An interesting hypothesis.
Probably too true for some.
The Scriptures speak about such people and 'wishing' or looking with eager anticipation for such end time calamities. God is very sternly against such.
Mindless sleep for me is that which pretends the whole terror thing is all over but for the mopping up . . . that we'll never again have a serious deadly attack by the likes of Al Qaeda.
I get a kick out of watching God deal with evil. I don't get a kick out of death and destruction by evil.
Some of us take seriously the Scriptures about shouting the warning. We don't want the unwarned's blood on our hands.
I don't really expect a lot of people to pay much attention until after a certain level of events have happened. I mostly say a lot of things I say so that people will look back and remember and THEN LEARN. Holy Spirit is very good at causing people to remember such things at such times.
I believe Bush is doing his best to have responsible experts on top of as many factors, issues and aspects as possible. I believe we really did thwart some serious attacks since the first of Dec. But our best experts somehow blew it on 911, too.
You are welcome to whatever biases you have about end times, Biblical prphecy etc. We each have our biases about all of life. Some of them match "objective" reality better than others.
And, when reality is in a wholesale transition . . . it's pretty reasonable that there would be a great diversity of opinions and biases.
I'm pretty comfortable with my degree of successful hypothesizing about such the last 35-45 years. We shall see how the next few years go.
I believe this year will be a kick up several notches in terms of degree of unknown things occurring and rare things occurring more frequently.
I have prayed for God to wake the USA up with some sort of relatively benign thing like the electricity shut of in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. My impression is that He prefers to do it otherwise for His own unstated reasons. I THINK it has something to do with insisting that humans experience the costs of their poor choices much more authentically than my requested method would allow.
He's THE BOSS. And, He's playing for eternity--training rulers to rule over all Creation. I'm sure He knows what He's doing. I can trust that whether I understand it all, or not.
And your take on this is???
Iraq Attack in Works
Terror expert Mansoor Ijaz says chemical weapons came in from Iran
January 14, 2004
This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, Jan. 13, that has been edited for clarity.
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BRIT HUME, HOST: The administration is not saying anything about this, and it is not even clear officials know anything about it. But some sources in Iraq are talking about a development that could prove an important turn in the search for weapons of mass destruction. For more on this we turn to the man who so often seems to know things before everybody else.
Fox News foreign affairs analyst Mansoor Ijaz, who joins us now from Berlin.
Mansoor, what's up?
MANSOOR IJAZ, FOX NEWS FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST: Well, Brit, what I have learned in the last 24 hours is that about three days ago in the northern part of Iraq, a convoy of trucks and jeeps and cars was brought across from Iran where some of the Kurdish Peshmergah -- these are these
Kurdish rebels that are sort of like Mujahideen, if I may put it that way, from the old Afghan War.
They intercepted one of those trucks that were carrying a large warhead that had extremely sophisticated plastic -- C- 4 plastic explosives in it. And when the driver of that truck was put under interrogation, he then admitted that as many -- there were a total of 30 warheads that
apparently were scheduled to come across.
One of them got caught, and 29 made it across somehow or the other. Of those 29, we are told now that somewhere between six and 12 of them may have, in fact, been laden with chemical explosives that would be then attached to
a rocket of some sort inside Iraq that's already there in a separate convoy.
And that those warheads would then be exploded over, for example, an encampment near the Coalition Provisional Authority or something like that.
Now, what alarmed me about this and the reason that I felt it was necessary to get this out as soon as possible, is because I have now heard three times in the last week, from separate sources that I have been talking to that
something big is being planned for Baghdad.
In which the idea that is being put forward is to kill as many as 3,000 to 5,000 people at one shot; something that would be similar to a World Trade Center type of attack. In that part of the world, the only way you could get that done is if you launched a massive chemical or biological attack.
HUME: Now, talk to me a little bit about the Kurdish forces who were involved in this event. Are these -- are they friendly to the United States and the coalition? Are they not? And what -- you know, and how credible are they?
IJAZ: Yes. It's a good question. The strange thing here is that what I have been told is that the sources that got this information out, what they saw on the ground physically going on is that the Kurdish leaders that had
the Kurdish rebels that had caught this guy had taken the warhead and were actually trying to sell it back to the Iranians along with their silence.
Because there's something else going on here that's of a larger political nature. We now know that during the past week, the reformists in Iran have been pummeled and stopped from allowing their candidates to be fielded for
the upcoming elections.
We also know that there is, as we have said here before about a month and a half, two months ago, that there is a wintertime offensive being prepared with the help of the Iranian and Revolutionary Guard in Afghanistan, maybe with the help of Al Qaeda, maybe even bin Laden, al Zawahiri, and people like that who, as we've said here before, are in
Iran right now.
And at the same time, they're trying to launch something in Iraq. The idea of which would be the wag the dog scenario, where if your domestic politics, you can't fix it, and it's getting too much pressure under honor the
mullahs in Iran right now. Better to start the fire and ratchet it up a notch on both sides outside, both in Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time.
HUME: Now, how great a likelihood do you believe that you are finding this out or others finding this out, and it getting out, will have on it actually happening?
IJAZ: Well, I think the first thing we've got to do is go and talk to those Kurdish rebels and find out where the heck those other convoy trucks went.
The second thing that we need to do, and I talked with General McInerney earlier this evening to determine what the range is, what type of warheads would be used and how these things could be put together. He made a very strong recommendation, and I agree with that, that we need
to get Global Hawk One back in theater. Because if these things...
HUME: That thing out of there now?
IJAZ: ... these chemical warheads were attached -- they are out of there right now, and they're not in theater. And the trouble is that they're in desolate areas in which these rockets could be launched from. And remember, a chemical weapon, to have massive -- the most massive
impact that it can have to have a midair burst.
Which means that it needs to be launched from, let's say, 100 kilometers away or 50 kilometers away or 200 kilometers away.
These are areas that our people are just not, you know, focused on right now because we've got so much work to do in and around the urban areas in Iraq. So I think we need to get down to finding out where that convoy of 29
warheads are and do that immediately. And get our Kurdish friends to help us rather than trying to sell them back to the Iranians. That doesn't make any sense.
HUME: Oh, we've got just a few seconds left. The credible of your sources, your assessment?
IJAZ: They're unimpeachable. Again, I think they've been right all along. We'll find out in the coming days in a print report about the bin Laden story in great detail. Everything has been verified. We will see that.
HUME: Thank you Mansoor.
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