KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
WELL THERE SAYING YASSER ARAFAT MIGHT HAVE DIED FROM POISONING.I CALL HIM YASSER ARAFAG-BECAUSE I THINK HE WAS GAY AND DIED OF AIDES.AND NOW POSSIBLE FROM A SCORNED LOVER WHO POISONED HIM.WELL MAHOMID PROMOTED PEODOPHILIA BY MARRYING A 6 YR OLD GIRL.ALLAH OVIOUSLY PROMOTES PEDOPHILIA AND HOMOSEXUALITY.SO THIS POISONING OF ARAFAG BY A SCORNED LOVER MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO ME.
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/08/sharia-law-becoming-one-islamic-world.html
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them;(ATOMIC BOMB) 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.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR 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)
Big radiation risk unlikely if Israel strikes Iran: experts
By Alister Doyle and Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – 52 mins ago AUG 28,12
OSLO/VIENNA (Reuters) - Any Israeli attacks on
Iran's nuclear facilities are unlikely to cause a Fukushima-scale disaster unless a Russian-built reactor is destroyed, experts say.They could,
however, release toxic chemicals - rather than high levels of radiation -
causing local contamination affecting health and the environment. That
was also the case from U.S.-led strikes on nuclear facilities in
Iraq during the Gulf Wars."I doubt that the
radiation effects would be great," said Hans Blix, a former head of U.N.
nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).Iran says all its facilities are for peaceful purposes.
Israel, which in 1981 bombed Iraq's
Osirak nuclear reactor before it came online, has led international accusations that Tehran is secretly developing atomic bombs."There could be some chemical hazard (from an Israeli
attack on Iran's uranium refining plants) but I'd think it would be
limited to any nearby communities," said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert
at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington.
The Vienna-based IAEA and Iran failed on Friday to
strike a deal aimed at allaying concerns about Tehran's nuclear program.
Diplomatic sources say Iran has installed many more uranium enrichment
centrifuges at Fordow, a fortified underground site and a likely target
in any attack.Bellicose rhetoric from some Israeli politicians has
fanned speculation that Israel might hit Iran's nuclear sites before the
November U.S. presidential vote. Washington has said there is still
time for diplomatic pressure to work, but it might be drawn into any war
between the two Middle East foes.Most experts contacted said that Israel would not target the
Bushehr
nuclear reactor on Iran's Gulf coast, which started providing
electricity to the grid last September. Such an attack could release a
Fukushima-style radioactive plume that could spread to the entire region
- including Israel."An attack against Bushehr nuclear power plant would probably be a violation of international law," Blix said.Attacks on Iran's other nuclear sites - such as the
Natanz and Fordow enrichment plants and a uranium conversion facility
east of the city of Isfahan - may have a localized health and
environmental impact on a similar scale caused by the bombing of Iraqi
nuclear sites Tuwaitha and Al Qaim in the Gulf Wars.
MELTDOWN
"Uranium is a very heavy metal, chemically and
physically," so it would not be transported far on the wind if Iranian
enrichment facilities were attacked, said Malcolm Grimston, of Imperial
College, London.
"It is about as poisonous as lead ... the issue would
be in the immediate area trying to prevent people from ingesting it for
its chemical poisonous properties," he said.Uranium before it is introduced into a
nuclear power plant is also much less radioactive than fissile reactor material."It is not like a reactor where you got the volatile
fission products - the iodines and caesiums - which can be carried in
principle all around the world by wind," Grimston said.Iraqi plants have
not become global bywords for disaster, unlike the 1986 Chernobyl
reactor explosion in what is now Ukraine and the
Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan that suffered a meltdown after an earthquake and tsunami last year."The health effects (in Iraq) were very localized,"
said Robert Kelley, of the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute and a former director of IAEA inspections in Iraq.Others say health risks linger in Iraq, and estimates
of long-term health risks near the sites are difficult because of a lack
of monitoring of cancer rates."In Tuwaitha, they have never seen full
decontamination," said Mike Townsley of environmental group Greenpeace.
He and colleagues found a ruptured container of raw uranium "yellowcake"
near the plant in 2003.About 1,000 people live near the Tuwaitha reactor
complex south of Baghdad, the former site of Saddam Hussein's nuclear
research program destroyed by U.S.-led forces in 1991 and 2003. Al Qaim,
where uranium was extracted at a fertilizer factory, was bombed in
1991.Paul Sullivan, a professor of economics and adjunct
professor of security studies at Georgetown University in the United
States, said there were double standards in judging risks.
"If there were a chance of an attack on such facilities
in France, Germany, the U.S., Japan and the like there would be
constant and very loud cries about the potential environmental and human
health impacts," he said.
Iran says it needs to refine uranium as a fuel for nuclear power. But extra refinement can make uranium for a bomb.
POISONING
The other main way to build a bomb is to use plutonium,
from the waste of spent nuclear fuel rods from power plants. But
experts say Bushehr is ill-designed for such uses, and that would also
require a separate reprocessing plant."Iran's plutonium program is thought to be less
advanced than its uranium program," said Karl Dewey, a nuclear analyst
at IHS Jane's in England.Any attack on Bushehr, perhaps to cripple nearby
buildings without rupturing the reactor, would involve big risks, he
said.Israel would probably want to destroy the Arak heavy
water research reactor, which is not yet online but which experts say is
more suited to producing plutonium than Bushehr.The United Nations said in 2005 that the main impact of
the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl would be up to 4,000 thyroid cancer
deaths. About 30 people died at the plant, mainly from radiation
exposure. Some environmentalists project far more deaths.A Stanford University study in July estimated that radiation from Fukushima Daiichi might eventually cause anywhere from 15 to 1,300 deaths.
Radiation poisoning can cause nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea, headaches and fatigue in lower doses. In bigger doses, it can
cause burns, hemorrhages, cancer and death.Radiation can also
damage plants and animals, poisoning food for human consumption. A type
of butterfly near Fukushima has been found with high rates of mutation,
such as deformed wings and eyes.Part of the risks of enrichment is that the process involves heating uranium to a gas form, Dewey said.The process frees
uranium hexafluoride (UF6), which is both toxic and radioactive and can
cause kidney damage. When UF6 comes in contact with moisture it converts
to uranyl fluoride and toxic hydrofluoric acid, in a gas form.Among accidents, in 1986 the rupture of a cylinder at a
uranium enrichment facility run by Sequoyah Fuels Corp. in the United
States released a cloud of UF6, killing one worker and injuring 31
others. None of the 31 suffered lasting kidney damage.
(Additional reporting by Marcus George in Dubai; Editing by Pravin Char)
Bibi Investment Portfolio Move Sign of Iran Attack?
Prime Minister asked for permission to make changes in his personal investments – prompting speculation.
By Gil Ronen First Publish: 8/28/2012, 12:55 PM
Netanyahu reviews 2011
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has come under political and media
sniping in recent days after it became known that he asked the State
Comptroller's Office for permission to make changes in his personal investment portfolio.
The Opposition Chairman went so far as to speculate that Netanyahu
wants to change his investments so that he can lose less, or gain more,
when he orders an attack against Iran's nuclear weapons facilities.Prime Ministers in Israel are only allowed to give instructions for the handling of their investment portfolio when they enter office,
out of concern that their insider knowledge and influence on world
events could cause conflicts of interest. Tweaking the investment
profile during the term of office requires special permission, which Netanyahu asked for.While the Comptroller agreed to grant Netanyahu permission
to change his investments, Netanyahu subsequently gave up on the idea
when critical voices began to be heard.According to IDF Radio, MK Yariv Levin (Likud)
said that the original request was a legitimate one, in view of the fact
that Netanyahu's government has been in place for almost four years – a
rare occurrence in Israeli politics, where governments usually do not
reach the age of three."The State Comptroller determined clearly that in view of the government's long term in office, updating the instructions to investment managers is a reasonable thing, but it was the prime minister
who decided not to make use of this right," he said. "In view of this,
the opposition's attempt to attack the prime minster is ridiculous…"
Analyst Yaniv Pagot of the Ayalon Group speculated on IDF Radio that Netanyahu was considering the situation in Europe rather than the one in Iran, when asking for permission to tweak his portfolio.
"We think the negative developments in the euro bloc, which are
bringing it to a critical and decisive juncture in recent months, were a
central element in the prime minister's considerations for a
redistribution of assets."
"Netanyahu's step is strange and it holds more than a clue
about his intentions," said Opposition Head MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima).
"Netanyahu's behavior shows that he is aware of the tremendous risks to
the security of the state and its citizens and the danger that Israel's
economy will collapse because of a hurried, unnecessary, unbalanced
decision… regarding an independent Israeli attack in Iran."
Iran will never stop uranium enrichment: envoy
AFP – 3 hrs ago AUG 28,12
Iran "will never stop" its controversial uranium enrichment, the country's envoy to the
IAEA said on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement ministerial meeting in Tehran."Our
enrichment activities
will never stop and we are justified in carrying them out, and we will
continue to do so under IAEA supervision," Ali Asghar Soltanieh told
reporters."We will not give up our inalienable right to enrichment," he said.
The defiant reaffirmation of Iran's position underscored a showdown between the Islamic republic and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, and the UN Security Council.The Security Council has repeatedly demanded Iran cease its uranium
enrichment and has imposed four sets of sanctions on the country, which
have been greatly reinforced by separate US and EU sanctions.The five permanent members of the Security Council, plus Germany,
also this year engaged in three rounds of face-to-face negotiations
with Iran on the issue, but they ended in an impasse, with contact
downgraded to telephone calls between Iranian and EU officials.Iran's enrichment is to again be raised this week, when the IAEA is
expected to release its latest report based on its ongoing inspections
of Iran's nuclear facilities.Some of the report's findings have already been leaked to Israeli and US media, mainly those confirming a July 25 statement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that hundreds more uranium enrichment centrifuges had been installed.
Iran's refusal to allow inspectors into a military base outside Tehran, Parchin, could also form part of the report.Western diplomats last week told AFP that months of clean-up work
detected at Parchin suggested the site had been "sanitized" to such an
extent that a nuclear inspection would now be pointless.Soltanieh responded by saying that Parchin "has been blown out of
proportion" and said claims of nuclear warhead design tests there were
"fabricated by foreign intelligence."He said Iran was demanding to see
the documents the IAEA was using to pursue its suspicions about Parchin
and urged the agency to "close this chapter."
He also said Iran has complained to the IAEA about the leaks.On Iran's intent to continue enriching uranium, Soltanieh noted that
the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the IAEA's statutes made no
explicit mention of levels of enrichment."The level of enrichment and how much to enrich has not been fixed in either of those. There is no limitation," he said."Everything we do is under the supervision of the agency," he stressed.
The
United States and its Western allies, and
Israel, suspect that Iran is intent on developing nuclear weapons "break-out" capability.Iran denies that, saying its nuclear programme is purely for civilian use.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUgVL9PdxM&list=UU4SH8rh0OjYV3zwqnIfqNbA&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/indexes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPX59y4KxE&feature=related
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS TUE AUGUST 28,2012
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -18.11
10:30 AM -7.07
11:00 AM +4.34
11:30 AM -7.32
12:00 PM +9.99
12:30 PM -3.33
01:00 PM -0.32
01:30 PM -8.12
02:00 PM -15.07
02:30 PM -12.25
03:00 PM +3.75
03:30 PM -9.43
04:00 PM -21.68 13,102.99
S&P 500 1409.30 -1.14
NASDAQ 3077.14 +3.95
GOLD 1,669.60 -6.60
OIL 96.24 +0.77
TSE 300 12,009.90 -38.92
CDNX 1241.88 -4.94
S&P/TSX/60 687.69 -0.57
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -23 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -23 points at low today.
Dow +13 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,668.10.OIL opens at $96.14 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -23 points at low today so far.
Dow +13 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -23 points at low today.
Dow +13 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Merkel under pressure over ECB banking union role
Today @ 09:05 AUG 28,12
- By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Angela Merkel is coming
under mounting pressure from the Bundesbank and the sister party of her
Christian Democrat (CDU) group to block EU plans to make the European
Central Bank the central supervisor of a eurozone banking union.
At the June EU summit leaders indicated that a deal had been reached
to create a eurozone banking union to be supervised by the
Frankfurt-based bank. The EU executive is expected to present
legislative proposals in mid-September. However, the German Chancellor
is under pressure to prevent a further expansion of the ECB’s role in
combating the debt crisis.On Sunday (26 August), Alexander Dobrindt, general secretary of the
Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) which partners Merkel’s CDU in the
Bundestag, accused ECB President Mario Draghi of bidding to become “the
currency forger of Europe”.Dobrindt attacked proposals reportedly being considered by the ECB to
set an upper limit for bond yields facing weak members of the eurozone
saying it was an attempt to "finance debt countries through the back
door".Leading board members on the Bundesbank have also piled in.After Bundesbank executive board member Andreas Dombret told a
banking conference on Thursday that supervisory powers would create
"conflicts of interest" and undermine the independence of the bank,
Bundesbank President Jens Wiedmann told Der Spiegal that plans for the
ECB to buy up eurozone sovereign bonds would go beyond the bank's
mandate.They would amount to “state financing via the printing press”, he
said. Although the EU treaty includes provisions to allow the ECB to act
as a "prudential supervisor", it spells out the maintenance of ‘price
stability’ as the bank's primary function.There are long-standing concerns by German central bankers about the
ECB’s actions in response to the sovereign debt crisis. In September
2011, Jürgen Stark, widely regarded as the ‘chief economist’ of the ECB,
resigned in protest at the bank's role in buying Italian and Spanish
bonds in a bid to ease lending costs.One alternative would be to beef up the powers of the newly created EU bail-out fund, the European Stability Mechanism.The ESM has powers to intervene on the bond market written into its
mandate and MEPs and some member states want the fund to be given a
banking license allowing it to directly recapitalize ailing banks.
However, the status of the ESM is still subject to legal debate. The
German constitutional court will rule on whether the ESM treaty is
compatible with the country's constitution, known as 'the Basic Law,' on
12 September.Bundesbank officials have also expressed concerns that they could be outvoted on the ECB’s Governing Council.Under the ECB statute, key decisions on monetary policy made by its
Governing Council require a two thirds majority on a one-member one-vote
basis, with Germany having the same voting power as the likes of Malta
and Luxembourg.However, the voting weights in the ESM are calculated on the basis of
the capital paid in by member states, with countries unable to pay
their share surrendering voting rights. The ESM rule-book also gives
countries a veto over all financial rescue actions which would require
‘mutual agreement’.
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,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-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.
Op-Ed: The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) A Dead and Rotten Corpse
Published: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:14 AM
Non-aligned? The irony in this humiliating drama lies
in the shocking fact that 120 countries are actively participating in
this controversial gathering in Iran, among them the al-Assad Syrian
dictatorship. Don't count on them to stop Iran's bomb.
Elias Bejjani
Elias
Bejjani, human rights activist, journalist and political commentator,
is spokesman for the Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation (CLHRF)
and Media Chairman for the Canadian Lebanese Coordinating Council
(LCCC).
There is no doubt that we live in an era of global political
hypocrisy par excellence. An era of deviations and corruption where
criminals
preach holiness and terrorists advocate for peace and tranquility. Why
not, when the all criteria for all that is right and wrong have been
distorted and confused.Sadly, the majority of our world rulers
and politicians do not respect the intelligence, dignity, or the
knowledge of the lay citizens and accordingly have no place or any
slight calculations in their conduct.In this context of political madness, insolence and promiscuity the so called "
Non-Aligned Movement" 16th Summit kicked off in the Iranian capital,
Tehran, on Saturday August 27/12 under the chairmanship of the Iranian
mullahs. The puzzling question that every sane person is asking, is
there any rational or truth in tagging the Iranian mullahs’ regime as a
non-aligned entity? The irony in this humiliating drama lies in
the shocking fact that 120 countries are actively participating in this
controversial gathering among which is al-Assad Syrian dictatorship, one
of the most criminal, evil and bloody regimes in the contemporary
history.Who can take this summit seriously and even imagine for a
moment that these countries are going to draw up a new peace resolution
to solve the crisis in Syria or to handle nuclear disarmament issues
among many other items on the table? Iran's Foreign Minister Ali
Akbar Salehi, in his delivered opening speech on Sunday, did not waste
any time to give this bizarre summit its real identity and to plainly
expose its actual Axis of Evil agenda. He, with no hesitation, took the
opportunity to criticize the United Nations, arguing that the neutrality
of the world organization is compromised by the inordinate power
assigned to the five permanent members of the Security Council: Russia,
China, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.He is not
happy at all, nor are the Iranian ruling mullahs that the Free World is
struggling to prevent them from owning an atomic bomb, and not about
the economic sanctions that aims to deter them from doing so. He also
called for "Creating a more democratic Security Council and for
important UN reforms."A number of shameful contradicting
disagreements surround the participants, the first is that the UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon himself is expected to attend the six-day
summit, despite protests from the US and Israel, which both called on to
the UN head to stay away from the event.Another actual joke
relates to 'Palestine', as two leaders, President Mahmoud Abbas and
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, have both declared they received and
accepted the Iranian invitation. Syria's Prime Minister Wael Nader is
most likely to represent his country.In actual reality, those
countries who accepted to take part in this mere theatrical summit are
succumbing to Iran's expansionism schemes, its global terrorism, its
threats to all the Arab countries and Israel, its criminal partnership
with the Syrian dictatorship to kill the Syrian people, its bloody and
intimidating hegemony on Lebanon via Hizbullah, its surrogate army, its
global terrorism attacks against Israeli and numerous Western and Arab
citizens officials and institutions, its atomic endeavours that pose an
actual and very serious threat to the whole world.
While Western
countries have tried to downplay Iran holding this summit, Iranian
officials are not using any cosmetics in using it as a stage to hit out
at the US, saying the holding of the 16th NAM Summit in Tehran proves
the "failure" of America's "threat and sanction" policy against the
oil-rich country. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African
Affairs Hossein Amirabdollahian said the anti-Iran policies of the
US-led Western nations are doomed for failure.Amirabdollahian
described the presence of heads of states and high ranking delegations
of NAM member countries in Tehran as important "under such critical
conditions arising from developments in the Middle East and North Africa
and its coincidence with Islamic awakening movement" in the region.
"The threat and sanction policy [of the US] has failed despite pressures
exerted on Iran by the US and some other countries," the official IRNA
news agency quoted Amirabdollahian as saying.He also said Iran's
hosting
of the summit would improve its position in the international circles
while the US and European Union are facing a severe financial crisis.Iranian
leaders will be boldly using the summit for furthering their propaganda
and had already asked many participating countries to oppose all
sanctions imposed on their country. The mullahs are also strongly
lobbying to secure support for the current Syrian regime lead by the
butcher, Bashar al-Assad.It is worth mentioning that The
Non-Aligned Movement was founded in 1961, in the middle of the Cold War,
by leaders of nations seeking to abstain from taking sides in the
global conflict between the West and the Soviet Union.The first
Conference of Non-Aligned Heads of State, at which 25 countries were
represented, was convened at Belgrade in September 1961, largely through
the initiative of Yugoslavian President Tito. He had expressed concern
that an accelerating arms race might result in war between the Soviet
Union and the USA. Subsequent conferences involved ever-increasing
participation by
developing countries.The
1964 Conference in Cairo, with 47 countries represented, featured
widespread condemnation of Western colonialism and the retention of
foreign military
installations.
Thereafter, the focus shifted away from essentially political issues, to
the advocacy of solutions to global economic and other problems.It
is ironic for the Non-Aligned Movement which started in Bandung in 1955
with senior figures such as Jamal Abdel-Nasser, to turn into a movement
aligning with regimes that practice tyranny against their people and
support with all its might other regimes who practice unprecedented
killing and oppression, The proof of this lies in the protection offered
by some members of the Non-Aligned Movement to the Syrian criminal
regime, against the Syrian people's aspirations for liberation and
democracy.One cannot find any reason for those Arab leaders
attending the summit, especially now that the Iranian regime is their
number one threat on all levels. This is a blatant double standard and
hypocrisy.Among the participants, Bolivian President Evo
Morales, Cuban President Raul Castro, Ecuadorian President Rafael
Correa, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad, Lebanese President Michel
Suleiman, Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said al Said, Pakistani President
Asif Ali Zardari, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Senegalese
President Macky Sall, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Vietnamese
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and
Turkish President Abdullah Gul are among the high-ranking guests of the
16th NAM summit in Tehran.In conclusion, this summit of shame,
hypocrisy and camouflage will definitely achieve one very dangerous aim.
It will give the Iranian terrorist mullahs a message simply saying that
the whole world is not going to do anything or take any practical
deterrent action against their atomic, terrorism and expansionism
schemes, and accordingly they can freely continue with these schemes.
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.
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Typhoon kills five Chinese fishermen off South Korea
Reuters – 4 hrs ago AUG 28,12
SEOUL (Reuters) - A typhoon with winds of up to 170 kmh (106 mph) buffeted South Korea's west coast on Tuesday, killing five people at sea and leaving 10 missing when two Chinese fishing vessels capsized.
Typhoon Bolaven barreled up the coast before making landfall in already flood-ravaged North Korea as the impoverished country struggles to feed its 24 million people.A second typhoon was making its way up a similar course
on Tuesday and was expected to hit the peninsula later in the week.Coast guard rescuers pulled 18 surviving fishermen from the Chinese vessels that capsized off the southern island of Jeju and found five bodies, the emergency services said.The storm knocked out power for nearly 200,000 homes in
South Korea and uprooted poles but there was sharply less serious rain
damage than had been feared.China warned of possible flooding in coming days that
could hit corn and soy crops in parts of its three northeastern
provinces.Schools were closed for the day in the South Korean
capital, Seoul, and in the south, but financial markets, industrial and
energy installations and government services operated as usual.Hundreds of international and domestic flights were cancelled.Local news reports
said power was cut briefly to the petrochemical factory complex in
Yeonsu, affecting LG Chemical, Hanwha Chemical 009830.KS>, Kumcho
Petrochemical and Yeochun NCC Co but impact on production was limited.The storm hit the southern part of North Korea's west
coast, near the farming regions surrounding the capital Pyongyang, the
South's national weather service said.The destitute North, which has trouble feeding its
people even in years with good harvests, has said heavy rains in July
and August inundated farmland and triggered landslides, killing hundreds
and leaving families homeless.(Reporting by Jack Kim and Meeyoung Cho, additional reporting by Niu Shuping in Beijing; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Storm Surge, Rainfall Biggest Concern as Isaac Nears
By ANTHONY CASTELLANO, ALEXANDRA LUDKA and CHRISTINA NG | Good Morning America – 6 hours ago AUG 28,12
Tropical Storm Isaac is on the verge of becoming a Category 1 hurricane
before it makes landfall, but forecasters say the biggest threat will be the
rainfall and storm surge, not the wind.Forecasters have projected landfall as early as tonight, a day short of the
seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu
Monday said Isaac's path is similar to Katrina's and the anniversary has left
much of the Gulf Coast on "a high level of anxiety."Winds will be an issue initially when Isaac makes landfall with gusts up to
80 mph. Forecasters say the big threat will be the storm surge around New
Orleans and Biloxi, Miss., where water might rise six to nine feet. The
slow-moving storm is forecasted to hover over the Gulf Coast and could punish
coastal areas with up to 20 inches of rain, which was one of the big concerns.
"One of the things that concerns me is not only is Isaac getting
stronger slowly, and we think it's going to become a hurricane today, is it a
large system, and the models show the forward speed slowing down, and that's
not good, when a large system moves slowly, that means a lot of rainfall,"
Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, told "
Good
Morning America" today.As of 5 a.m. ET, the center of the storm was 125 miles southeast of the
mouth of the Mississippi River and moving northwest at 12 mph, according to the
National Hurricane Center.Knabb and Federal Emergency Management Agency director Craig Fugate say
there has been too much focus on New Orleans' bracing for Isaac on the
anniversary of Katrina."I think people need to understand this is not a New Orleans
storm," Fugate said Monday. "This is a Gulf Coast storm."Despite hurricane warnings extended across more than 330 miles from
Louisiana to Western Florida, all eyes are still on New Orleans because this
will be its first big test since Katrina. Louisiana has set up shelters and
stockpiled more than a million packaged meals, 1.4 million bottles of water and
17,000 tarps.Since the levees failed seven years ago, more than $14 billion have been
spent on the 133-mile long floodwalls, spillways, gates and pumps surrounding
New Orleans. While officials say the city is more prepared now than it was in
2005, it's still taking no chances when it comes to evacuations.
Fugate and Gov. Bobby Jindal warned people in low-lying areas to get out of
Isaac's way."Today is the day," Jindal said Monday. "Today is the final
day you should be taking any final precautions. If you want to evacuate, today
is the day to do that."Early Monday, 50,000 people had already evacuated from southeast Louisiana's
St. Charles parish. In addition, 2,000 jail inmates have been moved out of
Isaac's expected path.
Jindal said more than 4,000 National Guardsmen will be mobilized in case of
emergency, but said he does not anticipate having to activate contraflow
highway rules for evacuation purposes.Jindal said President Obama called him Monday to say that the governor's
request for a pre-landfall federal disaster declaration had been approved. The
approval opens up federal funding to potentially help Louisiana cope with any
damage."We are going to need help after the storm as well," Jindal said.
"This is not going to be done just after the storm makes landfall or even
just after the storm leaves Louisiana."Isaac's slow pace means it "could actually cause more damage," the
governor said.He said the storm could batter areas with tropical winds for up to 36 hours
and could dump more than a foot of rain while lingering over some areas.Jindal said he is skipping the Republican National Convention in Florida,
where he had been expected to speak, because of Isaac. "I will not be
speaking or attending the Republican National Convention in Florida. There is
no time for politics here in Louisiana," he said.Fugate warned that Isaac's biggest punch might land in Alabama or
Mississippi. The National Hurricane Center said to expect a storm surge of at
least six feet, with the possibility it could reach up to 12 feet.FEMA activated its command center in Atlanta Monday. Division Director
Ginger Edwards says past disasters are driving prep for this storm."After every disaster we learn new lessons but you know we're
constantly exercising with the states. We're planning with the states and just
becoming more and more, more and more involved and more prepared," said
Edwards.Alabama and Mississippi have also declared a state of emergency.Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport said there are no flights
scheduled for today and the airport will not be used as an evacuation shelter.
People will not be allowed to stay in the terminal during the storm, the
airport said in a statement Monday.Isaac will bring welcomed rain to states in the Mississippi River Valley
that have been in severe drought for much of the year.
ABC News' Max Golembo, ABC News Radio and The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
Typhoon pounds South Korea, smashes ships; 9 dead
By HYUNG-JIN KIM | Associated Press – 48 mins ago AUG 28,12
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain Tuesday, killing nine and churning up rough seas that smashed two Chinese fishing ships into rocks and forced the coast guard to perform a daring rescue of survivors.Rescuers
saved 12 fishermen and searched for 10 still missing from the ships
that hit rocks off South Korea's southern Jeju island. Five fishermen
were killed, officials said.Separately,
at least four other people died as Typhoon Bolaven knocked out power to
hundreds of thousands of South Koreans, canceled flights and
temporarily halted joint war games by U.S. and South Korean military forces.North Korea,
which is still struggling to rebuild from massive floods and a
devastating drought before that, was next in the typhoon's path. Heavy
rain and strong winds hit many parts of the country Tuesday, a day that
was supposed to be a North Korean celebration of its young people.
Off
Jeju island, dangerous waves kept rescue vessels from approaching the
wrecked fishing ships. The coast guard used a special gun to shoot rope
to one ship so officers could pull themselves over and bring the
fishermen back to shore, coast guard spokesman Ko Chang-keon said.Eighteen fishermen survived. The coast guard rescued 12, and the others swam or were washed ashore.South Korea issued a storm warning for the capital, Seoul, as Bolaven
battered the country's south and west, knocking over street lights and
church spires and ripping signs from stores. A large container box
crushed an apartment janitor to death, a woman fell to her death from a
rooftop where she kept dried red peppers and another person died after
bricks hit a house, according to disaster and fire officials. An
80-year-old man died after a small makeshift building fell on him,
officials said.Strong wind gusts left Seoul streets covered with
leaves, garbage and branches. More than 15,000 schools canceled classes,
and businesses and homes taped windows or pasted the glass with wet
newspapers to keep them from shattering.About 1.7 million South
Korean homes and businesses lost power, the National Emergency
Management Agency said, though all but about 200,000 had electricity
restored by Tuesday evening.More than 80 families were left
homeless because of floods or storm damage. Nearly 200 flights were
canceled, 860 hectares (2,130 acres) of farmland were flooded and 32
ships were damaged, the agency said in a statement.In Pyongyang,
Associated Press cameras captured cars splashing through slightly
flooded streets, spraying people on crowded sidewalks who scrambled to
avoid the water. Residents appeared to be going about their daily lives,
though many wore rain boots and jackets, angling their umbrellas to
fight the wind and rain.The bad weather came on North Korea's first Youth Day since new leader Kim Jong Un took over in December.Big rainstorms often mean catastrophe in the North
because of poor drainage, deforestation and decrepit infrastructure.
North Korea is still trying to help people with food, shelter, health
care and clean water after heavy flooding in July, according to a recent
United Nations situation report. More than 170 died nationwide, and
tens of thousands of homes were destroyed in the floods, according to
official North Korean accounts.Many flood victims still live in
tents with limited access to water and other basic facilities, the U.N.
report said, and there is worry about increased malnutrition in coming
weeks. Two South Korean aid groups had been scheduled to visit the North
Korean city of Kaesong for talks Wednesday on flood aid, but the North
on Tuesday canceled the meeting, according to aid group officials. One
of the groups said the North cited strained ties between the two Koreas.Weather
officials had warned that Bolaven would be the strongest typhoon to hit
the region in several years, but its gusts weren't as powerful as
predicted.The typhoon hit the southern Japanese island of Okinawa
on Monday, injuring four people but doing less damage than feared
before moving off to sea. More than 75,000 households lost power.Farther south, another typhoon, Tembin, doubled back and hit Taiwan
three days after drenching the same region before blowing out to sea.
Fierce winds and rain toppled coconut trees in the beach resort town of
Hengchun.In Manila, the
Philippine weather agency reissued typhoon warnings to residents and
fishermen for Tembin, which blew out of the archipelago over the
weekend. Fishing boats in the north were urged not to venture out to sea
while larger ships were warned of possible big waves and heavy rains.___Associated
Press writers Hye Soo Nah, Foster Klug and Sam Kim in Seoul, and Annie
Huang in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this report.
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Warplane attacks on Damascus suburbs kill 60: activists
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Oliver Holmes | Reuters – 13 hrs ago AUG 28,12
AMMAN/ALEPPO (Reuters) - Syrian
fighter planes made rare sorties on the outskirts of the capital
Damascus, killing at least 60 people in its
eastern suburbs, the same day a Syrian military helicopter crashed while under rebel fire, activists said.They said aerial
attacks by at least two fighter planes late on Monday had targeted the
neighborhood of Zemalka and the more easterly suburb of Saqba where
Free Syrian Army fighters had attacked and overrun several army roadblocks earlier in the day.Both suburbs are poor and inhabited predominantly by Sunni Muslims, who make up the majority of
Syria's population and have been at the forefront of fighting against President Bashar al-Assad.
Video footage
seen by a Reuters reporter of the aftermath of an attack by one of the
planes firing rockets at an apartment building showed people running
away with their children and the six-storey building collapsed like an
accordion.Syrian authorities have banned entry to most foreign
media, making it impossible to verify accounts by activists and
residents of activity in the capital.The focus of the 17-month struggle appears to have
returned to the outskirts of the capital after weeks of battles centered
on the northern city of Aleppo.
Opposition activists
said earlier at least 62 people had been killed in an assault on
suburbs of Damascus on Monday, some summarily executed, a day after they
accused Assad's troops and sectarian militia of massacring hundreds of
people in the neighboring town of Daraya.At the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
condemned the Daraya killings as "an appalling and brutal crime" that
should be independently investigated immediately.
Egypt's new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, preparing
to make his debut on the stage of world diplomacy, called on Monday for
Assad's allies to help lever the Syrian leader out of power."Now is the time to stop this bloodshed and for the
Syrian people to regain their full rights and for this regime that kills
its people to disappear from the scene," Mursi told Reuters in his
first interview with an international news organization before embarking
on a trip to China and Iran."There is no room to talk about reform, but the discussion is about change," Mursi said.
HELICOPTER DOWN IN CAPITAL
Syria's state television confirmed a
helicopter
had crashed in Damascus on Monday but gave no details. Opposition
activists said rebels had shot it down; opposition video footage showed a
crippled aircraft burning up and crashing into a built-up area, sending
up a pillar of oily black smoke.The possible shooting down of the helicopter, the
latest of several such successes claimed by lightly armed rebel
fighters, bolstered morale in their 17-month struggle battle to bring
down Assad. However, even more intense army bombardments followed the
helicopter crash, witnesses said."It was flying over the eastern part of the city and
firing all morning," an activist calling himself Abu Bakr told Reuters
from near where the helicopter came down in the eastern suburbs. "The
rebels had been trying to hit it for about an hour," he said. "Finally
they did."Video footage carried the sound of people celebrating
the helicopter's dive with shouts of "Allahu akbar" (God is great).Although rebel commanders have asked foreign
governments for anti-aircraft missiles, Western nations are unwilling to
supply such weapons for fear of them falling into hostile hands. There
was no indication fighters in Damascus had used any missiles.Later footage showed a fighter jet swooping on a
built-up area. An explosion is heard and a voice says: "It is firing
rockets." Activists said it had struck targets on the eastern outskirts
of the capital."This is the first time a warplane strikes the edges of
Damascus," a Damascus-based activist told Reuters by Skype. "This plane
was swooping over the area all afternoon."
Activists said that at least two fighter planes had caused the casualties in the eastern suburbs."The 60 casualties were recorded in Zemalka and there
were many dead as well in Saqba but their numbers could not be
ascertained," said Osama al-Dimashqi, an activist speaking from Zemalka
and giving an alias for fear of reprisals."Most of those killed were civilians and the Free Syrian Army had attacked the roadblocks then left," he said.
"SUMMARY EXECUTIONS"
Activists said 11 of Monday's dead were killed in the
district of Jobar, where the helicopter came down. Five of the Jobar
victims had been captured and summarily executed by security forces, and
the others died when their homes were hit.Army helicopters had been rocketing and strafing
crowded working class suburbs on the eastern outskirts of the city since
Sunday. "The sound of gunfire and mortar shells exploding hasn't
stopped," an opposition activist, Samir al-Shami, said from the area. "I
see smoke rising everywhere."
Video from campaigners showed 20 bodies on the floor of a mosque, including three children.On Sunday, opposition activists
said they had found about 320 bodies, including some of women and
children, in Daraya, just southwest of Damascus. Most had been killed
execution-style, they said. Videos on the Internet showed rows of bodies
wrapped in sheets. Most seemed to be young men, but at least one video
showed several children who appeared to have been shot in the head. The
body of one toddler was soaked in blood.
At the United Nations, Ban demanded an investigation."The secretary-general is certainly shocked by those
reports and he strongly condemns this appalling and brutal crime," Ban's
spokesman Martin Nesirky said. "This needs to be investigated
immediately, in an independent and impartial fashion."
HIGHEST DAILY TOLL
The uprising, which
began as peaceful protests, has become a civil war. U.N. investigators
have accused both sides of war crimes but laid more blame on government
troops and pro-government militia than on the rebels.In Paris, French President Francois Hollande warned
Assad that any use of chemical weapons would be a legitimate
justification for military intervention. The United States and Britain
have made similar warnings."With our partners we remain very vigilant regarding
preventing the use of chemical weapons, which for the international
community would be a legitimate reason for direct intervention,"
Hollande said in a speech.Clashes are raging across Syria as the rebellion grows
increasingly bloody, particularly in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city and
its economic hub, where the army and rebels appear stuck in a war of
attrition.
(Writing by Michael Roddy; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
17 Afghans beheaded in insurgent attack on party
By HEIDI VOGT and MIRWAIS KHAN | Associated Press – Mon, Aug 27, 2012
KABUL,
Afghanistan
(AP) — Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of
southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party
that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants,
officials said Monday.The killings, in a district where
U.S. Marines have battled
the Taliban for years, were a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south — particularly as
international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces.The
victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in
Helmand province's Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music
and dancing, said district government chief
Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event.All
of the bodies were decapitated but it was not clear if they had been
shot first, said provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi.Information
was only trickling out slowly because the area where the killings
occurred is largely Taliban controlled, Khan said. The Taliban spokesman
for southern Afghanistan could not be reached for comment.Many
Afghans and international observers have expressed worries that the
Taliban's brutal interpretation of Islamic justice will return as
international forces withdraw. Under the Taliban, who ruled the country
from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned as un-Islamic, and
women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member
as an escort.Helmand is one of the areas seeing the largest
reduction in U.S. troops, as the force increase ordered up by President
Barack Obama departs. The U.S. started drawing down forces from a peak
of nearly 103,000 last year, and plans to have decreased to 68,000
troops in country by October.
One of the most worrying trends to
accompany the drawdown has been a surge in attacks by Afghan forces
against their international allies, and another shooting came on Monday
morning, though it appeared to be accidental.Two American
soldiers were shot and killed by one of their Afghan colleagues in the
east, military officials said, bringing to 12 the number of
international troops — all Americans — to die at the hands of their
local allies this month.But Afghan officials said Monday's attack
in Laghman province was a separate case from the rash of recent insider
attacks on international forces, because it appeared to have been
unintentional.The incident unfolded when a group of U.S. and
Afghan soldiers came under attack, said Noman Hatefi, a spokesman for
the Afghan army corps in eastern Afghanistan. When the troops returned
fire and ran to take up fighting positions, an Afghan soldier fell and
accidentally discharged his weapon, killing two American soldiers with
the stray bullets, he said."He didn't do this intentionally. But
then the commander of the (Afghan) unit started shouting at him, 'What
did you do? You killed two NATO soldiers!' And so he threw down his
weapon and started to run," Hatefi added. The U.S. troops had already
called in air support to help with the insurgent attack and the aircraft
fired on the escaping soldier from above, killing him, Hatefi said.NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Hagen Messer of
Germany
confirmed that two international soldiers were killed by an Afghan
soldier in Laghman province, but declined to give further comment.Insider
attacks have been a problem for the U.S.-led military coalition for
years, but it has exploded recently into a crisis. There have been at
least 33 such attacks so far this year, killing 42 coalition members,
mostly Americans. Last year there were 21 attacks, killing 35; and in
2010 there were 11 attacks with 20 deaths.The chief spokesman for
NATO forces in the country said coalition forces were not pulling back
from collaborating with the Afghans because of the attacks."We
are not going to reduce the close relationship with our Afghan
partners," Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz told reporters in the capital.Taliban
spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said that he could not confirm any link
between the attacker in Monday's shooting and the insurgency. In
previous insider attacks, the Taliban have quickly claimed
responsibility and named the assailants. Mujahid did not comment on the
other attacks in the south, which is watched over by a different Taliban
spokesman.Meanwhile, Helmand officials reported that 10 Afghan
soldiers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the south, and five
were either kidnapped or joined their assailants.Ahmadi, the
provincial spokesman, said insurgents attacked the checkpoint in Washir
district Sunday evening. Another four soldiers were wounded he said. The
Afghan Defense Ministry said the checkpoint was attacked by more than
100 insurgents.Ahmadi said the five missing soldiers left with the insurgents but it was unclear if they were kidnapped or went voluntarily.____
Khan
reported from Kandahar, Afghanistan. Associated Press writers Amir Shah
and Rahim Faiez contributed to this report in Kabul.
