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Mid-East
File ... MEDES-- IRAN + IRAQ and other Moslem
nations
At the end of the Great Tribulation, it is foretold that the
Medes (Arab-Moslems)
would come against Babylon. Jeremiah 50 and 51
"Medes" most likely includes
terrorist-operatives
Below are articles that pertain to the build up of arms
by Iran and Iraq, with the help of Russia and China .....
financed by Saudi Arabia ( Wahabi Connection)
Terrorism will not end by missiles, bombs and urban warfare.
Terrorism will end when Moslems forsake their Islam ideology and convert to belief in Jesus
Christ as God and Savior.
Absolutely nothing else
on the face of this earth can change that fact.
Jerome Corsi on IRAN ...
latest commentaries
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=246
Iran Freedom Foundation -- good articles
http://www.iranfreedomfoundation.org/default.php?page_id=1
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IRAN
Iran ( Medes
) allies with South American nations against the U.S. -- April
20, 2009
Please see Jeremiah Chapter 51
"According to the study, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using anti-Western Hugo Chavez
as a springboard into several Latin American
countries, such as Bolivia, Nicaragua,
and Ecuador, where he intends to
establish a religious, terrorist, political and economic
foothold in South America. Iran has already
made major inroads in its relationship with Venezuela
and Bolivia, [ Ed: and CUBA ] largely based on shared
anti-American sentiments
In addition, the report warns that Iran may
launch anti-American and anti-Israel terror attacks
through intelligence and terror networks in South American
countries
Khomeini-inspired Shi'ite Islamic and Iranian
revolutionary propaganda is being exported by Iran into
non-Muslim and Muslim communities in Latin America, in large part
through its terror proxy, Hizbullah, which is raising
funds for operation by uniting with South American drug and crime
cartels.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130937
Iran would retaliate at US interests around the world
-- Feb. 8, 2007 our troops in the MidEast
TEHRAN, Iran — If the United States were to
attack Iran, the country would respond by striking U.S. interests
all over the world, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
said Thursday
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Feb08/0,4670,IranUS,00.html
Iran's new leader --
Aug. 3, 2005
As Iran's hard-line president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
prepares to assume office this week, there is a pervasive
perception that the country's conservatives will finally be
consolidating their power after eight years of struggle against
the reformers
In a sense, the Iranian hard-liners were
emulating their Chinese counterparts in seeking to mollify an
aggrieved public not through political
modernization but economic rewards. But such a tacit
bargain is unlikely to succeed in Iran, as the conservatives are
too implicated in the corruption of the system to restructure it.
Ahmadinejad's campaign against corruption and in favor of
economic equality may have made these oligarchs nervous, but they
have enough power and influence to prevent him from fulfilling
his pledges.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/02/opinion/edtakeyh.php
Iran says Iraq and Iran are now "brothers" -- July 17,
2005
"We consider Iraq as our brother,"
Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Aref told reporters
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, the first
Iraqi leader to visit Tehran in decades, said both sides stood to
benefit from a diplomatic rapprochement.
Although it seems the visit of Jaafari's
ministerial delegation will bring neither of these projects
closer, Iraq's oil minister said he hoped his country could pump
a small volume of crude oil to Iran in return for much-needed
gasoline.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&e=6&u=/nm/20050716/wl_nm/iran_iraq_dc
Iraq's PM Al- Ja'fari in Iran for closer ties -- July 17, 2005
...Shiite bond ( Shi'a )
Al-Ja'fari met today with
outgoing President Mohammad Khatami during the
first top-level visit since the two countries waged an eight-year
war in the 1980s.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/07/8035c69d-da08-49bb-b705-5c7eaa16adb4.html
Iraq-Iran : landmark visit -- July 17, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4688619.stm
Russia to build 6 more nuclear reactors for Iran -- June 30, 2005
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/july/07_01_3.html
China: main supplier of weaponry to IRAN and the Sudan -- June
30, 2005
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/july/07_01_4.html
Ahmadinejad calls for world-wide Islamic revolt -- June 30 , 2005
In the first such statement by an Iranian
president in nearly 20 years, Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his
election would mark what he termed a new Islamic
revolution. Ahmadinejad said such a revolution would spread
throughout the world
The Teheran mayor has served as a senior
commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and has been
identified as a suspect in the killing of Kurdish
dissidents in Europe in the late 1980s and early
1990s.
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/july/07_01_1.html
Iran to take out US with EMP bomb -- April 25, 2005
ElectroMagnetic Pulse weapons – even
one of which could knock out America's critical
electrical and technological infrastructure,
effectively sending the continental U.S. back to the 19th century
with a recovery time of months or years.
Iran will have that capability – at least theoretically
– as soon as it has one nuclear bomb ready to arm such a
missile. North Korea, a strategic ally of Iran, already boasts
such capability.
Detonated at a height of 60 to 500 kilometers above the
continental U.S., one nuclear warhead could cripple the
country – knocking out electrical power and circuit boards
and rendering the U.S. domestic communications impotent.
The purpose of an EMP attack, unlike a nuclear attack on
land, is not to kill people, but "to kill electrons,"
as Graham explained.
The commission report went so far as to suggest, in its opening
sentence, that an EMP attack
"might result in the defeat of our military
forces
some potential sources of EMP threats are difficult to
deter – they can be terrorist groups that have no state
identity, have only one or a few weapons and are motivated to
attack the U.S. without regard for their own safety,"
[ William R. ] Graham describes the potential
"cascading effect" of an EMP attack. If electrical
power is knocked out and circuit boards fried, telecommunications
are disrupted, energy deliveries are impeded, the financial
system breaks down, food, water and gasoline become scarce.
As [ Sen. John ] Kyl put it: "Few if any people would die
right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect
on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely
impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in
warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those
vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped
with electricity).
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43956
"Hasten the coming of the Hidden Imam"....
"al-Mahdi"- April 22, 2005
Ayatollah Nouri-Hamedani
Mahdaviyat studies are concerning the
Shiite doctrine of the Hidden Imam, who is to reappear as Mahdi,
i.e.,
"the rightly guided one".
http://i-cias.com/e.o/mahdi.htm
to see quotes access "Edit" and "Select All
"Isa" = Jesus
http://www.irshad.org/islam/prophecy/mahdi.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi
notice
how they pick and choose Biblical prophecy ( pre-dated) and twist
to their outcomes.
http://www.islam.tc/prophecies/imam.html
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD89705
China supplies missiles to Iran -- Jan. 30, 2005
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/january/01_30_2.html
IRAN's Nukes -- January 7, 2005
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GA07Ak01.html
Bush puts Iran on top of
the list --Nov. 3, 2004
President George Bush was expected to make Iran
his leading foreign policy concern during any second
term in office.
http://menewsline.com/stories/2004/november/11_04_1.html
How Iran will fight back -- Dec. 16, 2004
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FL16Ak01.html
Iran's Missiles capable of European targets -- Dec. 4, 2004
Ed,
note: Will this threat bring up EU reliance upon US technology
and ' The Man
' ?
Iran is working on
long-range missiles capable of hitting European capitals, as well
as nuclear and chemical warheads, an exile group said on
Thursday.
Tehran was working on missiles with a range of 1,600 to
1,900 miles, capable of hitting cities such as Berlin
Ghadr 101 and Ghadr 110 missiles,
comparable to advanced Scud E missiles, at the Hemmat Missile
Industries Complex.
The exiles also said Tehran had in August tested a Shahab-4
missile with a range of 1,200 to 1,900 miles, depending
on the weight of the warhead. Shahab means meteor in
Farsi.
Safavi also said Iran's Shahid Karimi Industrial
Group was pursuing nuclear and chemical warheads,
but he gave few details.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&u=/nm/20041202/wl_nm/iran_missiles_dc_1&printer=1
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2004/mjm124-8.htm
Iran sign satellite accord with China -- Dec. 4, 2004
to consolidate bilateral cooperation in the field
of aerospace technology and sciences.
http://menewsline.com/stories/2004/december/12_03_2.html
Iran and Nukes -- Nov. 19, 2004
Tehran has not dropped plans to run 50,000 centrifuges to
enrich uranium for what it says will be the fuel requirements of
a nuclear reactor to be finished next year.
It possesses less than 1,000 centrifuges. But if it added 500
centrifuges, experts say Iran would be able to make enough
weapons-grade uranium to make a bomb annually.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/18/90133.shtml
Iran and China -- Nov. 19, 2004
According to the Washington Post, China's energy
needs have climbed nearly 40 percent in the first months of 2004.
Meanwhile, Iran – whose population has doubled since the
1979 revolution – is increasing meeting those needs in
exchange for access to China's burgeoning low-cost manufacturing
industry.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the growing Iran-China
alliance is the Islamic republic's access to the improving
technology being developed, deployed and utilized by the People's
Liberation Army.
Nowhere are U.S. concerns greater than in the area of ballistic
missile technology. American officials have sanctioned
Chinese companies for improperly transferring such technology in
January 2002 and as recently as early this year, but that hasn't
stopped the transfers, experts and analysts believe.
In terms of its nuclear weapons ambitions, the U.N.'s
nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has
determined that China, along with
Pakistan and Russia, have probably provided nuclear technology to
Tehran.
http://www.newsmax.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/17/83609.shtm
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/17/83609.shtml
Iran, Pakistan and Libya-- Nov. 17, 2004
An Iranian opposition group said Wednesday that
Tehran bought blueprints of a nuclear bomb and weapons-grade
uranium from the same Pakistani scientist who
admitted selling atomic secrets to Libya and
other countries a decade ago.
According to the exiled National Council for
Resistance in Iran, both the bomb design and the nuclear material
were handed to Iran by Abdul Qadeer Khan, who headed Pakistan's
nuclear program between 1994 and 1996.
But he also said the agency has itself suspected that Iran may
have a blueprint for a nuclear weapon ever since such designs
were uncovered in Libya.
The Iranian exile group is the political arm of the Mujahedeen
Khalq, which is listed by the United States as a terrorist
organization. Two years ago the group uncovered an undeclared
nuclear site in Natanz, Iran.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/17/business/iran.html
Pakistan http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/World2.asp?ArticleID=140406
Terrorists come to US through Mexico -- Nov. 15, 2004
Masri also said al-Qaeda has considered plans to
"smuggle nuclear materials to Mexico, then operatives would
carry material into the U.S.," according to the report,
parts of which were read to TIME. Masri says his family, seeking
refuge from al-Qaeda hunters, is now in Iran.
U.S. and Mexican intelligence conferred about
reports from several al-Qaeda detainees indicating the potential
use of Mexico as a staging area "to acquire end-stage
chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041122-782068,00.html
Terrorist operatives within the United
States
Cells from Hamburg, Germany ;
Paris, France ; Egypt ; London, England
Equally
important, it is becoming clear that hundreds, if not thousands,
of graduates of bin Laden's schools for terror are Muslims who
have grown up and been educated in the United States
and Europe.
the terrorist shock troops of al-Qaeda see their mission as an
international revolutionin their case, to create
the khilafah, a global government under Islamic rule.
For them, Islamism is the new universal revolutionary creed
.......Their goal is a world state under Islamic rule
All this makes
clear that many of the terrorists we are now confronting are a
Western phenomenon, existing inside the Islamic diaspora that is an
established fact of life in the U.S. and Europe.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/media/0501nr.htm
Terrorists operatives from Cuba
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/6/16/152646.shtml
US, France, England and Germany appease Iran-- Nov. 15, 2004
The US had planned to ask a Nov. 25 meeting of
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to recommend to the
UN Security Council that it impose sanctions on Iran. That move
might have begun to put the UN and the US on a trail like the one
that led to the long confrontation and eventual war with Saddam
Hussein. But the US military is stretched too thin for any
war-talk with Iran. And the Security Council isn't likely to go
along with the US.
The IAEA, meanwhile, reported Monday that all
nuclear material that Iran had declared in the past year has been
accounted for, "...and therefore we can say that such
material is not diverted to prohibited [weapons]
activities." The report, however, was inconclusive about any
undeclared material Iran may be hiding.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1116/p08s02-comv.html
Iran will retaliate if hit -- Nov. 10, 2004
Iran threatened on
Monday to strike back at Israel or any other country that
attacked its nuclear facilities
Iranian officials have also warned they can strike back at
Israel with its medium-range Shahab-3 missile, which can also hit
U.S. military bases in the Gulf.
Zolqadr denied Iran was developing nuclear weapons, saying the
Islamic state preferred to rely on a volunteer militia force,
which he said numbered 10 million, to defend the country.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&u=/nm/20041108/wl_nm/nuclear_iran_retaliation_dc_1&printer=1
Iran warns the West: nukes in 3 years ( sooner ?) --August 19,
2004
Iran has informed British, French and German
officials that it could produce nuclear weapons within three
years after being able to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels
within a year, Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton said
Thursday.
In an interview with pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera,
Shamkhani was asked how Iran would respond if the
United States were to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
"We will not sit to wait for what others will do to
us," he said. "There are differences of opinion among
military commanders (in Iran). Some commanders believe preventive
operations is not a model created by Americans ...
or is not limited to Americans," he said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1092884509970&p=1078113566627
Iran
threatens Israel and the U.S. -- Aug. 19, 2004
Last week, Iranian Deputy Chief of the elite Revolutionary
Guards, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr released a statement
which contained a threat, "If Israel fires a missile into
the Bushehr nuclear power plant, it has to say goodbye forever
to its Dimona nuclear facility, where it produces and
stockpiles nuclear weapons."
Shamkhani also made very clear that his country would regard any
pre-emptive strike against the Bushehr reactor as sufficient
cause to unleash full-scale, unrestricted war against the United
States. "We will consider any strike against our nuclear
installations as an attack on Iran as a whole and we will
retaliate with all our strength," he said.
http://news.novetra.com/features/iran-threatens.html
Iranian Hezbollah planting cells in So. and Central America,
Mexico for invasion of USA
Dec. 1, 2004.... Paraguay (Moslem triangle P,B, A); Nicaragua
etc.
The Argentineans now claim the attacks against the Jewish
Community Center and the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires are linked
to the Iranian intelligence and their Hezbollah proxy.
These terrorists are organized in active cells
around the country with safe houses in neighboring Paraguay.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35881
China supplies missiles to Iran, MidEast and North Korea --August
9 -2003
China has been exporting missiles directly
to Egypt, Iran, Libya and
Syria and has transferred missiles via
North Korea, the officials said.
The State Department has accused China of
transferring missiles to Iran, Libya,
North Korea and Pakistan. The department's
most
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33998
Cuba and Iran jam US Satellites --August 7, 2003
By successfully jamming a U.S. communications satellite
over the Atlantic Ocean, the regimes of Cuba and Iran
challenged U.S. dominance of space and the assumptions of free
access to satellite communication that makes undisputed U.S.
military power possible.
The Bush administration, meanwhile, appears paralyzed about
how to cope with this latest threat, which one U.S. official
likens to an "act of war."
The target of these terrorist states: Telestar-12, a commercial
communications satellite orbiting at 15 degrees west, 22,000
miles above the Atlantic.
The Bush administration has approved sanctions against several
leading Chinese companies in connection with their missile and
WMD exports to Iran. They include China North Industries Corp.,
known as Norinco, which conducts extensive
business with the United States.
Other Chinese companies in the missile and WMD market in the
Middle East include the China Great Wall Industry Corp.
and the China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp.,
both of which sold M-11 missiles to Pakistan. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33957
IRAN becomes Third Nuclear Threat--Feb 11, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,893041,00.html
Iran tests Taepo Dong Missile--Jan 28, 2003
Iran has been testing the Taepo Dong engine as part of
development of the Shihab-4 intermediate-range missile
program.
"Iran has obtained from North Korea the missile engine for
the Taepo Dong-1," Kam told a recent news conference in
presenting the center's Middle East military balance. "Iran
has tested the engine and Israel and U.S. intelligence expect the
first launch of the Shihab-4."
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/january/01_28_1.html
Iran and Libya (China and Ukraine too) receive weapons from
Denmark--Jan 29, 2003
The Danish Foreign Ministry said Copenhagen sold
$77 million worth of weapons to China, Iran, Libya and
Ukraine in 2001. The ministry report said the figure for
weapons sales to these countries in 2000 was $31.1 million.
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/january/01_29_2.html
Nuclear worries
---Dec 30, 2002
Iran is also a concern. Earlier this month, the United States
accused Iran of "actively working" on a nuclear weapons
program at a nuclear power plant project. Satellite images
indicated the construction of two massive power plants "are
not justified by the needs of Iran's civilian nuclear
program," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
Iranian officials denied they were working on a nuclear weapons
program.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/30/bush.worldview.yearender/index.html
Iran: Chief Sponsor of Terror.... May 22-2002
The report, which was released on Tuesday,
underscores how Iran has risen to the top of Washington's list of
rogue states supporting terrorism and developing weapons of mass
destruction.
Alongside Iran, the US named Cuba, Libya, Iraq, North Korea,
Sudan and Syria as its list of state sponsors of terrorism for
the eighth year running.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1021990886755&p=1012571727088
Isaiah
21.....Elam, Media---Iran, Iraq
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/Is21.html
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2001/michelek125.htm
Army Day April 25... where is Shihab 3 Missile ?
........2002
The Islamic republic exhibited its new rockets as
well as F-4 and MiG jets during Army Day, which was held
on Thursday. Officials said the display was meant to stress Iran's
military dominance over its Gulf neighbors.
"Today our army is one of the most powerful in the
world despite its poor facilities," Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami said. "It has become
self-sufficient."
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2002/april/04_27_2.html
IRAN to make their own nerve gas (with help of Russia, China,
West Europe)...Feb. 4- 2002
A CIA report released on Wednesday said
Teheran is obtaining help for the project from China and Russia.
Iran is also seeking dual-use equipment from Western Europe to
produce nerve agents as part of Teheran's nonconventional weapons
program.
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2002/february/02_04_1.html
China Sino-Iranian Relations strengthened .... April 22-2002
He said China is ready to promote dialogue,
cooperation with Iran and other countries in a bid to establish a
new and just political and economic world order......
After the talks, China and Iran signed six documents,
respectively on oil and gas cooperation, on avoidance of double
taxation, on post, telecommunications and information technology
cooperation, on maritime transportation, on the implementation of
plans for 2003-2005 cultural exchanges, and on the establishment
of a joint business council.
Iran is the last leg of Jiang's two-week five-nation trip, which
will finally take him home next Monday. Jiang had ended his state
visit to Germany, Libya, Nigeria and Tunisia. [ed note: He also visited Greece and
firmed up relations ]
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200204/21/eng20020421_94442.shtml
also at:
Iran and China were seeking to "revive their
golden Silk Road ties".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1941000/1941030.stm
Iranian Missile Index
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/index.html
Russia supplying arms to Iran,..... for
Shahab 3 + 4 missiles
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2001/february/headline02_23_6.html
China continues nuke cooperation with Iran
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2001/february/headline02_23_1.html
http://www.worldtribune.com/Archive-2001/ss-china-02-24.html
Iranian missile threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4015775,00.html
Nuclear reactor at Bushehr, Iran (Siemans of Germany)
http://www.armscontrol.org/ACT/may98/hd2my98.htm
http://www.adl.org/terror/focus/13_focus.html
Shahab 4....biological, chemical warfare
http://search.cetin.net.cn/internet/DSTI/FAS/news/iran/1998/980731-iran-il.htm
Shahab 3 "Zelzal"...capable of hitting Israel,and
American forces in the mid-East
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/shahab-3.htm
Missile Threat from Iran by Kenneth R. Timmerman
http://readersdigest.com/rdmagazine/specfeat/archives/missile.asp
Iranian Weaponry...missiles (NBC) Theater Defense
http://ajc.org/pre/IranWeapons.htm
Shahab 4 Missile...launching a satellite into space (toxic
warheads)
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/shahab-4.htm
Shahab 5 Missile....3,500 mile range (Europe)
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/shahab-5.htm
Shahab 6 Missile.....6,300 mile range (America)
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/missile/shahab-6.htm
IRAQ
Basra--global gas pump--under
Shiite control ( radicals) -- July 2005
Small parties with names like God's Vengeance and
Master of Martyrs have emerged. They work under the umbrella of
more established Shiite groups, but many Iraqis suspect them of
being agents of the Iranian government.
One of the leading parties was formed in Iran by an
Iraqi cleric living in exile during the reign of
Saddam Hussein
Thursday and Friday have been designated the
official weekend, rather than Friday and Saturday as in
Baghdad, because Saturday is the Jewish day of rest
Religious Shiites do not have to legally
enshrine Shariah, Islam's version of divine law, to exercise
their will.
Enforcement of Islamic practices is done on the streets,
in the shadows [ Ed: vigilantly
style ]
Sheik Abdul Sattar al-Bahadli, a
top official in the Sadr movement prominent in
the National Assembly, summed up the conservative ( Ed: ? ) view:
"If Shariah exists everywhere in the world, in
China, Korea or Japan, for example, and not just in Iraq,
everyone will be happy
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/07/news/basra.php
Iraq seeks Iran for security and commerce --
July 16, 2005
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is to
lead a top-level delegation to Iran today
to boost security and economic relations between the
two Shi'ite-majority nations.
Six ministers, including Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari,
are to accompany Mr. al-Jaafari on his four-day visit to
Tehran, said the prime minister's spokesman, Laith Kubba.
America's hugely expensive reconstruction efforts of the
past two years have failed to deliver significant improvements in
those essential services, mainly because of the raging insurgency
in Iraq.
You would have a riot in Basra now if it were not for
all the oil products, like [gasoline] and cooking gas and
kerosene coming from Iran," said Entifad Qanbar, spokesman
for Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, part of the ruling
political alliance.
The Iranians are the winners in the Iraqi game; they got
rid of Saddam Hussein, [and] most of their friends are in
power," he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050715-115419-1330r.htm
IRAQ and Iran normalise ties...Jan. 28-2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1785000/1785485.stm
Iran calls for peace with Iraq ... Jan 28-2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1476663,00.html
Feb. 19-2001 ... China fortifies Iraq air-defense system
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2001220223110.htm
IRAQI Missiles and Special Weapons
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/scud_info/scud_info_refs/n41en012/unscom.htm
Iraq and Russia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000163167039689&rtmo=Qwx03O0R&atmo=
99999999&pg=/et/01/2/25/wiraq25.html
IRAQ WEAPONS
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-90471,00.html
It Boomerangs....Administration aids Iraq
http://www.thenewamerican.com/departments/feature/2000/092400.htm
ARARAT
- TURKEY
China is already
allied with Rusia and India
Turkey and China discuss Military Cooperation -- April 2, 2005
Officials said the two countries have resumed
talks regarding military cooperation. They said the cooperation
could include training and joint exercises.
Firtina has met the Chinese Chief of Staff Gen.
Liang Guanglie as well as other military commanders. Firtina and
his delegation plan to remain in China until April 7.
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/april/04_06_3.html
SAUDI
ARABIA (financier of the Medes)
The Wahabi Connection
Turki, Ambassador to the U.S.
--- Aug. 2, 2005
Saudi Arabia is an unregenerate
absolute monarchy whose kings and princes live in luxury but are
publicly dedicated to upholding and propagating the teachings of
the puritanical and militantly intolerant
Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam. It also happens
to sit on top of vast petroleum reserves that the modern
industrial world seems unable to learn to live without
Saudi billions poured into Pakistan and Afghanistan in
the 1980s, financing local mujahedeen fighters
and Arab adventurers, like Osama bin Laden, who
flocked to join them. Saudi Arabia also financed hundreds of
madrasas that taught combative strains of Islam and sent
graduates to Afghan training camps for instruction in armed
jihad.
After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Riyadh started to
view these foreign adventures as a useful safety valve for
disillusioned Arab guerrilla veterans who might otherwise direct
their energies and anger at the Western-allied Saudi royal
regime. During these years, the Saudis also poured money into
building a network of Wahhabi mosques, schools and bookstores in
the impoverished Muslim suburbs of Western Europe
Turki's long tenure in the intelligence job abruptly ended less
than two weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks under unexplained circumstances.
Private lawsuits alleging links between Turki and the attacks
have since been dismissed by an American court.
http://www.iht.com//articles/2005/08/01/opinion/edsaudi.php
Defense Minister now Crown Prince -- Aug. 2, 2005
Western industry sources said Sultan's
appointment would signal the resumption of major Saudi arms
purchases, financed by the huge windfall in oil revenues. The
sources said that over the last four years the kingdom has
largely limited procurement to maintenance and training programs
amid the power vacuum left by the illness of Fahd
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/august/08_03_1.html
U.S. trains Saudi Navy -- Aug. 2, 2005
U.S. training for the Saudi Navy was suspended in 2003
in wake of the killing of a U.S. contractor at the Jbeil Naval
Base. The contractor was killed by a suspected Al Qaida operative
who served in the navy
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/august/08_02_1.html
The ARAB bomb ? --Sept. 22, 2003
Pakistan obtained the first "Moslem bomb".....
Will Saudi Arabia (and Medes) obtain the first "ARAB
bomb" ????
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,1044402,00.html
PAKISTAN
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Nukes -- July
2005
http://www.pakistan-facts.com/article.php?story=20050708213703597
Pakistan behind London attack --
July 29, 2005
http://www.pakistan-facts.com/article.php?story=20050729214030704
Pakistani attack in India
( 2001)
http://www.pakistan-facts.com/article.php?story=20050729213630108
Friends of Pakistan (
United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Malaysia )
http://www.pakistan-facts.com/article.php?story=20041211153958518
and
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid041209_1_n.shtml
Pakistan-North Korea axis
-- 2004
http://www.pakistan-facts.com/staticpages/index.php?page=20030111164804284
UNITED
ARAB EMIRATES
Dubai: threat to America ;
Harm to Israel March 2,
2006
The fact is everyone working at ports has security
responsibility just as individuals are responsible for locking
their own cars and homes, not the police. The company
managing the ports will have special access to all shipments,
timetables, routes, container content, bills of lading, secured
holding areas and, most worrisome to intelligence analysts,
access to information about secret US shipments around the world
including where such items are being shipped to and from.
The information gathered by any port operator, placed in the
wrong hands, can easily be offered to foreign agents
without the US knowing it, thus foreign management can create
an intelligence security nightmare for the US.
A good outcome of this issue coming to light is that in the
future no foreign entity should be allowed to control this vital
part of US security. At least the Brits were close democratic
allies, but Dubai and the U.A.E. are dictatorships and
dictatorships have a way of spiraling out of control in
successive years--look at Iran and Iraq.
The U.A.E. is also currently a major drug
transshipment point for Southwest Asian drug producing countries
and, being a major financial center, this makes the
U.A.E. an ideal locale for the money laundering that
is often associated with the drug trade. The U.A.E. has undefined
and open borders with Saudi Arabia and Oman, thus allowing drugs
and other goods, including weapons, to be
moved between those countries without scrutiny. A Middle East
open-borders crisis occurred in 2002 when North Korean SCUD
missiles were shipped to Yemen and then vanished. Considering
that the U.A.E. has open borders and would control ports on both
ends of a single shipment, we need to be seriously concerned with
U.A.E. control of our ports.
The U.A.E. is also a member of the Arab League and is a signatory
member of the Arab boycott of Israel. The
Syrian-based Central Office for the Boycott of Israel, a.k.a. the
Central Boycott Office, enforces the pan-Arab boycott of Israel
on 3 levels:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6061
Dubai: anti-Semitic
On the website of the Dubai Government’s Department
of Tourism & Commerce Marketing, under the section titled
“Visa Regulations,” it states that, “Nationals of
‘Israel’ may not enter the U.A.E.”, a reference to
the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a constituent state.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=99471
UAE to aquire 24
American ports -- Feb. 25, 2006
12 East
Coast ports including :
(1.) Portland, Maine; (2.) Boston ( Mass ) ; (3.) Davisville,
Rhode Island.;
(4.) New York City ( NY ) ; (5.) Newark ( New Jersey ) ; (6.)
Philadelphia ( PA ) ;
(7.) Camden, New Jersey ; (8.) Wilmington, Delaware ;( 9.)
Baltimore, Md.;( Ed: close to Wash. D.C.)
and 3 Virginia locations at (10.) Newport News (VA ) , ( 11.)
Norfolk, VA and (12.) Portsmouth, VA.
AND
10 ports along the Gulf of
Mexico including
the 6 Texas ports of
Beaumont, Port Arthur, Galveston, Houston, Freeport, and Corpus
Christi,
plus the 3 Louisana
ports of Lake Charles and New Orleans
( Ed: plus Baton Rouge )
(Ed: plus one in Gulf Port, Mississippi ; see "MAP"
below )
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48991
PLUS 2 in Florida
Miami and Tampa, Florida
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48991
MAP http://portal.pohub.com/portal/page?_pageid=36,1,36_31159:36_34061&_dad=pogprtl&_schema=POGPRTL
DP World and CSX Rail
http://www.dpiterminals.com/subpages.asp?PSID=1&PageID=21
Are RR included too ? Sec. John Snow --Feb 21,
2006
One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose
agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8
billion sale of an English company to government-owned
Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's
cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.
Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm
that sold its own international port operations to DP
World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow
left for President Bush's cabinet.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/393375p-333478c.html
Port of Davisville, R.I. http://portal.pohub.com/portal/page?_pageid=169,112559&_dad=pogprtl&_schema=POGPRTL
Dubai, UAE Shell Oil Nigeria -- Feb. 18, 2006
``Insurgents of all kinds are attacking the oil
industry as a way of fighting the governments in charge,'' said
Youssef Ibrahim, managing director of Dubai, United Arab
Emirates-based Strategic Energy Investment Group. ``It's
contributing to a lot of anxiety about the safety of supply
The militants said they targeted Shell today because Nigerian
military helicopters had used an airstrip operated by the company
to attack villagers in the Niger River delta.
``There is great anger this time owing to the loss of lives in
communities attacked by the choppers,'' Jomo Gbomo, a self-
described spokesman for the militants, said in a response to
e- mailed questions. ``We have very little regard for the lives
of these hostages as we have lost a number of civilians in these
raids.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aTP6LlBq8Gr4&refer=news_index
Fear escalates over foreign possession of ports -- Feb.19, 2006
The Bush administration earlier approved the
deal, which has drawn escalating criticism by lawmakers who
maintain the United Arab Emirates is not consistent in its
support of U.S. terrorism-fighting efforts
...
Meanwhile, the Bush administration is defending
its approval of the sale, and strongly resisting demands by
Congress to reconsider ...
But one of those mayors, Martin O'Malley of
Baltimore, criticized Bush's approval of the ports deal as an
"outrageous, reckless and irresponsible decision" and
urged the president to reconsider
"I think that they did not take into account
the vulnerability of America's ports," O'Malley said
He said only 5 percent of the shipments into the nation's ports
are inspected, calling that a stark contrast to Hong Kong, which
inspects 100 percent of shipments.
Dubai Ports World declined through a spokesman to respond to
O'Malley's remarks
[ Sen.Charles, ] Schumer [ D-NY ] and others have cited
the UAE's history as an operational and
financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks
against New York and Washington
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3669663.html
UAE to acquire 6 American ports --Feb.
13, 2006
DP World, based in Dubai, has offered $6.8 billion for the
purchase of a British firm that operates the ports of Baltimore,
Miami, New
York, New Jersey,
New Orleans and Philadelphia,
Middle East Newsline reported.
The company said the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the
United States "thoroughly reviewed the potential transaction
and concluded they had no objection." The committee includes
representatives from the departments of Treasury, Defense,
Justice, Commerce, State and Homeland Security.
America's busiest ports are vital to our economy and to the
international economy, and that is why they remain top
terrorist targets," Sen. Charles Schumer, a New
York Democrat, said. "Just as we would not outsource
military operations or law enforcement duties, we
should be very careful before we outsource such sensitive
homeland security duties."
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2006/ss_gulf_02_13.html
UAE United Arab Emirates military cooperation with Pakistan -- Jan.
3, 2005
Industry sources said the UAE Army and Islamabad have been
negotiating to acquire a Pakistani BMS
[ Battle Management System ]
that would link main battle tanks, armored personnel
carriers and combat vehicles in Abu Dhabi's military.
The sources said the system would be capable of forming a network
comprised of a range of Western platforms in the UAE land forces
and would not require the purchase of Pakistani military
platforms.
IBM Integrated Battle Management = technology : computerized
battlefield identification systems ( friend or foe)
The sources said the Pakistani system was not as advanced as
Western networks and could not be regarded as network-centric
warfare. The system was said to employ Very High and Ultra High
Frequency radio communications, with each vehicle capable of
serving as a relay.
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/january/01_03_1.html
SNOW ...first time EVER in UAE -- Jan. 1,
2005
DUBAI, Dec 30 (AFP) - Snow has fallen over the United Arab
Emirates for the first time ever, leaving
a white blanket over the mountains of Ras al-Khaimah as the
desert country experienced a cold spell and above-average
rainfall
On Monday, 12.6 millimetres (half an inch) of rain fell on the
desert emirate of Dubai, where it hardly ever rains, as police
reported 500 accidents on its roads in 24 hours, including one
fatality, as a result of a three-day downpour
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=35476
LEBANON
From Iran through Syria to Lebanon :
Hizbullah arms --- Aug. 2, 2005
U.S. officials said that within days of Syria's military
withdrawal from Lebanon in late April an Iranian shipment of
munitions, mortars and anti-tank rockets reached Lebanon. The
officials said the shipment was flown by air to Damascus
International Airport and taken by truck to Lebanon's Bekaa
Valley.
"Syria continues to be a foremost supporter and weapons
supplier of Hizbullah, a terrorist group active in Lebanon, and
throughout the world, that has been targeting and killing
Americans and many others since the early 1980s," Rep.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairman of the House subcommittee on the
Middle East and Central Asia, said.
http://menewsline.com/stories/2005/august/08_02_2.html
AFGHANISTAN
http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id333.htm
Sudan's new vice-president Kiir -- Aug 3,
2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/02/news/sudan.php
Articles, poems pertaining to the
above:
Poem of Jeremiah 50, 51
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/shock.html
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2005/lb115.htm
The Eagle Has Fallen -- part
One www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch8p1.html
The Eagle Has Fallen -- part Two www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch8p2.html
The China File : www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch8p3.html
The Russian File: www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch8R.html
The Medes (
Moslems) : Iran and Iraq (aided by Russia,
China, Armenia, Turkey )
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch8p4.html
Salvation www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org