OBAMAS TIES TO ISLAM HIS PASTER ADMITS

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Forecaster sees active Atlantic hurricane season. 3-The Nation's Weather. 4-Today's Civil Defense Exercise Largest Since 1948. 5-The next European generation The Monitor's View. 6-EU-style union coming to a continent near you. 7-6 world powers seek new Iran sanctions. 8-Israel sees Arab peace initiative as starting point. 9-Quartet urges new Palestinian govt to recognize Israel, refrain from violence. 10-Elton John urges fight against homophobia. 11-Four-year-old girl vows to be suicide terrorist in Hamas TV dramatization. 12-Obama's pastor admits concerns over candidate's ties to Islam.

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 QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Fri Mar 23 12:00 AM EDT

MAR 22,07
MAP 2.9 PUGET SOUND REGION, WASHINGTON
MAP 4.5 ARUBA REGION
MAP 3.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 2.9 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 5.2 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 3.2 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 5.8 SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN
MAP 5.1 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE CHIAPAS, MEXICO
MAP 3.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.2 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

MAR 21,07
MAP 5.2 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 2.9 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 NEW HAMPSHIRE
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.5 BURYATIYA, RUSSIA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.8 TONGA
MAP 2.7 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.6 VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
MAP 2.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.9 SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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.

Forecaster sees active Atlantic hurricane season Wed Mar 21, 3:39 PM ET

MIAMI (Reuters) - The Atlantic hurricane season will be exceptionally active this year, according to a British forecasting group, raising the possibility that killer storms like Hurricane Katrina could again threaten the United States.

London-based forecaster Tropical Storm Risk on Tuesday said the six-month season, which begins on June 1, was expected to bring 17 tropical storms, of which nine will strengthen into hurricanes with winds of at least 74 miles per hour.Four of those are expected to become more destructive intense hurricanes, TSR said.The long-term average for the Atlantic is for 10 storms to form during the hurricane season and for six of those to reach hurricane strength.The United States emerged unscathed from the 2006 season after it spawned a below-average nine storms, of which five became hurricanes. Experts had universally -- and erroneously -- predicted 2006 would be a busy year for Atlantic storms.

None of the hurricanes hit the United States, bringing welcome relief to beleaguered residents of the U.S. Gulf Coast, where Katrina killed 1,500 people, swamped New Orleans and caused about $80 billion in damage the year before.But TSR said current and projected climate signals indicate that Atlantic basin and U.S. landfalling hurricane activity will be 75 percent above the 1950-2006 average in 2007.TSR had predicted in December that Atlantic basin and U.S. landfalling hurricane activity would be just 60 percent above average this year. It raised the projected activity level because of the sudden dissipation in February of last year's El Nino weather phenomenon.An unusual warming of the eastern Pacific waters, El Nino events tend to suppress Atlantic storm activity.Other experts, including hurricane forecast pioneer Dr. William Gray and his team at Colorado State University, have also warned that the 2007 hurricane season is likely to be busier-than-average.The relative calm of last year's hurricane season, which forecasters had mistakenly predicted would be busy, came on the heels of a record 28 storms and 15 hurricanes in 2005 and only a slightly less furious season in 2004.

The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Thu Mar 22, 6:32 AM ET

A strong storm will bring rain to the Great Lakes region on Thursday, bringing wet weather also to the Mississippi Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley and Central Plains. Temperatures are expected to range from the 40s to 60s in the Northeast, 40s to 50s in the upper Midwest, and 70s to 80s in the Southeast and Southern Plains.Parts of the Southwest could see scattered showers, with snow possible at higher elevations in the southern Rockies. Temperatures in the region should range from the 50s to the 70s.

Wet conditions are expected to persist in the Northwest, with temperatures expected in the 40s and 50s.Temperatures in the lower 48 states Wednesday ranged from a low of minus 16 degrees at Saranac Lake, N.Y., to a high of 91 degrees at Gage, Okla.

Today's Civil Defense Exercise Largest Since 1948
by Gil Ronen and Hillel Fendel (INN) MAR 21,07

The IDF Home Front Command is holding the largest civil defense drill in Israel's history today and tomorrow (Tuesday and Wednesday). Simulating a combined attack on Israel on all fronts, the drill was suspended for over an hour because of intelligence warnings of a genuine attack.The exercise was preceded by this Home Front Command announcement, repeated on radio broadcasts throughout the morning: Sirens will be heard at 2 PM Tuesday in many parts of central and southern Israel and heightened activity of IDF, police and rescue forces will be noticeable during the exercise.

Traffic disruptions may be felt and blast sounds may be heard across the country.The wail of sirens were heard in most of Israel, from Hadera to the Negev desert, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be'er Sheva, Raanana, Ashkelon, and Dimona. In case of a real emergency, the public was told it would be notified through the mass media.

Preparations for the drill were suspended for over an hour in the forenoon hours in light of warnings of a genuine terrorist alert. The Coastal Highway was closed to traffic until a taxi carrying two suspects - as well as several innocent passengers -was located and stopped. A month ago, a large suicide attack was thwarted when security services learned that a terrorist had infiltrated pre-'67 Israel and was on his way to blow himself up in a crowded area.

Large areas of central Israel were practically closed down as the security forces pursued the would-be murderer, finally locating him in a hideout-apartment in Bat Yam.Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency rescue service, says today's was the largest nationwide drill ever held since Israel's declaration of independence in 1948. Nine MDA districts participated simultaneously, practicing to deal with an unprecedented number of simultaneous events and a very large number of simulated victims. MDA crews in the southern parts of Israel (Lachish and Negev regions) simulated a joint Kassam and Katyusha rocket attack from Gaza, together with a terror attack using unconventional weapons in the Be'er Sheva train station, with a large number of simulated casualties. In central Israel, MDA drilled for a chemical terror attack on a school in Ramat Gan and a missile attack with conventional warheads.

Some emergency forces said an unclear division of labor could become dangerous in the event of a real emergency. If a rocket falls in Netanya and causes damage, Fire Commissioner Shimon Romach told NRG-Maariv while drilling with his forces in Ramat Gan, the Home Front Command is responsible. But if a terrorist attack happens in the same building, the police are responsible. This is confusing.Tomorrow, on the second day of exercises, MDA will simulate a mega-terror attack with 400 casualties in two locations the community of Neurim and in the coastal city of Netanya. The Police and the Home Front Command will simulate a Syrian rocket attack on Tel Aviv, supposedly
knocking the Reading power station out of service, as well as a chase after a suicide terrorist in central Israel and a mass terror attack on a school. Thousands of people will participate in the drill. The Prisons Service will rehearse mass rioting by Arab terror prisoners, hostage taking and attempted escapes.

The aim of the exercise is to prepare the different services and bodies operating in the civilian environment for various emergency scenarios, while implementing the lessons learned during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006, a Home Front Command statement reads.

The next European generation The Monitor's View
Wed Mar 21, 4:00 AM ET

The European Union turns 50 Sunday, celebrating the treaty that first joined six former enemy states in a common market that has since blossomed to 27 members. Historians describe the EU as an amazing security success, keeping peace through open trade. But can this formula inspire a new generation?

World War II is by now a long way in the past for the under-25 crowd. And the EU, counting nearly a half billion people, is a strange bird, difficult for even Europeans to understand. It's not a sovereign United States of Europe, but with its own parliament and court, for instance, it's much more than just a loose collection of democracies tied together by economics.The EU's drive toward greater unity has
been stalled. Voters in France and the Netherlands blocked a constitution in 2005. Related to that, many countries are saying enough, already to adding new members, such as Turkey.Given these turnoffs, keeping young Europeans as EU enthusiasts is crucial for the Union's future – a future that could lead to more economic growth, a unified voice in world affairs, a green agenda, and continued influence for democratic reform with its Eastern neighbors.

In important ways, those in the younger generation are actually more optimistic about the EU than the member-state population generally, according to a 2005 Eurobarometer poll. They're more open to closer political unity and less concerned about EU rules governing their daily lives.In a sense, they're more European than their parents, having come of age at a time when citizens of member states can now freely travel, work, and study in each other's countries. Young Poles wait tables in Dublin, Germans can go to university in Paris, and youths fly to the sunny Mediterranean on low-cost airlines.

A hefty 62 percent of EU citizens ages 15 to 24 rank these lifestyle benefits as the foremost advantage of membership – a full 10 percentage points more than all EU citizens do.But today's young people appear much more concerned with the prosperity part of the EU's peace-through-prosperity formula, than they are with the peace part. In the 2005 poll, young people ranked maintaining peace and security in Europe as the third priority, while fighting unemployment is the EU's most important task.
Economic growth in core EU countries such as Germany, France, and Italy rebounded in 2006, but even so, unemployment among EU youth runs at an average 17.3 percent, compared with 7.9 percent for all EU workers.

The EU can push its members toward goals for job creation, R&D spending, and a much more friendly environment for business start-ups. But it's really up to individual nations to deliver. For the most part, the core EU countries have yet to reform their highly regulated labor markets, and this works against job growth.The EU's security work is not over. The Balkans still lurk as a hot spot that could be cooled by the prospect of membership. And Turkey's eventual membership could help the EU bridge a cultural chasm with its own 15 million Muslims.But the next generation has a different emphasis. They take peace for granted, instead seeking work. But with more jobs, they may then reach out to enlarge the EU.

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
EU-style union coming to a continent near you Working groups led by DHS should now [be] driven by a single agenda: the SPP March 21, 2007 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

A memo signed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff implements a controversial program condemned by critics as a precursor to a European Union-style partnership with Mexico and Canada.

The document shows the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, is being directed at the highest level of the Bush administration, says the public interest group Judicial Watch, which obtained it and other documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Sept. 22, 2005, memo describes the agencies within the Department of Homeland Securityresponsible for executing the security agenda of the SPP. Titled Implementation Memorandum for the (SPP), the document says the SPP has, in addition to identifying a number of new action items, comprehensively rolled up most of our existing homeland security-related policy initiatives with Canada and Mexico, and ongoing action and reporting in the various U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico working groups led by DHS should now be driven by a single agenda: the SPP.

These new records prove the Security and Prosperity Partnership is being directed by officials at the very highest levels of the United States government, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Fitton said Americans should know that the SPP is a core policy initiative for many agencies in our government, including the Department of Homeland Security.The records obtained by Judicial Watch also contain an information paper describing 10 Prosperity Pillar Working Groups and the organization of the U.S.-Mexico Critical Infrastructure Protection Work Group.Judicial Watch said that unlike previous records produced by other federal agencies, the DHS records are heavily redacted, blocking out names of the U.S., Mexican and Canadian government officials carrying out the partnership's agenda across all three countries.

The DHS also released a 10-page chart listing 36 SPP Security High-Level Working Groups that include the Mexico-U.S. Repatriation Technical WG, the Mexico-U.S. Intelligence and Information Sharing WG, and the Canada-U.S. Cross Border Crime Forum.In October, as WND reported, about 1,000 documents obtained in a FOIA request to the SPP showed bureaucrats from agencies throughout the Bush administration meeting regularly with their counterparts in the Canadian and Mexican governments to engage in a broad rewriting of U.S. administrative law and regulations.

WND first reported the SPP activity last summer, showing the Bush administration had launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada.

The groups, working under the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, are to implement an agreement signed by President Bush, then-Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005. The trilateral agreement, signed as a joint declaration not submitted to Congress for review, led to the creation of the SPP. An SPP report to the heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, -- released June 27, 2005 -- lists some 20 different working groups spanning a wide variety of issues ranging from e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration, involving the activity of multiple U.S. government agencies. The working groups have produced a number of memorandums of understanding and trilateral declarations of agreement.

6 world powers seek new Iran sanctions By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 22, 7:54 AM ET

UNITED NATIONS - Six powers seeking new sanctions against Iran hoped to persuade all 15 nations on the U.N. Security Council to back the proposed punitive measures. France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said that a large majority of the nations support the resolution drawn up by the United States and its European allies — Britain, France and Germany — along with Russia and China.I think we will be in a position to make some concrete proposals and changes in order to reach a unanimous Security Council, he said after talks late Wednesday in New York. The full council was scheduled to meet again late Thursday.Full agreement is important because it would give the vote more weight.The six nations fear Tehran wants enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons and have demanded it cease production. Iran has ignored them, despite the Security Council's first set of sanctions in December. Iran's top leader said Wednesday that his country will respond with illegal actions if the council imposes still more sanctions.

Until today, what we have done has been in accordance with international regulations, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. But if they take illegal actions, we too can take illegal actions and will do so.He did not elaborate on what those actions might be, but Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty under which U.N. nuclear officials inspect its facilities. Some lawmakers and clerics have urged the government to respond to sanctions by withdrawing from the treaty.Iran says it will never give up its right under the treaty to enrich uranium, insisting it needs alternative energy sources for when its oil reserves run out. The process can produce fuel for a reactor or fissile material for a nuclear warhead.If they want to treat us with threats and enforcement of coercion and violence, undoubtedly they must know that the Iranian nation and authorities will use all their capacities to strike enemies that attack, Khamenei said in a speech marking the start of the Persian New Year.

The latest sanctions would ban Iranian arms exports and freeze the assets of 28 additional individuals and organizations involved in the country's nuclear and missile programs.The package also calls for travel restrictions on people subject to sanctions, on arms sales to Iran, and on new financial assistance or loans to the Iranian government.The existing sanctions ban countries from providing Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs, and freeze assets of 10 key Iranian companies and 12 individuals related to those programs.The U.S., Britain and France are hoping for a vote by the end of the week, but that could be difficult. South Africa, which holds the rotating Security Council presidency, wants extensive changes — including eliminating the arms embargo — and a 90-day hiatus on all sanctions.The U.S. and its allies made clear Wednesday they would not agree to South Africa's proposed time-out, a suggestion Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry called totally perverse.Acting U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff indicated Washington also would reject a request by Indonesia and Qatar for the resolution to call for a nuclear-free Middle East, as that implicates Israel.But Russia's U.N. envoy, Vitaly Churkin, said Moscow regarded the Indonesian and Qatar proposals positively.I think there is general understanding in the Security Council that unanimity is going to be very important, Churkin said. In a related development, European and U.S. officials who declined to be named said Tuesday that Moscow has told Tehran it would not ship fuel for the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran until Tehran freezes uranium enrichment. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denied that Wednesday.

It's not the first time that we are seeing such an unscrupulous approach aimed at driving a wedge between us and Iran, he told lawmakers in the lower house of parliament. Russia has said plans to supply fuel for Bushehr this month were called off because of the failure of Iran to make its payments.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked to speak to the Security Council just before it votes. In his own New Year's address, he accused world's powers of waging psychological warfare ... to block our nation's progress.Iran has offered to provide guarantees that its nuclear program won't be diverted toward weapons. Associated Press Writers Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.

Quartet urges new Palestinian govt to recognize Israel, refrain from violence MAR 22,07

MOSCOW. March 22 (Interfax) - The quartet of international mediators in the Middle East settlement [Russia, U.S., the EU and UN] has urged the new government of the Palestinian Authority to adhere to the principles of non-violence and recognize Israel, adding that it would assess the new government by its moves.

The Quartet has reaffirmed its previous statement to the effect that the Palestinian government must remain adherent to the principles of non-violence and recognition of Israel, and to the previous agreements and commitments, including the roadmap, and advocates further advancement in this direction, the Quartet said in a statement circulated by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday. The Quartet has agreed that it will assess the government's adherence to these principles not only by its composition and platform, but also by its moves, says a statement, adopted following telephone talks between top foreign policy officials of Russia, the United States and Germany Sergei Lavrov, Condoleezza Rice and Frank-Walter Steinmeier' UN Secretary General Pan Ki-moon, and the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana and external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

Israel sees Arab peace initiative as starting point MAR 22,07

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday said Israel is ready to make big and painful concessions to advance the peace process and that a Saudi-inspired Arab plan could be a starting point. Israel is ready to make big and painful concessions in order to encourage peace negotiations, Olmert said in a speech to members of the kibbutz movement, a week before an Arab summit in Riyadh.He said the so-called Saudi initiative for comprehensive Middle East peace could form a convenient basis for future peace talks.The Saudi initiative is interesting and contains many parts I would be ready to accept ... not all of them, Olmert said.It could certainly form a convenient basis for future talks between us and moderate Arab elements, he said. I've said it several times recently and I still believe it.Olmert was referring to a Saudi peace initiative adopted at an Arab summit in Beirut in 2002 that offers the Arab world's normalisation of ties with Israel in exchange for its withdrawal from all occupied Arab land.

Israel has previously said the Saudi initiative should be modified, notably on the issue of the right of return of Palestinian refugees.Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Tuesday during a visit to Amman that the Riyadh summit expects Israel to make a serious peace offer.We expect an offer, a position from Israel in so far as peace is concerned, the secretary general said.

We fail to see any offer, any talk about serious peace.Last week Olmert said the Jewish state was ready to take seriously the Arab peace plan and that the Riyadh summit would bolster its positive elements.But Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the plan contained two additional clauses very problematic for Israel concerning the right of return of Palestinian refugees.One calls for the return of Palestinians who fled or were forced out in 1948, the other rules out their permanent settlement in the Arab states where they or their descendants currently live.The Palestinians and Egypt have rejected any modifications of the Saudi plan.

WELL THE GODLESS LUKEWARM LEFT ELTON JOHN IS AT IT AGAIN.

Elton John urges fight against homophobia
March 22, 2007 CNN

LONDON, England (Reuters) Elton John has paid tribute to gay rights campaigners and urged others around the world to stand up and speak out against homophobia.The British singer, who tied the knot with long-term partner David Furnish in a civil ceremony, said people must stand up for the human rights of homosexuals.

In December 2005, I was legally bound to the man I love, he wrote in the New Statesman magazine. It's my legal right and my human right. And I wanted everyone to know, I wanted to shout about it.In some countries, my voice would have been drowned out. Maybe even stamped out.Men and women are persecuted and attacked every day all over the world, just because of who they love and who they make love to.The singer, who celebrates his 60th birthday on Sunday, paid tribute to William Hernandez, a gay rights campaigner in El Salvador.Amnesty International says Hernandez and others in his organization Entre Amigos (Between Friends) have received death threats for their work.People like William are a lot braver than me. When the bigots shout abuse, they shout back, the singer wrote.My voice has served me pretty well over the years. I hope maybe it can do him some good too. But we need more voices.Whether the bigot is in our local pub or a thousand miles away, we should all stand up and speak out for these basic human rights.The article was for a column in the magazine in which well-known public figures highlight Amnesty cases.

WORLD TERRORISM

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.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

ISRAELIS AND ARABS ARE BROTHERS, THIS SURE IS BROTHERLY LOVE BY THE ARABS. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I WONDER WHY ISRAEL EVEN HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THESE ENEMIES OF GOD AND ISRAEL.

Four-year-old girl vows to be suicide terrorist in Hamas TV dramatization
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook (Palestinian Media Watch Credit) MAR 22,07

Hamas TV broadcast today a video dramatization of the four-year-old daughter of female suicide bomber Reem Riyashi singing to her dead mother and vowing to follow in her footsteps.

The video clip ends as the little girl picks up sticks of explosives from her mother's drawer.The Al Aqsa TV children's program shows a child actress playing the daughter, watching Riyashi preparing the bomb and asking her mother, Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me? A toy or a present for me? She later sees a TV news story about her mother's suicide mission and death, and realizes her mother had been carrying a bomb.Only now, I know what was more precious than us . . . she sings of the bomb.Although she misses her mother, she vows to follow in her footsteps. The video ends as she opens her mother's drawer and picks up the sticks of explosives her mother had left there.

Background:

Reem Riyashi killed four Israelis and wounded seven at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel in 2004. She gained the sympathy of the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint by telling them that she had a metal plate in her leg that would trigger the metal detector. After she was taken to a room to be searched privately, she detonated the bomb hidden under her clothes.

The following is the text of the song that Duha, Reem's daughter, sings to her mother:

[Daughter sees mother preparing explosives sticks] Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?

[Mother turns to hide bomb] A toy or a present for me?...Mommy Reem!
Why did you put on your veil? Are you going out, Mommy?...Come back quickly, Mommy
I can't sleep without you,unless you tell me and Ubaydah [her brother] a bedtime story.

[Daughter sees mother's picture and news story about bombing on PA TV]

My mother, my mother, Me and Ubaydah are awake and waiting for you to come to put us to sleep.Me and Ubaydah, oh Mommy, still need you to wipe our tears...Instead of me you carried a bomb in your hands. Only now, I know what was more precious than us...May your steps be blessed,and may you be flawless for Jerusalem. Me and Ubaydah wish we were there with you.

[Images of her mother's grave and the graves of other terrorists,
including Aayat Al-Akhras, 17-year-old female suicide terrorist]

Send greetings to our Messenger [Muhammad] and tell him: Duha loves you. My love will not be [merely] words.I am following Mommy in her steps.[Finds explosives that mother left in her drawer, picks up stick of explosives] Oh Mommy, oh Mommy.(crediting Palestinian Media Watch)

Obama's pastor admits concerns over candidate's ties to Islam
Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com March 22, 2007

The head of a pro-Israel ministry is praising the pastor of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's church for admitting his concerns about the Illinois senator's association with thePalestinians and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.Jeremiah Wright, Jr., is pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, where as a 26-year-old, Barack Obama walked down the aisle and publicly
committed himself to God. But in two separate interviews, Pastor Wright has revealed his concerns about Obama's pro-Islamic leanings. Jan Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, is saluting Wright for expressing his concerns.

He warned the senator that association [with the Palestinians] could pose political problems partly because of his history of supporting Palestinian causes, notes Markell. Barack Obama has made the statement that the Palestinians are the most oppressed people on earth.

And Markell commends the pastor for his concerns about a 1984 trip Obama made to Libya, where he met with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Wright states a lot of [Obama's] Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in Hades [because of that meeting], she suggests. She believes that Pastor Wright, in issuing the warning, was speaking out of genuine concern for Obama and perhaps even America. So I salute him.Markell fears that if Obama becomes president, the United States will blatantly turn its back on Israel -- and suffer the consequences later. American Family News Network