Posted on 03/28/2006 3:29:06 AM PST by Man50D
JERUSALEM Global civilization is on the verge of "World War III," a massive conflict in which the Islamic world will attempt to impose its ideology on Western nations, according to Meir Amit, a former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.
Amit, one of the most esteemed figures in the international defense establishment, warned Islamic nations and global Islamist groups will continue launching "all kinds of attacks" against Western states. He urged the international community to immediately unite and coordinate a strategy to fight against the "Islamic war."
We are on the eve of war with the Islamic world, which will wage a war and all kinds of actions and attacks against the Western world. We already noticed the terrorists in the world hit Spain, England, France. I call it World War III. You must look at it from this angle and treat it wider, not as a problem of terrorism here and there," said Amit, speaking during an exclusive interview with WND's Aaron Klein and ABC Radio's John Batchelor broadcast on Batchelor's national program, for which Klein serves as a co-host. (Listen to the Amit interview.)
Amit served as Mossad chief from 1963 to 1968. He directed some of the most notorious Mossad operations during that time and pioneered many of the tactics currently used by intelligence agencies worldwide. The subject of multiple books and movies, Amit is routinely described as a "living legend." Now in his mid-80s, Amit serves as chairman of Israel's Center for Special Studies.
The former intelligence chief referenced recent terror attacks against Israel, Europe and the United States; Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions; the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan; and worldwide Muslim riots.
"It looks to me like it is a kind of coordinated or contemplated problem to somehow impose the Islamic idea all over the world," Amit said.
Israel is routinely attacked by Palestinian terror groups. Since December 2000, 993 Israelis have been killed. Spain in March 2004 was struck by a series of coordinated bombings on its commuter train system, killing 192 people. London was rocked last July by bombings on its transportation system. France has been the scene of violent Muslim riots and attacks. And on Sept. 11, 2001, 2,986 people were killed when the U.S. was hit with coordinated terror attacks.
Violent Muslim riots erupted last month in the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon after cartoon images of Muhammad were printed in a Danish newspaper. The riots spread across the Middle East and throughout Europe.
At least 40 people were killed yesterday in a blast north of Mosul in Iraq. Iran and Syria have been accused of aiding the insurgency there and in Afghanistan against U.S. and European troops.
Amit urged Western nations to "unite and work together. Unfortunately, the world is not uniting. China and Russia are problems. This should be taken into consideration."
Both China and Russia have been aiding Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran claims is intended for peaceful purposes only. Russia last month received a delegation of Hamas leaders, and pledged to maintain diplomatic relations with the terror group in spite of efforts by the U.S. and Israel to isolate the newly elected Hamas-led Palestinian government.
Amit said Iran currently poses the most serious threat to the international community.
"The Iranians [are] financing terrorists in Israel and sending money," Amit said. "This is [my country's] immediate problem. But I think the most serious problem is Iran developing nuclear power."
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"You prefer our grandchildren deal with it?"
A vasectomy solved that a long time ago.
Actually, I don't believe it will be delayed beyond the lifetimes of the cohorts seeing Israel become a nation again in a day in 1948.
Ok, who's leading Jordan then? If not da king, then who?
I think the TV show I remember was the one with the Orson Wells.
Could it have been his western wife having a little influence on him?
Russia and China will be forced to side with the ALLIES once the reality their situation becomes apparent.
We saw what happens when a nation chooses weak leaders. The memory of Jimmy's humiliation in 1979 will not be lost.
Author of "Prophet of Doom"; Craig Winn, argues that terrorism is merely a tactic. Our real war is against radical Islam. Terror is merely their *tactic*, and until we recognize that, we won't win the war.
The world will be at war for a long time and the Muslims will penetrate far into Europe before being pushed back by a mighty European King. After that the world will be at peace
Global thermonuclear war bump for later.
Well, the sats didn't help discover WMD being transported to Syria, did they?
I'm a bit late on this thread but just had to say it again. We're getting ready to fulfill Ezekiel 38. It lists the players and who is going to invade Israel and what the outcome is. Better read it. This was written by a true prophet not a frog.
I don't like the term "we won the Cold War". We did not win it--liberty prevailed in the Cold War.
Don't count on Japan. Japan is making nice to us in public, but privately is nuzzling up to China.
When I read it 20 years ago (one of the few things you could understand) I could not imagine muslims succeeding in marching through Europe to get to France, not with us there protecting Europe not with European armies and not with countries as technologically unadvanced as islamic countries.....I did not realize that France was letting them in one by one.
CIA supposedly calls the Cold War, WWIII.
Without Germany on the side of the West, Poland would be gone. The Poles are a brave nation, but their country is as physically indefensible as Kansas or Nebraska would be. If Germany had a left wing government, the Russians would probably left them have Silesia and Pomerania back, in a repetition of the partitions of 1798 and 1939. We would be as incapable of helping Poland as the British were when the Nazis and Soviets decided to eliminate that nation at the start of World War II.
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