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Push, Pull, Click, Click, Destroy Deterrents that Quick!

February 13, 2007

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Both the Syrians and Iranians are making a determined effort to get high tech anti-aircraft missiles into the hands of Hizbullah, Hamas, and the insurgents in Iraq, and they are succeeding. In the future we will see a rising toll in planes and helicopters lost to ground fire, especially during the eventual Middle East war. Israel’s most powerful deterrent against the Arab forces in their wars, beginning in 1967, has been their air force and tank corps. The greatest influx of new weaponry, brought into Hezbullah and Hamas since their recent conflict with Hezbullah, has been anti-tank and anti-aircraft high tech instruments designed to destroy Israel’s two main conventional deterrents. I have covered this danger in numerous previous blogs.

Please take the time to read the three following articles from DEBKAfile and Fox News. They make it very evident that Iran and Syria are in the process of preparing Hamas and Hezbullah to be an active part of the 10 nation Jihad attack that will eventually come against Israel.

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DEBKAfile reports: Syria has delivered Russian-made SA-18 “Grouse” Igla 9K38 anti-air missiles to Lebanese Hezballah

February 12, 2007, 11:02 PM (GMT+02:00)

Moscow guaranteed the shoulder-carried SA-18 “Grouse” Igla 9K38 was sold to Damascus under the strict prohibition of its transfer to Hizballah, DEBKAfile notes. The pledge was given to the US and personally by Russian president Vladimir Putin to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

A Lebanese army source says the advanced missile consignment may have been concealed in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon near the Syrian border for use by Hizballah, which intends to significantly increase its anti-aircraft capabilities for any future war with Israel.

The Grouse is a surface-air heat-seeking missile designed to shoot down low-flying planes and helicopters at a range of up to 5,200 meters and altitude of 3,500 meters.

The missile employs an IR guidance system. It offers better protection against electro-optical jammers. According to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), the SA-18 probability of kill against an unprotected fighter is estimated at 30-48%, and the use of IRCM jammers only degrades this to 24-30%.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Iran sends shoulder-borne QW-1 anti-air missiles to Iraqi Sunni insurgents and Hizballah to shoot down US and Israeli helicopters

February 9, 2007, 10:30 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s sources in Tehran and Kurdistan disclose that, last month, two Iranian QW-1 and SA-7 missile consignments reached Iraqi insurgents allied with al Qaeda and one, radical Shiite Moqtada Sadr’s Shiite militia, the Mehdi Army.

Israeli sources report the same anti-air weapons were delivered at about the same time to Hizballah units in Lebanon including the south.

Our military sources add that Iran’s arms industry has succeeded in replicating a quality version of the Chinese QW-1 and improved its electronics. It is 1.447meters long and packs 16.5 kilos of explosives.

The IDF estimates that the first of

these missiles used experimentally by Hizballah caused an Israeli helicopter to explode during take-off near the Litani River in the Lebanon War last summer.

Iranian markings have been erased from the equipment going into Iraq and Lebanon to suggest they were bought on the black market.

Dated Soviet-era models of the SA-7 were indeed bought by Iran on Far East black markets and supplied to Iraqi insurgents and also pro-Tehran governors in western Afghanistan. Iran is preparing the ground for a Shiite insurgency against NATO forces there.

According to our sources, all three consignments to Iraq went through the North Iraqi Kurdistani town of Suleimaniya not far from the Iranian border.

An Iranian clandestine center operates there like “the liaison center” the Americans raided in another Kurdish town, Irbil, last month. The Suleimaniya center operates with permission from Iraqi’s Kurdish president Jalal Talabani.

They weapons were smuggled in concealed compartments of trucks transporting building m ateri

als and iron from Iran for a Kurdish building company.

After unloading their legitimate freight, the trucks drove on south up to the regional border where Iraqi insurgents off-loaded the missiles to their vehicles and distributed them to their networks in Baqouba, Ramadi and Tikrit – north of Baghdad and Hilla to the south.

In January, two-man teams of Iraqi insurgents and Hizballah operatives were trained in the use of the new weapons against American and Israeli helicopters as instructors for missile crews in Iraq and Lebanon. One crewman was taught to locate the target and help the second to aim.

The training facilities were set up in Kermanshah and Qasr-e Shirin close to the Iraqi border.

Tehran is stepping up its provocations in reprisal for the US president George W.

Bush’s directive to US forces to capture or kill Iranian agents, America’s refusal to release the Revolutionary Guards officers captured in Irbil and finally by the seizure last week of an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad.

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Israeli Official: Foreign Sources Arming Hizbullah, Hamas at Alarming Rate

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert

James Rosen

February 7, 2007

Hizbullah is presently receiving a “constant stream of armaments” from Syria, Iran and other foreign sources, senior Israeli officials said Tuesday.

“They are getting all kinds of rockets, advanced anti-tank missiles, command-and-control systems, training, finance,” an Israeli official said. The official said Hizbullah maintains an “operational” presence along the Lebanese-Israeli border. Enabling Hizbullah’s rearmament is the “open border” Lebanon shares with Syria, and the lack of “real teeth for enforcement” in UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which established a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hizbullah war last August.

At the same time, and in a similar way, foreign sources are providing Hamas with anti-tank missiles, high-trajectory rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and their launchers, explosive devices and automatic rifles.

The armament of the Hamas commanders is “intensive” and “incessant,” and intended for use against both their Fatah rivals and the Israelis. The official said the IDF has had “no operational activity whatsoever” in Gaza for the last three months, but that in the same time Hamas has launched more than 100 Kassam rockets at Israeli civilian targets.

The official was skeptical about Western plans to shore up the Fatah security forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas. “Every meeting we have on this subject always ends in the conclusion, ‘Bolster Abbas,’ as if that will solve all the problems. He was in power two years ago [before Hamas came to power], wasn’t he? What did he do then?” The official said the Israelis provided Abbas with weapons and some have wound up in the hands of Hamas. (FOX News)

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IRAN DISCOVERS CURE FOR AIDS

February 12, 2006

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Long range missiles, new warheads, invisible drones, and a cure for AIDS – And in the name of the lollipop kid, we wish to welcome you to munchkin land – The Shiite Wizard of Oz.

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Iran Announces 2,000-Km.-Range Missiles

Yaakov Lappin (Ynet News)

Iran is producing missiles with a 2,000-km.-range (about 1,243 miles) and new warheads to place on them, Minister of Defense Mohammad-Najjar declared on Sunday.

Earlier, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, Maj.-Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, announced that Iran had begun mass producing drones invisible to radar.

In the past week, Iranian state information agencies have boasted a number of Iranian “achievements,” including an alleged AIDS cure, as part of a build-up to official celebrations marking the 28th

anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

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Knowing this is an Iranian achievement, I am assuming the term AIDS must mean Atomic Israeli Destruction Syndrome, which is in epidemic proportions among the Iranian population.

Would it not be wonderful if they all took a big dose or shot of the new cure for AIDS they have developed, and be so kind as to pass the cure to all the other Jew haters

?

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Israel is ready for Missile Launches from Syria and Iran!

February 12, 2007

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This is a very important development, in that it takes away from the advantage of a first strike capacity by Iran and Syria. I have included three accounts of the tests from the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, and the DEBKAfile reports of it, in order to give the capabilities of the arrow defensive missile interceptor.

The coming war between the Islamic forces of antichrist and Israel will be a war of conventional high tech weaponry, where neither side will launch weapons of mass destruction on the other. The Islamic forces advantage against Israel will be its sheer weight of numbers of troops – not nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. They would be foolish to give up this advantage by waging a WMD war they had no chance of winning.

When Israel flees into the Negev Wilderness, the Islamic army will stop at Beersheba, the gateway to the Negev, because it is the best camouflaged, most heavily fortified, zone on the face of the earth. This will leave Israel in the Negev with its nuclear capabilities intact for some three and one-half years, which will be the deterrent that keeps Islam’s forces at bay during that period until the final battle of Armageddon.

Please consider the following quote from our Archive Prophecy Update Number 6, issued six years ago in January, 2001.

All the ingredients for the final war of this age of the Gentiles are finally in place.

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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.

In Revelation 12:6 we find this flight described in graphic detail: “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.” Prophetic years in scripture are based on a year of 360 days, hence this represents a period of three and one-half years. So Israel will be kept trapped in the Negev wilderness for the last 3 and ½ years of the tribulation period.

Israel has spent billions and billions of dollars preparing the Negev for the possibility of such an evacuation of her population in the in the event of a sudden attack from the north.

The Negev has been the central focus of her war contingency plan from the beginning. Her God put this thinking in the minds of her political and military leaders in the late forties, and active preparation of the area began in the early fifties. Today, the Negev is the most cleverly camouflaged zone on the surface of the earth, and unless sky satellites had watched it being prepared, one would not suspect that numerous military installations were implanted in it. Even knowing where certain defense mechanisms were originally placed, it is now extremely difficult to spot them, even driving by them at ground level.

Thousands of tourists pass through the Negev and admire the beauty of her terrain from her roads, but her military capabilities are cleverly camouflaged on the surface, hidden beneath her, and concealed inside her mountains.

Active preparation of the Negev began in the early fifties.

After the Six Day War of June, 1967, Israel poured her finances and efforts into the creation of a hidden fortress in the Negev wilderness. The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was followed by Israel quadrupling her military forces by 1980, and the bulk of this increase was placed in the vast Sinai. The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt led to the evacuation of this increase in men and equipment from the Sinai into the much smaller Negev. This turned the already heavily fortified Negev into an impenetrable fortress.

By 1983 the Sinai IDF and equipment had been withdrawn into the Negev. The IDF packed up about 80 thousand tons of military equipment, same 3800 military vehicles, and 3 airfields, and moved it into the Negev. The Negev is about 20 percent the size of the Sinai. By 1988 about 40 new military camps had been set up in the Negev. By 1990 the Negev had been topographically transformed, at a fantastic expense, into an area no enemy would dare to attempt to penetrate.

When Syria, assisted by troops from Iraq and Iran, secretly and very slowly smuggled in across her southern and western borders, attacks Israel from the north, then Israel will get to use her Negev wilderness for about 3 and ½ years. These three nations, because of the sharing of satellite information received from the Russians about the Negev, know all about the military strength there and, because of this, will stop their southward push into Israel just north of Beersheva.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will be able to hold the Negev, and the woman Israel will stay there for the last 3 and ½ years of the tribulation period.

End Quote of 2001 Archive Update

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First nighttime Arrow missile defense test successful

Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

February 11, 2007

In the face of Iran’s efforts to obtain nuclear weapons, the Israel Air Force successfully conducted its 15th test of the Arrow missile defense system Sunday night, which officials said was capable of intercepting an Iranian nuclear missile.

Defense officials explained that the test, which was conducted for the first time at night and was held less than two weeks after Syria tested an advanced model of its Scud missile, was unique since it was conducted under extreme circumstances and was meant to “meet future threats to the State of Israel.”

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Steinitz: Arrow test gives Israel advantage over Syria, Iran

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies

February 12, 2007

Israel’s latest test of its Arrow missile defense system
proves Israel has a jump on its fiercest enemies, Iran and Syria, a senior lawmaker on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said Monday.

Israel successfully tested the Arrow anti-missile system Sunday night, in its first nighttime trial, intercepting a test target that simulated the warhead of a long-range Iranian surface-to-surface Shihab-3 missile.

“The test yesterday was exceptional,” said MK Yuval Steinitz, a former head of the committee.

“It proved it can bring down any kind of ballistic missile, a capability no power in the world possesses.”

He said that, “Even if Iran or Syria were to develop more sophisticated missiles than they now have, Israel is one step ahead.”

Lieutenant Colonel Moshe Fattal, a senior official in the Defense Ministry department responsible for

the project, said Sunday that the successful test firing of the Arrow missile shows

that Israel can now defend itself against an Iranian nuclear missile threat.

“The test proves that Israel is prepared to deal with a missile attack from Iran, including a nuclear one,” Fattal told Army Radio.

“The missile is capable of dealing with future Syrian and Iranian threats as we see them, as of now. I believe that the citizens of Israel can sleep peacefully.”

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Israel successfully tests two Arrow anti-missile missiles – one serving as a decoy Sunday night

February 12, 2007, 4:59 PM (GMT+02:00)

The two Arrow missile radar systems homed in on a mock target dropped by the Israeli Air Force. DEBKAfile’s military sources add: Israeli military planners are working on the unproven assumption that Iran has developed a multiple warhead for its Shehab-3 medium-range missile, which can reach Israel.

This is claimed by Tehran but has not been demonstrated. The Israeli test after dark Sunday, Feb. 11, was designed to test the ability of the US-Israeli Arrow missile and its radar to beat an attack by a multiple warhead missile – whether conventional or nuclear – by firing two missiles simultaneously – one as a decoy to confuse the incoming Iranian missile. This test elevates the electronic warfare race between Israel and Iran to a new level. Until recently, Israel was generally considered unchallenged in its electronic warfare capabilities.

In the next stage, Iran is will be seeking a way around the method Israel tested Sunday night.

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Continued Trouble North of the Border in Alawite Land!

February 10, 2007

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The following information was extracted from an International Mission Board Report on the Alawites, the Muslim minority sect that has ruled Syria under the leadership of the Assad family for two generations.

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Islam has given rise to many variations and ethnic groupings because of historical developments and other factors.

Consider the 1.4 million Alawites of Syria.

The best-known Alawite is Bashar al-Assad, who became president of Syria after his father, Hafez al-Assad, also an Alawite, died June 10, 2000.

Nobody knows how the Alawites originated, but some think they may be descended from Alexander the Great, who lived many centuries ago. The Alawites live mostly in Latakia, a city on Syria’s northeastern coast, and in the surrounding An-Nusariyah Mountains.

In New Testament times, this city was called Laodicea and a church was established there in the first century. (See Colossians 2:1 and Revelation 3:14-22).

Unfortunately the gospel has never taken hold among the Alawites.

Southern Baptists are asked to pray that the Alawite people—especially Syrian President Bashar al-Assad—will come to know Jesus Christ personally and be saved!

Alawites are a very friendly, hospitable people, but they are also somewhat mysterious. Though they live in a predominantly Muslim region, their beliefs deviate in many ways

from conventional Islam. They consider themselves to be Muslims, yet Alawites have their own, distinctive beliefs.

For example, the name “Alawite” comes from their belief that Ali, the son-in-law of the Muslim prophet Muhammed, was an incarnation of the deity. (Muhammed lived around A.D. 600.) The Alawites pray in the name of Ali and testify that only he is the gateway, or door, to use in praying to Allah.

They have their own prayer book, called the “Kitab al Majmu,” which only a select few receive and those only after a lengthy initiation process.

Outwardly Alawites study the Islamic holy book, the Koran, and observe all the Islamic holidays. But their beliefs are a composite of many religions that have held sway in the Fertile Crescent down through the centuries.

Their belief in a rebirth of souls, or reincarnation, likely came from further east, for example.

They believe all people once were stars in a world of light, but fell from there because of disobedience.

To get back to the stars, where Ali is prince, they must be “transformed” seven times.

Alawites believe if they live blameless lives they will be reborn as Christians! But those who are not faithful to Alawite teachings are reborn as animals.

A visitor will not encounter an Alawite who will discuss the particulars of his beliefs. In fact, an Alawite would tell the visitor he is a Muslim, since he sees himself as one. The common Alawite person does not even know his group’ s teaching

s, because they are so secret.

According to Christian workers assigned to the Fertile Crescent, less than 1 percent of the Alawites knows Christ personally. There is a great need for more workers who will commit themselves to getting Bibles and other Christian literature into the Alawites’ hands and to sharing the Good News in other ways.

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Angels in the Scriptures are often symbolized as “stars,” which are in turn sometimes referred to as “stones of fire.”

Alawite belief that ‘all people once were stars in a world of light, but fell from there because of disobedience,’ and ‘to get back to the stars, where Ali is prince, they must be “transformed” seven times,’ is an interesting one, and reminds me of Isaiah 14:12-15 and Ezekiel 28:11-17 where Lucifer is cast down to earth as a star, but says he will one day ascend to God’s throne, to sit above all the angels, the stars of God.

Isaiah 14:12-15 – How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! [13] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: [14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. [15] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

The Kingdom of Tyrus was in what we call modern day Lebanon, which Syria refers to as “greater Syria.” Soon Satan will be permanently cast out of heaven, no longer to walk among the “stones of fire,” the stars, the angels of God.

Job 1:6 – Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

Ezekiel 28:11-17 – Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [12] Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. [13] Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou

wast created. [14] Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. [15] Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. [16] By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. [17] Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Revelation 12:7-9 – And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, [8] And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. [9] And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 12:12-14 – Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. [13] And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

[14] And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

The three Articles which follow were extracted from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert. They outline the Lebanese-Syrian situation north of their border with Israel as of February 9, 2007.

Russian Weapons Diverted by Syria to Hizbullah

Jacques Schuster (Die Welt-Germany/IMRA)

On Jan. 31, a Russian transport plane landed at Damascus airport carrying 600 containers of Russian antitank weapons.

Representatives of Hizbullah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were waiting on the runway.

While a Syrian officer watched, 100 containers were loaded onto trucks and sent to Hizbullah in Lebanon.

The delivery to Hizbullah violates UN Resolution 1701, adopted on August 11, 2006, after the war in Lebanon.

Syria has frequently diverted Russian arms to its allies in Lebanon, but always claimed the weapons were stolen from Syrian military camps.

UNIFIL Soldiers Face Hizbullah Threats

Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)

High-ranking officers from the French contingent of UNIFIL have recently complained of being mistreated by Lebanese villagers – under orders from Hizbullah – due to their decision to deploy a UAV squadron in southern Lebanon to conduct intelligence-gathering missions.

French officers told IDF officers in the Northern Command that shopkeepers in southern Lebanese villages are not allowed to sell them food or supplies.

Sources in the Northern Command said the French contingent – together with Spanish and Italian soldiers – were doing an exemplary job at preventing Hizbullah from reestablishing its terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon and were particularly effective in locating and destroying Hizbullah weapon caches.

“Because they are actually doing their job they are being harassed and threatened by Hizbullah,” explained an IDF officer.

Syrian Regime Fears Domestic Challenges

Gilad Sharon (Ynet News)

The Syrian regime is a minority dictatorship run by the Alawite sect.

The Alawite minority, which makes up some 12% of the overall Syrian population, is a pagan religious sect that worships the sun and moon.

The sect is shunned by the other Muslim denominations, which advocate its death.

According to Islam, Alawites are worse than Christians and Jews.

Because of the ongoing threat hovering above them, the Alawites’ main goal is the preservation of their rule, and this is the prism through which their various acts towards Israel should also be viewed.

The Alawite regime’s major problem is not the Golan Heights, but, rather, how the minority will continue to brutally rule the majority of the population.

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The Key Element of Iraqi Civil War!

February 11, 2007

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Does America really want to know what “The Key Element of the Iraqi Civil War” has always been?” It has never been the number of troops we send there!

It has never been the quality of troops we send there! It has never been our determination to persist and win there! The basic Key Element of the Iraqi Civil War has always been the composition of the ethnic religious hatred among the groups the British, with the help of the Old League of Nations, cooped up inside the 1932 borders when Iraq gained their independence. It was like putting tigers, leopards, and lions together inside a fenced area, and them telling them to get along.

Only one kind of Arab leader could ever have stayed in power for a long period – a cruel, heartless, vicious, dog who could rule over the Kurds, Sunnis, Shiites, and numerous other minor ethnic groups in a reign of sheer fear of immediate execution for the slightest offence or whim of the dictator – Such was Saddam.

We cannot build a lasting democratic government in Iraq before the Second Advent.

It has never been within the realm of human capability. We established an impossible goal for this country, one which was impossible from the beginning. I was 100 percent in favor of the invasion, 100 percent in favor of liberation from the tyrant Saddam, 100 percent in favor of getting out quickly, and 100 percent opposed to the impossible dream of staying to attempt to build a stable democratic government.

I have held the same position on the invasion of Iraq from its planning stages right up until today. Please read my position, which I outlined in full detail, almost three years ago, when the war was still popular with the majority of the American people.

It follows the U.S. intelligence report from DEBKAfile as Archive Prophecy Update 170B.

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A new US intelligence report cites civil war for the first time as key element of Iraq conflict

February 2, 2007, 7:05 PM (GMT+02:00)

A declassified section of the 90-page report submitted to President George W. Bush and Congress describes the Iraq situation as “perilous” with US troops having very little control over it. Iranian activities lead to increased violence while not a major cause of it. Even al Qaeda is not called a major factor. The war is described as driven primarily by Iraqi versus Iraqi, Sunni versus Shiite – and therefore a civil war.

Unless efforts to reverse these conditions show measurable progress during the next 12 to 18 months, “we assess that the overall security of the situation will continue to deteriorate.”

The report, part of which is due to be released later Friday, Feb. 2, says “US forces levels, resources and operations remain an essential element in Iraq” and a quick US withdrawal would have dangerous consequences, such as an increase in violence, a split in the Iraqi army on sectarian lines and the fall of the al Anbar province to al Qaeda.

Outgoing director of national intelligence John Negroponte briefed Bush on the report Thursday.

An administration official said the underlying intelligence was used by Bush in developing his new Iraq strategy.

Strong criticism of the conduct of the war was voiced by Republican Senator John McCain Thursday at the confirmation hearing for General George Casey as designated head of the US army. “I question seriously the judgment that was employed in the execution of your responsibilities in Iraq,” said the senator.

“And we have paid a very, very heavy price in American blood and treasure for what is now agreed to by literally everyone as a failed policy.”

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Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update 170B

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 170B

May 5, 2004

A Democratic Government Cannot Stand in Iraq!

I was 100 percent in favor of invading Iraq and ending the reign of Saddam the Butcher, and 100 percent in the corner of those who wanted to see the Baath Party out of power, but I have consistently been 100 percent in favor of NOT trying to establish a democratic type of government like ours because such a government would only stand for a few months, and the cost of American lives would not be worth the price. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ THAT WILL LAST – IT WOULD ONLY LAST AS LONG AS A LARGE AMERICAN ARMY WAS IN PLACE TO ENFORCE IT, AND AMERICANS WILL CONTINUE TO DIE IN HIT-AND-RUN-ATACKS WHILE THEY REMAIN TO MAINTAIN SUCH A GOVERNMENT.

I could have gotten out of fighting in Vietnam, but I chose to go. I did not go because I believed we could win the war and establish a non-corrupt regime in the southern half of the country. I went because I believed it was essential to stopping the spread of communism to other countries in the Far East. The support the Soviet Union poured into Vietnam and Afghanistan broke the financial back of the communist monster, which led to the breakup of the Soviet Union, and its demise as one of two great world powers. I believe it was absolutely essential that we go into Afghanistan.

Its unbelievable mountainous terrain and deep sheltered valleys made it the perfect terrain for a Taliban government to be the breadbasket of terror led by Osama bin Laden. And we simply could not eliminate the numerous terror camp training facilities and headquarters with missiles and air strikes, no matter how sophisticated the state of our technical expertise was at that time. And, for that reason, I am still in favor for troops to be maintained there in order to prevent a reoccurrence of the same scenario. Iraq is a flat land compared to Afghanistan, and, once we had deposed Saddam and crushed his regime, I knew we had the advantage of destroying any threat that arose against our interests in the region with missiles and air strikes following our withdrawal. I am 100 percent in favor of the worldwide war on terrorism, but 100 percent in opposition to attempting to form a democratic form of government in Iraq like ours in this generation. Sure, I wish it were possible, it is an idealistic, noble daydream, but we are fighting Islamic windmills with toothpicks, and the price in blood we are paying for it cannot be justified by a final result that will be marked by failure to see it fulfilled.

The real problem in Iraq began in 1932, the year I was born. Iraq was also born that year as the first of the League of Nations mandate states. So, after 1932, Iraq was formally independent. There was still, of course, a large measure of British influence and power there, but it was certainly independent earlier than any of the other Arab states. The British were largely responsible for the impossible attempt to merge together four major contentious groups into one state, the Shiite, the Sunni, the Kurds, and the Assyrians. It would have been far better to have four countries with separate borders than to attempt to put four wildcats into a sack and call the sack a state. And there are many other smaller groups of ethnic wildcats that also were placed in the sack.

It was inevitable that a government would eventually come into existence that would be held together by absolute force of a dictator. It is most unfortunate that the dictator who finally grabbed power was Saddam. Most dictators are happy to rule their own country with an iron hand, but Saddam had illusions of grandeur to be the great Islamic messiah who would even exceed the greatness of Saladin the Kurd and, in the end, be ruler over all of the Arab world. The only real solution to the problem, generated in 1932, is to establish governmental borders that separate the four major ethnic groups, and let each group internally fight it out as to the kind of government they want. After the dust has settled you may only have two or three states continuing to fight each other for dominance, but they will be fighting each other rather than the United States and Israel.

The continuous argument I have heard echo across the world’s political scenario from before Operation Desert Storm through Operation Iraqi Freedom is this – DO NOT DISTURB THE STABILITY OF THE REGION! And everyone seems to agree on how important it is to NOT disturb it! I totally disagree! I was hoping we would go in, get rid of Saddam, his henchmen, and his Baath Party, then pull out as quickly as possible, and let all hell break loose between the Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, and many other ethnic groups that make up Iraq. They would not be able to concentrate on how much they hate us and Israel, because they would be too busy hating each other. Then, after the smoke and killing ended in a truce, Iraq would probably be splintered into three separate countries, Kurdistan dominated by Turkey, Sunnistan dominated by Syria, and Shiitestan as a part of Iran. As far as I am concerned, the more instability, political turmoil, and confusion we see among all of the nations of Islam, the better off the United States (the big Satan as we are called) and Israel (the little Satan) will be in the world’s fickle climate. If I thought there was any possibility of actually installing a democratic type of government in Iraq, then I would say it would be worth the price we are paying in American blood to do so, but it is a futile pipedream, no matter how noble it may seem to those who favor it. I have been a supporter of both father and son Bush in their presidencies. I do continue to admire them both, and will vote for the son in November. However, I do not agree with the idea of attempting to establish a democracy in the midst of Islam because it is impossible – admirable, but beyond the scope of possibility in this generation. We need to get out and let them slug it out among themselves. In any case, whatever happens, Iraq will be one of the tens associated with Daniel 2 & 7, and Revelation 13 and 17. The Lamb King of the soon coming Kingdom foretold in Revelation 17:14 is the King of the Kingdom found in Daniel 2:44 and 7:27, and he is the only one who can bring lasting peace and stability to the Middle East under a theocracy. The Old Roman Empire had a large sou thern flank that, at one time, included all of what we know as

the Islamic nations stretching from Morocco to Iran, which number more than the ten required to choose from as being the toes or horns in Daniel and Revelation.

Daniel 2:42,44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong,

and partly broken. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

[27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Revelation 17:12-14 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

[14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

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