Gangster Iran a Middle East Mob
Northern Iranian Puppet does its Job
Southern Iranian Puppet very much Alive
How much longer will the Middle East Survive
Eventually Subduing of the First Horn will Arrive
Southern Puppet fires Iranian Rocket to stir a Beehive
May 14, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 7:7,8 – After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. [8] I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns 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 hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Begin DEBKAfile Analysis
Analysis: Lebanese army will not step in before Hizballah fights pro-government forces to the finish
May 13, 2008, 6:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Lebanese army adapts to Hizballah’s goals
DEBKAfile’s military sources report: After six days of fighting between government loyalists and Hizballah leave close to a 100 dead and 200 wounded, the Lebanese army’s demand that all combatants lay down their arms will go unheeded until the Shiite terrorists decide they have achieved their goals.
Hizballah is now focusing on the northern Tripoli region and the central mountains east of Beirut in line with those goals after deciding there is no need at this stage to topple the pro-Western Siniora government:
1. The northern port of Tripoli is important to Hizballah and Syria – both as the largest pro-Syrian Sunni stronghold in Lebanon and as a supply hub for incoming Iranian arms for Tehran’ s Shiite proxy.
The arms are unloaded from Iran freighters at the Syrian ports of Latakiya and Tartous and trucked to Tripoli.
2. Hizballah has a strategic interest in crushing the Druze militias of the anti-Syrian pro-government Walid Jumblatt, which control the Chouf mountains east of Beirut. Over and above this goal, DEBKAfile’s military sources stress that, after capturing most of Beirut last Saturday, Hizballah has focused on isolating and disarming the Sunni supporters of the Siniora government.
After a series of fierce clashes, Hizballah slapped down an ultimatum for Jumblatt: Pull your militiamen out of their bases and hand over your heavy weapons i.e. cannon, mortars, heavy machine guns, RPG’s and explosives, to the Lebanese army, or face the consequences.
Hizballah then brought in heavy artillery, with Syrian help, and set about pounding Druze mountain positions.
It is hard to see them holding out for long before Hizballah seizes control of the hills which command the entire Beirut plateau.
After the Druze militias fall, Hizballah may be expected to focus on vanquishing majority leader Saad Hariri’s Sunni forces in Sidon. This would isolate the only armed force left in Lebanon, the Christian Phalangists led by Samir Geagea.
In the face of the Iranian surrogate army’s lightning conquest of Lebanon, US president George W. Bush’s statement in Washington, on the even of his Middle East trip, that the United States would not let Syria and Iran undermine Lebanon’s sovereignty comes very much after the fact. His offer to help Siniora by strengthening his armed forces is equally belated.
The Lebanese army is by now more an operational arm of Hizballah than an armed force that serves the government.
Begin UK Guardian Article
Hizbullah capture of mountain village seen as threat to Israel
By Hugh Macleon in Beirut
May 13, 2008
Hizbullah yesterday took control of a strategic mountain-top village in Druze heartlands south-east of the capital after fierce fighting with government allies, consolidating strategic gains that analysts said would be used in confrontations with Israel.
“Hizbullah will very soon spread all over. They will not leave any strategic part of the country in the hands of their so-called enemies,” said Ahmad Moussali, a professor at the Americ an University of Beirut
and an expert on Islamist groups.
Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week branded the western-backed, Sunni-led government “Israelis dressed in suits speaking Arabic”, after ministers ordered a crackdown on his group’s secure telecoms system.
In response, Shia Hizbullah fighters and allies overran Sunni strongholds in west Beirut, then withdrew following a government climbdown.
Despite calls for a ceasefire, Hizbullah fighters defeated militants loyal to Druze leader Waleed Jumblatt in clashes starting on Sunday night, gaining control of Niha, a village in the southern Chouf mountains, 25 miles south-east of Beirut.
Analysts said the village provides the Iranian-backed group, also an ally of Damascus, with a crucial link between its stronghold in the eastern Bekaa Valley and the coastal highway that leads to Hizbullah’s bases in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
“Hizbullah have shown they are not interested in unseating Jumblatt but rather opening a possible supply route between Bekaa and the southern suburbs,” said Ousama Safa, director of Beirut’s Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies. “They can now use the area as a second front, behind the Bekaa.”
On Sunday Hizbullah fighters took over key positions in Aley, a Druze town north of the Chouf, which abuts the main Beirut-Damascus highway, giving them control of another key artery. Both Druze areas have since been turned over to the army, which has a longstanding agreement on military cooperation with Hizbullah over Israel.
Beirut’s international airport remained largely closed for a sixth day yesterday, as Hizbullah supporters continued to block its main supply road, while hundreds of foreigners, fearing a descent into civil war, fled via land routes to Syria.
A ceasefire in the northern port city of Tripoli broke down yesterday as Sunni supporters of parliamentary leader Saad Hariri exchanged machine gun and grenade fire with Alawite militiamen allied to Hizbullah.
The fighting brought the death toll in six days of conflict
to 81, with 250 wounded.
Arab foreign ministers said they would send mediators, headed by Qatar, to arrive in Beirut tomorrow.
Begin Wall Street Journal Excerpt
From Lebanon to Hizbullahstan
Bret Stephens
May 13, 2008
(Wall Street Journal)
Christians have been fleeing Lebanon for decades. Though a census hasn’t been taken in 75 years, Nizar Hamze of the American University of Beirut estimates that there are between eight and nine births per Shiite household, compared to five for Sunnis and two for Christians and Druze.
These numbers must ultimately count against an outmoded constitutional order geared to favor Christians first, Sunnis second, and Shiites third.
But even if Lebanon cannot escape its Shiite destiny, it is not ordained that it must also become a Hizbullah state, taking its orders from Tehran.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
At least 14 hurt as Grad rocket hits Ashkelon shopping mall
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
May 14, 2008
At least 14 people were wounded Wednesday evening, including a baby girl and her mother, when a Grad rocket fired from Gaza hit the Hutzot Shopping Center in Ashkelon.
MDA said that the baby was listed in moderate condition, her mother and two others were seriously wounded, two people were in moderate condition and nine people, including two children, were lightly hurt. Dozens of people were treated for shock. The casualties were evacuated to the city’s Barzilai Hospital.
The rocket hit the top floor of the building, where offices and clinics are located, and the shopping mall sustained considerable damage.
Rescue service director Eli Bean said at least two people were trapped under the rubble. They were later rescued and taken the hospital.
Witnesses said an early warning siren meant to give a few seconds for people to take cover did not sound before the rocket slammed into the mall.
The attack came as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George W. Bush concluded their meeting in Jerusalem.
Olmert said at the end of the talks that Israel would not tolerate attacks from Gaza terrorists.
“We will not be able to tolerate continuous attacks on innocent civilians. We hope we will not have to act against Hamas in other ways with the military power that Israel hasn’t yet started to use in a serious manner in order to stop it,” said Olmert before learning of the attack on Ashkelon.
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