Covert will soon become Overt,
When Middle East War Breaks Out!
Hizbullah-Hamas-Iran Covert Networks,
Will quickly become Overt as they crush Egypt,
When massive Islamic forces sweep SW across Suez,
During a point in time between the YEARS 2010 AND 2015!
April 12, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 11:42 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
The political, geophysical, and military positioning of Syria, Iran, and Iraq, from a prospective of having world influence, literally stinks. But the position of Egypt’s Suez Canal, and Cairo, her capital, is outstanding. The antichrist is supposed to be a man of genius in all areas. That being the case, he would be worse than a military academy dropout were he not to take the Suez Canal, and then make Cairo his empire’s capital.
Daniel 11:43 – But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
The three most “precious things” in Egypt are: the Suez Canal, the Nile River and its Delta, and Cairo, it’s capital. He will conquer the Suez Canal zone and all of Egypt. So just what is Egypt
? Many are inclined to establish it as the land bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by Libya, on the south by Sudan, on the southeast by the Red Sea, and on the northeast by its Sinai border with Gaza and Israel’s Negev. And, geographically, that is quite correct. However, in reality, that is not Egypt. The real Egypt, where her people live, is much, much, smaller. Egypt is the land along her north and east coastlines up to about two miles inland, the Nile Delta, and the land along the Nile River extending about fifteen miles either side of its banks.
The antichrist will send messages to leaders of two of the original 10 nations confederated with him, namely Libya and Sudan, requesting them to mass their troops along the northern coastal border with Libya, and along the border where the Nile enters Egypt from Sudan. This will cause the diversion of some Egyptian troops away from Cairo and the Suez Canal in order to protect their western and southern borders.
And this will allow the antichrist to rapidly push across the Suez Canal into Cairo and along her western and eastern coastlines, then to quickly progress southward down the Nile with little resistance. I believe he will control Egypt within two weeks after he reaches the Suez Canal.
Once he has conquered Egypt, he will make an assessment of his geopolitical position. After having done so, he would be a military fool to return to his home country.
He will establish his capital at Cairo, and will remain there for more than three years. After three years he will receive news that causes him to quickly return to Jerusalem. If a military leader plans to put down his roots for a while, what would be one of his major concerns? The relationship he has with the rulers of the nations that are on his immediate borders. That is, how sure he is they will not pull a surprise attack on him. So, through the prestigious position he has gained in the eyes of the Islamic world by this time, it will allow him to use the terrorist groups, already in Sudan and Libya, to overthrow their leaders, and in their place to install two of his stooges, where they will remain in control for some three years. He will already have plucked up the ruler of Lebanon, and replaced him with a stooge. It will surprise me if Lebanon, Sudan, and Libya are not the countries from which his stooges will rule.
Daniel 7:8,24 – 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. [24] 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.
I believe the kings (rulers) of Lebanon, Libya, and Sudan will be among many national leaders of subdued countries personally plucked up by the roots out of their positions of leadership in their own countries, and replaced by puppet rulers who do exactly as the antichrist directs. I believe the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan will also be replaced by the antichrist.
Daniel 11:43 – But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
“At his steps” means “companionship” (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance & Wilson’s O.T. Word Studies). This expression also appears in Judges 4:10, where it appears as “at his feet.”
Judges 4:10 – And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
It represents an Old Testament word picture of a conquered leader or country laying yearly tribute payments before the king of the conquering country, who is setting on his throne, and the tribute is being placed at his feet on the steps leading up to his throne. So I believe the antichrist will place his puppet rulers on the thrones of Lebanon, Syria, and Sudan as those who are in “companionship” with him.
For more than three years, with the Suez Canal under his control, he will gain worldwide recognition and acclaim in his capital city of Cairo.
Israel will be trapped in the Negev for more than three years, and stability will have come to the troubled Middle East. He will supposedly have done what all nations say they are seeking, that is, brought stability to the Middle East. But, between the third and fourth year of his rule, something will cause him to quickly head for Jerusalem.
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Washington Helps Curtail Iran’s Covert Suez Thrust
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
April 11, 2009, 8:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
From early 2006, Egyptian and Western security services and Israeli intelligence have been aware of Hizballah’s smuggling operations for Hamas on behalf of Tehran and Iran’s covert networks in Sinai and the Suez Canal cities of Port Said, Suez and Ismailia.
But last Wednesday, April 8, Cairo disclosed that Egyptian security forces had arrested 49 men, 41 Egyptians, seven Israeli Arabs, and one Lebanese citizen on charges of supporting Hamas and Hizballah. Iran was not mentioned. The arrests had begun last November and were continuing.
The disclosure sparked a slanging match between Cairo and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Yet neither touched the real bone of contention. The latter admitted that the network’s head, Sami Shehab, belonged to Hizballah and had provided Hamas with money and logistical support, “for which we are not ashamed.”
He thus confirmed a long-held Israeli intelligence contention.
Nasrallah went on to accuse the Egyptian regime of working hand in glove with Israel and America to keep the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip under siege.
An Egyptian source shot back by calling Nasrallah an Iranian agent and accusing him of organizing subversion against the Cairo government to divert attention from Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
These allegations were a mutually agreed smoke screen, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report. It suited neither party to admit that the gang Cairo exposed led to a major undercover Iranian network operating in Egypt for three years.
While Hizballah contributes to Iran’s covert overseas operations from the time of the late Imad Mughniyeh, Nasrallah could hardly admit he was not privy to all the arrested men’s identities. Egypt, for its part, refrained from publicly accusing Tehran of its deep penetration, while the Iranians placed a Hizballah security operative at its head rather than a high-ranking Iranian agent to avoid being directly compromised in the operation.
DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources disclose that this group had a much larger strategic mission than terrorist attacks on Egyptian towns and Israeli targets in Sinai, as claimed by Egyptian and Israeli media: It was assigned with planting an Iranian logistical-intelligence infrastructure as stealthily and inconspicuously as possible along the shores of the Suez Canal. This chain was to eventually hook up with the clandestine Iranian cells operating out of Somalia and Sudan opposite the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean and provide Iran with an outer safety belt as a counterweight to the US naval presence in those waters.
In the event of an American or Israeli military strike against its nuclear facilities, Tehran would have resources in place for retaliating against Saudi and Western traffic passing through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the waters off the Horn of Africa.
To this end, in 2006, the Iranian agents and their recruits started purchas
ing apartments on the upper floors of tall buildings near the Suez Canal coast and small walled-in houses right on the waterline. The 49 agents captured by the Egyptian police may well have been just the tip of the iceberg. Once they were in place in their forward positions, Iranian intelligence decided they would also be useful for smuggling arms to Gaza for Hamas.
On March 17, 2007 DEBKAfile wrote:
Iranian and Venezuelan assistance is funneled through a well-oiled smuggling network Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has thrown up across Egyptian Sinai up to and including the ports of the Suez Canal and Gulf of Suez as far south as Sudan and as far north as the Mediterranean…
Israel repeatedly warned Egypt that this multi-branched covert ring would undermine Egyptian security in Sinai and the Suez Canal before turning against Egypt proper.
The Iranian network came up in a conversation between the former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and CIA chiefs with Egypt’s intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman, when they met in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Feb.
20, 2007 (as revealed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly 290 on Feb. 23: Rice Chairs a Pivotal US-Arab Intelligence Summit in Amman).
On that occasion, Suleiman informed Rice that Egypt lacks the military, intelligence and financial resources to effectively cope with the strongholds Iran has planted along the Suez Canal. In his view, the United States must pitch in if Iran’s Suez presence and smuggling operations were to be curtailed.
In the last two years, meanwhile, Iranian arms smuggling operations for its Palestinian protégée in Gaza swelled.
It took Israel’s Operation Cast Lead against Hamas from Dec. 2008 to Jan. 2009 to persuade the Americans how necessary it was to heed the Egyptian minister’s advice.
The roundup of 49 Iranian-backed undercover agents, disclosed by Cairo last week, was in fact part of the intelligence and military operation backed by the US and Israel for rooting out the hostile Iranian infrastructure dug in deep from the Suez Canal shores in the north to Sudan and Eritrean in the south.
Six months ago, Cairo began rolling up the Iranian ring, but only after the US beefed up its naval strength in the Gulf of Suez and Red Sea and assured Cairo that more would be done.
Begin Excerpt from Arutz Sheva
Hizbullah Admits It Smuggles Weapons from Egypt to Gaza
Nisan 17, 5769, 11 April 09 11:05
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com) Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has admitted that Hizbullah agent Sami Hani Shehab was arrested in Egypt and was involved in a large weapons smuggling cell that was helping to arm Hamas in Gaza. An Egyptian prosecutor charged that Nasrallah ordered the cell to stage terrorist attacks in
Egypt.
Nasrallah stated, “If aiding the Palestinians is a crime, then I am guilty and proud of it,” but he denied that the terrorist network has a branch in Egypt or elsewhere. The London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper on Saturday quoted an unnamed Cairo official that “Nasrallah wants to turn Egypt into a playground like Lebanon.” Nasrallah encouraged Egyptians last December to protest against their government and force it to open the border at Gaza.
The source added that Nasrallah’s admission indicates he is “satisfying the Iranian interest to occupy the world, as [Iran] develops its nuclear program.”
The Egyptian weekly al-Ahram revealed that several of the 49 suspects arrived in Egypt illegally from four different countries. It added that several of them infiltrated through tunnels from Gaza and that the real ringleader, Mohammed Kabalan, escaped the Egyptian roundup.
On Thursday, media reports said that Shehab was suspected of heading a Hezbollah unit responsible for neighboring states, and that Palestinian Authority Arabs and Sudanese were among those arrested. The Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal daily reported that several members of the cell admitted that they sent “detailed information” about the towns on the Egyptian-Palestinian borders to Hizbullah headquarters in Lebanon
The Egyptian public prosecutor’s office also charged that Hizbullah, closely allied with Iran, was trying to monitor the Suez Canal.
The charges that the terrorist ring was trying to monitor the Suez Canal prompted speculation that Nasrallah’s real aim was to bolder naval patrols in order to help Iran.
The DEBKA website, whose reports usually are published without named sources and often are speculation, stated that Nasrallah’s admission that a Hizbullah agent was involved in smuggling arms from Egypt to Gaza was a cover-up.
The website’s sources said the cell’s mission was to plant “an Iranian logistical-intelligence infrastructure as stealthily and inconspicuously as possible along the shores of the Suez Canal. This chain was to eventually hook up with the clandestine Iranian cells operating out of Somalia and Sudan opposite the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean and provide Iran with an outer safety belt as a counterweight to the U.S. naval presence in those waters.”
The arrests of Shehab in November and the rest of
the cell several weeks ago help explain the timing of the Israeli attack on a weapons convoy in Sudan that was headed for Gaza via Egypt with Iranian weapons for Hamas. American naval forces also reportedly intercepted Iranian ships last January with arms for Hamas.
Egypt in turn often has foiled smuggling by Hamas as a response to criticism of turnging a blind eye to the terrroist group’s activities. Cairo reported Saturday that its police forces last week arrested a man who was trying to smuggling $2 million in cash in to Gaza.
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