The Monster is Now Forming a Crescent!
It’s Final Shape is becoming quite Definite,
I’ve long warned about a Middle East Beast,
Middle East Beast Twitching Its Pakistani Tail!
A Horn Toed Sharia Caliphate Beast IS Forming,
Lebanon, then Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan,
Beast will attack Israel at time Twixt 2010 & 2015,
Tail will extend into Southeast Asia after the Attack,
Mark of the Beast in Caliphate shall be Implemented,
Where Caliphate influence spreads mark’s Demanded!
February 20, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
CALIPHATE NATIONS OF THE ANTICHRIST CALIPH
BEFORE Antichrist’s call for the nations to come and help him finish off Israel in the Negev at Armageddon, I believe MOST of the following countries will have rapidly join his 10 toed Caliphate AFTER he drives Israel into the Negev and conquers Egypt. The MOST likely candidates for the 10 toes when he first attacks Israel are in ALL CAPS.
Afghanistan, Albania, ALGERIA, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bruner, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Indonesia, IRAN, IRAQ, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, LEBANON, LIBYA, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, MOROCCO, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, SUDAN, SYRIA, Tajikistan, TUNISIA, TURKEY, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Western Saharia, and Yemen.
Begin BBC News Excerpt 1 via Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert
Muslim Clerics Meet in Turkey, Urge New Jihad Against Israel over Gaza
Bill Law
February 18, 2009
At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met with senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad against Israel centered on Gaza. The choice of Turkey was significant. As one organizer put it: “During the past 100 years relations have been strained but Palestine has brought us together.” Many delegates spoke appreciatively of the protest by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the conference, dubbed the Global Anti-Aggression Campaign, Saudi religious scholar Mohsen al-Awajy and other delegates repeatedly referred to the Gaza war as “a victory.” “Gaza gives us power, it solves our differences. We are all now in a unified front against Zionism,” he said. (BBC News)
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
Shari’a-for-peace
February 17, 2009
THE JERUSALEM POST
The government of Pakistan signed an agreement on Monday with Taliban rebels to trade “Shari’a-for-peace.” The arrangement comes after Pakistani authorities essentially lost control of the once-idyllic Swat Valley – the “Switzerland of Pakistan” – in the Northwest frontier province.
Under pressure from Washington, Pakistan dispatched 12,000 troops in what turned out to be a failed campaign to pacify a region terrorized by 3,000 Taliban fighters. The Islamists had destroyed hundreds of schools (where girls were being educated or boys were learning secular subjects); intimidated foreign teachers, beheaded policemen and murdered journalists. Hundreds of thousands of civilians fled the province.
There are disturbing, though unsubstantiated, reports that India may be supporting the Taliban in both Pakistan and Afghanistan – another example, if true, of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” aphorism.
Most of Swat, roughly 100 miles from Islamabad, is in Taliban hands. Authorities also hold little sway in the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan. In short, while Pakistan is a nuclear power and has a seat in the UN, it is arguable whether it is a genuinely sovereign state.
The Shari’a-for-peace accord was reached between authorities and Taliban “moderates” led by Sufi Mohamed. What impact the deal
will have on his more radical son-in-law, Maulana Fazlullah, remains to be seen.
In theory, the deal bolsters “moderate” Taliban and removes Shari’a law as the battle cry of the extremists. The theocratic rules to go into effect, authorities insist, will be a gentler, kinder version of Shari’a, compared to the Afghanistan strain.
The most positive spin on the deal is that it will end lawlessness and replace an unresponsive civil court system. Outl awing television, public entert
ainment and shaving would be a small price to pay.
President Asif Ali Zardari, whose wife Benazir Bhutto was probably assassinated by Taliban types in December 2007, has approved the Shari’a-for-peace deal. So, reportedly, did the Awami National Party, a secular Pashtun grouping. The Pashtun ethnic group comprises 15 percent of Pakistan’s population, and 42% (a plurality) of Afghanistan’s. The Taliban is predominantly Pashtun.
BUT MANY Pakistani modernizing elites are distressed. “This deal shows that the Pakistan military has in fact been defeated by the militants; that we are now incapable of retaining control of vast tracts of our own territory,” commented a News of Pakistan editorial.
The decision to trade Sharia-for-peace appears to reflect a bad trend in the Muslim (and Arab) world whereby radicals stick to their guns, and moderates capitulate.
Even if the Taliban could be satiated with “just” Afghanistan and Pakistan, these vast lands would become – even more than they already are – safe havens and launching pads for terrorism against “the infidels.”
Indeed, reports claim that Osama bin Laden is currently not in some cave but in the village of Parachinar, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in an area that’s seen Sunni-Shi’ite strife.
US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke, who is just completing a tour of the region, called the Swat deal proof that India, the United States and Pakistan “all have a common threat now.”
If only that were true. If only matters were that clear-cut.
The US is doing its best to keep up appearances. Anne W. Patterson, America’s ambassador to Pakistan (who sometimes appears in public wearing a head covering), oversees the delivery of millions of dollars in US aid. At the same time, the US military (starting in the last months of the Bush administration) is employing unmanned aircraft to strike at terrorist targets inside the country, with the tacit approval of Pakistani authorities.
WHEN Pakistan’s top general. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani – the man who controls Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal and presumably still makes the final call in the shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence Agency – arrives in Washington next week to meet Obama administration officials, there will be much to talk about: the release from house arrest of A.Q. Khan, and the serious proliferation risk he continues to be; the Shari’a-for-peace deal; and Pakistan’s culpability in the Mumbai attacks.
Between Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, the power vacuum in Pakistan-Afghanistan, and the need to preserve relative stability in Iraq, the administration will, no doubt, want to prioritize its Middle East agenda accordingly.
Analysis: Turkey’s shift toward Iran, Syria is no short-term blip
February 19, 2009
JONATHAN SPYER , THE JERUSALEM POST
Last weekend, a conference held under the title “Gaza the victory” took place at hotel near Istanbul’s Ataturk airport.
The conference brought 200 Sunni clerics and activists together with senior, Damascus-based Hamas officials.
Closed meetings held after the main conference sessions focused on the creation of a “third jihadist front” against Israel – the first two being Iraq and Afghanistan, in the view of the conference delegates. The gathering was addressed by Muhammad Nazzal, a top Hamas official from Damascus.
In an echo of the attempts by Islamists across the Middle East to pressure Egypt during the recent Gaza operation, Nazzal called on regional governments to “open the borders and let the fighters through.”
The gathering in Istanbul is significant for two reasons. First, it showcases the continued efforts by Islamist movements to present the Gaza events as a watershed dividing the path of “resistance,” which they favor, from the path of “collaboration” that they accuse leading Arab states of following.
Second, and perhaps more important, the location of the conference is a further indication of the move of the Islamist AKP government in Turkey toward a more and more open alignment with anti-Western and anti-Israeli forces in the region.
The conference organizers themselves were aware of the significance of the event’s location. One of them told a BBC journalist attending the event, “During the past 100 years relations [between Arabs and Turks] have been strained, but Palestine has brought us together.”
Speakers at the conference made constant reference to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to storm off the stage in protest during a recent debate in Davos, Switzerland, on the Gaza operation.
The current Turkish government’s willingness to engage with and host regional and Palestinian Islamist forces is not new. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal made a controversial trip to Ankara less than a month after Hamas’s victory in Palestinian Legislative Council elections in January 2006. Interestingly, Mashaal was asked to come directly by the AKP government, after the more secular-minded Turkish Foreign Ministry refused to extend an invitation to him.
At the time, some analysts sought to present the invitation to Mashaal as a one-off gesture without deeper significance for the Israeli-Turkish relationship.
Subsequent events have disproved this interpretation.
Turkey’s response to the Gaza offensive has highlighted a deep rift in relations. Erdogan in the course of the operation questioned Israel’s UN membership.
The atmosphere in Turkey during Oper
ation Cast Lead became deeply charged against Israelis and Jews – with a number of ugly incidents recorded across the country. Erdogan attended the emergency summit in Doha on January 16 that was convened by Syria and Qatar to offer support to Hamas.
Turkey’s courting of Hamas and hosting of Islamist gatherings form part of a more general regional policy pursued by the AKP government in Ankara. The AKP seeks to build Turkey’s regional “strategic depth” – in its preferred phrase – by building up relations with Syria and Iran. This is presented as a desire to counter-balance, rather than replace, Ankara’s already deep links with the West.
However, in the current situation of sharp polarization and cold war in the region, it is becoming increasingly unfeasible for countries to maintain close relations with both the US-led and the Iranian-led camps. The prospect of Turkey moving toward the Iranian-led alliance can no longer be dismissed as fanciful.
Turkish analysts have noted the rise of a “Muslim nationalist” orientation in the country, of which the political dominance of the AKP over the last half decade forms the political expression.
From this perspective, a regional policy which stresses alliances with other Muslim governments and movements across the region is a natural choice. Growing warmth in Turkey’s relations with Iran and Syria,
and the sympathy shown their key client organization Hamas last weekend in Istanbul are all elements of this emerging policy.
Of course, it is much too soon to write off the relationship between Turkey and Israel. There are powerful forces within the country which oppose the AKP’s “strategic depth” orientation. Nevertheless, Turkey’s position on recent events has brought great cheer to the Iranian-led camp, and is leading to corresponding new efforts at courtship from Teheran.
Senior Iranian officials praised Turkey’s stance during the Gaza crisis, and called for a strategic alliance between the two countries.
Yahya Safavi, former commander of the Revolutionary Guards and now security adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said earlier this month that “Erdogan’s… courageous words at the Davos summit against the war crimes of the Zionist regime… are evidence of the Islamic awakening among the Turkish people – a result of the influence of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.”
Majlis speaker and former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani visited Turkey during the Gaza crisis, holding closed talks with Erdogan. Following the meetings, both men called to enhance the already extensive economic links between Iran and Turkey.
Where is Turkey heading?
What can be said with certainty is that Ankara’s long-maintained policy of equidistance between Israelis and Palestinians has been dispensed with by the current leadership. The AKP government is aligning itself not only with the Palestinians, but with Hamas. In the longer term, this may portend a slow shift toward greater alignment with the Iranian-led regional alliance. Such a shift, if it occurs, will be of primary significance to the strategic balance in the region.
(Translations of comments by Iranian officials by Memri.)
Jonathan Spyer is a senior researcher at the Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya.
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