“And except those days should be shortened”- Prophecy Signs for September 9, 2014
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad Digs New Tunnels in Gaza
“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God! 2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Headline: India warns of al-Qaida terror plots against Israeli tourists during holiday season
Indian intelligence officials have learned that al-Qaida elements and other fanatic groups may be planning to commit terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in advance of the anticipated influx of tourists during the upcoming holiday season, according to news reports. India has traditionally been a popular destination for Israeli hikers and backpackers, particularly during the Jewish holiday season. Israelis are known to congregate in the dozens of Chabad-operated community centers in the country, where they celebrate the holidays and observe religious customs. Last week, Indian authorities learned that al-Qaida operatives have established sleeper cells throughout the country. According to reports, intelligence services believe that the organization is planning attacks, with Israeli and Jewish institutions high on the list of at-risk targets.
Sept. 9, 2014
Headline: Rebels Reportedly Control Syrian Golan, Entering Lebanon
Syrian rebels strengthened their hold of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday morning, conquering the mountain Al-Mal in the Quneitra region where they have recently been capturing control from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces. In conquering the strategic point on Tuesday, rebel forces killed roughly ten Syrian soldiers according to Arab news sources cited by Walla!, with some reports assessing that all of Assad’s forces in the area were killed in the clash. The victory gives the rebels full control over the mountain located roughly ten kilometers (just over six miles) from the border with Israel. It also means Syrian rebels have essentially taken control of all of Assad’s bases in the Syrian Golan Heights since starting their conquest of the region around two weeks ago.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184922#.VA895WOnGVo
Headline: Abbas wants UN to replace US as leading negotiator in peace talks, aide says
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants the UN to replace the US as leading peace broker between Israel and the Palestinians, a senior official told Bloomberg in an interview published Tuesday. Senior Fatah official Nabil Sha’ath said if Israel does not agree to a West Bank pullout in the next round of talks, the Palestinians would challenge the Jewish state politically, “all over the universe.” One thing on the future agenda, according to Sha’ath, is to urge the international community to handle Israel “as it did apartheid South Africa.” Sha’ath said their dream of statehood was not over and that they would turn to the UN Security Council to take over the peace process.
Sept. 9, 2014
Headline: Qatar-Funded City to Arise in Israel; More Tunnels, Anyone?
Sometime in the coming days a governmental committee is to convene to decide whether a new Qatari-funded Arab city in the heart of Samaria will be populated. It is currently expected that Israel will remove the last barrier blocking the city – which is already near completely-built – and allow the city to be connected to Israel’s water supply. The “Joint Water Committee for Israel and the Palestinians,” established in the framework of the Oslo Accords, is to vote on the final approval. Both Israel and the PA have veto power over any project brought for approval – and have used it extensively over the past two years: The PA has refused to approve water projects for Jewish communities (except for those within the towns themselves), and Israel has not approved the Rawabi plans. A deal has now been worked out, however, whereby both sides will approve the other’s projects – which means that the city of Rawabi will soon be a “fact on the ground.” However, as the grassroots “Cities of Israel” (Mattot Arim) organization has pointed out, the security implications of a Qatar-funded city in Israel have not been sufficiently taken into account – especially now that the extent of Qatari support for Hamas during the recent war in Gaza is well-known. “How far will the tunnels reach this time?” the organization asks, in a letter to Committee Chairman Infrastructures Minister Silvan Shalom. “Will they reach all the way to Tel Aviv?”
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184917#.VA9CHGOnGVo
Jordan
Headline: US fears Islamic State group attack on Jordan
The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence cooperation with Jordan, one of its most stalwart Middle East allies, concerned that the Arab country could be vulnerable to the Islamic State militant group. The CIA has approached a retired former agency official with close ties to King Abdullah II about setting up a special task force to help Jordan deal with the threat from the Islamic State group, according to two former agency officials who would not be quoted by name discussing a secret mission.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4568942,00.html
Lebanon
Headline: Lebanese troops advancing by Syrian border
Headline: Saudi Arabia hinders fights against militants on the outskirts of Ersal
A senior military official and state media say that Lebanese troops are advancing near Syria, almost separating a border town from rebel-held areas in nearby fields. The military official and the National News Agency said Tuesday that troops captured a post they lost when Islamic extremists overran the town of Arsal last month, killing and capturing a number of soldiers and police officers. The military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said “90 percent” of the area between the town of Arsal and its rebel-held outskirts that stretch to Syria was now held by troops. However, the move does not represent a prelude to an extensive army offensive against the militants occupying the outskirts of Ersal. According to political sources, several obstacles are preventing the army from launching an offence against the militants, most notably “Saudi Arabia’s objection to sealing off the Ersal-Qalamoun region.” According to a March 8 source, the closure of the Ersal-Qalamoun front “will reflect positively on the operations the Syrian army and its allies are carrying out in the Damascus countryside against armed extremist groups, which is something that Saudi Arabia and other countries supporting the Syrian opposition groups will never allow to happen.” It is political and it has to do with Saudi Arabia’s decision back in 2011 to turn Ersal into a transit point for transferring weapons and insurgents from Lebanon to Damascus, and Riyadh’s desire to keep it this way.”
***Caution on 2nd link
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanese-troops-seize-area-by-syrian-border/
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-arabia-hinders-fights-against-militants-outskirts-ersal
Headline: Two rockets crash in outskirts of Baalbek village
Two rockets fired from the outskirts of Arsal Tuesday, landed in the outskirts of the Bekaa Valley without incurring any damages, a source told The Daily Star. The rockets fell in the outskirts of the village of Hor Taala in the Baalbek region, crashing near the quarry of local resident Sadeq al-Masri. Tuesday’s rocket attack follows a spate of rocket fire that took place in the area earlier Monday, with four rockets crashing in various locations along the outskirts of the Bekaa Valley.
Sept. 9, 2014
Headline: Hezbollah leader skeptical of US move against Islamic State
The United States isn’t genuinely interested in curbing the danger of Sunni jihadists threatening Lebanon but rather is using public fear of the Islamic State to promote its own interests in the region, a Hezbollah leader said on Tuesday. Naim Qassem, deputy head of Hezbollah, told the Lebanese daily As-Safir that the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front pose “a great danger to Lebanon,” but they can be overcome if confronted by a coordinated effort by Lebanese forces. US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in the Middle East on Tuesday to discuss new ways of combating the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, which has taken hold of large tracts of land in Syria and Iraq and declared them an Islamic caliphate. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama is expected to deliver a major policy speech on Wednesday outlining his vision for tackling the Islamic State along with US allies in the region. But Qassem was unimpressed by the American action. “The international mobilization led by the United States is not serious in eliminating the Takfiri [Islamist] danger,” Qassem said. “This mobilization strives to create [new] borders… using this danger as a scarecrow in specific areas for political gains.”
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-leader-skeptical-of-us-move-against-islamic-state/
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Saudi Arabia hosts talks with US, regional allies on Thursday
Saudi Arabia will host talks with the United States, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and fellow Gulf Arab states on Thursday in Jeddah, the kingdom said on Tuesday. “The meeting will tackle the issue of terrorism in the region and the extremist organizations that stand behind it and the means of addressing it,” a statement carried on the official Saudi Press Agency said.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Saudi-Arabia-hosts-talks-with-US-regional-allies-on-Thurs-374843
Headline: Saudi Arabia denies resumption of diplomatic ties with Syria
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia categorically denied on Tuesday reports on the resumption of diplomatic ties with the Syrian regime. An official source of the Saudi Foreign Ministry said the reports circulated by ARM news network in this regards are totally groundless and untrue, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). In March, 2012, the kingdom shut down its embassy in Damascus and recalled all diplomatic staff working there.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2396219&language=en
Egypt
Headline: Egypt to host Gaza reconstruction conference Oct 12
Egypt will host a donors conference on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip on October 12 in Cairo following the recent conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, the Egyptian foreign minister said on Tuesday. The announcement carried on the state news agency came after Norway’s foreign minister held talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Sept. 9, 2014
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Iraq Syria Kurdistan
Syria Headline: Syria troops dislodge rebels threatening Hama air base
Syrian troops have regained control of villages near a military air base in the central province of Hama, pushing back rebel fighters in the area, a monitoring group said Tuesday as the new United Nations special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura began his first visit to Damascus, state news agency SANA said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime troops and pro-regime militiamen had made the advances in the past few days after months of fighting with rebel groups in the area. Regime forces pushed back rebels “who were threatening the strategic Hama military airport, from which the regime launches air raids on several areas,” Observatory director Rami Abdel-Rahman said.
Sept. 9, 2014
Syria Headline: Attack on meeting kills 28 Syria rebel leaders
An attack on a meeting of a Syrian rebel chiefs in the north of the war-ravaged country on Tuesday killed at least 28 leaders from one group, a monitor said. “Twenty-eight heads of the Ahrar al-Sham group were killed in an explosion that targeted a meeting tonight… in Idlib province,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Sept. 9, 2014
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowsyrialatestnews/563147-attack-on-meeting-kills-28-syria-rebel-leaders
Syria Headline: Islamic State militants launch attack against Qamishli airport
On Monday, three missiles targeted the International Airport of Qamishli, in northeastern Syria, were launched from the south countryside of Qamishli city, where militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) are in control, local sources reported. Qamishli airport is held by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, who are in conflict with IS militant fighters south of the city. Speaking to ARA News in Qamishli, civil rights activist Alan Ahmed reported that one of these three missiles landed in the courtyard of the airport without causing any injuries or material damage, while the other two landed near the Agricultural Institute in Helaliya neighbourhood, in the vicinity of the airport. The pro-regime forces (stationed at the International Airport of Qamishli) responded to the attack by shelling the IS-held areas in the towns of Tel Brak, Tel Hamis and the neighbouring villages in the southern countryside of Qamishli (Qamishlo).
***Clip above was on yesterday’s news without a link
Sept. 9, 2014
http://aranews.net/2014/09/islamic-state-militants-launch-attack-qamishli-airport/
Syria Headline: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe
Syria Headline: Institute for the Study of War Syria Update August 30- Sept. 4, 2014
http://iswsyria.blogspot.com/2014/09/syria-update-august-30-september-4-2014.html
Iraq Headline: Iraq’s Shi’ite militia, Kurds use U.S. air strikes to further own agendas
Kurdish and Shi’ite fighters have regained ground, but Sunni Muslims who fled the violence are being prevented from returning home and some have had their houses pillaged and torched. Rather than help keep the nation together, the air strikes risk being used by different factions for their own advantage in Iraq’s sectarian and ethnic conflicts. The fallout also risks worsening grievances that helped Islamic State find support amongst Iraq’s Sunnis, and allows the militant group to portray the U.S. strikes as targeting their minority sect. That may make it more difficult to bring Sunnis on side and convince them to fight the militants. Sunni Arabs are also feeling a backlash in villages where they used to live alongside Kurds, who accuse them of collaborating with Islamic State.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/u-iraq-air-raids-help-kurds-shiites-expense-053457109.html
Iraq Headline: ISIL targets Nasiriya village in Babel with 12 mortar shells
The ISIL terrorists targeted Nasiriya village of northern Musayaib district in Babel with 12 mortar shells. Security source stated to IraqiNews.com “An armed group targeted Nasiriya village of northern Musayaib district in Babel with 12 mortar shells where no human casualties were registered.”
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/isil-targets-nasiriya-village-in-babel-with-1-mortar-shells/
Iraq Headline: Iraq Forms a Government without Defense or Interior
The Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) has voted to install a new cabinet to form the government of new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi. The new cabinet will face the challenges of altering a deteriorating security situation and overcoming the mistrust created by former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s years in office. Crucially, the government will also have to reverse the gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). However, the vote for the new cabinet did not include the important positions of minister of defense or minister of interior. These positions will for now rest with PM Abadi, as former Prime Minister Maliki had occupied the positions previously. Hadi al-Ameri, of the Iranian-backed Badr Organization, has been floated as a candidate for both positions, and it is likely that political wrangling over these positions has delayed their appointment. Such an appointment would be alarming to the United States and other Iraqi allies. Iraqi Sunnis are likely to receive the Ministry of Defense, which may help instill confidence in renewed military efforts against ISIS. Much rests on the timely filling of these positions, which PM Abadi has promised this week.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/09/iraq-forms-government-without-defense.html
Iraq Headline: Institute for the Study of War Iraq Situation Report: September 5-7, 2014
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/09/iraq-situation-report-september-5-7-2014.html
Kurdish Headline: Why the PKK Won’t Leave Mount Sinjar
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed that there is a plan to attack PKK fighters on Mount Sinjar with air strikes. According to a military source, the US does not want the PKK on Mount Sinjar. The PKK claims that this is because it is militarily strategic, as a position for launching long-range missiles. Recently, The People’s Protection Units (YPG), military ally of the PKK on Mount Sinjar, also claimed that there was a plan to shell areas under their control in order to expose it as controlled by Islamic State (IS) insurgents.
In information obtained by BasNews, the PKK’s warning is related to the fact that the US has warned the Kurdistan Regional Government and the PKK itself that the PKK must not stay on Mount Sinjar. Military and political experts believe that this request has been made by the US as long-range rockets could target countries as far away as Israel from the mountain. The experts say that the US does not want control of the mountain to fall into the wrong hands, especially the militant group the KCK [another military ally of PKK]. Under the leadership of Cemil Bayik, the Executive Council Co-chair of the KCK, the group is supported by Iran, making it a threat to US allies, particularly Israel. BasNews sources revealed that the PKK has attempted to use the situation in Sinjar town as way to establish ‘Sinjar Canton’ and place it under their control, in addition to the three cantons of Syrian Kurdistan which are governed by the PYD (a wing of the PKK). This is a major cause for concern for the US, especially after a US military delegation discovered that the PKK demanded Shasho, as commander of the Peshmerga forces on the mountain, to come under their command, an order he rejected out of hand.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Why-the-PKK-Won-t-Leave-Mount-Sinjar/33472
Kurdish Headline: Britain sends heavy weapons, ammunition to Kurdish Peshmerga forces
On Tuesday, The British government announced that it will provide large quantities of heavy weapons and ammunition for the Kurdish Peshmerga forces for the purpose of confronting the terrorist gangs of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The British Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon said in a press statement that “the value of those weapons is up to 6.1 million pounds augmented by about half a million pounds, the value of the shipping to Iraq.” Fallon added that “The shipment of weapons and ammunition will reach Iraq on Wednesday,” stressing that “the Kurdish forces suffer from a significant lack of weapons compared to the fighters of the Islamic State.” Fallon indicated that his country is willing to help the Iraqi government and the Kurdish forces to defend themselves and their fellow citizens to stop the advance of ISIS towards other areas, in addition to supporting the international relief efforts to alleviate the suffering of Iraqis who have been targeted by terrorists.
Sept. 9, 2014
Headline: ISIS Tweets Call for Assassination of Twitter Employees
An ISIS-related Twitter account has issued the group’s first direct call for attacks on specific American targets, but it’s not going after political or national icons. It wants Twitter employees assassinated. The call for retribution against the online platform was first announced Sunday night in a series of tweets asking “lone wolves” in the U.S. and Europe to make Twitter employees the focus of their attacks. The latest message, if confirmed, would mark a stark escalation. ISIS has, to this point, studiously avoided calling for attacks in America and Israel, preferring to restrict its campaign to territories within Syria and Iraq. It comes at a time when fears are at a fever pitch over the possibility of ISIS attacks in Europe or the United States. A CNN poll released on Monday said that 70 percent of Americans surveyed believed ISIS had the resources to launch an attack on the U.S., with 76 percent of people in favor of additional airstrikes on ISIS targets.
Sept. 8, 2014
http://www.vocativ.com/world/syria-world/isis-threatens-twitter-employees/
Headline: Steven Sotloff Was Sold to ISIS by ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels
Headline: White House says beheaded US journalist not ‘sold’ to Islamic State
Murdered journalist Steven Sotloff was kidnapped and sold to the radical Islamic State terrorist group, or ISIS, by one of the “moderate” rebel groups to whom the US government has considered offering support, according to his family’s spokesman. Barak Barfi told CNN that Sotloff – who was Jewish and a joint US-Israeli citizen – was sold for a sum of money in the tens of thousands of dollars at the Syrian border. He said credible “sources on the ground” had provided the dramatic and tragic details of the abduction. “For the first time, we can say Steven was sold at the border,” Barfi said. He described for the first time how Sotloff was set up to be kidnapped, as “activists” spread false rumors that he had participated in the bombing of a hospital – rumors which set him up to be kidnapped by a rebel group, and ultimately executed by IS. “Steven’s name was on a list that he had been responsible for the bombing of a hospital. This was false, activists spread his name around. “Somebody at the border crossing made a phone call to ISIS and they set up a fake checkpoint with many people and Steven and his people that he went in with could not escape,” he said. Barfi noted that the people who actually carried out the kidnapping of Sotloff, a US citizen, were members of some of the very Syrian rebel factions the Obama administration has considered supporting to overthrow the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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Syria Headline: Syrian Rebel Commander: Yes, We’re Still Collaborating with ISIS
http://www.infowars.com/syrian-rebel-commander-yes-were-still-collaborating-with-isis-and-al-qaeda/
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184912#.VA9Cp2OnGVo
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4569344,00.html
Headline: Boston bombers’ mosque tied to ISIS
Now it can be revealed that another regular worshipper at the Islamic Society mosque was Ahmad Abousamra, who is now the top propagandist for ISIS. Abousamra’s father, a prominent doctor, even sat on the board of directors of the Muslim organization that runs the mosque. He stepped down after the FBI began questioning his son. The FBI suspects Abousamra now operates ISIS’s sophisticated media wing promoting the group’s beheadings and other atrocities through slick videos posted on the Internet. The brutally effective English-language propaganda campaign has helped attract thousands of Western jihadists, including at least 300 Americans. The Islamic Society insists it’s moderate — that these extremists were fed by online forums. But Charles Jacobs, head of Boston’s Americans for Peace and Tolerance, says the mosque has hosted pro-jihad speakers and has stocked its library with classic jihadi texts — including writings by Osama bin Laden mentor Syed Qutb. And Islamic Society leaders have openly defended their worshippers convicted of terrorism — including Siddiqui and Mehanna — despite overwhelming evidence against them. At their hearings and trials, officials have sought their release or lenient sentences. They have also held fundraisers and rallies for the terrorists.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://nypost.com/2014/09/07/jihadi-behind-beheading-videos-linked-to-notorious-us-mosque/
Headline: US seeks UN resolution on Islamic State ahead of key Obama speech
International action against Islamic State intensified on Tuesday, with the US seeking a UN resolution to tighten up laws on foreign fighters and more European military aid filtering in to help those fighting militants on the ground. The latest anti-IS resolution, proposed by the US, demands that all UN members make it a serious crime to enlist as a foreign fighter in a militant groups such as Islamic State and Nusra Front in Iraq and Syria. The draft, currently being circulated to Security Council members, is expected to be adopted at a special session of the top world body chaired by US President Barack Obama on 24 September. Under the measure, governments would take action against their nationals who travel or make plans to travel to a country “for the purpose of the perpetration, planning, or preparation of, or participation in terrorist acts.” It would also make it illegal to collect funds or help organise the travel of foreign fighters for groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is on the UN terror list. The text obtained by AFP demands that “all states shall ensure that their domestic laws and regulations establish serious criminal offenses sufficient to provide the ability to prosecute and to penalise in a manner duly reflecting the seriousness of the offense.”
Sept. 9, 2014
Listed below are the nations which will attack Israel from Ezekiel chapter 38 and their modern day names (see chart above).
Gog is the leader of the Russian invasion of Israel.
Magog, Meshech, and Tubal comprise modern day Russia.
Persia is Iran, parts of northern Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Cush is Ethiopia and Sudan.
Put is Libya and will most likely include Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Gomer is Eastern Germany.
Beth Togarmah is Turkey and Armenia.
Russia
Headline: Russia mulls closing airspace in response to new Western sanctions
Russia does not rule out the possibility that it might close its airspace in response to new Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday. “If there are sanctions connected with energy or further restrictions on our financial sector, we will have to strike back in an asymmetric way, such as restrictions in the transport sphere,” Medvedev said in an interview with Vedomosti, a business daily. “We will have to respond to the restrictions imposed on us,” he said. “If Western carriers cannot overfly our airspace, it may lead to the bankruptcy of many airlines that are teetering on the brink of survival.” Medvedev, however, admitted it would be a bad option. “We would just like our partners to realize that.” He stressed that additional sanctions would not help bring peace to Ukraine, but only threaten the global security system. He warned that “sanctions are always double-edged.” Moreover, Medvedev expressed his hope that the Western sanctions can be turned into chances for the domestic industry to develop, adding that Russia may make further adjustments of counter sanctions imposed on Western countries. “We should try to use the situation to bring benefits to the country and our economy,” he said. “We should not harm our citizens; this is the first and most important consideration.”
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1101&MainCatID=11&id=20140909000113
Headline: Four soldiers killed, 29 injured despite truce: Ukraine
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says four servicemen have been killed in clashes with pro-Russian forces since the start of a ceasefire five days ago. Head of Defense Ministry’s Military Medical Department Vitaly Andronatiy told reporters on Tuesday that 29 other Ukrainian soldiers were also injured during the ceasefire. On Friday, the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia forces signed a preliminary ceasefire deal to end nearly five months of fighting in the nation’s east. The ceasefire was signed after two hours of negotiations in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk between former Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, who represented the government in Kiev, and rebel leaders, Igor Plotnitsky and Alexander Zakharchenko. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered troops to stop all hostilities by 15:00 GMT the same day and instructed the Foreign Ministry to oversee monitoring of the ceasefire along with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Meanwhile, the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk has been reportedly the scene of gunfire and shelling overnight Tuesday.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/09/378198/ukraine-says-4-killed-amid-ceasefire/
Iran
Iran: Jeremiah 49:34-39 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The foremost of their might. 36 Against Elam I will bring the four winds From the four quarters of heaven, And scatter them toward all those winds; There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies And before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, My fierce anger,’ says the Lord; ‘And I will send the sword after them Until I have consumed them. 38 I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the Lord. 39 ‘But it shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring back the captives of Elam,’ says the Lord.”
Headline: Iran criticises Sudan for closing cultural centres
Predominantly Shiite Muslim Iran criticised Sudan Tuesday for shutting down its cultural centres in the country over alleged Shiite proselytism, saying they had been operating correctly. On September 2, a Sudanese official said the centres had been ordered closed in response to “increased activity… in spreading Shiite Islam,” the majority faith in Iran but a fringe one in overwhelmingly Sunni Sudan. Tehran’s main cultural centre in the Sudanese capital was padlocked on Sunday, an AFP correspondent reported. Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said the centre was operating within the law, and blamed the decision to shut it down on “suspect political groups,” which she did not name. Quoted by the ISNA news agency, she said the centre’s “activities respected bilateral accords and Sudanese law”. The closure order was a “provocation by certain suspect political groups in Sudan and extremist groups in the region at a time when Sudan is suffering economic and political difficulties. “We are certain that the Sudanese government would not allow groups that do not value the welfare of Iran and Sudan to tarnish relations between the two countries,” she added.
Sept. 9, 2014
Afghanistan
Headline: War News for Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Reported security incidents
#1: Taliban militants attacked a Karachi naval dockyard in a weekend raid which left a Pakistani officer and two insurgents dead, officials said on Tuesday. An officer and six sailors were also wounded in the attack early Saturday on the high security facility, a navy spokesman said, adding that four attackers had been captured alive.
#2: Pakistan’s military said on Monday it had killed 10 militants and destroyed an explosives cache in ongoing airstrikes as part of a major offensive against the Taliban in the northwest. “Army aviation gunship helicopters struck an area ahead of Boya Degan in North Waziristan. In a precise strike on a terrorist hideout, gunship helicopters destroyed one explosive dump and five vehicles and killed 10 terrorists,” the military said in a statement. The conflict zone is off-limits to journalists, so there is no way to independently verify the number and identity of those killed.
#3: Five Afghan police were killed in a clash followed by a blast in eastern province of Laghman on Tuesday, sources said. “Taliban militants launched an attack on Afghan Local Police ( ALP) checkpoint in Badpakh district. The ALP responded the attack, killing several militants,” the provincial government said in a statement. Two ALP cops were also killed and one police was wounded in the clash. The statement said, adding three other ALP members were killed when their vehicle set off a roadside bomb at the same area.
#4: Earlier on the day, six civilians were wounded in a bomb attack in Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of northern Balkh province, 305 km north of Kabul.
#5-6: Six militants were killed and six others wounded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
#5: In one incident, three militants were killed and two others wounded when a NATO drone fired a missile on a compound in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, the provincial police spokesman Hzrat Husain Mashriqiwal told Xinhua.
#6: In neighboring Paktika province, three militants were killed and four others wounded when a roadside bomb they were planting along a road in Khir Kot district went off prematurely at around 6: 00 a.m. in the morning, according to district governor Raz Mohammad Mukhlis.
#7: a suicide attack Police chief of Raghistan district, Kandahar province along with two other policemen were martyred last night. Zia Durani spokesman of police chief in the province told BNA, the attack occurred while a suicide assailant entered to Raghistan security command and exploded himself.
#8: At least three militants were killed following a drone strike by NATO-led coalition security forces in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
Libya
Headline: France Calls for Military Re-intervention in Libya
Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was quoted as stating on Tuesday during an interview with the newspaper Le Figaro that France “must act in Libya and mobilize the international community.” In addition to urging action by European defense ministers meeting in Milan, Le Drian called for a push by the United Nations Security Council for military action against Islamists who have taken over the country. He said France may move troops in neighboring countries to the Libyan border. Since the NATO invasion and assassination of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi three years ago, rival militias have waged a ceaseless war for control of Libya. On September 1, the Libyan government admitted it had lost control of its ministries after the militias had taken over Tripoli “in another milestone in the disintegration of the state,” according to The New York Times. In August, the militant Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia declared Benghazi an “Islamic Emirate.” Ansar al-Sharia was implicated in the attack on the CIA’s gun-running operation in Benghazi that left ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.infowars.com/france-calls-for-military-re-intervention-in-libya/
Headline: Libyan Parliament escapes to ship in Tobruk harbor
Libya’s Parliament, escaping from the militant-occupied capital of Tripoli, has taken refuge aboard a Greek car ferry in Tobruk harbor. The small port, where British troops stood their ground in World War II fighting Germany’s Afrika Korps, is now the site of Libyan government power; Islamist rebels having captured Tripoli, Benghazi, Derna and other cities. Parliament now lives and works aboard the 17,000-ton Elyros liner, which typically carries cars and passengers between Greece and Italy.
Sept. 9, 2014
Morocco
Headline: Morocco and Algeria build separation fences along their borders
Morocco and Algeria are commemorating the 20th anniversary of closing their common border by building separation walls. The land border between Morocco and Algeria has been closed for “security reasons” since their independence except at certain periods during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when they were briefly opened. On the 20th anniversary of closing their border, the two countries deepened their estrangement. Algeria is said to have deployed troops along the common border with Morocco while the latter built a separation wall under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking and illegal immigration. Algeria reacted to the Moroccan wall by building a similar wall which stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the south and could reach a hundred kilometres. Morocco holds Algeria responsible for harming the Moroccan territorial integrity by supporting Western Saharan parties who demand independence from Morocco. Meanwhile, Algeria has recently accused Morocco of trying to sow discord in the Ghardaia region between Arabs and Berbers. A French diplomatic source who had previously worked in Rabat told Al-Rai Al-Youm news website that “the Moroccan-Algerian relations are like a chronic disease which is difficult to cure, and once you believe you made a breakthrough, it surprises you again.”
Sept. 9, 2014
Headline: Turkey Refuses to Transfer ‘Inhumane’ Israeli Gas to Europe
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz essentially blackmailed Israel on Tuesday, demanding that the Jewish state make “peace” with the Gaza-based terrorist organization Hamas before it would consider a joint energy project linking Israel with Europe. “For energy projects to proceed, the human tragedy in Gaza will have to be stopped and Israel will have to instate a permanent peace there with all elements,” Yildiz told reporters in Ankara, referring to the recent counter-terror Operation Protective Edge. “It is out of the question to proceed on any energy project unless a permanent peace is established, with contribution from all sides and with necessary conditions. A human tragedy unfolded (in Gaza), it is all too easily forgotten,” added Yildiz. Yildiz’s comments came in response to questions about a proposed lucrative joint project, which would have a 10 billion cubic meter sub-sea pipeline built by 2023, connecting Israel to the European market. The project was expected to cost $2.2 billion, reports Reuters.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184930#.VA89o2OnGVo
Luke 21:9 and Matthew 24:7 speak of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom in the end times. Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Luke 21:9: wars & commotions; the Greek word here is Akatastasia, meaning instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion (revolutions) Matthew 24:7: the Greek word for nation is Ethnos & refers to various ethnic groups fighting among themselves, where the next sentence in the verse refers to kingdoms (basileiva) fighting one another (not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom)
Headline: Chile blames terrorists after bomb blast hurts 14
Chile’s capital on Monday, injuring at least 14 people in the most damaging of nearly 30 bombings or attempted bombings in Santiago this year. While no group claimed responsibility for the blast, many past bombings have been claimed by anarchist groups and Chile’s government said it would invoke the country’s tough anti-terror laws. The explosion took place during lunchtime at a restaurant in a small, underground shopping mall connected to the Escuela Militar subway station in Santiago’s affluent Las Condes neighborhood. Witnesses described a gory and chaotic scene as the blast sent bodies flying, while commuters ran away from the smoke screaming. “We heard the blast and ran in fear. When I turned around I saw the heartbreaking scene: there was glass, dust and twisted metal everywhere,” Silvana Bobadilla, a waitress at one of the nearby restaurants, told local television. President Michelle Bachelet called it an abominable act of terrorism. “That’s why we’re going to use the full force of justice, including invoking the anti-terrorist law,” Bachelet said. The anti-terror law enacted during Chile’s 1973-90 dictatorship lets suspects be held in isolation without charges and permits the use of phone taps and secret witnesses in investigations. At least 14 people were injured in Monday’s attack, according to a list released by local hospitals. The government’s emergency medical service said that among those hurt in the blast was a cleaning woman who lost a finger.
Sept. 8, 2014
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Explosion-in-Chile-subway-injures-at-least-7-5741843.php
Headline: Somali Al-Shabab threatens US attacks to avenge leader’s death
Somali Islamist militants have threatened attacks in east Africa and the United States, warning President Barack Obama he would hear “shocking news” as punishment for a U.S. missile strike that killed the rebel group’s leader last week. Al-Shabab made the threats late Monday, hours after launching twin attacks inside Somalia against African peacekeepers and a government convoy. The death toll from those bombings rose to at least 18 Tuesday, police said. “Let our mujahideen (fighters) wait for good news. And let Obama wait for shocking news,” senior Al-Shabab official, Fouad Mohammad Khalaf Shongole, said in a recorded message, promising to avenge the death of Ahmed Godane in a U.S. raid on September 1. Al-Shabab demonstrated its ability to strike abroad on September 21, 2013, when the group launched an attack on the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed 67 people.
Sept. 9, 2014
Headline: Yemeni forces shoot dead several Houthi protesters
Headline: 7 activists killed trying to storm Yemen government HQ
Headline: Houthis warn Yemen government with ‘Code Red’- VIDEO
Yemeni security forces open fire on Houthi protesters and their supporters in the capital city, Sana’a, killing several activists and injuring dozens more. Anti-government activists say riot police fired live ammunition when demonstrators marched toward the prime minister’s office in Sana’a on Tuesday. Witnesses say the police first fired tear gas and then started shooting as thousands of angry protesters marched on the government headquarters. Sources say at least seven people were killed in the shooting and subsequent clashes. “Police fired live rounds at protesters, killing seven of them and wounding dozens,” media outlets quoted a Houthi activist Khaled al-Madani as saying. On Monday, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a TV address that state corruption has outraged the protesters and the government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s policy of terror would make the people even more resolute to follow up on the problem of corruption in Yemen.
****In case you were wondering, but use caution on the link: Predictions of “Yemeni ISIS” being formed in response to Houthi victories
http://www.islamopediaonline.org/news/predictions-yemeni-isis-being-formed-response-houthi-victories
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/09/378197/yemeni-police-kill-several-protesters/
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/houthi-leader-calls-escalation-sanaa-edges-chaos-137244503
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/video-houthis-warn-yemen-government-code-red-47722284
Headline: Taliban claim attack on Pakistan navy dockyard
Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a Saturday attack on a naval dockyard in Karachi that saw two militants and a sailor killed, as the Navy said Tuesday it had arrested some of the militants for their involvement in the attack. Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid in a telephone call to The Associated Press from an undisclosed location said that some naval officials helped them carry out the attack. He said they launched the assault as revenge for an ongoing army operation in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. “We will carry out more such attacks to target the military installations. We successfully attacked the naval dockyard as we had inside help for it,” he said. Navy officials only acknowledged the attack Monday night, but said nothing about whether naval officials assisted the militants. The navy said seven of the sailors were also wounded in the attack.
Sept. 9, 2014
Economic collapse Revelation 6:5-6 & James 5:1-3– Worldwide “ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.” (James)
Headline: Brazil Rating Outlook Cut to Negative by Moody’s on Growth
Brazil’s credit rating outlook was cut to negative by Moody’s Investors Service, which said slow economic growth is unlikely to improve in the short term. Moody’s affirmed Brazil’s Baa2 rating, its second-lowest investment grade. The change in outlook comes after data last month showed Latin America’s largest economy entered a recession for the first time in five years, and as President Dilma Rousseff seeks election to a second term in October. Brazil’s benchmark dollar bonds dropped the most since March and the real weakened after the Moody’s report, which came on the heels of a voter poll that showed Rousseff gaining support and in a statistical tie with her main opponent. Brazil’s Ibovespa stock index had posted the best returns among major global gauges since March, when voter surveys first started showing Rousseff losing support for her effort to win another four-year term after overseeing Brazil’s slowest economic growth for any president in two decades. “Given the absence of any signs of a recovery, Moody’s believes that Brazil’s next administration will face depressed economic conditions,” analyst Mauro Leos wrote in the statement today. “Persistently weak growth rates could further erode Brazil’s fiscal position and materially undermine its credit profile.”
Sept. 9, 2014
Wars & Rumors of Wars Matthew 24:6 , Revelation 6:3-4 & Revelation 6:8“ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” Revelation 6:3-4 speaks of the fiery red horse given power to make men slay one another and Revelation 6:8 speaks again of this red horse in conjunction with the pale horse of Death and Hades, as the one that has the power to kill by sword. Weapons of Mass Destruction Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
Headline: Report: China Moves 12,000 Troops to Russian Border
According to a Russian media report, at least 12,000 heavily armed Chinese troops have been moved to the border with Russia as tensions in the region continue to build. The report cites the Russian FSB Border service as saying that Beijing began dispatching troops to the border on September 6, with 12-15,000 soldiers making the trip backed by heavy artillery. According to a translated quote that the report attributes to a Russian border representative, it is not yet clear why the troops have been concentrated on the border but that “something smells bad.” It remains to be seen whether the reported Chinese troops movements are related to large scale Russian nuclear drills set to take place on the Chinese border later this month. Russia and China have been forging closer links in recent weeks and months, with the two super powers recently signing a $400bn deal for Gazprom to supply gas from Russia to China, the biggest natural gas deal sealed by Moscow since the collapse of the USSR. Work on the construction of the pipeline began last week. Tensions between Russia and NATO flared last week when General Yury Yakubov, a senior Defense Ministry official, said that part of Russia’srevision to its military doctrine would include treating the United States and its NATO allies as an enemy threat against which preemptive nuclear strikes could be launched. Last week NATO also approved a “rapid response force” of 3,500 troops that would be situated at bases in Poland, Romania, and the Baltic states in a move that was widely seen as a further aggressive escalation aimed at Moscow.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.infowars.com/report-china-moves-12000-troops-to-russian-border/
Pestilence & Plagues Luke 21:11 & Revelation 6:8 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation)
Headline: 4th US aid worker with Ebola arrives in Atlanta
Headline: Ebola death toll rises to at least 2,296: WHO
Headline: Ebola in Nigeria: Number of Ebola cases in Nigeria hits 19
A medical plane transporting the fourth American aid worker sickened with the Ebola virus landed in metro Atlanta on Tuesday morning, with the patient headed to Emory University Hospital, where two others have been successfully treated. The plane touched down around 9:20 a.m. at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, just northwest of Atlanta. Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. James Wilson confirmed the arrival. The patient will be housed in a special isolation unit, hospital officials said. The patient’s identity was not released, and the hospital released no additional details. But the World Health Organization says a doctor who has been working in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the disease. It said the doctor was in stable condition Monday in Freetown and was being evacuated. Last month, two U.S. aid workers who contracted Ebola in Liberia, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, were treated successfully at Emory.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://news.msn.com/us/4th-us-aid-worker-with-ebola-arrives-in-atlanta
http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-death-toll-rises-least-2-296-150922064.html
http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/ebola-in-nigeria-number-of-ebola-cases-in-nigeria-hits-19/
Headline: Hospital sets patient record as virus spreads
Medical officials admitted a record number of children to a local hospital over the weekend because of what they believe to be a rare respiratory virus spreading throughout the country. Although there’s been no confirmed cases of the enterovirus at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, officials admitted 540 patients Friday, said Dr. Derek Wheeler, associate chief of staff at the hospital. The previous record was around 515, Wheeler said. Some reports out of Missouri and Colorado suggest the virus, with symptoms similar to the common cold, brought sicker patients to hospitals, Wheeler said. “We’re just seeing the (increased) volumes, we haven’t seen (patients) sicker than usual yet,” he said. Hospitals from other states have placed restrictions on visitations, but Wheeler said there are no plans to do that in Cincinnati. The virus is similar to what doctors treat during cold and flu season. That means nothing really changes if a child comes down with the rare virus, he said. “The bottom line is this is a virus you wouldn’t treat with antibiotics, so other than the (high-level of) interest, there’s no reason we would need to know it’s an enterovirus,” Wheeler said.
Sept. 9, 2014
Headline: Hundreds in Massachusetts Tested for Tuberculosis
More than 30 Lynn Community Health Center employees and 800 patients are being tested to determine if they were exposed to tuberculosis after center doctors confirmed a case. Center Director Lori Berry says after confirming the single positive test for tuberculosis in a male health care worker around Labor Day, center medical workers contacted and tested employees as well as patients ‘‘having sufficient exposure to warrant testing.’’ City Health Director MaryAnn O’Connor tells The Daily Item the identified case at the center is ‘‘not a reason to panic’’ and said people should not stay away from clinic. The Center for Disease Control’s website describes tuberculosis as bacteria ‘‘that usually attack the lungs’’ but can attack other parts of the body, and if not treated properly can be fatal.
Sept. 9, 2014
http://www.boston.com/health/2014/09/09/hundreds-tested-for-lynn/esBoqBlldtnvoQoVgI7O1K/story.html
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Sept. 5, 2014- Hundreds of dead fish wash up ‘mysteriously’ on a beach in Le Havre, France
Sept. 5, 2014- 44 Seals strand and die during August in California, America
http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/patients/released-deceased-patients/#Deceased
Sept. 6, 2014- 7 TONS of fish wash up dead in a lake in Sabaudia, Italy
Sept. 6, 2014- Hundreds of dead fish appear on a beach in Alicante, Spain
Sept. 6, 2014- Mass die off of fish found in a river in China
Sept. 8, 2014- 8 sea lions and 10 pelicans found dead in the mouth of the river Moche in Peru
Sept. 8, 2014- China kills 5,000 dogs to control rabies outbreak
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