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ARMAGEDDON – GREED FOR POWER IN OIL!

THE FINAL BATTLE OF THIS AGE OF THE GENTILES WILL BE ARMAGEDDON – IT WILL BE A BATTLE FOR THE POWER IN MIDDLE EAST OIL!

December 4, 2007

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I Timothy 6:10 – For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

I grew up in the era of no heat in the winter except by a wood stove or a fireplace in the front room. It was the ancient era when someone said a girl was “hot” it meant she was “running a temperature,” and when a boy was “cool,” it meant he needed to move closer to the stove. So I was a real “hick.” But that all changed as I passed through out of my teens and was literally forced to become “educated” in colleges, Universities, and Seminaries.

I learned in high school that my basic nature was to be concerned about my own self interests, and everything else was rated from one to infinity as it blended with my welfare. I learned in church what a self centered bugger I am, and even after I believed what Paul testified in the Book of Acts, and acted on it, the bugger was still in my flesh, and will be there until the day I (my soul) leaves him behind.

Acts 20:20,21 – And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, [21] Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

I learned a lot about what made me and the rest of mankind “tick” from 1951 to 1971, retiring from the National Security Agency USAF Branch at Fort George G.

Meade in the Washington Area. My education began in 1952 and 53 while I was stationed in the Holy Land, and it continued until the day of my retirement as a synoptic analyst, certified by the USAFAWS as a meteorologist. I graduated from the MBS in Little Rock, Arkansas, transferred my credits

from MBS, UA, and USAFIHL to ATU, and did my post graduate work there. I wrote my first book at ATU, “Tectonic Chaos” in the mid-seventies. By the time I retired from the NSA in 1971 as a synoptic analyst, there was no question in my mind what had to happen in the Middle East

because of man’s basic greed, manifested by his rooted lust for power over other men, which is the reason his love for money is the root of all evil. So, in “Tectonic Chaos,” I warned those who would listen as to what “national interest,” or “lust for power” in loving money, was going to eventually cause to come to pass in the Middle East. It was what a synoptic analyst calls a “gim-me,” or a gambler calls a “sure thing.” I believe the seventh, and final kingdom is now forming in the Middle East as I knew it would, and I believe it will be a Caliphate Empire stretching from Morocco to India.

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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.

The heads are the six great world Empires that existed before, and at, the time of Christ’s crucifixion: Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian, and Roman. The final seventh head will be the last kingdom before Christ’s Second Advent.

The seventh kingdom head will incorporate all the cunning and skill in the arts and sciences that have been handed down by the previous six empires.

Man has come a long way since the days of the cruel Egyptian Pharoah of the Exodus, but all that modern man has learned is based on the root contributions of the these six empires – and soon all knowledge and expertise of sinful mankind will be centered in the final seventh kingdom.

The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will soon form the nucleus of the seventh kingdom, and the ten crowns are the kings that will rule them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comical little expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China. THE WORLD POWER BLOCK WILL BLOCK ITSELF AS THE TEN ARAB NATIONS PROSPER IN THEIR MIDST.

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During the thirty years from 1977 to 2007 it happened, and is still going on. If it were not for the Soviet Union we would be in control of Middle East oil right now – If it were not for us the Soviet Union would still exist, and would be in control of Middle East oil – If it were not for us and Russia today, China would be in control of Middle East oil.

There will be a final battle of Armageddon to accomplish primarily two things, the elimination of all Israelis and to gain control of all oil.

I believe this final great battle of Armageddon will demonstrate the ultimate in man’s lust for power, and will be ended by the only real solution, the Second Advent of his Creator.

My guesstimate is that this final battle, which follows a three and one-half year war, is likely to occur at some point in time between 2014 and 2019.

The viewpoints expressed by myself up to this point are not those of the writer or newspaper in the article which follows. I do agree with the following five excerpts from the article.

Five Excerpts Extracted from a Guardian Article by AC Grayling

An antidote to the black poison

AC Grayling

December 4, 2007 10:00 AM

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ac_grayling/2007/12/an_antidote_to_black_poison.html

Excerpt 1

The stuff in question is of course oil (and let’s lump gas in there too), and it is why the world is hostage to (a) the lust for it in the huge economies that gulp down oceans of the stuff daily in the mad rage of their thirst – think USA, China – and who buy it from (b) mainly dodgy countries run by dodgy people – the Saudis, Ahmedinejad, Putin, the Central-Asianistans – where instability, vile human rights records, dictators, strutting bullies and mouth-foaming zealots are the arbiters, the three last paid by each one of us in the oil-guzzling economies every day of our lives so that they can variously and according to taste buy weapons, flog raped women, fund jihadi-producing madrassas, threaten the world with more conflict, and generally keep world affairs inflamed and ill even to death.

Excerpt 2

Think what would happen to the Ahmedinejads, the Putins, the Saudi princes, if no-one wanted oil any more.

Excerpt 3

The oil companies with their hundreds of billions of dollars committed to oil wells, refineries, fleets of huge tankers, scores of thousands of petrol stations: they do not want the world to cease being helplessly addicted to oil, and it would be surprising if they did not use their muscle to ensure that politics plays along. So we are each of us hostage to someone else’s determinati on to keep

on being very rich, at whatever cost of war, terrorism, and other charming spin-offs – not to mention the catastrophic effect on the environment, where the poison does its other destructive work.

Excerpt 4

Would genuine and sensible alternatives become realistic if oil hits $200 a barrel in the next year or so? Saudi Arabia’s hard-line Sunni royals probably would try not to let this happen if only to limit hard-line Shia Iran’s income, but not even Saudi’s oil-taps are infinite in their power to control world oil prices. As we see in connection with the diplomacy heating up over Antarctica in preparation for oil company prospectors moving in, the cost of finding and extracting oil will play yet more of a part too.

Excerpt 5

Only think: in 1911 Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered a change from coal to oil as the fuel for the ships of the world’s largest navy. Over-determination theses tell us that this is only one factor in the hideous story that then unfolded, of Britain and other powers needing control of the Middle East for its oil – and hence Britain’s 1920s creation of Iraq, Jordan, indeed today’s Middle East as such, and its early 1950s interference in Iran with the deposition of Mossadeq and installation of the west-friendly Shah (deja-vu in Iraq today?) and…and…and here we are, in the early 2000s, our soldiers dying out there still, and

we still filling up at the petrol station because we have seem to have no option.

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I LOVE THIS U.S. GUESSTIMATE!

December 3, 2007

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Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Romans 11:25 – For I would not, brethren, th at

ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

The Luke prophecy Christ uttered concerning the fall of Jerusalem to the Gentiles by the edge of the sword, at which time her temple was to be leveled and her city destroyed, began to be fulfilled in A.D. 70, some 40 years after he stated it. Jerusalem was prophesied to be trodden down by Gentiles after the Temple was leveled for a considerable period of time, and it was under non-Jewish control from A.D.70 to June, 1967.

The spiritual blindness of Israel as a nation (in refusing to accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah) was to continue until His Second Advent, when the fullness of the great Age of the Gentiles would close at Armageddon. As the fullness “of the Gentiles be come in” at Armageddon, Israel was prophesied to finally accept Jesus as a nation as being the Messiah, the living Son of God.

Israel was advised 40 years before it happened, while she still possessed the Temple, that not one stone of it would be left standing above the founda

tion walls of Herod, and it happened as prophesied. I have long believed, ever since Israel recovered it in 1967, that significant prophetic events would begin to line up in a predictable sequence 40 years later. And, at the end of the sequence of those events, the “fullness of the Gentiles” would “be come in.”

Ever since 1967, while I was still active in the National Security Agency, I believed that the end of the 40 year period following the capture of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem would be a significant prophetic event. I believed everything would start falling into sequence for the last three and one years of the times of the Gentiles after the 40 years ended in 2007. I can assure you they are doing just that at the present time. For a long time on these blogs, which we issue on our Web Site one or two times a day, I repeatedly made a guesstimate as to the most likely time for Israel to be attacked by the forces of Islam.

I guesstimated it would be at a point in time somewhere between 2008 and 2012. But when the 40 years expired in June of 2007, as I continued to watch events unfurl in the Middle East, I changed my guesstimate in late September

of this year. It was because, as I stated in numerous blogs since September, I don’t believe Iran will have sufficient numbers of deliverable nuclear warheads in stock to use against Israel before 2010, and she may not have them until the end of 2014. So, in late September of this year, I changed my guesstimate for the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period to begin at some point in time between 2010 and the end of 2014. It seems to me that the best chance during that period would be between 2012 and the end of 2014.

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US estimate: Iran froze nuclear weapons program in 2003

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

December 3, 2007

Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003 under international pressure but is continuing to enrich uranium, which means it may still be able to develop a weapon between 2010 and 2015, senior US intelligence officials said Monday.

That finding, in a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, is a change from two years ago, when US intelligence agencies believed Teheran was determined to develop a nuclear capability and was continuing its weapons development program. It suggests that Iran is susceptible to diplomatic pressure, an official said.

“Teheran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005,” states an unclassified summary of the secret report released Monday.

Officials said the new findings suggest that diplomacy has been effective in containing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

“This is good news in that the US policy coupled with the policies and actions of those who have been our partners appear to have had some success. Iran seems to have been pressured,” one of the officials said.

“Given that good news, we don’t want to relax. We want to keep those pressures up.”

The finding comes at a time of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, which President George W. Bush has labeled part of an “axis of evil,” along with Iraq and North Korea.

The halt to active weapons development is one of the key judgments of the latest intelligence estimate on Iran’s nuclear program. National Intelligence Estimates represent the most authoritative written judgments of all 16 US spy agencies.

Despite the suspension of its weapons program, Teheran may ultimately be difficult to dissuade from developing a nuclear bomb because Iran believes such a weapon would give it leverage to achieve its national security and foreign policy goals, the assessment concluded.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell decided last month that the key judgments of NIEs should as a rule not be declassified and released.

The intelligence officials said an exception was made in this case because the last assessment of Iran’s nuclear program in 2005 has been influential in public debate about US policy toward Iran and needed to be updated to reflect the latest findings.

To develop a nuclear weapon Iran needs a warhead design, a certain amount of fissile material, and a delivery vehicle such as a missile. The intelligence agencies now believe Iran halted design work four years ago and as of mid-2007 had not restarted it.

But Iran is continuing enrich uranium for its civilian nuclear reactors.

That leaves open the possibility the fissile material could be diverted to covert nuclear sites to make enough highly enriched uranium to make a bomb.

The amount of fissile material Iran has is closely linked to when it can produce a weapon.

Even if the country went all out with present enrichment capability, it is unlikely to have enough until 2010 at the earliest, the officials said.

The State Department’s Intelligence and Research office believes the earliest likely time it would have enough highly enriched uranium would be 2013. But all agencies concede Iran may not have sufficient enriched uranium until after 2015.

Iran would not be capable of technically producing and reprocessing enough plutonium for a weapon before about 2015, the report states. But ultimately it has the technical and industrial capacity to build a bomb, “if it decides to do so,” the intelligence agencies found.

This national intelligence estimate was originally due in the spring of 2007 but was delayed because the agencies wanted more confidence their findings were accurate, given the problems with a 2002 intelligence estimate of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program. They also got a late influx of new data that caused changes in their findings.

“There was a very rigorous scrub using all the tradecraft available, using the lessons of 2002,” a senior official said.

At the White House, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said the findings confirm that the risk of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon remains “a serious problem.”

“The estimate offers grounds for hope that the problem can be solved diplomatically without the use of force as the Administration has been trying to do,” Hadley said. “And it suggests that the president has the right strategy: intensified international pressure along with a willingness to negotiate a solution that serves Iranian interests, while ensuring that the world will never have to face a nuclear armed Iran.”

Hadley added: “The bottom line is this: for that strategy to succeed, the international community has to turn up the pressure on Iran with diplomatic isolation, United Nations sanctions, and with other financial pressure and Iran has to decide it wants to negotiate a solution.”

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KEEP PROPHETIC EYE ON LEBANON!

SUPPLEMENT TO “AN INTERESTING MILITARY MAN” BLOG

December 3, 2007

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Just to update you on the Sunday Morning Blog!

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December 3, 2007

Lebanon leaders back army chief

Lebanon’s parliamentary majority has backed a compromise candidate for president, raising hopes of an end to months of tense political deadlock.

The western-backed ruling bloc had initially rejected army chief Gen Michel Suleiman who has conditional support from the pro-Syrian opposition.

His election requires an amendment to the constitution to allow senior civil servants to take over the presidency.

The repeatedly postponed presidential vote is now scheduled for 7 December.

Leb anon h

as been without a head of state since 27 November as rival factions argued about a successor to the pro-Syrian incumbent, Emile Lahoud.

Gen Suleiman, 59, has held his post since 1998, when he was nominated by the outgoing Gen Lahoud.

Correspondents say he has remained neutral during t

he year-long political crisis and has repeatedly called on the army to keep out of politics.

Conditional support

In a televised statement, Amin Gemayel, leader of the right-wing Maronite Christian party, the Phalange, announced the governing coalition’s support of Gen Suleiman’s candidacy.

The former opposition candidate for the job, Michel Aoun, had earlier lent his conditional support to Gen Suleiman’s candidacy.

His conditions include the appointment of a neutral prime minister – something the governing coalition has previously rejected.

He also asked that Gen Suleiman step down at the 2009 parliamentary elections rather than serving a full term until 2013.

The Shia militant group Hezbollah said it would back Gen Suleiman on condition of Mr Aoun’s endorsement.

This means most political groupings have now expressed support for him, but the BBC’s Kim Ghattas in Beirut says there is no guarantee he will get the job.

Paralysis

Under the current constitution senior civil servants are barred from becoming president within two years of stepping down.

Analysts say the hope is now that the amendment can be passed without further another crisis breaking out.

The deadlock has paralysed Lebanon politically and economically since the devastating 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.

The constitution has been amended twice since 1998, first to allow Mr Lahoud

to become president and again in 2004 to extend his term by three years.

That move sharply divided Lebanon into pro- and anti-Syrian camps, and months later Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon amid huge protests after the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri, who had recently joined the anti-Syrian side.

An amendment to Article 49 must now be approved by cabinet, which has been dominated by pro-westerners since six pro-Syrian ministers quit in November 2006.

Under Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, the country’s president must be from the Maronite Christian minority.

The post of prime minister is always reserved for a Sunni Muslim, while that of parliament speaker goes to a Shia.

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MIDDLE EAST NAVAL ARMADA EAGLE!

December 2, 2007

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A silent eagle

will be flying over the land and seas of the Middle East with its eagle eye spying for prey, and as a photo informer to the U.S. Military armada in the waters of the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Indian Ocean. The DEBKAfile Report gives an accounting of the activities of the eagle and the armada.

This “eagle” in the DEBKAfile Report is not the one referred to in Revelation 12:14. But it is certainly possible that the “eagle” in 12:14 does symbolize the U.S. eagle, since the U.S. national symbol is an eagle. I do believe the U.S. will help to air evacuate large number of Israeli

tes into the Negev when Israel is attacked by Islamic forces, as outlined in Birth Pang Number 41 in our Birth Pang Archives.

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BIRTH PANG NUMBER 41

The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!

Part 6

March 22, 2002

Revelation 12:14 – 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.

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.

The woman is Israel. The place that God has prepared for her is the Negev wilderness.

A time is one 360 day year, times are two 360 day years, and half a time is 180 days, which totals 1260 days or 3 and ½ prophetic years. Both these scriptures describe the time period of 42 prophetic months (30 days per month) before the end of

the Tribulation Period.

When the antichrist launches his lightning Jihad from the north it will be a two pronged attack. Syrian and Lebanese troops will launch a blitzkrieg strike southward along the western lees of the Galilean and Samaritan mountain. The Palestinians will zoom northward along the western lee of the Judean mountains out of Gaza to link with their comrades coming down from the north. This will cut off coastal Israel from interior Israel. Some 70% of the Jewish population lives along the narrow coastal strip from Tel Aviv to Haifa.

They will be kept pinned down by thousands of katyusha rockets being launched from the bluff top cities of Tul Karm and Qalqilya in the Samarian Mountains. It will eventually be necessary to air evacuate the population out of this area across the Mediterranean into the Negev, as stated in 12:14. The other battle prong, consisting of troops from Iraq, Syria, and Iran, will be directed southward along the west bank of the Jordan River in a lightning strike. The Palestinians will pour down the hundreds of dendritic valleys in the eastern lee of the Samarian Mountains, armed with shoulder held antitank launchers. They will destroy many of the Israeli tanks coming north to intercept the southward moving Arab tank units of Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The Jewish population to the east of the coastal sections, and to the west of the Jordan River, will flee on land in whatever types of transportation may be available. This has long been the national Israel contingency plan that is to be carried out in the event of attack from the north, and the Negev has been their emergency contingency evacuation area since 1948. If you desire a detailed discussion of what I have just briefly covered, please review Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, which are found in our Prophecy Archives.

Revelation 12:15,16 – And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

[16] And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Lord willing, I will continue to exposit on these verses in Birth Pang Number 42.

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DEBKAfile Reports: US Gulf armada built up again amid preparations for third round of Security Council sanctions against Iran

December 2, 2007, 6:34 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that a third aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman , arrived in the Central Command area over the weekend to join the USS Enterprise and USS Nimitz . All three head mighty strike groups of assorted warships, aircraft, marine forces, amphibious craft and nuclear submarines. Our sources interpret the new build-up as signifying US preparedness for a possible military confrontation with Iran.

The Truman strike group under the command of Rear Adm. Bill Gortney is equipped with the most advanced electronics in the fleet for coordinating offensive and defensive operations in a major war.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that, last week, on its way to the Gulf arena, an element of the Truman group, the guided missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin , ran tests

on the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle. This UAV’s primary mission is to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for the Truman group.

It is the first time a UAV has been employed in this way by a US multi-mission naval group and, should hostilities break out with Iran, this drone would make war history.

ScanEagle flies up to 10,000 feet, clicking electro-optical or infrared cameras 20 hours of the day and night.

It is completely noiseless.

Another key element of the Truman group is the huge floating supply depot USNS Artic . While keeping up with the speed of the carrier group, the Artic can take on from shuttle ships and redistribute to the rest of the group more than 177,000 barrels of oil, 2,150 tons of ammunition, and hundreds of tons of stores. The ten-vessel Truman group also includes a British destroyer, the HMS Manchester .

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that in response to the focus the Iranian navy is now placing on submarine warfare, the USS Enterprise group carried out a comprehensive anti-sub exercise in the northern Arabian Sea in mid-November.

While the Enterprise operates mainly in the Afghanistan war arena, it can reach the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman within hours if called.

The Security Council is expected to approve before the end of the year harsh sanctions against Iran for flouting its resolutions on uranium enrichment and its clandestine military nuclear program.

The US-led force massed close to Iran’s shores is poised to support these sanctions as well as react in the event of Tehran lashing out in the Gulf, Iraq, Lebanon or other fronts manned by its terrorist proxies.

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AN INTERESTING MILITARY MAN!

December 2, 2007

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The election of Michel Suleiman seems likely in the election to fill the vacated Lebanese Presidential Office.

There seems little doubt that time is on the side of Syria and Hizbullah in eventually taking control of the Lebanese government.

Appointment of Lebanese Military Chief General Michel Suleiman as the President of Lebanon, a man who relates very favorably to Hizbullah and Syria, considering them allies in the Islamic struggle against occupier Israel, can be a part of allowing them to take political control of the Lebanese Parliament. He wants all the military might of Lebanese forces pointed south against the common enemy of Lebanon, Syria, and Hizbullah, namely, the State of Israel.

Syrian political analyst and journalist Sami Moubayed had this to say about the appointment of Michel Suleiman as Lebanese President:

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…if the Syrians are able to get their way, they would opt for Michel Suleiman, the current army commander. Washington DC is not too enthusiastic about him because he is politically independent; too independent for Washington’s taste. He is committed to combating Israel, supporting Hizbullah, and friendship with Syria.

His one slogan has been “Israel is the enemy”, something that greatly pleases Damascus

but is frowned upon by 14 March. If elected, he would certainly work for a greater role for Hizbullah in the government, and might even turn a blind eye to their activities in south Lebanon, as did Elias Hrawi in the early 1990s, and Lahoud in 1998-2006. Also to the displeasure of 14 March was a recent remark by the army commander, “Fatah Al-Islam is linked to Al-Qaeda not Syria.”

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(“14 March” refers primarily to the majority pro-western Lebanese Parliament cabinet members)

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Hizbullah may support army commander for Lebanese Presidency

Lebanese army commander Michel Suleiman named organization’s favorite presidential candidate.

‘There is a major opportunity to reach an accord on presidential elections,’ reports Hizbullah television.

Associated Press

December 1, 2007

A senior Hizbullah official said Saturday that the militant group holds army commander Michel Suleiman in high regard, further improving his chances of becoming Lebanon’ s next pre

sident and averting a political crisis.

Hezbollah deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem’s comments came two days after the group’s ally, Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun, said he will back Suleiman as a compromise candidate for president.

The parliamentary majority also expressed its support for Suleiman this week, setting up a potential resolution to months of conflict with the Hezbollah-led opposition over choosing President Emile Lahoud’s successor.

“We, in Hezbollah have a positive view of General Michel Suleiman in addition to our appreciation of General Michel Aoun’s stance and consider this alternative as a serious one,” The white-turbaned cleric said on Hizbullah’s al-Manar TV.

‘A major opportunity’

“There is a major opportunity for discussion in order to reach an accord on presidential elections,” Kassem added.

Hezbollah officials have in recent days linked their support for any presidential candidate to Aoun’s stance. Now that has Aoun has publicly supported Suleiman, Kassem’s comments were viewed as implicit support for the army commander.

Parliament is scheduled to meet Friday to vote for a new president.

For Suleiman to be elected, the Parliament will have to amend the constitution, which prevents senior state employees, including army commanders, from running for the post while in office.

The army chief is seen as a neutral figure who can appeal to both the Western-supported majority and the pro-Syrian opposition, which is backed by Damascus.

The nation’s top post has been vacant since pro-Syrian Lahoud left office without a successor on Nov. 23 because the feuding groups could not agree on a compromise candidate.

Failure to elect a president left Lebanon with a leadership vacuum not seen since the civil war, when rival governments ran

the country in 1988-89.

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