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Inspiration For the Week--------""The foundation of God standeth
sure." 2Timothy 2:19
The foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that "God was
in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them." The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that
"the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," and that "Christ
also hath suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us
to God"; "Who Himself bare our sins in His own body on the tree";
"For the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we
are healed."
In one word, the great pillar of the Christian's hope is substitution.
The vicarious sacrifice of Christ for the guilty, Christ being made sin for
us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him, Christ offering
up a true and proper expiatory and substitutionary sacrifice in the room,
place, and stead of as many as the Father gave Him, who are known to God by
name, and are recognized in their own hearts by their trusting in Jesus--this
is the cardinal fact of the gospel. If this foundation were removed,
what could we do? But it standeth firm as the throne of God. We know it; we
rest on it; we rejoice in it; and our delight is to hold it, to meditate upon
it, and to proclaim it, while we desire to be actuated and moved by gratitude
for it in every part of our life and conversation. In these days a direct
attack is made upon the doctrine of the atonement. Men cannot bear substitution.
They gnash their teeth at the thought of the Lamb of God bearing the sin of
man. But we, who know by experience the preciousness of this truth, will proclaim
it in defiance of them confidently and unceasingly. We will neither dilute
it nor change it, nor fritter it away in any shape or fashion. It shall still
be Christ, a positive substitute, bearing human guilt and suffering in the
stead of men. We cannot, dare not, give it up, for it is our life,
and despite every controversy we feel that "Nevertheless the foundation
of God standeth sure." [C.H. Spurgeon, "Morning and Evening Devotions",
A.W. Tozer CDROM Library; Emphasis added
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Thus, the most serious of all War Crimes charges President Bush might face
is the fatal contamination of the entire land of Iraq for 4.5 billion years.
Bush may never face this charge, because numerous other nations in the world
have also equipped their army with D.U. munitions and will probably be reluctant
to publicize the issue.
We shall have to just wait to see how this scenario plays out, but it does
seem possible that a broad campaign to deliberately discredit Bush might be
under way.
II. At dawn
on Thursday, June 24, insurgents struck simultaneously in 6 cities against
both American military and Iraqi civilian targets. At the end of
the day, at least 100 people were killed with hundreds wounded. These insurgents
were using different, more sophisticated, military tactics that surprised
Coalition Forces.
NEWS BRIEF: "Multiple attacks kill 100 in Iraq", BBC News, 24 June
2004
"Insurgents have launched fierce attacks that killed about 100 people
in five Iraqi cities, wreaking havoc just days from the handover of power.
The worst attacks were in the city of Mosul, where at least 62 people died
and 220 were hurt in a series of car bombings, the US military said. More
than 40 people died in Baquba, Ramadi, Falluja and Baghdad, in what appeared
to be co-ordinated attacks. Three US soldiers were killed in Thursday's raids
in the Sunni Muslim heartland, which began at dawn when insurgents seized
police stations in Baquba."
Obviously, the real target seemed to be the fragile Iraqi Interim Government
and its security services, both of which are struggling to be effective by
the June 30 handover date. American officials were caught by surprise by the
ferocity of the fight and the new tactics of the fighters.
"US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the BBC: 'I think we underestimated
the nature of the insurgency that we might face during this period. The insurgency
that we're looking at now has become a serious problem for us, but it's a
problem that we will deal with'."
Let us review another news story which elaborates the statement, above, by
Secretary Powell.
NEWS BRIEF: "Adversary's Tactics Leave US Troops Surprised, Exhausted",
By Scott Wilson, Washington Post Foreign Service, June 25, 2004
"BAQUBAH, Iraq, June 24 -- The 1st Infantry Division soldiers who walked
off the battlefield Thursday, exhausted by the frantic pace of combat and
a baking summer sun, had seen nothing like it in their three months here.
In dawn-to-dusk fighting, more than 100 armed insurgents overran neighborhoods
and occupied downtown buildings, using techniques that U.S. commanders said
resembled those once employed by the Iraqi army. Well-equipped and highly
coordinated, the insurgents demonstrated a new level of strength and tactical
skill that alarmed the soldiers facing them. By the end of the day, infantry
and armored patrols had driven the insurgents from the battered center of
the city, though some remained in control of two police stations in districts
long hostile to the U.S.-led occupation. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in
the fight, including a company commander struck by a rocket-propelled grenade
... The insurgents fought in large, coordinated squads, set complex ambushes
and occupied downtown buildings from which they apparently planned a long
fight ... Striking first along two key avenues bracketing the city, the insurgents
intended to isolate and overrun the local Coalition Provisional Authority
compound and other downtown government buildings ..."
Since the greatest military machine the world has ever seen has occupied
Iraq since April, 2003, how is it that the insurgent forces at this date are
capable of delivering such a blow? How is it that the insurgency is capable
now of sophisticated, coordinated attacks like these? How can they deliver
a combination of standard military tactics plus terrorist bombings? A story
in Military.com may provide some of the answers:
NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. Stuck In Iraq", Military.com, June 23, 2004
"Eight days before U.S. caretakers are scheduled to turn over control
of Iraq to an interim government, Pentagon officials told Congress that American
soldiers are likely to remain there for years ... Wolfowitz also said a continued
U.S. presence in Iraq is likely to cost taxpayers as much as $60 billion through
the end of next year, twice what Congress has approved.
"From your description, Mr. Secretary, I don't see an end in sight,"
said Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo. "We're stuck."
"We're not stuck, Mr. Skelton," Wolfowitz said.
"Tell us what your measurement is for success," Skelton countered.
"People ask me this. I have no answer."
"When it becomes an Iraqi fight, and the Iraqis are prepared to take
on the fight, they're prepared to join their security forces. We are prepared
to arm and equip them to do it," Wolfowitz responded. "I can't tell
you how long that's going to take."
Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz has just described "American success"
in Iraq in terms like those Nixon and Kissinger adopted for their exit strategy
from Vietnam. Soon after Nixon was elected, he and Kissinger concocted the
plan to build up the South Vietnamese Army, police, paramilitary, and security
forces so they could defend themselves after we had withdrawn. Years of rhetoric
and newsprint trumpeted the wisdom of this strategy; yet, less than two years
after the last American soldier left Vietnam, the North Vietnamese launched
a major attack, causing the immediate destruction of South Vietnam. The country
fell as easily as a small wind blows down a "house of cards".
We are now being prepared to accept just such a scenario. Can anyone imagine
that an Iraqi government who had been set up under American occupation would
last long when 86% of all Iraqis resent us and want us out of their country,
and when the current Iraqi leaders are just the secular leaders from Saddam's
old government -- leaders who would immediately come under attack from rabid
fundamentalist Muslim forces who more closely align with the average citizen?
Did you know that the leaders we have set up now in Iraq are just the thugs
from Saddam's old regime? Did you know that Coalition Forces have brought
back into government throughout Iraq 12,000 leaders who formerly served under
Saddam? We have toppled Saddam only to replace him with another Saddam. Listen:
NEWS BRIEF: "Former Baath members to return to public service",
Middle East Online, June 10, 2004
"BAGHDAD - More than 12,000 former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath
party are in the process of reintegration into public service a year after
losing their jobs under a now abandoned policy of punishing loyalists of the
ousted regime ... In a backtrack on its once hardline stance, the so-called
National De-Baathification Committee - a body created and headed by erstwhile
Pentagon favourite Ahmad Chalabi - reinstated the public servants."
Remember the furor after World War II when American officials hired back
many thousands of fired Nazi officials? This situation is even more serious
because the current Iraqi Prime Minister, Allawi, was a Saddam crony. We have
toppled Saddam, busted his statute, only to turn around and set him back on
the throne by hiring so many of his officials. Is this the result most Americans
expected when our forces rolled across Iraq on March 20, 2003?
Furthermore, the news has been reporting that we might hand Saddam Hussein
back to the Iraqi Interim Government for trial; since so many of the officials
now are old Saddam officials, would we be handing Saddam back to his friends?
Would he then resume control from behind the scenes?
III. A South Korean hostage was beheaded in Iraq
on Tuesday while wearing the same orange jumpsuit American military prisons
issue their guards; the entire affair contained a strong "Illuminati
Signature".
NEWS BRIEF: "South Korea Confirms Hostage Killed", Fox News,
June 23, 2004, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123343,00.html
"BAGHDAD, Iraq — A South Korean citizen held hostage in Iraq
was beheaded by terrorists ... Al-Jazeera television broadcast a videotape
of a terrified Kim Sun-il (search), 33, kneeling, blindfolded and wearing
an orange jumpsuit similar to those issued to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba."
We noted in NEWS1918 that the first beheading
victim, Nick Berg, was wearing the same kind of orange jumpsuit which we
had seen in the awful Abu Ghraib prison photos which vividly depicted the
torture and sexual degradation scandal. Berg was also seen sitting in the
same white military plastic chair used in the American military prison system.
We questioned whether Berg was actually killed by Islamic terrorists or
by American agents intent upon setting the entire region into the flames
of war.
Now, this South Korean was beheaded wearing the same orange jumpsuit. Are
Islamic terrorists buying orange jumpsuits from the same supplier as the
American military prison system? We cannot ascertain any further detail
from the pictures of this South Korean beheading because the perpetrators
are literally covered over from head to toe. The murderers could be Oriental
or African, for that matter, because they are so covered with clothing.
But, the most interesting detail of this slaying is that it contains a
strong "Illuminati Signature". For those of you
not familiar yet with what constitutes an "Illuminati Signature",
please stop to read NEWS1756; this article
will explain why occultists will nearly always carefully carry out their
planned events by the "Sacred Occult Number" of '11' or multiples
thereof (or of a handful of other numbers sacred in the occult). Forced
by the prophecy of Daniel 7:7-8, the Illuminati has assigned the number
'11' to represent their Antichrist. Therefore, when you see an event carried
out by '11' or multiples thereof, you will understand that the event was
carried out to further the goal of staging Antichrist. The attacks of 9/11
contained '18' easily identifiable usages of the number '11'. Just as the
Illuminati Card Game predicted in 1995, the 9/11 attack was staged to begin
the "final birth sorrows" needed to produce Antichrist (NEWS1753).
Now, let us examine an article to see how this beheading of the South Korean
contains a very strong "Illuminati Signature".
NEWS BRIEF: "South Korean hostage executed", MSNBC International
News, June 22, 2004
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi militant group believed to be linked to
al-Qaida beheaded a South Korean hostage Tuesday after the Seoul government
refused to remove its soldiers from Iraq. U.S. soldiers on a routine patrol
found the body of the man, Kim Sun-il, 33, between Baghdad and Fallujah,
22 miles west of the capital ... military officials told NBC News."
Therefore, this South Korean hostage was beheaded on the 22nd day of June
and his body was dumped 22 miles from Baghdad. Oh, yes, and the victim was
33 years old. Thus, the murder was carried out by the sacred occult number
of '11' -- multiples 22 and 33. This is precisely the kind of "occult
signature" which has undergirded such deliberately planned events as
the attacks of 9/11 (NEWS1756).
But, one other part of this beheading merits our attention: the victim
was a "devout Christian"!
"Kim, described as a devout Christian, studied Arabic as well as English
in South Korea. His parents said he went to Iraq because he dreamed of becoming
a missionary in the Arab world, the Seoul newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported.
A South Korean television news station, YTN, said he had been in Iraq for
about eight months." [Ibid.]
Christians throughout Iraq are under much pressure as the June 30 handover
looms closer. However, in killing a Christian according to the "occult
sacred numbers" of '11', is a message being sent that the entire Christian
religion is targeted by the Illuminati? We have noted in numerous newsletters
and in NEWS1929, that a deliberate campaign
to discredit President Bush is underway and if it succeeds, the descrediting
of of Bush is likely to bring Evangelical Christianity down also. Secret
society writings make it very plain that all three monotheistic faiths --
Judaism, Christianity, Islam -- are targeted for annihilation, for its adherents
can never accept the polytheistic claims of Antichrist. While Islam was
to be attacked first, Christianity was planned to be second.
Is the killing of this Christian according to occult sacred number of '11'
a warning to Christians?
We continue to be suspicious that the Illuminati is carrying out these
beheadings, not Islamic militants -- and that they are deliberately trumpeting
their role by showing their victims in the US military prison orange jumpsuit.
The objective would be twofold: 1) To keep the hatred between the Christian
West and Islamic forces high and building toward that World War III; 2)
Further justify a global government effort to combat such contrived terrorism.
If this is true, we should not be surprised if we learned that the group
carrying out these beheadings is the Illuminized Secret Society whose symbol
is a beheaded man, and whose head is being held by a strong left arm while
the right hand is holding an Arabic sword (NEWS1917,
"Arab Society Has Symbol of Cruel Beheading For Their Degrees 9-11")
The day of the South Korean beheading, a story appeared which confirmed
our suspicions that these horrible events are part of the plan to produce
a global, unified governmental effort that will properly "fight terrorism".
NEWS BRIEF: "Beheading shows world must unite against terror - United
Nations", Reuters, AlertNet.com, 22 June 2004
"UNITED NATIONS, June 22 (Reuters) - The beheading of a South Korean
hostage by Muslim militants in Iraq shows the need for governments around
the world to work together to oppose terrorism, the U.N. Security Council
said on Tuesday. 'In the face of such evil, the world must stand united
against the scourge of international terrorism that continues to plague
our global community', said Philippines Foreign Secretary Delia Domingo-Albert
... U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said separately the hostage-taking
was aimed at undermining international efforts to restore peace and security
in Iraq and that such acts 'can have no justification'."
Listen again: "The world must stand united against the scourge of
international terrorism".
Compare this statement to the Illuminati Plan:
"... the secret societies were planning as far back
as 1917 to invent an artificial threat ... in order to bring humanity together
in a one-world government which they call the New World Order." [Bill
Cooper, "Behold A Pale Horse", p. 27]
The Illuminati DID invent an artificial threat" -- International
Islamic Terrorism. Watch how well this invented global threat works to bring
about the planned -- the prophesied -- Global Government! We are seeing
the transformation from National Sovereignty to Global Sovereignty in our
Daily News.
IV. Iran continued
to travel down her possible path of confrontation with the United States.
This week, Iran continued to build up her armed forces on Iraq's
southeast border and seized three British military patrol boats, with her
crew of eight, and threatened to accelerate her nuclear enrichment program.
NEWS BRIEF: "The big stick", Salt Lake Tribune, June 19, 2004
"There is reason to believe that Iran may be trying to build a nuclear
bomb, although the evidence is, as yet, inconclusive. One thing is certain,
however. If Iran is trying to join the nuclear weapons club, it is partly
because the United States has pushed it in that direction. Iran is confronted
on two borders by American troops, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. In addition,
President Bush has shown a willingness to invade a nation, Iraq, which he
suspected of developing nuclear weapons, even though U.N. inspections had
concluded that Iraq's nuclear program most likely had been dismantled after
the Gulf War. Iran could draw the conclusion from the U.S. adventure in Iraq
that it does not pay to try to build a bomb in defiance of the United States.
But it also could conclude, from the experience with North Korea, that if
a nation can manage to develop a secret nuclear weapons program to the point
that the United States believes it has a bomb, then it has an effective deterrent
against U.S. invasion."
This latter point is exactly what North Korea has been saying for a full
year now. She correctly noted that President Bush did not order the invasion
of Iraq until United Nations weapons inspectors had verified, checked, and
double-checked Iraq's WMD capability; only after UN inspectors issued their
final report boldly stating that Iraq had NO WMD did Bush order the
invasion. North Korea firmly believes that, if Saddam had really possessed
Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bush would not have dared order the invasion.
Therefore, the only way in which to be sure the United States will not attack
is to really own and deploy nuclear weapons.
Iran has evidently come to the place where she agrees with this North Korean
assessment. As we noted in last week's newsletter, Iran began to assemble
her armed forces along the southeastern corner with Iraq only after Congress
had voted to allow Bush to strike Iran pre-emptively. As rhetoric began to
increase toward possible confrontation, Iran last week seized three British
patrol boats with their 8-man crew.
NEWS BRIEF: "Iran-UK Naval Dispute, Sky News, June 21, 2004
"Communications with three Royal Navy vessels and eight sailors seized
by Iran have been lost. A British military spokesman said the craft, which
entered Iran's territorial waters, cannot be contacted. Eight British sailors
have been arrested by Iran. The seacraft were detained near the Iraqi border
after, said Iran, they had entered its waters without permission .... Royal
Navy boats patrol the waterway - a highly disputed boundary between Iraq and
Iraq - to prevent smuggling."
At first, Iran was adamant that she just might try the British crewmen. In
a news conference, some of the British sailors made matters worse.
NEWS BRIEF: "UK sailors 'admit Iran incursion' ", BBC News, 23
June 2004
"Iranian television has broadcast statements by detained British sailors
apparently admitting entering Iranian territorial waters illegally. Two of
the eight sailors being held said they crossed the border from Iraq by accident,
according to an Arabic translation played over their words ... There have
been a series of conflicting reports about whether the men will be put on
trial or freed."
Within 24 hours, the Iranians had released the men.
Iran likely used this incident to deliver a warning to British and American
officials: Iran will vigorously fight to protect her sovereignty. Remember,
Coalition Forces struggled against Iraqi forces in the southeastern corner
of Iraq in the first 2 weeks of warfare. Only when Saddam order the strategic
retreat did we achieve a "quick victory". Iranian forces are vastly
better than Saddam's forces, so it is doubtful that America will attack conventionally;
if we do attack, we probably will use our more sophisticated unconventional
weaponry.
V. The United
States was reportedly caught trying to smuggle trucks loaded with WMD across
Kuwait border with Iraq last week. What on earth is going on?
NEWS BRIEF: "Kuwait sends back truck carrying radioactive material",
China View, June 13, 2004
"KUWAIT CITY, June 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Kuwait refused to allow a radioactive
material-bound truck to enter the country as demanded by the US army, Kuwait
Times reported Sunday. Kuwaiti customs department on Thursday impounded four
trucks coming from Iraq for suspicion that they were loaded with radioactive
material ... After checkup, three of them were found not containing any radioactive
material, while the fourth was found to be carrying a container of highly
radioactive substance ... officials said the American army warned against
opening the container and asked that it be allowed proceed, but they refused.
Three of the four trucks were then released and the fourth one was sent out
of Kuwait to where it came despite the US army's objections."
NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. Trucks Carrying Radioactive Materials Intercepted
In Iraq-Kuwait Border", Tehran Times, June 15, 2004
"TEHRAN (MNA) - The UAE-based daily Al-Khaleej reported on Monday that
Kuwaiti tariff officials have intercepted a truck loaded with radioactive
materials in the Iraq-Kuwait border. The daily quoted informed sources as
saying that the radioactive control team from Kuwait’s Health Ministry
discovered that one of the trucks belonging to the U.S.-led coalition forces
was carrying heavy radioactive materials trucks. The trucks were headed for
Iraq. The daily said that such materials could only enter a country when there
is permission from related bodies while the materials were secretly being
carried to Iraq ... The MNA reported for the first time the coalition forces’
suspicious transfer of WMD parts from Kuwait to Southern Iraq by trucks. The
possible presence of WMD in Iraq and its likely nuclear programs were the
main U.S. pretext for attacking the country."
Prior to the invasion of March 20, 2003, Asia Times posted an editorial asking
whether American officials might plant WMD inside Iraq once our forces had
conquered the country. Were we attempting to plant WMD so the President could
trumpet to the world that he was justified after all in ordering this invasion?
VI. US missile
air attack on homes in Fallujah is sparking such tremendous anger that plans
to handover power on June 30 are being complicated.
NEWS BRIEF: "US air strike on Fallujah poses new threat to Iraqi handover",
by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles, Independent.co.au, 20 June 2004
"The handover of power in Iraq - now a mere 10 days away - appeared
to be in a state of renewed crisis yesterday after a US air strike on homes
in Fallujah brought to an end a week in which large-scale violence once again
boiled to the surface. Around 20 civilians, including eight women and children,
are said to have died in the attack, which follows Thursday's devastating
car bomb outside a Baghdad army recruitment centre ... Yesterday's raid on
Fallujah is troubling because of the raw memories it has stirred up of the
hundreds of Iraqi civilians killed there by the Americans in April. It bore
the hallmark of a revenge attack straight out of the Israeli book - engendering
an incensed reaction similar to that of Palestinians on the receiving of Israeli
air raids in Gaza and the West Bank ... The impact of these events on US public
opinion remains to be seen. Media coverage of the Fallujah raid was relatively
muted yesterday, in part because the US military refused to comment or give
details of what happened and in part because the news was dominated by the
beheading of the kidnapped military contractor Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia."
Local Arabs are incensed that we would attack a house in a neighborhood;
furthermore, residents adamantly insisted that no one in the house was a terrorist.
This pinpoint missile attack was reminiscient of the Israeli tactic against
Palestinians. However, the Israelis are famous for their accurate pinpoint
intelligence.
NEWS BRIEF: "Fallujah mystery deepens", Gulf News, 21 June 2004
"Fallujah: A militant group targeted by a US air strike that killed
22 people in Fallujah does not operate in the rebellious Sunni town, Iraqi
security officers said yesterday. The US military said Saturday's raid was
aimed at a safe house used by militants led by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi ... The
air strike, which flattened a house ... fueled tensions ahead of the formal
end of Iraq's US-led occupation on June 30. The US military had allowed an
Iraqi force, known as the Fallujah Brigade, led by former Iraqi army officers,
to take over security in the fiercely anti-American town west of Baghdad.
Brigadier Nouri Aboud, a member of the Fallujah Brigade, said there was no
evidence the destroyed house had been used by anyone except the large Iraqi
family that lived there. 'We inspected the damage, we looked through the bodies
of the women and children and elderly. This was a family', he said. 'There
is no sign of foreigners having lived in the house. Al Zarqawi and his men
have no presence in Fallujah'."
This is a serious matter, indeed. If the militant terrorist group we said
was using this "safe house" does not even operate in Fallujah, then
our missile attack against this civilian house is completely called into question.
If our intelligence was wrong in this one instance, it was quite possibly
wrong in saying this was a safe house for militants. Perhaps we did just kill
a civilian family.
For those who do not believe American forces are deliberately killing civilians
in Iraq, we can only point out several news stories that reveal our deliberate
killing of civilians.
* NEWS BRIEF: "US Tactics In Iraq Condemned By Top British Officers",
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, The Telegraph - UK, 4-12-4
"Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in
Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate ... The officer, who agreed to the
interview on the condition of anonymity, said that part of the problem was that
American troops viewed Iraqis as untermenschen - the Nazi expression for 'sub-humans'
... Speaking from his base in southern Iraq, the officer said: 'My view and
the view of the British chain of command is that the Americans' use of violence
is not proportionate and is over-responsive to the threat they are facing. They
don't see the Iraqi people the way we see them. They view them as untermenschen.
They are not concerned about the Iraqi loss of life in the way the British are.
Their attitude towards the Iraqis is tragic, it's awful'. The phrase untermenschen
- literally "under-people" - was brought to prominence by Adolf Hitler
in his book Mein Kampf, published in 1925. He used the term to describe those
he regarded as racially inferior: Jews, Slaves and Gipsies."
* NEWS BRIEF: "Shooting death angers Iraqi family: US tactics in raid
raise concerns", The Boston Globe, June 21, 2004
"BAGHDAD -- American soldiers stormed into Sajid Kadhum Bouri al-Bawi's
house three hours after midnight on May 17, breaking two doors and rousing
the dozen children who live there ... after the soldiers left with what appeared
to be a prisoner did Bawi's brother find his bloodied body, shot five times
and stuffed behind a refrigerator underneath a pile of mattresses .. The US
Army is investigating the shooting, and admits that Bawi was shot and killed
by an American ... Bawi's slaying during the kind of routine night raid that
is the military's bread-and-butter counterinsurgency tactic raises questions
about the control and supervision of soldiers on those raids, and the reliability
of the local informants whose tips are often behind the arrest lists. The
events described by family members are chilling: They say Bawi was killed
in his mother's bedroom during an interrogation, while soldiers banged on
metal doors to dull the sound of the shots."
Now, let us turn our attention to this deliberate campaign designed to discredit
President Bush (NEWS1929).
VII. Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a major
policy speech on Thursday, 6/24, in which he accused the President of lying
about Iraq. This speech might prove to be the initiation of the
Democrat Party's contribution to this campaign of discreditation.
NEWS BRIEF: "Gore: Bush Lied About al-Qaida, Iraq Link", Yahoo
News, June 25, 2004
"WASHINGTON - Al Gore on Thursday accused President Bush of lying about
a link between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein and said the president refuses
to back down from that position to avoid political fallout. 'They dare not
admit the truth lest they look like complete fools for launching our country
into a reckless, discretionary war against a nation that posed no immediate
threat to us whatsoever', Gore, the former vice president who lost the presidency
to Bush in 2000, said during a speech at Georgetown University Law Center
... Gore accused Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) of
deliberately ignoring warnings from international intelligence services, the
CIA (news - web sites) and the Pentagon (news - web sites) before the Iraq
(news - web sites) war that their claim of a link between al-Qaida and Saddam
was false.
"With a smirk, Gore then added: 'So when the bipartisan 9/11 commission
issued its report finding 'no credible evidence' of an Iraq-al-Qaida connection,
it should not have come as a surprise. It should not have caught the White
House off guard'. The independent, bipartisan commission looking into the
terrorist attacks found 'no credible evidence' of a link between the events
of Sept. 11, 2001, and Iraq. As to an Iraq-al-Qaida connection, the commission
found there was no apparent "collaborative relationship."
Whatever your opinion of Al Gore might be, all major politicians are very
careful and calculating as to their major speeches. Gore made this speech
just weeks before the major nominating conventions, so you have to consider
that his timing was deliberate and carefully planned. Secondly, Gore would
not have made this speech had he feared that major news might break suddenly
that would prove him wrong.
This speech may have been the major initial salvo of the Democrat Presidential
Campaign. Gore then mentioned the torture scandal.
"Gore also accused Bush of abusing his presidential powers by invading
Iraq without a war declaration from Congress, allowing Americans deemed 'unlawful
enemy combatants' to be held without being charges, and authorizing 'what
plainly amounts to the torture of prisoners'. He also called on the administration
to disclose all of its interrogation policies — including those used
in Iraq and Afghanistan , and by the CIA — and analyses about them. 'We
deserve to know what and why it's being done in our name', Gore said to applause."
[Ibid.]
Cutting Edge has been warning since November, 2001, that Bush/Ashcroft have
been torturing prisoners. Yet, no one seriously believed that this "Born
Again Christian" President and Attorney General could be capable of such
anti-christian behavior. Hopefully, many eyes will be opened through this
unfolding prison scandal in US military prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Guantanamo Bay.
Speaking of Guantanamo Bay, the Bush Administration managed to again give
the impression they were hiding some great War Crime.
NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. moves to classify Guantanamo abuse suit documents:
Action pre-empts judge's expected ruling to unseal papers", by Paul Shukovsky,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 24, 2004, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/179298_guantanamo24.html
"The Department of Defense has moved to classify documents in federal
court in Seattle that accuse the government of abusing a prisoner and violating
international law at Guantanamo Bay .... The documents describing the alleged
mistreatment of Salim Ahmed Salim Hamdan ... are part of a lawsuit challenging
his detention, the conditions of detention and his prolonged incarceration
in solitary confinement. The suit also directly challenges the way President
Bush plans to use military tribunals to try Guantanamo detainees accused of
terrorist ties ... The lawyer, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
in May that the documents 'allege other violations of the Geneva Conventions'
... he said that they would make for 'interesting and relevant reading' in
light of recent revelations of abuse of prisoners in Iraq by the U.S. military.
The move by the Defense Department to classify the documents comes as the
military's treatment of its prisoners has caused outrage in Iraq and questions
at home about how far the Bush administration is willing to go in questioning
those taken into custody in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Do not be deceived into thinking that the Bush Administration unknowingly
violated the Geneva Convention on treating prisoners. Read this article which
clearly demonstrates that President Bush set out to violate the very international
agreements to which the US is a signatory, thus opening the flood gates to
the terrible torture and sexual degradation abuses which the world is now
viewing.
NEWS BRIEF: "Bush memos show stance on torture", by Suzanne Goldenberg
in Washington, The Guardian (London), June 24, 2004
"The Bush administration's thinking about the use of torture in the
war on terror was on display yesterday after the White House released a file
of documents on the treatment of detainees. The memos, which date from February
2002 to the beginning of the Iraq occupation in April 2003, offer a glimpse
of the decision-making process at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the
department of justice and the White House ... the administration yesterday
stood accused of raising more questions than it laid to rest, with key Democratic
figures and human rights activists noting that none of the documents specifically
apply to treatment of detainees in Iraq ... Questions were also raised on
the role of President George Bush after the release of a previously secret
order he signed in February 2002. In the order, Mr Bush reserves the right
to suspend the Geneva convention on treatment of detainees at any time.
"I accept the legal conclusion of the attorney general and the department
of justice that I have the authority to suspend Geneva [conventions] as between
the US and Afghanistan," Mr Bush writes. "I reserve the right to
exercise this authority in this or future conflicts."
This article went on to strangely say that Bush called for the "humane
treatment of prisoners", even though he was deliberately setting aside
the Geneva Conventions which were designed to make sure that prisoners of
war were treated humanely! The record of what our military has done to thousands
of Muslim prisoners since 9/11 is clear: American forces have arrested and
imprisoned men and women indefinitely without charges, without proof of any
crime, without any access to legal protections -- including a lawyer -- AND
we have subjected them to sophisticated torture, rape, and various forms of
sexual degradation specifically designed to offend their unique Islamic sensibilities;
oh yes, and we have also murdered some prisoners.
Therefore, any further discussion of what Bush knew and when he knew it is
rendered inconsequential and irrelevant. By telling our military that they
did not need to abide by the Geneva Convention on treating prisoners humanely,
President Bush set up the mechanism by which these prisoners would be treated
inhumanely.
Do you know what convinced me that President Nixon was guilty as charged?
He kept acting in exactly the way I would expect a guilty man to act. President
Bush is beginning to fall into this category! He is acting like a guilty man.
Now, let us examine one instance in which President Bush has taken action
to ensure that he will be legally protected from another developing scandal.
VIII. President Bush retained a lawyer to protect
him during the CIA probe as to who in the White House leaked the name of their
deeply protected agent.
NEWS BRIEF: "Bush Hires Attorney in CIA Leak Probe", Fox News,
June 25, 2004
"WASHINGTON — President Bush was questioned for more than an hour
by government prosecutors Thursday as part of the probe into who leaked the
name a CIA operative to the media ... White House press secretary Scott McClellan
said Bush has hired a private attorney, Jim Sharp, a Washington trial lawyer
and former federal prosecutor."
While repeating the mantra that the President wants to fully cooperate, Bush
hired a powerful lawyer from the Capitol District to represent him. This action
strongly hints that Bush has something to hide. Some commentators have been
boldly saying that President Bush was going to be indicted on this issue.
When someone in the White House publicized the name of the CIA agent, a far-flung
intelligence operation was immediately compromised.
If this is true, then the campaign to discredit Bush -- during the time of
the presidential election -- would definitely be moving into high gear. John
Kerry can only sit back and watch, as the daily news will be doing his job
for him.
IX. Fidel Castro
warned the United States not to launch an invasion of Cuba. On
the surface, this news story carries an aura of unbelievability; after all
this time since the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion, America has no interest
in invading Cuba. Right?
NEWS BRIEF: "Castro warns Bush not to launch invasion", Associated
Press, reprinted Baltimore Sun, June 22, 2004
"HAVANA - Tens of thousands of Cubans rallied yesterday, as Fidel Castro
warned President Bush against launching a military attack on Cuba, saying
it would provoke a mass exodus and an all-out ground war ... an increased
tightening of sanctions against the island, along with the Bush administration's
pre-emptive strike on Iraq, has convinced the Cuban leadership that a military
attack is not impossible. 'Do not try crazy adventures such as surgical strikes
or wars of attrition using sophisticated techniques because you could lose
control of the situation', Castro said in a speech addressed specifically
to Bush."
We are not perplexed as to why Castro might think the United States is getting
ready to invade him. Cuba is one of those Non-Integrating States we describe
in NEWS1833. Since America overthrew Haiti's
President a few months ago, other Non-Integrating nations in the region have
been on notice that they are next if they do not immediately make the internal
changes the Illuminati is demanding -- changes designed to enable that nation
to integrate into the cashless economy where no man may buy or sell unless
he has the mark! This requires a sophisticated economy based upon computers,
something many nations are not now able to do.
Castro is not alone thinking he may be invaded. Venezuela has been warning
Bush for months now that she will fight if invaded (NEWS1900)
X. A North Carolina
Catholic priest and two former monks have discovered that Roman Catholic priests
have been sexually abusing their parishoners for 1,700 years!
NEWS BRIEF: "Vatican Aware of Abuse for Centuries, Study Says: Authors
use church's own documents to make their case", By William Lobdell, Times
Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2004
"Facing an estimated 800 sexual-abuse lawsuits in California, Roman
Catholic officials have argued that the church learned only in recent years
that it had a widespread problem with priests molesting children ... But a
North Carolina priest and two former monks who live in Southern California
say they have scoured ancient Vatican records and forgotten Latin texts to
show just the opposite: that the church has recognized the problem of abuse
by priests for at least 1,700 years and has failed to address it successfully.
" 'The contention that the present scandal is isolated to this era is
completely debunked by the Roman Catholic Church's own documents', concluded
Father Thomas P. Doyle and former monks Richard Sipe and Patrick Wall in their
375-page report, 'Canonical History of Clerical Sexual Abuse'."
"For example, in the 4th century, St. Basil of Caesarea set up a detailed
system of punishment to deal with clerics at his monastery who molested boys.
Perpetrators were to be flogged and put in chains for six months; they were
never again allowed unsupervised interaction with minors. In the 13th century,
Pope Gregory IX added to church law a declaration that sexual abuse demanded
expulsion from the priesthood and that perpetrators would be turned over to
secular authorities ... One landmark document, published by Pope Benedict
XIV in 1741, made it easier to punish priests who solicited sex during confession
in exchange for absolution ... 'It devastates the church's argument that 'We
had no idea this was happening' and that 'No priest would ever do this,' "
said Larry Drivon, a Stockton attorney who represents hundreds of alleged
victims of clergy sexual abuse in California."
Three years ago, when the Boston priest pedophile scandal was creating daily
news, Cutting Edge delved deeply into this issue of the long history of sexual
abuse of parishoners by Catholic priests. We obtained a number of exceedingly
old books -- 17th and 18th Centuries -- which described the sexual crimes
of priests. We were able to pinpoint sexual abuse back to 800 years ago, thus
disproving the current excuse that the current sex scandal was occurring because
the Catholic priesthood had been invaded and taken over by gays.
Now, the internal documents uncovered by these Catholic investigators moves
the timeline back to 1,700 years -- nearly back to the very beginning of the
Catholic Church itself! How can this be? You cannot understand this issue
unless you understand the pagan nature of Catholicism itself. From nearly
the beginning of the Catholic Church, she has brought in pagan doctrine and
tradition, dressing them up in Christian names. From the beginning, Catholicism
has been the practice of White Magic Witchcraft dressed up as Christian. We
have a major video we created on this subject: Catholicism:
White Sepulcher ''Christianity''. Once you understand the true religion
of Catholicism, sexual abuse of innocent parishoners for the past 1,700 years
makes complete sense.
Now, let us examine another tactic the Catholic hierarchy has always used
in dealing with pedophile priests: they have always moved their guilty priests
to other churches rather than punishing them. Nothing has changed. Listen:
NEWS BRIEF: "Priests moved following abuse allegations", Associated
Press, reprinted by KVUE.com, June 18, 2004
"DALLAS -- A Dallas Morning News investigation has found that between
100 and 200 Roman Catholic priests were moved from country to country after
they were accused of sex offenses against minors ... Reporter Brooks Egerton
gave an overview of the investigation Friday on National Public Radio's "Morning
Edition" program ... Egerton says their 18-month investigation found
a systematic practice of moving the most serious abuse cases on to other countries
to protect the accused."
During the Boston Catholic scandal of three years ago, Cardinal Law was repeatedly
accused of just moving his priests to another church once the scandal broke
in their current location. Sometimes, Law moved guilty priests clear across
country. Truly, there is "nothing new under the sun".
XI. While Chinese
legislators urged the government to use nuclear weapons should Taiwan strike
the Three Gorges Dam, the top US Admiral in the region worried aloud about
a war in the Taiwan Straits.
NEWS BRIEF: "China told to use nukes if Taiwan hits dam", Straits
Times, 20 June 2004
"SHENZHEN - China should withdraw its undertaking on no first-use of
nuclear weapons should Taiwan try to blow up the Three Gorges Dam, according
to some parliamentary delegates. The call was made by them - as well as some
who sit on the country's top political advisory body - in the wake of a recent
US Defence Department report which suggested that Taiwan could target the
dam in a pre-emptive strike."
This kind of news story just escalates the war rhetoric. In US Army Intelligence,
I learned that war rhetoric can play a significant role in starting the war
nobody really wanted. As war talk escalates, war action generally follows.
Therefore, it is not good news when we see war rhetoric escalating to the
point where Chinese legislators are urging the military to use nuclear weapons
against Taiwan.
Further, this story may represent official Chinese government position, since
no one in the Chinese government ever says anything publicly that the inner
circle has not already approved.
Perhaps this war rhetoric is the reason our top naval commander in the Taiwan
Straits seemed so worried about an actual conflict between China and Taiwan.
NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. commander worried about Taiwan Strait war", Taiwan
News.com, 20 June 2004
"U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Thomas B. Fargo was quoted as
having said Friday that he is very worried about an outbreak of war in the
Taiwan Strait because of miscalculation by the governments on both sides ...
Fargo ... told the delegation that three issues in the Pacific region have
made him unable to sleep at night - little progress in removal of nuclear
weapons from the Korean Peninsula; a possible outbreak of war in the Taiwan
Strait because of miscalculation by the governments on both sides and mainland
China's accelerated military modernization as a result of its rapid economic
growth; and terrorist activities in Southeast Asia."
With all this rhetoric filling the airwaves, we were not too surprised to
learn that American aircraft carriers groups were heading for the North Korea
- Taiwan area. Remember, China invading Taiwan is planned to be the third
war in the upcoming World War III -- a war designed to produce Antichrist
on the world scene.
NEWS BRIEF: "Serious New Military Actions of the Administration: Another
War or Just Bluff?", TBRNEWS –SPECIAL EDITION of June 17, 2004
"“It has been reliably reported that the American President and
his closest military advisors, in conjunction with the highest military commands,
have determined that military operations should be prepared for and executed
against two main targets. The first and primary ones are in the Middle East
and comprise Iraq and most especially Iran. The secondary object is North
Korea ... In furtherance of this policy, the United States Naval forces will
be utilized as the focus of the attack forces. These units will not be subject
to counter attacks because they can stand off at a distance and attack their
targets with complete impunity. Naval personnel will not be subject to guerrilla
warfare in any sense and will supply a very powerful attack force capable
of delivering deadly blows against designated targets. A current review of
