Saturday, August 22, 2015

KHAMENEI URGES ISLAMIC UNITY AGAINST REAL ENEMIES-US AND ISRAEL.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

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)

UPDATE-AUGUST 22,2015-11:004AM
IT JUST BOGGLES MY MIND HOW OBAMA CAN DO DEALS WITH ISLAMIC-SEX FOR MURDER-DEATH CULT NATIONS. THAT WANT ISRAEL AND AMERICA DESTROYED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.WHAT IS IN A PERSONS MIND THAT LETS HATER-MURDERERS GET THE UPPER HAND ON PEACEFUL COUNTRIES.THAT DO NOT WANT ISRAEL DESTROYED.

Khamenei urges Islamic unity against real enemies: US and Israel-Leader suggests Iranians use Mecca pilgrimage to spread truth about ‘bullying powers’ to Muslims worldwide-By Itamar Sharon August 22, 2015, 5:03 pm 3-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Iran’s supreme leader claimed Saturday that Islamic nations were being manipulated into internal strife by the world’s “bullies” and urged Islamic unity in the face of what he identified as the Umma’s two greatest enemies: the US and Israel.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US had long sought to incite “third-party” states against Iran but “such third parties are only deceived puppets,” the Islamic republic’s Fars news agency reported.“The root cause of the problems returns to their real enemies, the US and Israel,” he said.The bullying powers, as he called them, are conspiring “against the Quran and not Shiism and Iran, because they know that the Quran and Islam are the center of awakening nations.”Iranians, he said, “have realized that their real stubborn enemy is the world arrogance and Zionism and that’s why they chant slogans against the US and Zionism.”Khamenei was speaking to Iranian officials in charge of the Hajj — the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims from all over the world undertake.He explained to them that the pilgrimage to Mecca was a prime opportunity for Iranians to convey their aforementioned insights to other Muslims and thus encourage Islamic unity against its true enemies.“The world bullies are fully, seriously seeking to stir violence and discord under the name of Islam and are trying to disrepute the religion of Islam, foment internal fights among Islamic nations and even among the people of one nation to weaken the Muslim Ummah, and transferring the Iranian nation’s experience about unity and recognition of the enemy to other nations in the Hajj season can defuse these plots,” he said.Since the signing of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in July, Khamenei has repeatedly spoken out against Tehran’s main negotiating partners in Washington.Earlier this week he strongly impugned the motives of the US in the talks, saying “their intention was to find a way to penetrate into the country.Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters in Iran, has not publicly approved or disapproved the deal, though he repeatedly offered words of support for Iran’s nuclear negotiators during the course of the talks.Last Saturday a prominent Iranian hard-liner, journalist Hossein Shariatmadari, said he believed Khamenei was in fact opposed to the accord. However, an editorial appearing Sunday in the Tasnim news agency, thought closely tied to the Iranian regime, derided Shariatmadari for claiming to speak for Khamenei.

'We will buy, sell and develop any weapons we need and we will not ask for permission or abide by any resolution for that'-Unveiling new missile, Rouhani says Iran will obtain ‘any weapons we need’-‘We can negotiate with other countries only when we are powerful,’ says president at ceremony displaying precision solid-fuel rocket-By Times of Israel staff August 22, 2015, 12:00 pm 25

Iran on Saturday unveiled a new surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a 500-kilometer (310 miles) range, saying military might was a precondition for peace and effective diplomacy.The Fateh 313 missile was unveiled during a ceremony marking the anniversary of Iran’s military industry, attended by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.The military industry called the solid-fuel missile one of the most exact ever manufactured, boasting that it has successfully hit multiple targets with great precision, Israel’s Walla website reported.“We will buy, sell and develop any weapons we need and we will not ask for permission or abide by any resolution for that,” Rouhani said in a speech at the ceremony, which was broadcast live on state television, according to Reuters.“We can negotiate with other countries only when we are powerful. If a country does not have power and independence, it cannot seek real peace,” the president said.A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday that the country is planning massive “ballistic missiles war games,” adding that the announcement comes after Tehran said it plans to begin phasing in a new generation of missiles.“The IRGC Aerospace Force will hold a large-scale ballistic missiles war-games soon,” Brigadier Gen. Amirali Hajizadeh said, according to the state-run Fars news agency.Tehran said last month that its ballistic missile program was not connected to the UN Security Council resolution endorsing the July 14 accord with world powers that limits its nuclear program.Under the terms of the agreement, Iran is barred from developing ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.Iran says it has ballistic missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), which are capable of striking both Israel and Saudi Arabia. But the Foreign Ministry said that the UN’s resolution endorsing the deal did not have jurisdiction over its missile development.“Iran’s military capacities, especially ballistic missiles, are strictly defensive and, as they have not been conceived to carry nuclear weapons, they are outside the scope and competence of the Security Council resolution,” the ministry wrote in a statement.“The Islamic Republic of Iran is committed to implementing its commitments… so long as world powers keep their side of the agreement to lift sanctions in exchange for guarantees that Tehran will not develop a nuclear program,” the statement said.

MONEY ISSUES-MY EYE. THIS IS PROBABLY ANOTHER CASE OF A ISRAEL HATER BOYCOTTING ISRAEL AGAIN.
American Airlines to end Israel flights-Company cites financial considerations as basis for decision to terminate Tel Aviv-Philadelphia route-By Times of Israel staff August 22, 2015, 6:18 pm

American Airlines announced Thursday it would discontinue operations in Israel and would terminate all flights to and from the country as of January 2016.The company cited financial considerations as the basis for its decision.American Airlines said its last flight to Israel is scheduled for January 4, from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv, and the return flight, scheduled for January 5, will by the company’s last from the country, Ynet reported. Customers who reserved spaces or purchased tickets for flights after January 5 were contacted by the company, which offered to reimburse them or find alternative solutions.All 19 American Airlines employees based in Israel are expected to lose their jobs after the company ends operations in the country.Since merging with US Airways last year, American Airlines had operated Tel Aviv-Philadelphia flights on a daily basis. For the five previous years, daily Tel Aviv-Philadelphia flights were carried out by US Airways.About 95,000 passengers had flown on American Airlines’ Philadelphia-Tel Aviv flights since the beginning of 2015, according to Ynet.

US tells Americans to avoid parts of northern Israel-Travel advisory on US embassy website cites ‘launching of rockets from Syria toward Israel and other cross-border activity’-By Times of Israel staff August 22, 2015, 1:15 pm 9

The US Embassy in Israel advised its nationals in the country to “carefully consider and defer travel” to the “Israeli-occupied” Golan Heights and Upper Galilee, following the rocket fire from Syria on Thursday, and Israel’s retaliatory strikes hours later.“Due to the launching of rockets from Syria toward Israel and other cross-border activity in northeastern Israel and northern Golan Heights on August 20 and 21, we urge US citizens to carefully consider and possibly defer travel in the Upper Galilee area of northern Israel and the northern part of Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, until the situation stabilizes,” the embassy said in a message posted Friday on its website.The Israel Defense Forces launched a wave of air and artillery strikes into Syria on Friday morning, after four rockets were fired at Israel from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.There were no injuries on the Israeli side, although the rocket strikes did cause fires to break out.Six people were reported killed in an Israeli Air Force strike on a vehicle Israel said was ferrying the Islamic Jihad cell that had fired the rockets, on Iran’s instructions. Islamic Jihad denied responsibility for the attack and vowed revenge.“The Embassy continues to closely monitor the security situation and advises US citizens to visit the website of the Government of Israel’s Home Front Command for further emergency preparedness guidance,” the embassy advisory said.“Recent events underscore the importance of situational awareness. We remind you to be aware of your surroundings at all times, to monitor the media, and to follow directions of emergency responders.”The Lebanon-based Islamist organization Hezbollah has raised its alert level along the border with Israel, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported Saturday, according to Israeli media outlets, “due to Israel’s attempt to drag Syria and Lebanon into a conflict.”

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Israel called off 2012 strike on Iran because it coincided with joint US drill’-Operation was aborted because Israel did not want to ‘force America to be party’ to it, says Ehud Barak; also says he and PM were thwarted by colleagues in 2010 and 2011-By Times of Israel staff August 21, 2015, 11:04 pm 17

Israel was set to strike at Iran nuclear facilities in 2012, but the operation was aborted because it coincided with a joint military exercise with the United States, Israel’s Channel 2 news reported Friday.Relying on tape recordings of former defense minister Ehud Barak and other unnamed foreign reports, the TV report made clear that the US was opposed to the strike on Iran, but Israel was going to go ahead with it anyway. However, Israel did not want to complicate matters for the United States by carrying out the attack while the two armies were drilling together.The attack was being readied for January 2012, but it turned out that it would coincide with the long-planned Austere Challenge 12 exercise here, the largest ever joint Israeli and American military drill, the TV report said.“We intended to carry it out, so I went to (then US Defense Secretary Leon) Panetta and asked him if we could change the date of the exercise,” Barak said in a recording broadcast by Channel 2. “So they delayed it as much as they could… to a few days before the election (in the US that November).”“Things did not work out in the first part in 2012 and it was pushed back toward the end (of the year),” Barak said.However, Barak went on, the new date set for the operation was also not convenient. He did not elaborate.“You demand that America respect your sovereignty and decide you want to do it (strike Iran), even if America is opposed and it is contrary to their interests,” Barak said in the recording. “You can’t find yourself then going back on that by trying to force America to be party to (the strike) just as it comes here for a pre-planned drill. That’s how it ran into difficulties in 2012,” he explained.Barak’s revelation about a thwarted strike in 2012 was only one in a series of bombshells in the tape recordings of his conversations broadcast Friday night.He also detailed that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran in 2010 and 2011, but were thwarted by opposition from the army’s chief of staff and ministerial colleagues.The material apparently comes from conversations related to a new biography of Barak being written by Danny Dor and Ilan Kfir. The former defense minister, who was also previously prime minister and chief of staff, attempted to prevent the broadcasting of the recordings, but Israel’s military censors allowed Channel 2 to play them.Netanyahu maintains to this day that Israel will act alone if necessary to prevent Iran attaining nuclear weapons, and has been a leading critic of the P5+1 deal with Iran that curbs but does not dismantle its nuclear program-The Austere Challenge 12 drill ultimately went ahead in mid-October 2012.Panetta had visited Israel that August. During that trip, he said repeatedly that “all options,” including military force, were on the table to stop Iran, should sanctions and diplomacy — the preferred means of persuasion — ultimately fail. He said he hoped Iran would see that negotiations were the best way out of the crisis, but “If they continue and if they proceed with a nuclear weapon, … we have options that we are prepared to implement to ensure that that does not happen.”Then-defense minister Barak, standing beside Panetta at a stop on the trip, said he saw an “extremely low” probability that sanctions would ever compel Iran to give up its nuclear activities. Barak said Israel “has something to lose” by waiting for sanctions and diplomacy to run their course, because Iran was continually accumulating enriched uranium as the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb.When Netanyahu hosted Panetta on that trip, the prime minister said Iran was not yet fully convinced the West intends to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, despite statements by the US and Israel regarding possible military action.“Right now the Iranian regime believes that the international community does not have the will to stop its nuclear program,” Netanyahu said. “This must change, and it must change quickly, because time to resolve this issue peacefully is running out.”Barak expressed outrage Friday that the recordings had been released and tried to prevent them from being aired, Channel 2 noted. The station stressed, however, that the contents of the recordings had been approved for broadcast by the military censor.

Islamic Jihad: We will respond to IDF strikes in Syria-Iran-backed group repeats denial of role in rocket attack that led to strikes, hints at Gaza rocket fire on south-By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross August 21, 2015, 8:05 pm 4

The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad terror group vowed Friday to retaliate against Israel for a series of IDF air strikes targeting the cell Israel says was responsible for firing four rockets into northern Israel from Syria on Thursday.Israel said that the Islamic Jihad, which operates mostly out of the Gaza Strip, but whose headquarters are in Damascus, carried out the attack, with Iranian direction and Syrian complicity.Islamic Jihad spokesman Daud Shihab reiterated the Palestinian terror group’s denial that it was responsible for the rocket fire, claiming Israel was looking for an excuse to attack Syria, and vowed retaliation.“We’ll know when to respond to an Israeli attack — and that will be where the Iron Dome was installed yesterday,” he said, referring to Israeli missile defense systems deployed in the southern cities of Ashdod and Beersheba on Thursday.Israel’s Walla News website on Friday quoted the pro-Iran Al Mayadeen television station as saying that at least three of the six casualities in the IDF strikes were Palestinian.Muhammad al-Hindi, a member of Islamic Jihad’s political bureau, said he was unaware of any causalities from the group in Syria, but if true, “the movement will know how to protect its sons.”Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Friday’s raid targeted and hit the Islamic Jihad militants who carried out Thursday’s rocket attack.According to an IDF source, Israeli planes carried out a raid targeting a vehicle “in which there were at least five people.”“We were monitoring this cell and it was attacked some 10-15 kilometers from the border, on territory firmly in the control of the Syrian military. This is an Islamic Jihad cell directed by Iran,” the source added.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that despite the strike, Israel had no interest in an escalation.“We have no intention of ratcheting up this confrontation, but our policy [of retaliating for attacks against Israeli civilians] remains as it was,” he said.Ya’alon said the strike against the cell was proof that Israel will not tolerate efforts to harm the security of its citizens.“We have no intention of compromising on this issue, and I suggest no one test our resolve on this matter,” he said in a brief statement after the attack.Syrian state television meanwhile said six unarmed civilians were killed and seven wounded in the strike on a vehicle some 10 kilometers from the Syrian-Israeli border, in territory held by the Syrian army.It said an Israeli drone strike targeted a “civilian car” close to a busy market in the village of Kom. Ahmad Sheikh Abdul-Qader, governor of the southern region of Quneitra, said the attack happened on the road leading to the village of Khan Arnabeh, near Kom, and destroyed the car.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the country’s war, said five people killed in the Israeli strike were members of pro-government National Defense Forces. It did not elaborate.Like us on Facebook

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

In letter to P5+1, Israel blames Iran for rockets from Syria-Complaint to world powers decries ‘indiscriminate and premeditated terrorist attack’ on Golan Heights-By JTA August 22, 2015, 3:40 am 8

Israel submitted a formal diplomatic complaint to world powers about a recent rocket attack from Syria — blaming a specific Iranian general and warning of increased regional aggression by the Islamic Republic in the wake of the nuclear deal.The demarche was sent Friday to the P5+1 — the six world powers, including the United States, that negotiated the nuclear agreement with Iran — a day after a barrage of four rockets hit Israel from Syria.Sent by Jeremy Issacharoff, the vice director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, the document said Israel has “credible information” that Thursday’s rocket attack was ordered by “Iranian operative Saeed Izaadhi” and carried out by the Palestinian branch of terrorist group Islamic Jihad.The document called the attack “an indiscriminate and premeditated terrorist attack against Israeli territory without any provocation from the Israeli side.” Further, it said the attack was “another clear and blatant demonstration of Iran’s continued and unabating support and involvement in terrorist attacks” and “a clear indication of how Iran intends to continue to pursue its destabilizing actions and policies as the international sanctions regime is withdrawn in the near future.”“The international community led by the P5+1 cannot enable Iran to gain respectability and political legitimacy from the [nuclear agreement, which lifts sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program], while in parallel it continues to actively and directly perpetrate terror throughout the region,” the document said.Dore Gold, director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry said: “It is untenable that Iran can argue that it is in a diplomatic process with the West when its forces continue to wage wars of subversion and terror against Israel and across the Middle East.”The nuclear deal is being hotly debated in the US Congress, which has until September to decide whether or not to vote against the deal. President Obama has said he will veto any legislative attempts to block the deal.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

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

US: Tests show mustard gas traces in Islamic State attack-US Army official says final testing underway on mortar fragments presented by Kurdish forces fighting IS in Iraq-By Lolita C. Baldor August 22, 2015, 12:32 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

WASHINGTON (AP) — Preliminary tests show traces of the chemical agent sulfur mustard on mortars that Islamic State militants used to attack Kurdish forces in Iraq, a senior US military officer said Friday.US Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea, chief of staff for military operations in Iraq and Syria, said the field testing was not conclusive, so final tests are underway to learn the full make-up of chemicals on the fragments.American officials have been looking into reports that IS used the chemical weapon mustard gas in the Aug. 11 attack in Makhmour. Similar reports have surfaced in recent months, including in connection with an attack by Islamic State militants in Syria.Killea told Pentagon reporters that Kurdish forces brought the mortar fragments to US forces for testing, so there may be questions about the chain of custody of the evidence.It is unclear where IS might have obtained chemical weapons.Diplomatic efforts by the US and Russia following a chemical weapons attack in Syria in 2013 led to the removal or destruction of the Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpiles. But questions remain about whether some of those chemicals escaped destruction or if militants have been able to obtain them in other ways.US officials have expressed persistent concerns about the possibility that IS would locate and use chemical weapons in its ongoing campaign to take control of more territory across Iraq and Syria.The US and coalition partners are supporting Iraqi and Kurdish forces on the ground in Iraq, largely through airstrikes and a train and equip program. But there have been discussions among top military and defense leaders about using additional US forces in Iraq, possibly to help direct airstrikes or to embed with Iraqi units in order to better train and advise them.The use of chemical weapons by IS adds an increased element of risk to troops and could further complicate the debate.2015 The Associated Press

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