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Islamic Prophecy was twisted by Caliphs after Muhammad’s Death

He used the Canonized Old and New Testaments to write It

He Finished It Some 200 years after N.T. Canonization

It should be no surprise his Prophecies are Similar

My years among Muslims has been Invaluable

In understanding the history of the Qur’an

And in Reading Its English Translations.

February 4, 2013

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it is possible to see a twisting of Bible prophecy in the following quotes from the Qur’an:

The Moslems have several specific prophecies that pit them against Jews and Christians till the bitter, exhausted end. The return of the Jews to Israel, the current situation in the Mideast, and the probable future was predicted quite explicitly in the Quran:

“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, dwell securely in the land, But when the second of the warnings come to pass We shall bring you a crowd, gathered out of various nations.” [Quran 17:104]

“And they shall incur the wrath of Allah, and humiliation will be made to cling to them. This is because they disbelieved in the message of Allah, and killed the Prophets of Allah. This is because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.” Quran 3:111]

“And with those who say: We are Christians, We made a covenant, but they neglected a portion of that whereof they were reminded. So we allowed to stir up enmity and hatred among them to the Day of resurrection. And Allah will soon let them know the consequences of what they do.” [Quran 5:14]

“There is not a town but We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection or chastise it with a severe chastisement.” [Quran 17: 58]

“On that day We shall let some of them surge against the others, and the trumpet will be blown. Then We shall gather them all together. And We shall bring forth hell, exposed to view, on that day before the misbelievers.” [Quran 18: 99, 100]

The majority of Islamic prophecies are not based directly on what Muhammad wrote in the Quran, but on what are called “hadith” by Muslims,

THE ISLAMIC “HADITH”

A hadith is a saying of Muhammad or a report about something he did. Over time, during the first few centuries of Islam, it became obvious that many so-called hadith were in fact spurious sayings that had been fabricated for various motives, at best to encourage believers to act righteously and at worse to corrupt believers’ understanding of Islam and to lead them astray. Since Islamic legal scholars were utilizing hadith as an adjunct to the Qur’an in their development of the Islamic legal system, it became critically important to have reliable collections of hadith. While the early collections of hadith often contained hadith that were of questionable origin, gradually collections of authenticated hadith called sahih (lit. true, correct) were compiled. Such collections were made possible by the development of the science of hadith criticism, a science at the basis of which was a critical analysis of the chain of (oral) transmission (isnad) of the hadith going all the way back to Muhammad. The two most highly respected collections of hadith are the authenticated collections the Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. (Sahih literally means “correct, true, valid, or sound.”) In addition to these, four other collections came to be well-respected, although not to the degree of Bukhari and Muslim’s sahih collections. These four other collections are the Sunan of Tirmidhi, Nasa’i, Ibn Majah, and Abu Da’ud. Together these four and the two sahih collections are called the “six books” (al-kutub al-sitta). Two other important collections, in particular, are the Muwatta of Ibn Malik, the founder of the Maliki school of law, and the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali school of law.

The following is a list of Hadīth collections, which are sources that contain the sayings, acts or tacit approvals, validly or invalidly, ascribed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

SUNNI COLLECTIONS

Al-Sihah al-Sittah, the Six books.
al-Bukhari (died 870) included 7275 hadiths
Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (died 875) included 9200.
Abu Da’ud (died 888)
al-Tirmidhi (died 892)
al-Nasa’i (died 915)
Ibn Maja (died 886).
Muwatta of Imam Malik
Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
Sunan Al-Bayhaqi
Sunan Al-Darimi
An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith

SHIA COLLECTIONS

Al-Kutub Al-Arb’ah, the Four books
Kitab al-Kafi, of Kulainy
Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
Tahdhib al-Ahkam of Shaikh Tusi
al-Istibsar of Shaikh Tusi

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Excerpt 1 – Gatestone Institute

Jerusalem, Capital of Israel: An Islamic Prophecy

Ali Salim

It is a violation of the will of Allah to sidestep calls for recognizing Jerusalem as the official capital of the Children of Israel, and moving the American embassy there. It ignores the prophecy of the Qur’an, which predicts the return of the Children of Israel to their land from the four corners of the earth, as it is written in Al-Isra, Verse 104: “And we said to the Children of Israel after him, ‘Dwell in the land, then, when the final and the last promise comes near, we shall bring you altogether as a mixed crowd.'”

In the Qur’an the Children of Israel are mentioned countless times and they are mentioned as the Chosen People, as it is written in Al-Baqara, Verse 47, “O Children of Israel, remember My favor that I have bestowed upon you and that I preferred you over the worlds.” They are mentioned as inheritors of the Holy Land which, according to all the Islamic commentators, is Jerusalem and the country around it.

Nearly a century ago, when the Turks went back home, the Children of Israel came from all the corners of the earth, as it is written in Al-A’raf, Verse 137, “And we caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured.” (Gatestone institute)

Excerpt 2 – Ynet News

Turk Activist: Hatred of Muslim World Jews Stems from Misinterpretation of Koran

Sinem Tezyapar

It is true that there is a widespread hatred of Jews in the Muslim world. However this does not stem from the Koran, but from various interpretations that do not reflect the spirit of Islam. The way to put things right is for people of reason and good conscience to educate people against terror, radicalism and fundamentalism. (Ynet News)

Because Muhammad had accesses to the completed prophecies of the both the Old and New Testaments, he twisted them into a reversal of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

This Jihad (Holy War) attack by Islamic nations against Israel is the third in a series of attacks described in the Koran of Islam. In Arabic, the name Koran means “The Recital.” Allah speaks in the first person plural, which often changes to the first person singular or the third person singular in the course of the same sentence.

QUOTE FROM THE KORAN, THE NIGHT JOURNEY 17:4-8

The Night Journey 17:4 – In the Scriptures We solemnly declared to the Israelites: ‘Twice you shall commit evil in the land. You shall become great transgressors.’

“Scriptures” refer to those found in the Old Testament of our present day Bible.

Mohammed claims that Allah is the God of all men, including Israel, and that he gave them what we call the Old Testament. Mohammed calls the Jews “the people of The Book.” Also please bear in mind that Mohammed was born about AD 570, almost 500 years after John finished Revelation, the last book of the New Testament.

“Twice” refers to the sins of Israel in the Old Testament that led God to cause them to be led into captivity on two occasions. The first being the 70 year captivity into which the Babylonians carried them in about 587 BC.

Jeremiah 25:8-11 – [8] Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, [9] Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. [10] Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. [11] And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

The second occasion was the carrying away by Romans which began in AD 70 by Titus, and was completed by Hadrian some 65 years later. This led to the worldwide dispersal of the Jews.

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.

Please remember that both these attacks had already occurred BEFORE Mohammed wrote the Koran. But since he is claiming that his God Allah wrote “The Scriptures” we call “The Bible,” he is interpreting our Bible to say that Allah and Islam warned the Israelites in advance of the these two attacks before they occurred.

The Night Journey 17:5 – And when the prophecy of your first transgression came to be fulfilled, we sent against you a formidable army which ravaged your land and carried out the punishment with which you had been threatened.

This was, of course, the Babylonian invasion and the 70 years of captivity.

The Night Journey 17:6 – Then we granted you victory over them and multiplied your riches and descendants, so that once again you became a numerous people. We (Allah and Islam) said: ‘If you do good, it shall be to your own advantage; but if you do evil, you shall sin against your own souls.’

Mohammed here claims that Allah gave them victory by causing the conquest of the Babylonians by the Medes and the Persians, and then raising up Cyrus, King of Persia, to allow them to return to their homeland.

The Night Journey 17:7 – And when the prophecy of your second transgression came to be finished, We (Allah and Islam) sent another army to afflict you and to enter the Temple as the former entered it before, utterly destroying all that they laid their hands on.

Mohammed here claims that because they did not heed Allah’s second warning, he sent the Roman army against them, and they, like the Babylonians had destroyed the Temple of Solomon in about 587 BC, destroyed the Temple of Herod in AD 70. Mohammed then makes the prediction of a final punishment if they trespass against Allah for a third time. This attack will result in their being scourged and cast into Hell, the prison house for all unbelievers. I believe Mohammed extracted this prophecy from both the Old and New Testaments.

The Night Journey 18:8 – We (Allah and Islam) said: ‘Allah may yet be merciful to you. If you again transgress, you shall again be scourged. We have made Hell a prison-house for unbelievers.’

I suspect that Mohammed took the writings of the “prophets of Israel” that were “spoken in old time” of the final attack against Israel, and them predicted it as being a prophecy from Allah.

Ezekiel 38:14-17 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: [16] And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. [17] Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

I believe this will be a scourging by the armies of Islam as they sweep south from Dan to Beersheva, and Israel will be exiled in the Negev Wilderness for some three and one-half years.

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A Christian’s war has always been a spiritual one against Darkness

The West is now wrestling against spiritual darkness in high Places

An 8th kingdom of darkness is slowly being manifested in Mid-East,

A Resurrection of the Umayyad Caliphate is Rising in the Old World.

The Spirit Of Antichrist Cries For Allah, Jihad, Caliphate, And Shari’a

Continues to move across the Known World Occupied in Jesus’ Day

Islam will be United enough to attack Israel after Obama 2nd Term!

February 2, 2013

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THE SAVED ARE SPIRITUAL TESTED DAILY THROUGH THE FLESH BY THE POWERS OF AN INVISIBLE SATANIC KINGDOM ACROSS PLANET EARTH.

Ephesians 6:12 – For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

ATTACK ON ISRAEL WILL BE LAUNCHED FROM THE SEAT OF THE BEAST IN GREATER SYRIA. THE EUPHRATES RUNS THROUGH NORTHEASTERN SYRIA.

Revelation 16:10-14 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. [13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

II Corinthians 11:14,15 – And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. [15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

INITIAL ATTACK BY “THAT WICKED” MAHDI WILL REVEAL HIM TO ALL BELIEVERS AS THE ANTICHRIST, WHO THE LORD WILL DESTROY AS HE COMES AT HIS SECOND ADVENT.

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.

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Middle East Media Research Institute

January 31, 2013

British Islamists Protest French Campaign In Mali: Hollande Is A ‘Son Of Pharoah’,

Islam Will Dominate France And England

Following are excerpts from a video of London Islamists protesting against the French military campaign in Mali. The demonstration, which was held outside the French Embassy, was posted on the Internet on January 12, 2013

British Islamist Anjem Chaudary: “We are here to expose the French regime and to say: Hands off Muslim land.”
Crowd: “Hands off Muslim land.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Hands off Muslim land.”
Crowd: “Hands off Muslim land.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Hands off Muslim land.”
Crowd: “Hands off Muslim land.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Hands off Muslim land.”
Crowd: “Hands off Muslim land.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Shari’a for Mali.”
Crowd: “Shari’a for Mali.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Shari’a for Mali.”
Crowd: “Shari’a for Mali.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Shari’a for Mali.”
Crowd: “Shari’a for Mali.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad for Mali.”
Crowd: “Jihad for Mali.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad for Mali.”
Crowd: “Jihad for Mali.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad for Mali.”
Crowd: “Jihad for Mali.”

Anjem Chaudary: “What do we want?”
Crowd: “Jihad.”

Anjem Chaudary: “When do we want it?”
Crowd: “Now.”

Anjem Chaudary: “What do we want?”
Crowd: “Jihad”

Anjem Chaudary: “When do we want it?”
Crowd: “Now.”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad!”
Crowd: “Jihad!”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad!”
Crowd: “Jihad!”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad!”
Crowd: “Jihad!”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad!”
Crowd: “Jihad!”

Anjem Chaudary: “Jihad!”
Crowd: “Jihad!”

Anjem Chaudary: “Say: ‘Allah Akbar.'”
Crowd: “Allah Akbar.”
[…]
Anjem Chaudary: “A caliphate for Mali, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq… The Islamic nation is boiling. We got rid of some of our dictators – Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Al-Qadhafi. Now it’s time for the dictators in Mali, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh, and all over the Muslim lands to be removed and replaced by the shari’a, by Islam.”
[…]
British Islamist: “There is no god but Allah.”
Crowd: “There is no god but Allah.”

British Islamist: “Jihad for the sake of Allah.”
Crowd: “Jihad for the sake of Allah.”
[…]
British Islamist: “The call for the shari’a is a global call. It is a choice that these governments in the West will have to face up to. The shari’a is an inevitability. Therefore, you had better accept the shari’a, otherwise you will find us on your own doorsteps, outside your own embassies.”
[…]
British Islamist: “You talk about Freedom, you talk about democracy, but there is no freedom for Muslims to practice Islam. That is because their idols of freedom and democracy are false idols. They will burn in Hell, just like you.
[…]
“Our leader is the final Messenger Muhammad. He is the Messenger. He gave us glad tidings: that we will conquer, we will lead, we will spread mercy, and we will spread justice, whether you like it or whether you don’t like it. Look to your own doorstep in France – your own French women are abandoning their Christianity and donning the hijab and the burqa.
[…]
“The Muslims reached the gates of Vienna, I don’t think [unintelligible], because our eyes are on Paris, our eyes are on Brussels, our eyes are on London. We will not stop, as Muslims, until the whole world is governed by Islam.”
[…]
British Islamist: “My dear Muslims, for how long will we live under oppression? Isn’t it time that we united? Isn’t it time that we returned back to Allah and His Messenger? Isn’t it time that we showed support to the Muslims? Isn’t it time we support the mujahideen, because it is them who are fighting for the religion of Allah? Because of them we are able to walk with our heads high. Because of them we have honor, because of them we have dignity. Isn’t it about time, my dear Muslims? We gather together under one banner of: ‘There is no god but Allah,’ and we support our Muslims. So French government, let that be a warning, or a piece of advice, to you. Take it the way you want, because you will never stop the army of the Muslims. You will never stop Muslims, because this nation is far too large to be stopped. This nation is like a tidal wave – when it starts, it doesn’t stop. It will conquer the east of the East and the west of the West, because that is the prophecy of our Prophet Muhammad.”

Say: ‘Allah Akbar.'”
Crowd: “Allah Akbar.”

British Islamist: “Say: ‘Allah Akbar.'”
Crowd: “Allah Akbar.”

Islamist (in French): “What is happening today in Mali is an act of terrorism launched by François Hollande against the Muslims. This is an act of terrorism, launched by François Hollande, against the nation of Muhammad. Allah warns us in the Koran that the Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with the Muslims until they embrace their religion. What François Hollande is doing is exporting prostitution to Muslim lands, exporting homosexuality to Mali, exporting the exploitation of women to the Muslim lands. What we are saying to François Hollande is that the Muslims throughout the world will not rest until Islam dominates France, until Islam dominates the entire world. Islam will not dominate only Mali, Afghanistan, and Africa, but also France, Paris, and England. François Hollande, you must understand a few facts of life: You are a son of Pharaoh. The blood of Pharaoh courses through your veins.
[…]
“The Islamic movement will become a system of life under your nose. Your wife, French women, the people of France, will live under the Islamic movement, even if you don’t like it. We will collect the jizya poll tax.
[…]
“We are telling you to remove your soldiers, the unbelievers, who are in the Muslim world. But you don’t understand, you cannot see the message.
[…]
“The nation of Muhammad loves death just as you love your pork. It loves death more than you love your pigs. It loves death more than you love prostitution, more than you love wine.
[…]
“Shari’a for France.”
Crowd: “Shari’a for France.”

Islamist: “Shari’a for France.”
Crowd: “Shari’a for Paris.”

Islamist: “Shari’a for the world in its entirety.”
Crowd: “Shari’a for Europe in its entirety.”

[…]

Islamist: “Most of the residents of Paris are Muslims. Allah willing, most of the French system will be according to the shari’a. Most of the residents of France will be Muslims, Allah willing.

Say: ‘Allah Akbar.'”
Crowd: “Allah Akbar.”

[…]

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OBAMA’S LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ARE HAPPY IN THE BLUE HEAVEN

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON TILL THE 10 HORNS/TOES APPEARED

TO BE UNITED BY NUMBER 11 WHO IS THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST

WHICH SHALL ARISE IN THE AREA LABELED AS “GREATER SYRIA”

A DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE POLICY WILL BE SAME POLICY

AS OBAMA DOCTRINE – LEAVE ALL OPTIONS ON THE BIG TABLE

BUT DO NOT USE THEM – JUST KEEP NEGOTIATING & WARNING!

US WILL BUILD A LITTLE NEST, AWAY OUT IN THE WEST & LET

THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY, AS IN SONG “MOLLIE AND ME”

WHICH IS WHAT AMERICA DID PRIOR TO WORLD WARS 1 & 2!

WORLD SHALL MAKE READY FOR A WAR IN OBAMA’S LAST TERM

IT SHALL BEGIN DURING THE 1ST TERM OF THE NEXT PRESIDENT

Placement February 1, 2013

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Joel 3:9-17 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. [11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. [12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. [16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. [17] So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

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January 31, 2013

US warns Syria not to transfer weapons to Hezbollah

Following reports of alleged Israeli attack on arms convoy heading to Lebanon, deputy national security advisor says Syria ‘should not further destabilize the region;’ UN says peacekeepers did not observe any planes flying over Golan Heights. Egyptian FM: Airstrike danger to Mideast security

Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – The White House on Thursday warned Syria not to transfer weapons to Hezbollah, as tensions mounted following reported Israeli raids on a military research center and a weapons convoy.

“Syria should not further destabilize the region by transferring weaponry to Hezbollah,” said Ben Rhodes, a US deputy national security advisor.

The New York Times reported Thursday that Israel informed the US about the alleged attack on a convoy that was transporting SA-17 antiaircraft weapons to Hezbollah. Should these weapons reach the Shiite terror group, they could cut into Israel’s ability to fly reconnaissance flights over Lebanon.

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Dawn attack shook Damascus military complex

Israeli and American officials told The Times that the vehicles hit early Wednesday near the Syrian-Lebanese border were also carrying electronic equipment capable of disabling the GPS systems of drones.

Sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal reiterated the preliminary assertion that a shipment of antiaircraft missiles was bombed, even though Syria maintained that such accounts were wrong. Instead, Syria’s military said, Israeli jets had attacked a military facility near Damascus.

But US officials told the WSJ the reports of two targets – the arms convoy and the military site – we’re not mutually exclusive. The Hezbollah-bound trucks may have been close to a military facility, they said, cautioning their information is incomplete.

Syria said on Thursday Israel and it allies bore responsibility for the results of the Israeli air raid near Damascus and said it had the right to defend its sovereignty.

“Syria holds Israel and those who are protecting it at the Security Council responsible for the results of the attack and confirms its right to defend its land and sovereignty,” state television quoted a letter from the Foreign Ministry to the United Nations as say saying.

A number of countries, mainly from the Middle East, leveled harsh criticism at Israel following the reports of the alleged attack. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the Beirut-based pan-Arab TV station Al Mayadeen, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, that the “recent Israeli aggression against Syria is an insulting message to all Arabs and Muslims.” He said Israel would not have dared to attack Syria had the Arabs been united.

“The Israeli entity is taking advantage of the Arab schism and the situation in Syria to carry out (this) aggression,” he claimed. “The Arab countries must support Syria in its struggle against Israel and convey the message that the aggression hurt their honor.”

Al-Maliki warned that the “Israeli entity may attack Egypt, Iraq, Iran and other countries under the pretext of (attacking) research centers for the production of a nuclear bomb.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr also condemned the attack, saying “such an assault on Arab land is entirely rejected and represents a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and international law.”

In a statement to the state-run news agency MENA on Thursday, Amr called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for attacks on Arab land, describing the airstrike as a danger to regional security and Middle Eastern sovereignty.

Meanwhile, UN peacekeepers in a demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel were unable to verify the Syrian complaint that Israeli planes had flown over the Golan Heights area, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday.

“UNDOF (the peacekeeping mission) did not observe any planes flying over the area of separation and therefore was not able to confirm the incident. UNDOF also reported bad weather conditions,” UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters.

Ban’s press office said in a statement that the secretary-general “notes with grave concern reports of Israeli air strikes in Syria” and “calls on all concerned to prevent tensions or their escalation … and to strictly abide by international law, in particular in respect of territorial integrity and sovereignty of all countries in the region.”

Roi Kais, AFP, Reuters, AP contributed to the report

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US Ankara suicide bomber belonged to leftist group suspected of Burgas attack

DEBKAfile Special Report

February 1, 2013, 6:41 PM (GMT+02:00)

Turkish interior minister Moammer Guler identified the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive Friday, Feb. 1 at the US embassy in Ankara killing a Turkish security guard as Ecevit Sanli, 31, a member of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), a left-wing terrorist group outlawed in Turkey. He was released from Turkish jail eight months ago. DEBKAfile: The DHKP/C, which is associated with Lebanese terrorist groups and Syrian left-wing factions, was suspected of the attack in Burgas, Bulgaria last July, which left five Israeli tourists dead.

Sanli died detonating his explosive at a side entrance of the US embassy in Ankara Friday, Feb. 1, sending embassy staff diving into fortified shelters as smoke and debris rose in clouds over the fortified compound.

A former broadcast journalist Didem Tuncay was seriously injured in the attack.
Local TV showed damage to a compound wall and a smashed embassy building window. No organization has taken responsibility for the attack.

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources estimate that it was the work either of al Qaeda, Syrian intelligence or Hizballah, possibly as part of the payback for Israel’s air strike Wednesday against the Jamraya military complex near Damascus. That complex served both Hizballah and the Syrian army and Syria has already threatened retribution on the scale of an earthquake. It may also have been retaliation for the stationing of US Patriot missiles on the Turkish Syrian border and the meeting arranged for US Vice President Joe Biden with the Syrian opposition leader Mouaz Alkhatib in Munich, Germany.

Plenty of warnings have issued from Tehran on all these counts.

On Dec. 15, Iran’s armed forces chief Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi warned that the deployment of American anti-missile batteries in Turkey could cause a world war. Last Saturday, Jan. 26, Ali Akbar Velayati, a close aide of the Iranian supreme leader, declared that attacking Syria was tantamount to attacking Iran.

Israel’s air strike may have been the last straw for Tehran, which warned the “Tel Aviv regime” would suffer “grave consequences.”

By targeting the US embassy in Turkey, the Iranians and their allies may have been starting to hit back for all these grievances at the same time: the Israeli attack, the Patriots and Washington’s support for the Syrian opposition.

If that is so, then the suicide bombing attack on the US embassy in Ankara won’t be the last act of terror planned by Syria, Hizballah and Iran, and it would not be the first time they have hired or enlisted local hit-men or sympathisers for an terrorist operation.

Israel has accused Hizballah of being behind the Burgas attack.

The Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah alliance has targeted US interests in Turkey for terrorist attacks before. On Aug. 21, 2012, seven months ago, a large bomb car blew up in the southern Turkish town of Gaziantep near the Syrian border, killing eight people and injuring at least 66.

No findings were ever released from the investigation of that incident. According to our sources, the bomb car was rigged by a terrorist cell serving Syrian military intelligence in collaboration with Hizballah, like many other political hits carried out in Lebanon over the years. The Gaziantep attack was directed against the command center established in that town for US intelligence and special forces alongside a Free Syrian Army center.

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