http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=STRIKE Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:28:28 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=STRIKE Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:29:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8dc_1371543689 GiGs7o7 They never miss! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8dc_1371543689 GiGs7o7 A-10 <span class="highlight">Strike</span> on Taliban Fighters a10, warthog, a-10, panjwai, mushan, afghanista, war, america, sperwan ghar Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:36:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd5_1371177114 Jokez6890 Lightning strikes the building as people film from the inside. You can see someone walking through the parking lot not 50ft from the strike. The lightning hit the building and no one was injured. This happened at Kars4Kids charity event. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd5_1371177114 Jokez6890 Close lightning <span class="highlight">strike</span> lightning, close, strike, weather, danger Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:32:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=81b_1371522683 fobfob77 Sick power! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=81b_1371522683 fobfob77 Hella Up Close Lightning <span class="highlight">Strike</span> Up Close Lightning Strike Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:30:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c07_1371144327 drynwhyl Iraqi Air Force firing its first Hellfire Missile since being reformed in 2004. The capability was several years in the making and a dramatic step in the building of the new Iraqi Air Force's strike capability. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c07_1371144327 drynwhyl Iraqi Air Force Launch First Hellfire Missile Since Reforming iraq, iraqi, air, force, hellfire, missile, test, strike, capability Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:56:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=693_1371513309 helle as above http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=693_1371513309 helle FSA Almost Gets Blown Away From Syrian Jet <span class="highlight">Strike</span> syria,war,rebel,nusrah,assad Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:14:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=07d_1371067436 Small_axe Anger, grief and vows of revenge following the bombing of civilians in al-Bara. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=07d_1371067436 Small_axe The bombing of al-Bara (clip) syria, air strike, bombing, civilian deaths, sectarian, violence, fsa, saa, revenge Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:37:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c4_1371504865 jimbo469 The House late Wednesday voted to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from entering into new contracts to buy millions of rounds of ammunition until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports to Congress on the need for the ammo, and its cost. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) proposed an amendment to the DHS spending bill for 2014 that would require the report to Congress before it can pursue plans to buy 1.1 billion rounds of ammunition. Meadows said the speed bump is a necessary reaction to news of the huge purchase, which alarmed many Americans and prompted conservative groups to suspect that the government was stocking up on the rounds to fight citizens. "Given this large purchase, the American people and members of Congress rightfully had concerns and questions," Meadows said. "This is a responsible amendment which ensures that Congress and the American people are aware of the necessity and the cost of ammunition prior to entering into new contracts for procurement." Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) said the amendment was unnecessary based on his talks with DHS officials. Carter said the department has since admitted that its ammunition needs are not as great as first reported, and said the department is pursuing a bulk purchase to keep the costs down. Carter also rejected speculation by some that there are ammunition shortages around the country because DHS is buying it all, and said the Meadows's language would interrupt the regular procurement process at DHS. But Meadows pointed out that his amendment would not interrupt current Homeland Security contracts to buy ammunition. The Meadows language passed late Wednesday night in a 234-192 vote. The House considered dozens of amendments to the 2014 spending bill for DHS, H.R. 2217. Two others considered Wednesday night would delay the implementation of last year's law that would phase out federal flood insurance subsidies and put the flood insurance program on a path toward market-based rates. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) proposed language prohibiting the spending of any funds on this law in 2014. Several members said the language was an attempt to reverse a bipartisan deal on flood insurance passed last year, but many other members in flood-prone states supported it, and the House approved it in a 281-146 vote. Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.) proposed similar language that would delay increases in flood insurance premiums in New Jersey and New York, but the House rejected that proposal in a 148-278 vote. Several other amendments were considered Wednesday night, from: - Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), canceling the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility in Kansas and moving $404 million to the spending reduction account. Failed 80-345. - Jim Moran (D-Va.), prohibiting the use of funds for the transfer or release of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or other Guant'anamo Bay detainees housed there after Dec. 31, 2005, not those held on or after June 24, 2009. The date change is an attempt to clarify that detainees held before late 2005 may be released, not the 9/11 suspects who were shipped there starting in 2006. Failed 165-261. - Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), prohibiting the use of funds for random Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inspections conducted outside airports. Failed 180-247. - Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), prohibiting the use of funds to pay DHS salaries of officials who approve immigration decisions for relatives of Brazil. This was an attempt to partially reverse an earlier decision by the House to strike language blocking immigration from Brazil due to the country's failure to extradite a woman who killed her husband, who was a U.S. Air Force Major. Failed 50-373. - Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) en bloc amendments: prohibiting spending to enter into contracts with companies convicted of crimes or charged in a civil case, or has a delinquent tax bill of more than $3,000; prohibiting spending that violates the First, Second or Fourth Amendments to the Constitution; prohibiting spending to buy armed unmanned aerial vehicles. Passed in voice vote. - Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), prohibiting the use of funds for the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Program. Rejected in voice vote. - Doug Collins (R-Ga.), prohibits the use of funds to process the release of detainees who committed a crime. Passed in voice vote. - Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), prohibiting the use of funds for TSA's behavioral detection program. Failed 147-279. - Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), prohibiting the use of funds in cities that are sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants. Passed in voice vote. - Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), reaffirming that DHS has discretion to use federal air marshals on high-risk flights. Passed in voice vote. - Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), prohibiting spending to weaken the 287(g) program allowing state and local officials to enforce aspects of immigration law. Passed in voice vote. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c4_1371504865 jimbo469 House votes to delay bulk ammunition purchase by DHS dhs, ammo Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:22:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f92_1371494242 aydeo From time to time another clown trying to show how Arabs only suffer in Israel, How Israel is the worst place on the planet, or other false claims which are being pulled from the ass... In recent hours two such items were created, one regarding the scud attacks over Israel in the 1991 Gulf war, and the other regarding the old Hebrew posters, which to the haters reminded the Nazi propaganda, even that it was a pure socialist style of the 30-40-50's all over the world. The item owner of the Scud missiles claimed that Israel was affraid to strike Iraq back and preffered America and the coalition will do the job... FALSE. Actually Saddam main objective in launching more than 40 long range scud missiles at Tel-Aviv and Haifa during January-February 1991 WAS TO PULL ISRAEL INTO THE WAR. By that he hoped the American coalition will fall apart, since it was based on Arab countries as well, even Syria...! The Likud gov. of back then wanted to retaliate, so the IDF detterence won't be damaged, but the Bush administration made huge efforts on Shamir (Israel PM back then) not to launch an air strike. Shamir was also under allot of pressure by his own ministers to send the air force and eliminate the Scud batteries, but eventually he decided to restraint the IAF from reacting. The 1991 war was the first time (since the war of 1948) the rear in Israel became the front, with sirens,Gas masks and loud explosions almost every night. Hundreds of houses were damaged, but very lucky the amount of casulties was small. If a Scud was causing dozens of victims (Like heppened to the Americans in a similiar Scud attack over Saudia) Israel was probably forced to strike Iraq, regardless of the implications. * As for the Hebrew posters in the second item - All of them are quite old (50-80 years ago) and were inspired by the Russian (Soviet) art and posters. Back then Israel was a hard socialist state, with the myth of the Kibutzes and the fame of the Hebrew worker. The young ones were volunteer to establish small coperative settlments near the borders and in the desert, and Israel was celebrating May 1st each and every year. It all started to change since the 70's, specially in the 80's, when Israel became a hard capitalist American style country, with global networks, massive urbanization and the down fall of the Kibbutz (which also went trough privetization and seized to function as uniqe corporations). Somewhere in the late 80's May 1st holiday was canceled, and that was the sign the transformation was complete... Photos: Israel during the 1991 Gulf war (1-9 and the last photo), Socialist Hebrew workers (10-13) men and women http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f92_1371494242 aydeo Time to fix some (regular) false claims regarding Israel Fix,False claims,1991,Gulf war,Socialist,Posters Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:23:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c1_1371474108 KingSize0 Allegiances are proving costly for Islamic militant group Hezbollah as the war in Syria deepens the sectarian divide in the Middle East . Days after the town of al-Qusair fell to President Bashar al-Assad's forces this month with help from Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah, the group was shunned by the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council. The oil-rich, mainly Sunni GCC labeled it a terrorist group and threatened unprecedented measures against its loyalists and their financial transactions. The U.S. said last week it will help arm the Syrian opposition. Hezbollah's involvement in Syria has led to greater polarization between Islam's two main sects, said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Center in Qatar. Without the group, it "would have been more of an inter-Syrian fight rather than being a sectarian one," he said. The result is a watershed in the 31-year history of Hezbollah, which seeks to portray itself as an anti- Israel resistance group and a champion of the downtrodden and oppressed, irrespective of their brand of Islam. Its fighters are also likely to get mired further in Syria's civil war to protect its central conduit of weapons and prevent the well-armed rebels from strengthening Sunni militias in Lebanon, said Torbjorn Soltvedt, senior analyst at Maplecroft, a U.K.-based risk consultant. Sunni Militias "Combined with significant pressure from Iran , these factors are likely to lead to even stronger involvement by Hezbollah in the Syrian conflict despite the hostile GCC stands," he said. Most of the rebels fighting Assad are Sunni Muslims while the president belongs to the minority Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shiite Islam. The split resulted from a dispute over succession following Prophet Muhammad's death in 632. Hezbollah's open alignment with the Syrian regime has triggered an escalation in the Sunni rhetoric, including from Saudi Arabia 's top cleric. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh called Hezbollah a "loathsome, sectarian" group in a statement carried June 6 by the official Saudi Press Agency. He also endorsed Egyptian-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi's call on Sunni Muslims from his base in Qatar to fight a holy war in Syria. Saudi Arabia's stock market, the Arab world's biggest, dropped the most in almost two years on June 15 after King Abdullah interrupted his vacation in Morocco because of what the official Saudi Press Agency said were "escalating concerns relating to events in the region." 'Arm Us!' Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, who hails from the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, on June 15 suspended diplomatic relations with Assad. Egyptians stood by Lebanon and Hezbollah against Israel in 2006, and "today we stand against Hezbollah for their crimes in Syria," Mursi told a stadium packed with his supporters. Khaled Al-Qazza, Mursi's secretary for foreign affairs, last week said Egyptians were free to make up their minds about going to Syria. More fighters may make their way to Syria after Mohammad Al-Areefi, an influential Saudi scholar whose comments are often cited, gave a sermon in a Cairo mosque on June 14 urging Sunnis to take up arms against Assad and Hezbollah. Scores of worshipers jumped to their feet after his comments, also broadcast on Egyptian television, and erupted into chants of "Arm us, arm us, to Syria, to Syria!" Lebanon Spillover The tension has also led to a rise in violence in Lebanon, where Shiites, Sunnis and Christians each make up roughly a third of the population of 4.3 million people. Groups clashed in the northern city of Tripoli, most recently this month, and rockets launched from Syria fell on Shiite areas in Lebanon. Lebanon's army leadership urged restraint last night following the killing of four people in a remote Bekaa Vally area close to the Syrian border. The victims included three Shiites and a Turk with a Shiite mother, the Daily Star reported. Gunmen fanned out in the region following the killings, that show how Shiite-Sunni tensions have spilled over from the Syria crisis. The army, in a statement carried by the official National News Agency, called on residents to "transcend their injuries" and said it won't allow anyone to exploit the incident to "strike national unity." Risk Premium The chaos in Syria is already weighing on the economy of Lebanon, whose modern history is marred by sectarian conflicts. Growth, which averaged 8 percent from 2007 to 2010, won't exceed 2 percent in 2013, Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi said in a June 5 interview. The risk premium investors demand to hold Lebanon's debt over U.S. Treasuries surged in the past four weeks to 467 on June 14, the highest since September last year, according to JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co. data. Lebanon's benchmark BLOM Stock Index (BLOM) fell for a sixth day today, declining 0.1 percent. The measure dropped 2.7 percent last week, the biggest weekly slide since December 2011. Arabic for "Party of God," Hezbollah, is the only group that refused to disband following the end of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, swelling from a small militia in 1982 to the most powerful political group in the country with seats in parliament and ministers in the cabinet in Beirut . Hezbollah says it needs its arsenal of weapons to defend against Israeli attacks. It spearheaded the fight against Israel's 18-year occupation of an enclave in south Lebanon. Israel withdrew in 2000, a move Hezbollah claimed as a victory. The group also fought an inconclusive war against Israel in 2006, earning popularity among Sunnis as well as Shiites. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has linked the group's involvement in Syria with its resistance narrative. He called the fighting part of a broader struggle against Israel, saying Hezbollah "won't keep silent and watch its back break." Loyal Fighters In funerals this month for fighters who died in Syria, Hezbollah officials repeated that message, while members of the group say they are not fighting a sectarian war. "No one should consider the al-Qusair achievement as a victory for Shiites against Sunnis," said Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein al-Moussawi in Nabi Sheet on June 5, according to a transcript of his comments e-mailed by Hezbollah. He said it was a victory against the Zionist-Western plot targeting Syria. Syrian opposition groups, which the U.S. government will supply with small arms and ammunition, say Hezbollah is mobilizing its fighters along with Syrian troops outside Aleppo in the north for a push into the city, which unlike al-Qusair, is far from the borders of Lebanon. One of the consequences of Hezbollah's engagement in Syria is the possibility that Lebanese Shiites who work in Gulf countries and send money back home would be expelled, said Peter Harling, project director with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group think tank. Dire Impact "It's happening on a small scale, but you could have an exodus of Lebanese Shiites who are present in the Gulf in large numbers, making a lot of money which they send home," he said in a phone interview. "This can have a very dire economic impact on the Shiites in Lebanon." The crisis in Syria has also deepened tensions between the Western-backed March 14 group and the Hezbollah-led March 8 group, which dominates the caretaker government of Najib Mikati . What is Hezbollah "doing in the alleys of al-Qusair and amid the rubble of its houses and buildings?" former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who heads the Future Movement in the March 14 bloc, said in a June 7 statement. "What is Hezbollah doing to Lebanon and the Lebanese, to the Arabs and Muslims?" For now, the group is stuck on its side of the sectarian divide. Hezbollah won't change its position on Syria or give up support for Assad government, leader Nasrallah said in a June 14 speech. "The alternative in Syria is chaos," he said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c1_1371474108 KingSize0 Hezbollah's Involvement in Syria Creates More Tentions Between Shiites &amp; Sunnis in the Region syria,lebanon,egypt,middle east,shia,shiite,sunnah,sunni,war,conflict,islam,muslims Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:26:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db7_1371468232 userkc Summary of events in the provinces of Damascus and Aleppo for June 16 http://86.62.80.156/node/11758 ANNA News http://anna-news.info http://www.youtube.com/user/newsanna On the northern outskirts of the capital of Syria continues a number of army counter-terrorist operation. In today's Barzov air strikes were militants hiding in the streets of Al-mats and al-Suwayda. During the clashes that took place in the eastern district of plantations, eliminated tens of terrorists, they confiscated the weapons, including heavy machine guns, assault rifles and sniper rifles. In response, militants fired mortar shells at an army checkpoint area at the intersection of Barzakh - Hamish, hitting at the same houses, one of which was burned. In the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk there were violent clashes with army units gangs of militants. Artillery bombardment of their positions within the district. In turn, Hamas terrorists fired mortars military crossing point "Bashir" at the entrance of Yarmouk. Injuring four civilians and five soldiers. Around 4.00 am army backed militias simultaneously launched an attack on the terrorists, who have entrenched themselves in areas of Yarmouk, Kadam and Hajar al-Aswad. Army played on an advancing enemy, getting timely information about the militants, who took in these neighborhoods are many deserted houses, plotting attacks on military targets. Advancing infantry is backed by artillery and missile troops. In the area of http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db7_1371468232 userkc Summary of events in the provinces of Damascus and Aleppo for June 16 Syria Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:24:40 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f0_1371360015 AntiPropagaanda World exclusive: Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria US urges Britain and France to join in supplying arms to Syrian rebels as MPs fear that UK will be drawn into growing Sunni-Shia conflict ROBERT FISK SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013 inShare4 PRINT A A A EMAIL 1 / 3 Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region. For the first time, all of America's 'friends' in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama's rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East. The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran - even before last week's presidential election - to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel. In years to come, historians will ask how America - after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 - could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed. The profound effects of this great schism, between Sunnis who believe that the father of Mohamed's wife was the new caliph of the Muslim world and Shias who regard his son in law Ali as his rightful successor - a seventh century battle swamped in blood around the present-day Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala - continue across the region to this day. A 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbott, compared this Muslim conflict to that between "Papists and Protestants". America's alliance now includes the wealthiest states of the Arab Gulf, the vast Sunni territories between Egypt and Morocco, as well as Turkey and the fragile British-created monarchy in Jordan. King Abdullah of Jordan - flooded, like so many neighbouring nations, by hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees - may also now find himself at the fulcrum of the Syrian battle. Up to 3,000 American 'advisers' are now believed to be in Jordan, and the creation of a southern Syria 'no-fly zone' - opposed by Syrian-controlled anti-aircraft batteries - will turn a crisis into a 'hot' war. So much for America's 'friends'. Its enemies include the Lebanese Hizballah, the Alawite Shiite regime in Damascus and, of course, Iran. And Iraq, a largely Shiite nation which America 'liberated' from Saddam Hussein's Sunni minority in the hope of balancing the Shiite power of Iran, has - against all US predictions - itself now largely fallen under Tehran's influence and power. Iraqi Shiites as well as Hizballah members, have both fought alongside Assad's forces. Washington's excuse for its new Middle East adventure - that it must arm Assad's enemies because the Damascus regime has used sarin gas against them - convinces no-one in the Middle East. Final proof of the use of gas by either side in Syria remains almost as nebulous as President George W. Bush's claim that Saddam's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. For the real reason why America has thrown its military power behind Syria's Sunni rebels is because those same rebels are now losing their war against Assad. The Damascus regime's victory this month in the central Syrian town of Qusayr, at the cost of Hizballah lives as well as those of government forces, has thrown the Syrian revolution into turmoil, threatening to humiliate American and EU demands for Assad to abandon power. Arab dictators are supposed to be deposed - unless they are the friendly kings or emirs of the Gulf - not to be sustained. Yet Russia has given its total support to Assad, three times vetoing UN Security Council resolutions that might have allowed the West to intervene directly in the civil war. In the Middle East, there is cynical disbelief at the American contention that it can distribute arms - almost certainly including anti-aircraft missiles - only to secular Sunni rebel forces in Syria represented by the so-called Free Syria Army. The more powerful al-Nusrah Front, allied to al-Qaeda, dominates the battlefield on the rebel side and has been blamed for atrocities including the execution of Syrian government prisoners of war and the murder of a 14-year old boy for blasphemy. They will be able to take new American weapons from their Free Syria Army comrades with little effort. From now on, therefore, every suicide bombing in Damascus - every war crime committed by the rebels - will be regarded in the region as Washington's responsibility. The very Sunni-Wahabi Islamists who killed thousands of Americans on 11th September, 2011 - who are America's greatest enemies as well as Russia's - are going to be proxy allies of the Obama administration. This terrible irony can only be exacerbated by Russian President Vladimir Putin's adament refusal to tolerate any form of Sunni extremism. His experience in Chechenya, his anti-Muslim rhetoric - he has made obscene remarks about Muslim extremists in a press conference in Russian - and his belief that Russia's old ally in Syria is facing the same threat as Moscow fought in Chechenya, plays a far greater part in his policy towards Bashar al-Assad than the continued existence of Russia's naval port at the Syrian Mediterranean city of Tartous. For the Russians, of course, the 'Middle East' is not in the 'east' at all, but to the south of Moscow; and statistics are all-important. The Chechen capital of Grozny is scarcely 500 miles from the Syrian frontier. Fifteen per cent of Russians are Muslim. Six of the Soviet Union's communist republics had a Muslim majority, 90 per cent of whom were Sunni. And Sunnis around the world make up perhaps 85 per cent of all Muslims. For a Russia intent on repositioning itself across a land mass that includes most of the former Soviet Union, Sunni Islamists of the kind now fighting the Assad regime are its principal antagonists. Iranian sources say they liaise constantly with Moscow, and that while Hizballah's overall withdrawal from Syria is likely to be completed soon - with the maintenance of the militia's 'intelligence' teams inside Syria - Iran's support for Damascus will grow rather than wither. They point out that the Taliban recently sent a formal delegation for talks in Tehran and that America will need Iran's help in withdrawing from Afghanistan. The US, the Iranians say, will not be able to take its armour and equipment out of the country during its continuing war against the Taliban without Iran's active assistance. One of the sources claimed - not without some mirth -- that the French were forced to leave 50 tanks behind when they left because they did not have Tehran's help. It is a sign of the changing historical template in the Middle East that within the framework of old Cold War rivalries between Washington and Moscow, Israel's security has taken second place to the conflict in Syria. Indeed, Israel's policies in the region have been knocked askew by the Arab revolutions, leaving its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, hopelessly adrift amid the historic changes. Only once over the past two years has Israel fully condemned atrocities committed by the Assad regime, and while it has given medical help to wounded rebels on the Israeli-Syrian border, it fears an Islamist caliphate in Damascus far more than a continuation of Assad's rule. One former Israel intelligence commander recently described Assad as "Israel's man in Damascus". Only days before President Mubarak was overthrown, both Netanyahu and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called Washington to ask Obama to save the Egyptian dictator. In vain. If the Arab world has itself been overwhelmed by the two years of revolutions, none will have suffered from the Syrian war in the long term more than the Palestinians. The land they wish to call their future state has been so populated with Jewish Israeli colonists that it can no longer be either secure or 'viable'. 'Peace' envoy Tony Blair's attempts to create such a state have been laughable. A future 'Palestine' would be a Sunni nation. But today, Washington scarcely mentions the Palestinians. Another of the region's supreme ironies is that Hamas, supposedly the 'super-terrorists' of Gaza, have abandoned Damascus and now support the Gulf Arabs' desire to crush Assad. Syrian government forces claim that Hamas has even trained Syrian rebels in the manufacture and use of home-made rockets. In Arab eyes, Israel's 2006 war against the Shia Hizballah was an attempt to strike at the heart of Iran. The West's support for Syrian rebels is a strategic attempt to crush Iran. But Iran is going to take the offensive. Even for the Middle East, these are high stakes. Against this fearful background, the Palestinian tragedy continues. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f0_1371360015 AntiPropagaanda World exclusive: Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria Syria, FSA, Terrorists, America, Armed, Bashar Assad, Iran, Hezbollah; Israel, Qatar, Saudi, Al-Qaeda Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:59:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d94_1371354454 waterlawman I found this compelling and a great read. Enjoy!!! Writings on Newton by Stephen David Snobelen http://www.isaac-newton.org/update.html At the end of the seventeenth century, Isaac Newton (1642-1727) initiated a revolution in science. At the end of the twentieth century, scholars began a revolution in the understanding of Newton. As Newton's long-concealed private papers on theology become increasingly accessible, students of Newton's thought are coming to see Newton as more than a scientist. The author of the Principia mathematica was a true Renaissance man who spent decades delving in the secrets of alchemy and even longer studying the Bible, theology and church history. Leaving behind four million words on theology, Newton was one of the greatest lay theologians of his age. A study of Newton's theology and prophetic views illuminates the life of this great thinker and helps us understand his science. This website provides downloadable academic papers (both published and forthcoming) that explore Newton's theology, prophetic views and the interaction between his science and his religion. These resources include substantial quotations from Newton's unpublished theological manuscripts. 2060: The date heard around the world On 22 February 2003, the Daily Telegraph (London, England) published a front-page story announcing Isaac Newton's prediction that the world would end in 2060. The story was based on interviews with myself and Malcolm Neaum, the producer of the BBC 2 documentary Newton: the dark heretic (first shown on 1 March 2003). I was asked to make myself available to the media because some of my academic research on Newton's prophecy and heretical theology was used in the documentary and since I was not only interviewed for the documentary both in Jerusalem and Cambridge, but am also shown with the manuscript containing the 2060 date in Jerusalem. Although the 2060 date was not news to the small community of scholars who study Newton's theology, this was the first time the wider public became aware of Newton's prophetic views. Over the next few days, the news spread around the globe and was covered in newspapers (making the front pages in Israel and Canada on 23 and 24 February respectively), on the radio, on TV and on a plethora of Internet news sites. The story was covered on the Internet in all the major European languages from English, French and Spanish to Hungarian, Romanian and Russian. Websites in South America, South Africa, Australia, China, Vietnam and India also covered the story. Many of these websites picked up the story second and third hand, and several of them treated the story as a bit of a lark, with one site including a picture of a mushroom cloud (an image more readily associated with Einstein) with the caption &quot;Party like it's 2060&quot;. For almost a week, I received a barrage of requests for interviews from the media. CBC Radio and TV, Global TV in the Maritimes, Agent France Presse, the largest radio talk show in Chicago and even the Russian section of Radio Free Europe, which aired the interview in Russian translation. I tried to use this unexpected opportunity to fill in more details about Newton's theological and prophetic thought, and to point out that Newton's apocalyptic thought was not just doom and destruction. Although there was a sensational element in the way the news was covered by many media organizations, the story has performed a very important role in alerting the public to the fact that Isaac Newton was not merely a &quot;scientist&quot;, but also a theologian and a prophetic exegete (not to mention an alchemist). The public was therefore challenged to re-conceptualize Newton in all his complexity. The BBC 2 documentary, with its visual impact and much greater detail, challenged its viewers in an even more profound way. Why did Newton's prediction for 2060 become such a big news story? One reason why Newton's heresy, apocalyptic thought and prediction about the 2060 date became news in February 2003 is because most members of the media and the public had no idea that Newton was anything other than a &quot;scientist&quot;. For many, the revelation that Newton was a passionate believer who took biblical prophecy seriously came as something of a shock. It seems that both the media and the general public have a notion of Newton as a &quot;rational&quot; scientist that makes it difficult to absorb the knowledge that Newton was practising both alchemy and prophetic exegesis-studies many see as antithetical to the enterprise of science. The media has perpetuated a myth that science and religion are inherently in conflict (the fact is, sometimes they are; but religion has also often stimulated the development of science). The story about Newton predicting the Apocalypse in 2060 is the sort of thing that one would expect to see on the covers of the tabloids. In this case, however, the story is true. Ironically, the tabloids did not cover the story (perhaps because this story, although counter-intuitive to many people, is authentic). There is likely another reason why so many found the story about Newton and 2060 so compelling. When the story broke, storm clouds of war were on the horizon. Concern about the predicted war in Iraq (now a &quot;fulfilled&quot; prophecy) probably heightened the public's interest in Newton's date for the end of the world, particularly because the pending war involved the nation who occupies the land of ancient Babylon http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d94_1371354454 waterlawman Sir Isaac Newton and The Year 2060 by Stephen David Snobelen Stephen-David-Snobelen,Isaac-newton,bible,god,science,math,calculus,2060,end-times,apocalypses,revelations,gog,magog,2ndcoming,Christ,lord,history,news,scientist,Illuminati,