WEEKLY UPDATES FROM Cutting Edge Ministries, www.cuttingedge.org

   A. Capping the Pyramid With Eye of Lucifer Coming Down Within -- In NEWS1874, we report a very exciting occult spiritual development: the Illuminati has built a very important building in Jerusalem -- Israeli Supreme Court -- that features a pyramid much like the pyramid on the back of the American One Dollar Bill, However, this new pyramid is capped, instead of being left unfinished as on our Dollar Bill. This difference is huge! The pyramid on our Dollar Bill was left unfinished to denote that the "Great Work" on earth is unfinished; this pyramid in Jerusalem that is finished denotes the Illuminati belief that the "Great Work" is now completed.

What is the "Great Work"? It is the preparation of the world so Antichrist can arise! In other words, the Illuminist leadership today believes that the final preparations needed to produce Antichrist have now been made. The Global Government is far enough along, the Global Economy and Global Religion are also far enough along for the Illuminati to believe the time is here to produce Antichrist.

Likewise, the fact that this Jerusalem All-Seeing Eye is now within the pyramid rather than hovering over it is of great significance. On the Dollar Bill, the Eye of Horus -- Lucifer -- is hovering over the unfinished "Great Work" on earth, overseeing every development. However, this new finished pyramid has the All-Seeing Eye located within the pyramid, located toward the top. This means that Lucifer has now come down to live with his finished work!

This symbolism means that all of the worldwide political, economic, and spiritual development needed to be made so Antichrist can arise, has been accomplished. Thus, the Global Kingdom is nearly ready so Antichrist can arise and take control, just as Revelation 17:17 foretells. Listen:

"For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His own purpose by acting in harmony in surrendering their royal power and authority to the beast until the prophetic words ... of God shall be fulfilled." [Revelation 17:17; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary]

Notice that this verse unmistakably implies that the final kings of the earth have to first set up the global kingdom and then "surrender" that authority and power to the Antichrist. This scenario is exactly the New World Order Plan and is exactly the meaning of this pyramid symbolism on the top of the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem!

   B. Moving Toward That False Peace - Also in NEWS1874, we report that Jewish author, Barry Chamish, linked the current Geneva Accord to the 1871-1872 Albert Pike demonic vision that three world wars would be necessary to produce Antichrist [Read details in NEWS1056].

Currently, Israel has two terrible land concession plans on the table, both of which would create a Palestinian State. The first plan is the official one, the "Road Map", being pushed by Bush, Sharon, Blair, Putin, and the entire European heads of state. This plan would require Israel to withdraw to her pre-1967 borders.

The second plan is ever more terrible, and is called the "Geneva Accord" or Initiative. This plan was supposedly secretly drafted between Liberal Israeli politicians and the Palestinian Authority in Geneva; however, it seems to veteran observers that the plan was created in Jerusalem. This plan would require Israel to withdraw to her pre-1948 borders! We have examined this plan thoroughly in NEWS1864, and explain that this plan seems to render Israel militarily indefensible.

We have never fully understood the logic behind either the Road Map or the Genevea Accord, for either one greatly rewards Arafat and his terrorist organizations for their 33 years of terrorism against Israel and Western interests. Even though President Bush insisted he would never tolerate a terrorist leader or his organization again after the 9/11 attacks, and he promised that he would move heaven and earth to uproot the nation supporting terrorism, Bush has followed exactly the opposite track against Arafat. Whenever Arafat's terrorists kill innocent men, women, children, and infants, President Bush immediately pressures Israel to "show restraint", thus effectively allowing Arafat to get away with his heinous murder!

In our newsletter of several weeks ago, we noted that the Illuminist muscle behind the Geneva Accord was significant, and should not be ignored. We noted that, even though Prime Minister Sharon had come out strongly against the this accord, he has been known in the past to suddenly reverse his position on issues by a remarkable 180°! We noted that we should watch to see if Sharon would inexplicably reverse his position here. Sharon is hinting at just this kind of reversal! Listen:

NEWS BRIEF: "Sharon drops hint of parallel initiatives to road map moves", by Ha'aretz News, 11/21/03.

"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is putting together a package of 'positive unilateral steps' for Israel to take with respect to the Palestinians ... the package, which will soon be presented to the public, will be 'parallel, but not contradictory, to the road map'."

Conservative Israelis must be at their wits end, for they threw out Liberal Ehud Barak, embracing the "Conservative" Sharon in the hopes he would attack the Palestinian terror machine with the IDF and with the superior Israeli Intelligence services. However, every single time Israel seemed to be making headway in this struggle, Sharon would pull his forces back, buckling to Bush's pressure. In NEWS1819, we reported that prophecy was fulfilled when Bush, Sharon, and the Palestinian Prime Minister declared a "Palestinian State" on June 4, 2003; the only reason this declaration was possible was because Sharon suddenly reversed his long-held position, again to the consternation of every thinking, discerning Israeli.

"Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace"

Last week, a 70-page booklet explaining the Geneva Accord was mailed to every Israeli home in Israel, trying to bypass Sharon in order to convince the average citizen to support these accords. At this critical moment, the Palestinians are suddenly talking "peace"!

NEWS BRIEF: "13 Palestinian factions agree to Dec. truce talks: Israel vows to reciprocate if militants halt attacks", SunSpot.net, 11/21/03.

"JERUSALEM - Thirteen Palestinian factions, including major militant groups, have agreed to attend truce talks in Cairo, Egypt, next month, and Palestinian officials said yesterday that they expect the conference to be successful if Israel agrees to halt military operations. A truce is key to reviving the U.S.-backed 'road map' peace plan, which was endorsed Wednesday by the United Nations Security Council."

This "peace" talk is aimed directly at the Israeli voter, who is currently reading the 70-page booklet selling the potentially ruinous Geneva Accord! Not for one minute should anyone believe the Palestinians are interested in peace with Israel. For over 20 years, Arafat's educational system and its mass media have been poisoning the minds of Palestinian young people to hate the Jews and want them dead. This propaganda has been so effective that Arafat today has seemingly unlimited numbers of young men and women who want to die in a suicide bombing attack in order to kill a few Jews. The Palestinians do not want "peace" with the Jew, nor do they want just a portion of Israel; they want all Jews dead and all their land.

However, Israel may be heading for that false peace many believe she must pass through before Antichrist can arise.

Notice in this SunSpot article that the United Nations has voted to support the "Road Map", not the "Geneva Accord"! This fact leads me to believe that the "Road Map" is the preferred plan of all major countries -- the US, Israel, Great Britain, Russia, and European Union. Therefore, the question must be asked:

Was the "Geneva Accord" introduced simply to so horrify Israelis of its concessions that they would support the "Road Map", a plan only slightly less ruinous! There can be no doubt that the "Road Map" was dead in the water, as no discerning Israeli citizen wanted Israel to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders; however, if the only choice is to withdraw to pre-1967 borders or to pre-1948 borders, the choice obviously has to be 1967. Thus, the "Geneva Accord" can logically be seen as a ploy designed to get the "Road Map" accepted.

 

A. General Tommy Franks confirms the domestic terror plan! We wish to thank General Tommy Franks for succinctly stating the domestic terror plan by which our Constitutional Government will be collapsed! We have been stating this reality for a long, long time, but this is the first instance where an official acknowledged the existence of a major portion of the New World Order Plan. Listen to his shocking remarks:

NEWS BRIEF: "Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack", by NewsMax, 11/21/03.

"Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government ... the former commander of the military’s Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government."

The New World Order Plan could not have stated the plan any better! Listen again to New Age author Bill Cooper, writing in his book, "Behold A Pale Horse".

"Can you imagine what will happen if Los Angeles is hit with a 9.0 quake, New York City is destroyed by a terrorist-planted atomic bomb, World War III breaks out in the Middle East, the banks and the stock markets collapse, Extraterrestrials land on the White House lawn, food disappears from the markets, some people disappear, the Messiah presents himself to the world, and all in a very short time?" [page 177]

Of all the writings of significant occult writers of the Illuminati plan, Cooper is the only one who singles out New York City as a target of an atomic bomb! Is New York still the target of an future atomic blast, or did the attacks of 9/11 mean that another American city is now designated to be devastated by an atomic device? While it is not possible to know for certain because the Illuminati leadership is always free to change some of the details, we believe it likely that New York City will be devastated by a nuclear device.

Why would General Franks publicly state this part of the Plan? He is most definitely not a "loose cannon", shooting off his mouth, so we can only conclude that the time has arrived for the public to be conditioned for just such an event. Remember the overall premise of this planned terror: All governments in the world now elected must be overthrown, and replaced by a dictatorial government! There is absolutely no place in the world of Antichrist for an elected government.

B. Going Backwards - Patriot Act II is working its way through Congress. In the months of October - December, 2001, we ran a series of articles detailing the terribly draconian police state powers that Patriot Act gave the Federal Government. Not since the dictatorships of Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler has a government possessed such powers. However, almost 6 months ago, Attorney General Ashcroft was caught in a big lie; he had to admit that, yes, the Justice Department had been working on an extension of the Patriot Act, an even more draconian plan that was immediately dubbed "Patriot Act II". As Alex Jones explains in his video, "Police State 3 -- Total Enslavement", this act will grant the government the following powers.

Police can burst into your home without warning, without a court warrant, and arrest you without charges. The police can take you to an imprisonment location which they do not have to disclose to anyone, either the family or a lawyer. In fact, you are not entitled to either a lawyer or a trial. You can be executed in secrecy and your family does not need to be notified. And, to top everything off, if another citizen sees the police coming to your home and reports it to anyone, that citizen can be arrested to face the same scenario!

C. Homeland Security Gun Safety Act is a back-door attempt to prevent the sale of firearms.

NEWS BRIEF: "Homeland Security Gun Safety Act of 2003 - S 969 IS", http://thomas.loc.gov/

"There is a notice of a pending bill in the US Senate S969 a.k.a. 'Homeland Security Gun Safety Act of 2003'. This latest attempt to destroy our gun rights is sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenburg (D-NJ) and co-sponsored by all the regular Liberals like Hillary Clinton. The gist of this wonderful bill promising to make us all safer, is simple but devastating: Whenever the Homeland Security Alert Level is higher than green...no one can purchase a gun. Once the level falls to Green for more than 180 consecutive days...guns can be sold again.

As all of you know, the alert level has never fallen below Yellow since 9/11/01. This is another backdoor attempt to take away our rights, and leave it to this group of national leaders to use "terrorist security" as an excuse! Do not be deceived into thinking that all these "anti-terrorist" laws are targeting only those terrible Muslims; YOU and I are the real targets.

This last understanding takes us to our next point:

D. Reminder: "Terrorist" was redefined in October, 2001, to be You and Me! Just days after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush Administration redefined who a terrorist was! Did you miss it? Let us examine the key element of NEWS1553, posted October 5, 2001, just days after 9/11.

NEWS BRIEF: "Ridge Vows Balance of Rights, Security", News-Item Newspaper, Shamokin, Pennsylvania, 10/3/01, Page 1.

"To those Americans who would lash out at your fellow citizens, simply because they worship differently, or dress differently, or look differently than you, there is one word for such behavior: terrorism." [Governor Tom Ridge, in his farewell address to the State Legislature as Pennsylvania Governor, before taking up his new position at the White House as Director of Homeland Security].

The Bush Administration has just redefined who is a terrorist and what a person has to do in order to be classified by the Federal Government as a terrorist. In NEWS1550, "Bitter Fruits of Bush's War On Terrorism ", we predicted that such a redefinition would take place. However, we were shocked that such a redefinition would occur so quickly after 9/11.

But, then, another shock occurred, as Ashcroft resurrected a Bill Clinton initiative, one against which Conservatives railed at the time; however, when Ashcroft implemented this plan, no Conservative raised even a peep. Listen to an excerpt NEWS1579, entitled, "Ashcroft's FBI Is Tightening The Noose Around 'Domestic Terrorists":

"Less than two years before Clinton left office, his FBI sent out flyers to all FBI offices nationwide, in which the subject of 'Domestic Terrorism' was discussed. As the front of the flyer stated: 'The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is attempting to identify criminal activities with domestic terrorists. In this regard, the purpose of this information sheet is to assist uniformed patrol officers in identifying potential domestic terrorism. Domestic terrorist is defined as: Groups or individuals entirely inside the US, attempting to influence the US government or population, to effect political or social change by engaging in criminal activity'." [http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerroristFlyer-Front.jpg]

But, this FBI Information Sheet contains even more horror. When you turn to the back of the flyer, you read the specific types of "Domestic Terrorists". [http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerroristFlyer-Back.jpg]. YOU and I are clearly "Domestic Terrorists" according to this definition.

"Right-Wing Extremists -- defined as: 1) Defenders of US Constitution against Federal Government and the UN {Super Patriots}; 2) Groups or individuals engaged in para-military training." If you insist upon your rights under the Constitution, you are "domestic terrorist"!

"Left-Wing Terrorism -- Political motivation is usually Marxist/Leninist philosophy". Taking a page from Hitler's Nazi book, our government stokes the fires of Anti-Communism in this rule.

"Hate Groups -- defined as: 1) Skinheads, Nazis, Neo-Nazis (usually recognized by tattoos); 2) Black Separatists; 3) KKK [Ku Klux Klan]; 4) Christian Identity; 5) White Nationalists" - Further refinements of what constitutes"Hate Groups" now include Christians who insist upon the authority of God's Word, especially in the area of homosexuality [Read NEWS1553, quoting -- http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerroristFlyer-Back.jpg]

"Common Law Movement Proponents -- defined as possessing: 1) Fictitious license plates; 2) No license plates; 3) Fictitious driver's license; 4) Refuse to Identify Themselves; 5) Request Authority For Stop; 6) Make Numerous references to US Constitution; 7) Claim driving is a right, not a privilege; 8) Attempt to 'police the police'."

Study this Common Law Movement Proponents definition, for you will realize that anyone who challenges the right of law enforcement to do anything is now a "domestic terrorist"! Anyone who even mentions our precious Constitution is now a terrorist!

Therefore, you must understand that the "terrorist" truly targeted by all these dictatorial laws is YOU and ME!

".. secret societies were planning as far back as 1917 to create an artificial threat ... to bring the world together in a global government called the New World Order." [Bill Cooper, Behold A Pale Horse, p. 27]

A. Blasts shake all of the Muslim world

NEWS BRIEF: "Blasts shake Muslim world: Indoctrinated fighters flee Afghanistan, bring holy war to unsuspecting countries like Turkey", Detroit News, November 21, 2003.

"WASHINGTON -- The latest bombings in Turkey have made one thing clear: Everyday life in the Muslim world is no longer safe from al-Qaida and its allies. With militants brazenly attacking targets and civilians inside their own countries, intelligence specialists warn the spreading war on terrorism is becoming harder to fight ...intelligence agencies don't know whether recent attacks in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Indonesia, Morocco, the Philippines and now Turkey are the work of Osama bin Laden's organization or the responsibility of any number of offshoots that share a similar philosophy."

B. Bush declares Turkey now a fighter in war against terror

NEWS BRIEF: "War on terror now involves Turkey: Bush", Chicago Sun-Times, November 22, 2003

"SEDGEFIELD, England -- President Bush labeled Turkey, shaken by deadly suicide bombings, a new front in the war on terror ... 'Iraq's a front, Turkey's a front -- anywhere where the terrorists think they can strike,'' Bush told reporters ... Bush awoke in London to news that more than a dozen rockets had slammed into Iraq's oil ministry and two downtown hotels in Baghdad used by Westerners.

C. Turkey's fragile democracy now under attack as citizens blame US for terrorist attacks

NEWS BRIEF: "Targeting Turkey's fragile democracy", National Canadian Post, November 21, 2003

"Yesterday's multiple bombings in Istanbul -- along with last weekend's two suicide attacks on synagogues in the city -- reflect the reality that Turkey is on the frontline in the war against terror ... the real target was Turkey itself -- its fragile democracy and strategic relationships with the West.

We have long stated that Turkey's current government must fall if Turkey is to march with the Russian-led invasion of Israel as foretold in Ezekiel 38-39! Turkey's current Army is pro-Israel and pro-West. They are facing a civilian government that is militantly Muslim, since elections in November, last year, brought an overwhelming victory to the militant Muslim candidate [Read NEWS1733 for analysis of this election].

Thus, the militant Muslim terrorist attacks may be designed to so foment public opinion against the pro-Israel, pro-West policies of the Turkish military that the military might be overwhelmed in a powerful overthrow by tens of millions of angry Turkish citizens.

C. Europe Threatened With Terrorism

NEWS BRIEF: "Al Qaeda’s Turkish Knife Hangs over Europe", DEBKAfile Intelligence, November 22, 2003

"The Jewish and British sites devastated in two rounds of coordinate attacks this week, in which at least 55 people lost their lives and 750 were maimed, are standard targets for al Qaeda, which has declared war on the West and the Jews ... Turkey is a major gateway to Europe – where the Islamist suicide bombers may be heading next ... before Ramadan ends next week the Turkish terrorists will activate their sleeper networks in Germany and that some had transferred recently to Britain. The group’s operatives are Turkish Kurds who can easily blend into Europe’s large Kurdish émigré population.

We have long warned that Europe is a target for terrorism, as her elected governments must fall.

D. Great Britain under severe terror alert

NEWS BRIEF: "Britain on High Alert as Car Bombs Kill 23 in Istanbul, Scotsman, 15 Nov 2003

"Britain’s security services have been placed on increased alert amid intelligence of an al Qaida attack ... Fears of an increased terrorist threat to the UK came as car bomb explosions rocked two synagogues in Istanbul today."

E. Iraq proving to be a great boost to Al-Qaeda

NEWS BRIEF: "Iraq war providing a boost to al-Qaida: Terror network is using clash as propaganda tool in holy war against West", Sunspot, November 22, 2003

"WASHINGTON - The American invasion and occupation of Iraq has provided al-Qaida with a powerful propaganda tool in its holy war against the West, injecting new energy into the worldwide network even though many of its key operatives are in jail or dead, its top leadership is on the run and its sources of money are shrinking, according to international security analysts."

From the beginning of the Iraqi invasion, we have warned that the American invasion is simply a "trigger war" that will ignite the entire Middle East region in all-out war, undoubtedly igniting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The concept here is one of how a nuclear reaction is ignited when a smaller charge is exploded, causing the Uranium to fuse together, reaching critical mass. Likewise, the American invasion was intended to be the smaller explosion that will force the Muslim masses to fuse together in righteous anger, quickly reaching the critical mass necessary to cause the "nuclear" explosion of global Islam. We may be getting close to this critical mass.

A. US war hawk admits the Iraqi invasion was illegal, against International Law

NEWS BRIEF: "War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal", The Guardian, London, November 20, 2003

"International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal ... Mr Perle, a key member of the Defence Policy Board, which advises the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said that 'international law ... would have required us to leave Saddam Hussein alone', and this would have been morally unacceptable."

How about that! A key Illuminist, Perle, boldly states that President Bush illegally invaded Iraq! There is absolutely no evidence that Perle is acting outside Illuminati control. Therefore, he is apparently acting with the full knowledge and consent of the Illuminati when he made this astonishing admission.

What is going on then? We shall define this question, below, so keep it mind.

B. Case for the Iraqi war was made up, several intelligence officials now assert

NEWS BRIEF: "Case for Iraq war made up, say top names: There was never a clear and present danger. There was never an imminent threat", NZHERALD, November 10, 2003.

"An unprecedented array of United States intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials have gone on record to lambast the Bush Administration for its distortion of the case for war against Iraq ... A new documentary circulating in the US features one powerful condemnation after another, from the sort of people who usually stay discreetly in the shadows ... 'There was never a clear and present danger. There was never an imminent threat. Iraq - and we have very good intelligence on this - was never part of the picture of terrorism,"'says Mel Goodman, a veteran CIA analyst who now teaches at the National War College."

What? Iraq was never part of the picture of terrorism? We were told that, not only did Saddam possess WMD, but he was so tightly tied into the global terrorist network that he was likely to supply such weapons to that terrorist network. Not only have we never found any WMD in the seven months since we seized control of Iraq, but now we learn that Saddam was never "in the loop" of global terrorism.

When a city is destroyed by WMD, you can easily see who is responsible by just turning your American One Dollar Bill over to the back, to study the two Illuminist Seals! Muslims are just putty in the hands of the Illuminati.

A. Use International Courts, not combat, to settle differences, urges U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan

NEWS BRIEF: "Use International Courts, Not Combat, To Get The Bad Guys: Kofi Annan", IHT -- International Herald Tribune, November 20, 2003

"PRINCETON, New Jersey -- In his opening speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to consider criteria for the "early authorization of coercive measures to address certain types of threats." He warned that the alternative was likely to be unilateral pre-emptive action ... In short, the Security Council could directly target national leaders and the heads of terrorist groups - not through combat, but through the [international] courts."

Annan has just boldly proposed that the U.N. adopt the policy that the International Court be backed by a U.N. military that would be able to force dictators from power, to face justice in front of the International Court! Such a proposal is unprecedented, and comes amidst a time when President Bush's National Sovereignty policy is coming under severe criticism and downward spiraling confidence. Even Bush adviser, Richard Perle, is on record telling the world that Bush's invasion was "illegal".

B. U.S. agrees to U.N. control of American troops in Iraq

NEWS BRIEF: "US agrees to international control of its troops in Iraq", Independent.news.uk, 11/17/03

"The United States accepts that to avoid humiliating failure in Iraq it needs to bring its forces quickly under international control and speed the handover of power ... 'Everybody has moved, including the United States, because the United States has a real problem and when you have a real problem you need help' ... Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, has said."

Now, the U.S. is ready to accept international control of our troops in Iraq? If this "international control" means U.N. control, then not only will President Bush be thoroughly disgraced, but the U.N. global government impetus will have just become a juggernaut!

C. Review of the Dialectic Struggle between President Bush and the U.N. in the 18 months before the Iraqi invasion - NEWS1854

In NEWS1854, posted several months ago, we noted that President Bush seemed to be deliberately engaged with the U.N. in a protracted Dialectic Struggle. For almost 18 months before the Iraq invasion, Bush was arguing that he had the authority as a National Sovereign to order the attack, even though the U.N. was totally opposed. We noted that, if Bush scored a great victory in Iraq, with no complications, the 100-year Illuminati effort to establish Global Sovereignty could go right down the drain. Therefore, we postulated that Bush could not be allowed to succeed. He must be brought down into disrepute.

We seem to be seeing the outworking of this deliberate discrediting. As Bush's credibility sinks, the credibility of the United Nations will surge upward, and we shall be seeing more efforts to bring more authority to the world body.

A. Congress passed the Syrian sanctions bill

NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. Senate Backs Slapping Sanctions On Syria", IslamOnline.net, 11/12/03

"WASHINGTON, November 12 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The U.S. upper house of Congress on Tuesday, November 11, overwhelmingly backed a bill to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on Syria, claiming that the Arab country had harbored 'terrorism' and 'occupied' Lebanese territories. The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act also alleges Syria is seeking to obtain nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, the same argument that was used by the U.S. President George Bush as a pretext to invade and occupy Iraq without U.N. authorization."

For the past several weeks, we have seen in the Daily News the same type of rhetoric we used to justify our attack on Iraq. This development is surprising in light of the fact that Bush's justification for attack is under increasingly negative publicity, as we have noted above.

B. U.S. Deploys 20,000 troops near the Syrian border

NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. deploys 20,000 troops near Syrian border", SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Wednesday, November 19, 2003.

"The United States has deployed 20,000 troops along the Syrian border after Syria failed to stop militants from crossing into Iraq. As late as October, U.S. officials said hundreds of Islamic insurgents were crossing into Iraqi from Syria. They said Syrian authorities had failed to respond to U.S. appeals to stop the flow of insurgents'."

American authorities are attempting to justify such a provocative move by saying that these troops have been sent to the border to prevent infiltration across the border by Muslim militants, a charge Syria denies. At any rate, having 20,000 soldiers on the Syrian border would come in very handy should the order actually come to invade; our war rhetoric has certainly ratcheted upward these past several weeks.

C. Mossad declared that a nuclear Iran poses the greatest threat to Israel since 1948

NEWS BRIEF: "Mossad: Nuclear Iran is Greatest Threat in Israel's History", Israel National News, 11/18/03

"A nuclear Iran is the greatest threat to Israel - ever,” said Meir Dagan, head of the Mossad, Monday. Dagan told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Iran is coming close to the “point of no return” in its quest for nuclear weapons development and that once it reached such a capability it would pose the most serious threat to Israel in its history. A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency claims that Iran has covered up its steady development ..."

This rhetoric is very strong, and may very well presage an attack by either Israel or the United States. This is almost exactly the type of war rhetoric coming out of our politicians just before we launched our invasion of Iraq.

Therefore, at the same time that Muslim anger is gaining power throughout the world -- possibly getting close to "critical mass" -- both the United States and Israel are stoking the fires of war -- preemptive war.

A. Rumsfeld stated that America would resort to nuclear weapons to turn back a North Korean threat

NEWS BRIEF: "US will use nukes if necessary to defend S Korea: Rumsfeld", Press Trust of India, Washington, November 18, 2003

"The United States will use nuclear weapons if necessary to defend South Korea against North Korea, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said ... A joint statement by the two countries after the talks said that the US commitment to South Korea includes 'the continued provision of a nuclear umbrella for South Korea'."

While you might argue that tough talk like this is necessary to keep North Korea from miscalculating, keeping them from thinking that they might be able to attack across the DMZ without an American response, we submit such tough talk is not necessary at this time. We made such a point repeatedly in March - April and have deployed bombers with nuclear weapons to Guam, as well as deploying strong naval forces in the area.

At this time, America and her allies are trying to persuade North Korea to join in six-way negotiations in December. Thus, words of reconciliation are needed now, not war rhetoric. Such talk is likely to sink negotiations before they ever get started.

B. North Korea calls Rumsfeld "worse than Hitler" -- North Korea took no time responding to Rumsfeld.

NEWS BRIEF: "N.Korea says Rumsfeld worse than Hitler", SwissInfo News, November 22, 2003

"SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has issued a blistering attack on Donald Rumsfeld, saying the U.S. defence secretary is worse than Adolf Hitler. The official KCNA news agency also said Rumsfeld's criticism of North Korea this week -- he called it an evil regime -- made Pyongyang doubt the prospects of talks to resolve the North's nuclear crisis."

Our guess is that these talks will fail, once again.

C. Bush may be reneging on American "Security Guarantee" -- This story seems likely to provoke another storm of protest from North Korea.

NEWS BRIEF: "U.S. may omit N-promise for N. Korea", Daily Yomiuri, 11/22/03

"The United States is considering omitting a clause promising not to use nuclear weapons in a U.S.-written security guarantee to be provided to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang abandoning its nuclear weapons program, sources close to the U.S. government said Thursday. In the 1994 Agreed Framework negotiated by the administration of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the United States specified it would not use nuclear weapons. North Korea is expected to show disapproval of the guarantee ..."

After months of saying that America was most interested in negotiating a peaceful end to this crisis, the Bush Administration not only speaks war through Rumsfeld, but now has leaked the story that we may not include a 'no-nuclear pledge' in the proposed Non-Aggression Pact! This is frankly unbelievable!

But, this development is understandable if the planned crisis is to actually occur, as we have shown, above, in the table at the top of the newsletter.

D. Rumsfeld reiterated that U.S. troops would withdraw from the DMZ area to positions further south

NEWS BRIEF: "Read Rumsfeld's lips: US to pull back from S. Korea", StraitsTimes, 11/22/03

"Rumsfeld: Pullback on DMZ Won't Weaken Defense", Fox News, 11/17/03

"SEOUL, South Korea — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld assured longtime ally South Korea on Monday that a planned pullback of U.S. troops from the border area with communist North Korea will strengthen the ability of the American military to respond to an invasion from the north."

If the US is to serve as the "trip-wire" force facing an overwhelming North Korean invasion, moving troops south of the DMZ seems to make no sense. Seoul has expressed a very serious concern over this move, afraid such a move will encourage the North Koreans to attack. Conventional wisdom seems to support this view.

However, I have to wonder if the United States has an unconventional reason to pull our troops out of the DMZ to positions south. I wonder if we are not creating a zone where we can lay down nuclear counterfire against a rampaging North Korean force streaming across the DMZ?