DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN
REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES 225,369,183 - DEAD 4,642,354 - AS OF SUN SEP 12,2021 (PROBABLY IN THE LAST 200,000 DEAD-150,000 STILL GOT COVID AND DIED AFTER GETTING BOTH VACCINE SHOTS)
BUSHES AND THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT CROWD. SETUP UP 911 TO CONTROL PEOPLE AS THE PATRIOT ACT WAS ENFORCED AFTER THE ATTACK.
HOW DID THE BUSH FAMILY AND NWO DECIEVE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THE BUILDINGS WERE COMING DOWN. WHEN IN REALITY THE BUILDING JUST DISINTIGRATED IN PLAIN SITE. AND SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE HURRICANE NEAR NY AT THE TIME ON SEP 11,01
JUDY WOOD-911 TOWERS DISSOLVED
4 KIDS FROM THE CLASSROOM THAT WERE TOLD BY THE TEACHER WHILE GEORGE W BUSH WAS IN THEIR CLASS ROOM. TO RECITE AND PRONOUNCE THESE 5 WORDS AS THE 2ND PLANE WAS GOING INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. WORD 1-KITE, WORD 2-HIT, WORD 3-STEELE, WORD 4-PLANE, WORD 5-MUST. PAPER F 911 PLAIN SITE NOW IF THAT WAS NOT A BRAGGING OUT OF CLOSET MOMENT BY THE ONE WORLD DEMON POSSESSED NEW WORLD ORDER CROWD. I DON T KNOW WHAT COULD BE MORE OBVIOUS. IN PLAIN SITE THESE NUTCASES SAID THAT BUSH AND THE NWO BROUGHT THE BUILDINGS DOWN. ON SEPT 11,2001.
BUSH MEETS WITH KIDS AT SCHOOL (23 SECONDS IN - LOOK ON THE SHEET BETWEEN THE TEACHER AND BUSH AND CLEARLY THESE 5 WORDS ON THAT SHEET ARE VISIBLE THAT WERE RECITED BY THE KIDS IN THAT ROOM THAT DAY- KITE, HIT, STEELE, PLANE, MUST.
THE 7 WORLD TRADE CENTERS BUILDINGS THAT CAME DOWN THAT DAY ON SEP 11,2001. NEVER FELL DOWN AT ALL. THE STEELE AND EVERYTHING JUST DISINTIGRATED INTO ASH. NO RUBBLE AT ALL ONLY 15 FEET OF POISINOUS ASH FROM THE BUSH 911 SETUP. HERE IS THE KIDS ACTUALLY SAYING THE 5 WORDS IN THE CLASS ROOM WHILE BUSH IS LISTENING-KIDS ACTUAL RECITING OF THE 5 911 WORDS -THE TEACHER TELLS THE KIDS TO GET READY TO DISSOLVE THE 5 WORDS. MEANWHILE THE BUILDING WAS DISSOLVING BEFORE EVERY ONES EYES IN PLAIN SITE. NOW BUSH THAT PEACE OF DUNG AND HIS FAMILY. AND THE NWO NUTCASES, HAVE 3,000 PEOPLES BLOOD ON THEIR HEADS AS A RESULT OF THEM DISSOLVING THE 7 WTC BUILDINGS. BY A DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON. OR SOME KIND OF ELCTROMAGNETIC PULSE BOMB THAT ONLY DISINTIGRATED THE WTC BUILDINGS AND EVERY THING INSIDE OF THEM.
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Dissolving weapons and other small elements
Hello! For the past couple of weeks, we have been showing you the dissolve feature we have implemented in The Riftbreaker. We use it to remove objects from the scene, change them from one to another, or, like in the case of buildings, to gradually introduce them into the game world. Today we will show you the smaller elements that undergo dissolution in the game.The regular texture of Mr. Riggs' energy blade.This is what makes all the magic happen. In order to make the dissolve effect happen, we need two textures. First - the regular texture of the object we want to apply the effect to, and second - a special dissolve texture. It resembles a cloud of smoke, as it is irregular and grey. However, those things exactly are its key properties. The pixels on this map represent values, from 0 to 1. Once projected onto the regular texture of the object, we can start removing parts of it. We set up a threshold that changes over time. All the elements that fall below this threshold are removed by the shader. The weapon is automatically hidden at the start of the mining process. Also, you can see the shadow of something being built nearby! In The Riftbreaker you will often see this while gathering resources. The drill is not an equipable item. We want the player to always have access to it, but without taking up an inventory slot. Drilling is a context action. When you approach a resource that you can mine, pressing a button will automatically change what you’re holding in your right hand to the drill. We employ the dissolve effect here to avoid a sudden change of the item. We also apply an additional emissive light to make it feel more ‘magic’.The gibs don't dissolve all at once.We also dissolve the parts that spawn from destroyed enemies and elements of the environment, also known as ‘gibs’. Instead of making them transparent using the alpha channel, we decided to also dissolve them. Since there are so many of them they do not get any emissive lights, that would only distract the player. The effect is very subtle but makes for much nicer visuals. U.S. investigates suspected energy attack near White House-evening-news-By Jeff Pegues, Sara Cook-Updated on: May 1, 2021 / 11:55 AM / CBS News.Law enforcement agencies are investigating two possible directed energy attacks on government employees on U.S. soil. One of the suspected energy attacks occurred on the south side of the White House in November, and is believed to have sickened a White House aide. That incident followed a similar one in 2019 in a Virginia suburb which reportedly injured an aide walking her dog. The alleged victims' conditions are not known, but the White House confirmed that President Biden has been briefed on one of the incidents. Senators are demanding answers on the mystery attacks. "There are personnel who have been harmed. We need to make sure they get the care and benefits they need," New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen said. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said leaders are focused on the "critically important" issue. But officials say it's too early to tell what happened. In the past, the National Security Agency has described an energy attack as a "high-powered microwave system weapon" that can "bathe a target's living quarters in microwaves" and "kill an enemy over time and without leaving evidence." Energy attacks were suspected in Cuba and China in the past few years as U.S. personnel reported symptoms of ear popping, pounding headaches and nausea. The symptoms have been referred to as the "Havana Syndrome." Sources tell CBS News there have been energy-directed attacks on U.S. personnel on multiple continents. While Russia is considered a main suspect, U.S. officials are currently skeptical that Moscow would have carried out an attack just steps from the White House. Catherine Werner, who worked for the Department of Commerce in China, told "60 Minutes" about her experience. "I woke up in the middle of the night," Werner said. "I could feel this sound in my head. It was intense pressure on both of my temples. At the same time, I heard this low humming sound, and it was oscillating. And I remember looking around for where this sound was coming from, because it was painful." Olivia Gazis contributed to this report.
Winning the hypersonic race is a national imperative-By Tom Bussing- Jan 10, 2020
Raytheon and Northrop Grumman teamed to accelerate air-breathing hypersonic vehicle development. (Raytheon)-Hypersonic weapons have grabbed the attention of the defense industry, with Pentagon Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin calling hypersonic capabilities “the highest technical priority.”With Russia recently announcing its Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle operational, we understand the challenge as the U.S. races to field these advanced hypersonic missile systems. Russia claims Avangard can travel at 27 times the speed of sound and strike “like a fireball,” while China contends its Starry Sky-2 hypersonic glide vehicle can evade existing U.S. missile defense systems.And it’s not just Russia and China. Technology can proliferate. In the past, other countries have demonstrated their ability to acquire technology and reverse engineer it. Hypersonic weapons are one of the most prolific emerging threats, and the United States must remain ahead of the game in advanced hypersonic weapons development.During my time at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and most recently at Raytheon, I witnessed some of the great things that can happen when government and industry partner to develop advanced weapons for the good of our country — and we’re doing it again with hypersonics. U.S. lawmakers last year passed a law requiring that hypersonic weapons be operational by 2020; the Department of Defense’s proposed budget through fiscal 2024 calls for upward of $10.5 billion in hypersonic weapons development. Industry leaders are joining forces to tackle the technological challenges involved with hypersonic flight head on.As to our involvement, Raytheon recently won a contract to develop the tactical boost glide weapon for DARPA and the U.S. Air Force. We signed a teaming agreement with Northrop Grumman to co-develop scramjet-powered hypersonic missiles, which is on track for its first test flight next year. We’re also involved in counter-hypersonics.
While American companies have developed warheads, glide bodies and other components, there is no industrial base equipped to manufacture hypersonic weapons.By Jen Judson
In the world of hypersonic weapons, speed and agility are everything. While flying a vehicle at speeds above Mach 5 isn’t new, designing systems to sustain flight and maneuver at those speeds creates unique challenges that need to be solved to ensure success.There are two main design options: tactical boost glide and scramjet systems. In a boost glide system, a rocket accelerates its payload to high speeds. The payload then separates from the rocket and glides unpowered to its destination.Scramjet technology uses a booster to reach cruising speeds. The scramjet engine is designed to compress the high-velocity, incoming air before combustion. This technology, also called “air breathing,” renders a highly efficient engine at hypersonic speeds.The speed and altitude at which these vehicles fly significantly challenge an adversary’s ability to detect, track, target and engage. This not only increases the effectiveness of the weapons themselves, but it acts as a force multiplier across the battlespace. Additionally, the range of these weapons allows our fourth-generation platforms and surface Navy to operate at safe distances.Russian officials oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle on Dec. 26, 2018. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik via AP)Leaders in the defense industry have overcome many of the technical challenges associated with hypersonic flight. We’ve figured out how to manage extreme heat to ensure electronics and payloads are protected. We’re developing new materials and manufacturing processes to withstand the extreme environment of such high-speed velocities. We’re creating new, aerodynamic shapes for these highly technical vehicles — shapes never before conceived in the hypersonics realm. We’re also tackling the kill chain by leveraging existing capabilities. Because hypersonic vehicles will travel farther, faster and with more agility, they will require new approaches for targeting and mission execution.I’m confident the U.S. will retake our preeminent role in leading advanced capabilities. I believe we will solve the challenges associated with hypersonic flight by leveraging the knowledge and abilities of the thousands of engineers and scientists that form the backbone of the U.S. defense industry.More still needs to be done. More sustained investment and transition opportunities are needed. Congress, thought leaders and the public need to get behind the funding and infrastructure required to make this happen. Industry must continue to work together. Hypersonic systems are one of the next evolutions in warfare, and we have to find a way to counter these advanced systems, and it must be done quickly. As stated by DoD leaders, it’s a national imperative.Tom Bussing is the vice president of advanced missile systems at Raytheon Missile Systems.
Bennett says Israel to genetically scan all arrivals for the coronavirus-No details of program immediately available; PM says patience running out for the unvaccinated; cabinet backs proposal for classmates of infected kids to avoid automatic quarantine-By Stuart Winer-SEPT 12,21-Today, 7:02 pm
Israel is working on a system to conduct genetic scanning for all those who arrive in the country in order to better identify travelers infected with the coronavirus, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at a cabinet meeting Sunday.Bennett told ministers that the system will eventually be deployed at Ben Gurion Airport, the country’s main international terminus.“We are working on a scanning system for everyone who comes into Israel,” Bennett said, according to comments from the meeting leaked to Hebrew media. “Israel will thus become the radar for the virus.”No further details about the system or how it would work were reported by Hebrew media.Bennett expressed support for Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen, who had warned that “the next variant will come to Israel through Ben Gurion,” saying the proposed genetic testing would help prevent that from happening.The development came as the cabinet reviewed various aspects of the campaign to confront a recent wave of virus infections fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, which has largely been attributed to infected travelers who did not properly quarantine after arriving in Israel.The government has made vaccination against COVID-19 a central strategy to curb the spread, including offering third booster shots to all those over the age of 12. At the meeting, Bennett said: “We have run out of patience for people who are not vaccinated.”“The coronavirus has become a matter for those who are not vaccinated,” Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said. “Refraining from vaccination simply causes death.”So far, 6,039,846 of Israel’s 9.3 million citizens have had a least one dose of the vaccine, 5,542,582 have had two, and 2,841,383 have had three, according to Health Ministry figures.Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai called during the meeting for all civil servants, which would include school teachers, to be required to get vaccinated. Currently, teachers who are not vaccinated can continue to work if they take virus tests every few days, which they are required to pay for themselves.Ministers gave their backing for a plan under which only infected schoolchildren are required to enter quarantine, while their classmates can simply take a virus test. Those who are negative would then be able to immediately return to class.Currently, all students in a class must isolate for a week if a case is discovered. Less than two weeks after the start of the school year, there are already over 150,000 students in quarantine due to infection or being exposed to an infected person. Over half the recent new cases each day in the country have been schoolkids.“We need to find a solution to quarantines,” Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton said. “Over 90 percent of those who go into quarantine are in the end found to be negative.”“Therefore in risk management, it may be that the right thing to do is to isolate only those who are diagnosed,” she said.Shasha-Biton said that a pilot of the so-called “Green Classes” idea that would only quarantine infected students will first be tried in Arab schools.Horowitz supported Shasha-Biton, saying that from October it will be possible to only require only those students confirmed to be infected to enter isolation while their classmates can just take virus tests.Bennett said the idea will be adopted.“There is a tremendous desire that the entire class not go into quarantine,” he said.Bennett said that after the ongoing holiday period that ends later this month, there will be a “massive” round of self-testing among students in an effort to catch infections that happened during the holidays.The prime minister said the distribution of the self-test kits will not be via the schools themselves, as was the case for a similar testing campaign ahead of the school year’s start that ran into logistic problems in some areas. Millions of students used the kits to test at home and then bring a signed note from their parents confirming they were negative when they started school.Bennett said that in another change, a method of using barcodes to track the self-testing was being worked on to seal “holes” in the signed note system, namely that some parents were lying about their kids getting the negative result.“It seems we will tighten up the method so that everyone will be equipped with a barcode,” he said. “We are working on this and will notify ahead of time.”Ministers also discussed the long lines that formed at some rapid testing centers last week, with some people waiting hours to get themselves and their families tested. Social Equality Minister Cohen, who said she herself had experienced waiting in line with her children for tests, urged that steps be taken to improve the process.“There are difficulties and overloads and there are lines because we are in the midst of an outbreak,” Horowitz said.Health Ministry figures published Sunday showed that there are 154,000 students in quarantine along with 3,750 members of staff. On Saturday, 5,853 students and staff were diagnosed with the coronavirus. There are over two million students in the Israeli school system.There were 10,168 new COVID-19 cases diagnosed on Saturday, according to the ministry.Of the 78,659 active cases, 697 are in serious condition. Since the start of the pandemic last year, 7,383 people have died of COVID-19 in Israel.
Pope Francis arrives for 4-day visit to Slovakia, will meet Holocaust survivors-Trip to come after brief visit to Hungary, in which pontiff warned of ‘the threat of antisemitism still lurking in Europe and elsewhere’-By AFP-SEP 12,21-Today, 9:03 pm
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Pope Francis arrived in Slovakia on Sunday for a four-day visit, where he will meet with Holocaust survivors and members of the Roma community.Francis, who briefly visited Hungary and called for believers to be “grounded and open” after meeting Prime Minister Viktor Orban, was greeted by President Zuzana Caputova in Bratislava.To mark his arrival, bells tolled in all of Slovakia’s 2,627 Catholic churches at the exact time his plane landed.Francis is due to deliver an address later on Sunday at the Vatican embassy in Slovakia — a predominantly Catholic country with a population of 5.4 million people.Meeting Christian and Jewish leaders in Hungary on Sunday, Pope Francis warned of “the threat of antisemitism still lurking in Europe and elsewhere.”On Monday, he is due to meet Slovakia’s Jewish community, which was decimated by the Holocaust.The pope will then travel to the country’s poorer eastern regions on Tuesday for a meeting with the Roma community before returning to Bratislava on Wednesday and holding an open-air Mass in Sastin, a town north of the capital.The government had initially ordered that only vaccinated people should be allowed to attend public events with the pope, but reversed the policy last week after low numbers of registrations.Unvaccinated people can now attend — as long as they test negative for COVID-19 or can prove they previously had COVID.Only around half the population of Slovakia is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — one of the lowest rates in the European Union.
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)
IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AM
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
THE TERRORISTS THAT MUSLIM OBAMA FREED FROM GITMO. AT LEAST 5 OF THEM WILL BE IN THE NEW ISRAEL LITTLE SATAN-AMERICA THE BIG SATAN GOVERNMMENT IN AFGHANISTAN. BIDEN AND HIS DEMOLIBNUTS WILL PAY THE PRICE FOR FLEEING LEAVING BILLIONS OF WEAPONS IN AFGHANISTAN. THE TERROR ATTACKS WILL BE A REGULAR OCCURANCE IN AMERICA. FROM NOW ON. AND BESIDES THAT. NOBODY CAN TRUST FORGET ME EVERYTHING BIDEN. WITH HIS ALZHEIMERS. AND AMERICA IS DONE WITH AS A WORLD POWER. WATCH FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION TO STEP IN NOW. AND BECOME THE WORLD LEADER. ESPECIALLY THE ECONOMY AND COVID. NO SHOT. YOU GET A MICROCHIP INSERTED IN YOU. SO IT CAN BE SHUT OFF IF YOU REFUSE TO GET THE VACCINES-BOOSTERS-AND WHATEVER ELSE THE NWO CROWD CALLS THE FUTURE SHOTS.
CIA veteran: Al-Qaeda will rebuild within Afghanistan, seek to attack US again-Intelligence agent who worked with Bush and Obama says terror group will rearm with the help of Taliban-By Matthew Barakat-7 September 2021, 11:49 pm
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia (AP) — The CIA man who briefed former US president George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, and later Barack Obama on the intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that he’s convinced the Taliban will invite al-Qaeda to rebuild in Afghanistan.“There is no doubt in my mind,” said Michael Morell, who twice served as acting CIA director. “I believe that the Taliban will give safe haven to al-Qaeda, and I believe it will be al-Qaeda’s intention to again build its capability so that they can attack us here at home.”Morell spoke at an online forum sponsored by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is holding multiple panels this week to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.Counterterrorism efforts fall into a pattern, Morell said, in which their capabilities can be easily degraded by a focused effort, but easily rebuilt when that focus fades. He pointed to the time in 2002 and 2003 when the US shifted its focus to Iraq, which he said led to a resurgent al-Qaeda prompting attacks in Madrid in 2004, London in 2005 and elsewhere.“When our focus got shifted to Iraq al-Qaeda started bouncing back,” Morell said.He said that if al-Qaeda establishes a safe haven in Afghanistan, it can be hard to develop the kind of tactical intelligence that makes it possible to take action against them. He said the US will have to apply the lessons it learned over the last 20 years.Equally important, he said, is that the US uphold its values as it hunts terrorists. He acknowledged that the years immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks were a controversial period for the CIA, when it ran secret prisons and allowed interrogations that many people say crossed the line into torture.He said those are missions the CIA never should have accepted.“Contrary to conventional wisdom, we were not experienced at interrogations,” he said. “Interviewing somebody who is willing to tell you everything, you know, we’re really good at that. But getting somebody to talk who doesn’t want to talk to you, no experience in that whatsoever.”On Thursday, a panel is planned to discuss the 2006 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a US court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. The judge who presided over the trial, Leonie Brinkema, is scheduled to participate, as are a prosecutor and defense lawyer from the trial.
Key players in Taliban government: A US-designated terrorist; Mullah Omar’s son-Leaders of new hardline Islamist regime in Afghanistan includes numerous figures under UN sanctions, and a co-founder of group who led withdrawal agreement talks with US-By AFP-8 September 2021, 8:26 am
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban on Tuesday announced key posts for their new government, after the hardline Islamists seized control of the country and ousted the previous regime last month.Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who is on a UN sanctions list, was named as the acting prime minister.Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar will be one deputy, as well as Abdul Salam Hanafi, who was most recently part of peace talks in Doha.The Taliban’s inner workings and leadership have long been shrouded in secrecy — even when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.Several cabinet posts are yet to be announced. Here is a rundown of what is known:Mohammad Hassan Akhund, acting PM-Mullah Mohammed Hassan Akhund is a Taliban veteran who was a close associate and political advisor to Mullah Omar, the founder of the movement and its first supreme leader.A member of the group’s Supreme Council, he served as deputy foreign minister in their previous regime, and was placed on a UN Security Council sanctions list connected to the “acts and activities” of the Taliban.From Kandahar, he also served as the Taliban governor of the key province.The United Nations said he had a reputation of having been “one of the most effective Taliban commanders.”Mullah Baradar, the co-founder.Abdul Ghani Baradar, named as deputy to Hassan, was raised in Kandahar — the birthplace of the Taliban movement.Like most Afghans, Baradar’s life was forever altered by the Soviet invasion of the country in the late 1970s, transforming him into an insurgent.He was believed to have fought side-by-side with the one-eyed cleric Mullah Omar.The two would go on to found the Taliban movement in the early 1990s during the chaos and corruption of the civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal.After the Taliban regime was toppled in 2001 by US-led forces, Baradar is believed to have been among a small group of insurgents who approached interim leader Hamid Karzai with a potential deal that would have seen the militants recognize the new administration.Arrested in Pakistan in 2010, Baradar was kept in custody until pressure from the United States saw him freed in 2018 and relocated to Qatar.This is where he was appointed head of the Taliban’s political office, and oversaw the signing of the troop withdrawal agreement with the United States.-Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy-Abdul Salam Hanafi, who is also on a UN blacklist, was a deputy education minister when the Taliban were last in power, when they effectively blocked girls from school.Hanafi was named as another deputy to Hassan.A UN travel ban on Hanafi was lifted to allow him to take part in talks as part of the Taliban’s political negotiating team in Doha.After the Islamists were ousted from Kabul in 2001, he was placed in charge of the Taliban-controlled northern Jawzjan province, bordering Uzbekistan.The UN Security Council have also accused him of potential involvement in drug trafficking.Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Haqqani networkThe son of a famed commander from the anti-Soviet jihad, Sirajuddin Haqqani has doubled as the deputy leader of the Taliban and head of the powerful al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.He will be interior minister in the new regime.The US State Department’s Rewards For Justice Program offers a multi-million dollar reward for information leading to his arrest.The Haqqani network is a US-designated terror group long viewed as one of the most dangerous militant factions in Afghanistan.It is infamous for its use of suicide bombers and is believed to have orchestrated some of the most high-profile attacks in Kabul over the years.The network is also accused of assassinating top Afghan officials and holding kidnapped Western citizens for ransom — including US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, released in 2014.Known for their independence, fighting acumen, and savvy business dealings, the Haqqanis are mainly based in eastern Afghanistan and hold considerable sway over the Taliban’s leadership council.-Mullah Yaqoob, the scion-The son of Taliban co-founder Mullah Omar, Mullah Yaqoob heads the group’s powerful military commission, which oversaw the vast network of field commanders charged with executing the insurgency.On Tuesday, he was named as defense minister.Yaqoob’s father enjoyed cult-like status as the Taliban leader, and that potent lineage makes him a unifying figure in the movement.
Taliban supreme leader tells new government to uphold sharia law-In 1st message since Islamist insurgency’s takeover of Afghanistan, Haibatullah Akhundzada warns ‘people should not try to leave the country’By AFP-8 September 2021, 7:37 am
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s secretive supreme leader on Tuesday told the newly appointed government to uphold sharia law, in his first message since the hardline movement swept to power.“I assure all the countrymen that the figures will work hard towards upholding Islamic rules and sharia law in the country,” Haibatullah Akhundzada, who has never been seen in public, said in a statement released in English.Akhundzada told Afghans that the new leadership would ensure “lasting peace, prosperity and development,” adding that “people should not try to leave the country.”“The Islamic Emirate has no problem with anyone,” he said.“All will take part in strengthening the system and Afghanistan and in this way, we will rebuild our war-torn country.”Akhundzada’s public profile has largely been limited to the release of messages during Islamic holidays, but the group has shed some light on his whereabouts following its takeover of Afghanistan.“He is present in Kandahar,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said after they seized power.Another spokesman had said Akhundzada was due to make a public appearance “soon.”
Rocket fired from Gaza intercepted by Iron Dome, in third such attack in 3 days-3 injured running to bomb shelter; uptick in violence comes amid high tensions, after Israel captured 4 of 6 Palestinian fugitives and Gaza ceasefire deal breaks down-By Aaron Boxerman-SEP 12,21-Today, 10:51 pm
Palestinians fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Sunday night, the Israeli military said, marking the third consecutive night of rocket fire in southern Israel.Rocket attack sirens wailed throughout Israeli communities near the Gaza border as well as in Sderot, sending thousands running for bomb shelters. Three Israelis were lightly injured as they scrambled for shelter, according to medics.The rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, the Israeli army said.As in the previous two nights, no Palestinian group publicly took responsibility for the rockets. Israel conducted airstrikes against Hamas targets on Friday and Saturday following the rocket attacks, since it holds the terror group responsible for all rocket fire from Gaza.A spokesperson for the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council said the area had sustained no casualties or material damage from the rockets.Another two Israelis were treated by medics for acute anxiety attacks, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.In an apparently unrelated incident in northern Israel, an unknown individual approached the northern border fence that divides Israel from Lebanon, near Metula.Israeli troops rushed to the scene and the suspect fled back into Lebanese territory immediately upon their arrival, the military said. Earlier, residents of Metula were asked to avoid the area, as the military scanned the fence and launched flares.Sunday’s rocket fire was the fourth such attack against southern Israel since the May battle between Israel and Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas. Tensions between Israel and Hamas have risen again over the past few weeks.Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007, when the Islamist party conquered the territory from its Fatah rivals in a brutal civil war. Israel and Egypt have been imposing a tight blockade on the enclave ever since, in an attempt to weaken Hamas.Since the 11-day May escalation, Israel has imposed heightened restrictions on the already-blockaded enclave. Israel also blocked the flow of Qatari cash subsidies to the Gaza Strip, which it had previously allowed in exchange for quiet along its southern border.Israel has gradually loosened some of those restrictions on Gaza, but others have remained in place. Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on reaching a full deal to rebuild the Gaza Strip following the May escalation have also shown few signs of progress.The flames were fanned by the escape of six Palestinian security prisoners, most of whom are Islamic Jihad members serving life sentences for terrorism, from Gilboa Prison. Four were recaptured over the weekend, with Islamic Jihad vowing to avenge any harm done to them or the remaining fugitives.In a speech on Sunday afternoon, Israeli army Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi warned Hamas not to escalate the situation.“The Israel Defense Force defends the Gaza border and will not accept any violation of sovereignty. We vigorously respond to every violation and we shall continue to do so. If the situation escalates, Hamas and the Gaza Strip will pay a heavy price,” Kohavi said.Tensions have also risen due to the collapse of an agreement to bring Qatari cash into the Gaza Strip for Hamas’s employees.Hamas sees the millions in Qatari-funded monthly salaries for its civil servants as a key demand. Qatar, Israel, and the United Nations have agreed to transfer other subsidies Qatar provides, including $100 cash payments for 100,000 poor Gazan families. Those subsidies are set to begin to enter Gaza on Monday.Israel had been allowing millions in Qatari cash to flow through Israeli crossings into Gaza on a monthly basis since 2018, in order to maintain a fragile ceasefire with Hamas. As of early 2021, some $30 million in cash was being delivered in suitcases to Gaza each month through an Israeli-controlled crossing.The parties have yet to agree on a new mechanism for transferring Qatari funds to Hamas employees. Israel’s new government has said it does not intend to allow Qatar to channel cash directly to Hamas, as was policy under former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.On Friday, Qatar’s Gaza envoy, Mohammad al-Emadi, announced that the Palestinian Authority had withdrawn from an agreement to transfer the salaries through its banks.
IAEA chief says agreement with Iran ‘gives time for diplomacy’Head of UN nuclear watchdog speaks, after reaching a deal with Tehran to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites’ surveillance equipment-By Agencies and TOI staff-SEP 12,21-Today, 11:03 pm
VIENNA, Austria — The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog hailed an agreement struck with Iran on Sunday over access to surveillance equipment at Iranian nuclear facilities, saying it allowed space for diplomatic talks.“This has always been seen, for me at least, as a stopgap, as a measure to allow time for diplomacy,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi told reporters at the Vienna airport, after returning from talks in Iran.Iran and the IAEA had announced previously that they had agreed to allow inspectors to service the agency’s surveillance equipment, as Tehran has restricted access since earlier this year.Grossi traveled to Iran on Saturday for talks, days after the IAEA had criticized Tehran in a report for a lack of cooperation.He said the agreement on servicing the agency’s equipment would be put into practice “within a few days, very soon.”Grossi added that, thanks to the agreement, the agency would “be able to keep the information needed to maintain continuity of knowledge” of Iran’s program.However, access to the information recorded by the equipment will have to wait for agreement at talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the JCPOA.“The reconstruction, the coming together of the jigsaw puzzle will come when there is an agreement at the JCPOA level,” Grossi said.Talks between Iran and world powers, over limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, have been idle since June. Raisi took office in August.Earlier this month, the IAEA said in a report that Iran had quadrupled its stockpile of 60-percent enriched uranium since May. It also said that verification and monitoring activities have been “seriously undermined” since February, after Iran refused to let inspectors access IAEA monitoring equipment.Major powers are losing patience, more than two months after the suspension of negotiations that had begun in April in Vienna, under the aegis of the European Union, to try to resurrect the international agreement of 2015.The US is close to abandoning its efforts, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Wednesday.The Islamic Republic has been gradually freeing itself from its nuclear obligations since 2019, in response to Donald Trump’s reinstatement of US sanctions.Israel has repeatedly warned that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly opposed the 2015 deal, which it said would pave the way to an Iranian nuclear arsenal, and publicly urged US President Joe Biden to steer clear of attempts to reenter the deal.Meeting with Biden at the White House last month, current Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned of the “nightmare” of a radical Islamic regime attaining nuclear weapons, and Biden publicly vowed that the US would “never” allow Iran to attain the bomb.Israel has “greatly accelerated” preparations for action against Iran’s nuclear program, military chief Aviv Kohavi said in an interview published last Monday.
Lapid proposes ‘new vision’ for Gaza, promises economic steps for Hamas quiet-While ruling out negotiations with Hamas terror group, foreign minister says Jewish state must implement ‘economy in return for security’ system, strengthen Palestinian Authority-By Aaron Boxerman-SEP 12,21-Today, 9:34 pm
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid presented on Sunday what he called a “new vision” for Israel’s relations with the Gaza Strip, saying that Israel “must move toward a multi-year process in Gaza of economy in return for security.”Speaking at a conference at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy of Reichman University (until recently known as IDC Herzliya), Lapid said that the aim of such a move is “to create stability on both sides of the border.”“This is not a proposal for negotiations with Hamas. Israel will not award prizes to a terrorist organization and weaken the [Palestinian] Authority that works with us on a regular basis,” Lapid said.However, shortly after his speech, a rocket was fired by Gazan terrorists toward Israeli communities for the third straight night. It was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.In his speech, Lapid outlined a two-stage plan for changing the economic reality on the ground in Gaza. A combination of international investment, Israel-Palestinian cooperation, and a quiescent Hamas could change life on the ground for ordinary Gazans, Lapid said.“The political conditions – in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority – don’t allow for diplomatic progress at the moment, but in Gaza we can, and we should, act now,” Lapid said.Israel officials have called for similar Gaza infrastructure overhauls before, although none have come fully to fruition. And many of the projects Lapid mentioned — connecting Gaza to natural gas, building desalination plant, and allowing Gaza to have a ports — have long been on the table.Palestinians have often been critical of similar economic plans, saying that there can be no true solution without a political settlement. Some on the Israeli right have opposed such initiatives in the past as a boon to Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers.Lapid acknowledged that his plan did not deal with any of the so-called outstanding “final status issues” between Israelis and Palestinians. But, he said, beginning a diplomatic process in Gaza could create more favorable conditions for talks, should they emerge.“In a wider context, the kickstarting of a wider process in Gaza will create better conditions for future negotiations if and when the situation allows for it. We have seen in the past that rounds of fighting in Gaza hurt the chances of returning to the negotiating table,” Lapid said.Hamas has ruled the Gaza Strip since taking over by force in 2007, two years after Israel withdrew from the enclave in a unilateral disengagement. Israel and Egypt have both imposed crippling sanctions for years on Gaza, in an effort to weaken the terror group, which avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction.The enclave has posed a thorny policy dilemma for Israel ever since. Hamas and Israel have fought successive wars that left thousands dead, mostly Palestinians. Hamas rockets have rained down on Israeli cities, and Israel has tightened its closure on the enclave, but neither side has been capable of substantially shifting the status quo.Meanwhile, the tightened blockade — which Israel says is necessary for security — helped create a humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Unemployment soared to nearly 50 percent, while poverty jumped from 40 to 56% between 2007 and 2017, according to the United Nations. The Strip’s corroded, crumbling infrastructure has left it with an ongoing water and electricity crisis as well.“The policy Israel has pursued up until now hasn’t substantially changed the situation. The closures haven’t stopped the smuggling and production of weapons. Last night, we once again struck Gaza after yet another rocket was fired, and residents ran to their shelters. We need to change direction,” Lapid said.In its place, Lapid proposed a multi-stage plan for developing Gaza’s economy. The first stage would entail rehabilitating Gaza’s infrastructure in exchange for tight international oversight — as well as quiet from Hamas.“The rehabilitation process will be defined by a series of pre-set benchmarks, with each one given a specific timeframe. Any breach by Hamas will stop the process or set it back,” Lapid said.Lapid also vowed that both Egypt and the Palestinian Authority would play a role in the process. The PA, which is dominated by Hamas’s Fatah rivals, has almost no footprint in the Gaza Strip.In the second stage of Lapid’s plan, the two sides would see more ambitious projects. An artificial island would be built off the coast of the enclave — a long-proposed plan to see a port built in Gaza — and the West Bank and Gaza would be linked by infrastructure projects, Lapid said.The Palestinian Authority would take over civil and economic affairs in the Gaza Strip as part of this step, Lapid said. He did not explain how or why Hamas would consent to allow their PA rivals to take charge of aspects of life inside Gaza. Israel and the international community’s insistence on this step — along with Hamas’s refusal to do so — has torpedoed similar efforts before.“The solution presented here doesn’t address the two-state solution, but my opinion on the matter is well known: Israel needs to act to strengthen the Palestinian Authority and to negotiate with it with an aim of achieving a two-state solution,” Lapid said.Lapid vowed that if Hamas maintained quiet along its border with Israel, “the reality in Gaza will change dramatically.” But Israel would not hesitate to take action should Hamas violate the unwritten contract, Lapid said.“If Sinwar and Haniyeh continue to act against Israel, we will know and the international community will know, and mostly the people of Gaza will know, that Hamas refuses to improve life in Gaza because the only thing they care about is killing Jews,” Lapid said.Lapid said he hopes to bring the plan to the cabinet for approval, adding that he had already discussed it with leaders from the European Union, Egypt, the Gulf States, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Palestinians said to shoot at IDF troops searching for fugitives in West Bank-IDF denies incident near Jenin, where at least one of the last two escapees likely fled; forces search town near Nazareth where two of the prisoners were rearrested-By Emanuel Fabian-SEP 12,21-Today, 8:19 pm
Heavy gunfire was heard in the Jenin region on Sunday, as Israeli security forces reportedly came under fire during a manhunt for two escaped Palestinian prisoners who remain on the run following the capture of four other escapees.Palestinian media reports claimed militants had opened fire toward Israeli troops near the town of Araqah, west of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.But a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told the Times of Israel that the army was unaware of the incident.In recent days, especially near Jenin, Palestinians have reportedly opened fire toward Israeli troops in a number of incidents amid the intense manhunt for the fugitives who fled from Gilboa Prison last Monday.Separately, an explosive device was detonated near the town of Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah, according to Palestinian media reports. There were no reports of damage or injuries in either incident.Authorities believe that at least one of the remaining fugitives fled to the northern West Bank, where all six of the prisoners hail from.At the same time, security forces reportedly conducted searches near the town of Tel Adashim, south of Nazareth, where two of the escapees were arrested on Friday. Yaqoub Qadiri and Mahmoud al-Arida, the latter reported to be the mastermind of the jailbreak, were arrested in the northern town of Nazareth on Friday night.Al-Arida, considered a senior Islamic Jihad member, was jailed for life for terrorist activity, including attacks in which soldiers were killed. Qadiri, also an Islamic Jihad member, was also serving life terms for acts of terrorism including the murder of an Israeli in 2004. Both men were reportedly involved in a 2014 attempt to break out of Gilboa.Zakaria Zubeidi and Mohammed al-Arida, the younger brother of the reported mastermind of the jailbreak, were then recaptured by Israeli counterterror police officers near the northern town of Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam at around 5 a.m. on Saturday.Zubeidi, a notorious commander in Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terror group, was in prison while on trial for two dozen crimes, including attempted murder.The younger al-Arida, also an Islamic Jihad member, was arrested in 2002 on terror offenses and sentenced to life in prison.Meanwhile, Iham Kamamji and Munadil Nafiyat, both of whom are members of the Islamic Jihad terror group, are still on the run since Monday’s jailbreak.“The estimation is that one has succeeded to get to the West Bank. The other one could be on either side of the Green Line,” Public Security Minister Omer Barlev said in an interview on Channel 12 news on Saturday.“We will catch them,” he added.Kamamji was serving a life sentence at the time of Monday’s escape, for killing an 18-year-old Israeli in 2006, a murder he reportedly expressed pride in.Nafayat has not been charged with a crime other than being a member of the Islamic Jihad, and was being held under Israel’s practice of administrative detention, which allows it to imprison suspects without filing charges.Separately on Sunday, amid the tensions over the prison escape, a Jewish man was attacked by suspects who hurled stones toward his vehicle in East Jerusalem’s A-Tur neighborhood.The man, who lost control of his car, hit a pedestrian. Both were listed in light condition and required medical attention.For Palestinians, the fugitives have been widely regarded as “heroes” who succeeded in freeing themselves from multiple life sentences.Violent protests broke out at a number of locations in the West Bank after the announcement of the first two arrests on Friday evening. Small-scale clashes were reported on Saturday night as well.The six escaped from Gilboa Prison in the pre-dawn hours of last Monday morning, making their way out through their cell’s drainage system and an empty space underneath the prison.The escape exposed a series of failures at the prison, and Public Security Minister Omer Barlev said on Thursday that he had decided to form a government commission to probe the incident.Among the apparent lapses were failure to learn lessons from previous escape attempts and several operational blunders, including unmanned watchtowers and sleeping guards.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Iraqi PM becomes 1st foreign leader to meet new Iranian hardline president-Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Ebrahim Raisi sit down to discuss economic ties between neighbors-By AFP-SEP 12,21-Today, 7:30 pm
TEHRAN, Iran — Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi met Iran’s recently-elected President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday to discuss the neighbors’ economic relations.Kadhimi is the first foreign leader to visit the ultra-conservative Raisi, and he brought along a “high level political and economic delegation,” Iran’s official IRNA news agency said.Kadhimi told a joint news conference that the pair “discussed certain joint economic questions and strategic projects,” as well as “increasing trade in the interests of both nations.”Raisi, who took office last month, said that “financial and monetary relations” were also discussed.As Iran’s neighbor to the west, Iraq has sought a mediating role between Tehran and Arab nations.It has tried to broker Iran-Saudi talks to soothe tensions between the regional rivals.Iranian and Saudi officials met in Baghdad in April, their first high-level meeting since Riyadh cut diplomatic ties with Tehran in 2016.An Iraqi source said Friday that Kadhimi would raise energy cooperation and Iranian-Saudi relations in Tehran.Other hot topics include Iraq’s six-billion-dollar debt to Iran, after shortages pushed it to turn to its neighbor to cover one-third of its gas and electricity needs.This summer, Iran suspended exports for several days over the outstanding amount.Meanwhile, “the Iraqi prime minister gave us good news about visa exemptions” for Iranians, Raisi said.Baghdad would “increase as much as possible” the number able to participate in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala later this month, the Iranian leader added.Kadhimi’s office had announced last week that up to 60,000 Iranians would be able to come.Arbaeen marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the killing of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by the forces of the caliph Yazid in 680 AD.The number of visas issued to foreign pilgrims permitted has dropped sharply in the past two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.Iran and Iraq fought a devastating 1980-1988 war, but the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein led to massive Iranian influence in Iraqi politics.
Minister admits officials were ‘very surprised’ by Arab Israeli violence in May-Public Security Minister Barlev warns that crime families are crossing line into nationalist actions that threaten national sovereignty-By Stuart Winer and TOI staff-13 September 2021, 12:21 am
Rioting by Arab Israelis in May that led to deadly ethnic violence between Jews and Arabs took authorities by surprise and was fueled, in part, by organized crime families that are crossing the line between criminal and nationalist crime, Public Security Minister Omer Barlev said Sunday.May saw massive riots break out in many so-called mixed Israeli cities, home to large numbers of both Arabs and Jews, during an 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Though not unprecedented, the internecine violence was some of the worst in Israel’s history, bringing to the surface long-simmering conflicts between Arab and Jewish Israelis.The outbreak of violence by the Arab population “very much surprised the country, we weren’t prepared for that,” Barlev told a conference on anti-terror policy hosted at the Reichman University in Herzliya (until recently known as IDC Herzliya).However, he applauded the police response to the violence, in which at least two people were killed and hundreds injured. For days, Jewish and Arab mobs had attacked people and property in communities across the country.“Israel Police acted correctly, despite all the criticism,” said Barlev, who at the time of the unrest was still an opposition lawmaker. He took over the Public Security Ministry, which is responsible for the police, when the new government was sworn in in June.Comparing events to similar rioting that happened in 2000, Barlev said that police were able to contain the violence in a reasonable manner, “but that doesn’t mean there aren’t coals sizzling under the surface today that can seriously harm the delicate fabric of Israel.”In October 2000, 13 Arab Israelis were killed by police during violent clashes at the dawn of the Second Intifada.Barlev said that crime families played a role in the May violence and the existence of such organizations “harms the very sovereignty of the country.”The unrest, he said, revealed “a justifiable crisis in trust between Arab Israeli citizens and state institutes” that has been caused by years of disregard for the hardships of the community.“The inequality and neglect of the Arab sector constituted a space for the intensification of crime in a disproportionate manner and led to the mixing and crossing of criminal crime into the realm of national crime,” Barlev said.Shots fired last week at the home of police Deputy Commissioner Jamal Hakrush, who is overseeing the fight against rising crime in Arab cities and towns, is a further indication of the intensification of the battle with organized crime, he said.“If until now it was clear that there was a behind-the-scenes war between the crime families and Israel,” Barlev said, then the shooting incident is “a declaration of public war on police, but, in practice, also on the entire country and on Israeli sovereignty.”Last month, President Isaac Herzog said that organized crime is a national emergency in the form of “civilian terrorism.”Israel fought an 11-day war in May against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip. In response to thousands of rockets fired by the Palestinian terror group at Israeli cities, the IDF carried out hundreds of bombing raids on Hamas targets in the coastal enclave.Alongside the escalation in violence between Israel and Hamas, the mass unrest in mixed Arab-Jewish locales in Israel was also fueled by anger over clashes in Jerusalem’s Old City and protests over the pending evictions of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem.
Planned closure of Guantanamo prison, a legacy of 9/11, remains unresolved-Unclear what US will do with infamous detention center or with the inmates it isn’t ready to release; Biden administration says it has no timeline for the ongoing process-By Ben Fox-13 September 2021, 12:28 am
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) — US President Joe Biden turned the page on one legacy of 9/11 by ending the war in Afghanistan. But he has yet to do much about another: the Guantanamo Bay detention center.The White House says it intends to shutter the prison on the US base in Cuba, which opened in January 2002. How or when the administration will carry out that plan remains unclear, though early moves to free one prisoner and place five others on a list of those eligible for release have generated optimism among some eager to see it close, including prisoners. Most of the 39 men still being held there have never been charged with a crime.“The fact that Biden, at least, is saying the right things has given people hope,” said Clive Stafford Smith, a lawyer who was recently making his 40th trip to Guantanamo Bay, seeing prisoners he had not been able to visit since the start of the pandemic. “Hope is a dangerous thing because it’s easily crushed. But at the same time, at least, they have hope and that’s good.”As he did with Afghanistan, Biden faces a complex task in closing Guantanamo. It was a pledge that President Barack Obama famously made, and then failed to carry out. The closure was abandoned as a goal altogether under President Donald Trump, who vowed once to “load it up with some bad dudes,” but mostly just ignored the place.The challenge now, as then, remains: What should the US government do with the men at Guantanamo it isn’t ready to release?Among them is Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, a onetime senior al-Qaeda figure considered the architect of the 9/11 attacks. He faces a trial by military commission with four co-defendants that — amid legal and logistical challenges, personnel issues, and the pandemic — has been bogged down in the pretrial stage at a specially built high-security courtroom for more than nine years. There is no start date in sight.Mohammad and his co-defendants were in court this week, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, for a hearing on the qualifications of a new judge, Air Force Col. Matthew McCall, to preside over the sprawling death penalty case. It was the 42nd round of pretrial hearings since the arraignment in May 2012.With the passage of time comes new problems. The oldest prisoner, a Pakistani cleared for release in May but who remains at Guantanamo, is 74 and has heart disease and other ailments. A number of other men have significant physical and mental health issues as well that will need to be addressed if “indefinite” detention goes on much longer. Since Guantanamo opened, nine prisoners have died — two from natural causes, and seven in apparent suicides.“People are getting older, sicker, more and more desperate,” said Pardiss Kebriaei, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents a Yemeni prisoner who was recently cleared, but remains held.It is not surprising, really, that no one made long-term plans for the detention center. It was a makeshift project from the start.Following the invasion of Afghanistan, in reaction to the September 11, 2001, attacks, the US wanted a place to hold the hundreds of prisoners from dozens of countries swept up by American forces, many handed over, as it turned out later, in exchange for bounties regardless of whether they had a connection to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.The administration of then-president George W. Bush declared they were the “worst of the worst,” and asserted it could hold the men overseas, without charge as unlawful enemy combatants, not entitled to the full protections of prisoners of war at the sleepy Navy outpost on the jagged southeastern coast of Cuba.A photo released by the Pentagon showed the first detainees, clad in orange jumpsuits, and kneeling in outdoor cages under the tropical sun. It was intended to show a message that “we are doing what we need to do,” in a defiant message to the world, said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law.“They regretted that decision very soon afterwards, within days if not weeks,” said Greenberg, author of “The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days.”As reports emerged of brutal treatment, Guantanamo became a source of international outrage, undercutting the sympathy and support the US drew after the 9/11 attacks.The US would end up holding 779 prisoners at Guantanamo and spend hundreds of millions constructing and operating what today looks more or less like a small state prison, surrounded by razor wire and guard posts at the edge of the shimmering Caribbean Sea.Bush would ultimately let 532 prisoners out. Obama released 197. Trump released a single detainee, a Saudi who went back to his homeland after striking a plea deal in the problem-plagued military commissions.Few of those held could be charged with a crime because no evidence was collected when they were captured, or there was none, or it was tainted beyond use when the detainees were subjected to what the CIA euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation.” Of those who remain, 10 are facing trial by military commission, with all still in the pretrial stage.Over the years, the population has steadily shrunk, as the US decided some men no longer posed a threat and were not worth holding, amid legal challenges. It has also at times been roiled by hunger strikes and rocked by clashes between prisoners and guards, sparked largely by frustration at being held indefinitely without charge under what the US asserted was its right under the international laws of war.Guantanamo is smaller and quieter now. But Stafford Smith, a founder of the human rights organization Reprieve, says it is still oppressive. “It’s not so much the physical conditions, it’s the psychological conditions,” he said. “Being told that you’re in Hotel California and you can check out but you can never leave, that psychologically is immensely damaging to people.”Obama, who issued an executive order shortly after taking office directing that Guantanamo be closed within a year, ran into political opposition when his administration announced it would move the military trials to federal courts. Congress eventually added language to the annual Pentagon authorization bill prohibiting the government from moving Guantanamo prisoners into the United States for any reason.In a sign that the political winds might be shifting, Congress recently stripped the prohibition on transferring Guantanamo Bay prisoners from the Pentagon authorization and eliminated funding for the detention center from next year’s budget. It remains to be seen whether that will change, particularly after several former prisoners, released under both Bush and Obama, emerged as Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.The Biden administration, which did not respond to requests for comment for this article, has not said much about its plans.“I don’t have a timeline for you,” press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters when asked in July about closing Guantanamo. “As you know, there’s a process. There are different layers of the process. But that remains our goal, and we are considering all available avenues to responsibly transfer detainees and, of course, close Guantanamo Bay.”Those who support closure are encouraged by the fact that the new administration has revived a review board process and has cleared five for release. (None was cleared under Trump). But they are concerned that the Biden team has yet to name anyone at the State Department to lead an effort to secure agreements with other countries for the resettlement of prisoners, as was done under Obama.Many argue that the simplest solution would be to move the cases of the 10 detainees facing trial by military commission to federal court in the US and find a way to transfer or release the rest. Kebriaei, the attorney whose Yemeni client is awaiting release, said the administration just needs to focus on the issue.“There’s a sense that it has to be done and, very practically, more of a possibility that it can be done,” she said.
As world remembers 9/11, Taliban raises flag over Afghan presidential palace-Ceremony marks the official start of the work of the new interim government, weeks after shock takeover-By KATHY GANNON-SEP 12,21-Today, 5:01 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace Saturday, a spokesman said, as the US and the world marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.The white banner, emblazoned with a Quranic verse, was hoisted by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the Taliban interim government, in a low-key ceremony, said Ahmadullah Muttaqi, multimedia branch chief of the Taliban’s cultural commission.The flag-raising marked the official start of the work of the new government, he said. The composition of the all-male, all-Taliban government was announced earlier this week and was met with disappointment by the international community which had hoped the Taliban would make good on an earlier promise of an inclusive lineup.Two decades ago, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan with a heavy hand. Television was banned, and on September 11, 2001, the day of the horrific attacks on America, the news spread from crackling radios across the darkened streets of the Afghan capital of Kabul.The city rarely had electricity and barely a million people lived in Kabul at the time. It took the US-led coalition just two months to drive the Taliban from the capital and by December 7, 2001, they were defeated, driven from their last holdout in southern Kandahar, their spiritual heartland.Twenty years later, the Taliban are back in Kabul. America has departed, ending its ‘forever war’ two weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and two weeks after the Taliban returned to the Afghan capital on August 15.Some things have changed since the first period of Taliban rule in the 1990s.This time, the gun-toting fighters don’t race through the city streets in their pickups. Instead, they inch through chaotic, clogged traffic in the city of more than 5 million. In Taliban-controlled Kabul in the 1990s, barber shops were banned. Now Taliban fighters get the latest haircuts, even if their beards remain untouched in line with their religious beliefs.But the Taliban have begun issuing harsh edits that have hit women hardest, such as banning women’s sports. They have also used violence to stop women demanding equal rights from protesting.Inside a high-end women’s store in the city’s Karte Se neighborhood Saturday, Marzia Hamidi, a Taekwondo competitor with ambitions of being a national champion, said the return of the Taliban has crushed her dreams.She was among the women attacked by the Taliban and called “agents of the West” during one of the recent protests. She said she’s not surprised about America’s withdrawal.“This year or next year, they had to leave eventually,” she said. “They came for their own interest and they left for their interest.”Hamidi is hoping the Taliban will relent and ease their restrictions, but with a glance toward the store owner, Faisal Naziri, she said “most men in Afghanistan agree with what the Taliban say about women and their rules against them.”Naziri nodded, saying preserving the rights of women is not a cause that will bring Afghan men on the streets.On Saturday, the Taliban even orchestrated a women’s march of their own. This one involved dozens of women obscured from head to toe, hidden behind layers of black veils. They filled an auditorium at Kabul University’s education center in a well-choreographed snub to the past 20 years of Western efforts to empower women.Speakers read from scripted speeches celebrating the Taliban victory over a West they charged was anti-Islam. The women marched briefly outside the center grounds, waving placards saying “the women who left don’t represent us,” referring to the many thousands who fled in fear of a Taliban crackdown on women’s rights. “We don’t want co-education,” read another banner.Outside the hall, the Taliban director of higher education, Maulvi Mohammad Daoud Haqqani, said 9/11 was the day “the world started their propaganda against us calling us terrorists and blaming us” for the attacks in the United States.At a dusty book store in Kabul’s Karte Sangi neighborhood, Atta Zakiri, a self-declared civil society activist said America was wrong to attack Afghanistan after 9/11.He blamed the invasion that followed the 9/11 attacks for creating another generation of hardline Taliban fighters.“The Taliban should have been allowed to stay. Why didn’t we work with them? Instead they went to fight,” he said.” And now we are back to where we were 20 years ago.”
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