Updates on Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, Hezbollah, Hamas Alliance

Syria, Lebanon Host Iranian troops, Qatar Also Willing

Iran further consolidated its anti-US coalition and honed its hard edge against Israel this week with two important defense treaties signed with Syria (covering Lebanon) and Qatar, home to the biggest US air base outside America. These treaties opened doors for Iranian troops to be stationed in all three countries. According to debkafile's military sources, they are already present in Syria and Lebanon.

On this high note, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian president Bashar Assad and Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah, Thursday, Feb. 25, wound up their talks in Damascus - to which Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal was co-opted - on joint military preparations for a Middle East war.


Our sources reveal that after his talks, the Shiite Iranian president make the extraordinary gesture towards the Arab countries he is wooing of attending a two-hour prayer session with Assad at a Sunni mosque in Damascus. Asked about his Shiite sensitivities, Ahmad said, "We are all one Ummah."


Together with Nasrallah, the pair later appeared before the press to scoff at US policies, celebrate their friendship and predict Israel's early annihilation...
 
"A new Middle East - one without Zionists and imperialists - was quickly emerging," he said.


Assad expressed Syria's full support for Iraq's uranium enrichment activities. "To forbid an independent state the right to enrichment amounts to a new colonialist process in the region," he said.


In Doha, Iran's defense minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi and Qatari chief of staff Gen. Hamad bin Ali Attiya put their signatures Wednesday, Feb. 24 to military contracts providing for "the exchange of technical and expert delegations, the expansion of cooperation in personnel training and joint campaigns against terrorism and elements behind regional insecurity."


This language covers the dispatch of Iranian officers and soldiers to Doha, a sight the US and Saudi Arabia hoped never to witness. The "elements behind regional insecurity" refer to the United States and Israel.


The big US air base was established at Al Udeid, Qatar, to keep the Persian Gulf and its oil resources safe and curb Iranian expansion. That its rulers were now willing to host the Iranian defense minister and establish military ties with Tehran is another landmark in that expansion drive and a serious setback for America's regional standing.

Read entire article here: http://www.debka.com/article/8620/

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Hezbollah Official: Meetings of Iran, Lebanon, Syria Leaders Show New Mid-East Is Born

The Head of Hezbollah politburo Mahmoud Qamati said meetings of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Lebanese and Palestinian resistance leaders show a new Middle East has been born.

Ahmadinejad and Lebanese and Palestinian resistance leaders meet following important developments such as victory of resistance groups and assassination of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.


"The meetings show that a new Middle East has been born in the region, a Middle East which is different from what the US officials are talking about and it should be noted that Israel's threats are empty ones," he said.


Iran and Syria stress resistance considering recent threats by Zionist regime, he said adding such meetings demonstrate that unification is ruling over resistance fronts since threats of the enemy do not only target Iran, Syria or a particular resistance group but these threats involve other countries.

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Russia Says It Will Supply Iran With S-300 Missiles

Russia intends to fulfil a contract to supply S-300 air defence missile systems to Iran, Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday.

Israel and the United States have repeatedly asked Russia to scrap a contract to sell Iran the truck-mounted S-300, which can shoot down hostile missiles or aircraft up to 150 km (90 miles) away.


"There is a contract to supply these systems to Iran, and we will fulfil it," Ryabkov told Interfax in an interview. "Delays (with deliveries) are linked to technical problems with adjusting these systems," he added.


He also cautioned against politicising Russia's arms exports to Iran.


"It is absolutely incorrect to put the emphasis on the issue of S-300 supplies... and to turn it into a major problem, to say nothing of linking it to the discussion on restoring trust in the purely peaceful character of Iran's nuclear programme," Ryabkov said.


The possible sale of the S-300s, which could protect Iran's nuclear facilities against air strikes, is an extremely sensitive issue in Russia's relations with Israel.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow this week to press the Kremlin to back tougher sanctions against Iran.

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Ahmadinejad: Arab world will usher in new Mideast without Zionists

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Arab nations will usher in a new Middle East without Zionists and without colonialists. Ahmadinejad made the comments during his visit in Syria, where he met with President Bashar Assad, opening a two-day visit that follows U.S. efforts to break up Syria's 30-year alliance with Tehran.


The Iranian president also said that "if the Zionist regime wants to repeat its past mistakes, this will constitute its demise and annihilation."


Assad signaled his strong support for Iran, saying America's stance toward the country is a "new situation of colonialism in the region."


Ahmadinejad said Iran, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon will all stand against Israel.Ahmadinejad is also scheduled to meet senior officials from the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, Syria's state-run news agency said.




Before leaving Tehran, Ahmadinejad told reporters that 'the Zionist regime and its sponsors' are rapidly approaching a dead-end, according to the Iranian Students News Agency. Ahmadinejad also said that Iran and Syria have common viewpoints and stances and Syria is on the frontline against Israel.


Read entire article here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152316.html

Iran Calls Meeting To Finalize Plans For War With Israel

Iran Calls Hezbollah, Syria, Hamas For Final Meeting To Plan For War Against Israel

Debka.com- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has summoned all the terrorist groups Tehran sponsors - Islamist and radical Palestinian - for a broad gathering Saturday, Feb. 27, to finalize their roles in military operations against Israel in the event of a Middle East conflagration. This is reported by debkafile's Iranian and intelligence sources.

It will be the sequel to the preliminary discussions Ahmadinejad held with Syrian president Bashar Assad and heads of the Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian Hamas Thursday, Feb. 25, during a brief visit to Damascus.

The guests of honor at the Tehran parley will be Hamas leader politburo chief Khaled Meshaal and Hizballah deputy leader Naim Kassem.

The Lebanese Shiite group's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah will not be there because he never leaves his Beirut bunker for fear Israeli assassins will catch up with him, especially since the high-profile Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed mysteriously in Dubai last month.

And Nasrallah is not alone; some of his fellow terror chiefs hesitate to show their faces outside their strongholds - even in friendly Tehran - since the Dubai police disclosed that three of the suspects in the Mabhouh killing, carriers of Australian passports, departed Dubai for Iran. They were said to have travelled by sea ferry to Bandar Abbas, central headquarters of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, before flying out of Tehran international airport to unknown Far East destinations.

The Arab terrorist chiefs infer that even the Iranian capital and Revolutionary Guards headquarters are no longer secure against penetration by the Hamas commander's assassins.

The Iranians have therefore decided that their official statement on the conference, due to end Monday, March 1, will name only a few of the participants; the presence of many other key figures will be kept secret

According to debkafile’s Iranian sources, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, assisted by a large team of aides, will lead the proceedings and steer them toward conclusions and decisions in line with Iran’s regional goals. The conference, called to pull together Iran and its allies' preparations for war with Israel, will be presented officially as an effort to reconcile the feuding Palestinian factions.

Few will find this believable, especially when Hamas attends the conference on its own, except for several radical Palestinian splinter groups, and representatives of the rival Fatah and Palestinian Authority were not invited.

Presidential bureau personnel have performed most of the staff work on planning and the roles assigned the various organizations in any conflict with Israeli and/or Israeli forces. Senior members of the Revolutionary Guards and other sections of Iran's armed forces will be recruited to chair discussion panels and subcommittees aided by specialists in guerrilla and terror warfare.

Wall of King Solomon Discovered

1 Kings 3:1: "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. "

Bloomberg- Israeli Dig Uncovers 3,000-Year-Old Wall From Time of Solomon

“A comparison of this latest finding with city walls and gates from the period of the First Temple, as well as pottery found at the site, enable us to postulate with a great degree of assurance that the wall revealed was built by King Solomon in Jerusalem in the latter part of the 10th century B.C.E.,” dig director archaeologist Eilat Mazar said.

The six-meter-high wall and its surrounding complex of a gatehouse and a corner tower were excavated over the past three weeks in a dig conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the latest of finds linked to the reigns of David and Solomon.

In December 2008, archaeologists found the remains of a walled city over a plain where the Bible claims David killed Goliath, and Hebrew University professor Yosef Garfinkel said the find supported the biblical portrayal of David as a ruler of a kingdom strong enough to field an army.

The 3,000-year-old wall discovered this month in Jerusalem “testifies to a ruling presence. Its strength and form of construction indicate a high level of engineering,” Mazar said.

Discovered along with the wall were seal impressions on jar handles with the words “to the king,” and other bullae with Hebrew names that also testified to the royal nature of the structure, Mazar told journalists at the site.



To read the entire article, click here: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-22/israeli-dig-uncovers-3-000-year-old-wall-from-time-of-solomon.html

Europe Wants A Palestinian State With Or Without Peace

Israel Today- French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos have launched an initiative to officially recognize a sovereign Palestinian state in 18 months, even if negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not concluded.


Senior European diplomats cited by Ha'aretz said Israel was informed of the initiative several weeks ago. Israeli officials confirmed that, and noted that Jerusalem has been lobbying hard against the initiative.

Israel argues that handing the Palestinians their final prize before they have fulfilled their peace obligations will nullify the peace process and lead to increased violence. It will also be seen across the region as a victory for terrorism and violent behavior, bolstering groups like Hamas and Hizballah and further destabilizing the Middle East.

Kouchner and Moratinos are said to be preparing a joint article encouraging immediate recognition of a Palestinian state. The article will be published in all major European newspapers.

Iran, Lebanon, Syria Will Back Hezbollah Against Israel

My comments: So... First Lebanon announces that it fully supports Hezbollah terrorists, and will back them with their full military if Israel should engage the terrorists. Then Syria announces it will back Hezbollah and Lebanon if Israel is involved in any attack. Now, Iran vows that it will support Hezbollah against Israel as well. Iran has further recommended that Hezbollah should make sure that the Israeli "case should be closed once and for all and the region delivered from their evil ways forever".

I believe that Iran has been looking for a war, and has been attempting to entice Israel and the US into a pre-emptive attack. That is why Ahmadinejad has been bragging about their nuclear capability, and their desire to end the nation of Israel.  Even though everyone knows better, Ahmadinejad has been careful to avoid telling the world that the nuclear capability has anything to do with weapons- this is to gain world support in the event of an attack. He would be able to claim that they were only seeking energy, and were wrongly attacked. This would give them free license to attack Israel and the U.S., and create the chaos that they believe is necessary to make the 12th Imam appear.

Up to this point, Israel and the US have not taken the bait. Ahmadinejad has now sought to create a new path to stir up war. Iran has control of Hezbollah, and has funneled weapons and money to them to prepare for a future war with Israel. Of course, Iran has denied that it has done this or that it has control of Hezbollah. Of course, this is another attempt to sway public opinion. I believe Iran will now attempt to provoke an Israeli attack by using Hezbollah. This is why Iran is announcing their support for Hezbollah and Lebanon ahead of time. When the outbreak occurs, it can quickly spread through Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. The Palestinians would no doubt join in against Israel, leaving Israel to defend multiple borders. This would create a need for the U.S. to defend Israel (whether our leaders have the courage to do that is questionable).

If this happens, Iran would feel like they win either way. If the U.S. gets involved,  they have the chaos they have been looking for. If the U.S. does not get involved, they would be able to "wipe Israel off the map"... Unless of course God should intervene for His people (sounds like Ezekiel 38-39, huh?).

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Al-Qaeda Terrorists Responsible For The Ethiopian Airline crash off Beirut

As reported on Debka.com:

Evidence has reached debkafile's counter-terror sources that the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 which crashed after takeoff from Beirut on January 25, killing all 92 aboard, was blown up in mid-air.

This was an al-Qaeda operation timed for one month to the day after its failed attempt to destroy an American Northwest airliner bound for Detroit.

It is becoming clear that either a bomb was planted on the Ethiopian flight with a timer or a passenger acted as suicide bomber.

Western security agencies in the Middle East involved in combating al Qaeda believe that its planners picked on the Ethiopian flight for more than one reason apart from the date: They had been tipped off that a group of French undercover agents, including Maria Sanchez Pietton, wife of the French ambassador to Beirut, and top Hizballah operatives, including secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, would be aboard.

Mme Pietton lost her life in the crash, while the Hizballah travelers were saved by switching to another flight at the last minute.

The first bodies recovered from the Mediterranean off the Lebanese town of Naama showed all the hallmarks of explosion victims: They were found strapped to their seats with their heads, hands and feet blown off and scattered, typical effects of an explosive blast.

Eye-witnesses at the time heard a loud explosion and saw the plane enveloped in a ball of fire as it gained altitude after takeoff from Beirut international airport.

Both France and Hizballah have denied they were targets.

Lebanese officials, led by prime minister Saad Hariri, have spent two weeks trying to hide the fact that the Ethiopian airline disaster was caused by terror. But Lebanese health minister Jawad Khalifeh gave the game away by a slip of the tongue Tuesday, Feb. 9: “The plane exploded during flight and the cabin, as well as the bodies of those on board, were dispersed into the sea, in different locations,” he said, trying to explain why some of the corpses were found dismembered.

He then tried to correct himself by saying he "didn't mean a military explosion."

More confirmation of a terrorist hand behind the attack is found in the deep involvement of US intelligence, including the FBI, in the investigation of the disaster from the first moment. The US survey ship Ocean Alert was dispatched to the area of the crash and dropped a miniature submarine into the depths to retrieve fragments of the airliner from the seabed.

A US intelligence and naval headquarters was set up at Beirut harbor to coordinate the salvage of the plane from the sea. Treating the crash as terror-related, Washington ordered the plane to be reconstructed from recovered fragments to establish the site of the explosion and its cause.

US officials are also shy of discussing the case in public and admitting the crash was caused by an act of terror. It took place on January 25, shortly after President Barack Obama said “Al-Qaeda has been weakened." In an address to the American people to calm their anxieties after the Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had failed to detonate explosives carried in his underwear.

Al Qaeda's success in blowing a civilian airliner out of the sky over the Middle East proved the opposite. It therefore became the subject of a comprehensive cover-up, joined by France. Before the black box, recovered Tuesday, had even been examined, French sources announced that human error by the pilot was the cause of the Ethiopian airliner crash.

11 Churches Set on Fire In Texas

WorldNetDaily- Residents of eastern Texas are on edge, worried in the wake of what may be a serial arsonist on the loose with an appetite for burning churches to the ground.
At various intervals since New Year's Day, 11 churches in the state have gone up in flames, and authorities have ruled nearly all of them arson.

"The disturbing part is it changes everyone's lifestyle," said Neal Franklin, fire chief in Tyler, where two churches have been destroyed. "It changes our attitude."


Franklin told the Dallas Morning News that when the second fire broke out in Tyler, "it suddenly hit everyone, 'Oh, my goodness, this could continue every day potentially.' … That's the tension."

So far, the saga has continued nearly every day, just as Franklin feared.

The Dallas Morning News reports that during the first double arson, firefighters were forced to leave the scene of the first church to attend to the second.


"Our people were like, 'What's going on here?'" said Brian Brandt, a pastor at Grace Community Church in Athens. "It was because they got another call – another church was burning three to five miles away."

Churches burned since Jan. 1 in the area about 50 miles southeast of Dallas include:

Faith Fellowship Church, Athens, Jan. 1

Grace Community Church of Athens, Jan. 12

Lake Athens Baptist Church, Jan. 12

Tyland Baptist Church, Tyler, Jan. 16

First Church of Christ Scientist, Tyler, Jan. 17

Prairie Creek Fellowship, Lindale, Jan. 20

Russell Memorial United Methodist Church, Wills Point, Feb. 4

Dover Baptist Church, Carroll, Feb. 8

Clear Springs Missionary Baptist Church, Lindale, Feb. 8.

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Terrorist Attempt "Certain" In Coming Months

My Comments- I have made an effort not to "hype" any current events or rumors on my website. I really do not want to "cry wolf" or water down the message I am trying to spread. That being said, I find this information very "interesting" in light of some recent developments:

• Elevation of  terror alerts across several countries (17), including the UK.
• Recently released message from Osama Bin Laden
• Attempted airline attacks and several grounded/diverted flights
• Hamas warned their top terrorists of Israeli actions against them
• US intelligence finding of 5,000 Hizballah "troops" training to invade Galilee towns
• Containers washed up on shore of Israeli beaches containing explosives (possibly meant to arm Gaza)
• The "underwear bomber" is allegedly "spilling the beans", including reports that Al Qaeda operatives are on their way to the United States (I personally believe they have been here for some time). 

Washington Times- The five senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate panel Tuesday they are "certain" that terrorists will attempt another attack on the United States in the next three to six months.


"An attempted attack, the priority is certain, I would say," Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral, said in response.


Four other intelligence agency leaders who appeared at the hearing with Mr. Blair said they agreed with the assessment.

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