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MAN BEHEADS CO-WORKER AT OKLAHOMA PLANT

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Stephen Harper confident of success as final EU trade deal released-CBC – sept 26,14-yahoonews

The final text of Canada's new trade deal with the European Union has been released."Now we will be playing in the big leagues," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, adding that Canada will have one of the greatest trading networks in the world when the EU deal is added to Canada's existing free trade agreements.Harper hosted Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, and Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, for wide-ranging talks on Parliament Hill Friday. He thanked both men for their "unshakable friendship."The summit discussions Friday also included shared concerns like the conflicts in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq. But the main event was a photo opportunity to mark the successful conclusion of negotiations.Von Rompuy said that the new trade deal and a strategic partnership agreement that accompanies it add "new levels of depth of understanding" to the Canada-EU relationship, and are the "embodiment of a much larger bond."Barroso pointed out that Canada is the first G7 country to sign a trade deal with the European Union. He called it "the most advanced agreement in the world today when it comes to market integration.""It has not always been easy. Let me tell you that Canadian negotiators are strong and determined," Barroso said, adding that the final deal was worth waiting for.

Ratification not guaranteed

The final text of the agreement was posted on the Canadian government's website on Friday morning.
Talks concluded in August, but the final agreement was not made public because officials said it needed to be translated and checked by lawyers.Barroso's presidency ends within days. This trade agreement is the EU's second under his leadership. (The first, with South Korea in 2011, is still being ratified in parliaments across Europe.) A "joint declaration" was signed by the three leaders on Friday to confirm the final text. A release from the European Union confirmed that the agreement will now be sent to the European Council for authorization for signature to confer its approval.The next step, the release says, will be the consent vote in the European Parliament, and "if necessary the approval of the parliaments of the member states."The European Commission under Barroso's leadership has said that such member state votes were not necessary. But the incoming president, Jean-Claude Juncker, has a different view.

Barroso, Harper confident

Opponents say there is significant opposition in Germany as well as France, Italy, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg.Barroso commented on reports that Germany would not sign by saying that "Germany would benefit the most" from the deal."It's quite obvious," he said, while adding that he respects that not everyone likes it."We are used to having different opinions," he said, adding that he had "no doubt" that it would be endorsed by all member states.Harper said he expected that some people would want some "small things" changed or would "want more money," but that the agreement has the support of all the member countries of Europe and all the provinces in Canada.A tight vote is expected at the European Parliament.In Canada, the agreement will be voted on in the House of Commons and Quebec's National Assembly, with other provincial cabinets also signing off. It's expected to pass with broad support.After a working lunch in Ottawa, the leaders will head to Toronto to promote the trade deal at an event with business leaders from Canadian and European companies.

O'Hare International Airport, Chicago Midway airports re-open air traffic after fire-CBC – SEPT 26,14-YAHOONEWS

All flights in and out of Chicago's two airports were halted for hours on Friday because of a fire at a suburban Chicago air traffic control facility intentionally set by a contract employee, police said. The ground stop sent delays and cancellations rippling throughout the air travel network, as more than 850 flights have already been cancelled in Chicago and more are expected.United and Air Canada flights from Chicago to Toronto were cancelled Friday morning, as well as from Chicago to Vancouver, while WestJet flights were listed as delayed. At Noon ET, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said flights had begun leaving and arriving at O'Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport in Chicago, but at a reduced rate. Authorities said the blaze was intentionally set by a contract employee of the Federal Aviation Administration and had no ties to terrorism.The early morning fire forced the evacuation of the control centre in Aurora, Ill., about 64 kilometres west of downtown Chicago. Emergency crews found the man suspected of setting the fire in the basement, where the blaze began, with a self-inflicted wound. He was taken to a hospital.Aurora Police Chief Gregory Thomas said the fire was not a terrorist act. The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and local police and fire departments were investigating.When the centre was evacuated, management of the region's airspace was transferred to other facilities, according to FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Cory.Aurora spokesman Dan Ferrelli gave no details on the suspect's injury, but said in an emailed statement that it was not from a gunshot.

Gaping hole in nation's air traffic

Another employee of the facility was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. The flames were extinguished by 7 a.m., according to Ferrelli's email.Online radar images showed a gaping hole in the nation's air traffic map over the upper Midwest.At O'Hare's Terminal 3, long lines formed at ticket counters as airlines continued to check in passengers.Waiting by an American Airlines counter, Jon Sciarrini said his homebound flight to Dallas had been delayed, and he didn't know whether he should wait or try to arrange another flight."It's pretty frustrating — a little like being in purgatory," the IT specialist said.It was the second time since May that a problem at one of the Chicago area's major control facilities prompted a ground stop at O'Hare and Midway international airports.In May, an electrical problem forced the evacuation of a regional radar facility in suburban Elgin. A bathroom exhaust fan overheated and melted insulation on some wires, sending smoke through the facility's ventilation system and into the control room.That site was evacuated for three hours, and more than 1,100 flights were cancelled.The Aurora facility, known as an enroute center, handles aircraft flying at high altitudes, including those approaching or leaving Chicago airports. Air traffic closer to the airports is handled by a different facility and by the control towers located at the airfields.A computer glitch at a similar facility on the West Coast in April forced a 45-minute shutdown at Los Angeles International Airport.

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

09/26/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Francis and opposition in the Church-Francis and the opposition that exists within the Church-Fr. Spadaro says Pope Francis is a leader and is also capable of taking difficult decisions. Organised opposition does exist within the Church-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-The arrest of former nuncio Józef Wesolowski in the Vatican three days ago (Wesolowski had already resigned from the clerical state after being accused of sexually abusing minors) and the replacement of Paraguayan bishop Rogelio Livieres (who was sacked for causing division in the Church after he accused other Paraguayan bishops of not nurturing doctrinal orthodoxy) gave the impression that things are speeding up ahead of the Synod on the Family in the coming weeks. The severity – as per the code of law – shown towards the former Polish archbishop sent out a strong message: that the days where impunity and cover-ups were the norm, have now come to an end. Wesolowski’s arrest is the final step on a path courageously begun by Benedict XVI, who sacked hundreds of priests and quite a number of bishops during his pontificate.“Francis is a leader and is able to take difficult decisions,” Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor-in-chief of Jesuit periodical La Civiltà Cattolica told Italian daily La Stampa. “But,” he added, “Pope Francis knows when it is important to do justice and act according to the law in cases such as that of Santo Domingo’s former nuncio.”Straight after his election, having taken on board all that was said during the general congregations held prior to the conclave, Francis immediately set to reforming the Curia. Because of the inquiries that were being carried out by the Italian magistrates, he was forced to start with the Vatican’s finances. The process was slow and cumbersome and the aim was to make it harder for certain past scenarios to be repeated. But more than the structural reforms he has planned or already begun, it is his personal testimony as pastor and the words he pronounces every day that are calling into question certain dynamics within the clergy which are disfiguring the Church. Like an illness that manifests itself in the games played by cliques that form within the Church, in careerism, in the not-always-so-transparent relations with politics, in excessive bureaucracy and structures which transform into clots of self-referential power, losing sight of the real purpose of their existence: serving the people of God.The powerful effects of the outcome of the 2013 Conclave are clear for everyone to see: Masses of people around the world fondly and carefully listen to the word and message of a Pope who has reignited people’s hopes after the years of scandals and court-like intrigues, which Benedict XVI went through. There are currents of opposition in the Church, some are more prominent or more structured than others. They use their alliances with certain media circles to try to discredit anything the Pope says or does, throwing the stone and then hiding their hands in their tunic pockets so to speak. This opposition does not accept Francis’ election and seeks to squeeze him into the comfortable framework of polarization between liberals and conservatives, an ideology-oriented framework which has helped many build prestigious ecclesiastical careers and is wrong. There have been numerous attempts to impose this way of thinking. The recent nomination of the new Archbishop of Chicago, Blasé Joseph Cupich, an outsider, is a case in point. Cupich is a pastor who cares a lot about social issues, he is a man of dialogue who does not focus only on speaking out against same-sex marriages and has the capacity to speak without barking.“Francis does not have a rigid and abstract plan to implement in the Church,” Fr. Spadaro said. “The upcoming Synod illustrates this: he wants people to walk together and freely exchange different experiences and sensitivities in the appropriate place, which is the Synodal Assembly. It is wrong to interpret Francis’ words and decisions according to the old framework of division between liberals and conservatives. If there is one message he does not tire of stressing, it is that which he pronounced in his homily at St. Martha’s House the other day: all you need to do is listen to the Word of God and put it into practice. Of course doing this for real can be destabilizing…” Francis’ is not presenting us with a pre-engineered plan. His outlook is based on intimacy with the mystery of the Church, with the Gospel and with the most authentic tradition. In this outlook, there is certainly no room for bureaucrat bishops who are out of touch with the people, attached to their privileged lifestyles, obsessed with certain specific issues and incapable of being close to men and women just as they are and not as they would like them to be.

WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)

EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS 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 (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) 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(ISM), 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,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

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.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

Police: Woman killed at Oklahoma processing plant beheaded by co-worker who had been fired-The Canadian Press By The Associated Press | SEPT 26,14-YAHOONEWS

MOORE, Okla. - Police said Friday a man recently fired from a food processing plant in an Oklahoma City suburb beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by the owner of the company.The 30-year-old man, who has not been charged, stabbed Colleen Hufford, 54, severing her head in Thursday's attack at Vaughan Foods, Moore Police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis said.Lewis said the man then stabbed Traci Johnson, 43, a number of times before being shot by Mark Vaughan, a reserve sheriff's deputy and the company's chief operating officer."This was not going to stop if he didn't stop it. It could have gotten a lot worse," Lewis said.Lewis said the suspect had been fired in a building that houses the company's human resources office, then immediately drove to the entrance of the business.The man attacked Hufford with a knife, severing her head and killing her, then stabbed Johnson until being shot by Vaughan.Lewis said he didn't know why the man was fired.A Vaughan spokeswoman said the company was "shocked and deeply saddened" by the attack.Johnson and the suspect are in stable condition Friday at hospitals, Lewis said.Moore police have asked the FBI to aid in the investigation and look into the man's background because of the nature of the attack, Lewis said.

EU says No to Russia on rewriting Ukraine pact-Today @ 16:26-SEPT 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - EU countries are planning to tell Russia it has no say on changing the Ukraine trade treaty despite its demand to rewrite the text.The joint declaration, by the EU Council and European Commission, is to say the trade pact: “is a bilateral [EU-Ukraine] agreement and any adaptations to it can only be made at the request of one of the parties and with the agreement of the other”.It notes Ukraine should “continue the process of envisaged reforms and economic modernisation” related to Titles III, V, VI and VII, of the pact.It also says Ukraine should go ahead with “adequate preparation for the implementation of Title IV”.Titles III, V, VI, and VII of the pact spell out reforms in the areas of justice and security, economic affairs, financial and anti-fraud matters, and institution-building.Title IV deals with trade and the mutual lifting of tariffs on EU and Ukrainian exports.The EU declaration is to be published in Brussels on Monday (29 September) by ministers at general affairs council.Ministers will the same day adopt a legal act saying the bulk of the treaty is to be implemented “without delay”, but that article IV is to be implemented on 1 January 2016.EU countries are also planning to extend “autonomous trade measures” - low or zero-rate tariffs for exports of most Ukrainian goods to Europe - from November until January 2016. But the legal text is not yet ready for adoption.The delay of Title IV is in line with an EU-Russia-Ukraine deal on 12 September.It comes after Russia threatened to impose trade sanctions on Ukraine on grounds it will be flooded by cheap EU goods re-exported from Ukraine.The declaration on the “bilateral” mechanism for altering the treaty comes after Russia also demanded a role in altering the content of the text in the run-up to 2016.Russian trade minister Alexey Ulyukaev said in a letter to trade commissioner Karl De Gucht on 15 September the EU-Ukraine-Russia “Trilateral Group” should have a “mandate ... allowing for legally binding formulas to remove the concerns of the Russian side”.With the EU declaration urging Ukraine to press ahead with Title IV-type preparations, Ulyukaev warned that “full or partial implementation” of the treaty by Ukraine before 2016 will see Russia “adjust … the preferential regime” on Ukraine imports.Russian president Vladimir Putin made the same point in a second letter to EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso this week.What if 1,000 people freeze? Monday’s EU declaration notes that Russia can have no say on the content of the treaty because of “the right of Ukraine to decide on its destiny”.EU sources did not exclude that Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko could come under pressure from Russia to initiate changes even if he does not want to, however.The Russia-Ukraine ceasefire is, for the most part, holding.But EU-mediated talks on Russia’s decision to halt gas supplies to Ukraine might not yield an accord before the winter.“If 1,000 people freeze to death in their homes, then Poroshenko will certainly feel the pressure to make further concessions”, one EU diplomat told this website.Another EU source said there is a chance Putin will use Ukraine’s implementation of Title V reforms or its “preparations” for Title IV implementation to impose trade sanctions anyway.“One cannot predict what his mind will produce”, the source said.“Even the extension of the EU’s autonomous trade measures could be seen as a threat by Russia because it's a chance for Ukraine to find new [non-Russian] markets for its goods. Ukraine exports to the EU already went up by 25 percent in the past few months since the measures were put in place”.

Sanctions roll-back

EU countries’ ambassadors will next Tuesday also meet to discuss if the ceasefire merits a roll-back of EU economic sanctions on Russia.The review was requested by anti-sanctions states including Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia. But the roll-back would require a consensus by the EU 28.“Russian soldiers are still on Ukrainian territory and Ukraine still has no control over its eastern border with Russia so there is no appetite to make such a move, not just in, say, Lithuania, but also in big member states, such as Germany”, an EU source said.

Russia threatens EU states with gas cut-offs-Today @ 09:40-SEPT 26,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - Russian energy minister Alexander Novak has warned that EU states which re-export gas to Ukraine will face cut-offs, with Hungary already stopping its reverse flow.Novak spoke in German daily Handelsblatt on Friday (26 September) morning ahead of talks in Berlin later the same day between the European Commission and Russian and Ukrainian energy officials."The contracts signed [between Russia and EU clients] do not have any provisions for re-exports … We hope that our European partners respect the past agreements. That is the only way to guarantee uninterrupted supplies”, he said.Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia earlier this year began shipping Russian gas to Ukraine in order to help it cope in winter after Russia stopped supplying Ukraine in a price dispute which is bogged down in legal arbitration.Earlier this month, Russian gas flows to Poland temporarily dropped by 45 percent and to Slovakia by 10 percent in what was blamed on technical reasons.For its part, Hungarian gas distributor FGSZ on Thursday said it will no longer supply Ukraine “until further notice” also due to “technical reasons” linked to increased demand at home.But Ukraine transit firm Naftogaz said in a statement the decision is political and comes after the CEO of Russian gas firm Gazprom, Alexei Miller, met with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban on Monday.“Neither EU countries nor Ukraine should be put under political pressure through energy blackmail”, it said in a note to press. “Naftogaz is committed to being a reliable partner and vital transit hub for Russian gas to the EU. In return, Naftogaz expects its European partners and neighbours to respect their contractual obligations”.Ukrainian PM Arseny Yatseniuk told Reuters: “They want us to freeze. This is the aim and this is another trump card in Russian hands".The commission hopes the Berlin meeting will see Russia and Ukraine agree to an interim gas price to restart supplies during the cold weather.But two recent EU-brokered deals, on a ceasefire in east Ukraine and on EU-Ukraine free trade, have attracted criticism.The ceasefire, agreed on 5 September, has seen Ukraine pass laws to let pro-Russia rebels stay in place in Donetsk and Luhansk and to create a buffer zone between the two forces.Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told press in Kiev on Thursday that the “most dangerous part of the war is over” and unveiled a reform plan designed to prepare Ukraine to apply for EU membership in 2020.EU countries’ ambassadors will next week in Brussels discuss whether Russia has done enough to merit rolling back EU sanctions.But speaking to the Washington Post in an interview on the margins of the UN assembly in New York on Thursday, Lithuanian leader Dalia Grybauskaite, said: “The Europeans and other countries asked Poroshenko to agree to conditions that were unacceptable because [they amounted to a partition] of Ukrainian territory”.She added: “If we will be too soft with our sanctions or adapt sanctions but not implement them, I think he [Russian leader Vladimir Putin] will go further trying to unite east Ukraine with south Ukraine and Crimea”.The EU-brokered trade deal has also seen Ukraine promise to freeze implementation of a landmark free trade pact until 2016.But Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said in a letter to the EU commission, seen by Reuters, that he will impose trade sanctions on Ukraine if it starts to make any pro-EU economic reforms in the next 15 months.He added that the substance of the trade treaty must be modified to meet Russian demands.“We still believe that only systemic adjustments of the association agreement, which take into account the full range of risks to Russian-Ukrainian economic ties and to the whole Russian economy arising from implementation of the agreement, will allow [us] to retain existing trade and economic considerations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine”, he said.

Taliban behead 12 people in remote Afghan province-Associated Press-By AMIR SHAH and MIRWAIS KHAN-SEPT 26,14-YAHOONEWS

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban beheaded 12 Afghan civilians, mostly family members of local policemen, in an assault that was part of a week-long offensive that has so far killed 60 people and wounded scores in a remote province in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.However, a Taliban spokesman in Ghazni province denied the reports of beheadings and civilian slayings, insisting the insurgents were only fighting Afghan forces there.The violence comes amid the annual Taliban offensive, which this year will be an important gauge of how well Afghan government forces are able to face insurgent attacks ahead of the withdrawal of foreign combat troops at the end of the year.According to the Ghazni provincial deputy police chief, Asadullah Ensafi, the Taliban on Thursday night captured and beheaded 12 civilians and torched some 60 homes in an attack in the province's district of Arjistan.Details were sketchy because of the remoteness of the rugged mountainous area, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of the capital, Kabul, but Afghan officials said that women and children were believed to be among the casualties. There are no NATO troops stationed in the district.Beheadings are rare in Afghanistan, though they occasionally take place as part of the Taliban campaign to intimidate and exact revenge on the families of Afghan troops and security forces."We don't have the time for this (beheadings) while we are fighting," Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf told The Associated Press over the phone. "These reports are baseless and a lie."The offensive in Ghazni comes as Afghanistan readies to inaugurate the country's new president, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, who officially takes over from Hamid Karzai on Monday.Over the past week, the Taliban have been attacking several villages in Ghazni's Arjistan district, Ensafi said, and battles in the area were still raging Friday, he said.On Friday morning, the Taliban detonated a car bomb in front of an encampment where some 40 Afghan policemen were based in Arjistan, killing at least 8 policemen, said the province's deputy governor, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi.Ensafi said it was not immediately possible to reach the area to determine the exact number of casualties because the insurgents had mined the roads.Ahmadi, who also confirmed the beheadings, said that attack and the car bomb brought the overall death toll in the Taliban offensive in Ghazni to 60. The victims included both civilians and policemen, he said.Ahmadi said Afghan commandos have been airlifted from Kabul to the area to battle the Taliban and prevent the district from falling to the insurgents.In Kabul, Ghazni lawmaker Nafisa Azimi said the situation in the province remains very dangerous, adding that the Taliban have taken scores of civilians from Arjistan hostage.Yousaf, the Taliban spokesman, claimed the insurgents were in full control of Arjistan and that the government was trying to "save face" over its losses by accusing the Taliban with "false reports" of beheadings and civilian deaths.Fighting between insurgents and Afghan forces was also underway Friday in Gizab district in the southern province of Uruzgan, said Abdullah Khan, the district governor. He said the Taliban were now in control of almost 80 percent of that district and were trying to capture the governor's office there."I alerted superiors in Kabul but we have gotten no response so far," Khan said. "If we don't get reinforcements soon, we might lose the district."He said the situation in Sangin district in neighboring Helmand province was similar and that the Taliban there had also captured most of the district.There was no immediate comment on the fighting from the central government in Kabul.Each spring and summer bring an escalation in fighting in Afghanistan with the end of snowy winter weather, which hampers movement. The melting of the snows also opens up mountain passes, allowing militant forces to move in from neighboring Pakistan.The country's new president, Ghani Ahmadzai, is expected to sign a security agreement — perhaps as early as next week — that allows some 10,000 U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after all combat troops are withdrawn by the end of the year.A protracted dispute over the results of a June presidential runoff with allegations of widespread fraud had delayed the signing of the deal.But on Sunday, Ghani Ahmadzai and his rival for the post, Abdullah Abdullah, signed a power-sharing deal after Afghanistan's election commission named Ghani Ahmadzai the winner of the election and noted that Abdullah would fill the newly created position of chief executive, a post akin to prime minister.___Khan reported from Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Turkey's Erdogan calls for no-fly zone in Syria-Associated Press-SEPT 26,14-YAHOONEWS

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that a "no-fly zone" should be created in Syria to protect part of it from attacks by Syria's air force.In his comments to reporters on his return from the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Erdogan did not specify where such a zone should be located. But Turkey is eager to re-focus the world's attention on removing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime from power as well as fighting the Islamic State militants who are battling Kurdish forces just over the border in Syria, triggering a refugee influx into Turkey."A no-fly zone must be declared and this no fly-zone must be secured," Erdogan said, adding that he had discussed the issue with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.In addition, Erdogan said a "secure area" should be created on the Syrian side of the Turkish border, where tens of thousands of Syrians have fled the fighting as refugees. Turkey could probably protect such an area with its artillery.Erdogan also reiterated that Turkey is considering how to support the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. In New York, Erdogan told Turkish reporters that Turkey's involvement could include its military.Previously Turkey had been coy about whether it would contribute to the coalition, citing the safety of 49 people who had been kidnapped by the militants from the Turkish Consulate in Mosul, Iraq, in June. But the hostages were freed last weekend, prompting the U.S. to press Turkey to contribute to the coalition."Our 49 citizens were hostages. But now the conditions have changed. The process as of now will be different," Erdogan said Friday, without elaborating.He said the Islamic militants were casting a shadow over Islam."As Muslims, we have to do all that we can," Erdogan said.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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

Rains bring big gains on Northern California wildfire, far fewer homes threatened-The Canadian Press By The Associated Press | SEPT 26,14-YAHOONEWS

PLACERVILLE, Calif. - Helpful rains and more than 8,000 firefighters brought solid advances against a huge wildfire in Northern California as evacuations dwindled and the number of threatened homes was reduced from thousands to just a few hundred.Calls for evacuation in two communities were reduced from mandatory to voluntary, leaving just one neighbourhood under strict evacuation orders, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. It wasn't immediately clear how many people remained away from their homes.The rains had brought fears of flooding and dangerous conditions in the King Fire's huge burn area east of Sacramento, but they remained light and helpful to the firefight. A flash flood warning in effect for several hours was called off in early evening.By Wednesday evening, state fire officials said fewer than 300 structures were still threatened. They put the figure at 12,000 when the day started.The blaze was 55 per cent contained — up from 43 per cent at the beginning of the day — and showed no growth after burning almost 150 square miles and destroying a dozen homes near the town of Pollock Pines."The rain is definitely allowing the firefighters to make progress on containment," said Dana Welsh, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service.Large areas of the fire remain uncontained, so the blaze could still spread when the rain stops, Welsh added.Forecasters say more rain could come on the weekend, and fears remained that it could lead to mudslides and slippery roads that could make firefighting more dangerous, Welsh said.Wayne Allen Huntsman, 37, has been charged with starting the fire. He has pleaded not guilty to arson and remains in jail on $10 million bail The fire has become the second priciest blaze in California this year, costing more than $50 million to fight since it began nearly two weeks ago. The state spent more than $85 million fighting a fire in Klamath National Forest along the California-Oregon border.The blaze is one of nearly 5,000 wildfires in California this year, a 26 per cent increase compared with an average year of about 3,900.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
60 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-09-26 13:34:04 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)60 earthquakes in map area

    4.9 105km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-09-26 12:49:30 UTC-04:00 6.8 km
    2.5 8km SW of Napa, California 2014-09-26 12:38:42 UTC-04:00 8.0 km
    5.0 6km S of Gigmoto, Philippines 2014-09-26 12:16:03 UTC-04:00 54.0 km
    2.7 82km NE of Nikolski, Alaska 2014-09-26 11:00:57 UTC-04:00 137.2 km
    3.2 155km NW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2014-09-26 10:55:48 UTC-04:00 7.9 km
    2.7 8km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 10:23:34 UTC-04:00 9.0 km
    2.6 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 10:23:28 UTC-04:00 5.5 km
    2.6 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 09:48:50 UTC-04:00 5.6 km
    3.2 14km WSW of Pawnee, Oklahoma 2014-09-26 09:27:38 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    3.6 92km W of Willow, Alaska 2014-09-26 08:09:18 UTC-04:00 97.7 km
    4.7 78km NNW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-09-26 06:21:42 UTC-04:00 670.2 km
    3.0 30km NE of Y, Alaska 2014-09-26 05:20:40 UTC-04:00 28.1 km
    3.1 69km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-09-26 05:05:15 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    2.8 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 04:49:59 UTC-04:00 7.3 km
    2.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 04:33:39 UTC-04:00 4.4 km
    2.6 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 04:12:15 UTC-04:00 6.5 km
    4.2 99km WNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-09-26 04:02:28 UTC-04:00 17.4 km
    4.4 84km S of Pirgos, Greece 2014-09-26 03:51:19 UTC-04:00 9.2 km
    2.9 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 03:13:52 UTC-04:00 6.5 km
    3.0 21km NE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 02:30:23 UTC-04:00 6.8 km
    2.8 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 02:30:22 UTC-04:00 6.0 km
    2.6 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 02:05:55 UTC-04:00 7.1 km
    2.8 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 01:58:30 UTC-04:00 7.8 km
    2.8 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 01:58:24 UTC-04:00 7.0 km
    3.1 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 01:46:24 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
    4.6 57km N of Hihifo, Tonga 2014-09-26 01:04:44 UTC-04:00 37.5 km
    2.6 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:28:23 UTC-04:00 4.4 km
    2.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:28:23 UTC-04:00 5.7 km
    2.9 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:25:32 UTC-04:00 5.8 km
    2.7 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:22:42 UTC-04:00 5.7 km
    5.4 285km ENE of Port Blair, India 2014-09-26 00:21:24 UTC-04:00 23.6 km
    3.8 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:21:19 UTC-04:00 5.5 km
    2.9 13km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:17:00 UTC-04:00 7.2 km
    2.9 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:16:57 UTC-04:00 6.6 km
    2.7 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-26 00:02:05 UTC-04:00 5.8 km
    5.3 41km NW of Lae, Papua New Guinea 2014-09-25 23:55:34 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
    2.8 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 23:55:20 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
    3.2 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 23:54:58 UTC-04:00 5.8 km
    2.7 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 23:34:49 UTC-04:00 6.8 km
    3.5 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 23:32:45 UTC-04:00 6.0 km
    2.6 50km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-09-25 23:26:45 UTC-04:00 49.0 km
    2.9 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 20:52:07 UTC-04:00 5.6 km
    2.6 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 20:48:38 UTC-04:00 6.8 km
    2.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 20:44:47 UTC-04:00 6.5 km
    2.9 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 20:44:43 UTC-04:00 6.5 km
    3.2 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 20:30:09 UTC-04:00 6.6 km
    3.2 83km W of Willow, Alaska 2014-09-25 20:29:06 UTC-04:00 92.2 km
    4.0 50km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan 2014-09-25 20:13:05 UTC-04:00 202.9 km
    2.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 19:56:04 UTC-04:00 6.6 km
    2.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 19:54:29 UTC-04:00 6.7 km
    2.8 11km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 19:54:22 UTC-04:00 5.7 km
    3.0 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 19:42:54 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
    2.8 17km SSE of Wetumka, Oklahoma 2014-09-25 18:43:18 UTC-04:00 1.6 km
    4.2 184km NNE of Dili, East Timor 2014-09-25 17:28:41 UTC-04:00 477.4 km
    2.6 17km W of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-09-25 16:12:36 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
    2.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 16:09:02 UTC-04:00 6.3 km
    2.9 10km E of Mammoth Lakes, California 2014-09-25 16:07:48 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
    3.0 60km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska 2014-09-25 15:59:52 UTC-04:00 157.9 km
    5.1 79km NNW of Visokoi Island, 2014-09-25 14:59:58 UTC-04:00 107.3 km
    6.2 94km WNW of Willow, Alaska 2014-09-25 13:51:17 UTC-04:00 102.8 km

Friday, September 26, 2014

FAST OF GEDALIAH-10 DAYS FROM ROSH HASHANA TO YOM KIPPUR

HAMAS-FATAH ANNOUNCE RETURN OF UNITY GOVERNMENT IN GAZA

KURDS SUSPECT TURKEY OF WORKING WITH ISIS

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

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)

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

NATIONS AGAINST THE WEST INCLUDING ISLAMIC LUNATICS ISIS

EZEKIEL 38:4-7
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: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE WEST

REVELATION 12:5-6,14
5 And she brought forth a man child,(MARY DID-JESUS WHO IS(JEWISH) who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman (MARY WHOS JEWISH REPRESENTING ISRAEL)fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.(3 1/2 YRS PROTECTED IN PETRA JORDAN)
14 And to the woman (ISRAEL) were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,(3 1/2 YRS) from the face of the serpent.(PROTECTED FOR 3 1/2 YRS IN PETRA JORDAN)

EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy (RUSSIAS) mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog,(RUSSIA-MUSLIMS) Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA) thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire (ATOMIC BOMB) of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Germany: We've never been so close to nuclear deal with Iran-Reuters-SEPT 25,14-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six world power have never been so close to a deal with Iran that would resolve the decade-long nuclear standoff once and for all, but the final phase of the negotiations will be the hardest, Germany's foreign minister said on Thursday."We have never been so close to a deal as now. But the truth is that the final phase of the talks that lay before us is probably the most difficult," Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters after meeting Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly."Now is the time to end this conflict. I hope that Iran ... in view of the situation in the world and the situation in the Middle East, knows and senses that a collapse of the talks now is not permissible."(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau. Editing by Jason Szep)

Kurds suspect Turkey of backing Islamic State-Some fear that Istanbul’s refusal to allow Kurdish fighters to help brethren in Syria could kill peace process-By Desmond Butler September 26, 2014, 4:09 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

SURUC, Turkey — Turkey and its Kurdish population — for decades in conflict — suddenly find themselves facing a common enemy in the Islamic State group. So it may reasonable to expect prospects for long elusive peace between Turkey and Kurdish rebels to improve.Instead, Kurds who are arriving by the busload to join the battle are increasingly angry at a wary Turkish government trying to prevent them from crossing the border to defend Syrian Kurds from an onslaught that has left countless dead and about 150,000 fleeing into Turkey in recent days.Kurdish leaders have warned that the discord could kill a peace process to end a bloody three-decade conflict over Kurdish autonomy in Turkey. Their followers go even further, accusing Turkey of supporting ISIS and using it to attack Kurds. Those claims persist despite Turkey’s participation in a coalition against the Islamic State group and suggestions this week by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Turkey may take part in military operations.On Thursday, about 1,000 Kurdish activists arrived at the border after a more than 750 mile (1,200 kilometer) overnight bus ride from Istanbul in response to a call for mass mobilization by the imprisoned leader of the PKK rebel group, Abdullah Ocalan.The activists held a rally chanting: “Down with the Islamic State and AKP partnership,” referring to Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, as black smoke and the sound of gunfire from the battle between Islamic State and Kurdish militants drifted over the border.Turkey vehemently denies it has supported ISIS, which until recently was holding dozens of its diplomatic staff hostage. Officials have also said in recent days that they remain committed to the peace process with Kurds in Turkey.But many Kurdish activists say they believe that Turkish intelligence trained the Islamic State group and provided it with the heavy weaponry that it is using in an offensive against Kurds in Iraq and Syria. Analysts say that the militants seized much of their heavy weaponry from garrisons, especially when they captured Mosul in Iraq in June.Activists who came to the border said they planned to camp there until Turkish authorities let them across. Some were prepared to join the fight to protect Kobani, a Syrian city just miles (kilometers) away that has been under siege by the Islamic State and emptied except for the Kurdish fighters protecting it.Ramziye Bozkurt, a 35-year-old woman, originally from Diyarbakir in Turkey’s Kurdish heartland, accused the Turkish government of ongoing support to the militants, saying that participation in the coalition “was just a show.”“The Islamic state has taken these villages and killed our people,” she said, gesturing at the smoking hilltop in the distance. “This is just a new way for Turkey to suppress the Kurds.”For Bozkurt and others, the ultimate evidence is that Turkey was preventing them from crossing the border to support the fighters.“If Turkey were not supporting the Islamic State, why wouldn’t they let us go?” she said.Turkish law bans people from going to war in a foreign country, but Turkey has tolerated other militants transiting its borders to fight the government of Bashar Assad. Despite Turkey’s efforts to stop them, many Syrian and Turkish Kurds have been finding ways to cross over to Kobani in recent days — and it’s not clear how robust Turkey’s efforts have been to block them.Ahmet, a 30-year-old man, who declined to give his last name for fear of repercussions, said that he had come on the orders of “Apo,” as Kurds refer to Ocalan, and would join the fight across the border.“We came here to die,” he said. He added that he wanted peace in Turkey, but that if Kobani fell, the peace process would be dead and violence could break out again in Turkey.Over the last week, the Islamic State offensive has taken the group to within miles (kilometers) of the city, but since coalition airstrikes began this week, Kurdish fighters and officials in the city say the attacks on their defenses have eased.Mesut Yegen, a sociologist at Istanbul Sehir University, who focuses on Turkish nationalism and Kurdish issues said airstrikes may have saved the peace process.“It is a highly likely that if the United States had not intervened and Kobani had fallen, the peace process could not have continued,” he said.

European powers focus on Islamic State at UN assembly-Today @ 09:28-SEPT 25,14-EUOBSERVER-By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - The fight against Islamic State (IS) took centre stage from the Ukraine war when European powers spoke at the UN general assembly in New York on Thursday (25 September).British PM David Cameron mentioned the word “Ukraine” just once in passing in his speech, while going on to say he will seek parliamentary approval to join France and the US in anti-IS air-strikes in Iraq.He noted: “I don’t believe this threat of Islamist extremism will best be solved by Western ground troops directly trying to pacify or reconstruct Middle Eastern or African countries”.But he said states should do more to combat extremist recruitment by “preachers”, as well as inside schools, prisons, and online.Both he and French leader Francois Hollande invited Iran, a one-time Western pariah, to join the anti-IS coalition. They also held bilateral meetings with the Iranian president in the margins of the UN event.Hollande's speech did not mention Ukraine at all.He denounced IS’ killing earlier the same day of French hostage Herve Gourdel.He noted that 1,000 French people are among the 15,000 foreign fighters in IS ranks. He said French jihadists will be stripped of their passports and that “terrorist propaganda” websites will be shut down.Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan also concentrated on the Middle East.He criticised the West for “double standards” on IS at the same time as its support for Israel despite Israel's killing of hundreds of civilians in Gaza.He said Islamophobia is just as toxic as anti-Semitism. He also said Europe, which has taken in 130,000 Syrian refugees, should do more, with Turkey now home to 1.5 million.For his part, the Spanish king spoke of the need for deeper EU integration and for Spanish to become an official UN language. Meanwhile, two of Russia’s neighbours - Estonia and Finland - as well as Ukraine itself did put the Ukraine-Russia war at the top of their agenda.Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves said: “It was not Ukraine's wish even to choose its security alliances [Nato membership] that was used as a justification for aggression. Its mere desire to enhance trade and political relations with the EU ... led to the country's dismemberment”.“ The international community cannot leave Crimea as it is now. We cannot accept frozen conflicts created for geopolitical ends”.Finnish head of state Sauli Niinisto, who recently met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and whose country is going ahead with a Russian-built nuclear plant, noted: “There can be only a political solution to the crisis. We have currently seen steps towards this, but a lot of work remains to be done”.Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yastenyuk said “Russian troops are [still] deployed in the east of Ukraine”.“We ask our partners not to lift sanctions until Ukraine takes over the control of its entire territory – starting with the east of Ukraine, and ending with Crimea. Crimea was, is, and will be a part of Ukraine”.But Swiss president Didier Burkhalter, who has tried to mediate between Kiev and Moscow, indicated that Russia should be brought in from the cold.He said its actions “demand a firm response”.But he added: “such a response must also be balanced, leaving room for dialogue and co-operation, so that an open discussion of existing differences remains possible. To simply isolate Russia from the rest of Europe will not solve any problems”.“Stability can be restored in Ukraine and in Europe if we succeed in resolving this crisis by working with Russia – not against it”.

French, U.S. planes strike Islamic State, Britain to join coalition-Reuters-By Arshad Mohammed and Tom Perry-SEPT 25,14-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK/BEIRUT (Reuters) - French fighter jets struck Islamic State targets in Iraq on Thursday, and the United States hit them in Syria, as a U.S.-led coalition to fight the militants gained momentum with an announcement that Britain would join.The French strikes were a prompt answer to the beheading of a French tourist in Algeria by militants, who said the killing was punishment for Paris' decision last week to become the first European country to join the U.S.-led bombing campaign.In the United States, FBI Director James Comey said Washington had identified the masked Islamic State militant in videos with a knife at the beheading of two American hostages in recent weeks. Those acts helped galvanize Washington's bombing campaign."I'm not going to tell you who I believe it is," Comey told reporters. He said he knew the person's nationality, but declined to give further details.A European government source familiar with the investigation said the accent indicated the man was from London and likely from a community of immigrants. U.S. and European officials said the principal investigative work identifying the man was conducted by British government agencies.Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, in New York to attend a U.N. meeting, said on Thursday he had credible intelligence that Islamic State networks in Iraq were plotting to attack U.S. and French subway trains.Senior U.S. officials and French security services said they had no evidence of the specific threat cited by Abadi. But New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said the department boosted its presence on subways and city streets after the Iraqi warning.City officials added there was no specific, credible threat, and Mayor Bill de Blasio said: "We are convinced New Yorkers are safe."Officials in Chicago and Washington, D.C., said they knew of no threats to their transit systems.Some Iraqi officials in Baghdad questioned Abadi's comments. One high-level Iraqi government official told Reuters it appeared to be based on "ancient intelligence".France said earlier on Thursday it would boost security on transport and in public places after the killing of French tourist Herve Gourdel by Islamic State sympathizers in Algeria. Britain, the closest U.S. ally in the past decade's wars, announced on Thursday that it too would join air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, after weeks of weighing its options. Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament, which is expected to give its approval on Friday.While Arab countries have joined the coalition, Washington's traditional Western allies had been slow to answer the call from U.S. President Barack Obama. But since Monday, Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands have said they would send planes.The Western allies have so far agreed to join air strikes only in Iraq, where the government has asked for help, and not in Syria, where strikes are being carried out without formal permission from President Bashar al-Assad. France said on Thursday it did not rule out extending strikes to Syria, too. Overnight, U.S.-led air strikes in eastern Syria killed 14 Islamic State fighters, according to a monitoring group, while on the ground, Kurdish forces were reported to have pushed back an advance by the Islamists toward the border town of Kobani.The air raids follow growing alarm in Western and Arab capitals after Islamic State, a Sunni militant group, swept through a swath of Iraq in June, proclaimed a "caliphate" ruling over all Muslims, slaughtered prisoners and ordered Shi'ites and non-Muslims to convert or die.

'HARSHNESS, BRUTALITY, TORTURE AND MURDER'

More than 120 Islamic scholars from around the world, including many of the most senior figures in Sunni Islam, issued an open letter denouncing Islamic State. Challenging the group with theological arguments, they described its interpretation of the faith as "a great wrong and an offense to Islam, to Muslims and to the entire world.""You have misinterpreted Islam into a religion of harshness, brutality, torture and murder," said the letter, signed by figures from across the Muslim world from Indonesia to Morocco.A third night of air raids by the United States and Arab allies targeted Islamic State-controlled oil refineries in three remote locations in eastern Syria to try to cut off a major source of revenue for the al Qaeda offshoot.The strikes also seem to be intended to hamper Islamic State's ability to operate across the Syria-Iraq frontier.Obama has vowed to keep up military pressure against the group, which advanced through Kurdish areas of northern Iraq this week despite the air strikes. Some 140,000 refugees have fled to Turkey over the past week, many telling of villages burnt and captives beheaded."The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force, so the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death," Obama said at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.

KURDS HALT ISLAMIC STATE ADVANCE

One danger the U.S.-led campaign faces in Syria is the lack of strong allies on the ground. Washington remains hostile to the Assad government. It wants other Syrian opponents of Assad to step into the breach as Islamic State is pushed back, but such "moderate opposition" groups have had limited success.One group that has fought hard against Islamic State on the ground in Syria has been the Kurds, who control an area in the north but complain they have been given no support from the West.On Thursday, two Kurdish officials said Kurdish forces had pushed back the advance by Islamic State fighters toward the border town of Kobani in overnight clashes. Fighting near the town in recent days had prompted the fastest exodus of refugees of the entire three-year-old Syrian civil war.Islamic State, which launched a fresh offensive to try to capture Kobani more than a week ago, concentrated its fighters south of the town for a push late on Wednesday, but Kurdish YPG forces repelled them, the Kurdish officials said.Islamic State fighters also remain to the east and west of the town and fighting continues in the south.Near Damascus, Assad's Syrian army overran rebels in a town on Thursday, strengthening the Syrian leader's grip on territory around the capital.Assad's forces, backed by the Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah, have been gradually extending control over a corridor of territory from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast.Many Syrian activists and rebels have criticized the United States for focusing on striking Islamic State and other militant groups while doing little to bring down Assad.Iraq's prime minister told reporters that he conveyed to Syria a message from Washington that U.S. strikes would target Islamic State militants rather than Assad's government."What they emphasized is that their aim in Syria is not to destabilize Syria, is not to have a threat of Syrian sovereignty, is not to attack the regime in Syria, but rather to diminish the capabilities of Daesh (and other) terrorist organizations," Abadi said, referring to Islamic State.Commenting on the fight in Iraq against Islamic State militants, Abadi said that in addition to seeking air cover, Iraqi forces were starting to run low on ammunition and needed a steady supply.While acknowledging U.S. air strikes on Islamic State forces in the north of the country, he said the United States had not helped in the south."The onslaught of Daesh we have stopped and we are reversing it," he said. "It is slow, but we have managed with zero support - I can say - with zero support from the Americans or from anybody else," he said."Yes, the Americans ... intervened when Arbil was endangered, but there was no intervention whatsoever in the south," he said. "And of course that was painful at the time."(Additional reporting by John Irish, Julien Ponthus and Andrew Callus in Paris, Sylvia Westall in Beirut, Nicolas Bertin in Paris; Mark Hosenball, Ian Simpson and Julia Edwards in Washington, and Frank McGurty, Jonathan Allen, Scott Malone and Steve Holland in New York; Writing by Giles Elgood and Peter Graff; Editing by Will Waterman, Peter Cooney, Jonathan Oatis and Ken Wills)

Iraqi PM says Islamic State plans subway attacks in U.S. and Paris-Reuters-By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Allen-SEPT 25,14-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but U.S. and French officials said they had no evidence to back up his claims.Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's comments were met with surprise by security, intelligence and transit officials in both countries. New York's leaders scrambled to ride the subway to reassure the public that the nation's largest city was safe.Abadi said he received the information Thursday morning from militants captured in Iraq and concluded it was credible after requesting further details. The attacks, he said, were plotted from inside Iraq by "networks" of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL."They plan to have attacks in the metros of Paris and the U.S.," Abadi told a small group of U.S. reporters while in New York for the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. "I asked for more credible information. I asked for names. I asked for details, for cities, you know, dates. And from the details I have received, yes, it looks credible."Some Iraqi officials in Baghdad questioned Abadi's comments. One high-level Iraqi government official told Reuters it appeared to be based on "ancient intelligence." Another called it "an old story." Both spoke on condition of anonymity.Abadi did not provide further details. A senior Iraqi official traveling with him later said Iraqi intelligence had uncovered "serious threats" and had shared this information with its allies' intelligence agencies."A full assessment of the veracity of the intelligence and how far the plans have gone into implementation is ongoing," the official said.Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, said the United States had "not confirmed any specific threat.""What we've consistently said to the Iraqis is if they have information that is relevant to terrorist activity or terrorist plotting, that they can and should share that through our intelligence and law enforcement channels," Rhodes told reporters traveling with Obama on Air Force One from New York."We would certainly take seriously any information they are learning," he said.French security services also said they had no information confirming Abadi's statement, a French government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

STRONGER TRANSIT SECURITY

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other local officials suggested they were unfazed, updating their public schedules on Thursday to add trips on the city's subway system to reassure millions of daily commuters."We are convinced New Yorkers are safe," de Blasio said at a press conference at a lower Manhattan subway station as he stood alongside New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and George Venizelos, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The New York Police Department's intelligence bureau found no specific, credible threat, de Blasio said.Bratton said in response to Abadi's comments that he sent more police to patrol subways and streets in the city which was already on high alert because of the U.N. meeting.Joseph Sheehan, 44, from the city's Queens borough, learned about the threats from the web. "They were checking bags earlier at the Port Authority. Seems like they do that at times of heightened alerts," he said.Officials in Chicago and Washington said they knew of no threats to their transit systems.The United States and France have both launched air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq as part of a U.S.-led campaign to "degrade and destroy" the radical Sunni militant group, which has seized a third of both Iraq and Syria.Abadi disclosed the intelligence while making a case for Western and Arab countries to join that campaign. "We want to increase the number of willing countries who would support this," he said. "This is not military. This is intelligence. This is security. The terrorists have a massive international campaign. Don’t underestimate it."In the past, the United States had received threats that various militant groups were targeting transportation systems but there is no recent information about an imminent plan by Islamic State, one U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.Abadi also said that Iraq did not want to see foreign "boots on the ground," but stressed the value of providing air cover, saying Iraq's air force did not have sufficient capability.He said Australia was "very interested" in participating, though he did not provide details. He also voiced optimism about a planned British parliament vote on Friday on the matter, saying "they reckon it will be successful."Earlier on Thursday, France said it would increase security on transport and in public places after a French tourist was killed in Algeria, and said it was ready to support all states that requested its help to fight terror.(Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson in Washington; Frank McGurty, Steve Holland and Rodrigo Campos in New York; Nicolas Bertin in Paris and Ned Parker in Baghdad; Editing by Jason Szep, Tom Brown, David Gregorio and Lisa Shumaker)