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I must caution you: there are links used to report events below that you should use extreme caution in viewing- they are anti-Israel sites and Arabic media sites.
“Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.” (Psalm 63:7-8)
“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: Syria jihadists advance against regime forces in Quneitra
Islamist rebels on Friday advanced against Syrian regime troops on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights near the Israeli border, a monitoring group said. Fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and Islamic Brigades seized two hills in the center of Quneitra, which has in recent days been at the center of fighting between rebels and the Syrian government forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The reported advance was made after the Syrian military launched a counter-attack to regain posts seized by Islamist fighters in the volatile region. Syrian forces heavily shelled areas on the outskirts of Quneitra, killing at least 16 Islamist fighters, the Britain-based Observatory said. State TV said government troops had killed an unspecified number of rebels on the edges of Quneitra and destroyed their weapons. The fighting has raged since the Islamist rebels captured the Quneitra border crossing more than a week ago. The Nusra Front has been holding 45 Fijian U.N. peacekeepers since Aug. 28.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/09/05/3839252/syria-jihadists-advance-against.html
Headline: Al-Nusra threatening to put captive Fiji UN troops on trial under Islamic law
The al-Nusra front is threatening to put the 44 captive Fijian UNDOF troops on trial under Islamic Shari’a law if demands are not met, said the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul Rahman to London paper Asharq al-Awsat. The UN troops were kidnapped on August 28 from the Golan Heights’ UN-patrolled demilitarized zone when terrorists from the al-Qaida-linked group overran a crossing near the abandoned town of Quneitra. Syrian government troops and rebels had already been engaged in fighting in the area for days when the kidnapping happened. Terrorists also captured 72 UN troops from the Philippines around the same time as the Fijians’ kidnapping, though the Filipino troops managed to escape into safety in Israel. Al-Nusra is demanding a series of conditions in order to release the captive UNDOF troops, including the group’s removal from the UN’s list of global terror organizations, and monetary compensation for members killed in fighting, said Brigadier-General Mosese Tikoitoga, head of Fiji’s army.
Sept. 5, 2014
Headline: Report: Hamas’ Meshal agrees for Palestinian state based on 1967 borders
Headline: Hamas’ Haniyeh: No to Israeli disarmament demand
The head of Hamas’ political wing, Khaled Meshal, has agreed to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders during a recent meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported Friday. According to the report, Meshal demanded Hamas be included in all policy decisions in the West Bank and not only in the Gaza Strip. The statements appear in a protocol of the second meeting held between the two Palestinian leaders in Doha, on August 21-22, as published by Al-Akhbar. Unlike the first meeting, during which harsh accusations were exchanged, the second meeting was efficient. According to the protocol, Palestinian intelligence chief Majid Faraj informed the officials at the meeting that the head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, Yoram Cohen, met with Abbas in Ramallah and claimed that the Palestinian president had crossed the line, and that a harsh Israeli response will follow. Cohen, Faraj said, accused Abbas of defending Hamas and demanded that he dismantle the Palestinian unity government. Abbas replied that the unity government is a Palestinian interest that he intends to defend.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.614309#
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/middle-east-updates/1.614272
Headline: Fatah Calls on World to Cancel IDF Dual Citizenship
A senior leader of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has launched a new international campaign against Israel, calling on nations of the world to cancel the citizenship for IDF soldiers after Operation Protective Edge. The Fatah leader, Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Member of the Fatah Central Committee and former PA cabinet minister, stated there was no logic to Israeli soldiers who “attack the Palestinian nation” being allowed to keep dual citizenship in a foreign country. Shtayyeh added that the PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has already turned to several nations requesting that they negate the citizenship of the soldiers. This is in fact not the first time that Shtayyeh has been a proponent of this particular kind of strategy. Last December, during the peace talks that Abbas torpedoed in April with his Hamas unity deal and which Shtayyeh opposed, the Fatah leader threatened to request from foreign governments to pressure Israel into stripping Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria of their Israeli citizenship. As long-term ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group are set to begin shortly in Cairo, the PA has increasingly shown a willingness to try and use international pressure on Israel to weaken the Jewish state.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184774#.VAn-HGOnGVo
Headline: Shin Bet sources: 10 Israeli Arabs joined Islamic State
Ten Israeli Arabs have joined up with the Islamic State to fight in Iraq and Syria, according to reports based on unnamed Shin Bet sources. According to Israel Hayom, the numbers remain low, but the national security agency is keeping close tabs on those suspected of joining the jihadists for fear they will return to carry out attacks in Israel. A troubling spike of interest in jihadi groups has been detected, primarily in the al-Nusra Front, but more recently in the Islamic State as well, Israel Hayom reported. The Mossad, Military Intelligence, and the police are joining the Shin Bet in an effort to track Arab Israelis leaving to fight in Syria. The development is especially worrying for Israel because its security forces expect citizens fighting in Syria to become further radicalized, and to undergo military training. In addition, jihadist groups have tried to glean information about Israel from the Israeli Arab recruits.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-sources-10-israeli-arabs-joined-islamic-state/
Jordan
Headline: Jordan’s growing economic troubles could aid jihadist recruitment
As Jordan deals with growing economic difficulties and civil disturbances, jihadists from al-Qaida’s Nusra Front and the Islamic State could try to take advantage of the circumstances by gaining new recruits, a study finds. The author of the study, David Schenker, the director of the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former official dealing with the Middle East for the Pentagon, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that he does not think the Salafi/jihadi threat to Jordan is being overhyped.
“Given what’s happening in Syria and Iraq, concerns about the security and stability of Jordan are well warranted,” said Schenker, noting that “Islamic State recruitment in the region is largely driven by sectarian sentiment.” “My experience in the kingdom – which much of the media coverage seems to confirm – is that Jordanian jihadis, whether from the Islamic State or the Nusra Front, are not uniformly impoverished.” In fact, many come from the middle class, he said. “Still,” added Schenker, “there is a growing level of frustration in the kingdom primarily related to the economy and the lack of opportunity, and this could contribute to the growth of Salafism.” And the line “between Salafism and jihadism is exceedingly thin.”
King Abdullah has a plethora of problems to deal with, but if the economy is not improved, it will exacerbate them, he said.
Sept. 5, 2014
Lebanon
Headline: Lebanon gov’t okays army rescue mission
Headline: Nusra releases video of Lebanese abductees denouncing Hezbollah
Headline: Qatar delegation is in Arsal negotiating release of hostages
The Lebanese government has given permission to the army to launch a military operation to free the soldiers held by Takfiri terrorist groups. “The Cabinet affirmed its support for the missions carried out by the Army and security forces in Arsal and its environs and asked their commanders to take all necessary measures to bring the situation in Arsal under control and free the kidnapped soldiers,” Information Minister Ramzi Joreige told reporters after a Thursday cabinet session. He added that the government believes that “the safety of our sons kidnapped by Takfiri organizations cannot be subject to compromise, negligence or swap because the state, with its institutions and security forces, will firmly confront anything that might endanger the lives of our sons.” The families of the captives held a protest rally on Thursday and gave the government 24 hours to take action before they took matters into their own hands. The protest came after a soldier was decapitated by the Takfiri militants in the most serious spillover of the crisis from neighboring Syria. Meanwhile, Police and soldiers abducted by jihadi militants from Lebanon’s northeastern town of Ersal last month appeared in a video released Friday by their captors urging Hezbollah to withdraw from Syria. At least nine troops and police officers could be seen in the 27-minute long propaganda tape released by the al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate al-Nusra Front in which the jihadi group accuses Hezbollah of intentionally targeting women and children in Syria. “If you have nothing to do with Syria, get out. If you want to fight, go to Palestine. If you don’t want to fight, stay at home,” one of the detained security forces, presumably speaking under intense pressure, said in the video titled “Who will pay?” Another abductee noted that the attacks on Lebanon, including suicide bombings, only began after Hezbollah intervened in the Syrian war. Several of prisoners repeated the phrase, “Why do we have to pay for your actions?”
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/05/377742/lebanon-govt-okays-army-rescue-mission/
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/nusra-releases-video-lebanese-abductees-denouncing-hezbollah
http://yalibnan.com/2014/09/05/qatar-delegation-arsal-negotiating-release-hostages/
Headline: Hezbollah Terrorist Killed in Explosion on Lebanese Border
The Lebanese military said one person was killed as Israel blew up a suspicious device after it had been detected in southern Lebanon on Friday. The official National News Agency (NNA) said earlier that a spying device had been found and blown up. “A military intelligence patrol found a suspicious device near the town of Adlun,” the army said in an online statement. “While preparations were being made to inspect it, the Israeli enemy blew it up remotely, killing a civilian who was in the area.” A security source identified the civilian to the Lebanese Daily Star as 25-year-old Hussein Ali Haidar, a Hezbollah explosive expert, and said as many as four explosive devices were planted on Hezbollah’s telecommunications network. Residents of Adlun also told the daily that they reportedly saw an IAF plane hovering over the site moments before the explosion. The IDF Spokesperson’s Office has yet to comment on the accusation.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184792#.VAn9nmOnGVo
Egypt
Headline: Egyptian militants being guided by ISIS leaders
Headline: Egypt re-assesses anti-militant tactics as Sinai militants change strategies
Ansar Bait al-Maqdis militant in Sinai says Islamic State helps the group, responsible for multiple attacks in Israel, by teaching the element of surprise and how to evade capture. Islamic State, fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt’s most dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to stabilize the biggest Arab nation. Confirmation that Islamic Sate, currently the most successful of the region’s jihadi groups, is extending its influence to Egypt will sound alarm bells in Cairo, where the authorities are already facing a security challenge from home-grown militants. A senior commander from the Sinai-based Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, which has killed hundreds of members of the Egyptian security forces over the last year, said Islamic State has provided instructions on how to operate more effectively. “They teach us how to carry out operations. We communicate through the internet,” the commander, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4567937,00.html
Syria Iraq ISIS- the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) ISIS=ISIL=IS=Daash
Syria Headline: Syrian raids kill eighteen Islamic State foreign jihadists
Syria Headline: US-Iranian military, intelligence cooperation in war on ISIS reaps first successes in Syria and Iraq
Eighteen foreign fighters from the Islamic State, including an American jihadist, were killed in a Syrian air raid on a town near the militant group’s main stronghold city of Raqqa in eastern Syria, a human rights monitoring group said on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has tracked violence on all sides of the three-year-old conflict, said reliable sources reported that top Islamic State leaders who happened to be in the municipal building of Gharbiya at the time of the raid were among the foreign fighters killed. The building had been used as a headquarters of the hardline group, according to the monitoring body. Another air raid on Thursday that hit a former intelligence headquarters in the city of Abu Kamal near the border with Iraq that was used by the Islamic State also killed an undisclosed number of their members, the monitoring group said.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4567865,00.html
Syria Headline: Deadly barrel bombs ‘hit taxi stand’ in Syria’s Aleppo
Syrian helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a taxi stand in the city of Aleppo Friday, killing at least 12 civilians, including a child, a monitoring group said. “Twelve civilians, among them a child, were killed, and five others seriously wounded after helicopters launched two explosive-laden barrels against the Haidariyeh district,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. An AFP journalist at the scene saw at least a dozen bloodied corpses lying on the ground. One, wrapped in a shroud, was apparently that of a child. The journalist also saw several people on stretchers, showing burns and shrapnel wounds, and others lying in pools of blood near sandbags. It was not clear whether they were dead. Haidariyeh is home to a popular taxi stand, and the AFP journalist said he saw numerous destroyed cars. There was also a massive crater in the street left by one of the bombs.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-barrel-bombs-hit-taxi-stand-syrias-aleppo-160226627.html
Syria Headline: ISIS executes Syrian youth after anti-jihadist protest
ISIS fighters executed a youth in a Syrian town Friday, after hundreds of residents demanded they leave following regime airstrikes that targeted the jihadists but killed eight civilians, an activist group said. Residents of Ashara, in the mostly ISIS-controlled eastern province of Deir al-Zor, protested in front of an ISIS headquarters Thursday evening, hours after regime airstrikes killed the two children, five women and a man, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel-Rahman said. In response, ISIS gunmen opened fire and seized several young men, the Observatory and an activist said. The airstrikes were part of a stepped-up campaign launched in recent weeks by President Bashar Assad’s regime against ISIS-held towns and villages in eastern and northern Syria. But activists have frequently condemned the attacks for killing not only jihadists, but also many civilians. “Thursday evening’s protest began as a funeral for the victims, attended by nearly 300 people,” said Rayan al-Furati, an activist from Deir al-Zor. “Then the mourners began to protest, demanding that the ISIS leave the town of Ashara,” Furati told AFP via the Internet. The Observatory said that Friday ISIS publicly executed and crucified a young man identified as Ali Khalaf, accusing him of “heresy and apostasy.” “Though he had nothing to do with yesterday’s protests, they executed him publicly in Ashara in order to terrorise people into not taking any kind of action against the ISIS,” Abdel-Rahman said.
Sept. 5, 2014
Syria Headline: Islamic State militants bomb Kurdish villages in northern Syria
Militant fighters of the Islamic State (IS) bombed on Friday several Kurdish villages in the countryside of Tel Abyad (in the Raqqa Province) in northern Syria. IS fighters started extended military operations against the Kurdish-populated western countryside of Tel Abyad on Thursday evening, and continued the bombardment of the villages until Friday morning. The IS-held city of Tel Abyad was used as a basis from which mortars and tanks’ shells were fired against the western countryside –which is controlled by the Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG). The villages of Tel Koberlik, al-Huriyah and Zarzouri were heavily bombed by militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIL). Speaking to ARA News from Tel Abyad, media activist Omid Khoshman, who accompanies the the Kurdish YPG forces, said that the IS-led operations caused enormous damage in the civilians’ houses in the western countryside of Tel Abyad, “but no casualties were reported so far”. “Following the intensive shelling, clashes broke out between the YPG fighters and IS group at the outskirts of Tel Abyad ,” Khoshman reported.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://aranews.net/2014/09/islamic-state-militants-bomb-kurdish-villages-northern-syria/
Syria Headline: Syria, West explore cooperation to fight Islamic State
****See my link back to September 3 on why this WILL NOT work (scroll down to Syria) ; my whole point being the world cannot now paint Assad as an ‘ally’
The Syrian government is seeking to present itself as the West’s only option to confront the Islamic State (IS) in Syria. After the terror group’s gains in Iraq and eastern Syria — edging out both its jihadist rival Jabhat al-Nusra from Deir ez-Zor and the last regime bastion in Raqqa — IS is making its move in Aleppo’s countryside, pushing closer to the country’s second largest city as it strikes rebel-held territory. But despite the shocking loss of the Tabaqa military air base in Raqqa and IS’ execution of dozens of captured Syrian soldiers, the Syrian regime is still prioritizing its fight with Jabhat al-Nusra and rebel factions. “If the regime had to choose between Jabhat al-Nusra and IS, it would still prefer IS,” a Lebanese source close to the Syrian government told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity.
Sept. 5, 2014
Iraq Headline: Baghdad markets hit by bombings
A series of attacks across Iraq have killed at least 20 people, including 15 who perished in bombings at markets in the capital, officials have said. At least 12 people were killed on Friday when a car bomb went off in Baghdad’s mainly Shia Zafaraniyah neighbourhood, leaving 34 others injured and several shops damaged, sources told Al Jazeera. Another bomb went off near an outdoor market in the Shia district of Obeidi, killing three shoppers and wounding 12, police said.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/09/baghdad-bombings-iraq-201495125633754680.html
Iraq Headline: Maliki to be appointed as Iraqi vice president
Quoting a source in the coalition, the website said Maliki would soon start his activity as vice president. Maliki withdrew his bid to be elected as Iraq’s new Prime Minister, the third time in a row, after he lost support form Kurds, some Shiite lines as well as regional states and the US. PM-designate Haidar al-Abadi was ordered by Massoum to form new government. He is from Maliki’s coalition. The source went on to say that the new decision has been made in a meeting of the coalition at Ibrahim Ja’affari’s home.
***To keep track of Iraq: Maliki WAS the Prime Minister, but now it’s al-Abadi, both Shiites. The president of Iraq is Fuad Masum, a Kurd. The president of Kurdistan is Masoud Barzani and Nechirvan Barzani is the prime minister. Nechirvan is Masoud’s nephew.
Sept. 4, 2014
http://kurdpress.ir/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=8269
Iraq Headline: ISW Iraq Situation Report: September 3-4, 2014
http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/09/iraq-situation-report-september-3-4-2014.html
Headline: ISIS’ Black Market Oil Business Could Net up to $100 Million a Day
ISIS has seized much of northern Iraq during its tour of terror across the region. And in addition to strategically taking over town and dams, ISIS has also snatched oil fields as a means of beefing up its funds. Vocativ went to Kirkuk’s oil field to gain insight on the black market oil trade that’s bankrolling the Islamic State. Running a caliphate—which ISIS has made very clear is its objective—is a pricey endeavor. Up until recently, the terrorist organization has mainly subsisted on donations, hostage negotiations and crime networks. But now ISIS is stepping it up a notch and making millions of dollars per day selling oil tapped from conquered land. “ISIS is repeating their strategy in Syria,” IraqOilReport.com’s Patrick Osgood tells us. “They’re lifting oil from stricken pipelines, smaller oil fields…and then they sell it through the very established Iraqi oil smuggling industry.” At this time, the Islamic extremists are eyeing the Kirkuk oil field, which holds around 10 million barrels of oil. According to the Iraq Energy Institute, if ISIS is successful in seizing the oil field, it could make upwards of $100 million per day. Vocativ has learned that ISIS is currently recruiting oil industry engineers online. In an open call for specialists, ISIS ends by thanking Allah for the revenue they’ve incurred through oil, gas and water.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/isis-oil/
***Track back to what I said August 15th
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: Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels sign cease-fire deal
Headline: Three explosions heard north of Donetsk, minutes after Ukraine ceasefire
Headline: NATO Approves Troops On Russian Border
Ukraine’s president declared a cease-fire Friday to end nearly five months of fighting in the nation’s east after his representatives reached a deal with the Russian-backed rebels at peace talks. President Petro Poroshenko said he ordered government forces to stop hostilities at 6 P.M. local time following a protocol signed by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the rebels and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. “I count on this agreement, including the ceasing of fire and the freeing of hostages, to be precisely observed,” Poroshenko said in a statement. Heidi Tagliavini of the OSCE told reporters the deal reached at talks in the Belarusian capital of Minsk consisted of 12 points but she did not immediately spell them out before heading back into the talks. “The cease-fire will allow us to save not only civilians lives, but also the lives of the people who took up arms in order to defend their land and ideals,” said Alexander Zakharchenko, the rebel leader from the Donetsk region.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.614323
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4567953,00.html
http://www.infowars.com/nato-approves-troops-on-russian-border/
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: Report: Iran’s Khamenei authorizes cooperation with U.S. against Islamic State
Headline: US: ‘No plans’ for military coordination with Iran over IS
Iran, perceiving a serious threat from Islamic State in northern Iraq, has determined to cooperate with the U.S. against the group, the BBC reported on Friday. According to the report, which quoted sources in Teheran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has cleared his top military commander to cooperate with U.S., Iraqi and Kurdish forces. Iran, run by Shi’ites, considers the Islamic State’s Sunni fighters a threat. The Islamic State, which is trying to form a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, considers Shi’ites heretics, the BBC reported. The Iranian leader had previously expressed his objection outside “interference” in Iraq. Meanwhile, in a conflicting report The United States said Friday it has “no plans” for any military coordination with Iran in the fight against Islamic State fighters operating in Iraq and Syria. “We are not going to coordinate military action or share intelligence with Iran and have no plans to do so,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said, reacting to reports that Tehran had approved such an arrangement. Harf said that Washington was “open to engaging” with Iran as it had in the past on select issues, notably on Afghanistan in late 2001, when the two sides worked to put Hamid Karzai into power after the fall of the Taliban. “But we will not be coordinating our action together,” she added.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.614318
Headline: Iran fails to address nuclear bomb concerns: IAEA
Iran has failed to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb research by an agreed deadline, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a setback to hopes for an end to an international stand-off over Tehran’s atomic activity. The lack of movement in an inquiry by the International Atomic Energy Agency will disappoint the West and could further complicate efforts by six world powers to negotiate a resolution to the decade-old dispute with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. An IAEA report obtained by Reuters showed that little substantive headway had so far been made in the U.N. agency’s long-running investigation into what it calls the possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/iaea-report-shows-little-progress-iran-nuclear-investigation-142646962.html
Afghanistan
Headline: War News for Friday, September 5, 2014
Reported security incidents
#1: Two policemen were martyred in explosion of a bomb in Zabul province last evening. The blast occurred in Shahjou district bazaar while passing of a caravan of militaries forces from the area.
#2: Six armed Taliban were killed in recent conflicts in Kunar province last night. The clashes occurred late last night; five sliders also lost their lives. The clashes started while a group of armed Taliban attacked on a military base in the province.
#3: At least 48 Taliban militants were killed following a military operation in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, local officials said Friday. The operations were conducted by Afghan national security forces in Alborz district on Thursday night.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
Libya
Headline: Egypt seeks help in disarming Libyan militias
Egypt was recently accused by the United States of carrying out airstrikes in Libya in alliance with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a charge that was soon dropped. Meanwhile, Cairo is seeking international support to guarantee the success of its initiative to restore stability in Libya and remove heavy weapons from the militias and tribes in return for their participation in political life. Egypt does not wish to interfere in Libyan affairs amid the lack of reliable institutions capable of completing the disarmament process. Thus, Cairo is seeking the help of international organizations such as the United Nations to ensure the success of the move, which it recently approved in ministerial-level meetings with Libya’s neighbors.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/egypt-intervention-libya.html
Morocco
Headline: Cash-flush ISIL ‘buying supporters’ in northern Morocco
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has been quietly building a presence in Morocco. ISIL is believed to have established cells in several regions of Morocco. The Al Qaida-aligned movement is said to have focused on the northern region of the North African kingdom, including Laarache and Tangier. “ISIL has plenty of money and are buying supporters,” a security source said. The source said the ISIL presence stemmed from nearly two years of recruitment of Moroccans for the wars in Iraq and Syria. He said more than 2,000 Moroccans were mobilized for these campaigns, some of whom returned to establish ISIL cells. In July 2014, ISIL posted a video of recruitment efforts in Morocco. A 28-year-old operative identified as Mohammed Hamdouch, a former resident of the northern town of Fnideq, was seen beheading five people in Syria. “The northern region has been neglected, if not completely forgotten, since independence,” Mountacir Zian, director of Mediterranean Strategic Analysis and Intelligence, said. The Moroccan government has not acknowledged the ISIL presence although it reported the arrest of more than a dozen suspected operatives. But analysts asserted that northern Morocco was becoming a hotbed of Al Qaida support.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/09/05/cash-flush-isil-buying-supporters-northern-morocco/
Headline: Moroccan Troops to Join Gulf Forces?
The Arab daily Al Massae, reports that the Gulf countries are trying to persuade Morocco and Jordan to join their forces in the war against the Islamic State terrorist organization. Requests were also sent to Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt. Defense News reported that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was seeking to form a military bloc with Morocco and Jordan to resolve manpower issues. A Jordanian official said that the proposal had been presented to Morocco and Jordan in March and was under consideration. Al Massae said that the armed forces included Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Jordan and possibly Egypt. Saudi Arabia was pushing for Egyptian involvement. The newspaper reported that a force of 300,000 troops from Morocco, Jordan and possibly Egypt would be added to the GCC forces. The report pointed to significant Gulf investment in Jordan and Morocco, and the need to form a joint military command for the force. The GCC joint military command is likely to achieve a force of 100,000 troops, according to Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s Minister for the National Guard. The United States is selling weapons to the GCC ahead of the announcement of the joint command, the newspaper concluded.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2014/09/138117/moroccan-troops-to-join-gulf-forces/
Turkey
Headline: Obama, Erdogan discuss ISIL, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Libya – White House
President Barack Obama met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Newport, Wales, in Britain where both leaders were attending the NATO Summit, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said. “They exchanged views on how best to cooperate in the struggle against ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and violent extremism in Iraq and Syria, and on the need for strengthened measures against foreign fighters transiting to and from the battlefield,” Hayden said in a statement released at the White House. They discussed “the urgent need for effective pressure and diplomacy aimed at bringing to an end the conflicts in Ukraine and Libya,” she said. The two also discussed the importance of building tolerant and inclusive societies and combating anti-Semitism, she said.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2395387&language=en
Armenia
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: Infowars reporter Crosses U.S. Border Dressed as ISIS Terrorist, Simulates Beheading
Headline: La Raza Pushes Obama To ‘Fulfill His Promise’ On Amnesty
Infowars reporter Joe Biggs crossed the U.S. border from Mexico dressed as an ISIS militant to illustrate how easy it is for anyone to get into America despite warnings that Islamic State terrorists are plotting to carry out attacks on the homeland from their base in Juarez. Just miles from the center of El Paso, Texas, Biggs was able to cross a river from Mexico into America dressed as a jihadist, while simulating a beheading and waving an ISIS flag. “We dressed up as an ISIS jihadi to be as obvious as possible and to show and illustrate just how wide open the border really is,” states Biggs. Last month, James O’Keefe also demonstrated the porous state of the U.S. border when he crossed an unguarded footbridge in the upper Rio Grande while dressed as Osama Bin Laden. Biggs’ stunt is shocking given that ISIS militants are currently operational in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. According to an alert released by watchdog group Judicial Watch which cites high level law enforcement and intelligence sources, “Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED).” “Intelligence officials have picked up radio talk and chatter indicating that the terrorist groups are going to “carry out an attack on the border,” according to one JW source. “It’s coming very soon,” according to this high-level source, who clearly identified the groups planning the plots as “ISIS and Al Qaeda.”
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.infowars.com/man-dressed-as-isis-militant-crosses-u-s-border/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/05/la-raza-pushes-obama-to-fulfill-his-promise-on-amnesty-video/
Headline: Boko Haram in full control of Bama: Witnesses
Headline: Nigerian Warplanes Target Boko Haram in Northeast
Headline: Hundreds flee Maiduguri as Boko Haram advances
Boko Haram Takfiri militants in Nigeria have gained full control of the northeastern town of Bama, witnesses say. The witnesses, who managed to flee the area, said that the Takfiri militants launched a house-to-house search in and around the town on Thursday. The militants reportedly killed several men suspected of being members of a local group resisting Boko Haram’s aggression in the area. At least 180 people have been killed and over 26,000 others forced to flee Bama since the violence erupted in the town. On Wednesday, officials in the northeastern state of Borno denied that the militants had captured Bama, which has a population of about 270,000. Ahmed Zanna, a senator from Borno state, described the humanitarian situation in Bama as “unbearable.”
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/05/377719/boko-haram-stage-manhunt-in-seized-town/
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/09/05/hundreds_flee_nigerian_city_as_boko_haram_advances.html
Headline: Houthis stage anti-govt. rallies across Yemen
Headline: Rival rallies in Sanaa as clashes rock Yemen
Headline: Clashes in Yemen leave 22 dead
Thousands of Houthis and their supporters have once again held a series of fresh rallies across Yemen, calling on the government to step down. On Friday, thousands of supporters of the Shia Houthi community took to the streets of the northern city of Sa’ada, calling for the downfall of the transitional government. Sources say a similar massive rally by supporters of Yemen’s Houthi movement is underway in the capital city of Sana’a. They have threatened to escalate their campaign against the government, which included briefly blocking of main arteries in Sana’a. The fresh rallies come despite government pleas to end the protest rallies.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/05/377760/antigovt-rallies-held-across-yemen/
http://news.yahoo.com/rival-rallies-sanaa-clashes-rock-yemen-181958644.html
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rival-rallies-sanaa-clashes-rock-yemen-492914715
Headline: Pakistan officials, opposition leaders hold talks
Headline: Pakistani Taliban faction welcomes new al-Qaeda branch
Talks between the Pakistani government and opposition leaders have continued amid hopes for a solution to the ongoing political crisis in the country. The opposition leaders, Pakistani politician, Imran Khan, as well as cleric, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, met with Pakistani officials on Friday to avert a political crisis in the coup-prone nation. Both opposition leaders have been demanding that Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif submit his resignation and that new elections be held. According to negotiators, however, there is still a stalemate over the resignation of the Pakistani premier. Pakistan has witnessed violent anti-government protests in recent weeks.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/05/377771/pakistan-govt-opposition-hold-talks/
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: Canada Posts Surprise August Employment Decline
Headline: Record 92,269,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Matches 36-Year Low
Canadian employment unexpectedly fell in August led by a record drop in private-sector jobs, undermining policy makers’ optimism about Canada’s economic recovery. Employment fell by 11,000 and the jobless rate was unchanged at 7.0 percent, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected a 10,000 job increase and unchanged unemployment according to median forecasts in Bloomberg surveys. The employment loss masked the 111,800 decline in private-sector jobs, a record amount that equaled the 1 percent drop set in April 1982. “Certainly it’s not an encouraging trend” in employment, Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada, said by telephone from Toronto. The economy’s growth rate won’t be sustained unless “labor markets continue to make a contribution with increased hiring.”
Sept. 5, 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: US, S. Korea ‘create army unit to destroy North’s nukes’
South Korea said Thursday it would create a joint military unit with the United States, as a report suggested the contingent would target North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction if a full-scale conflict broke out. The mechanised unit led by a US major general will be set up in the first half of next year, the South’s defence ministry said, as part of elaborate preparations for any future war between the two Koreas. “It will be the first combined field combat unit to carry out wartime operations,” a defence ministry spokesman said without elaborating on its mission. He declined to confirm a Yonhap news agency report that its remit would include eliminating weapons of mass destruction in the nuclear-armed North if war breaks out. The ministry said the contingent would have a joint office of US and South Korean staff in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, where the US 2nd Infantry Division guards a strategically important area as a deterrent to an invasion by North Korea. In the event of an all-out conflict, a mechanised South Korean brigade would join forces with the US division, which is armed with helicopters and other advanced weapons, it said.
Sept. 4, 2014
http://news.yahoo.com/us-korea-create-army-unit-destroy-norths-nukes-092130525.html
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: Ebola epidemic spread ‘accelerating’ as 1,000 deaths reported last month
Headline: Sierra Leone contemplates nationwide shutdown over Ebola
Headline: Ebola-Infected Doctor Heading to Nebraska Medical Unit
Headline: Nigerian Tourist Under Isolation in Jerusalem; Ebola Feared
The spread of the world’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic has accelerated rapidly with close to 1,000 deaths in the last month alone, World Health Organisation (WHO) figures show. With the overall West Africa death toll since March reaching 1,850, the new statistics show deaths from Ebola have more than doubled in just four weeks. The surge in cases comes as health experts meet in Geneva to discuss experimental therapies and vaccines in an emergency two-day WHO summit. The meeting, which began Thursday and ends today, sees experts from the private sector as well as health officials and policymakers discuss eight experimental treatments and two vaccines not yet licensed for standard use.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184793#.VAn9bGOnGVo
Headline: HealthMap
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http://healthmap.org/formobile/
Increase in Knowledge/Mark of the Beast Daniel 12:4 and Revelation 13:16-17 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel) “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation)
Headline: Brain-to-brain ‘telepathic’ communication achieved for first time
For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France. Research led by experts at Harvard University shows technology can be used to transmit information from one person’s brain to another’s even, as in this case, if they are thousands of miles away. “It is kind of technological realisation of the dream of telepathy, but it is definitely not magical,” Giulio Ruffini, a theoretical physicist and co-author of the research, told AFP by phone from Barcelona. “We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the brain.” For the experiment, one person wearing a wireless, internet-linked electroencephalogram or EEG would think a simple greeting, like “hola,” or “ciao.”
Sept. 5, 2014
Matthew 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke21:25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring”
Headline: Brain-to-brain ‘telepathic’ communication achieved for first time
For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France. Research led by experts at Harvard University shows technology can be used to transmit information from one person’s brain to another’s even, as in this case, if they are thousands of miles away. “It is kind of technological realisation of the dream of telepathy, but it is definitely not magical,” Giulio Ruffini, a theoretical physicist and co-author of the research, told AFP by phone from Barcelona. “We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the brain.” For the experiment, one person wearing a wireless, internet-linked electroencephalogram or EEG would think a simple greeting, like “hola,” or “ciao.”
Sept. 5, 2014
Headline: Deadly floods in India and Pakistan
Dozens of people have been killed in flooding caused by incessant rain across large swathes of India and Pakistan. At least 40 people were killed in Pakistan as torrential rain wreaked havoc in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and Punjab. In Indian-administered Kashmir, 28 were reported dead, AP news agency reports. This does not include the toll from a bus carrying 50 members of a wedding party that was swept away on Thursday. Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of four people from the bus, which was engulfed by flood waters in the Jammu region – the bride and groom are among those feared dead. Senior Jammu official Shant Manu told the BBC that four bodies had been recovered from a stream and “barbed wire has been put across the stream so that the bodies are not swept away”.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29074286
Headline: Hawaii Under State of Emergency as Kilauea Lava Flow Nears Subdivision
A creeping lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano moved within one mile of homes in lower Puna Thursday, prompting the mayor of Hawaii’s Big Island to declare a state of emergency for the county. Although the lava flow has been described as “very slow-moving,” KHON reports, scientists at Hawaii’s Volcano Observatory warned it could reach the Kaohe Homesteads subdivision in five to seven days. The emergency declaration was issued after the volcano observatory raised the level from a watch to a warning, Hawaii News Now reports. No evacuations were ordered as of Thursday evening, but the emergency proclamation will help streamline efforts if families do need to leave. The observatory said the lava has been advancing about 800 feet per day since July 10.
Sept. 5, 2014
http://www.weather.com/news/hawaii-kilauea-lava-flow-state-emergency-20140904
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