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Obama Administration covers Lying Lips by a Muslim Niqaab,

Saying it was wasn’t Revenge Terrorist Act for Islam Martyrs

Carried Out On The 9/11 Twin Towers Date of Islamic Killings!

Obama Knew It would Hurt his Reelection bid in foreign Policy!

I wonder If Obama Administration is a Government of Cretians!

October 3, 2012

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Titus 1:12 – One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

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Begin Nr. 1 DEBKAfile Exclusive Report Excerpt – September 12, 2012

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

September 12, 2012, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00)

Al Zawahri personally ordered Al Qaeda to murder US Ambassador Stevens

The US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three staff members at the US consulate in Benghazi were deliberately murdered Tuesday night Sept 11 just after memorial ceremonies were held in America for the victims of the 9/11 outrage DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report exclusively that far from being a spontaneous raid by angry Islamists, it was a professionally executed terrorist operation by a professional Al Qaeda assassination team, whose 20 members acted under the orders of their leader Ayman al Zawahri after special training. They were all Libyans, freed last year from prisons where they were serving sentences for terrorism passed during the late Muammar Qaddafi’s rule.

In a video tape released a few hours before the attack, Zawahri called on the faithful to take revenge on the United States for liquidating one of the organization’s top operatives, Libyan-born Abu Yahya al-Libi in June by a US drone in northwestern Pakistan.

Its release was the “go” signal for the hit team to attack the US diplomats in Benghazi.

To mask their mission, they stormed the consulate on the back of a violent protest by hundreds of Islamists against a film said to insult Prophet Muhammed produced by a Florida real estate agent called Sam Bacile, who has been described as of Israeli origin.

The operation is rated by terror experts as the most ambitious outrage al Qaeda has pulled off in the last decade. According to our sources, the gunmen split into two groups of 10 each and struck in two stages:

1. They first fired rockets at the consulate building on the assumption that the ambassador’s bodyguards would grab him, race him out of the building and drive him to a safe place under the protection of the US secret service;
2. The second group was able to identify the getaway vehicle and the ambassador’s armed escort and lay in wait to ambush them. The gunmen then closed in and killed the ambassador and his bodyguards at point blank range.

DEBKAfile’s ntelligence sources report that the investigation launched by US counter-terror and clandestine services is focusing on finding out why no clue was picked up of the coming attack by any intelligence body and how al Qaeda’s preparations for the attack which took place inside Libya went unnoticed by any surveillance authority.

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More Al Qaeda pre-US election attacks forecast: Americans quietly lifted out

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

October 2, 2012, 11:00 AM (GMT+02:00)

Just five weeks before America’s presidential election, US intelligence reports signs that al Qaeda leader Ayman Zuwahiri is preparing a string of terrorist attacks as the sequel to the murders of US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US officials in Benghazi on Sept. 11, according to evidence collected across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

His twin goals are to influence the poll’s results and to build up his reputation as a master of spectacular terrorist operations. Eager to impress Al Qaeda’s franchise chiefs, Zuwahiri is reported to be celebrating his “Benghazi feat” – his first as Al Qaeda leader – and boasting of the harm to the Obama campaign caused by his administration’s stammering denials that it was an act of terror. The new terrorist chief claims his tactics had an instant, devastating impact on Washington and they were therefore superior to those of his predecessor, Osama bin Laden.

The Al Qaeda leader is now seen – not only by US intelligence experts, but by most experts in the West, the Middle East and Israel – to be impatient to capitalize on this success and so dramatically expose to the Muslim world America’s perceived weakness and his own worth as commander of the jihadist movement.

His planning for a new offensive has taken advantage of the Arab Spring upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa and turned them around to strike at the heart of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy objectives. The Arab revolutions have let Islamist extremist and fundamentalist Salafi groups off the leash in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, while Lebanon Jordan, Iraq and Syria teeter on the brink of chaos. The extremists now enjoy free rein to organize for political action while also gaining access to vast stocks of modern arms.

In the view of Western counterterrorism experts, Salafi groups have long maintained clandestine relations with al Qaeda, especially Ayman Zuwahiri, who joined al Qaeda in the first place as head of the violent Egyptian Islamic Jihad and stayed in close touch with its secret cells.

Al Qaeda planning also took advantage of the US counterterrorism focus in the last couple of years on the Arabian Peninsula franchise (AQAP) based in Yemen. Less US attention was devoted to the Islamist extremism simmering in North African and other Middle East arenas. It was there that Zuwahiri went to work to fashion new terrorist networks alongside Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) from the Salafi groups now rampant across a broad geographical area encompassing Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Mali and thrusting into the Middle East through Egyptian Sinai.

America is therefore confronted with a broad new al Qaeda front, armed with scanty intelligence. Worst of all, Washington can’t trust the new regimes and local military and intelligence organizations, thrown into power in the post-“Arab revolt” countries, for cooperation in fighting terror.

Instead of confrontation, the Obama administration has opted for retreat.

DEBKAfiles’s exclusive sources report that an administration team has hurriedly put together a list of 20 endangered countries where US diplomatic, military and economic may be targeted for al Qaeda attack.

The list is prioritized according to the level of risk and US security capability for protection.

The highest-risk locations have been quietly evacuated – either to the US or West European countries – leaving only a skeleton staff behind for emergencies. A senior American source told DEBKAfle Tuesday that Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria and Egypt have been virtually denuded of a US presence.

Middle East intelligence observers have told DEBKAfile that they don’t recall US diplomatic military and intelligence personnel, businessmen and technical staff with their families being withdrawn from the region on this scale or at comparable speed.
President Obama made American retreat his order of the day after refusing to heed calls for a US military operation against AQIM and its head, Abdelmalek Droukdel. It was Droukdel, according to accumulating intelligence who, acting on behalf of Zuwahiri, orchestrated the Libyan Ansar al-Shariah militia’s murderous attack on the US Benghazi consulate.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday, Oct. 1, that Obama also decided against a punitive attack against al Qaeda’s stronghold in Mali.

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Netanyahu is likely to Hold Off a Netanyahu Strike till Summer 2013

President Obama is Desperate to Hold It off Till After the Elections

He wants no Definite Red Lines He can’t wiggle out of if Crossed

He’s Done a Masterful Snow Job on the Public Via Liberal Media

I Stick to my Stated War guess Starting Beween 2014 & 2016

Based on Bible and Events I see it starting in This time Span

But Only God Knows Exact Day It Begins OR The Time Span

I do know that it is Prophetically Near, even at the Doors,

I also know that Noah and Sodom’s ages were Shocked

As will be the Case When the age of the Gentiles Ends.

October 2, 2012

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IDENTITY OF ANTICHRIST WILL BE KNOWN FOR SURE ON 7TH TRUMPET WHEN ISLAMIC BELIEVERS ARE NOT CAUGHT UP WITH TRUE BELIEVERS.

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

ANTICHRIST WILL BE KNOWN FOR SURE WHEN HE SITS UP HIS COMMAND POST ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT SURROUNDED BY HIS MILLIONS OF TROOPS OVER ALL OF ISRAEL NORTH OF BEERSHEBA. THE 7TH TRUMPET SOUNDS AND ALL THE SAVED ARE CAUGHT UP BEFORE HIS 1ST VIAL IS POURED OUT.

Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

ANTICHRIST POSITIONS ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT OF GOD STANDING IN HIS COMMAND POST IN PRIDE IN THE HOLY PLACE OF GOD, HIS PRESENCE IS INDEED THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, AND INDEED HE SHALL COME TO AN END IN A BURNING LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE AFTER THE 7 VIALS OF GOD’S WRATH ARE POURED OUT. ANTICHRIST HIMSELF IS THE ABOMINATION AS THE BEAST THAT CAUSES GOD TO POUR OUT HIS 7 VIALS OF WRATH ON THE BEAST, THE FALSE PROPHET, AND THE GIGANTIC
ARMAGEDDON ARMY HE HAS GATHERED ACROSS THE EARTH. HE IS THE ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES THE WRATH OF DESOLATION.

Matthew 24:15-39 – When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) [16] Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: [17] Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: [18] Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. [19] And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! [20] But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: [21] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. [23] Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. [24] For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. [25] Behold, I have told you before. [26] Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. [27] For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. [28] For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. [29] Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. [31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. [32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: [33] So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. [34] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. [35] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. [36] But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. [37] But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. [38] For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, [39] And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke 17:22-30 – And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. [23] And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. [24] For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. [25] But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. [26] And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. [27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. [28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; [29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. [30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

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White House irked by Netanyahu’s “red line” speech, reverts to Iran diplomacy

DEBKAfile Special Report

September 28, 2012, 7:53 AM (GMT+02:00)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton berated Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the powerful presentation of his case for confronting Iran with red lines instead of hitherto failed diplomacy and sanctions in his speech to the UN General Assembly Thursday, Sept. 27. This is reported by DEBKAfile’s Washington sources.

Neither released a statement from their conversation of an hour and a quarter one-on-one shortly after the speech.

Our sources report that Clinton made it clear that President Barack Obama would not tolerate the Israeli prime minister having a say in his Iran agenda. He remained committed to diplomacy regardless of Netanyahu’s warning that it was getting “late, very late” to stop a nuclear Iran.

Clinton accordingly announced a decision by the world powers to go into another round of nuclear negotiations with Iran, although after the breakdown of diplomacy in July, they expected an improved Iranian offer. EU foreign executive Catherine Ashton was directed to get in touch with Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalilee for another attempt to set up talks, although when the two officials met in Istanbul on Sept. 18, they made no headway.

DEBKAfile US steps early Friday Sept. 28 put the clock back five days to Monday when Obama dismissed Netanyahu’s advocacy of agreed red lines for warning Iran off its nuclear bomb program as “background noises” which he systematically blocked. This reversal came after White House and Israeli officials had begun discussing moving the critical timeline for that program to late spring, early summer 2013, instead of this year.

DEBKAfile reported earlier:

Addressing the UN General Assembly Thursday, Sept. 27, Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu graphically depicted Israel’s red line for Iran. He held up a simple diagram showing that Iran had covered 70 percent of the distance to a nuclear bomb and must be stopped before it reached the critical stage next spring or early summer of 2013.

He stressed that it is getting late, very late to stop a nuclear Iran.

The best way, he said, is to lay down a clear red line on the most vulnerable element of its nuclear program: uranium enrichment. “I believe that if faced with a clear and credible red line, Iran will back down and may even disband its program,” he said.

Red lines prevent wars, don’t start them and in fact deterred Iran from blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Israel and the US are in discussion over this issue, said Netanyahu. “I’m sure we can forge a way forward together.”

He went on to accuse Iran of spreading terrorist networks in two dozen countries and turning Lebanon and Gaza into terror strongholds. Hoping a nuclear-armed Iran will bring stability is like hoping a nuclear al Qaeda will bring world peace, the prime minister remarked.

DEBKAfile quotes some Washington sources as disclosing that the White House and Israel emissaries have come to an understanding that Israel will hold back from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites before the US election in November, while a special team set up by President Barack Obama completes a new paper setting out the end game for Iran.

He put the team to work after concluding that negotiations with Iran had exhausted their usefulness. Gary Samore, top presidential adviser on nuclear proliferation, leads the team.

Netanyahu’s citing of late spring, early summer 2013, as the critical point on Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb appears to confirm that he has agreed to delay military action against Iran following negotiations with the White House on the next agreed steps. Our sources report that the prime minister was represented in those talks by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and National Security Adviser Yakov Amidror.

According to another view, which is current in Washington’s intelligence community, Israel was finally persuaded to delay by fresh intelligence presented by the Obama administration which showed that Israeli estimates were overly pessimistic in judging the timeline for Iran’s nuclear facilities to be buried in “immunity zones.” That timeline extended to spring 2013, leaving Israel five to six months up to April-May for ordering a military operation against those sites.

However, we have learned that Israeli intelligence circles dispute their American colleagues’ estimate as “interesting” but inaccurate.

Netanyahu, in his speech, confirmed that Washington and Jerusalem were constantly exchanging views and evaluations on the state of Iran’s nuclear program.

He also made the point that while intelligence services, American and Israeli alike, had remarkable aptitudes, their estimates on Iran were not foolproof. He was referrng to the Pentagon claim that when Iran was ready to build a bomb, American intelligence would know about it in good time.

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Ghosts of The Ashdod Bastard Are Preparing For Attack Along Coast

That some Seventy percent of the Jewish population has Inhabited.

Gaza Strip Bastard Has Made A Trip To Unite With A Turkish Bastard!

Out of the Arab Spring chaos will eventually rise the Mahdi Antichrist

He will Rise to Power Out of the Ashes of the Current Syrian civil War

As A Supposed Uniting Catalyst OF Bonding Twixt Many Islamic Sects

He Shall Rise Within The Old Borders Identified As The “Greater Syria”

The Mahdi will Eventually Unite 10 Islamic Horns to Attack the Israelis

I guesstimate He’ll Likely get them ready to attack Twixt 2014 & 2016

The Cities along The Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza Coastal Zones.

Assyria, Babylon, Greeks, And Romans Conquered This Zone 4 Times

As DID Other Historical conquerors Moving SOUTH Through THE Zone!

Most of the Prophecies in Zechariah 9:2-6 Have Already Been Fulfilled!

October 1, 2012

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John 4:24 – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Exodus 20:1-5 – And God spake all these words, saying, [2] I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. [3] Thou shalt have no other gods before me. [4] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: [5] Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

The bastard described in Deuteronomy was a spiritual bastard, not necessarily someone who did not know who his father was, or was born out of wedlock.

The descendants of the man Israel considered the offspring of men who united with heathen women (non-Jews, Gentiles) as bastards. And the offspring of the original union were considered as bastards for several generations. The heathen woman historically led many Jewish men into Idolatry which was the first commandment, and was considered by God to be spiritual adultery.

Strong’s – mamzer – A mongrel – born of a Jewish Father and a heathen Mother

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown: not the rightful heir; vile and low men, such as bastards [Grotius]

An Alien; implying the desolation of the region wherein men shall not settle, but sojourn in only as aliens passing through [Calvin]

Deuteronomy 23:2 – A BASTARD shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

The bastard described in Hebrews is a spiritual bastard, who God does not acknowledge as one of his spiritual children,

Hebrews 12:6-8 – For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. [7] If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? [8] But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

THE ASSYRIAN, BABYLONIAN, GREEK & ROMAN KINGDOMS SWEPT DOWN THE COASTS OF SYRIA, LEBANON, AND ISRAEL IN FOUR DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS.

ZECHARIAH WAS BORN IN BABYLONIA.

ZECHARIAH WROTE HIS PROPHECIES IN ISRAEL BETWEEN 520 AND 518 B.C. DURING THE PERSIAN EMPIRE

ZECHARIAH WTOTE SOME 100 YEARS AFTER THE WRITINGS OF JEREMIAH, EZEKIEL, & DANIEL – THESE THREE WROTE SOME 100 YEARS AFTER ISAIAH AND MICAH.

The Scriptures in Zechariah 9 refer to God’s curse on the inhabitants of Syria and along the southern cities of Lebanon (Tyrus and Zidon) down the Jewish coastline into the Gaza Strip.

Zechariah 9:2-6 – And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. [3] And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. [4] Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. [5] Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. [6] AND A BASTARD SHALL DWELL IN ASHDOD, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Hamath is located near a northern Syria seaport.. Tyrus and Zidon are on the southern seacoast of Lebanon.

ZECHARIAH’S PROPHECY DOES NOT PERTAIN TO THE HAMAS CHIEF, BUT IT IS AN INTERESTING REPEAT OF WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED MANY TIMES IN HISTORY TO WHOEVER OCCUPIED THAT COASTLINE WHEN IT WAS ATTACKED, IT IS NOT A FAR DISTANT EVENT WHEN THE ANTICHRIST FROM GREATER SYRIA WILL INVADE THE SAME COASTLINE. THE HAMAS GAZA STRIP OCCUPANTS WILL ATTACK JERUSALEM FROM THE WEST AS THE FORCES OF ISLAM PUSH SOUTH DOWN ISRAEL’S MEDITERRANEAN SEA COAST AND JORDAN’S RIVER VALLEY.

Daniel 11:41 – He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

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Gaza Hamas Chief Mashaal: Resistance is only path towards state of Israel.

The Hamas chief, who is in Ankara for Turkish ruling party’s congress, says group committed to Palestinian liberation; Erdogan, Morsi pledge support for Palestinian cause

Elior Levy

September 30, 2012

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at a major congress of his ruling party on Sunday. The three leaders pledged joint opposition to Israel and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Erdogan went as far as to blast Israel’s “state terrorism,” while Mashaal asserted that “resistance” is the only way to get is the Jewish state to back down from the “occupation.”

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• Morsi to UN: End Israeli occupation
• Report: Turkish pilots killed by Assad, not crash
• Report: Hamas chief wants to step down

The Hamas leader, who received a standing ovation, said that his movement is committed to the liberation of Palestine and the creation of a Palestinian state. He did not address his decision to step down from his position as the group’s politburo chief.

“We are committed to liberating our land and taking back Jerusalem, dismantling the settlements and bringing back refugees, freeing the prisoners jailed by the Zionist occupier and establishing a real Palestinian state, with true sovereignty in spite of the enemy,” he said.

Mashaal stressed that “resistance” is the only means towards reinstating the Palestinians’ rights. He said that all other international attempts to press Israel to back down have failed.

Mashaal’s address underlined the deterioration in the ties between Ankara and Jerusalem. Erdogan’s willingness to buddy up to Mashaal in front of the cameras on Sunday marked a stark shift from six years ago, when the Turkish leader refused to meet the Hamas chief during the latter’s trip to Ankara.

Egypt-Turkey partnership

Morsi spoke before the congress as well, amid signs that a partnership between Egypt and Turkey is emerging, and said they both plan to stand by Palestinians and the Syrian people.

“Our common goal is to support other people who are standing up against their administrations or regimes, to support Palestine and the Syrians in their efforts,” Morsi said.

“The events in Syria are the tragedy of the century,” Morsi said. “We will be on the side of the Syrian people until the bloodshed ends, the cruel regime is gone and Syrian people reach their just rights.”

Erdogan slams Israeli ‘terrorism’

In his speech to the congress, which marked the ruling Justice and Development party’s decade in power, Erdogan promised that Turkey is determined to speak out against what he called Israel’s “state terrorism” in the region and praised Morsi for his support to Palestinians.

“Through Morsi’s leadership, our Palestinian brothers in Gaza and in all other Palestinian cities are able to breathe easily,” he said.

Erdogan said Turkey would not reconcile with former ally Israel until it lifts its blockade of Gaza and apologizes for an attack in 2010 that killed nine mostly Turkish pro-Palestinian activists in a raid on a flotilla that tried to breach the blockade.

Israel has refused to apologize but has expressed regret for the loss of lives. It insists troops opened fire after coming under attack by activists.

Erdogan further pledged that Turkey, which is host to some 88,000 Syrian refuges as well as Syrian opposition groups, would continue to support both the the Syrian people wanting to oust the Assad regime.

He appealed to Russia, China and Iran to stop backing the regime.

“We call on Russia, China as well as Iran: please review your stance. History will not forgive those who stand together with cruel regimes,” he said. Mashaal did not ignore the civil war in Syria, saying that Hamas lauds the Syrian people’s uprising.

“There is no contradiction in our adoption of democracy and reform, and our support of the resistance,” he said.

AP contributed to the report

Begin 4 Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

Excerpt 1 – Washington Post via Reuters

300 Killed in Single Day in Syria

(Reuters)

More than 300 people were killed in Syria on Wednesday, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that the conflict has claimed 30,000 lives since March 2011.

At least 40 appeared to have been shot in cold blood in al-Dhiyabia, where a video published by activists showed rows of bloodied corpses wrapped in blankets.
Suicide Bombers Target Syrian Military Headquarters in Damascus – Liz Sly and Ahmed Ramadan (Washington Post)

Excerpt 2 – Wall Street Journal

Inside Assad’s Killing Fields

Jonathan Spyer

(Wall Street Journal)

Suicide bombers targeted the main Syrian military headquarters in the heart of Damascus on Wednesday.

Four guards were killed and 14 people were wounded, state media said.

Iranian rebels now control roughly 70% of Aleppo, the country’s largest city, with a population of 2.3 million. The Assad regime is fighting back through indiscriminate air attacks on rebel-held districts. Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo serves Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians. On Sept. 18, Dar al-Shifa came under attack by the Syrian air force. I was in the hospital at the time and witnessed the bombing.

Excerpt 3 – NBC News

Libyan President: Anti-Islam Film Had Nothing to Do with U.S. Consulate Attack

Ann Curry

(NBC News)

In an interview with NBC, Libya’s president Mohammed Magarief said there’s “no doubt” the attack that killed four Americans in Libya was preplanned, and not a result of the anti-Islam movie that sparked violent protests.

Magarief said there were no protesters at the site before the attack and that “They chose this date, 11th of September, to carry a certain message.”

Excerpt 4 – New York Times

Clinton Suggests Al-Qaeda Link in Libya Attack

Steven Lee Myers

(New York Times)

Morsi Releases Islamist Who Tried to Kill Mubarak

(Al-Ahram-Egypt)

Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya leader Mostafa Hamza, detained for terrorist activity and an attempt on former President Hosni Mubarak’s life, was released Tuesday after being pardoned by President Morsi.

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