Arab Spring-Al Qaeda-Muslim Brotherhood-Evil Axis Are On the Move!
Yes Virginia, there Really is an Evil Axis – Now It’s been made Official!
They have been Fighting side by side in the Same Trench Many Years
Most of The World Laughed when President Bush Labeled It ‘Evil Axis’
But is now openly manifested by North Korea-Iran signed Agreement
Please Read Archive 2003 Prophecy Update 137-E Supplement Below
Following Today’s Excerpt From THE YNet News VIA Associated Press!
September 3, 2012
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The following paragraphs were the last two in our September 18, 2003 Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 137E
BEGIN TWO PARAGRAPH 2003 QUOTE
“[As you know, from my many articles on the subject, I believe that the antichrist is likely to come from Syria. I keep my prophetic eye keyed on Syria. If a coup should occur in Syria, and a new leader immerge who possesses bonding skills between the other Islamic nations, I recommend to watch him like a hawk.
My reason for believing antichrist will come out of Syria, or the area immediately surrounding it, can be found in Prophecy Updates 62 to 69, (Those without alphabetic suffixes) in our Archives.]”
END TWO PARAGRAPH 2003 QUOTE
WATCH FOR A LEADER WITH BONDING SKILLS EVENTUALLY EMERGING AS RULER OF SYRIA!
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Iran, N. Korea sign technology MOU
September 2, 2012
Iranian President Ahmadinejad, Pyongyang’s Kim Yong Nam ink technology, science development
Associated Press
Iran and North Korea have signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement, bringing the two nations deeply at odds with the US closer together.
Iran’s state TV says the agreement was signed Saturday in Tehran in the presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea’s No. 2, Kim Yong Nam. State TV did not provide further details on the document.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Kim that the Islamic Republic and North Korea have common enemies and that both should resist threats and pressures to reach their goals.
Both countries are bitter enemies of the US and the West.
Iranian and North Korean officials have said in the past that their nations are in “one trench” in the fight against the Western powers.
Begin November 23, 2005 Archive Supplement to Prophecy Update 137E
THE EVIL AXIS ASSESSMENT HAS PROVEN TO BE TRUE!
Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update 137E
November 23, 2005
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When President Bush first identified and announced, what he labeled as “The Evil Axis,” which he identified as Syria, Iran, and North Korea, he was ridiculed across Europe for having created a null hypotheses, a “straw man,” that did not exist. However, his analysis has proven to be correct. The following ABC article came from the Daily Alert Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
BEGIN 2005 ARCHIVE DAILY ALERT ARTICLE
Iran Is Building Nukes in Underground Locations
North Korea Lending Iran a Hand to Develop Nuclear Missiles: Iranian Consultant
By LUIZ MARTINEZ and JACQUELINE SHIRE
November 22, 2005
Iran has built, with the help of North Korea, dozens of underground tunnels and facilities for the construction of nuclear-capable missiles, according to Alireza Jafardazeh, a Washington D.C.-based consultant and former spokesman for the National Council of the Resistance of Iran, an Iranian opposition group.
Speaking this morning at the National Press Club, Jafarzadeh described an “extensive large-scale operation” for the development of nuclear-capable missiles “in the most sophisticated, hidden way” in tunnels in a mountain range east of Tehran. Jafarzadeh named several Iranian entities involved in Iran’s missile program, overseen by the Hemmat Industries Group. He said that eyewitnesses describe the facilities, begun in 1989, as an “underground township.” Jafarzadeh added that, in addition to work on the Shahab family of missiles, Hemmat is overseeing work on a new long-range missile, Ghadar, which is still in development and has a projected range of 1,300 to 1,900 miles.
Reports of North Korean cooperation with Iran on its nuclear and missile programs have surfaced previously. In July 2005, Reuters cited a three-page intelligence report charging that North Koreans were teaching secret graduate-level courses at Tehran’s Polytechnic University in nuclear technology. The UK’s Telegraph reported in June 2005 that North Korean specialists in underground construction had arrived in Tehran to help design their facilities that would better shield Iran’s nuclear program from international scrutiny.
Jafarzadeh’s allegations come on the heels of the latest report on Iran from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which reveals that Iran received a document from the A.Q. Khan network in 1987 describing the “casting and machining” uranium into “hemispherical forms,” a process directly relevant to the design of a nuclear warhead.
A State Department official contacted by ABC News about Jafarzadeh’s charges was unable to corroborate them but did confirm that the Hemmat Industries Group was sanctioned in May 2003 as the unlawful recipient of missile technology from Moldova. The Shahab-3 was flight-tested by Iran in 2004. It is known to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and has a range of 1,500 kilometers. Experts do not know how many such missiles Iran has produced or deployed.
BEGIN ARCHIVE SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 137E
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 137E
September 18, 2003
Saddam’s Hiding – But the Syria-Iran-N. Korea Axis Lives on!
In the Spring of 2002, Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad, the President of Syria, had a meeting at the border between Iraq and Syria. As far as I know, this was their only meeting. I must confess that, at the time the meeting occurred, its immediate purpose puzzled me. The Baath parties of Syria and Iraq had not been on friendly terms up to that point in time. As I recall, Saddam presented Bashar with a large, ancient sword as a present. A year later, after their meeting, Operation Iraqi Freedom put Saddam on the run, and no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have yet been found in appreciable amounts in Iraq. This has caused me to suspect that the major purpose for the border meeting was to discuss the transfer of the Iraqi WMD into Syria for safekeeping if the United States were to attack Iraq. I admit this is speculation, but time will tell!
Syria is still continuing its support for the terrorist groups, whose suicide bombers have taken a great toll of Israeli lives, and it is continuing its program for the development of WMDs. Bashar Assad is now the main troublemaker in the Middle East. Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Hizbollah, a large terrorist army in southern Lebanon, have met on many occasions. Countless stockpiles of weaponry have flowed freely from Iran to Hizbollah military camps across Syria for years. Syria, which in reality has control of Lebanon, and refers to it as “greater” Syria, could cut off this horrendous buildup of firearms, explosives, and missiles to Hizbollah, but it’s leader encourages, rather than hinders, all activity that will lead to the destruction of Israel.
Without question, the majority of foreign fighters captured in Iraq are Syrian and Lebanese. The New York Times quoted an intelligence agent as saying more than 60 percent of all those captured were of Syrian origin, and the London Times has indicated that many of them are being trained in Syria to kill Americans in Iraq. According to the article, three of the trainees, calling themselves Martyrs of Islam, say that 140 men have entered Syria to increase their skills in terrorist killing methods.
As you know, from my many articles on the subject, I believe that the antichrist is likely to come from Syria. I keep my prophetic eye keyed on Syria. If a coup should occur in Syria, and a new leader immerge who possesses bonding skills between the other Islamic nations, I recommend to watch him like a hawk.
My reason for believing antichrist will come out of Syria, or the area immediately surrounding it, can be found in Prophecy Updates 62 to 69, (Those without alphabetic suffixes) in our Archives.
BEGIN DECEMBER 22, 2011 BLOG ARCHIVE EXCERPT
2002 Evil Axis is Wounded, but it is far from being Dead.
The Evil Axis did not End with Troop withdrawal from Iraq
It will revive with a resurrection of hostile Iraq in a Terror Link
It is a Crescent Chain from Iran through Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon
With a very long logistical link across Asia from Iran to North Korea
December 22, 2011
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BEGIN 2003 SPECIAL ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 114B
April 6, 2003
How Will the New Iraq Fit in the Prophetic Pattern?
I have had several queries as to how I thought the new Iraqi would fit into future Middle East prophetic events. I cannot tell you how relieved I am to see a new regime coming into Iraq.
In reality, the new Iraqi regime will eventually develop a much better relationship with Iran and Syria than Saddam. But make no mistake, the Islamic mindset of the new regime may outwardly seem to be amenable toward Israel, but eventually they must regress to their inward true Arab desire to see Israel driven into the sea.
Daniel 2:41-44 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] 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. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [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.
Begin Excerpt from Wikipedia
In his 2002 State of the Union Address, Bush called North Korea “a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.” He also stated Iran “aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom.” Of the three nations Bush cited, however, he gave the most criticism to Iraq.
He stated “Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens, leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections, then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world.” Afterwards, Bush said, “States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”
David Frum
The phrase was attributed to former Bush speechwriter David Frum, originally as the axis of hatred and then evil. Frum explained his rationale for creating the phrase axis of evil in his book The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush. Essentially, the story begins in late December 2001 when head speechwriter Mike Gerson gave Frum the assignment of articulating the case for dislodging the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in only a few sentences for the upcoming State of the Union address. Frum says he began by rereading President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “date which will live in infamy” speech given on December 8, 1941, after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. While Americans needed no convincing about going to war with Japan, Roosevelt saw the greater threat to the United States coming from Nazi Germany, and he had to make the case for fighting a two-ocean war.
Frum points in his book to a now often-overlooked sentence in Roosevelt’s speech which reads in part, “…we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.” Frum interprets Roosevelt’s oratory like this: “For FDR, Pearl Harbor was not only an attack—it was a warning of future and worse attacks from another, even more dangerous enemy.” Japan, a country with one-tenth of America’s industrial capacity, a dependence on imports for its food, and already engaged in a war with China, was extremely reckless to attack the United States, a recklessness “that made the Axis such a menace to world peace”, Frum says. Saddam Hussein’s two wars, against Iran and Kuwait, were just as reckless, Frum decided, and therefore presented the same threat to world peace.
In his book Frum relates that the more he compared the Axis powers of World War II to modern “terror states”, the more similarities he saw. “The Axis powers disliked and distrusted one another”, Frum writes. “Had the Axis somehow won the war, its members would quickly have turned on one another.” Iran, Iraq, al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah, despite quarrelling among themselves, “all resented power of the West and Israel, and they all despised the humane values of democracy.” There, Frum saw the connection: “Together, the terror states and the terror organizations formed an axis of hatred against the United States.”
Frum tells that he then sent off a memo with the above arguments and also cited some of the atrocities perpetrated by the Iraqi government. He expected his words to be chopped apart and altered beyond recognition, as is the fate of much presidential speechwriting, but his words were ultimately read by Bush nearly verbatim, though Bush changed the term axis of hatred to axis of evil. North Korea was added to the list, he says, because it was attempting to develop nuclear weapons, had a history of reckless aggression, and “needed to feel a stronger hand”.
Afterwards, Frum’s wife disclosed his authorship to the public.
Yossef Bodansky
A decade before the 2002 State of the Union address, in August 1992, the political scientist Yossef Bodansky wrote a paper entitled “Tehran, Baghdad & Damascus: The New Axis Pact” while serving as the Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives. Although he did not explicitly apply the epithet evil to his New Axis, Bodansky’s axis was otherwise very reminiscent of Frum’s axis. Bodansky felt that this new Axis was a very dangerous development. The gist of Bodansky’s argument was that Iran, Iraq and Syria had formed a “tripartite alliance” in the wake of the First Gulf War, and that this alliance posed an imminent threat that could only be dealt with by invading Iraq a second time and overthrowing Saddam Hussein.
Development
Bolton: “Beyond the Axis of Evil”
John R. Bolton
On May 6, 2002, then-Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton gave a speech entitled “Beyond the Axis of Evil”. In it he added three more nations to be grouped with the already mentioned rogue states: Libya, Syria, and Cuba. The criteria for inclusion in this grouping were: “state sponsors of terrorism that are pursuing or who have the potential to pursue weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or have the capability to do so in violation of their treaty obligations”. The speech was widely reported as an expansion of the original axis of evil.
Rice: Outposts of Tyranny
In January 2005, at the beginning of Bush’s second term as President, the incoming Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, made a speech regarding the newly termed outposts of tyranny, a list of six countries deemed most repressive. This included the two remaining Axis members, as well as Cuba, Belarus, Zimbabwe and Myanmar.
Gul: United States is the Axis of Evil
On 10 March 2010 Lieutenant General (retd) Hamid Gul of the Pakistani Army called the United States the “axis of evil” in the region (presumably South and Central Asia), in an interview with Fars News Agency.
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North Korea’s coming power struggle and the Mid-East nuclear race
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
December 19, 2011
The sudden death of Kim Jong II, of a heart attack aged 69, Monday, Dec. 19 – even though his youngest son Kim Jong-un was hailed as successor – confronts the world for the first time since the Cold War with a leaderless nuclear power about which it knows almost nothing. Though anointed as heir, his youngest son Kim Jong-un, believed to be 26, is more than likely to be challenged for his claim to power. At present, therefore, no one knows who controls North Korea’s nuclear arsenal – any more than the identity of the country’s next ruler after the dust settles.
Meanwhile there are pressing questions: Will Kim Jong II’s successor follow through on his consent this week to suspend Pyongyang’s enriched-uranium nuclear weapons program for 240,000 tonnes food aid from Washington? How will the 1.2 million strong standing army of the North respond to the first actions of South Korea, Japan and US forces in the Far East in placing their armies on alert?
There has been no sign of motion from this huge army apart from test-firing a short-range missile Monday morning from the east coast.
This is almost certainly the calm before the storm. A year ago, Kim Jong Il began grooming his son for the leadership, the third of their dynasty, by appointing him Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers Party of Korea and conferring on him the rank of four-star general.
Still, he is as shorter on military experience than he is in politics. After the dead leader’s funeral on Dec. 28, the army, or parts therefore, will have to decide whether to continue supporting the Kim family’s rule in Pyongyang after 60 years or replace it with a different kind of leadership.
The prospect of uncertainty and change there sends shudders down many political spines in Washington, Tokyo and Seoul, as well as in Beijing and Moscow. In recent months, world powers were deeply immersed in the war threats hanging over the Middle East, Syrian bloodshed and Iran’s nuclear weapons momentum. Monday, they woke up to a completely unforeseen scenario, an unstable Far East state armed with a nuclear bomb which could take the region in any of five directions:
1. Elements of the North Korean army or its security services could go head to head for a power grab in Pyongyang, potentially sparking civil strife in this enigmatic nation of 24 million.
2. To keep any such violence from spilling across its borders, China may send troops into North Korea bringing similar action from Seoul, possibly with US backing.. China has a large North Korean expatriate minority which respects Pyongyang rather than Beijing and is therefore a source of unrest.
Of the US troops stationed for 58 years on the armistice lines between South and North, about 28,500 remain and could be involved in a conflict with the potential of exploding into another Korean War. The first war in the 1950s cost several armies more than a million lives.
3. The big difference between then and now is that today North Korea has nuclear arms and there is no knowing at what point someone in Pyongyang may decide to use them.
4. A recent Pentagon situation paper estimates that if the Korean Peninsula descended into domestic anarchy and civil strife, the United States would be called on to raise an army of intervention numbering 400,000 soldiers, 100,000 more than the size of US forces fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan at the peak of those conflicts.
5. North Korea maintains thriving nuclear, military and technological relations with Iran and Syria. Hundreds of technicians and engineers, including nuclear and missile experts, have worked for years on their nuclear and missile programs.
Western and Israel intelligence services have never been sure how deeply China is involved in North Korea’s nuclear and military assistance to Iran and Syria. Is it just passive? or does Beijing use Pyongyang as a channel for pumping nuclear technology to Tehran and Damascus?
Some Western agencies have recently come to believe that China has a bigger stake in those Middle East countries than realized and much of the military technology transferred by North Korea to Iran is actually of Chinese origin.
A power struggle in Pyongyang, which could be drawn out for as long as a couple of years, could go in many unpredictable directions including stepped-up contribution to the Middle East nuclear race.
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