Don’t forget southeastern Turkey was part of greater Syria
I’ve long taught Antichrist would come from Greater Syria
Southeast Turkey+Lebanon+Northwest Iraq Possibilities
But Modern Syria Is Most Likely Place For Him To APPEAR
Falling a way
from True faith lets saved know it is SOON!
I believe he’ll be Revealed in Greater Syria before 2015!
Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, And Iraq Will Be 4 Of 10 Horns!
June 17, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
II Thessalonians 2:3,4 –Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin BE REVEALED, the son of perdition; [4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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Assad’s purge of Jisr a-Shughour and Erdogan’s election
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
June 12, 2011, 8:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
It took Syrian president six days to send troops and tanks to punish the small northern town of Jisr a-Shughour near the Turkish border for attacking and killing 120 Syrian security personnel last Monday.
Although thousands of residents fled, the operation which began Friday June 10 ran into stiff resistance. Syrian TV later reported that security forces had arrested a large number of “armed group” leaders responsible for “violent acts” and wounded and killed many more – “despite the numerous ambushes set up against the army units.”
Refugees report a major purge is taking place in the defiant town and its buildings leveled. According to some reports, the soldiers are shooting defectors.
Saturday night, June 11, the US accused Syria, of creating a humanitarian crisis and urged it to stop offensive – still avoiding any reference to President Bashar Assad by name as the party responsible for the crisis.
It took Assad several days to attack Jisr a-Shughour because he couldn’t decide which unit to send to the rebellious town: He first sent the 85th Armored Brigade on this mission and then replaced it with the 47th Armored Brigade under the command of his brother Gen.
Maher Assad, together with the expanded 555th commando battalion. As the Syrian army’s top-notch unit, the 47th Brigade had been held in reserve in Damascus for defending the regime in a last resort. The opposition took advantage of its absence from the capital for an attempt to raise a protest rally which was broken up before it drew substantial numbers.
The small border town has acquired strategic importance way beyond its size and location – and not only as a potential tipping point for the uprising against the Assad regime.
The battles there will impinge on how the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan fares in the general election Sunday, June 12 and the Muslim Brotherhood’s position in the Arab Revolt (Jisr a-Shughour is one of its bastions). Iran, as President Assad’s foremost ally, has a stake there, especially after Saudi military intervention stalled its push into the Gulf Emirates on the backs of Shiite protesters.
Erdogan is generally expected to achieve a major election victory in his run for a third term in office after 10 years – and even possibly a majority in parliament for reforming the constitution to unite the posts of prime minister and president.
He can boast of important achievements in his 10 years in office, but is after the major triumph of acknowledgement as head of the paramount Muslim power.
A Sunni Muslim rebel win against Assad’s Iran- and Hizballah-backed forces in the Battle of Jisr a-Shughour would show that Erdogan played the right horse after failing to ride the wind of protest in the Arab world.
Its eruption threw the bloc formed by Turkey, with Iran, Syria and Hizballah onto the wrong side of the Arab revolt.
The Turkish prime minister played no role in the Egyptian uprising and, in Libya, both Muammar Qaddafi and the Benghazi rebel government Benghazi scorned his feelers for influence when they saw him gyrating between going with NATO of which Turkey is a member, siding with Qaddafi and aiding the rebels.
The Turkish prime minister’s decision to send troops into to Syria and establish a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border (as DEBKfile first reported Friday, June 10) is a gamble which places him in opposition to Tehran, spells finis to the Turkish-Iranian pact and ends his hopes of acting as a bridge between Sunnis and Shiites.
Sunni Muslims across the Middle East are watching the battle of Jisr a-Shughour and assessing the numbers of Sunni defections from the Syrian army fighting their coreligionists there. If they are substantial and spill over into military units in other parts of Syria, this battle could become the tipping-point of the uprising against Bashar Assad.
It would also be the Muslim Brotherhood’s first military achievement since the Arab Revolt began, after holding themselves aloof from the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.
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Turkey is preparing for a buffer zone inside Syria
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Ankara is gradually losing hope and distancing itself from President Bashar al-Assad.
If you look closely, the prime minister is becoming increasingly tough with every statement he makes and the dose of his warnings is increasing. Even though he has not burned bridges like he did with Moammar Gadhafi, a surprise is still expected, the dominant belief is that Assad will not be able to solve the situation easily.
Those talks I have had with people who are the final decision makers on the subject s how clearly
how serious the situation is.
Syria has started blaming Turkey
It is not only that the tensions in Ankara are rising but the viewpoint of Damascus on Turkey is also changing. The embraces and words of fraternity of the past do not exist anymore.
On Syrian State Television, it is now openly said that the weapons of Muslim Brothers are coming from Turkey. Let us not forget that the Muslim Brothers is as dangerous and as much an enemy for the Syrian administration as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is for us.
As if this is not enough, a Turkish involvement behind the rebellions and the Antalya meeting of the dissidents is being discussed.
Assad has not put forward his stance; he has not put Ankara at his opposing side but, you will see, it is not too far away.
The worst case scenario Ankara fears
The worst case scenario that Ankara fears most and will mobilize it is that the clashes expand to Aleppo and Damascus and the Assad regime decides to react extremely tough and bloody way. The meaning of this is that Assad uses all his military power and the internal conflict transforms quickly into an Alawite-Sunni clash. What is expected as a consequence of this is the flow of tens of thousands of Sunni-Syrians to Turkey. An official I spoke to on this subject said exactly this:
“Turkey has opened its territory for now, but when the figure reaches a point where we cannot handle it then we will have to close the border.”
Now, this is the situation the political power in Ankara worries about the most. The same official continued:
“We would close the border but we cannot turn our backs on neither the Sunnis nor the Alawites. If chaos starts, then we will have to form a security zone or a buffer zone inside Syrian territory.”
In a summit in Ankara recently, this was the scenario discussed.
Robert Fisk wrote about this possibility before and had drawn much criticism, but what he said was true.
Scenarios and preparations are unfolding.
“Military and civilian meetings about the buffer zone and other measures to be taken have increased in recent days.
Add to that the invitation of all ambassadors in the Middle East to Ankara.
The pressure is building.”
It is not only talk when Ankara says, “all measures have been taken.”
The most dreadful item on the agenda is the formation of a security zone inside Syrian territory that has too many risks and could overthrow the regional equilibrium and for that reason is never a desired option.
But there is not much hope.
Let us be prepared.
When there is an internal fight, foreigners intervene
We should learn a lesson for ourselves from the developments in the region.
As a matter of fact, this situation is not only unique to our region. I will talk about an internationally known rule. Yet again, those that were experienced in Syria-Libya-Egypt-Tunisia-Bahrain make very good examples.
If a country is unable to solve or calm down an internal dispute or fight and on the contrary escalades it to such levels as civil war, then foreign powers meddle into their affairs for sure.
Some cite human rights to justify, some others remind them of the United Nations rules, yet others mention regional equilibriums.
Look, we are also doing the same.
We are preparing several scenarios in the name of protecting the Syrian people on the grounds that we fear the risk of a major flow of refugees.
Did we not interfere in the situation in Egypt? Are we not openly intervening at Libya? We are inviting the resistance and facilitating them to get organized.
You probably understand where I am heading.
Turkey, this way or another, has to organize its own kitchen and has to solve very soon the Kurdish issue, which has a high collision potential in an attainable way. If it [Turkey] acts roughly and we slide into an internal clash, then we should know almost everyone will meddle.
However high we cry, saying, “This is Turkey’s internal affair, you do not interfere,” just as we do today, nobody will care.
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