2 keys to Time of Middle East War
Troops Withdrawal & Nuke Arsenal!
Iran gets Nuke Arsenal before 2015!
Iraq & Afghanistan will join Jihad
When American Troops Do Pull Out
It will be time for the world to Lookout
Because that will certainly leave no Doubt
The world will see what prophecy’s all About
Foreign forces will depart prior to the year 2015
Probability of Last Middle East War Shall Skyrocket
And the attack of Daniel 11:40 will begin before 2015
January 29, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The two major factors that have prevented a major Middle East war up to this time are: (1) the presence of large clusters of foreign troops in the Middle East within striking distance of Iran and Syria, and (2) Iran’s fear of Israel launching her huge volume of nuclear missiles at her. When our troops are removed and when Iran believes it has a sufficient number of mounted warheads to deter Israel from the launching of warheads at her, then the final war of the king of the south against the king of the north will begin.
I realize it is God who controls when this war will begin! But God uses men, nations and circumstances to suit his own purposes. And it certainly appears God is moving all things into place to fulfill his prophecies by his own power and design.
Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 14:1-3 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Excerpt from New York Times via World News
Rivalries in Iraq Keep G.I.’s in the Field
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
January 27. 2010
MOSUL, Iraq — A string of checkpoints has appeared on the roads that spoke out from this volatile city, guarded by hundreds of American soldiers
working with Arab and Kurdish troops.
The joint operation along one of Iraq’s ethnic trouble spots began with a deliberate lack of fanfare, but it constitutes the most significant military mission by American forces since they largely retreated to bases outside Iraq’s cities in June.
More than two dozen checkpoints now punctuate a snaking line that traces — from Syria to Iran — the unofficial and disputed boundary between Iraq’s federal forces and those of the Kurdish regional government. At times these forces have operated virtually as opposing armies rather than as compatriots, but at the checkpoints they now live and operate together for the first time since the war began.
Guarding checkpoints — a task the American military never relishes — invites attacks by insurgents, who remain particularly active in northern Iraq.
On three consecutive nights recently, rockets or mortars landed near three checkpoints in Diyala Province, though they caused no casualties, according to an American military spokesman and an Iraqi military official. “You stay static,” said First Sgt. Tony DelSardo of the Army’s Third Infantry Division, “you’ll get hit.”
The operation began this month after labored negotiations with Iraq’s Arab and Kurdish leaders. The immediate goal is to bolster security ahead of bitterly contested elections in March along an ethnic patchwork of lands devastated by attacks.
The ultimate strategy is to defuse political tensions along a fault line that could easily rupture, sundering the country once American forces leave, or even before. The operation underscores the extent to which the American military remains an arbiter of Iraq’s most intractable conflicts.
“What we’re doing is forcing the wound to close,” Lt. Col. Christopher L. Connelly, a battalion commander with the First Armored Division, said at a checkpoint being erected on the highway that links Mosul to Erbil, the Kurdish region’s capital.
With time running out before President Obama’s deadline for withdrawing combat troops in August, the mission has become the most urgent in Iraq.
The American commander in Iraq, Gen.
Ray Odierno, proposed the checkpoints, along with joint patrols involving the three sides, after a series of incidents last year threatened open conflict between Iraqi and Kurdish forces. Its inception stalled for months amid deeply rooted suspicions between Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and the Kurdish president, Massoud Barzani.
“What we have sought to do is separate the politics from the security piece, and of course, that’s very hard to do,” said Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., the deputy commander in Iraq. “But we keep bringing it back to focusing on: O.K., where and how do we provide the best security to the Iraqi people? And how does that create the environment that will someday allow for political process to take place?”
This northern front, or “trigger line,” dates from the American invasion in 2003. As Saddam Hussein’s army collapsed, Kurdish forces called the pesh merga pushed from their three provinces in the north and occupied sections of Nineveh, Kirkuk and Diyala Provinces that the Kurds had historically claimed.
They have controlled the areas ever since, despite calls by Iraq’s government and regional Sunni leaders for them to withdraw to the “green line” that established the internal Kurdish boundary before 2003.
As Iraq’s new security forces have grown more assertive in controlling territory on the southern side, the effect has been to square off two suspicious forces along a seam that has been exploited by Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and other insurgents for attacks, and by politicians for political points.
Last May, the pesh merga prevented Nineveh’s newly elected governor of Nineveh, a Sunni, from crossing the line to drive to Bashiqa, a town nominally under his authority. The facts of the incident were disputed, but all agreed that violence was only narrowly averted.
Since then, a series of hair-trigger confrontations has raised tensions. So have bombings in villages that were aimed at small ethnic communities along the line populated by Assyrian Christians, Turkmens and Shabaks. Insurgents struck with such precision between the two opposing authorities that American and Iraqi officials suspect the attacks were an effort to provoke an Arab-Kurd war.
Political leaders in Diyala, Kirkuk and Nineveh have condemned the new operation, seeing the checkpoints as de facto recognition of Kurdish territorial claims.
While many Kurds serve in the Iraqi Army, the pesh merga operate under the command of the Kurdish government; their presence, and that of the Kurdish intelligence service, are viewed by many Iraqis as illegitimate.
“What guarantees are there that the pesh merga will ever withdraw?” Qusay Abbas, a member of Nineveh’s regional legislature, which has opposed the operation, said at his home near one of the new checkpoints. Last week, he said, Kurdish soldiers detained and threatened him when he tried to visit a mosque in a neighboring village.
American commanders have emphasized that the checkpoints are not meant to preclude negotiations between Arabs and Kurds over the final internal boundaries of the Kurdish region, though the hope is that cooperation on the ground will give momentum to a political — and peaceful — resolution of the underlying dispute.
The duration of the operations remains unclear. Ultimately the Americans hope to withdraw. For now, American platoons hunker down with their Iraqi and Kurdish counterparts in primitive camps beside the checkpoints.
Joint patrols have begun to ensure security in the immediate area. More expansive patrols remain the subject of negotiations.
At one checkpoint on the road to Bashiqa, near where the governor was stopped, there is a small sign of progress. Until last week, the Arabs and the Kurds maintained separate checkpoints.
Now platoons from both forces, along with the Americans, have consolidated into a single base, flying the Iraqi and Kurdish flags.
They still maintain separate command posts, but the American platoon leader, Lt. Cody R. Schuette, is trying to find a tent or trailer to serve as a single one.
Meanwhile, at Forward Operating Base Marez, on the edge of Mosul, the Americans have been conducting four-day courses for the new platoons. The program forces Iraqi and pesh merga troops together in courses, in temporary barracks and in the chow line.
Staff Col. Avdo Fathi, deputy commander of Iraq’s Third Army Division, said training and operating together would “break a lot of the emotional obstacles” between the Arabs and Kurds. “I don’t want to talk about politics,” he said. “We are soldiers. The security forces — the army and the pesh merga — represent one country.”
John Leland contributed reporting from Baghdad, and Sam Dagher from Erbil.
Begin Excerpt from Al Jazeera via World News
Timeline: Afghanistan in crisis
January 28, 2010
1979: The then Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. In the years that follow Moscow will rule Kabul by proxy while the US, Pakistan, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia extend their support to anti-communist Muslim fighters, the Mujahideen, who oppose the Soviets.
1988–1989: The Soviet Union withdraws. More than 15,000 Soviet soldiers have died in the conflict.
1992: Led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, Mujahideen forces remove the Soviet-backed government, but in the years that follow rivalry between different groups of fighters reduce Kabul to rubble and effectively plunge Afghanistan into civil conflict.
1994: Mullah Mohammed Omar, a Muslim cleric, sets up Taliban movement of Islamic students who take up arms to end the chaos in Afghanistan. They capture Kandahar and advance on Kabul.
1996: The Taliban takes Kabul and hangs Mohammad Najibullah, the then president. The year also sees the return to Afghanistan of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda’s leader who fought with Mujahideen groups against the Soviet occupation.
1998: The US launches missiles at suspected bin Laden bases in the country in retaliation for the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
1999: The UN imposes an air embargo and freezes Taliban assets in an attempt to force them to hand over bin Laden for trial.
2001: Taliban rule in Afghanistan, based on their strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, has become increasingly proscriptive, restricting women and religious minorities, banning satellite TV and destroying some 2,000-year-old Buddhist statues in the cliffs above Bamiyan.
In September, the Taliban’s rival Ahmed Shah Massoud, a senior commander of the so-called Northern Alliance, is wounded in a suicide attack and later dies of h
is wounds.
Attacks on the United States on September 11 leads George Bush, then US president, to demand the Taliban hand over bin Laden. They refuse unless evidence of his involvement is presented.
In October, US and British forces begin bombing Afghanistan and within weeks mount an invasion.
Later Hamid Karzai, an Afghan tribal leader, will be chosen to head an interim administration.
2002: The first contingent of international peacekeeping forces takes up its duties. Months later Haji Abdul Qadir, the Afghan vice-president, is assassinated in Kabul. Karzai escapes a separate assassination attempt in his hometown of Kandahar.
2003: Despite frequent incidents of violence, Donald Rumsfeld, then US defence secretary, claims that most of Afghanistan is secure and that US-led forces had moved from major combat operations to stabilisation and reconstruction projects.
The year also sees Nato take control of security in Kabul.
It is the organisation’s first security operation outside of Europe.
2004: Afghanistan adopts a new constitution and Karzai is elected president. Meanwhile, the Taliban begins to regroup and mounts a sustained campaign of attacks.
2005: Afghanistan holds it first parliamentary elections in more than 30 years, but Taliban attacks continue to grow in intensity.
2006: Western forces and their Afghan allies mount Operation Mountain Thrust against Taliban fighters. Scores die in the fighting.
Later in the year, Nato takes over responsibility for security across the country. Meanwhile, civilian casualties have been mounting and when a US military vehicle crashes, killing several civilians, widespread anti-US protests erupt.
2007: Nato and Afghan forces launch Operation Achilles, reported as their largest offensive to date and in May Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban’s chief military commander, is killed. The UN reports opium production in Afghanistan, much of which is thought to fund the Taliban, has reached record levels.
2008: A Taliban operation frees hundreds of its fighters from Kandahar prison. Weeks later a suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul ramps up regional tensions as India accuses the Pakistani intelligence agency of involvement. Pakistan denies the allegations.
Towards the end of the year, US President Bush sends and additional 4,500 US troops to Afghanistan. Germany also boosts its troop numbers and extends its mission in the country.
2009: The election of Barack Obama, the US president, had prompted hopes of a new approach to Afghanistan, but Taliban attacks make the year the bloodiest yet for international troops.
Meanwhile, Afghans go to the polls to elect a new president and while the Taliban largely fails to act on its threats to attack voters, the election is beset by massive fraud. Karzai wins a runoff vote after Abdullah Abdullah, his main rival, withdraws.
In December, Obama agrees to a request by his generals to boost US troop levels in Afghanistan. He supplies 30,000 troops, bringing the total number of US troops in the country to 100,000, but he also announces that the US will begin withdrawing its forces by 2011.
2010: While Karzai struggles to get his cabinet nominees approved by parliament, Taliban fighters carry out co-ordinated attacks in the capital.
Delegates gather in London for a conference on future strategy in Afghanistan, including a proposal to negotiate with Taliban supporters and persuade them to lay down their arms in return for money and jobs.
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