Wild Asses of Ishmael are jockeying for Their Positions in the Final War
Syrian Army, Syrian Free Army, Hizballah, Iran Al Qods and Al-Queda
Are entangling with Lebanese Forces across ancient Greater Syria.
This Entangling Web Of The Islamic Middle East Spring Uprising,
Made of Clay and Iron will be bonded Briefly for War by God!
I think it’s likely to start at some point twixt 2014 & 2016.
June 3, 2012
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 2:42,43 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Revelation17:12,13,17 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
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Syrian rebels abduct 5 top Hizballah officers, including Nasrallah’s nephew
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June 1, 2012, 6:11 PM, (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanese Shiite Hizballah, after a 25-year record of kidnap and murder against Israelis, Americans and other Westerners, was dismayed to find the shoe on the other foot this week when Syrian rebels, including members of the Syrian Free Army, announced they were holding two separate groups of its members.
The first group of eleven was captured May 22 in a bus heading home through Aleppo from a pilgrimage to Iran. The second episode sent shock waves rolling as far as Tehran and the Al Qods Brigades command. DEBKAfile military and intelligence sources reveal that still unidentified commandos, guided apparently by precise intelligence, this week commandeered a Hizballah vehicle driving through Syria and captured five top-ranking Hizballah officers. A sixth escaped. Upon reaching Beirut, he reported the officers were being held hostage by the SFA.
Despite the veil of secrecy clamped down on the episode, DEBKAfile exclusively names the kidnapped officers as Ali Safa, a senior officer of Hizballah’s intelligence service and nephew of Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. (His father Wafiq Safa, head of the organization’s internal security agency, is married to Nasrallah’s sister.)
The abducted party also included Hussein Hamid, Dep. Commander of Hizballah forces in South Lebanon; Ali Zerayb, member of the Hizballah Jihad Council – the equivalent of its general command; Hassan Arzouni, chief of intelligence in the Bint Jbeil district bordering on Israel; and Aras Shoeib, head of training in the Beqaa Valley of E. Lebanon.
Our sources report the group was ambushed 15 kilometers west of Damascus after they left the Syrian military base of Al-Hame 4 kilometers from the Syrian capital. It is there that Hizballah maintains its heavy Scud D long-range missiles, as well as its Fajr, Zelzal and Fateh 110 rockets.
It is suspected at Hizballah headquarters in Beirut that the vehicle carrying the officers was tracked from the air and directions were beamed down to the abductors who waited in ambush.
Hizballah’s masters in Tehran were dismayed to find the core leadership of their Lebanese surrogate had fallen into hostile hands amid the international crisis befalling their foremost ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad – and practically under his nose.
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Turkey ditches Syrian rebels. Will Israel attack Hizballah’s Scuds?
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
June 2, 2012, 7:44 PM (GMT+0200)
Two radical developments arising from the Syrian conflict are revealed by DEBKAfile In an astonishing about face, Turkey has just turned away from its 14-month support for the anti-Assad revolt alongside the West and made common cause with Russia, i.e. Bashar Assad. Further exacerbating fears of a “proxy war” involving Israel, Iran and Syria, the Lebanese Hizballah is getting ready to bring its Scud D missiles, which can reach any point in Israel, and other advanced weapons, including anti-air missiles, out of secret storage in Syria and transfer them across the border to Lebanon. Two years ago, Israel issued an ultimatum through Washington that the Scuds would be destroyed if they were moved over to Hizballah’s launching pads in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Shiite group has since kept its most advanced hardware stashed at the Syrian Al Hame and Al Zabadani military bases near Damascus.
Now that Syrian rebel attacks are closing in on Syrian military targets, Tehran and Hizballah leaders are working on plans to get them across into Lebanon without exposing them to Israeli attack.
One plan is to enlist the Palestinian Jihad Islami in the Gaza Strip and exploit a clash over the Scuds’ transfer as a trigger for an all round military offensive against Israel. It would be timed for the moment the Western-Arab intervention in Syria against President Assad crosses the line between covert and overt military action and begins an operation to establish safe zones as bases for rebel operation.
Washington, London and Paris began rushing forward contingency plans for this eventuality upon discovering that Ankara had secretly notified leaders of the rebel Free Syrian Army Thursday, May 31 that it had withdrawn permission for them to launch operations against the Assad regime from Turkish soil.
It was then realized that Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had stabbed Western-Arab Syrian policy in the back and moved over to help prop Assad up at the very moment his regime was on the point of buckling under international after-shocks from the systematic massacres of his own people.
That day, Erdogan’s betrayal was confirmed when Davutoglu announced over Turkish NTV: “We have never advised either the Syrian National Council or the Syrian administration to conduct an armed fight, and we will never do so.” He added: “The Syrian people will be the driving force that eventually topples the Syrian regime. Assad will leave as a result of the people’s will.”
This was precisely the view voiced this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he spoke out against violent rebellion, military intervention and sanctions to topple the Syrian ruler.
For the time being, the pro-Assad Moscow-Tehran front, bolstered now by Ankara, has got the better of Western and Arab policies for Syria. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bashar Assad and Hassan Nasrallah have drawn encouragement for advancing to their next step: to confront the United States and Israel with another accomplished fact, the deployment of Scuds aimed at Israel from Lebanon.
Failing to curtail their transfer across the Syrian-Lebanese border in compliance with its 2010 ultimatum will seriously shake Israel’s deterrent capabilities and undercut its military credibility against its enemies, including Iran.
If on the other hand, the Obama administration again holds Israel back from military action, this time to destroy the long-range Scuds, Bashar Assad, Hizballah and Tehran will be awarded a winning hand – and not only in Syria.
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Syrian Refugees draining water-poor Jordan dry
June 1, 2012
By Ahmad Khatib
AMMAN: Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled from carnage and violence at home to neighboring Jordan are draining the desert kingdom’s meager water resources, officials and experts say.
It is a new challenge for Jordan, one of the world’s 10 driest countries, where desert covers 92 percent of its territory and the population of 6.7 million is growing by 3.5 percent a year.
The tiny Arab country has given refuge to waves of Palestinian and Iraqi refugees because of regional conflicts over the past decades, and now the kingdom is hosting up to 120,000 Syrians.
“The majority of Syrian refugees are concentrated in the northern cities of Mafraq, Irbid, Ramtha, Jerash and Ajlun. All of these areas already suffer from water shortage,” Fayez Bataineh, secretary general of the Water Authority, told AFP.
“They add pressure to our limited water resources, and we need to be extra careful and wisely manage these resources.”
Years of below-average rainfall have created a shortfall of 500 million cubic meters (17.5 billion cubic feet) a year, and the country forecasts it will need 1.6 billion cubic meters of water a year by 2015.
“Each Syrian refugee needs at least 80 liters of fresh water a day, so 9,600 cubic meters per day for 120,000 people. The cost of this subsidized water supply is 13,000 dinar ($18,000) a day, not to mention other related expenses,” said Adnan Zubi, assistant secretary general of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation.
“It is not the first time that Jordan hosted forced migrants, but our water resources and infrastructure are already overburdened.”
Struggling to battle a chronic water shortage, Jordan is mulling controversial plans to extract water. It is tapping into a 300,000-year-old aquifer, despite concerns about high levels of radiation, while studying ways to build a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea.
“When my family and I fled to Ramtha from Homs several months ago, we could not find enough drinking water,” said Abu Eid, who has two sons and four daughters.
“Sometimes, I avoided eating in order not to go to the toilet later because there was no water to wash. But we have adapted to the situation.”
Maher, another Syrian refugee living in the border town of Ramtha, said he needs to buy water every day.
“We have water shortages all the time. I shower once every 10 days,” he added.
But Basma, a 25-year-old Syrian refugee woman in Irbid, disagreed.
“I did not face any water problems in Jordan. I think the Jordanians are doing what they can to help us and things are fine thank God,” she told AFP.
According to the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), more than 20,000 Syrian refugees are registered in Jordan.
Aoife McDonnell of UNHCR Jordan told AFP that the U.N. organization is aware that “hosting such large numbers of ‘guests’ … severely strains already scarce resources, particularly in relation to water availability and consumption, waste management, sewage systems, energy, health and education.”
Jordan provides free medical services to U.N.-registered refugees, while more than 5,500 Syrian students have enrolled in public schools.
“This reliance on local services and infrastructure also brings increasing pressure on the already vulnerable host populations of Jordan, as it is coupled with major water scarcity in the region, rising temperatures and a resulting negative impact on food production,” McDonnell said, urging international support for the kingdom.
Jordan’s average annual water consumption stands at around 900 million cubic meters, but more than 60 percent of this water goes to agriculture, which contributes 3.6 percent to gross domestic product, according to official figures.
“The Syrians came from water-rich areas to almost parched parts in Jordan,” said Abdelrahman Sultan of the Jordanian-Israeli-Palestinian non-governmental group Friends of the Earth Middle East.
“They consume water here the same way they used to consume water in their country.”
The Ministry of Environment said demand for water is expected to increase.
“This requires better infrastructure in order to ensure a healthier environment for the refugees, a project that would cost a lot,” Ahmad Qatarneh, the ministry’s secretary general, told AFP.
The government says it is still difficult to determine the cost of hosting Syrians in Jordan.
“It goes without saying that it is high, but we cannot say for sure at the moment because Syrians are still fleeing to Jordan,” said government spokesman Samih Maayatah.
More than 13,000 people have been killed, most of them civilians, since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime erupted in March last year, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“We did not wonder whether we would get enough water or not in Jordan. We just ran for our lives,” said Abu Eid.
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