DECADE OF TURMOIL

1-Anderson Cooper interviews Council on foreign relations lee Feinstein on the future force on the Israeli-Lebanon border. 2-Magnitude 6.7 quake hits near Vanuatu. 3-F-3 tornado in Warroad had 180 mph winds. 4-Flooding halts production at India's largest gas fields. 5-Floods in west, north of Austria after heavy rain. 6-India races to help hundreds of thousands hit by floods. 7-33 more feared dead in Pakistan rains. 8-Volcano belches more ash in Philippines. 9-Iran's supreme leader urges Muslims to 'defend' Hezbollah. 10-Decade of turmoil.

On CNN Anderson Cooper interviewed Council on Foreign Relations member Lee Feinstein about the Force that must be on the Israeli-Lebanon border.

lee says this UNIFIL force is useless, and this un lead force they want to bring in now is UNIFIL on steroids. He says unless there are significant changes to this future force it will be useless as well.

Lee goes on to say: Theres always a temptation to throw a Peace keeping force at an intractable political problem. And thats the issue were facing here. First of all the peace keeping operation has to be understood as supporting a larger Political goal. By itself it's not going to be ableto nullify Hezbollah.

Israeli Defence forces are not able to do that. And unless the International Community is prepared to go to war, it's hard to imagine any stabilization force under a blue helmeted operation, a UN operation, or any other kind, to really succeed it.

Anderson then asks lee: Who needs to run this Operation force?

lee Answers: In the best case senario, you have a compitant Military force whos prestege is on the line. Run by a League nation such as France. France is a good candidate for this. You could even have the force run by a group of Nations like the European Union. But you need that kind of leadership and clear command in order to stand any chance of success.

JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS ITS THE EU NOT THE US THAT GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY IN THE FUTURE. IN THIS FUTURE LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY OF DANIEL 9:27.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Magnitude 6.7 quake hits near Vanuatu Mon Aug 7, 10:53 PM ET

SYDNEY, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck near the Pacific island of Vanuatu Tuesday but caused no injuries or damage, officials said. The magnitude 6.7 temblor struck at midmorning and was centered about 140 miles northwest of the capital, Port Vila, and about 100 miles below the earth's surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Vanuatu disaster official Job Esau said there was no damage or injuries at Port Vila or any of the country's outlying islands.New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management said the earthquake was too deep to pose any risk of a tsunami.Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides Islands, is made up of 13 main islands located about 1,400 miles east of Australia.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

F-3 tornado in Warroad had 180 mph winds
Associated Press,Last update: August 07, 2006 – 9:58 PM

A tornado that struck Warroad over the weekend was an F-3, with winds up to 180 miles per hour, National Weather Service officials said.Meteorologist Greg Gust, who went to the community Sunday as part of a weather service storm assessment team, said it was a miracle no one was killed.The tornado flipped over 16 semitrailers at the Marvin Windows plant and tore down a sign at the Pepsi bottling plant.Dale Sand and Tom Pepera like to watch storms, but when they saw the dangerous-looking clouds Saturday night, they headed for home and took shelter in a crawl space under their house on the northern edge of Warroad.

Something like that, all you can do is close your eyes and pray, Sand said.The Sand and Pepera home, in the Warroad estates neighborhood, was at the center of the storm, their neighbors said. The tornado took the roof off an old garage near the house and lifted a new garage away, smashing it into a field.One plate in a collection remained on their wall but broke in half; another plate was carried across the room and gently set down without a scratch.

Flooding halts production at India's largest gas fields 20 minutes ago

NEW DELHI (AFP) - State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. has halted production at India's two largest gas fields after monsoon rains flooded a processing plant in the western state of Gujarat.The Hazira processing plant was shut down Monday night, the Press Trust of India news agency said Tuesday.All gas production from the fields connected to Hazira has been suspended, Oil and Natural Gas chairman and managing director R.S. Sharma told PTI. "The Hazira plant is in no position to take gas from the fields and so the wells had to be shut.The Hazira plant, which can process 32.5 million standard cubic meters of gas per day (1.14 billion cubic feet), receives gas supplies from the Bassein field off Mumbai and the Panna-Mukta-Tapti field off the Gujarat coast.

The two gas fields produce around 41 million standard cubic meters per day, PTI said.A gas pipeline that supplies industries in the north, including to the national capital where public buses run exclusively on compressed natural gas, was also shut.The state-owned Gas Authority of India, which operates the pipeline, has been asked to ration supplies with transport getting priority followed by power plants, the report said.Sharma was unable to say when gas production was expected to resume.It may take at least a couple of days to drain the Hazira facility before gas production is restarted,he said.The plant is submerged by about five feet (1.5 metres) of water, the report said.

Floods in west, north of Austria after heavy rain Tue Aug 8, 6:56 AM ET


VIENNA (AFP) - Parts of northern and western Austria were put on flood alert following heavy rain over the weekend but the situation was improving early Tuesday, authorities have said. This comes after the country experienced record high temperatures of up to 36 degrees in recent weeks.Flood alarms were triggered around Vienna, in the spa town of Baden just south of the capital and in Krems and St. Poelten, in the province of Lower Austria.Streets and railways in that province stood under water and had to be closed, several towns were cut off and one house had to be evacuated following a landslide. Over 2,000 firefighters and emergency services were working to pump the water out of houses and cellars.

In the towns of Frankenfels and Annaberg, west of Vienna, 180 litres per square metre of rain fell in just 24 hours, the Austria Press Agency reported.In Sonntagberg, the river Ybbs which flows into the Danube carried away a bridge holding a gasoline main, causing a considerable gas leak,according to authorities. Lower Austria's gas provider EVN immediately cut the supply.Parts of Carinthia and Upper Austria were also flooded following heavy rain on Monday.But despite fears the Danube might reach the record level of 9.20 metres registered in March 2002, when large parts of Europe were flooded, the water level only went as high as 8.60 metres early Tuesday before falling further to 8.45 metres as the rain abated, the Lower Austrian alert centre said.

India races to help hundreds of thousands hit by floods by Syed Amin Jafri 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

HYDERABAD, India (AFP) - Rescuers are racing to get food and clean water to more than 750,000 people left homeless in four flooded Indian states, officials said, as the death toll linked to lashing monsoon rains in the past week rose to 187. In southern Andhra Pradesh state more than 100 people have died in the past week and 472,000 have been hit by the floods, senior administration official Priyadarshini told AFP on Tuesday.More than 600 villages in three districts were under water and 296 relief camps had been set up to house those displaced by the flooding, she said in the state capital Hyderabad.Some 283 boats, including a naval craft, had been deployed to rescue marooned people while seven helicopters were dropping food, drinking water, milk sachets and medicines to those trapped.

The rains were easing and water levels starting to drop, Priyadarshini added.In neighbouring Gujarat state, the authorities have relocated 190,000 people from Surat, famous for its diamond polishing industry, an official from the state flood control room said.

Indian army, air force and paramilitary personnel have been asked to assist the relief efforts, distributing food, clean water and moving people from submerged areas,said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.Five people had been washed away by floodwaters in the state, the Press Trust of India news agency said.Thousands of people in Surat were forced to move out of their houses after water was released from the swollen Ukai dam upstream on the Tapti river which flows through the town.The water level in the dam is just one foot below the danger mark at 344 feet (105 metres) and we have to do something soon to relieve the situation,the official said.About 300 soldiers equipped with 10 boats and life jackets were rescuing people trapped on rooftops of submerged houses in waterlogged areas, he said.

We also have four air force helicopters (to drop) food packets and clean water sachets to the people,he added.Low-lying bridges were closed to traffic and authorities had issued fresh warnings, asking people living along river banks to move to safer places as they prepared to release water accumalated in many dams in the state.In the western state of Maharashtra, thousands left homeless by the monsoon rains in 15 of the states's 35 districts were being airdropped food and medicines, a state official said.

Twenty-seven people had died overnight taking the death toll in the state due to the current spell of rains that began a week ago to 62, said Bhupathy Pandey, Maharashtra's relief and rehabilitation secretary.About 105,000 people had been displaced by floods, Pandey said, adding people in another 184 villages would need to be relocated to higher ground as many of the dams and rivers in the state were overflowing.

Six navy boats had been pressed into service in the flood-devastated districts of Nasik and Nandanwadi to rescue marooned people, Pandey said.An India air force AN-32 transport aircraft was dropping supplies.The situation is under control,Pandey said. In the Maoist insurgency-affected tiny central state of Chhattisgarh, 20,000 people had been evacuated to 19 relief camps, an official said.

The latest deaths took the nationwide death toll linked to the annual monsoon rains since mid-May to 567, 187 of them in the past week alone, according to an AFP tally.The flood situation in the country was raised in India's national parliament with Home Minister Shivraj Patil assuring MPs that New Delhi was ready to provide any assistance needed.

33 more feared dead in Pakistan rains 1 hour, 1 minute ago

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) - Torrential monsoon rains are feared to have killed another 33 people across Pakistan, including 20 when a bus slid off a flooded mountain road and plunged into a ravine. Ten bodies have been recovered after Tuesday's bus accident in Swat, a scenic mountain region in northwest Pakistan, and another 10 are still missing, local official Jamal Khan said on Tuesday.Another five people were killed in Pakistani Kashmir when a landslide sheared off a mountainside left unstable by last October's South Asia earthquake.A woman, her daughter aged three and three sons died when a huge boulder fell on their home near the town of Balabandi, local police chief Zahoorul Hassan told AFP.

The United Nations warned last week that landslips and floods could displace thousands of people already in temporary shelters after October's quake, which killed 73,000 people.Flash floods swamped several villages in rugged southwest Pakistan on Monday, said Baluchistan province's government spokesman Shakeel Ahmed.One woman died when the roof of her house collapsed near the town of Sibi and seven others were missing after they were swept away by overflowing rivers, Ahmed said.Hundreds of people were being evacuated to safer places.Incidents blamed on the annual monsoon rains have claimed more than 170 lives in Pakistan in the past two weeks.

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Volcano belches more ash in Philippines By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago

MATANAG, Philippines - A volcano in the Philippines showed more signs of erupting Tuesday, belching ash three times overnight as officials evacuated tens of thousands of villagers. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert for the 8,118-foot Mayon volcano to Level 4 on Monday — the second highest level — after six explosions sent ash columns up to a half mile high. The explosions prompted the mandatory evacuation of about 35,000 villagers in Albay province, about 210 miles southeast of Manila on Luzon island.Officials also extended the government's permanent danger zone from 4.3 miles to 5 miles on the volcano's southern side.

Mayon ejected ash at least three times late Monday and was emitting unusually high volumes of sulfuric dioxide, said volcanologist Ed Laguerta. He said instruments detected more than 100 volcanic earthquakes overnight, mostly unfelt by humans.This means there is more magma rising from beneath the volcano,he said.More than 28,600 of the 35,000 villagers who were ordered to leave their villages on the southeast slopes of the volcano had been evacuated by late Tuesday, said Jukes Nunez of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council of Albay province.An additional 20,000 people would have to be moved out of harm's way in case of a major eruption, said Albay Gov. Fernando Gonzalez.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo commended authorities for an orderly evacuation so far and predicted no casualties even if a major eruption occurs. She assured evacuees there would be enough food rations and services in temporary shelters.With the ... effective handling of this crisis, we are confident of achieving a zero-casualty goal in this looming natural disaster,she said. We call on the local residents not to flirt with danger by going back to the declared danger zones.Despite the mandatory evacuations, many villagers stayed put on farms around Mayon to tend their crops and livestock while guarding their homes and belongings.In Matanag, a farming village of about 1,400 people, about 600 residents left Monday, but many more chose to stay behind. An army truck sat at the village entrance, ready to assist in a quick escape and soldiers dropped a coconut tree across the road to Matanag to block incoming traffic.My mother said that we would not evacuate now unless it's really urgent and there's a big eruption,13-year-old Jennilyn Nantes said as she walked to school.

Lava began flowing from the volcano on July 14 and has been slowly extending down Mayon's slopes. Its most violent eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and buried a town in mud. A 1993 eruption killed 79 people.The Philippines is in the Pacific Ring of Fire,where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common.

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

Iran's supreme leader urges Muslims to 'defend' Hezbollah 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has renewed calls on Muslims to rally to the defence of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah in its war against Israel, state television reported. Today it is the entire Muslim community's duty to defend Hezbollah,Khamenei told a meeting Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Shiites' first Imam, Ali.Iran helped to create and arm Hezbollah in 1982 in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon, and Tehran stands accused by the United States and Israel of fomenting chaos in the region by channelling weapons to the guerrillas.Iran denies the allegation, saying it provides only moral support to the movement.

Khamenei's comments came as Arab ministers were due to plead Lebanon's case in New York before the UN Security Council, which is debating a draft French-US resolution calling on Israel and Hezbollah to stop the fighting which has raged for the past month.The all-powerful Iranian leader lashed out at the United Nations for what he called its incompetence, and also attacked some Arab countries for looking on in silence.Some Arabic states that have kept quiet should know that the United States will never consider their interests,Khamenei said.More than 1,000 Lebanese civilians have been killed in the Israeli offensive unleashed after the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah in a cross-border raid from Lebanon on July 12.Khamenei also accused the US and Britain on Tuesday of encouraging the Zionists' crimes and seeking to eradicate Islam in this region.

Decade of turmoil
Linda MacDonald,Sunday August 6, 2006,The Observer

1997
15 January

Palestinians sign a deal with Benjamin Netanyahu's government clearing the way for the handover of 80 per cent of Hebron to Palestinian rule.

18 March

Israel defies world opinion by building the Har Homa settlement on Jabal Abu Ghneim to complete Jewish settlements around occupied East Jerusalem.

1998
23 October

Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat, Netanyahu and US President Bill Clinton sign the Wye River deal foreseeing a phased Israeli withdrawal from 13 per cent of the West Bank in exchange for Palestinian security measures protecting Israel. Netanyahu freezes the deal two months later.

199913 September

New Prime Minister Ehud Barak signs a deal with Arafat agreeing to carry out a modified version of the Wye River deal.

2000
21 March

Israel hands over last portion of West Bank territory agreed at Wye River.

28 September

Ariel Sharon, leader of right-wing opposition Likud party, visits a Jerusalem shrine holy to Muslims and Jews. Violence erupts.

2001
6 February

Sharon, becomes Prime Minister

13 June

A fragile ceasefire takes shape calling on Arafat to clamp down on militants, and on Israel to withdraw from territory seized during the intifada.

14 August

Israeli tanks move into the West Bank city of Jenin.

11 September

Terrorist attack by al-Qaeda on America kills 3,000 people.

2 October

Bush says he is prepared to back the creation of a Palestinian state.

2002
6 May

The US adds Syria to its 'axis of evil'. Mentioned in State of the Union address

2003
20 March

America launches its 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq and tries to oust Saddam Hussein.

4 June

Sharon and Palestinian Authority PM Mahmoud Abbas pledge to implement road map for peace - calling for end to violence and a Palestinian state by 2005 - at summit with Bush but ceasefire falls apart.

6 September

Abbas resigns and Arafat nominates Ahmed Qurie as prime minister.

2004
2 February

Ariel Sharon reveals his intention to withdraw from Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, with or without signing a final peace agreement with the Palestinians.

International Court of Justice in the Hague pronouncesIsrael's 'wall' illegal and says it should be torn down.

11 November

Arafat dies. Abbas becomes the new head of PLO.

2005
9 January

Abbas wins election landslide.

12 September

Israel completes military withdrawal from Gaza. Palestinian Authority takes control of abandoned settlements.

21 November

Sharon announces he is quitting Likud to lead new centrist party Kadima in order to give him a freer hand

2006
January

Sharon's powers transfer to Ehud Olmert. Islamic militant group Hamas wins the Palestinian parliamentary election.

June

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed by US forces. Cpl Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by militants. Israel launches an offensive against targets in Gaza.

12 July

Hizbollah guerrillas capture and kill soldiers around Lebanese border. Olmert calls it an 'act of war' by Lebanon. Two days later opposition from the US and Britain means no resolution on a ceasefire is agreed at a UN meeting on Lebanon. G8 summit

20 July

Deaths in Iraq have reached 100 a day

28 July

Blair flies to Washington for talks with Bush about the crisis. They call for a UN-backed peacekeeping force to be sent in and warn Tehran and Damascus over their alleged role in the conflict.A leaked memo from Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad warns Blair of the likelihood of civil war in Iraq.