SYRIA WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE

1-Tornado hits two towns in Manitoba, reports of injuries, damage. 2-At least 30 dead after bridge collapses in Pakistan. 3-Egypt group leaders join al Qaeda - Zawahri. 4-Israel cuts Lebanon's last route to Syria. 5-Praise and skepticism greet UN peace resolution. 6-Putin calls for immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in conversation with Annan. 7-Kim Clement: SYRIA, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU WILL NOT RISE UP AGAINST THE LION!

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.

Tornado hits two towns in Manitoba, reports of injuries, damage 40 minutes ago

GULL LAKE, Man. (CP) - A tornado has cut a swath through southeastern Manitoba. There are unconfirmed reports of at least one death and four people missing.RCMP Sgt. Steve Saunders says he's heard the damage is extensive in the immediate area of the Gull Lake campground.Environment Canada severe weather meteorologist Dan Fulton says a funnel cloud was reported near Patricia Beach about 5:19 p.m. local time.

He says a few minutes later, there were reports it touched down.Fulton says it was
definitely a tornado that hit Gull Lake and Patricia Beach, small summer resort communities about 50 minutes north of Winnipeg.Fulton says there are reports of houses damaged, toppled trailers, uprooted trees and vehicles turned over.

At least 30 dead after bridge collapses in Pakistan Sat Aug 5, 2:01 PM ET

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP)At least 30 people died and many more are missing after a bridge collapsed in northwestern Pakistan as torrential rains battered the area, police have said. Some 30 bodies have already been recovered from a river swollen by
heavy rains in Mardan town, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Peshawar bordering Afghanistan, local police official Javed Khan said.

The search for those still missing has been hampered by nightfall, he added.Local mayor Himayat ullah Mayar earlier said more than 100 people had gathered on the bridge to watch the flooded river when part of it caved in, plunging almost all of them into the swirling waters.

He said army troops had been called out to join the rescue work.Twelve members of my family are missing,a Mardan resident Iqbal Hoti told reporters.More than 40 people have died in landslides and floods caused by rain torrents in Pakistan over the past two days.

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)

Egypt group leaders join al Qaeda - Zawahri video By Cynthia Johnston
Sat Aug 5, 6:35 PM ET

CAIRO (Reuters) - Some leaders of Egypt's Gama'a Islamiya have joined al Qaeda, al Qaeda's deputy head Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video aired on Al Jazeera television on Saturday. We bring good tidings to the Muslim nation about a big faction of the knights of the Gama'a Islamiya uniting with al Qaeda,Zawahri said in the video.He said the move aimed to help rally the Muslim nation's capabilities in a unified rank in the face of the most severe crusader campaign against Islam in its history.

Zawahri named Mohamed al-Islambouli as one of those who had joined al Qaeda. He was apparently referring to Mohamed Shawqi Islambouli, a Gama'a leader and a brother of Khaled Islambouli, who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981.

A man introduced by Zawahri as a Gama'a leader, Mohamed Hakaima, appeared in a portion of the video and confirmed the unity move, but said some group members had deviated from it.This (move) is in adherence to the Lord's word (about the need to unify Muslims) and in support of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman,said Hakaima, carrying an assault rifle and standing in an area covered with palm trees.Hakaima, who is not well known internationally, said the move was to push out the enemy occupier of Muslim lands.

Abdel-Rahman, a Gama'a spiritual leader, is jailed in the United States after being convicted on charges linked to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.A group of brothers from the Gama'a Islamiya, who had been subjected to pressures and influences, ... went to the path of the Egyptian government and America,Zawahri said of those who had declined to join al Qaeda.

The Egyptian-born militant leader wore a white robe and turban and sat against a black background. He joined the Islamic Jihad when it was founded in 1973 and was among 301 people arrested in Sadat's assassination but was cleared at trial.He did, though, spend three years in jail for having an unlicensed pistol.He took over leadership of Jihad in Egypt in 1993 and was a part of a campaign in the mid-1990s to set up a purist Islamic state, in which more than 1,200 Egyptians died. In 1999, an Egyptian military court sentenced Zawahri to death in absentia.

The Egyptian government detained many thousands of Gama'a members or sympathizers in the 1990s, when the group was waging a low-level guerrilla war against the security forces, mainly in the south of the country.Hundreds have come out of detention over the years after renouncing the use of violence to overthrow the government.

Gama'a leaders declared a truce with the government in 1997, after an attack on tourists at a pharaonic temple in Luxor.
(Additional reporting by Firouz Sedarat in Dubai)

Israel cuts Lebanon's last route to Syria
Steven R. Hurst,Associated Press,Aug. 5, 2006 12:00 AM

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday, including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Israel to date.Loud explosions resounded in Beirut early today as Israeli warplanes renewed their onslaught, carrying out several strikes on southern suburbs, local media said. Israeli helicopters, meanwhile, attacked suspected Hezbollah positions in the southern city of Tyre, according to residents.Israeli aircraft on a mission Friday to destroy weapons caches hit a warehouse where workers were loading fruit, killing at least 28 near the Lebanon-Syria border. And three Hezbollah rockets landed near Hadera, 50 miles south of the Israel-Lebanon border; 188 rockets rained on other towns, killing three Israeli Arabs.

Given the determination of both Hezbollah and Israel to look victorious when the conflict finally ends, the worst of the fighting may still lie ahead with the militant Shiite guerrilla fighters perhaps making good on their threat to rocket Tel Aviv and Israel launching an all-out ground offensive, pushing northward to the Litani River.Israeli military officials said Friday that they completed the first phase of the offensive, securing a 4-mile buffer zone in southern Lebanon, though pockets of Hezbollah resistance remained.Defense Minister Amir Peretz told army officers to begin preparing for a push to the Litani, about 20 miles north of the border, a move that would require Cabinet approval. Peretz vowed his forces will complete the whole mission of driving guerrilla fighters out of missile range, a defiant response to the Hezbollah leader's threat to launch missiles into Israel's largest city.

Israeli airstrikes destroyed four key bridges after dawn, severing Beirut's final major connection to Syria and raising the threat of severe shortages of food, gasoline and medicines within days. The attack in the Christian heartland just north of Beirut killed four civilians and a Lebanese soldier.

Israel said it targeted the bridges to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah from Iran through Syria. Those weapons include not only missiles, but sophisticated anti-tank missiles said to be responsible for most of the 44 Israeli soldiers killed in more than three weeks of fighting.However, aid workers said the destroyed highway was a vital conduit for much-needed food and supplies, with Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program calling it Lebanon's umbilical cord.Hospitals were in danger of closing soon because medicines, hospital supplies and fuel for generators was fast running out.

Staples like milk, rice and sugar were growing short across the country. Lines at Beirut filling stations stretch longer by the day.Dr. George Tomey, acting president of the American University of Beirut, said its Medical Center, one of the prime and best known medical facilities in the Middle East, will stop receiving new patients on Monday, except for emergencies.

As of Friday the Associated Press count showed at least 559 Lebanese have been killed, including 482 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry, 27 Lebanese soldiers and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas.Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that 1 million people, about a quarter of Lebanon's population, has fled. Others estimate that 800,000 Lebanese have become refugees.

Since the fighting started, 74 Israelis have been killed, 44 soldiers and 30 civilians. More than 300,000 Israelis have fled their homes in the north, Israeli officials said.Friday's attack on the refrigerated warehouse in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley killed at least 28 farm laborers as they loaded peaches and apples onto trucks bound for the Syrian market, Lebanese security and hospital officials said. Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported that 33 people were killed in the raid, including 23 Syrian workers.

Israeli army spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal said the army suspected the warehouse was used for arms because it tracked a truck it believed was carrying weapons that went into the warehouse from the Syrian side. He said the truck stayed inside for about 90 minutes before returning to Syria.

Praise and skepticism greet UN peace resolution By Scott McDonald
Sat Aug 5, 4:12 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair backed a U.N. bid to end fighting in Lebanon, but the plan was greeted with skepticism by some on Saturday who wondered whether it could be implemented. The draft U.N. Security Council resolution completed by the United States and France seeks to end fighting that began when the Iranian-backed group Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.The draft resolution, obtained by Reuters calls, for a full cessation of hostilities. It also tells Hizbollah to end attacks immediately and for Israel to stop all offensive military operations.

The text of the resolution, which calls for a framework for a political settlement between Israel and Lebanon, must still be reviewed and accepted by the full 15-member council.

This is a first step. There is still much to be done, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. But there is no reason why this resolution should not be adopted now and we have the cessation of hostilities ... within the next couple of days.White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush, who is at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, knew details of the resolution and "he's happy about it.But getting the parties to stop fighting may not be easy, as seen by the statement by Hizbollah cabinet minister Mohammed Fneish, who said the guerrilla group would stop only when Israel ended its bombardment of Lebanon and withdrew its troops.Israel is the aggressor.

When the Israeli aggression stops, Hizbollah simply will cease fire on the condition that no Israeli soldier remains inside Lebanese land,he said.Francois Gere, head of the French Institute for Strategic Analysis, said the U.N. effort was a first positive signal but I don't expect the situation to stabilize in the coming week.

He added he did not see Hizbollah giving up the battle soon unless pressured by Iran.The big test is not the Lebanese government, it's really Hizbollah,said Ousama Safa, head of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies.Hizbollah will probably drag its feet because Hizbollah sees that its fortunes on the battlefield are on its side, so it will drag its feet and up the ante as much as possible to get a
resolution that is acceptable on its own terms.The conflict has killed at least 734 people in Lebanon and 78 Israelis. Hizbollah has fired 2,600 rockets into Israel.Other analysts also said the U.N. bid would be difficult to put into practice.

There's going to be a huge gap between the content of this resolution and the military and psychological reality on the ground (which) will make it hard to
implement,said Middle East expert Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution in Washington.Telhami said one problem was that Hizbollah has not been involved with drafting the resolution.And it isn't clear that they have any input in this. And it's hard to see how you're going to implement something like this (without the input),Telhami said.Israeli Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog said time was running out for Israel's military campaign. We have the coming days for lots of military moves. But we have to realize the timetable is getting shorter,he said.

Putin calls for immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in conversation with Annan(AP),5 August 2006

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin called Saturday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon in a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Kremlin said in a statement.Putin and Annan voiced an extreme concern about the situation in Lebanon, Putin’s press service said in a statement.

It said that Putin called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a political settlement of the conflict with participation of all parties involved.It was underlined that the UN Security Council must demonstrate the full extent of its responsibility by passing, as quickly as possible, a resolution aimed at achieving those goals, the Kremlin statement said.Putin also emphasized the need to mobilize the entire international community to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Lebanon,the statement said.

Britain and the United States, which like Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, have resisted pressure for a resolution demanding an immediate truce, arguing that it must come with simultaneous steps to ensure that Hezbollah cannot threaten Israel.With international pressure for an end to hostilities intensifying, the US State Department said Friday that the United States and France were near completion of a UN resolution designed to end more than three weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants.

Kim Clement: "SYRIA, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU WILL NOT RISE UP AGAINST THE LION! July 16, Humble, Texas"

Your Enemies Will Come Out and Bite the Dust.I'm going to send My light to America. I'm going to send My light to this Nation. And My light will uncover the darkness. And My light will uncover your enemies in this land of Mine--America, America,says the Lord.

And your enemies are going to come out from every side of this Nation, from the north northeast to the south southwest, to the east to the west.God says, I'm going to bring your enemy down. This Nation that I call My own, I will save you from another war. I will save you from another war.Syria, who do you think you are? You will not rise against the Lion. Listen to what God says, Iran, you will not rise against this Nation or the Lion.

God says, Your enemies will come out, and they will bite the dust because of My light. I will send My light, I'm going to send My light to this Nation.And your children will dance. And your children will praise, praise in America. Your children will dance, dance, dance, and your children will praise, praise in America. Because of My light, because of My light.

This Nation Will Not Be Forgotten

The Spirit of God says, There has been a great attack that has been planned against a family member of the President of this Nation. I speak from this city, and I let My prophet reveal it because from this Texas soil, came a President that prayed and sought My face. Will I turn My ear? Will I harden My heart against one who prays? No! Therefore this attempt to come against a family member will not succeed, but shall be revealed. And they shall say, How could that have been? This one was not from the Middle East. This one was not from China, from Asia. This one was from amongst us.The hatred has come as a stench before Me. Hatred has come and division in this Nation, but not amongst My people. And because of that, I will save you, and I will raise up a righteousness in this Nation, and prosperity shall rule and reign because of the greatness of My people,says the Lord.

The Spirit of God says, Would you hear, would you hear the word of the Lord tonight? This Nation will not be forgotten. I will not forget the prayers for your forefathers. I will not forget the prayers and the pain, and the blood of the soldiers in the battlefield for this Nation. For as they were dying, they prayed prayers for the children of this generation. I will not forget the prayers of a soldier dying before he goes for this generation. You are not forgotten.God says, Look up, for your redemption draws near.There is a miraculous thing that I'm going to do. And I will save this Nation from embarrassment, and 'phooey' to the United Nations, for they have brought shame, they have brought shame to the soil of this Nation. They will no longer be a voice to be reckoned with. I'm raising up something new,says the Lord of Hosts.

By Kim Clement
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www.kimclement.com