The Cancerous Spread of Fanatical Islamic Jihad is Astounding!
May 29, 2007
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I completed my first book in 1976, five years after I had retired from the National Security Agency USAF Branch as a synoptic analyst.
I took a lot of flack when I identified the ten toes and horns in chapters two and seven of Daniel, and the 10 horns of chapters 13 and 17
in Revelation, as being Islamic, NOT European nations. More than ninety percent of the prophetic buffs and books being written at that time were quite certain they would come out of Europe. However, since that time there has been a great swing to identifying them as being Islamic toes and horns.
It became very obvious to me during my time in the NSA that what I had been taught as a young man was more correct than what was being put out in the sixties and seventies. We were afraid of the Soviet Union and Red China, and they were afraid of us and each other. All three kept a constant watch on developments in North Africa and the Middle East, constantly threatening each other when it appeared they might get a foothold in one of the oil producing countries. I specifically identified the problem in my first book, indicating that while we protected the interests of the oil producing countries, they would be able to rapidly progress economically and militarily as we provided a protective cover to protect our own individual interests in the vast oil reserves. We held each other back from taking over the area and controlling the oil flow.
The Islamic nations used the oil revenues to build their economies and purchase high tech military hardware from China, Russia, France, the U.S., North Vietnam, the U.K., and other E.U. nations.
Even though I knew this was bound to happen, quite frankly, I must admit that I have been shocked at how quickly it has accelerated since Russian went bankrupt and China went on an economic explosion. Nor did I expect such fanaticism in the spirit of Martyrdom in Islamic Jihad to explode so violently, so quickly. Once Ben Laden was successful in driv
ing the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, with our CIA providing him with weaponry to do it, it gave a spark to the possibility of Islam becoming a Caliphate from Morocco to India, including all the Islamic nations north and south of that line. I am amazed at how rapidly this spirit of antichrist has engulfed Islam.
I suppose I should not be shocked at the extremely small percentage of the world’s population that believe Jesus is the Son of God, let alone suspect he may soon return to earth. The Scripture certainly said that would be the case in the last days.
II Peter 3:3,4 – Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the prom
ise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
With the solid acceptance of evolution being a worldwide principle it is easy to see why this Scripture hits the mark of the present time.
I am also amazed that perhaps more than three billion people do not believe current Middle East events are connected to the last days, and many who are believers are still waiting for the man of sin to arise in Europe in the far distant future.
It is ironic that billions of Muslims do believe the arrival of their Mahdi,
their Messiah, is in the near future, and many are willing to die in h
is service.
The three articles which follow were taken from the May 28 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert as excerpts from the New York Times, the UK Sunday Times, and MEMRI.
Article 1
Militants Widen Reach as Terror Seeps Out of Iraq
Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennet
When Muhammad al-Darsi, 24, met his recruiter in Damascus, Syria, he was told he was not needed in Iraq. Instead, he was drafted into the war that is seeping out of Iraq.
A team of militants from Iraq had traveled to Jordan, where they were preparing attacks on Americans and Jews. Darsi was asked to join them and blow himself up in a crowd of tourists at Queen Alia Airport in Amman. “I agreed,” Darsi said in a nine-page confession to Jordanian authorities after the plot was broken up. The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters and the tactics they have honed in the insurgency to neighboring countries and beyond.
Last week, the Lebanese Army found itself in a furious battle against Fatah al-Islam, whose ranks included as many as 50 veterans of the war in Iraq, according to Maj. Gen. Achraf Rifi, general director of the Internal Security Forces in Lebanon. “You have 50 fighters from Iraq in Lebanon now, but with good caution I can say there are a hundred times that many, 5,000 or higher, who are just waiting for the right moment to act,” said Dr. Mohammad al-Massari, a Saudi dissident in Britain.
In an April 17 report written for the U.S. government, Dennis Pluchinsky, a former senior intelligence analyst at the State Department, said battle-hardened militants from Iraq posed a greater threat to the West than extremists who trained in Afghanistan because Iraq had become a laboratory for urban guerrilla tactics.
(New York Times)
Article 2
Al-Qaeda Chief Urges Iraqis to Export Jihad, Envisions an Islamic “Greater Syria”
Uzi Mahnaimi
The deputy leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has urged supporters in Iraq to extend their “holy war” to other Middle Eastern countries.
In a recent letter, Zawahiri claims al-Qaeda is defeating U.S. forces and urges followers to expand their campaign of terror. He conjures a vision of an Islamic “greater Syria” comprising Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, where al-Qaeda has already gained its first footholds.
(Sunday Times-UK)
Article 3
Fatah al-Islam Military Commander: We Are “Ready to Blow Up Every Place in Lebanon”
In an interview with the London daily Al-Hayat, the military commander of Fatah al-Islam, Shihab al-Qaddour, also known as Abu Hurieira, threatened that if attacks by the Lebanese military against his organization continued, “all fronts will be opened.” Al-Qaddour stated that “in addition to the supporters of the organization, Fatah al-Islam has bases and sleeper cells in all the Palestinian refugee camps in the various regions of Lebanon, and they are on alert [to launch] a harsh response – they await only a sign from us.” Al-Qaddour said: “Many Fatah al-Islam members have very rich battle experience outside Lebanon.
I personally have 21 years of experience in fighting in various regions – the most recent of which was Iraq.” Al-Qaddour denied that Fatah al-Islam was affiliated with al-Qaeda, and added: “Our organization is an Islamic project aimed at liberating Palestine and Jerusalem.” (MEMRI)
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