on
Thursday night, an interior ministry official said ... 'We cannot stop the
fire so we called other fire departments from outside Baghdad', the official
said. The attack occurred at 10pm, the official said. The Dura refinery is
also home to Baghdad's main power plant."
NEWS BRIEF: "26
die in Mosul battle", The Times of India, DECEMBER 30, 2004
"MOSUL: A frontal assault on US troops by dozens of Iraqi insurgents
in Mosul left an American soldier and about 25 guerrillas dead in one of the
boldest attacks yet on occupying forces in Iraq. Battle raged late on Wednesday
as US president George W Bush said his forces would do all they could to make
it possible to hold next month's election in Mosul and other violent cities.
But many residents of Mosul say they are too afraid to vote."
NEWS BRIEF: "Baghdad
commander of Iraqi security forces assassinated", Kahleej
Times, 28 December 2004
"BAGHDAD - The commander of the Iraqi National Guard in the capital
city was assassinated on Tuesday by a suicide bomber who drove a car bomb
into the convoy transporting the official ... In addition to killing Madhar
al-Maula, the explosion wounded several convoy passengers ... North of Baghdad,
a dozen Iraqi policemen were killed by insurgents who attacked a police station
about 15 kilometres outside Tikrit, police said. The attack was the deadliest
among several in the area that claimed 17 lives, police said."
Once again, we see that the insurgency is strongly attacking officials cooperating
with Coalition Forces. Even Prime Minister Allawi cannot feel secure. Iraqi
citizens are starting to get the message, that their lives are in danger if
they cooperate with the American forces or the Interim Iraqi Government. Cooperative
religious leaders are also under attack. Listen:
NEWS BRIEF: "SCIRI’s
Hakim escapes assassination bid: At least 13 people killed in suicide car
bombing near Baghdad office of top Iraqi Shiite leader",
Middle East Online, 27 December 2004
"BAGHDAD - Top Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz Hakim escaped with his
life after a suicide car bombing at his office on Monday that killed 13 people
... The bombing was the latest attack against the country's majority Shiite
community in the run-up to next month's crucial elections ... 'Thirteen people
were killed and 66 were injured and about 60 cars were destroyed', the interior
ministry official said."
Isn't it amazing how occult numbers keep cropping up in daily news about
this war and about other disasters? Remember the premise of Pastor David Myers
of Last Trumpet Newsletters, that when the Lord is about to deliver judgment
upon a people, He causes news events to carry judgment or occult numbers.
We wholeheartedly concur.
NEWS BRIEF: "Last
half of 2004 deadliest ever for US troops in Iraq", By Ned
Parker , Middle East Online, 31 December 2004
"The last six months of 2004 proved the deadliest period for US forces
in Iraq despite the formal end of the US-led occupation in June, with a total
of 503 soldiers killed ... Rather than deflating the insurgency, the first
half year of Iraqi sovereignty under the US-backed interim government saw
a surge in bloodshed ... Observers says the violence testifies to the insurgency's
staying power and evolution. 'There is no question the growing death toll
indicates a growing insurgency', Jorst Hiltermann, Middle East director of
the International Crisis Group, said."
Elections were on everyone's minds this week.
NEWS BRIEF: ""Powell:
Insurgency in Iraq will not end", Middle East Online, December
28, 2004
"WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday that the
insurgency in Iraq 'will not end', as insurgents are determined to derail
the country's democratic transition. Powell reiterated that Iraq's January
30 elections will take place as scheduled and that the US and Iraqi forces
are working to have security in place for the polls. But, he told CBS television,
"the insurgency will not end. These insurgents are determined to have
no representative government. They want to go back to a tyranny', Powell said."
NEWS BRIEF: "Bush:
Election puts Iraq at crossroads", Pittsburgh Tribune Review,
December 30, 2004
"CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush on Wednesday denounced Osama bin
Laden's call to boycott the Iraqi elections, saying the balloting offers a
choice between free expression and a "dark vision of the world"
viewed by the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. In an audiotape, bin Laden
urged Iraqis to boycott the Jan. 30 election. In the tape aired by Al-Jazeera
on Monday, bin Laden said the Iraqi vote for a national assembly is being
held under an interim constitution 'imposed by the American occupation"
and 'infidel' because it did not rely solely on Islamic law. 'Everyone who
participates in this election will be considered infidels', bin Laden said.
Bush said the balloting marks a crossroads for Iraq."
NEWS BRIEF: "Radical
Iraqi groups call democracy a farce", Middle East Online,
31 December 2004
"DUBAI - Radical Islamist groups in Iraq said in an Internet statement
Thursday they considered democracy "farcical and un-Islamic" and
warned that no-one who took part in next month's polls would be safe. 'Those
who participate in this dirty farce will not be sheltered from the blows of
the mujahedeen', said a statement posted on an Islamist website signed by
the Al-Qaeda linked Ansar Al-Sunna, the Islamic Army in Iraq and the Army
of the Mujahedeen.US-led forces and the Iraq security apparatus are boosting
their numbers across the country fearing attacks by insurgents aimed at derailing
the January 30 vote."
However, this increased security force is not convincing some Iraqis.
NEWS BRIEF: "Mosul
election staff reportedly resigns: All 700 employees quit after insurgents
threatened them", IndyStar, December 31, 2004
"BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Three militant groups warned Iraqis against voting
in Jan. 30 elections, saying Thursday that people participating in the "dirty
farce" risked attack. All 700 employees of the electoral commission in
Mosul reportedly resigned after being threatened. The warning came a day after
insurgents in Mosul, which has seen increased violence in recent weeks, launched
a highly coordinated assault on a U.S. military outpost. The United States
said 25 insurgents were believed slain and a U.S. soldier was killed in the
battle ... The radical Ansar al-Sunnah Army and two other insurgent groups
issued a statement Thursday warning that democracy was un-Islamic. Democracy
could lead to passing un-Islamic laws, such as permitting gay marriage..."
One news story focused on this "Clash of Civilizations"
concept inherent in the sudden insistence by the insurgency that they were
fighting against Coalition Forces so that they could prevent Iraq from legalizing
gay marriage! As ludicrous as this seems on the surface, many Muslims have
always considered the West to be morally degenerate, including allowing gay
unions.
NEWS BRIEF: "Iraqi
Rebels Say They're Fighting To Prevent Gay Marriage", by
365Gay.com Newscenter Staff, Posted: December 30, 2004
"(Baghdad) Three Iraqi rebel groups, including the one claiming responsibility
for the Dec. 21 suicide bombing of the U.S. military base at Mosul where 22
people were killed, said Thursday they are fighting to prevent 'homosexual
marriage'. Ansar al-Sunnah and two other rebel groups, posted messages on
their websites warning people not to vote in the January elections, declaring
that democracy is un-Islamic. The statements said that democracy would lead
to passing un-Islamic laws, such as permitting same-sex marriage ... Homosexuality
is illegal in most Islamic countries."
Blowing up houses to cause numerous casualties was a common insurgency
tactic last week.
NEWS BRIEF: "Mujahideen
Blow Up House In Fallujah, Reportedly Killing 24 American Soldiers",
Propaganda Matrix, reporting from Free Arab Press, December 29, 2004
"Based on eyewitness reports, Mujahideen detonated explosives that blasted
apart the house that US soldiers were searching in the city. According to
the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Fallujah, the Mujahideen had planted
500kg of TNT as well as the high explosive 'Austrian' bombs inside the house,
located in the al-Wahdah neighborhood. Mujahideen forces attracted the US
forces to the house by making them think that a number of fighters were barricaded
in it. The Mujahideen then detonated the explosives in the 450 square meter
building when the Americans entered the building to investigate. The blast
reportedly killed 24 American troops in addition to seven others whose bodies
had not been extracted from the rubble..."
NEWS BRIEF: "U.S.
Launches Offensive After Iraq Ambush", The State, December
29, 2004
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces launched a new offensive Wednesday against
insurgents in an area south of the capital dubbed the "triangle of death,"
while militants ambushed an elite Iraqi police unit in a Baghdad neighborhood
... The militants set off a huge explosion ... as a contingent of special
police and national guards were about to raid a house late Tuesday after receiving
an anonymous tip. The blast killed 22 civilians and seven officers, and damaged
a dozen nearby homes, a police spokesman said. Between 1,700 to 1,800 pounds
of explosives were used in the blast, a U.S. military statement said. American
and Iraqi troops searched the rubble for survivors through the night and rescued
one civilian. It was not immediately clear whether any of the casualties were
guerrillas who appeared to have lured the police into the building."
One wonders if these two stories are the same building blast? If they are
the same blast, who is telling the truth? Did 24 American soldiers die as
Free Arab Press is reporting, or did 22 Iraqi civilians and seven police officers
die as this American source is reporting? We may never know the truth, but
if 24 American soldiers did die, you can see how Col. David Hackworth has
arrived at a figure of 50,000 soldiers KIA, WIA, and Evacuated from the field
of battle, compared to the official . Kur
VII. China continued her tough stance toward
Taiwan, passing a law which establishes the legal framework for an attack
on the island nation.
NEWS BRIEF: "China
vows to prevent Taiwan independence", By John Ruwitch, SwissInfo,
December 27, 2004
"BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military will crush any major moves towards
independence by Taiwan no matter what the cost, said a government policy paper
that accused Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian of escalating tension. The paper
on defence was released on Monday as China's parliament discussed a draft
anti-secession law that analysts say may contain clauses that would legally
bind Beijing to take military action if the island Beijing claims as a renegade
province ever declares independence. 'Should the Taiwan authorities go so
far as to make a reckless attempt that constitutes a major incident of 'Taiwan
independence', the
Chinese people and armed forces will resolutely and thoroughly crush it at
any cost', the paper said."
These are fighting words, and come against an island state which has seen
and heard many threats from the Chinese mainland. Taiwan knows that the Chinese
are anxious to gain full control over Taiwan, but seemingly, her politicians
enjoy irritating the mainland leadership. When I was able to wrangle an invitation
to the Naval War College annual strategy session in June, 1999, Clinton's
adviser -- Dr. Kurth -- who was the keynote speaker, noted the special Chinese
angst over Taiwan, and specifically addressed the kind of stance Taiwan simply
must maintain.
Dr. James Kurth suddenly veared into the avenue of Chinese "Sphere of
Influence", stating that Taiwan has historically been within that sphere.
His speech was entitled, "U.S. Foreign Policy In A New Era: Themes and
Trends". He stated that the normal and historical "Sphere of Influence"
for the Chinese was Korea, Taiwan, and the East and South China Sea. Current
Chinese leaders want this old sphere of influence reestablished. They consider
Taiwan to be part of formal China. Hong Kong going back to Mainland Chinese
control is seen as a prototype of Taiwan returning to China."
At this point, while listening to Dr. Kurth, I mused upon the reality that,
in 1952, the Illuminati promised China that she would get Taiwan back! (NEWS1282)
Since Dr. Kurth could not mention this fact, he had to invent an historical
reason China should logically want control of Taiwan returned to her. Kr.
Kurth then spoke of America's role in this struggle.
"The United States should protect China from attacking Taiwan but Taiwan
should refrain from a unilateral declaration of independence. Taiwan needs
to stay functioning as an independent economy while officially staying as
a part of the Chinese Sphere of Influence. This fine line will take the utmost
in diplomacy but can and should be done." (Read the full report on Dr.
Kurth's speech in NEWS1299)
Of course, on a number of occasions during the past two years, Taiwan has
skirted very closely to the edge of declaring her independence, causing China
to fume and to threaten. Even a recent referendum which brought Taiwan back
from the brink has not calmed China down very much. Of course, she knows that
her invasion of Taiwan is planned to be War #3 as the World War III unfolds
(NEWS1774).
WEEKLY
UPDATES FROM Cutting Edge Ministries, www.cuttingedge.org
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