Posted on 09/24/2004 6:46:32 AM PDT by marty60
U.S. Creates Task Force to Target Al-Zarqawi
Friday, September 24, 2004
WASHINGTON U.S. military planners have assembled a special task force charged with finding and neutralizing Jordanian terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search), U.S. officials told FOX News.
Known as Task Force 626, the operation is assembled along the same lines as that of Task Force 121 (search), which searched months before capturing Saddam Hussein and is still hunting Usama bin Laden.
Task Force 626 is smaller than its higher-profile sibling but is similarly made up of CIA operatives, special operations troops from the Navy and the Army, and a handful of investigators.
Members of 626 have fanned out in areas ranging from Baghdad to Fallujah and other areas in the contested al Anbar province in search of al-Zarqawi. While al-Zarqawi is still at large, officials say the task force and other military units have been very successful in eliminating many leaders of his group's leadership.
Many key al-Zarqawi figures have been "whacked," one official told FOX News, citing the missile strike that took out al-Zarqawi's spiritual guide and advisor late last week.
Officials believe they may have taken out as much as half of the members of the senior leadership of al-Zarqawi's group, Tawhid and Jihad (search) whose name is loosely translated as "Monotheism and Holy War," but they caution that the group harbors many more figures who could rise up and take their places.
Tawhid and Jihad this week claimed responsibility for kidnapping and killing two Americans Jack Hensley (search) and Eugene Armstrong (search). The group is still holding Briton Kenneth Bigley (search).
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Are you talking about Daniel Pearl?
Daniel Pearl was with the Wall St. Jouranl and was kidnapped in Pakistan.
What's up with Mama "T"? Do you think she might be trying to "buy" Bin Laden? She keeps hinting at a Bin Laden Oct. surprise.
Damnation
Gematria value: 626
in Rom. 13:2, means "condemnation," which comes on those who withstand God's ordinance of magistracy. This sentence of condemnation comes not from the magistrate, but from God, whose authority is thus resisted.
In 1 Cor. 11:29 (R.V., "judgment") this word means condemnation, in the sense of exposure to severe temporal judgements from God, as the following verse explains.
In Rom. 14:23 the word "damned" means "condemned" by one's own conscience, as well as by the Word of God. The apostle shows here that many things which are lawful are not expedient; and that in using our Christian liberty the question should not simply be, Is this course I follow lawful? but also, Can I follow it without doing injury to the spiritual interests of a brother in Christ? He that "doubteth", i.e., is not clear in his conscience as to "meats", will violate his conscience "if he eat," and in eating is condemned; and thus one ought not so to use his liberty as to lead one who is "weak" to bring upon himself this condemnation.
I think you're right! :)
Thanks for the ping!
Psychological warfare
Stunned or not, should have happened last spring in faluwatever.
The Council of Nicea decided in favor of the Trinity doctrine in 325 AD, but three following councils decided against it. This controversy went on for over twenty years. Emperor Theodosius ruled that the Nicene Creed would be official in the Holy Roman Empire in 381 AD, but by that time Christianity had spread well beyond the boundaries of the Empire. Christians outside the Empire weren't bound to follow the Emperor's ruling and Judeo-Christian beliefs remained intact.
Enter Muhammad, born in Makkah (Mecca), far beyond the reaches of the Church. The Qur'an states that Islam started with Abraham and that they are descended from him. Muhammad was only a messenger, a prophet, preserving Islamic traditions in the Qur'an. Muhammad claimed that the angel Gabriel (yes, that same Gabriel) appeared to him and told him that Allah was the only god. Moreover, Muhammad (as written in the Qur'an) recognized Jesus as the Messiah.
Given the Qur'an's statements regarding the nature of God, it's likely that Muhammad had learned something about non-Trinitarian Judeo-Christian beliefs, being outside the influence of the now Trinitarian church. Hence, in Muhammad's view, the Trinitarian Church was a corruption what he learned to be the foundation of truth regarding God. Additionally, the veneration of the Cross, something that early Christians did not do, was considered to be idolatry by Muhammad.
All three religions are inextricably connected, but basic differences in belief separate them. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. Christians vary widely in belief, but most hold to the Trinity and the cross. Muslims recognize Jesus as the Messiah, but hold Muhammad as God's most recent messenger/prophet. Hence, we have a very strange relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Oh that's right. Wrong person.
I once read where some good ol' boy had been thrown out of Sunday school for trying to explain the Trinity as being "like 3-in-1 Oil". Ever since then, every time I hear about it, I start laughing so hard I can't even form a coherent opinion...
I thought I had bookmarked it and can't find it. Does anybody have access to that article. I think it needs to be posted a "couple" times.
Don't know of any articles I've seen posted about it, but I believe that during one of India's uprisings against the English in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, they used bullets dipped in pigs' blood as retaliation for the massacre of a British settlement. I forget exactly why that works with Hindus as well as Muslims, though.
What was your point?
That's what I mean. a massive army is good at keeping them in their holes. But, it takes special talents to find the snakes and kill them.
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