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Al-Qaeda – First Jordan, then Gaza, now the West Bank – the Iran Crescent Tightens!

March 10, 2006

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As I expounded in numerous previous Blogs, the al Qaeda Crescent moon from the Persian Gulf through Iran across Syria into Israel is tightening its grip on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

As I indicated previously, I expect more local terror inside the West Bank and Gaza Strip Green Line security barrier, but less outside it in Israel. I believe the main drive of terrorist activities will be to get as many of the Jewish settlement occupants as possible to move across the West Bank Green Line into pre-1967 Israel, in order to influence the course the Israeli barrier takes between now and its completion in 2007. They want to change the planned Israeli penetrations into the Pre-1967 borders to take in the maximum number of Israeli settlements possible.

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Palestinians Catch al-Qaida Operative

The JP.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 2, 2006

A senior Palestinian source revealed on Thursday that Palestinian security forces located several operatives spreading al-Qaida ideology.

The troops arrested one such extremist in Gaza.

Earlier in the day, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab daily el-Hayat that he had proof that al-Qaida cells have infiltrated, and are operating in the West Bank and Gaza.” I am very concerned about this,” said Abbas.

“If they succeeded in infiltrating in such a way, and if no one watches over them, the result could be disastrous for the entire region. The last piece of information I received on the subject was three days ago, but we still have not been able to lay our hands on the operatives,” he said.

A Hamas spokesman responded to Abbas’s claim by saying that his organization has no intelligence information regarding al-Qaida cells in the West Bank or Gaza.

“If the things Abu Mazen (Abbas) said are true, then the matter must be handled immediately,” he said.

Only last week OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh revealed that global Jihad and al-Qaida cells based in Jordan have stepped up their attempts to

infiltrate Israel and are in close contact with Palestinian terror cells based in the West Bank.

‘We recently caught several local terror cells that were in touch with the international Global Jihad based in Jordan,’ Naveh told a closed meeting at the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs. He would not say for certain that the al-Qaida camp in Jordan worked under the direction of the movement’s Iraqi leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, but he said ‘al-Qaida was working to tighten its grip on the ground’ in Jordan and Israel.

Jordan, he said, should be particularly concerned with the Hamas takeover of the Palestinian Authority.

Naveh predicted that Hamas would spread out to the other side of the Jordan River and might even succeed in toppling the Jordanian government.

‘Hamas is gathering strength and a dangerous axis starting in Iran, continuing through Iraq and Jordan is in the process of conception,’ Naveh told the audience, including former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold and Maj.-Gen. (res.) Ya’acov Amidror, the former head of research at Military Intelligence. ‘I don’t want to be a prophet but I am not sure there will be another king after King Abdullah,’ Naveh said.

While the IDF has reported attempts in the past by al-Qaida to infiltrate the Gaza Strip, this was the first time the IDF revealed that cells in the West Bank were also operating in conjunction with the international terror organization.

with Yaakov Katz

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As I stated previously, look for increased terrorist activities against the Jewish settlements inside the West Bank, and decreased activity against those Jews living outside the West Bank and Gaza Strip borders in pre-1967 Israel.

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Arab Nations Have Bonded Even Closer Since 9/11!

March 9, 2006

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There was certainly considerable coordination between Arab nations to forward the cause of Islamic Jihad across the world before 9/11, but it was nothing compared to the effort now being expended. Our President was quite correct to include Iran and Syria in his “evil axis.” There is an ever tightening crescent of growing united terror groups extending from the Persian Gulf northward into Iran, then northwest across Iraq, westward across Syria into Hizbullah in southern Lebanon, then south into the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Sinai.

The two articles which follow, by John Crewdson (Chicago Tribune) and Thomas Joscelyn (Weekly Standard), came from the Jerusalem Center Daily Alert.

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Germany Says 9/11 Hijackers Called Syria, Saudi Arabia – John Crewdson (Chicago Tribune)

The Sept. 11 hijackers made dozens of telephone calls to Saudi Arabia and Syria in the months before the attacks, according to a classified report from the

office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Some 206 international telephone calls were known to have been made by the leaders of the hijacking plot after they arrived in the U.S. – including 32

to Saudi Arabia and 66

to Syria.

The German report said the telephone records were obtained by German intelligence agencies from

the FBI.

Iranian Collaboration with the Taliban – Thomas Joscelyn (Weekly Standard)

Iran secretly agreed to assist the Taliban in its war against U.S. forces in October 2001, according to the transcript of a high-level Taliban official’s tribunal session at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The transcript, as well as thousands of pages of similar documents, was released by the Pentagon on March 3.

Importantly, the detainee’s testimony is at odds with the intelligence community’s conventional wisdom regarding Iran’s relationship with the Taliban.

After years of mutual animosity, it was assumed prior to the war in Afghanistan that

the Iranian regime would celebrate the fall of the Taliban.

Yet Afghani opposition sources reported in early 2002 that the Iranians helped Taliban and al-Qaeda members escape approaching U.S. forces through Herat province.

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Countdown to the Jihad Attack against Israel!

March 8, 2006

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I believe the chronological sequence of events before and after the coming Jihad attack, which follow, to be correct. As to the exact timing of their occurrence, as always, I must state that is a guesstimate on my part, but I am convinced the sequence of events is correct.

Event 1 – Israel finishes the security barrier/wall/fence in 2007 and begins to have a mindset they have a time of “peace and safety,” having unilaterally separated from the Palestinians by the barriers around the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which will be the border between the two states or countries.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Event 2 – Withdrawal of all foreign forces from Iraq will be completed by 2008, or shortly thereafter. The Jihad attack by 10 Arab nations will not be carried out until all American troops are withdrawn.

Event 3 – The Iraqi government will fall, and Iraq will become a modified Islamic Republic.

Event 4 – A lightening Jihad will be launched from the north against Israel. The five Arab countries directly leading the attack will consist of forces from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, who will attack from the southern borders of Syria and Lebanon, and the Palestinians, who will attack from within Israel all along the entire length of the 340 mile security barrier. The other Arab nations supplying some troops and logistical support are likely to be Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Turkey, and Sudan.

Two thirds of Israel’s population will perish.

Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left

therein.

Event 5 – The city of Jerusalem will fall, and the Jews will be slaughtered, but God promises they will not be cut off forever, and that a remnant will return.

Zechariah 14:1-3 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city

shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people

shall not be cut off from the city.

Event 6 – The one-third that is not killed by the Jihad will be driven into the Negev wilderness south of the city of Beersheba. Israel is the woman of Revelation 12:6. A truce will be declared and Israel will remain in the Negev for three and on-half prophetic years. Among the one-third that survives in the Negev will be 144,000 Jews that profess Jesus as their Savior.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Revelation 7:4 – And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Revelation 12:17 – And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Event 7 – God will defeat the vast number of nations that come against Israel at the battle of Armageddon,

which ends the three and one-half years, and once again, for the first time since they rejected their Messiah, he will be their God, and they will be his people.

Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Zechariah 13:9 –And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Event 8 – Jesus Christ, the Messiah, will rule on the earth from Jerusalem as the King of all men.

Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

If all American troops have been pulled out before 2008, it is possible the Jihad attack could occur as early as late 2007, but I guesstimate the most likely time of the attack to be between 2008 and 2012.

The Rapture – I believe the rapture will occur well after

the 10 nation Arab attack against Israel, but just before the battle of Armageddon begins. I am not a first-of-the-weeker, a middle-of-the-weeker, or a last- of-the-weeker. I believe the rapture of

the saved will occur when

the last trumpet sounds, which is the seventh trumpet. A preacher, whose opinion I have always valued, I heard say to those who disagreed with that position – Just what don’t you understand about “last?” I am what many call a pre-wrath rapture believer.

Hebrews 13:5B – And be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor

forsake thee.

I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

I Corinthians 15:52 – In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMP: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Revelation 11:15 – And the SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and

ever. (The Rapture is followed by judgment of the saved in verse 18 for rewards according to their works)

Revelation 11:18 – And the nations were angry, AND THEY WRATH IS COME, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; AND SHOULDEST DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH.

I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed US TO WRATH, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Long-Range Islamic Planning for a Jihad Attack on Northern Israel!

March 7, 2006

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Ever since Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon, I have believed the Hizb’allah Terrorist Army, which took over southern Lebanon after being started by Iranian Shiites, would be the instrument that would one day be used to invoke Israel into being blamed for the coming war between 10 Arab nations and Israel. Hizb’ allah has long been supplied with a wide variety of

all sorts of missiles by Syria, and from Iran via Syria. Hizb’allah is financed by Iran. I believe the estimate of the number of missiles and rockets they now possess, as given in the article which follows, is grossly underestimated. I would not be at all surprised if they possessed triple the amount listed.

I received following article by Ryan Jones, Jerusalem Newswire, from Joe Bennett.

Please read it and Prophecy Update Number 74D, which follows it as extracted from our Prophecy Update Archives.

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Jerusalem Newswire

Israel Has Lost Northern Deterrent

By Ryan Jones

March 5th, 2006

A prominent Israeli analyst has suggested that instead of Israel deterring greater Iranian/Hizb’allah aggression along its northern border, the opposite is in fact true.

Ha’aretz’s Ze’ev Schiff writes that Tehran has cleverly used the smokescreen provided by its nuclear program to build up a tangible strategic threat

to the Jewish state just tens of kilometers from major Israeli population centers.

“While the world is busy only with [Iran’s] efforts to acquire nuclear arms, it has managed over the years, through a sophisticated move in cooperation with the Syrians and Hizb’allah, to build an array of rockets in southern Lebanon that could harm Israel over long ranges.”

Military estimates published over the past several months put at 12,000 the number of Katyusha, Fajr and other rockets aimed at northern Israel.

Schiff notes that the mere ability to scare some two million Israelis into bomb shelters and the resulting cessation of work and schooling, let alone the expected casualties and damage if the missiles were actually launched, constitutes a strategic threat.

But it is not only a strategic threat. This missile array, according to Schiff’s calculations, represents a deterring factor preventing Israel from adequately responding to it, and other threats against its citizens as Jerusalem sticks to a policy of safeguarding regional economic interests and the illusion that things really aren’t so serious.

“[Israel has] decided to base itself on a strategy of bed-and-breakfasts and skiing, according to which it is best not to really respond to harm, kidnappings and provocations lest it endanger the tourism.”

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As you can see, the following Update 74D from our Archives was issued some four years ago, but it does seen to blend perfectly with the article you just read, dated March 5, 2006.

BEGIN ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE 74D

July 3, 2002

Once Israel has completed its long buffer zone fence around the West Bank, and beefed up the one it already has around the Gaza Strip, it will become confident it has finally achieved the impossible, it will say it has “peace and safety.” And all the time that it was tied up internally in so doing, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon will have been slowly slipping troops in position for a lightning Jihad from the north. Israel’s preoccupation with its internal safety is going to cause them to slack off in their gaze on what is going on externally.

During the time that Alexander’s great empire had been divided into four sections, the Syrian section (Seleucid) held Israel some of the time, and the Egyptian section (Ptolemy) held it when they took

it from the Syrians. Israel was, at times, a part of the Egyptian section, at times, a part of the Syrian section and, at times, a part of both. Daniel lists a very long series of battles between the king of the north (Syria) and the king of the South (Egypt). Most of Daniel’s prophecies about these two kingdoms were fulfilled by their many kings from Daniel 11:4 through 35, but there remains one war yet to be fulfilled, and I believe it is the aforementioned Jihad that begins in Daniel 11:40. Since Israel was once part of the section occupied by Ptolemy, I am persuaded that Israel is the king of the south and Syria is the king of the north in Daniel 11:40-45.

I suspect that after Israel has lulled itself into a false sense of peace and safety by its military might, it will have gained even more confidence in its great ability to take care of any Islamic intrusion. It may well be that Syria and Iran will get Hizb’allah to kick up a storm of activity along the northern border by launching a massive missile and rocket attack across the

border into the populations of northern Israel. They will do this knowing that Israel will cross the border into Lebanon and hit Syrian targets from the air. But this time Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran will be waiting for it, and six other Islamic nations will be poised to supply logistical support. The Islamic nations can cry out while they head south: “We were attacked first and are therefore justified in this response to the Israeli invasion of our sovereign territory.” This will cause a hesitation by the western world at first and, by the time it wakes up, Jerusalem will have fallen, and Israel will be fleeing into the Negev.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

First comes a time when Israel actually believes it can maintain “peace and safety.” Then a time of false “peace and safety” sets in for a brief period.

Then a border incident! Then a response!

Then a Jihad, and the last 1260 days of the tribulation period are under way.

END ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE 74D

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Supplement to Two Previous Blogs on Troop Withdrawal from Iraq!

March 7, 2006

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In yesterdays Blog regarding the time of Allied troop withdrawals from Iraq, two British newspapers indicated all foreign troops would be out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, but this one, from the commander of the British armed forces in Iraq, has their forces out within 2.5 years. This would mean they still might be there in part of 2008.

As I indicated in yesterdays Blog, the 2007 spring date seemed a tad early to me, and the 30 months from now estimate seems a tad late, so I will stick to my initial guesstimate of “before 2008.” And the British commanders use of the word “within” means he could happen anytime during the 30 month period.

The following article by the Jerusalem Post Staff gives the brief details of the commander’s statement.

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UK to Withdraw Troops from Iraq Within 2.5 Years

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 7, 2006

The commander of the British armed forces in Iraq revealed on Tuesday that Great Britain planned on withdrawing all of its troops from Iraq within two-and-a-half years.

He said that the first phase of the pullout would begin already in a few weeks.

In an interview to T he Daily Telegraph,

he emphasized that the withdrawal would only occur if a security calm would prevail.

Britain currently has approximately 8,000 troops in Iraq, most of whom are stationed in Basra.

End of Jerusalem Post Article

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