Will Lebanon be one of the Three Subdued King Horns?
June 15, 2007
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Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horn s
out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
[25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his h
and until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume
and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. (For a full of Daniel 7:24-27 please read Archive Prophecy Update Number 234A)
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Lebanese PM appeals to UN for Cooperation
June 14, 2007
BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called for an extraordinary meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the murder of MP Walid Eido on Wednesday.
“We are calling for an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Arab foreign ministers so that the Arab League assumes its responsibilities towards Lebanon,” he said after a government meeting.
Siniora, who declared Thursday a “day of national mourning,” also urged the United Nations to provide technical help for the investigation into Eido’s murder along with nine others in a Beirut car bombing.
He said Eido’s killing should be added to the UN enquiry into previous attacks in Lebanon, including the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri which has been widely blamed on neighbouring Syria.
Damascus, which has denied links with the attacks, was forced to end 29 years of military domination in Lebanon after the Hariri assassination.
“We will not surrender… despite the dozens of assassinations and hundreds of bombings” against anti-Syrian targets in Lebanon since October 2004, Siniora said.
“They want to drown Lebanon in destruction… they don’t want a free and independent Lebanon,” he said, vowing not to “surrender to terrorism.”
Siniora said Eido’s murder was part of a plan to destabilise Lebanon, including security breaches by “a gang sent from across the border” which has been locked in fierce fighting with the army in north Lebanon since May 20.
A government official said Siniora made the appeal after calls to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, Arab League chief Amr Mussa, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed.
Lebanon’s parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri blamed Syria for Eido’s murder and called on the Arab League to “boycott the terrorist regime” targeting his country.
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The New Zealand Herald
By Tom Perry and Yara Bayoumy
June 14, 2007
A Lebanese civil defence personnel rests next to an unidentified body near the site of an explosion in Beirut. Photo / Reuters
BEIRUT – The UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned today the latest political killing in Lebanon, of anti-Syrian legislator Walid Eido and nine other people nearby.
In a policy statement read at a formal meeting, the council also condemned “any attempt to destabilise Lebanon through political assassination or other terrorist acts.”
The statement, initiated by France, supported efforts by the Beirut government to condemn terrorism, solidify democracy and extend its authority throughout the country.
“The Security Council unequivocally condemns the terrorist attack in Beirut … including Member of Parliament Walid Eido,” the 15-member body said.
In comments to reporters, Ban said, “I again condemn in the strongest possible terms such heinous terrorist acts to kill civilians and political leaders.”
“I urge again the Lebanese government to take all necessary measures to find the perpetrators to bring justice. This is just unacceptable,” the secretary-general said.
He said he would ask Prime Minister Fouad Siniora about any assistance he needed.
A parked sports utility vehicle packed with 60 to 80 kg of explosives blew up as Eido’s car was driving away from a Beirut beach club, a senior security source said.
One of the parliamentarian’s sons and two bodyguards were among the dead. At least 11 people were wounded.
Eido, 64, belonged to the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls the government.
A Sunni Muslim lawyer, he had been a foe of Syrian influence in Lebanon and an ally of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, who was assassinated by a suicide truck bomber in February 2005.
Eido was killed just three days after a UN Security Council resolution came into effect setting up an international tribunal to try suspects in Hariri’s assassination.
Saad al-Hariri says Syria was behind his father’ s killing and later attack
s. Damascus denies any involvement.
Eido’s death brought to seven the number of anti-Syrian politicians and journalists killed in Lebanon since 2005.
“It is the same fingers that assassinated the martyred premier Rafik al-Hariri … the fingers of evil and its evil agents that plant terror in Lebanon,” Hariri said of Eido’s killing. “They don’t want Lebanon to rest.”
There was no immediate comment from Syria.
Its allies in Lebanon denounced the assassination.
Condemnation also came from the United States, France, Britain and the European Union.
“We stand with the people of Lebanon and Prime Minister (Fouad) Siniora’s government as they battle extremists who are trying to derail Lebanon’s march to peace, prosperity and a lasting democracy,” said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said his country stood by Lebanon “in the face of these repeated attempts at destabilization”. He urged the Lebanese to resume dialogue.
The Beirut government declared Thursday, when the funerals were due to take place, a day of national mourning.
“Lebanon and the Lebanese will not submit to terrorism,” Siniora said after an emergency cabinet session.
He said the government was asking the UN commission investigating Hariri’s assassination to help with the inquiry into Eido’s killing and add it to the tribunal’s work.
The blast, near a seafront amusement park and a football club, set a car ablaze and shattered windows of nearby buildings. It hurled the bodies of Eido and his son over a wall and into the football ground, witnesses said.
Two players in the Nejmeh football team, which is in Lebanon’s top league, were among those killed.
“It sounded like it was in your backyard,” said Herbert Lahout, 45, a US citizen who had been playing volleyball on a nearby beach. “It was like a mushroom cloud, a big ugly cloud.”
Five less powerful bombs have exploded in and around Beirut in the past month, killing two people.
Eido’s death was likely to fuel tension between Siniora’s Western-backed government and the pro-Damascus opposition led by the Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah group.
Parliament member Wael Abou-Faour said Eido had been killed “because there is a decision by the Syrian regime to terminate the March 14 bloc”, referring to the Hariri-led coalition.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Shi’ite opponent of the government, condemned the killing, as did Hezbollah and Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun.
Tension was already high in Lebanon, where the army has been battling al Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in the north for more than three weeks.
Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in fresh fighting at the Nahr al-Bared camp on Wednesday, security sources said.
The battle for the camp, Lebanon’s bloodiest internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war, has killed 144 people — 62 soldiers, 50 militants and 32 civilians — since May 20.
REUTERS
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