ISRAEL LIFTS NUCLEAR VEIL

1-Earthquakes Sun-Mon Sep 24-25,2006. 2-Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores brace for another severe storm. 3-Some hit by deadly storms face flooding. 4-Early wildfires threaten Sydney. 5-Navy ship salvaged: 6 more bodies found. 6-FM Spokesman regrets disapproval of IAEA resolution on Zionist regime's nuclear threats Tehran. 7-Palestinian official condemns Israel's settlements expansion in W. Bank. 8-Israel seen lifting nuclear veil in Iran stand-off.

EARTHQUAKES

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.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD Earthquakes Sun-Mon Sep 24-25,2006

MAP 2.9 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.0 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 3.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 NEVADA
MAP 5.7 MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 5.1 MENDOZA, ARGENTINA
MAP 5.7 SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA
MAP 2.6 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.0 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.8 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 3.0 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 4.2 FIJI REGION
MAP 3.0 NEVADA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.7 OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.8 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.6 OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.3 CENTRAL PERU
MAP 2.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 PENINSULA, ALASKA

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;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
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.

Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores brace for another severe storm Sun Sep 24, 2:55 PM ET

LISBON (AFP) - Hurricane Helene was expected to pass north of Portugal's Azores archipelago overnight having weakened to an extra-tropical storm but bringing strong winds and tidal surges, forecasters said. Flores and Corvo, the two westernmost islands in the nine-island mid-Atlantic chain, are expected to bear the brunt of the storm with wind gusts of up to 110 kilometres (68 miles) an hour and waves of up to eight metres (26 feet) forecast, the national weather office said.Residents were asked to lock windows and doors but the archipelago's civil protection service said it planned no special precautions due to the storm.These are situations that are frequent in those islands, the service's vice-chairman Ricardo Barros told state-run television RTP.

On Wednesday Hurricane Gordon was also downgraded to an extra-tropical storm before it passed over the Azores, located about 1,200 kilometres (746 miles) west of mainland Portugal, but still had enough force to topple trees and down power lines.

Some hit by deadly storms face flooding By DYLAN T. LOVAN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Stormy weather blamed for 12 deaths in the Midwest and South subsided on Sunday, though residents in some states remained shut out of their homes due to high waters. Flood warnings remained in effect for parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and Missouri. Many Kentucky roads were still submerged on Sunday, but waters in many areas began to recede.It looks like everything's kind of quieting down, and things are being handled on the local level right now,said Buddy Rogers, a spokesman for the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management in Frankfort.

The storms that hit parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee Friday and Saturday stranded people in cars, forced others from their homes and left thousands without power.The death toll in Kentucky reached eight, including a father and his 1-year-old daughter in a truck that skidded in floodwaters. Two deaths were reported in Arkansas, and in Illinois, authorities
say lightning was the apparent cause of a house fire that killed elderly two women.The National Weather Service reported that areas of Kentucky received at least 5 inches of rain, with isolated regions getting close to 10 inches. Over 24 hours, parts of northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri received more than 10 inches of rain, the weather service reported.

In Kentucky, about 200 people at Terrapin Hill Harvest Festival were evacuated by boats and school buses to transport after rising waters forced an evacuation, said Ruthann Phillips of the Red Cross.It was almost Katrina-like pretty much,said Chester Craig, a lieutenant with the Mercer Central Volunteer Fire Department. There were vehicles underwater and people were walking around in a daze.Arkansas rivers swelled up to 8 feet above flood levels, officials said. Campers at River Bend Park in Hardy, Ark., were asked to evacuate when the Spring River began rising.I didn't think we were going to make it out of there,said Charles Lenderman, who awoke Saturday morning to find knee-high water in his camper's kitchen. Lenderman and family members wearing life jackets swam from the camper to higher ground about 100 yards away.

In central and eastern Missouri, nearly 400 structures were damaged or destroyed and at least 10 people were injured by about 10 tornadoes, officials said.Associated Press writers Bruce Schreiner and Will Graves in Louisville; Jeff McMurray in Lexington; Jill Zeman in Little Rock, Ark.; and Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Mo., contributed to this report.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Early wildfires threaten Sydney
POSTED: 7:30 p.m. EDT, September 24, 2006

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Six houses were destroyed, one man was killed and several hundred firefighters battled blazes into the night as swirling winds and scorching temperatures on Sunday gave Australia an early start to its wildfire season.

Anxious authorities greeted a cool change that swept southeastern New South Wales state late Sunday, calming gale force winds and cooling unusually hot autumn conditions that drove dozens of fires in parks and farmland around Australia's largest city.One man was killed when a wind gust toppled a tree branch that struck him as he rode his motorcycle in Kangaroo Valley, south of Sydney, police said.

State Rural Fire Service Commissioner Phil Koperberg said about 50 fires erupted in various locations on Sunday. Four houses were razed near Thirlmere southwest of Sydney, and two more near Cattai, to the northwest of the city.Television networks showed footage of the skeletons of two houses still afire, as well as panicking kangaroos, horses and other animals fleeing the flames and smoke.Water-bombing planes and hundreds of firefighters dumped thousands of liters (gallons) trying to douse the flames, which chewed through tinder-dry forests and were whipped up by winds gusting to about 100 kph (60 mph) as temperatures hit 35 C (95 F).We've not had a day like this in September in history,Koperberg told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation It was a very, very difficult day for firefighters.

The strong winds caused other kinds of havoc, knocking down power lines and causing blackouts to thousands of homes in Sydney's northern and western suburbs, said a spokesman for power company Integral.

At the height of the blazes, authorities declared a fire emergency allowing them to call on thousands of volunteer firefighters, if needed. Every fire station in Sydney and its surrounds was put on alert, authorities said.The causes of the fires were not immediately known. Discarded cigarettes butts and lightning strikes are more often the cause of such fires in Australia rather than arson.

Bad season predicted

Authorities imposed a total fire ban in New South Wales on Sunday forbidding the state's 6 million people from doing farm and backyard burn-offs, lighting wood-fired barbecues or any other fires after forecasters predicted conditions that would be ideal for dangerous blazes.The cool change swept gradually across the state Sunday evening, easing the sweltering conditions. But forecasters said there was also a chance of thunderstorms, raising the chances of lightning strikes that could start new fires.

Conditions throughout the night will be far more favorable and then tomorrow things will be better again,Koperberg said. But there's a lot of containment to be done.

Wild fires are a regular feature of Australian summer months, burning thousands of hectares (acres) of forests and sometimes blasting into towns and cities with often deadly results.In 2003, hundreds of houses were destroyed and four people killed when a huge blaze tore into the national capital, Canberra. Last January, nine people died in fires on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula.Meteorologists and other experts have predicted conditions that could make this year's fire season in Australia's highly populated and heavily wooded southeast among the worst.

Authorities have been working for months clearing underbrush and creating fire breaks in national parks and in forest land that abuts some Sydney suburbs in expectation of a bad season, which usually starts in November and runs until about February.2006 The Associated Press.

REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Navy ship salvaged: 6 more bodies found
By UNB, Dhaka,Sun, 24 Sep 2006,

Six more bodies of the fishermen missing since hundreds of fishing boats
capsized in the Bay in storms on September 19 were recovered on Sunday, raising
the death toll to 97.

UNB Bagerhat correspondent said the six bodies were recovered from various
canals and rivers along the Bay and the Sunderbans.Navy ship ‘BNS Shaheed Farid’ which ran aground near Trikon island at Akram Point, 74 kms away from Mongla port, with 45 navy personnel on board, was salvaged at 11 am on Sunday.Two planes, one
helicopter and 11 naval ships took part in the salvage operation.The salvaged ship was intact and the naval personnel were found in good condition.But search for the ship’s Commanding Officer Lt. Commander Firoz Kabir, missing since the ship ran aground during storm, proved futile till on Sunday morning.

A tug boat of the navy is towing the salvaged ship to Mongla.Some of the bodies, disfigured beyond recognition, were buried in the char areas while others were handed over to local police. Survivors apprehended that some 1,500 ill-fated fishermen might have had watery burial following the sudden sea storms as they said they saw hundreds of bodies floating in the Bay. Coast Guard west-zone commander Badruddoza Chowdhury said rescue operation has been strengthened with the sea becoming slightly calm. Officials and local sources said at least 25 boats, some 630 trawlers and the navy ship tossed violently in the Bay during the storms, throwing about 3,500 fishermen and the naval commander into the seawaters.Navy, Coast Guards and forest department officials have been searching hard for those missing since Wednesday. But the rescue operation in deep sea was being hampered for lack of sufficient vessels.

Sources said confusion has been created over the death toll due to absence of coordination between rescuers and the local administration. Trawler owners apprehend that over 800 trawlers had capsized during the storms. The low-lying areas of Bagerhat coast have been flooded and over 500 fish enclosures washed away due to incessant rain over the last few days.by The New Nation

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

EZEKIEL 38:3-6
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) 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.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) 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:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

FM Spokesman regrets disapproval of IAEA resolution on Zionist regime's nuclear threats Tehran, Sept 24, IRNA
Iran-Hosseini-Zionist

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini here Sunday regretted the disapproval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution on the Zionist regime's nuclear threats. According to a report released by Hosseini's office, he expressed deep concern over the Western states' opposition to the resolution proposed by Arab states, Iran and Indonesia, in a clear contravention of NPT and the need for membership of Zionist regime in the treaty. Thus the move encouraged disregard for the principles and regulations of nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,he added.

Concerning the consequence of the Western states' double standards on the content of NPT, he said that their unjust views and making an exception in case of the Zionist regime by exempting it from accepting the items of the treaty has undermined the regional peace as well as security and increased the anxiety of all Middle East countries. In principle, such a view is against establishment of justice and preparing the ground for the Middle East development. Possession of nuclear weapons by the Zionist regime without international supervision has been threatening security and peace in the region. Besides, it paves the way for this regime to pursue its strategies of threat and expansionism at its own will,added the Foreign Ministry spokesman.

Hosseini welcomed the call by some members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council and Arab League on other countries to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Iran hails peaceful nuclear programs paving the way for scientific and technological development of regional states and considers it as a contribution to further advancement and progress of the Middle East people, he added. The US, Britain, France, Germany and Finland (representing the European Union), rejected the resolution calling for membership of the Zionist regime in NPT and prevented its approval. Sunday September 24, 2006

UPDATED: 08:51, Sep 25, 2006 Palestinian official condemns Israel's settlements expansion in W. Bank

A senior Palestinian official condemned on Sunday the current Israeli policy of expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Tayssir Khaled, member of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee, considered Israel's decision to build more houses into the Israeli settlements in the West Bank settlements as a new escalation and aggression against the Palestinians and their land. Khaled clarified that Israeli Ministry of Housing launched bid to build 164 houses in Israeli settlements near the West Bank city of Nablus and Qalqeelya, noting that this is the second bid in three weeks after an earlier invitation for bid to build 690 houses in settlements in Jerusalem.

He explained that the expansion was an attempt by the Israeli government to conciliate the radical right wing and settlers after the big failure in the war on Lebanon. He also called on the international community, especially the U. S. and the European Union (EU), to exert pressure on Israel, as the settlements expansion policy contradicts with the U.S.supported roadmap plan. The roadmap plan calls on Israel to dismantle all settlements that were built after the 2001.Source: Xinhua

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Israel seen lifting nuclear veil in Iran stand-off
By Dan Williams

TEL AVIV, Sept 25 (Reuters) - In October 1973, with its forces battling to repel invasions by Egypt and Syria, Israel did what had previously been unthinkable: It briefly wheeled its nuclear-capable Jericho-1 missiles out of their secret silos.That, historians believe, was picked up by U.S. spy satellites and stirred up fears in Washington of a catastrophic flare-up between the Jewish state and the
Soviet-backed Arabs. Message received, an urgent American shipment of conventional arms to Israel was quick to follow, and helped turn the war.With Israel's current arch-foe Iran seen gaining the ability to produce nuclear weapons within a few years, and preventive military options limited, some experts now anticipate another lifting of the veil on the assumed Israeli atomic arsenal.

Were that to happen, experts say, the objective would be to establish a more open military deterrence vis-a-vis Iran and perhaps win Israel's nuclear option formal legitimacy abroad.No one should simply assume that Israel would stay where it is now with its ambiguous capability if Iran becomes a nuclear power,said Professor Gerald Steinberg, head of the Conflict Management Programme at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv.Israeli policy is likely to change, in order to demonstrate that the country has continued strategic superiority,he said.Israel neither confirms nor denies it has the Middle East's only nuclear weapons, under an ambiguity policy billed as warding off enemy states while avoiding a regional arms race.

Steinberg said this might be abandoned only as a last resort to persuade a nuclear-armed Iran that it stood to suffer far greater devastation in any full-blown future conflict.It's not desirable, but this is about survival,he said.Iran, the world's fourth largest oil exporter, says its nuclear programme is for energy needs alone. But calls by its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel to be wiped off the map have fuelled Western calls for the programme to be curbed.

MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION?

Talk of a nuclear stand-off between Israel and Iran has sparked comparisons with the mutually assured destruction formula that reigned during the Cold War and, more recently, between India and Pakistan.But those precedents assume a parity that may not exist with Israel and Iran. Militarily advanced Israel is geographically small and vulnerable. Iran's atomic ambitions are at fledgling stage but its large size could help it survive a major strike.The use of a nuclear bomb against Israel would completely destroy Israel, while (the same) against the Islamic world would only cause damage. Such a scenario is not inconceivable,former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in a 2001 speech.

There is also speculation that Ahmadinejad might welcome an apocalyptic confrontation, meaning the idea of a deterrent would not work. Yet he answers to Iranian clerics who work by committee and thus provide a rational set of safeguards.

Reuven Pedatzur, defence analyst for the respected Israeli daily Haaretz, proposed that the country, under U.S. guidance, go public with its nuclear capability in the hope of building back-channel ties with Iran and establishing mutual deterrence.

Israel cannot continue to rely on it (ambiguity policy) if Iran has nuclear weapons. This is because ambiguity leaves too many grey areas. The enemy cannot know with certainty what the red lines are and when he is risking an Israeli nuclear response,he wrote.

There must be a deterrent policy that will leave no room for misunderstandings, he added.Thus, for example, we would make it clear that the identification of any missile launched from Iran in a westerly direction means, as far as we are concerned, the launch of an Iranian nuclear missile at us.Declaring capabilities is one way for a nation to becomes an official nuclear power. The other is a controlled atomic blast.If the Israelis really have any doubt about the credibility of their deterrence, they could conduct a nuclear test, say, in the Negev desert,said Gary Samore, a former adviser on nuclear non-proliferation in the U.S. National Security Council under President Bill Clinton.But he said the diplomatic fall-out of such a move would draw scrutiny away from Tehran and further alienate those Arab nations willing to endorse Western pressure on the Iranians.It would be a godsend for Iran,Samore said.

NPT IN QUESTION

Israel did not sign the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It thus kept its main nuclear facility, outside the desert town of Dimona, exempt from inspection. It has received billions of dollars in aid from Washington, whose laws ban funding states with unregulated non-conventional arsenals.A nuclear weapons test by Israel would effectively blow away that U.S. blind eye. Iran, in turn, could withdraw from the NPT and argue that it should not be subjected to sanctions. After that, other Middle East states would likely seek atomic arms.Avner Cohen, author of the seminal study Israel and the Bomb, has suggested that Israel seek to form a new nuclear pact along with India and Pakistan, which refuse to join the NPT.

Such a protocol might permit them to retain their atomic programmes, but inhibit further development. It could also require cooperation with international nuclear export controls, prohibit explosive testing of nuclear devices, and call for the phased elimination of fissile material production,Cohen said.Iran would not be able to join such a pact, he added, as it has violated the NPT by pursuing unauthorised nuclear projects.Cohen poured cold water on the idea of Israel seeking mutual deterrence with a nuclear-armed Iran, noting that during the Cold War parity was achieved only after Washington and Moscow scraped through two crises over the 1948 Western airlift to Berlin and the 1962 deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba.The sense of stability associated with mutually assured destruction grew out of a learning curve,he said.

Israel had its learning through crisis, especially the 1973 war. Do we have time for the Iranians to learn? Will they learn? © 2006 Reuters