Saturday, October 24, 2015

ISRAEL OKS 24 HOUR CAMERAS ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT TO WATCH ARABS FROM KILLING JEWS.

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

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

ISRAEL CAN BUILD AS MANY HOUSES ON THEIR LAND AS THEY CHOOSE.NO COUNTRY LEADER IN THE WORLD TELLS ISRAEL WHAT TO DO.GOD IS IN CONTROL OF ISRAEL.AND GOD TELLS ISRAEL TO HAVE CHILDREN-AND MULTIPLY IN ISRAELAND BUILD MILLIONS OF HOUSES IN ISRAEL FOR ALL THE ISRAELI CHILDREN AND FAMILES OF ISRAELI BACKROUND PEOPLE THAT MIGRATE TO ISRAEL ALSO OR BORN IN ISRAEL.GOD SURE NEVER TELLS ISRAEL TO STOP BUILDING ON THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND.SO NO WORLD LEADER OR USELESS UN WILL TELL ISRAEL TO STOP BUILDING HOUSES FOR ISRAELIS ON THEIR OWN LAND.

Israel denies Palestinian claim that PM agreed to settlement freeze-Conflicting reports over message conveyed from Jerusalem by Kerry to Abbas amid efforts to end terror wave-By Times of Israel staff October 24, 2015, 6:30 pm

Israel on Saturday evening denied Palestinian claims that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed not to issue “new building plans” at West Bank settlements, as part of efforts to calm tensions and end a wave of Palestinian terror attacks.According to Palestinian sources quoted by the Ynet news site, US Secretary of State John Kerry relayed this pledge from Netanyahu to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas when they met in Amman on Saturday. In a similar report, the Al-Araby al-Jadeed website said Netanyahu had agreed to “a silent freeze” in settlement building, but would continue to issue new building tenders in order not to destroy his coalition.An Israeli official quickly denied any government commitment to freezing settlements, according to the Israeli Walla news site. A similar denial was reported by Israeli newspaper Maariv, which quoted a senior Israeli official as saying that, “there is no commitment of this nature.” Responding to various steps reportedly promised by Netanyahu to help calm tensions, Al-Araby al-Jadeed quoted Abbas saying that “if the Israeli moves are serious, it will be possible to make progress.”At a press conference two weeks ago, called to assure Israelis that the government was capable of thwarting the ongoing wave of Palestinian terrorism, Netanyahu said it was “common sense” for him not to risk alienating parts of the international community by announcing new settlement building in response to the terror surge, as many of his right-wing coalition colleagues have demanded. Nobody needed to teach him lessons about the value of settlements, he declared, but his prime obligation was to the security of Israel’s citizens.On Tuesday, furthermore, Netanyahu announced sorrowfully that settlement construction had slowed on his watch, compared to previous prime ministers, to an annual average of 1,500 new units.In Jordan on Saturday, Kerry announced that Israel and Jordan had agreed on various steps aimed at reducing tensions at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.The steps include round-the-clock video monitoring and Israel reaffirming Jordan’s special and historic role as custodian of the site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif or the Noble Sanctuary, Kerry said.Netanyahu was to announce details of the measures later Saturday, Kerry said.Ten Israelis have been killed and dozens injured in a string of Palestinian terror attacks since the beginning of the month. At least 50 Palestinians have also died, many while carrying out stabbing attacks on Israelis, and others in clashes with security forces.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

MICAH 4:1-5
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2  And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3  And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4  But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
5  For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

DANIEL 11:31
31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.(3RD TEMPLE REBUILT)

DANIEL 12:11
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,(AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD)(3RD TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED BY DICTATOR) and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,(TO WORSHIP THE DICTATOR OR DIE) there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.(1,290 DAYS)(AN EXTRA 30 DAYS AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD FOR JESUS TO DESTROY THE ARMIES AGAINST JERUSALEM.AND TO JUDGE THE SHEEP AND GOAT NATIONS OF MATTHEW 25:31-46-HOW THEY TREATED ISRAEL DURING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THEN I BELIEVE JESUS WILL REBUILD THE 4TH TEMPLE 25 MILES FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT.AND THEN JESUS RULES FOR THE 1,000 YEARS-THEN FOREVER FROM THAT 4TH TEMPLE.)

MATTHEW 24:15-16
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)(THE DICTATOR SITS IN THE REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE CALLING HIMSELF GOD AT THE MIDPOINT OR 3 1/2 YEAR PERIOD OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.OR 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY BETWEEN ISRAEL-ARABS AND MANY OF DANIEL 9:27)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Kerry: Israel okays 24-hour video cameras on Temple Mount-After talks with Abbas and Abdullah, secretary of state says new security measures also planned to calm tensions over holy site-By AP and Times of Israel staff October 24, 2015, 4:49 pm 16

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that have fanned Israeli-Palestinian violence.The steps include round-the-clock video monitoring and Israel reaffirming Jordan’s special and historic role as custodian of the site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif or the Noble Sanctuary, Kerry said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to announce details of the measures later Saturday, Kerry said after meeting Jordan’s King Abdullah.The secretary said that the prime minister had agreed to “an excellent suggestion by King Abdullah to provide 24-hour video coverage of all sites” in the compound. “This will provide comprehensive visibility and transparency and that could really be a game changer in discouraging anybody from disturbing the sanctity of the holy site.”He said Israel is pledging to maintain the rules of worship at the site, the site holy to Jews and Muslims that is a key factor in the current tensions, and that Israeli and Jordanian authorities will meet about bolstering security.Kerry made the announcement after meeting in Amman with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.An Israeli political source said following the announcement that the security cameras would prove Israel was not behind the escalation in tensions on the mount, the Ynet news website reported.“Israel has an interest in this in order to negate the claims that [it] is changing the status quo, and will show that the provocation is not coming from the Israeli side,” the source said.“Israel has reiterated its commitment to preserving the status quo and expects greater effort from the Waqf in maintaining order inside the mosques” on the mount, he said. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf oversees the administration of the Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount. Abbas told Kerry on Saturday that Israel must commit to maintaining the status quo on the Temple Mount and prevent Jewish extremists from ascending to the contested site, according to the Palestinian leader’s spokesman.The top American diplomat’s visit to the region is part of efforts to reduce the weeks-long cycle of violence between Israel and Palestinians. Kerry, Abbas and the king were exploring ideas, first raised during a Thursday meeting in Berlin between the American diplomat and Netanyahu, on how to defuse the situation. Following his meeting with Netanyahu, Kerry said he was cautiously optimistic about calming the situation. He has also said he would like to see clarity in the rules governing access to the Temple Mount.The Palestinians claim that Israel is seeking to change the status quo on the Mount, referring to the decades-long arrangement at the Jerusalem hilltop, the holiest place in Judaism, which allows Jews to visit but not pray. The mount houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, and is the location of the two biblical Jewish Temples. Israel has vehemently denied that it is planning to make any changes to the status quo, and Netanyahu has accused Abbas of incitement for making such claims.Speaking to reporters after the Abbas-Kerry meeting, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Saturday that Netanyahu had “changed the status of the Al-Aqsa Mosque — that’s why we and Jordan are asking the American side to re-establish the situation.”“The king has guardianship over Al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy places and will not allow this manipulation by Netanyahu,” he said.Kerry, his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon — members of the Middle East peacemaking Quartet — appealed for “maximum restraint” after talks on Friday in Vienna.They also issued a call for Israel to work with Jordan as historic steward of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.Ten Israelis have been killed and dozens injured in a string of Palestinian terror attacks since the beginning of the month. At least 50 Palestinians have also died, many while carrying out stabbing attacks on Israelis, and others in clashes with security forces.

Israel must maintain Temple Mount status quo, Abbas tells Kerry-In Amman meeting, PA president says Jerusalem needs to prevent ‘confrontational settlers’ from accessing the flashpoint site-By AP and Times of Israel staff October 24, 2015, 1:58 pm 11

AMMAN, Jordan — Israel must commit to maintaining the status quo on the Temple Mount and prevent Jewish extremists from ascending to the contested site, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told US Secretary John Kerry in Amman Saturday at a meeting aimed at exploring ideas on how to restore calm after weeks of near-daily Palestinian terror attacks and Israeli-Palestinian clashes.“Keeping the status quo and stopping confrontational settlers from accessing the site are among the first steps Israel should take” to ease tensions, Abbas told Kerry, according to PA spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh.Rudeineh said Abbas emphasized that the ball was in Israel’s court and that the Palestinians would “have to see what steps Israel takes before any move on our part.”The meeting with Kerry was also attended by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian Intelligence chief Majed Faraj.The Temple Mount is a frequent flashpoint and its fate is a core issue at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.It is the holiest site in Judaism, revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, once home to the biblical Temples.Muslims call it the Noble Sanctuary and believe it is the spot where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. It is the third holiest site in Islam and houses the Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques.The Palestinians have charged that Israel is trying to change long-standing understandings, in place since 1967, under which Jews are allowed to visit, but not pray, at the site.Those fears have also been fueled by a rise in visits by Jewish activists demanding prayer rights, including by some members of Netanyahu’s coalition government.Israel has repeatedly and vehemently denied Palestinian allegations that it is trying to change the status quo and has accused Palestinian political and religious leaders of lying and inciting to violence.The site is managed by an Islamic foundation under the auspices of Jordan — the Waqf — but Israel, which captured the area in the 1967 war, controls access.Before their meeting, Kerry and Abbas expressed hope that a solution could be found in brief comments to reporters.After seeing Abbas, Kerry met the Jordanian monarch. Neither spoke to reporters as they began their talks.On Thursday, Kerry met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin to discuss ways to defuse tensions.On Friday in Vienna, Kerry, his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon — members of the Middle East peacemaking Quartet — appealed for “maximum restraint” after talks.Over the past five weeks, 10 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks and over 50 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, including at least 28 attackers.Kerry will later Saturday fly to Saudi Arabia for talks with Saudi King Salman.

After Netanyahu talks, Kerry says Israeli-Palestinian strife may ease-Reuters By Arshad Mohammed-oct 22,15-yahoonews

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday voiced cautious hope there may be a way to defuse Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed nearly 60 people this month.Speaking to reporters after about four hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kerry said he thought there were steps that could reduce the violence and said they needed to be discussed with Jordanian and Palestinian officials."I would characterize that conversation as one that gave me a cautious measure of optimism that there may be ... a way to defuse the situation and begin to find a way forward," Kerry told reporters after he met Netanyahu at a Berlin hotel."If parties want to try, and I believe they do, want to move to a de-escalation, there are a set of choices that are available," he told a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.At a United Nations Security Council meeting on Thursday, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon said peace could only be achieved through direct talks between the parties. He called on the international community to urge Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to accept an invitation from Netanyahu to meet.Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said he would never dismiss the possibility of a meeting if it could help de-escalate the violence. But he added that Netanyahu would first have to "end his own incitement" and withdraw Israeli troops from the occupied Palestinian territories.Nine Israelis have been killed in Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks since the start of October. Forty-nine Palestinians, including 25 assailants, among them children, have been killed in attacks and during anti-Israeli protests.Among the causes of the turmoil is Palestinians' anger at what they see as Jewish encroachment on the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Islam's holiest site outside Saudi Arabia, which is also revered by Jews as the location of two ancient temples.The area, also home to the Dome of the Rock, is known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount.State Department spokesman John Kirby said a number of constructive proposals were suggested at Kerry's meeting with Netanyahu, including steps Israel could take to reaffirm its commitment to maintaining the status quo at Temple Mount."Both agreed on the need to stop incitement, reduce tension and restore calm," he added, describing the meeting as "lengthy and constructive".Kerry made no reference to Netanyahu's suggestion this week that Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem during the 1940s, persuaded Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews.But the White House urged against the use of inflammatory rhetoric on Thursday.Netanyahu's comments have attracted wide criticism from Israeli opposition politicians and Holocaust experts, who accused the prime minister of distorting the historical record.It is not clear why Netanyahu launched into the issue of the late mufti's role, with Israeli-Palestinian tensions at a new peak, notably over the Jerusalem holy site overseen by the current mufti.-MIDEAST 'QUARTET' MEETS-The European Union's senior diplomat, Federica Mogherini, also met Netanyahu and said she told him of "the need to explore together ways to stop violence, to calm down the situation"."We discussed concrete ways to de-escalate the situation on the ground and to guarantee the status quo in the holy sites," she told reporters in Berlin.Mogherini, the EU's foreign policy chief, said the "Quartet" of Middle East peace mediators would meet in Vienna on Friday to urge Israeli and Palestinian leaders to tone down their rhetoric and calm down the situation on the ground.Whatever immediate steps might be taken, diplomats hold out little hope for any resumption of broader Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which collapsed in 2014.Netanyahu blamed the Palestinians for the recent surge in killings, singling out Abbas."There is no question that wave of attacks is driven directly by incitement. Incitement from Hamas, incitement from the Islamist movement in Israel, and incitement, I am sorry to say, from President Abbas," he said.A senior U.S. State Department official told reporters that Kerry hopes to persuade both sides to "tamp down" their rhetoric during a four-day trip to Europe and the Middle East in which he also plans to meet Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah.(Reporting By Arshad Mohammed, additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the Uinited Nation and Julia Edwards in Washington; Editing by Susan Thomas and Tom Brown)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

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

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

ISRAELS TROUBLE

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

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

YOU MEAN THE ARABS-ISLAM-MUSLIMS  ACTUALLY STAY HOME FOR A DAY.AND NOT TRY TO RIOT-LOOT-BURN KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE.SURPRISING.

Shiites commemorate Muhammad’s grandson with mourning, self-flagellation-Thousands gather at Karbala shrine in Iraq for Ashura, the most somber day in Shiite calendar, as millions hold processions in home towns-By Abdelamir Hanoun October 24, 2015, 4:58 pm 6-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

AFP — Huge crowds of black-clad Shiite faithful massed in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday, crying and beating their chests to commemorate the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, who died in the seventh century.The holy day of Ashura was marred by attacks in Pakistan and Bangladesh but got under way without incident in southern Iraq, where last year’s security fears have given way to political grievances.Many Shiite worshipers travel from neighboring Iran and other countries each year to visit the shrine, which lies about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad.Millions of others across the Shiite world, from Lebanon to South Asia, hold processions in their home towns, performing a variety of rituals, many involving flagellation.Some beat their backs to a drumbeat using chains or blades. Others beat their heads with a sword until their faces and their white mourning robes are covered in blood.Gathered under the golden dome of Imam Hussein’s mausoleum in Karbala, devotees clutching paper tissues wailed and wiped their tears as they listened to accounts of Hussein’s death.The dirge cantor himself repeatedly choked back tears as he sang the praise of Hussein, whose 680 CE killing by the armies of Caliph Yazid lies at the heart of the Sunni-Shiite schism.The 10th day of the mourning month of Muharram has been marred by attacks in the past and Iraq deployed tens of thousands of security forces across the country.“Our forces have set up a security plan that includes more than 20,000 members of the security forces,” Qais Khalaf Rahima, a senior army commander, told a news conference in Karbala on Friday.They formed three concentric security rings around Karbala, banned traffic in the city center three days ago and used special explosives detection equipment, he and the Karbala police chief explained.-Political grievances-The measures are aimed at reducing the risk of suicide bomb attacks by the Islamic State, an extremist Sunni group which controls parts of Iraq and considers Shiites heretics.Karbala province borders the vast Anbar region, which is an IS stronghold.Baghdad’s early efforts in the counter-offensive that followed the devastating jihadist assault launched across Iraq in June 2014 focused on securing Karbala and the other holy Shiite city of Najaf, further south.Military operations against IS south of Baghdad were successful and the commemorations in Karbala, as well as the various processions in Baghdad and southern Iraq, felt less exposed than last year’s.In Pakistan, Ashura was marred by a suspected suicide blast which targeted Shiites in the southern city of Jacobabad and killed at least 24, according to a provincial minister.At least one person was also killed and nearly 80 wounded in a bomb attack on the main Shiite shrine in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka Saturday, police said.The commemoration, the saddest day in the Shiite calendar, had political undertones in Iraq, where many of the faithful vented their resentment towards the country’s leadership.“Remembering Imam Hussein gives us the strength to fight corruption and those who are responsible for it in government,” said Kadhem Hussein.The 52-year-old, who comes from his southern hometown of Basra every year for Ashura, wore a black shirt and stood in the middle of a huge crowd following the dirge on screens outside the shrine.The past few months have been marked by mounting popular discontent over the lack of services and corruption.Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced a reform package but the measures are slow to take effect and weekly protests in Baghdad and elsewhere have continued.“Our politicians try to cast themselves as close to Imam Hussein but who stole the state’s money?” said Jassem Muhammad, a 40-year-old man from Najaf.

US cutting aid to Palestinians by $80m in reported ‘message’ to Abbas-Annual economic assistance to drop from $370m to $290m amid rising Congressional criticism over Palestinian incitement, al-Monitor reports-By Times of Israel staff and JTA October 24, 2015, 9:36 am 19

The US State Department is cutting its economic aid to the Palestinian Authority from $370 million to $290 million annually, in a “message” to PA President Mahmoud Abbas over recent Palestinian incitement amid a relentless wave of terror attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces, according to al-Monitor.The 22 percent cut for the 2015 fiscal year comes amid rising criticism from Congress to act on inciting statements from PA officials in recent weeks in the wake of almost 50 separate terror attacks in just over three weeks.“The State Department notified lawmakers on Sept. 25 of its intention to reduce economic aid for the West Bank and Gaza Strip from $370 million to $290 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30,” the report said.On Thursday, the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously called on Palestinians to end incitement against Israel.The non-binding resolution passed after a hearing on Palestinian incitement says “the Palestinian Authority has not fully lived up to its prior agreements with Israel to end incitement and should do more to prepare the Palestinian people for peace with Israel.”It “urges President [Mahmoud] Abbas and Palestinian Authority officials to discontinue all official incitement and exert influence to discourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in Palestinian civil society.”The hearing was convened by committee chairman, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA)-“This wave of violence isn’t some random flare-up,” said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the committee, at the hearing, “It’s the product of years and years of anti-Israel propaganda and indoctrination — some of which has been actively promoted by Palestinian Authority officials and institutions.”Palestinian attacks on Israelis have become a near-daily occurrence in recent weeks, amid tensions over the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam. Driving the tensions in part have been Palestinian allegations that Israel is planning to alter the regulations at the site, which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and allow Jews to pray there.Abbas has himself leveled such charges, which Netanyahu vehemently denies.While Abbas hasn’t openly endorsed the attacks, he hasn’t condemned them either, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused him of inciting violence by calling for protests against Israel. At the UN last month, Abbas accused Israel of sending “extremists” into the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Last week, he alleged Israel was executing Palestinians in cold blood, and cited as an example a Palestinian teenager who had in fact perpetrated a terror attack, was alive, and was being treated in an Israeli hospital.During a September speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas hailed Palestinian rioters on the Temple Mount, saying any blood spilled in defense of the holy site was “pure.”“The Al-Aqsa Mosque is ours. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is ours as well. They have no right to desecrate the mosque with their dirty feet; we won’t allow them to do that,” he added.The House Foreign Affairs Committee resolution came a day after two top congressional appropriators, a Republican and a Democrat, warned Abbas in a letter that US funds were contingent on tamping down incitement during the current wave of violence.“We implore you to refrain from highly inflammatory language and to redouble your efforts to uphold nonviolence,” wrote Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), the chairwoman of the Foreign Operations subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), the committee and subcommittee’s top Democrat.“As you are well aware, any US assistance generously provided by the American people to the Palestinian Authority is predicated on the PA’s adherence to the precepts of the Oslo Accords as well as countering terrorism and the incitement of violence.”The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is maintaining a list on its website of US lawmakers condemning Palestinian incitement.One lawmaker speaking during the hearing, Rep. Brad Sherman, (D-CA), excoriated Palestinian incitement but also lamented Israeli incitement, particularly related to the Temple Mount, also known as the Noble Sanctuary.“Back in the days of the Roman Empire, those zealots who claimed to be the most pro-Israel did enormous harm,” said Sherman, known for his closeness to the pro-Israel community, in remarks first noted by Americans for Peace Now in its weekly legislative roundup.“So now we see a few fringe Israeli leaders who want to disturb the status quo on the Temple Mount,” he said. “They, too, are harmful. They provide a pretext for those who incite terrorism in Israel and those who seek delegitimization abroad.”

For Palestinians, social media is source of news — and anger-Israeli officials argue that content on Palestinian sites, some with millions of followers, is driving the current violence-By Daniel Estrin October 24, 2015, 7:16 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Four dailies, eight TV stations and scores of radio stations report on the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Palestinian territories. But they are background noise for many Palestinian youth, whose No. 1 source of news comes from Facebook groups that pump out a minute-by-minute stream of bloody images and pro-violence slogans.Many Palestinians say such sites only hold up a mirror, or camera, to incessant Israeli violence and pent-up Palestinian fury — that social media reflects reality, not creates it. But Israeli officials argue the medium is the message — that Palestinian social media news sites, some with millions of followers, and the content they post are the driving force in the current wave of violence.“We are seeing a situation in which Osama Bin Laden meets (Facebook founder) Mark Zuckerberg,” Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week. “The incitement on the social networks is what is causing the wave of terror.”It was a message Netanyahu repeated in meetings this week with US Secretary of State John Kerry and other world leaders trying to find a way to calm the current tensions. The incitement, Israeli officials say, includes caricatures and video reenactments demonizing Israelis, graphics with instructions on “how to stab a Jew,” and youth calling for martyrdom on Facebook before carrying out stabbings. Hashtag slogans label the violence an intifada, or uprising, and accuse Israel of endangering Islam’s third-holiest spot — a claim that has fueled recent violence.Palestinians say such claims miss the point, and that the violence is the natural result of nearly 50 years of Israeli military occupation and, after years of failed peace efforts, the lack of hope for gaining independence anytime soon. They note that Israeli Facebook pages also post graphic images and hateful messages that contribute to the tense and sometimes vengeful atmosphere.Leaders on both sides have also blamed each other for contributing to violence with their words. Netanyahu accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of incitement when he wrongly claimed that Israel had “executed” a Palestinian teen when he was actually being treated in an Israeli hospital. The same accusation has been leveled at Netanyahu for speeches linking Abbas to the Islamic State group and suggesting a World War II-era Palestinian leader was the one who persuaded Hitler to exterminate the Jews of Europe.Israeli officials say they convinced Google’s YouTube service and Facebook to remove some Palestinian videos, and an Israeli legal group is preparing a class-action lawsuit against Facebook to force the site to remove certain pro-Palestinian pages. Facebook in the past has removed some Palestinian news sites, but they simply popped up again under a different guise. Over time, they have become essential sources of news for Palestinians.The Quds News Network, which operates one of the most prominent Palestinian Facebook news sites, has about 3.7 million Facebook followers and says it relies on a network of some 300 stringers throughout Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. It breaks news so rapidly that it tends to beat out traditional Palestinian media outlets — even providing those outlets with video and photos.The site says it is independent, but has a reputation for being affiliated with Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad. Another active Facebook site, run by the Shehab News Network, has about 4.2 million followers and is regarded by Palestinians as being linked with Hamas. Both groups oppose Israel’s right to exist, and have killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings and shootings over the years.“Our message is twofold. Number one is to support the resistance . second, expose the aggressive acts of the Israeli occupation,” said Ahmed Yousef, 25, an editor at Quds News Network. Sitting in a baklava shop on a recent afternoon, he coordinated coverage with other editors in a Facebook chat group on his cell phone. Yousef said his site does not encourage violence, but only reflects the attitude of the streets. “During this uprising we have to match the mood of the people,” he said.Ten Israelis have been killed over the last month, mainly in stabbing attacks. On the Palestinian side, 49 people have been killed by Israeli fire, 28 of them during attacks on Israelis and the others in clashes with Israeli security forces.The violence has been fueled by rumors that Israel is plotting to take over the Temple Mount, a sensitive Jerusalem site holy to both Jews and Muslims. Israel says it is committed to the longstanding status quo, but Palestinians point to the growing number of religious Jewish visitors to the site, as well as calls from activist groups and senior politicians for expanded Jewish prayer rights.Palestinians say the violence is also rooted in frustration at decades of living under Israeli occupation. Israel says the reason is much simpler: Palestinian leaders are inciting the unrest with incendiary accusations, and Facebook posts are fanning the flames.Israeli social media have also spread graphic images, including security camera footage of attacks released by police. One popular Israeli Facebook news site, 0404, has a following of about 370,000 and provides a constant feed of news and images, including photos of dead Palestinians after being shot by Israeli forces, though it blurs graphic images. It also praises Israeli soldiers as “our brothers” for thwarting attacks.But the reach of these sites seems to pale in comparison to the Palestinian Facebook groups, whose audiences dwarf those of more traditional news sources.The Al-Ayyam daily, a major Palestinian newspaper, estimates its daily readership at about 120,000, while the top TV channel viewed by Palestinians, Al-Jazeera, is seen by about 22 percent of Palestinian adults, according to a survey last month by pollster Khalil Shikaki.In the first intifada, or uprising, in the 1980s, militant groups called for demonstrations by scrawling announcements on cement walls; today, those calls are made on Facebook walls.About half of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza use the Internet, and among young people, the percentages are much higher. Some 1.5 million Palestinians use Facebook. Electronic media, including Facebook and Twitter, are the No. 1 source of news for young Palestinians, said Ghassan Khatib of the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, a research and polling center.The recent stabbings and other deadly attacks on Israelis have been largely carried out by Palestinians in their teens and twenties. Many of them have had no record of militant or criminal activity, and some appear to have been influenced by graphic images on social media showing young Palestinians on the ground after being shot by Israeli officers who said they had attempted stabbings.Relatives of Subhi Abu Khalifeh, a 19-year-old Palestinian accused in a Jerusalem stabbing, say he was outraged over a video showing the shooting of an 18-year-old Palestinian woman by an Israeli civilian after police said she stabbed him. A Palestinian version of events distributed on social media said the man had harassed the teen, trying to remove her headscarf, but she did not stab him.Yousef, the Quds News Network editor, said the group has developed a devoted network of contributors because stringers who submit footage are paid per submission, and editors guarantee their work will be used. Many Palestinians in recent years have bought video cameras for the supplemental income such sites provide.The site generates income from advertisements and subscriptions to its text message news alert service. Yousef said it did not receive support from any political or militant faction.Saed Karzoun, a 30-year-old Palestinian digital media activist who is worried about the influence of recent social media posts, scrolled through the Quds News Network Facebook page on his laptop at his Ramallah apartment. He stopped at a graphic picture of a young Palestinian lying in a pool of blood, shot dead by Israeli forces at a military checkpoint in the West Bank. The military said he had attempted to stab an officer.“You watch a kid dying. What you will do? You will pick up a knife,” said Karzoun. “This is the effect of social media now. This is very dangerous.”2015 The Associated Press.

WAS THE FEB 17TH MILITIA GROUP HIRED BY CLINTON WORKING WITH THE TERRORISTS TO KILL THE 4 AT THE BENGHAZI OFFICE.THIS WOULD BE A REASON TO COVERUP THE REAL REASON FOR THE BENGHZI KILLINGS.

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

Libyan security forces guard a hospital in Benghazi. (Abdullah Doma -- AFP/GettyImages)-THE FEB 17th MILITIA BRIGADES-February 17th Martyrs Brigade-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia-February 17th Martyrs Brigade-Participant in the Libyan Civil War, Post-civil war violence in Libya, and the Second Libyan Civil War-Ideology-Islamism-Strength -1,500–3,500-Part of Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries Allies-Ansar al-Sharia-Battles and wars-Libyan Civil War-2012 Benghazi attack-The February 17th Martyrs Brigade is an Islamist militia active in Libya. It is considered to be the largest and best armed militia in eastern Libya. The brigade is financed by the Libyan defense ministry.[1] The brigade consists of at least 12 battalions and possesses a large collection of light and heavy weapons in addition to training facilities. Its membership is estimated at between 1,500 and 3,500. The group has carried out various security and law and order tasks in eastern Libya and Kufra in the south.[1]-This brigade was called on for assistance by the US Government during the 2012 Benghazi attack.
 The degree to which the CIA succeeded or failed in upholding what The Wall Street Journal says was a secret agreement to provide "emergency security" for the consulate appears to be the subject of some dispute. But one thing that perhaps the State Department and CIA might agree on, based on the information publicly reported so far, is the degree to which the Benghazi consulate was failed by its Libyan security forces.Though U.S. officials seem to have largely refrained from pointing fingers at their Libyan counterparts, one consistent feature of the drip-drip of information about the Benghazi attack seems to be that U.S. agencies felt they were not getting the security they expected and perhaps needed from the host country.story from-https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/11/02/libyan-militias-failed-security-at-benghazi/

LISTEN NOW TO HITLARY QUESTIONS ABOUT BENGHAZI LIBYA IF ON TODAY
http://www.c-span.org/networks/?channel=radio

YESTERDAYS CLINTON BENGHAZI HAPPENINGS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/10/listen-to-hitlary-clinton-lie-threw-her.html

latest update 12:30am oct 23,15
MRS SMITH SAYS THAT IT WAS THE FEB 17TH BRIGADE MILITIA GROUP MEMBERS THAT WERE TAKING PICTURES OF THE BENGHAZI COMPOUND.AND THE DIESEL FUEL THATS WHAT SEAN TOLD HIS MOTHER.BUT SHE NEVER KNEW WHAT THE FEB 17TH PEOPLE WERE.LISTEN TO HER SAY IT AT THE 14 MINUTE MARK OF THE MEGYN KELLY VIDEO.MEGYN EVEN MENTIONS THAT A GROUP WAS SUPPOSE TO PROTECT THE BENGHAZI SITE.AND IT WAS THE FEB 17TH MILITIA GROUP THAT WAS.BUT THEY WERE THE ONE TAKING PICTURES OF THE SITE AND DEISEL FUEL.

MRS SMITH ON MEGYN KELLY SHOW-AT 14 MINUTE MARK
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4573903842001/shocking-truths-revealed-during-clintons-benghazi-testimony/?playlist_id=2694949842001#sp=show-clips

If the world feared Osama bin Laden, the outfall from the Arab Spring unleashed suppressed Salafist and Wahhabist imams to spread their radical messages. In Libya, Islamists united with Ansar al-Sharia an ultraconservative Salafist movement. Inflicting their new brand of terrorism the Islamists were bent on instituting strict Islamic law into the governing process. Islamist factions are attempting to take control of several North African and Middle East countries. Syria and Yemen are currently under siege by al-Qaeda affiliates taking advantage of the destabilization in these war torn countries.I was in Mali on that fateful day in September, returning from a visit to refugee camps in Burkina Faso. Government leaders noted that the Ansar Dine Islamists in northern Mali had become affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) which had tentacles all across the Sahel region and into Libya. The attacks in Benghazi had the signs of AQIM’s involvement, many of whom had trained in Libya with militias that brought down Col. Muammar Gaddafi. The powerful militia group that evolved was Ansar al-Sharia. There had been chatter as far back as August 2012 that attacks were eminent against Americans.We should have been forewarned by the attacks that took place in Benghazi against a UN Special Envoy, the International Red Cross, an assassination attempt on the British ambassador, the storming of the Tunisian consulate, and an explosive device that detonated at the U.S. consulate in June 2012, severely damaging the perimeter wall. The February 17 Martyrs Brigade, which had ties to al-Qaeda, was hired to protect the U.S. consulate compound. Reportedly, brigade members had been forewarned in August of a possible attack by Ansar al-Sharia, ultimately the perpetrators. Security measures should have been instituted since the weak Libyan government could not control the well-armed Islamists, to help protect the compound.The White House and the State Department share in the responsibility for the disastrous outcome, by not protecting our diplomatic troops. Within seconds of the attack classified cables would have reached the State Department’s “seventh floor” where the Secretary of State and top aides have their offices. The alert cables would have also reached the White House, Department of Defense, National Security Agency, and at least twenty other bureaus.In the President’s Letter of Instructions to ambassadors, the Secretary of State is responsible for the overall coordination and supervision of all U.S. government activities and operations abroad. The Secretary of State “must protect all United States Government personnel on official duty abroad” the letter notes. The primary responsibility was to manage and oversee that security measures were in place at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, especially since al-Qaeda affiliates had infiltrated Libya. General Carter Hamm’s warnings in early 2012 were also not adhered to. As a result four Americans died needlessly. Our overseas operations are our eyes and ears—our first line of defense–and must be protected.The Senate Intelligence Committee last week validated what the world already knew—that the September 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi were preventable. The report clearly shows that the State Department violated its most important covenant–the protection of our diplomatic personnel. Disguising the disastrous attacks by Islamist extremists was a political decision, a disservice to all Americans.http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2014/01/23/beirut-benghazi-didnt-learn-lesson/

earlier update-around 9:17pm-oct 22,2015
MRS SMITH TOLD MEGAN KELLEY LAST NIGHT ON HER SHOW.HER SON SEAN SMITH THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BENGHAZI ATTACKWHO WAS KILLED IN BENGHAZI TOLD HER.THE FEB 17TH CROWD WAS INVOLVED.AND MRS SMITH NEVER KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT.SO WHO AND WHAT GROUP OR PEOPLE WAS THE FEB 17TH GROUP OR CROWD.

About 3.2 km away from the compound, at the February 17th Brigade’s headquarters, militia members heard the battle raging.  “We got in our vehicles in less than five minutes,” says Wisam, a militia fighter. “There were about 18 of us in five pickup trucks.” Within minutes they arrived on the road leading to the mission. There they found the attackers organized in large groups. “There were too many people and we couldn’t resist them,” Wisam said. When the militia told the besiegers that they were trying to reach the mission to verify that their comrades were safe, an attacker fired off two warning shots at their feet.  “We were a clear target so we turned around and headed down the street.”  Once out of range of the attackers’ small arms fire, the militia set up a position and bombarded the mob with longer-range weapons.  “We started shooting back with [Russian anti-aircraft] Dushkas and RPGs.  It was a 90 minute firefight.” The militia contingent was reinforced with other February 17th fighters who set up a perimeter along the streets surrounding the U.S. compound.Yet the attackers did not retreat. Instead, they took cover in neighboring villas where the high walls concealed their presence. When Mikhlaf, Nasser and Ubayd passed the February 17th blockades on their way back to the mission, around an hour after the beginning of the assault, they were ambushed by the attackers several villas away.  “They came out of the mission and opened fire on us.  We heard many RPGs and a long fire fight between February 17th and the attackers,” Ubayd said.About 45 minutes into the fighting, a quick reaction team composed of six Americans from what was called the “annex,” an unofficial, low-key “safe house” for U.S. security forces approximately two kilometers away. They came barreling down to the mission in a BMW sedan and a Mercedes Benz SUV. There they encountered Wisam and about 40 other February 17th members, some of whom helped escort the Americans into the compound.  “We jogged alongside the cars,” Wisam said.  “There were 12 of us.  We didn’t know what to expect inside.”  When they arrived, the quick reaction team split up.  Several headed to the burning C villa to look for Ambassador Stevens, and Sean Smith, an information management officer, but the thick smoke hindered their search.  After several attempts, they found Smith’s body. He had died from inhaling smoke from the burning buildings.

OK SO NOW WE KNOW THE FEB 17TH CROWD IS A BRIGADE MILITIA MEMBERS HEADQUARTERS GROUP.5 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE BENGHAZI ATTACK.WE KNOW THIS FEB 17TH GROUP FLEED THE SCENE INSTEAD OF HELPING THE 4 KILLED AT THE BENGHAZI.BECAUSE ONE OF THE FEB 17TH  WISAN TELLS US HERE.BECAUSE THERE WERE TO MANY TERRORIST TO TAKE OUT.AND THEY WERE OUT NUMBER ED BY ALOT.BY THE SOUNDS OF IT.THIS FEB 17TH MILITIA GROUP MUST HAVE BEEN INVOLVED  WITH RUSSIA,BECAUSE THEY SHOT RUSSIAN ANTI AIRCRAFT DUSHKAS AND RPGS AT THE TERRORIST GROUP KILLING THE 4 AMERICANS AT BENGHAZI.THIS WAS A 90 MINUTE FIGHT.I WONDER DID THE FEB 17TH MILITIA BRIGADE CONTRIBUTE TO THE KILLING OF THE 4.COULD THIS BE WHY THE COVERUP OF THE 4 KILLED BY HITLARY CLINTON.BY SAYING IT WAS A VIDEO THAT INSPIRED THE KILLING.CLINTON EVEN ADMITTED YESTERDAY AT THE HEARINGS THAT HER AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION KNEW IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK-THE SAME NIGHT IT HAPPENED ALREADY.BUT STILL THEY COVERED UP THE KILLINGS INSTEAD.BUT I COULD SEE IF THIS FEB 17TH MILITIA GROUP KILLED THE 4 WITH THE RUSSIAN WEAPONS.WHICH MEANS.THE FEB 17TH MILITIA GROUP MUST HAVE BEEN A RUSSIAN MILITIA GROUP.OR THERES NO WAY THIS BRIGADE WOULD USE RUSSIAN WEAPONS.IF THIS FEB 17TH BRIGADE WAS AN AMERICAN GROUP.THEY WOULD HAVE USED AMERICAN WEAPONS. MAYBE CLINTON HIRED THESE RUSSIAN MILITIA TO PROTECT THE BENGHAZI 4.BUT THEN END UP KILLING THEM WITH THESE RUSSIAN WEAPONS.THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT REASON FOR CLINTON TO COVER UP THE KILLINGS.IF CLINTON HIRED THIS RUSSIA MILITIA GROUP TO PROTECT THE 4 AT THE BENGHAZI OFFICE.BUT THEY KILLED AT LEAST 3 OF THE 4 WITH THE WEAPONS THEY SHOT AT THE TERRORISTS AT THE BENGHAZI OFFICE.ONLY CLINTON-THE FEB 17TH MILITIA AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WOULD KNOW THE TRUTH.AND THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND OUT THE NEXT DAY IT WAS THE RUSSIAN LONG RANGE WEAPONS THAT KILLED 3 OF THE 4.AND THE TERRORIST GROUP SET FIRE TO THE PLACE WERE CHRIS STEPHENS WAS.AND KILLED HIM.THIS IS JUST MY TAKE.BUT SEAN SMITHS MOTHER BY MY TAKE.GAVE US A HINT THE FEB 17TH MILITIA BRIGADE IS INVOLVED IN SOME IMPORTANT WAY.SHE NEVER KNEW WHAT HER SON MEANT BY THE FEB 17TH MILITIA GROUP.THAT HER SON MENTIONED TO HER THAT LAST NIGHT BEFORE THE KILLINGS.WAS SEAN TRYING TO WARN HER.THIS FEB 17TH MILITIA BRIGADE HEADED BY PUTTIN MIGHT BE WORKING WITH THE TERRORIST GROUP TO KILL ALL THE AMERICANS AT THE BENGHAZI OFFICE. THE TRUTH WILL GRADUALLY COME OUT.IF THIS WAS A ALLY PAID-RUSSIAN LEAD BACKSTAB ON AMERICA.AND THE FEB 17TH MILITIAS SET THE KILLINGS UP WITH THE TERROR IST GROUP.TO GET RID OF STEVENS AND THE OFFICE FOR SOME REASON. MAYBE STEVENS AND SEAN SMITH FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PLOT TO KILL THEM BY SOME ONE WORKING WITH EITHER THE FEB 17TH MILITIA GROUP.OR THE TERRORIST GROUP.

The Other 9/11: Libyan Guards Recount What Happened in Benghazi-Based on interviews with Libyan guards and militia, TIME reconstructs what happened on the night the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked, burned and looted.By Steven Sotloff / Benghazi Oct. 21, 2012-Follow @TIMEWorld

More than a month after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, U.S. officials have yet to talk to many of the Libyan guards on duty at the American mission on that fatal evening. Fearful of reprisal from the still unknown perpetrators of the attack, the guards have gone into hiding; and their vivid recollections are giving way to a sense of abandonment by the American government, which offered them no protection from the attackers the guards believe want them dead. TIME’s Steven Sotloff has talked to the guards for their account of what happened on the night of Sept. 11, 2012 and the early hours of the day after. Five of the guards were employees of the British security company Blue Mountain, and three others were members of the Islamist-leaning February 17th militia who were tasked with providing diplomatic security for foreign missions. To protect them from possible retribution, their names have been changed. What is clear is that, as others have reported, there was no protest, simply a sudden siege of the compound; U.S. security forces–including U.S. Marines who arrived at an American safe house outside the consulate grounds–were overwhelmed and stymied; and that the looters apparently came upon the body of a still-breathing Ambassador Chris Stevens.At around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012, the four guards at the compound entrance—Nasser, Ubayd, Abdullah and Anwar–were casually eating sandwiches and talking about a recent soccer game, trying to pass the time on another monotonous night of watch duty. This one seemed no different from the others before: days and nights staring at the high walls that obscured the luxury villas in the posh Benghazi neighborhood where the American mission was located.  But on this night, the silence of the secluded streets was dramatically shattered.First, from beyond the walls, came the yells of “God is Great!” Nasser went out to investigate. “I immediately heard RPG explosions and saw a large group heading toward us up the road,” he said. Outnumbered and outgunned, the four abandoned their posts, with Nasser and Ubayd fleeing south to what was called the C villa in the center of the compound, a building that housed the office of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was visiting from the Libyan capital Tripoli. Abdullah ran towards the cantina east of C villa where a grenade exploded nearby.  “I remember the shrapnel that landed in my leg was very hot and I was shaken, a bit dizzy,” he recalled. A group of attackers then passed him on the way to encircling the cantina. They shot him twice in the leg.  Others beat him so hard he lost consciousness. He awakened later in the Benghazi Medical Center.As the guards from the front of the property desperately sought safe haven from the grenades and the kind of explosives used for blast fishing, attackers began a siege of the back entrance of the compound.  “I heard them shout ‘God is Great!’ and then they started shooting,” said Mikhlaf, one of the guards in the rear gate.  He darted toward the cantina where he saw Ambassador Stevens’ bodyguard running across the lawn towards the C villa.  “He was a big black man with a machine gun,” Mikhlaf recounted.  “He looked really angry.”  As the Libyan guard arrived at the cantina, however, two Americans who had accompanied Stevens from Tripoli slammed the door on him.Hussein, a guard who was stationed at another observation point, approached the cantina from the northeast side and headed toward the kitchen. “There were two [other] black men there.  Both were wearing body armor.”  They spent most of the next hour holed up in the cantina, squatting on the floor with their rifles pointed at the door as they made and received phone calls. The Americans—apart from Stevens’ bodyguard and the two in the cantina, there were two in the compound’s tactical operations center–were Diplomatic Security agents tasked with protecting American installations abroad.Meanwhile, near the swimming pool behind the C villa, a group of attackers cornered Anwar, a guard belonging to the February 17th militia that was helping to secure the compound. “There doesn’t need to be blood spilled,” he implored.  His plea worked and the attackers led him out of the compound.Northwest of the cantina at the February 17th barracks, militia member Fadil heard the American diplomatic security agents on the radio. “They said ‘Attack!  Attack!’ and then our names, but there was nothing we could do. There were just too many of them.” Peering out from the barracks, Fadil saw about 15 men jump over the main gate. “They opened it and dozens flowed in.” Within minutes of arriving at the compound’s perimeter, the attackers had overrun it.  A group of attackers headed towards the barracks where Fadil and Tawfiq, another February 17th guard, had barricaded themselves. Loud explosions and gunshots were heard everywhere.  “They were spraying bullets,” Fadil recounted.  “They had vests with grenades on them and they just threw and threw them.” One attacker seemed headed toward Fadil. “I saw the guy looking into my eyes and I shot him,” Fadil said.Locked out of the cantina, Mikhlaf ran south towards the Tactical Operations Center, hiding behind a sandbag levy. But after 20 minutes, one of the attackers found him and others quickly gathered around.  They hit his head repeatedly as they taunted him.  “You are not a Muslim,” they shouted.  “You help the people who are against Allah and say bad things about the Prophet.”  The attackers dragged Mikhlaf to the front of the C villa where 15-to-20 men continued to beat him.  “I thought I was going to die until one of the crowd jumped on me to protect me,” Mikhlaf said. The man led Mikhlaf out of the compound.The attackers found Nasser and Ubayd in the laundry room behind the C villa.  “Are we safe if we open the door?’ they asked, trying to negotiate with the attackers before unlocking it. Apparently not. “They pulled our hair and beat us for 10 minutes,” Ubayd said.  One man wearing what he called “Afghan” garb – a long baggy robe with pants underneath — stood out among the others, shouting orders and landing the most ferocious blows.  “He said I was not a Muslim and had to die.  He couldn’t have been Libyan. He didn’t look Libyan and Libyans just don’t dress like that.” After 10 minutes of insults and beatings, the attackers told Nasser and Ubayd to leave the compound.While Hussein, Fadil and Tawfiq were able to evade the attackers, Anwar, Mikhlaf, Nasser and Ubayd were being led out of the compound where another group of assailants roughed them up.  “There were many people at the entrance,” Ubayd said.  “Maybe one hundred.  Some wore Afghan clothing and others had their faces covered.” After absorbing another round of blows, some of the attackers escorted them to their cars and they drove off.About 3.2 km away from the compound, at the February 17th Brigade’s headquarters, militia members heard the battle raging.  “We got in our vehicles in less than five minutes,” says Wisam, a militia fighter. “There were about 18 of us in five pickup trucks.” Within minutes they arrived on the road leading to the mission. There they found the attackers organized in large groups. “There were too many people and we couldn’t resist them,” Wisam said. When the militia told the besiegers that they were trying to reach the mission to verify that their comrades were safe, an attacker fired off two warning shots at their feet.  “We were a clear target so we turned around and headed down the street.”  Once out of range of the attackers’ small arms fire, the militia set up a position and bombarded the mob with longer-range weapons.  “We started shooting back with [Russian anti-aircraft] Dushkas and RPGs.  It was a 90 minute firefight.” The militia contingent was reinforced with other February 17th fighters who set up a perimeter along the streets surrounding the U.S. compound.Yet the attackers did not retreat. Instead, they took cover in neighboring villas where the high walls concealed their presence. When Mikhlaf, Nasser and Ubayd passed the February 17th blockades on their way back to the mission, around an hour after the beginning of the assault, they were ambushed by the attackers several villas away.  “They came out of the mission and opened fire on us.  We heard many RPGs and a long fire fight between February 17th and the attackers,” Ubayd said.About 45 minutes into the fighting, a quick reaction team composed of six Americans from what was called the “annex,” an unofficial, low-key “safe house” for U.S. security forces approximately two kilometers away. They came barreling down to the mission in a BMW sedan and a Mercedes Benz SUV. There they encountered Wisam and about 40 other February 17th members, some of whom helped escort the Americans into the compound.  “We jogged alongside the cars,” Wisam said.  “There were 12 of us.  We didn’t know what to expect inside.”  When they arrived, the quick reaction team split up.  Several headed to the burning C villa to look for Ambassador Stevens, and Sean Smith, an information management officer, but the thick smoke hindered their search.  After several attempts, they found Smith’s body. He had died from inhaling smoke from the burning buildings.Fadil watched what was going on from the roof of the February 17th barracks, where he had taken refuge. When members of his militia reached the mission, he discerned the voice of his commander and finally thought it safe to emerge from the barracks. “They shouted they were with February 17th and they had come to rescue the Americans.” Fadil then headed to the C villa. “I saw two Americans [including one apparently of Asian descent, who were at the compound from the beginning of the attack] in a Toyota outside the C villa,” he said. “I told [the Americans] to go but they said they had to stay and look for the ambassador. The Chinese guy was shot in the hand and the other was covered in smoke.” After several fruitless attempts to locate Stevens, they gave up their search.As the Americans stumbled through the smoldering villa, the attackers let loose with another barrage from the southern or back entrance of the consulate compound, throwing grenades and firing RPGs. “There was 20 minutes of aggressive fire,” Wisam said. “The Americans wanted to get out but didn’t know what to do.” After several minutes of debating with the February 17th members, the quick reaction team ultimately decided the militia should secure the street outside the north entrance to facilitate their escape.  When the Mercedes finally darted out of the compound, small arms fire and RPGs landed around the car before it headed south toward the annex.After the attack subsided and the Libyan guards finally evacuated the compound, the diplomatic mission became prey to the looters not all of whom were associated with the attackers. “They took everything that had value,” said Tamir, a Military Police officer who arrived at the mission around 11:30 PM.  The vandals spray painted graffiti on the walls with words such as ‘testicles’ and ‘God is Great!’  Others left oozing paint with their names as a memento of their visit. But at the C villa, they came upon an unexpected sight.“I went to the C villa and saw people stealing stuff from inside,” said Tamir.  “One of the thieves stepped on the legs of someone who was lying on the floor and [the thief] started yelling.” Tamir and others quickly went to the bathroom where they found a tall American on his back breathing very heavily. “Some of the didn’t want to help him. They said ‘just let him stay there and die. He insulted Islam and the Prophet.’” Tamir and six other men carried the American’s body outside C villa. They washed his ash-covered face before taking him to the main entrance where a group of men placed him in a car and headed towards the Benghazi Medical Center. Later, Tamir called Fadil and described the man to him.  “That’s the ambassador,” Fadil replied. Stevens would succumb to smoke inhalation and be pronounced dead at the hospital.The quick reaction team would return to the annex with the five Diplomatic Security agents from the mission. However, they had not left danger behind. The annex –which by night’s end would be refuge for about 32 Americans — would soon be taking on intense fire.U.S. reinforcements, however, were on the way. Around 2 a.m., eight Marines sent from the embassy in Tripoli landed at the Benghazi airport. But Libyan officials there initially prevented them from pushing ahead with their rescue mission. “[The Americans] wanted all eight to go to the annex,” said Faruq, a leader of the Libyan Shield Brigade, one of numerous local brigades and tasked that night with coordinating the arrival of the Marines. “But we were told to only allow two.”The Libyans apparently did not want a bunch of U.S. military men running around their country for fear of causing an uproar among citizens. But the Marines were adamant they would go as a team.  After several back and forth conversations with Libya Shield’s commander, the Libyans finally relented.But as soon as the Marines solved one problem, they encountered another — they had only GPS coordinates and no address for the annex, which was supposed to be hush-hush in any case. “We couldn’t arrange our forces to go to a place we didn’t know about,” Faruq said, explaining his reluctance to send his own soldiers with the Marines. After another round of logistical squabbling, the Marines finally departed the airport around 2:30 a.m. in two Toyota Land Cruisers. An additional 10-to-15 Libyan security vehicles accompanied them to the annex, which turned out to be approximately 20 minutes away.When they arrived, they found the Americans at the annex tired and nervous.  Then, around 3 a.m., bullets began hitting just outside the annex. “Mortars started landing.  They hit the roof.  There were several and we were all confused,” said Faruq of the Libyan Shield brigade. “The Marines put on their night vision goggles and took up positions,” said Faruq.  “Some positioned themselves in the doorway and some set up inside.” It was during this attack that former Navy SEAL commandos Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed.Faruq had decided against bringing a large contingent with him to the annex.  The site “was supposed to be a light foot print and no one thought it was dangerous because it was an unknown safe house,” he said. But gunfire was sending everyone for cover. At about 3:20 a.m., Faruq called the Joint Operations Room at the February 17th Brigade that coordinates the activities of several military and security organizations. Within 15 minutes, more than a hundred security officials arrived at the annex to help secure the area.  Some set up a perimeter one kilometer from the annex. Others occupied the villas around the residence. Finally, a Libyan colonel showed up outside and the Americans prepared to evacuate. They placed the bodies of Doherty, Smith and Woods in a Mercedes and headed to the airport.  But the plane that brought the Marines was too small to carry all the Americans back to Tripoli.  The Marines stayed behind with the three corpses.At the airport, a Marine told Faruq they had to go to the hospital because there was news that some Libyans had brought Steven’s body there. Two vehicles were sent to retrieve his body and at around 6 a.m. Stevens’ corpse lay next to those of his three comrades.  By 10 a.m., another plane finally arrived to transport the Marines and the dead Americans back to Tripoli. It had been the most lethal attack against U.S. diplomatic facilities since the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing took the lives of 63 people.

PUTIN ACCUSES WEST OF PLAYING BOTH SIDES WITH TERRORIST GROUPS IN SYRIA.

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

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

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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 evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)

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)

U.S. missile shield a threat to Russia's nuclear capability: Putin-Reuters-oct 22,15-yahoonews

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The expansion of the United States' ballistic missile defense system is a threat to Russia's nuclear capability, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.Putin added that U.S. ballistic missile shield bases in Eastern Europe could also be used to station offensive weapons and that he was worried about NATO military infrastructure moving closer to Russia's borders.(Reporting by Denis Dyomkin; Writing by Polina Devitt and Alexander Winning; Editing by Christian Lowe)

Putin says Syria's Assad is open to working with some rebels-Reuters By Denis Dyomkin and Maria Tsvetkova-oct 22,15-yahoonews

SOCHI, Russia/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad had told him he was ready to talk to armed opposition groups if they are genuinely committed to dialogue and to combating Islamic State.Speaking a day after Assad made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Putin -- underlining Moscow's new role as a central player in Syria's conflict -- Putin said the two men had talked about the need for a political solution.Some Western governments have portrayed Russia as an obstacle to a political deal, especially since it started air strikes on Islamist groups in Syria opposed to Assad, including some backed by the United States and its allies.But Putin said he believed that the military operation in Syria could create the right conditions for progress in talks on the future of the country."I will pull open the curtain a little on my talks with President Assad," Putin said at a forum in the Russian resort of Sochi on Thursday evening."I asked him: 'What view would you take if we found, now in Syria, an armed opposition which nonetheless was ready to oppose and really fight against terrorists, against Islamic State? What would be your view if we were to support their efforts in fighting Islamic State in the same way we are supporting the Syrian army'," Putin said."He answered: 'I would view that positively'," Putin said of Assad.The Russian president went on: "We are now thinking about this and are trying, if it works out, to reach these agreements."Putin also said that, at the root of the Syrian conflict was not just Islamist militancy but also internal tensions -- a recognition that at least some of the people who rebelled against Assad's rule had a legitimate grievance.Russia has rejected Western calls for Assad to step down. On Thursday, Putin repeated his view that Syria's leadership could only be decided by the Syrian people, not outside powers, via transparent elections.However, some observers believe Putin could use his enhanced influence over Damascus to pressure Assad into making concessions to the opposition, unblocking a peace process that has been at a virtual standstill for years.(Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Alison Williams)

Russia shows military might in Syria, also pushes diplomacy-Associated Press By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV-oct 22,15-yahoonews

HEMEIMEEM AIR BASE, Syria (AP) — As Russia unleashed waves of warplanes Thursday from this air base in western Syria to pound militant targets, President Vladimir Putin pushed diplomatic efforts with the West, stressing the need "to consider each other as allies in a common fight."Russia put its military muscle on display, bringing Moscow-based reporters to view a day's worth of fighter jets roaring off a runway in dozens of sorties as helicopter gunships patrolled the edges of the sprawling facility.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Friday in Vienna, joined by their counterparts from Saudi Arabia and Turkey, both staunch critics of President Bashar Assad.Lavrov said he wanted to provide "firsthand information" about the Russian air campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, but also talk about a future political process in the country that is now in its fifth year of civil war.The U.S. and other Western powers have questioned Russia's primary motive in the airstrikes that began Sept. 30 and have backed up a Syrian government offensive in central and northwestern regions. Moscow says it is fighting IS and other extremist groups like the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, but Washington and others say the intervention is to prop up Assad and is likely to fan the violence.The intervention is also allowing Russia to portray itself as a major global player, projecting its military power far from its borders.Assad met Tuesday with Putin in a surprise visit to Moscow to discuss the military operations. In a speech Thursday at a conference in Russia's southern resort of Sochi, Putin said Syria's leaders "should establish working contacts with those opposition forces that are ready for dialogue.""As I understood from my conversation with President Assad the day before yesterday, he is ready for such a dialogue," Putin added.A military victory over the militants "will not solve all problems, but it will create conditions for the main thing: a beginning of a political process to encompass all healthy, patriotic forces of the Syrian society," Putin said.His words echoed those of Syrian government officials who have expressed readiness to negotiate with the "patriotic" opposition — a term generally used to describe unarmed, mostly Damascus-based government critics who are tolerated by Assad.Putin also said Russia and the West are establishing contacts to coordinate their operations."We are close to the start of exchanging information with our Western counterparts on positions and movements of the militants. This is certainly a step in the right direction. The most important thing is to consider each other as allies in a common fight."Putin said he asked Assad about how he would view it if Russia identified Syrian armed opposition groups "prepared to oppose and really fight terrorists, IS. How would you regard it if we support their efforts in the fight with terrorism in the way that we are supporting the Syrian army?"He said Assad responded: "I regard this positively."The Kremlin said Putin also talked on the phone with the leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan ahead of the Friday session.Lavrov said in televised remarks that Moscow is eager to invite other countries from the region to the talks, especially Iran — another supporter of Assad.Although Lavrov said that Russia had agreed to meet with the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Turkey, he reiterated that Moscow "remained convinced" that a settlement of the Syrian crisis had no future without the involvement of Iran.In Berlin, Kerry said the U.S., Iran, Russia and Europe agree Syria should be united and that Syrians should choose their own future leadership, but "one thing stands in the way of being able to rapidly move to implement that and it's a person called Assad, Bashar Assad."Kerry spoke alongside German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who said that finding a road to a political solution "depends on whether Washington and Moscow find bridges to each other."During Thursday's visit to the Hemeimeem base near the coastal city of Latakia, reporters saw dozens of sorties from early morning until late at night. Su-24s, Su-25s and Su-34s took off for bombing raids against militant targets, while Su-30 fighter jets provided cover. A giant An-124 Ruslan cargo plane landed, and two Il-76 military transports could be seen on the tarmac.Security forces with assault rifles guarded key facilities, and armored personnel carriers were parked nearby. Rows of prefabricated houses for servicemen were flanked by neatly kept canteens serving fish soup, pasta, beef and other dishes.Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.- Gen. Igor Konashenkov said that in the past 24 hours, Russian planes made 53 sorties, hitting 72 targets — mostly weapons and ammunition depots and other infrastructure.Konashenkov rejected Western allegations that Russia has mostly targeted other groups opposing Assad instead of the Islamic State. He said Russian planes were striking weapons depots and facilities making preparations for attacks by rigging cars with bombs and making suicide belts of explosives."I don't understand how terrorists could be divided into good and bad ones," he told reporters.He also dismissed reports that Russian planes were hitting civilians as lies and "sheer nonsense." He said the warplanes are not striking populated areas and are only aiming at infrastructure such as depots and bunkers — but only after the targets are repeatedly verified using various intelligence sources.In conducting the air campaign, Putin's apparent goals are to help cement the Syrian government's grip on the territory it still controls and to show that Assad cannot be unseated by force. Russia also wants to foster political talks that could preserve the Syrian state and allow Moscow to protect its interests in the region.Another Putin goal has been to bring Moscow and Washington together for a security dialogue in which Russia is treated as an equal. The hope is that this would improve ties with the West and end Russia's isolation that resulted from the crisis in Ukraine.State-owned pollster VTsIOM on Thursday released its latest survey on Putin's approval rating, which it said had reached an all-time high of nearly 90 percent. VTsIOM, which in the past has reported higher approval ratings for Putin than independent agencies, said the survey of 1,600 people was conducted Saturday and Sunday, and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.___Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva and Jim Heintz in Moscow, Geir Moulson and Matthew Lee in Berlin, and Vladimir Kondrashov at Hemeimeem Air Base in Syria contributed to this report.

Putin accuses West of playing 'double game' with Syria terrorist groups-AFP-oct 22,15-yahoonews

Moscow (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the West of playing a "double game" with terrorist groups in Syria, where both Moscow and a US-led coalition are conducting separate bombing campaigns."It's always difficult to play a double game: declaring a fight against terrorists while simultaneously trying to use some of them to arrange the pieces on the Middle East chess board in one's own interests," Putin said at a meeting of political scientists in Sochi known as the Valdai Club."It is impossible to prevail over terrorism if some of the terrorists are being used as a battering ram to overthrow undesirable regimes," Putin said.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is set to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as their Turkish and Saudi counterparts, in Vienna on Friday for crucial talks on the Syrian conflict, a four-year war that has killed more 250,000 people and forced millions from their homes.The high-level meeting follows the surprise visit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Moscow for talks with Putin on Tuesday, the embattled leader's first foreign visit since 2011.Russia -- which has pledged to support Damascus militarily, much to the West's dismay -- has insisted the air strikes it has conducted since September 30 in the war-torn country are hitting the Islamic State and other "terrorist" groups, and are being conducted at the Syrian leadership's request.But the US and its allies, who are conducting a separate bombing campaign in the country, say Moscow's strikes are aimed at Western-backed moderate rebels fighting Assad."There is no need to play on words, to classify terrorists are moderate and non-moderate," Putin said."What is the difference?" he said, suggesting that "in the opinion of some experts... so-called moderate bandits behead people moderately or gently."During his encounter with Assad, Putin called for a political solution involving all groups to try to end the war, the Kremlin said.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later declined to comment on whether Assad's future in Syria had been discussed during the encounter.Assad, who last visited Russia in 2008, told Putin that the three-week Russian bombing campaign had helped to stop the spread of "terrorism" in his country.- Destroyed 'combat capability' -While the Syrian leadership sang the praises of Moscow, the White House castigated Russia's intervention, calling it "counterproductive."Russia's defence ministry said Thursday it had struck 72 "terrorist" targets in Syria over the past 24 hours, claiming to have destroyed the combat capability of the main terrorist groups operating in the country."As a result of Russian air strikes, the main forces of terrorist groups, made up of the best trained terrorists, have lost combat capability. Their command and resupply system has been disrupted," senior military official Andrei Kartapolov told Russian news agencies.Kartapolov said the strikes -- which targeted the provinces of Hama, Idlib, Latakia, Damascus, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor -- had destroyed a bridge over the Euphrates River used for moving supplies to fighters from neighbouring Iraq.Putin said that strikes had given a "positive result" but added: "Is it enough to be able to say that terrorism in Syria is defeated? No, we need to make more serious efforts in order to make such a claim."He praised Russian pilots carrying out strikes as "all heroes," saying: "I am proud of them."Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denied Thursday an earlier report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that at least 12 people including medical staff were killed when Russian warplanes struck a field hospital in the northwestern province of Idlib.The Russian strikes are reported to have killed 370 people so far, a third of them civilians, the British monitoring group said Tuesday.Humanitarian organisations have deplored the effect of the bombing campaigns, with the International Committee of the Red Cross saying air strikes in Syria were disrupting the delivery of desperately needed aid to civilians.Since the start of Moscow's intervention, Russian planes have carried out 934 sorties that have destroyed 819 "terrorist targets", Kartopolov said.

Western trio seeks UN action on Syria barrel bombs-AFP By Carole Landry-oct 22,15-yahoonews

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Britain, France and Spain will soon present a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on stopping the Syrian regime from using barrel bombs, the French envoy said Thursday.But it remains highly unlikely that Russia, Syria's ally, would support such a measure, which comes amid fierce Western criticism of Moscow's air war in Syria.French Ambassador Francois Delattre told the 14-member council that barrel bombs were a "weapon of terror" that was fueling the exodus of refugees to neighboring countries and to Europe."It is the immediate responsibility of the Security Council to take measures to effectively end the use of this terrible weapon in Syria," said Delattre."France, acting with Britain and Spain, will soon make concrete proposals to its partners to this end."A diplomat told AFP that a draft resolution will be presented to the council "before the end of the month."Russia maintains it is working with the Syrian regime to defeat Islamic State jihadists, but the West accuses Moscow of targeting rebel groups supported by the West.In an indirect swipe at Russia, Delattre said "supporting Bashar al-Assad to push back the terrorists is a false solution that will only strengthen Daesh (IS) and prolong the tragedy."- Number one killer -Human rights groups say barrel bombings by the regime are the number one killer in the four-year war, claiming more civilian lives than IS attacks.In September alone, the Assad regime dropped 1,715 barrel bombs, hitting mosques, hospitals, schools and other civilian sites, US Ambassador Samantha Power said, citing the Syrian Network for Human Rights.Power said the Russian campaign had "worsened an already dire situation" and that the conflict "will not end until Syria is free of Assad."More than 240,000 people have died in the conflict, and nearly 12 million people -- half of the country's population -- have been driven from their homes.The council adopted a resolution in February 2014 demanding an end to the bombings that the West says are carried out by Damascus using helicopters to drop barrels rigged with explosives.But there has been no action to enforce the measure by the council, where veto-wielding Russia has in the past blocked resolutions targeting Assad.Human rights groups have called for a no fly-zone to prevent the helicopters from dropping the barrel bombs, but that remains a difficult prospect during the Russian air campaign.Russian President Vladimir Putin last month proposed a draft resolution on strengthening the fight against IS but with the consent of the Syrian regime, a measure rejected by France, Britain and the United States.After weeks of negotiations, diplomats said Russia had failed to garner the nine votes necessary to pass the text at the council, even without a veto threat from the Western powers.

US-led forces strike IS-controlled oil field in Syria-Associated Press By VIVIAN SALAMA-oct 22,15-yahoonews

BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq and Syria carried out a large-scale attack on Syria's Omar oil field as part of its mission to target the Islamic State group's ability to generate money, a coalition spokesman said Thursday.Operations officer Maj. Michael Filanowski told journalists in Baghdad that airstrikes late Wednesday struck IS-controlled oil refineries, command and control centers and transportation nodes in the Omar oil field near the town of Deir el-Zour. Coalition spokesman Col. Steven Warren said the attack hit 26 targets, making it one of the largest set of strikes since launching the air campaign last year.The refinery generates between $1.7 and $5.1 million per month for the Islamic State group."It was very specific targets that would result in long-term incapacitation of their ability to sell oil, to get it out of the ground and transport it," Filanowski said.The Islamic State group seized a number of oil refineries and other infrastructure in Iraq and Syria as it sought to generate revenue to build a self-sufficient state. The group currently holds territory in just under a third of Iraq and Syria, and coalition forces continue to launch airstrikes in support of allied ground forces in both countries.Coalition officials said that Iraqi security forces, backed by the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces and Iraqi federal police, continue to work to recapture and clear the western city of Ramadi and the city of Beiji, home to Iraq's largest oil refinery. They were being supported by airstrikes.Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they had driven Islamic State militants out of Beiji and were in full control of the town. But coalition officials said Thursday that the mission has not been completed."Beiji city is contested," Filanowski said. "They control the road but then the next phase of the operation will be to clear the actual city."Filanowski added that much of the area is littered with booby traps, and the militants have staged a number of counterattacks on advancing Iraqi forces as they look to control the town. He said that between 400 and 600 IS fighters are believed to have been fighting in Beiji — far less than the estimated 600 to 1,000 fighters in battling in Ramadi.Meanwhile, a study released Thursday by IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center said that from July through the end of September this year, the Islamic State group claimed a total of 1,086 attacks worldwide, with a 42 percent increase in the average daily number of attacks by the group.The IHS report highlighted Islamic State activity across the area that it has claimed as its territory, including Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the North Caucasus and Algeria, in addition to the group's operational heartland in Iraq and Syria. The study considers an attack any act of aggression that causes casualties or disruption, including foiled attacks claimed by the militant group.The report also noted that while most of the attacks happened in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State attacks in Nigeria during the third quarter yielded a higher death toll than those recorded in Syria, and had the highest average fatalities per attack of any of the group's self-declared states.

U.N. council will examine details of Iran's missile test: Russia-Reuters By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols-oct 22,15-yahoonews

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. envoy on Thursday said the United Nations Security Council will examine the technical details of a ballistic missile test by Iran, which the United States and its European allies have said violated U.N. sanctions.The United States, Britain, France and Germany called on Wednesday for the council's Iran sanctions committee to take action over the launch, which they said involved a ballistic missile "inherently capable of delivering a nuclear weapon."Reporters asked Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin if Moscow believed it was a violation that would necessitate punitive steps by the committee."We need to be very careful about those things, we will look into technical details and then, of course, we need to take into account the political circumstances," Churkin said. "One has to be professional about it. It's not a sensational kind of issue."Iran said earlier this month that it tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile. It denies the missile was nuclear-capable.In an apparent reference to a Security Council resolution adopted in July that endorsed a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers and called for future curbs on Iranian missile development, Churkin said it referred to missiles capable of delivering atomic warheads.But the United States, Britain, France and Germany said Iran violated a 2010 resolution that banned all ballistic missile tests by Iran.The resolution remains valid until the July 14 nuclear deal is fully implemented. The missile test was not a violation of the nuclear deal, U.S. officials have said.China's U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi was asked if Iran's test was a violation and if there should be further sanctions. He said the council was "looking at that."Western diplomats say it is possible for the sanctions committee to blacklist additional individuals or entities if it determined that the test breached the U.N. ban. They said, however, that Russia and China, which opposed the sanctions on Iran's missile program, might block any such moves. Under the July deal, sanctions on Iran would be lifted in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. Once in effect, Iran would still be "called upon" to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons for up to eight years.The deal allows for supply of ballistic missile technology to Tehran with Security Council approval, but Washington has pledged to veto any such requests. The deal was unlikely to be fully implemented before next year, U.S. and European officials have said.(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols; editing by Grant McCool)

U.S commando killed in raid to free hostages of ISIS in Iraq-Reuters By Phil Stewart and Isabel Coles-oct 22,15-yahoonews

WASHINGTON/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - One member of a U.S. special operations force was killed during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first American to die in ground combat with the militant group, U.S. officials said on Thursday.Sixty-nine hostages were rescued in the action, which targeted an Islamic State prison around 7 kilometers north of the town of Hawija, according to the security council of the Kurdistan region, whose counterterrorism forces took part.Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said at a news briefing the operation did not mark a change in U.S. tactics in the war on Islamic State militants, who pose the biggest security threat to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003."I would not suggest that this is something that is now going to happen on a regular basis, but I do think it is symbolic of the kinds of efforts that we are taking on behalf of our partners," he told reporters.It was the most significant raid against Islamic State since May, when American special operations forces killed one of its senior leaders, Abu Sayyaf from Tunisia, in a raid in Syria.The U.S. rescue mission unfolded amid mounting concerns in Washington over increasing Russian intervention in the Middle East.The hostages rescued in the raid were all Arabs, including local residents and Islamic State fighters held as suspected spies, a U.S. official said on Thursday.The official told Reuters that around 20 of the hostages were members of Iraqi security forces."Some of the remainder were Daesh (Islamic State) ... fighters that Daesh thought were spies," the official said. "The rest of them were citizens of the local town".More than 20 Islamic State militants were killed and six detained, the security council said.Islamic State called the operation "unsuccessful" but acknowledged casualties among its fighters.In a statement distributed online on Thursday by supporters, it said U.S. gunships had shelled areas around the prison to prevent the arrival of reinforcements, then clashed with militants for two hours.The statement confirmed U.S. claims that some guards had been killed and others detained in the operation."Dozens" of U.S. troops were involved in the mission, a U.S. defense official said, declining to be more specific about the number."It was a deliberately planned operation, but it was also done with the knowledge that imminent action was needed to save the lives of these people," the U.S. defense official said.The U.S. serviceman was shot during the mission and taken to the Kurdistan regional capital Erbil, where he died, the U.S. defense official said. He was the first American serviceman killed in ground combat in Iraq since the United States withdrew its forces in 2011.U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren, spokesman for U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, said the possibility that Americans were among the hostages was not a consideration in carrying out the operation.Some of the rescued people said Islamic State militants had told them they would be executed after morning prayers, Warren said.The U.S. forces were acting as advisors then were sucked into the battle when Kurdish fighters came under heavy fire, he explained."They were pinned down and they were beginning to take casualties, so the Americans in the heat of battle made a decision," he said.Cook said he was not aware at this point that there were any Americans among those who were rescued. "My understanding is there was no indication there were specifically Americans present here."The understanding was that there were a number of hostages, although we were not sure exactly who was among that group, but that they had been held there for some time and again the information we had received ... was that those hostages did fear for their lives, that there was the threat of a mass execution perhaps within hours."He said the mission had been requested by the Kurdistan Regional Government.Sources in the Hawija area said they heard blasts and gunfire overnight and that Islamic State militants had withdrawn from view after the raid, apparently relocating their bases.Five U.S. helicopters launched from Erbil were involved in the mission, and the United States was providing helicopter lift, intelligence support, air strike support, and advisory support to the peshmerga, the U.S. defense official said.Air strikes were launched before and after the mission to block approaches to the prison and destroy it afterward, the U.S. defense official said.Hawija is a stronghold of Islamic State militants who have captured several dozen Kurdish peshmerga fighters in battle.Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has been for more than a year the target of daily air strikes in Iraq and Syria by a U.S.-led coalition.The United States' former Cold War foe Russia has been conducting airstrikes in Syria against opponents of its closest regional ally Bashar al-Assad, as Iraq questions American resolve to fight militants on its soil.Russia has also joined a Baghdad-based intelligence cell along with Iran, Iraq and Syria that has provided information on Islamic State targets.Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi faces intense pressure from the ruling coalition and powerful Shi'ite militias to request Russian air strikes on Islamic State, which controls a third of the major OPEC oil producer.(Additional reporting by Yeganeh Torbati and David Alexander in Washington and Stephen Kalin in Baghdad; Editing by Michael Georgy, Toni Reinhold)

Obama meets Pakistan's Sharif to stress nuclear worries, seek help on Taliban-Reuters By David Brunnstrom and Idrees Ali-oct 22,15-yahoonews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama met Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday to stress concerns about Pakistan's expanding nuclear arsenal and seek help in bringing the Afghan Taliban back to peace talks.Washington has been trying to persuade Pakistan to make a unilateral declaration of "restraint" over its nuclear program but Pakistani officials said Islamabad will not accept limits on its use of small tactical nuclear weapons, given the threat it sees as posed by India.A joint statement after the White House meeting referred to nuclear security and said both leaders had stressed the need for "all sides" to act with restraint and work towards strategic stability in South Asia.It also said Obama and Sharif expressed their commitment to advance the Afghan peace and reconciliation process and called on Taliban leaders to enter direct talks with Kabul, which have stalled since inaugural discussions in Pakistan in July.Those talks broke down after the Afghan intelligence agency said Taliban leader Mullah Omar had been dead for two years.“It's a setback, no doubt, and it will take some time to overcome this setback, but we will try again," Sharif told reporters after his meeting with Obama.The Taliban insurgency has escalated since tens of thousands of U.S.-led NATO combat troops withdrew from Afghanistan ahead of an end-2014 deadline, hampering Obama's efforts to withdraw remaining U.S. troops.Michael Kugelman of the Wilson Center think tank said that as well as seeking Pakistan's help on the talks, Obama would have stressed the need for it to do away with militant sanctuaries inside its borders used as bases from which to target the U.S.-backed Afghan government and U.S. forces."Obama knows that a political solution is needed to end the Afghan war, and for that you need help from the Pakistanis," he said.However, Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution said it was not clear Sharif had the clout with his own army to get military leaders to pressure the Taliban back into talks.Despite the tensions, the Obama administration is preparing to sell Islamabad eight F-16 fighter jets in a bid to bolster ties, a U.S. source familiar with the matter said.The joint statement made no mention of the sale, which Congress could block, but said Sharif "expressed satisfaction with the cooperation achieved in defense relations."U.S. concerns have been growing about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal amid a fresh round of tensions between Islamabad and India, Pakistan's nuclear-armed rival and neighbor.Pakistan argues that smaller tactical nuclear weapons are needed to deter a sudden attack by India, but Washington worries they may further destabilize an already volatile region as their smaller size makes them more tempting to use in a conventional war - and harder to prevent from falling into militant hands.The statement said the two leaders discussed the continuing threat of nuclear terrorism and stressed the importance of improvement in Pakistan-India relations."All sides should continuously act with maximum restraint and work jointly toward strengthening strategic stability in South Asia," it said.Pakistani officials say Washington is demanding unreasonable limits on its nuclear weapons while not offering much in return apart from a hazy promise to consider Pakistan as a recognized recipient of nuclear technology.The Federation of American Scientists said this week that since 2011, Pakistan has deployed two new nuclear-capable short- range ballistic missiles and a new medium-range ballistic missile and was developing two extended-range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and two nuclear-capable cruise missiles.It estimated Pakistan's stockpile had grown to 110 to 130 warheads from 90 to 110 in 2011 and could reach 220 to 250 by 2025, making it the world’s fifth-largest nuclear-weapons state.(Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Additional reporting by Julia Edwards, Roberta Rampton, Idrees Ali and Andrea Shalal; Editing by James Dalgleish)

OSCE warns of implications for media pluralism in Georgia-Reuters By Margarita Antidze-oct 22,15-yahoonews

TBILISI (Reuters) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) voiced concern on Thursday over an ownership dispute involving Georgia's biggest independent TV company, Rustavi 2, and said it could harm media freedom.Hundreds of viewers and supporters of Rustavi 2 rallied outside the Tbilisi city court building and the broadcaster's studio building in a gesture of support.A court in Tbilisi earlier this month ordered a seizure of shares in the company that owns Rustavi 2, which government officials have often accused of bias, until a final verdict on the ownership dispute.Former co-owner Kibar Khalvashi is seeking to claim back his shares in the broadcaster, one of the most popular in the former Soviet republic.The court ordered a freeze on Rustavi 2's property in August. Its managers say Khalvashi's lawsuit and the court's decisions were politically motivated and accused the government of being behind Khalvashi's bid."According to reports, Rustavi 2 is experiencing significant financial and logistical constraints, effectively limiting its capacity to operate freely," Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE representative on freedom of the media, said in a statement."If not lifted soon, the court order will entail serious restrictions on the diversity and plurality of the media in the country."She said the situation was especially worrisome as a parliamentary election in Georgia is scheduled for next year."Democracy requires that people have access to diverse sources of information," Mijatović said.Hearings on the case will resume on Monday.Opposition politicians and many independent experts say the process is an attempt to silence an independent media in the country of 3.7 million. Government officials deny any involvement in this case."My government fully supports a pluralistic media environment...I am saddened to witness the recent attempts to politicize the legal dispute between two private parties regarding the ownership of Rustavi 2," Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili said on Thursday.(Editing by Angus MacSwan)

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
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, 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).

Iraq set for cholera vaccine campaign amid fear of international spread: WHO-AFP By Nina Larson-oct 22,15-yahoonews

Geneva (AFP) - Iraq plans to hold a mass vaccination campaign to halt a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 1,800 people amid fears it could spread among refugees in the region and beyond, the World Health Organization said Thursday."We are going to start a vaccination campaign to try to prevent a further spread of the disease," Dominique Legros, head of WHO's cholera unit, told reporters.He said a half million doses of the oral cholera vaccine -- enough to treat some 250,000 people -- were being shipped to Iraq and "should arrive today or tomorrow," with the immunisation campaign set to get underway by October 31.Iraq has confirmed 1,811 cases of the acute diarrhoeal disease since early September across 15 of the country's 18 governorates, including most recently in the northern autonomous Kurdish region.The arrival of cholera in the northern Kurdish region is particularly concerning due to the large numbers of Syrian refugees there, Legros said, pointing out that conditions in refugee camps are particularly conducive to the spread of the disease.According to Iraqi authorities, the disease has killed six people so far, including four in the Abu Ghraib region at the very beginning of the outbreak, before health authorities had set up a response plan."The case management is well carried out, (and) cases are declining," Legros said, adding that the situation in Iraq seemed to be "under control".The big concern now, Legros said, was "a spread towards the Middle East, towards Syria and refugee camps."- Spread to Europe? -Already a few cases have popped up in Kuwait and Bahrain, but the situations there are under control.He said other countries in the region had been alerted to the danger, and acknowledged that those infected risked bringing cholera with them to Europe.Cases of cholera are imported to Europe each year, but since sanitation conditions on the continent tend to be good, there is usually no risk of the disease spreading.Legros acknowledged though that the large numbers of refugees and migrants moving through Europe and stuck at borders with rudimentary shelter ran a greater risk."Whether you put a refugee camp in Europe or in Nigeria or in Syria, the problem remains the same," he said, pointing out that if people "don't have access to safe water and someone contaminates the water and someone else drinks it, they get cholera."Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by eating contaminated food or water, with children facing a particularly high risk of infection. It can kill in a matter of hours due to rapid dehydration.Legros said the Iraqi vaccination campaign would focus on the refugee camps in the north and camps for displaced Iraqis in the south.The vaccine used to fight cholera epidemics is scarce and can only be used in rare cases to urgently stop the spread of the disease.Last year the sole producer of the vaccine, Indian firm Shantha Biotechnics, made just two million doses -- enough to protect one million people.WHO estimates that around 40 million people in Africa alone live in areas where they are exposed to cholera.

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

Major drug tunnel found on US-Mexico border in California-Associated Press By ELLIOT SPAGAT-oct 22,15-yahoonews

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities seized 12 tons of marijuana and arrested 22 people after discovering one of the longest cross-border tunnels ever dug between the U.S. and Mexico, officials said Thursday.The passage connecting warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, was about 2,400 feet long and 30 feet deep. It was lit, ventilated and equipped with a rail system — hallmarks of the most sophisticated tunnels found along the border.Near-simultaneous police stings on Wednesday resulted in six arrests in San Diego and 16 in Mexico. Authorities recovered two tons of marijuana in the U.S. and 10 tons in Mexico.U.S. authorities said smugglers tried to move the first load of drugs through the tunnel on Wednesday but nothing got through undetected.The sting came after an undercover agent for U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agreed to provide the drug smugglers with drivers and the use of the San Diego warehouse in exchange for a $10,000 payment for each truckload of drugs that moved, according to a probable cause statement.The discovery demonstrates the enduring appeal of tunnels to smugglers, despite the significant time and money required to build one. Dozens of tunnels have been found along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years, some equipped with hydraulic lifts and electric rail cars.The San Diego-Tijuana region is popular because its clay-like soil is relatively easy to dig with shovels and pneumatic tools, and both sides of the border have warehouses that provide cover for trucks and heavy equipment.It was unclear which drug trafficking organization orchestrated the latest passage but the region is largely controlled by Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, whose leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico in July through an elaborate tunnel.Mexican federal police said in a press release that those arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking told authorities that they had ties to a criminal group that operates in the state of Jalisco — an apparent reference to the Jalisco New Generation cartel, which controls that part of western Mexico.The Mexican suspects were caught off-guard when authorities arrived at the Tijuana warehouse with a search warrant, police said. No shots were fired.The drugs found were wrapped in 873 packages covered with plastic and tape.On the U.S. side, the tunnel entry point in a warehouse had no stairs or ladder. U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said smugglers were believed to be using pulleys.David Shaw, head of Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego, said traffic to and from the San Diego warehouse was unusually heavy before the sting. The agency began investigating in May, he said.Isaias Enriquez, 53, and Isidro Silva, 27, both of Tijuana, were charged with conspiracy in U.S. federal court. Four others were to be charged in state court.Enriquez agreed in recorded conversations to pay the undercover agent $10,000 a truckload to provide the San Diego warehouse and drivers, according to the statement of probable cause.Two agents unloaded boxes containing 249 packages of marijuana at the warehouse on Wednesday, and one met later with Enriquez and Silva at a San Diego restaurant to arrange another shipment, the document said.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) 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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

Patricia grows into major hurricane threatening Mexico-AFP By Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias-oct 22,15-yahoonews

The US National Hurricane Center said "preparations should be rushed to completion" as Patricia increased ominously from a category two to a category four storm in the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale.Packing maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometers (130 miles) per hour, the hurricane was expected to strike the coast on Friday afternoon or evening, the Miami-based center said."Some strengthening is forecast tonight and Patricia is expected to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane through landfall," it said in a statement. Emergency services personnel were being moved from other states to the threatened region, said Mexico's National Water Commission director Roberto de la Parra."It is moving much faster than hurricanes we have had in the past," de la Parra told a news conference.Mexican officials closed schools in Colima and Guerrero state.Two dams in Jalisco and Michoacan were being drained to prevent flooding while residents were advised to protect their windows with large tape in the form of a cross.The Jalisco state government urged the coastal population to avoid the coast.The region includes the major port of Manzanillo, Colima state, and the tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco.At 2100 GMT, Patricia was 400 kilometers south of Manzanillo, according to the US hurricane center.The storm was moving west-northwest at 20 kilometers per hour.Patricia is expected to produce six to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimeters) of rainfall accumulations over the states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero, which could produce flash floods and mudslides, the US center said.The storm surge could also produce coastal flooding, accompanied by "large and destructive waves," it warned.The water commission warned that rivers could rise and roads could be affected by the bad weather.-- Wind force causes concern -Mexico's interior ministry activated its emergency response committee to coordinate the response.Officials said nearly 1,800 shelters for 259,000 are available, but no evacuations have been ordered so far."The amount of water and the strength of the wind worry us," national civil protection coordinator Luis Felipe Puente told a news conference.Jalisco, Michoacan, Colima and Nayarit are expected to get the equivalent of 40 percent of their annual rainfall in the next 48 hours, the water commission said.Mexico faces the double threat of Atlantic and Pacific tropical storms during the hurricane season, which ends November 30.In 2013, twin storms Ingrid and Manuel nearly simultaneously struck each coast, leaving 157 people dead in a rare double onslaught.

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