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Posted on 09/01/2006 8:57:29 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Thursday, September 7, 2006
"9/11 Firefighter Remembers ‘Taste of Hell’
Elite Member of Rescue Squad Sees The Fingerprints of God at the Pentagon on 9/11"
By Michael Ireland
Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
Larry Everett
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Thanks.
Actually, the two eclipses ("two bows") aren't both in Ramadan. But the "prophecy" will never actually be literally fulfilled because (if I remember correctly) the solar eclipse would have to occur in the middle of Ramadan and the lunar one at the beginning. And that is backwards and definitionally impossible (solar eclipses are always new moons and lunar eclipses are always full moons, and lunar months begin with new moons with full moons in the middle).
A sun could be eclipsed during a full moon figuratively speaking (say by massive "clouds" that obscure the sun), but not literally. So it becomes an endless circle trying to determine if the "signs" fit for them (two eclipses with the solar in the middle), because however you cut it, they will have to fudge on it in some way to claim a fulfillment.
And I'm not sure that most Muslims believe in this particular "sign" (of the end times/the Mahdi's "return") any more than saying most Christians believe that the battle of Gog and Magog (what Muslims call "Yajuj wa Majuj") is the next step in a Christian prophetic calendar (eg. the premise of the "Left Behind" series), rather than in a very distant future (at the end of the Messianic millenial kingdom when Jerusalem is at peace and secure as spelt out in Revelation 20:8, Ezekiel 38-9, and Psalm 2 and therefore well over a thousand years from now), or that we await a "revived Roman Empire" (again, the premise of the popular "Left Behind" series) when Revelation 17:11 explicitly excludes that possibility (the "eighth king" belongs to the seven, but is one of the five empires that preceded Rome, not the "sixth" that ruled at the time of John) . Not trying to start an unrelated prophecy debate. Just illustrating that not all Christians believe the same things about prophecy, and the same applies to Muslims. The question is whether this particular segment of Muslim radicals believe this.
The interesting thing is that the lunar eclipse was on Sept 6/7 (at the announcement of the beginning of the 15-day window) and the solar eclipse will be on Sept 22/23 (the 15-day deadline and beginning of Ramadan).
Anybody see anything coming out of the image of the sun right above the "suitcase nuke" where the smiling gaze of Bin Laden is directed in that old picture from 2003/2004?
Surely. Here are some more from Mar/Apr 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/03/01/bin_laden_asks_zarqawi_to_make_us_a_target__source_1109659898?mode=PF
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden recently asked his chief ally in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to consider the territory of the United States as a target for terrorist attacks, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Monday. "There has been communication between bin Laden and Zarqawi, with bin Laden suggesting to Zarqawi the U.S. homeland as a target," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official called the bin Laden communication "a fairly recent development" but declined to provide details for fear of compromising U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.
. . . The Department of Homeland Security said it issued a classified intelligence bulletin over the weekend warning state officials that the federal government had received nonspecific information about al Qaeda plans to attack the United States. "The interesting thing is the implication here that Zarqawi could pull such a thing off, that he has that reach," said Daniel Benjamin, a terrorism analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington."It's particularly interesting that bin Laden would think that Zarqawi could do this," he said.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050419-102106-5456r
Reports reveal Zarqawi nuclear threat
By Bill Gertz (snip)
Recurrent intelligence reports say al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi has obtained a nuclear device or is preparing a radiological explosive -- or dirty bomb -- for an attack, according to U.S. officials, who also say analysts are unable to gauge the reliability of the information's sources. The classified reports have been distributed to U.S. intelligence agencies for several consecutive months and say Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, has stored the nuclear device or dirty bomb in Afghanistan, said officials familiar with the intelligence. One official said the intelligence is being questioned because analysts think al Qaeda would not hesitate to use a nuclear device if it had one. However, the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has reported the nuclear threat in several classified reports distributed since December indicates concern about it. . . .
The reported threat of nuclear terrorism comes amid other intelligence indicating that Zarqawi is planning an attack on the United States. Still other intelligence says Zarqawi was planning a chemical weapons attack in Europe, officials said. In February, U.S. intelligence and security officials said information showed bin Laden had asked Zarqawi to focus future attacks on targets inside the United States. The threat was contained in a classified bulletin to state and local security officials.
You're welcome.
I made a point of saving the images that were posted in the initial thread. Like many others here at the time, I felt the images conveyed messages that, though WE may not have understood them, the radicals understood.
It's not easy to figure out what they may believe or not believe.............there's nothing logical about insanity. LOL! They've twisted other things to suit their needs and justify their attacks on the West so I don't expect them to change their mindset.
I haven't kept up with eclipses and didn't realize there was a lunar eclipse on the 6th/7th. Nor that a solar eclipse is coming up on the 22nd/23rd. Tends to shed a new light on the timing of al Masri's announcement.
And who's to say his message was only for his (and the dead Zarqawi's) followers in Iraq? We know Zarqawi sent some of his followers off to attack Americans elsewhere. The message could be aimed at ALL AQ followers. Why release it to the world if it was only intended for those in Iraq? When I first heard about this announcement, all the cell phone purchases across this country the past several months came to mind. Made me go "Hmmmmmmmm".
I've been following reports of thefts of law enforcement and emergency vehicles, uniforms (law enforcement and airline personnel), explosive materials, etc., and reports of what appear to be test runs for the past 4+ years and there is something big in the making. When they'll be able to pull it off is anyone's guess but the cell phones are kinda the last piece of the puzzle.
They've shown they are patient and when the time is right for them, they make their move. And the picture I see when I connect the dots...............there's simply no way to stop all of it.
FBI.gov - Seeking Information: "ADNAN G. EL SHUKRIJUMAH" (ALIASES: "Adnan G. El Shukri Jumah; Abu Arif; Ja'far Al-Tayar; Jaffar Al-Tayyar; Jafar Tayar; Jaafar Al-Tayyar") (VIEW POSTER. Click Here.)
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FREEREPUBLIC.com: "WHAT DID WE LEARN?" -Commentary by Cindy (August 26, 2006)
What Did We Learn?
What did we learn from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001?
OPINION: I have learned that more Americans love America than
the lame-stream media will ever let on.
I have learned that America's military is the finest in the world.
I have learned that many leos and alphabet agencies are doing
their utmost to stop terrorist attacks.
I have learned that our borders need to be secured now.
I have learned that more people hate Americans, Christians and Jews
than I could have ever guessed before 9/11.
I have learned that political correctness ranges from being a nuisance
to being dangerous and interferes with the war on terror.
I know that prayer is powerful.
Thank You God.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Well, that is what I have learned and that is what I know. -Cindy
http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
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http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
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And now, let's go a step further past my brief commetnary.
I am a born-again, Bible believing, conservative Christian.
I stand with Israel.
I believe that Israel has a right to exist.
Enough about me.
Today is September 10, 2006.
Please explore the links and articles I compiled below.
Doing so may give you more insight to September 11, 2001.
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http://www.memri.org
http://www.memritv.org
http://www.memrifilms.org/
THE MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE PRESENTS:
"THE ARAB AND IRANIAN REACTION TO 911
Five Years Later"
Watch the full version (43 minutes long) or watch it in 3 parts
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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=71844
"MEMRI Capitol Hill Briefing, Release of New Documentary: 'The Arab & Iranian Reaction to 9-11: Five Years Later'"
9/6/2006 3:07:00 PM
SNIPPET: "Immediately following the attack of 9/11, conspiracy theories took hold in the Middle East by prominent journalists, members of academia and leading religious figures. Furthermore, Arab government officials were responsible in part for creating and spreading conspiracies about what "really" happened.
Notable conspiracy theories from the Arab world and Iran between 2001 and 2006 which appeared on TV put the blame for the attacks on the U.S. government, Jews, Zionists, Christian Zionists, born again Christians, the Vatican, Mossad, the CIA, the National Security Council, white supremacist groups, Britain, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and many others.
The documentary will also highlight how following the attacks of 9-11, the Arab Reformist Movement was born -- with many brave individuals speaking out against "the culture of hatred" which produced Al-Qaeda. As the former Kuwaiti Education Minister, Dr. Ahmad Al-Ruba'i, said on Sept. 11, 2004, "Our goal, as intellectuals, is to confront this widespread movement even if it makes people angry... First, to fly a civilian airplane and crash into a building is not a great deed. A great deed is to manufacture an airplane and build a trade center, as they are doing now in New York. The Arabs must replace the mentality that glorifies destruction with a mentality that glorifies construction... The truth is that the Arab mind is blinded by conspiracy theories.""
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http://www.cnsnews.com
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September 10, 2006
Note: The following text is a quote:
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Jeremy Reynalds
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org
Arab Church Leaders Reject Christian Zionism As 'False Teaching'
Following the recent Israeli-Hizballah war in Lebanon, four Arab church leaders based in Jerusalem have issued a blistering attack on Christians who actively support the Jewish state, indirectly including President George W. Bush.
The Cybercast News Service (CNS News.com) reported that in a statement published just one week after a United Nations cease fire went into effect on Aug.14, Nazareth-born Roman Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah was joined by two Arab Protestant bishops and one Arab Orthodox archbishop, in charging that “the Christian Zionist program provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism.
“We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation,” CNS reported the statement said.
Signed by Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad, along with Sabah and the Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran bishops of Jerusalem, CNS reported the joint statement indirectly denounces President Bush for declaring his support last May for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan to hold onto some Jewish settlements in the disputed West Bank after unilaterally withdrawing from many others.
“We further reject the contemporary alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations with elements in the governments of Israel and the United States that are presently imposing their unilateral pre-emptive borders and domination over Palestine.”
CNS reported that the statement, titled “The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism,” alleges that “Christian Zionism advances racial exclusivity and perpetual war rather than the Gospel of universal love, redemption and reconciliation taught by Jesus Christ.”
(Zionism refers to the modern movement for a Jewish national homeland, which started in the 1800's.)
The church leaders’ statement also mentioned the Arab-Christian contention that international Christians who actively support Israel desire to bring on the Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Jesus.
“Rather than condemn the world to the doom of Armageddon, we call upon everyone to liberate themselves from the ideologies of militarism and occupation,” CNS reported the statement read.
Three Jerusalem-based Christian Zionist leaders -- two Americans and one South African -- issued a joint rebuttal one week later. CNS reported they said that “certain church clerics” had used “inflammatory language to express views that are far from the truth.”
“Christian Zionism is not heretical. In fact, Christians from all traditional backgrounds have held such a view for two thousand years,” CNS reported the statement read.
It was signed by Malcolm Heading, who heads the 26-year-old International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, along with Ray Sanders, who leads the Christian Friends of Israel group, and Rebecca Brimmer of Bridges for Peace.
Together, the three Jerusalem-based Christian Zionist organizations have staffs of several hundred permanent and volunteer workers, and branches in dozens of countries worldwide.
The three prominent Christian leaders, who have each lived in Israel for many years, issued a six-point rebuttal of the Arab bishops' central charge that Christian Zionism is heretical.
Stating that such Christians believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible, CNS reported they pointed out that “replacement theology” (which teaches that the church has totally supplanted the Jewish people in God’s plans and purposes), has played “a pivotal role in the persecution of Jews through the centuries.”
Addressing the bishop’s “apocalypse” contention, CNS reported the three leaders wrote that “Christian Zionists do not base their theological positions on end-time prophecy, but on the faithful covenant promises of God given to Abraham some four thousand years ago.”
The counter-statement ended by noting that the four Jerusalem church officials had “totally ignored the jihadist goals of the Hamas government, and turned a blind eye to terrorism perpetrated by this regime.” It added that such a “one-sided unbalanced view of the conflict is in fact unhelpful to the peace process, and contributing to its failure.”
Christian Embassy spokesman David Parsons told CNS that it was not the first time that the four Arab church leaders had joined together to attack Christians who support Israel.
He pointed out that the bishops lead flocks “that are actually fairly small” in the Holy Land, even if they are “part of much larger international bodies, especially the Roman Catholic Church. There are far more Greek Orthodox, Greek Catholic and Armenian Orthodox Christians living in the land, but their leaders did not endorse the acerbic statement,” CNS reported Parsons stated.
Parsons added, “These four Arab bishops also don't represent the millions of Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans, including the Vatican itself, who recognize that the Biblical covenants made between God and the Jewish people remain in effect.”
The American-born Parsons, who also edits the Jerusalem Post International Christian Edition and has written extensively about Christian Zionism, noted, CNS reported, that the bishop's Aug. 22 statement borrowed heavily from a similar one issued at the end of a 2004 anti-Zionist church conference held in Jerusalem, attended and addressed by the same four clerics, among others.
Parsons said one of the four Arab church leaders, Nazareth-born Anglican Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, is widely known for his outspoken Palestinian nationalism.
He added, CNS reported, that the local Episcopal leader “has publicly stated several times that Palestinian martyrs, including Muslim suicide terrorists, receive eternal life.” ~(This is the end of Dr. Reynalds' article.)
Thanks to bitt for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699003/posts
"Khathami speech/propaganda spew at Harvard"
Posted on 09/10/2006 2:57:42 PM PDT by SegerSkriv
and to this video:
http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/09/coming_soon.php
SP=commentary
Thank you backhoe.
So much hate interconnected...
So much love intertwinted.
And tomorrow is the 5 year memorial for 9/11.
There was an evil character in an old Ray Bradbury novel years ago who had "love" and "hate" tatooed on the knuckles of his opposing hands, so he could intertwine the words...
Life's a lot like that.
I keep this updated as new items warrant:
Yep, and that is a page worth keeping handy.
THANK YOU as always, backhoe.
Note A lot of links here and a link to video clips on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698996/posts
"Cheney reasserts Iraq/al-Qaeda links"
Financial Times ^ | Sept. 10, 2006 | Demetri Sevastopulo
Posted on 09/10/2006 2:47:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion
"COMING SOON"
(A message from Al Zawahiri)
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PROPAGANDA around the 'net:
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http://up-p.net/uploads/7de63f4f6c.gif
http://www.m5zn.com/uploads/ce28a8d68f.jpg
http://foto.radikal.ru/f.aspx?c060912a75d37de10jpg
http://c.foto.radikal.ru/0609/12a75d37de10t.jpg
http://albayanat.blogspot.com/
http://press-release.blogspot.com/
http://gimf-nachrichten.blogspot.com/
THANKS to Fair Opinion for starting this thread:
QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699035/posts
Al Qaeda Is a Shadow of Its Former Self
NY Sun ^ | Sept. 8, 2006 | YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
Posted on 09/10/2006 4:21:33 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Five years after it burst onto the scene with the grandiose attacks of September 11, the terror group is a shadow of its former self. Its chief architects, Messrs. bin Laden and Zawahiri, and their so-called consultative council are on the run; its top field commanders are decimated, and its hundreds of foot soldiers are in jail, being hounded or singing like canaries under torture, or bribery.
To be sure, copycats are popping up here and there, but the West can certainly claim it has demolished the infrastructure of the original group.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Here is another intereting one:
CIA tortured top al Qaeda terror detainee at secret location: NYT (made him listen to rock music)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699048/posts
Thanks Fair Opinion.
I posted my opinion of that on your link.
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