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What Israeli attack would mean for U.S.

 Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.), a senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor, thinks the United States will be targeted by Iran if Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear sites this spring.  Israel recently announced that it successfully tested an upgraded radar for the Arrow missile defense system, developed with the United States and designed to intercept projectiles that might be fired at the Jewish state from Iran.  More>>>>>>>

Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel

Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a “‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”

The article, written by Alireza Forghani, an analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.

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China begins to turn against Iran

After a visit to the Gulf in which he met the leaders of the states most threatened by Iran's aggressive foreign policy, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, issued Beijing's clearest condemnation yet .

"China adamantly opposes Iran developing and possessing nuclear weapons," he said.

China appears to have sent a message to Iran that it could not rely on Beijing's unstinting support by reducing its imports of oil at a time when the US and Europe are promoting an embargo on the country.  Read the story>>>>>>>

Netanyahu deputy "disappointed" with Obama on Iran

A senior Israeli official voiced disappointment in the Obama administration on Sunday, saying "election-year considerations" lay behind its caution over tough Iran sanctions sought by U.S. legislators.  More>>>>>>>>

Leon Panetta admits Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon

Madison Ruppert


Astoundingly, United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta openly admitted that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, yet still justified the Western assault on their nuclear program.  On the CBS show “Face the Nation” Panetta stated, in no uncertain terms, that Iran is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon, making one wonder why the United States and the United Nations feel justified in pressuring Iran.

“Are they [Iran] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? Uh, no,” Panetta said, adding, “but we know that they are trying to develop a nuclear capability.”    Read more »

Afghanistan Signs Its First Oil Contract – With China

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's government signed a deal Wednesday with China's state-owned National Petroleum Corporation, allowing it to become the first foreign company to exploit the country's oil and natural gas reserves.

The contract, which covers the northeastern provinces of Sari Pul and Faryab, is the first of several such blocks to be put on the market in coming months, Afghan Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani said during the signing ceremony.

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Was there a bombing at this Iranian nuclear site?

New satellite images show big changes at underground facility

Evidence has emerged that seems to suggest Iran bulldozed ground and knocked down several buildings to cover up an explosion two weeks ago at its nuclear site in Isfahan.

Satellite images released by the Institute for Science and International Security compared the nuclear facility before and after the explosion and discovered major changes at an underground structure -- including buildings missing and evidence of earth being moved by machinery.

None of this explains what actually happened in the blast, though the ISIS said there was no direct evidence of an explosion at the facility.

No damage: This December 3 satellite photo of the Uranium Conversion Facility, Zirconium Production Plant and entrances to a tunnel facility at the Isfahan nuclear site shows no damage

 

Changes: A wide-view of the entire Isfahan nuclear site shows the location of the underground facility where the changes took place. It's about a quarter mile from the perimeter fence

At the time of the blast, The Times of London reported it had seen satellite images that proved an explosion had occurred at the nuclear site. It quoted Israeli intelligence officials as saying the explosion was 'no accident.'

The Institute for Science and International Security said it had studied satellite photographs of a nuclear site near the Iranian city of Isfahan, after reports two weeks ago that an explosion could be heard in the city.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072564/Was-bombing-Iranian-nuclear-site-New-satellite-images-big-changes-underground-facility.html#ixzz1gFLIIsMe

'Bethlehem' like you haven't seen it before

By Jim Fletcher
© 2011 WND

 

Violent images from 'Little Town of Bethlehem'

A leading evangelical businessman has financed a controversial Middle East documentary that has been called "unfair and dishonest" by supporters of Israel.

"Little Town of Bethlehem" purports to present the Palestinian perspective for American audiences.

Mart Green, founder and CEO of Mardel Christian and Educational Supply and an heir to the Hobby Lobby retail empire, is the financial backing behind the Bethlehem film. It's directed by Jim Hanon of EthnoGraphic Media Films, which is also financed by Green and headquartered at the huge Hobby Lobby complex in Oklahoma City.

JoAnn Magnuson, curator of the Jewish-Christian Library & Learning Center in Minneapolis and a veteran of 35 years of study and service in the field of interfaith relations, said the film is "very well-made" but doesn't present the conflict accurately.

Eyewitnesses report 'unusual' movement of Israeli missiles

JERUSALEM – Multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing Israeli military trucks in recent days transport and station large missiles at the periphery of Jerusalem and in locations inside the West Bank.

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Explosions rocking Tehran spark warning of 'big event' 
Suspicions grow that Iranian blast targeted Khamenei
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Sights and Insights: A noteworthy hill nobody notices

The physical symbol of God’s presence in Israel rested for about a century on a hill that thousands drive by every day.

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    Wayne Stiles is an author who has never recovered from his travels in Israel—and loves to write about them from his desk in Texas.

It’s a place in between important places. Few individuals, if any, journey there directly. Most would miss it, in fact, if they didn’t know to look.

Saudi cleric: Kidnap soldier - get $100,000

Famous Muslim cleric Dr. Awad al-Qarni offers reward in response to similar cash prize offered by Israeli bereaved family. Hamas minister: Gaza pullout enables us to keep Shalit captive

A week after the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, top Saudi cleric Dr. Awad al-Qarni is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who kidnaps Israeli soldiers.

He is responding to an ad published by the Libman family offering a similar reward for anyone who catches the person who murdered their relative Shlomo Libman. Libman was killed by terrorists near the settlement of Yitzhar in 1998.   MORE>>>

Brace for another U.S.-Mideast war - SYRIA

JERUSALEM – Turkey secretly passed a message to Damascus last week that if it does not implement major democratic reforms, NATO may attack Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, according to Egyptian security officials speaking to WND.

The Egyptian security officials said the message was coordinated with NATO members, specifically with the U.S. and European Union.

Assad has been widely accused of ordering massacres on militants and protesters engaged in an insurgency targeting his regime.

The Egyptian officials said Turkish leaders, speaking for NATO, told Assad that he has until March to implement democratization that would allow free elections as well as major constitutional reforms.

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Gaffney: Rise of Sharia Law Will Bring War to the Middle East

War is on its way in the Middle East as Muslim countries are determined to force a showdown over the future of Israel, Ronald Reagan’s assistant defense secretary Frank Gaffney warned in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.

“I’m afraid there’s a war coming, a very serious, perhaps cataclysmic regional war,” he said. “It will be presumably over, at least in part, the future existence of the state of Israel. It may involve all of its neighbors, as they have in the past, attacking Israel to try, as they say, to drive the Jews into the sea.

“It may involve the use of nuclear weapons,” he predicted. “But whatever form it takes and whenever it occurs, it is unlikely to be contained to that region, and we must do everything we can to prevent freedom’s enemies from thinking they have an opportunity to engage in that kind of warfare.”

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Why Is The Middle East Always Going To Be In YOUR Future

First Published Dec 14 2008

Editor's note: This article was the very first one ever published on The Plain Truth back on December 14th 2007!

By Bob Barney

We have war in Afghanistan, war in Iraq, war is maybe coming to Iran, Israel and Syria. It has been this way since before you were even born. Why? After all, we had war in Europe in 1914 and 1940, but not today. War in Japan in the forties, but not in the past fifty years, so why has every decade seen a problem in the Mid-East? Is it Oil? Is it another reason.

In the late 1940's, the USA was the world's largest oil producer. We did not need oil from the middle east, yet war erupted between the newly formed Israel and its Arab allies. The same thing happened again in the fifties, and the sixties and we still really didn't need the Arab's oil. By 1973 we did need their oil and thus today, everyone without a view on history mistakenly assumes that war in the middle east is about oil. IT IS NOT!

This war has nothing to do with oil, or George Bush or even The United States per say; it has everything to do with religion and about God and God's role in world events. This article can be read anytime in the future and there will still be strife in the middle east. The strife ends, according to the Bible ONLY after Christ returns and not a day before. We realize that we claim to be a news site, and we are, but if there is a God, and it is the God of the Bible and if Jesus Christ is that God of the Bible, then what he has to say is news, is it not?

Voting for a Republican or a Democrat or a even Libertarian will not change a thing concerning the middle east. Getting off of oil will not change the tension between Arab nations and America or Israel. It is time that the "average Joe or Jane" understands what  is going to happen in their lifetime. The staff of The Plain Truth realize that it is hard to believe, but one can understand in broad terms what is going to happen and what is not going to happen in the future. Hopefully by reading this, you have decided to at least be informed and make intellectual choices for once. You will not get propaganda here. In fact, we will teach you how to recognize propaganda! It is easy to spot.

Good luck, be a little patient, and you will enjoy our one-of-a-kind stories and articles. You will learn things that you never knew and we encourage you to look up everything that we write to prove to yourself just what is reality, and what is not. We welcome intellectual feedback, honest opinions and we will not tolerate proganda or distasteful posts. Thanks.

 

Gaddafi's last moments alive: Dictator begs for his life after being dragged from a drain. Seconds later he was summarily executed

Gaddafi tried to flee in a convoy hit by American drone

Vehicles were also shelled by Nato fighter jets...

... before being driven back to his compound in Sirte

Gaddafi in final attempt to flee before final push by rebels

'Found in a hole' wearing military-style clothing, shouting 'Don't shoot'

Rebel forces executed him in front of a baying mob

His body was paraded through the streets of the city

Gaddafi's eldest son Saif shot in leg - with some reports saying he is dead

Reports say Gaddafi will be given secret burial

Wounded, weakened and covered in blood and dirt, the bedraggled fallen dictator was hauled from a truck to meet his unceremonious end. 

In front of a baying mob and amid gun-waving chaotic scenes, Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader, begged the revolutionary soldiers for his life.

Becoming increasingly desperate, he asked one rebel fighter: 'What did I ever do to you?'
But his pleas fell on deaf ears.

The deposed despot was thrown onto another truck and taken away - to be mercilessly shot to death.

His spilt blood heralded the end of a terrible 42-year epoch in Libyan history.

Scroll down for video of Gaddafi's last minutes...  CAUTION GRUESOME PHOTOS!

President Abbas declares 'Palestinian Spring'

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of Palestinians cheering and waving flags gave President Mahmoud Abbas a hero's welcome in the West Bank Sunday, as he told them triumphantly a "Palestinian Spring" had been born following his historic speech to the U.N. last week.

Abbas' popularity has skyrocketed since he asked the U.N. on Friday to recognize Palestinian independence, defying appeals from Israel and the United States to return to peace talks. His request has pushed the region into uncharted waters, and left the international community scrambling over how to respond. MORE>>>>>>>

Abbas: 'We shall not recognize a Jewish state'...

 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations on Friday to recognize a state for his people, accusing Israel of engaging in ethnic cleansing in his United Nations speech.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Abbas accused Israel of employing an “ethnic cleansing policy” in Jerusalem.  Read More>>>>>

Pakistan warns U.S.: 'You will lose an ally'

Forward By Bob Barney: I wrote on here almost four years ago that we would see just how foolish the Bush policy of "democracy" in Pakistan would end up in a war, maybe a world war! (article here)  Now we see just how bad things are, all because we wanted to oust Pervez Musharraf, a dictator! Democracy in the middle east is 3 of us have voted to kill YOU!

(Reuters) - Pakistan warned the United States it risked losing an ally if it kept accusing Islamabad of playing a double game in the war against militancy, escalating the crisis in relations between the two countries.  More>>>>>>>

What the media will never tell you about Israel, Islam

 

In 1998, Christianity Today magazine ran a cover story about evangelical support for Israel. It was the usual hatchet job from a center-left publication that many evangelicals still believe is the flagship periodical for the American church.

The cover image was a montage of Bible prophecy teachers – in caricature – led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Behind him were the usual suspects CT likes to round up when mocking Bible prophecy/dispensationalism: Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye and … Hal Lindsey.

It is doubtful that CT's editors would consider a similar cover story on, say, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren and Tony Campolo. To CT, those are "careful thinkers" who struggle to lead the ignorant masses to enlightenment.

In any event, I thought at the time that Lindsey's presence on the cover was quite interesting, since he has been a lightning rod of late for mockery of prophecy teaching.

And yet, the guy is perhaps the father of the modern prophecy movement, and his teachings have led millions to truth. Even better for us, he's still very active and seems to shake off criticism with a rare combination of good humor and Matthau-esque disdain.

A new book by Lindsey – cause for celebration – has been released: "The Everlasting Hatred," in which the prophecy warhorse traces the origins of enmity between the sons of Ishmael and the sons of Israel. The book is both a primer for understanding the modern war on terror and a riveting read that is a glass of cold water in the face of indifference towards the reality of radical Islam.
Read more: What the media will never tell you about Israel, Islam http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=344801#ixzz1Xvf4dWdS

Understanding UN Bias Against Israel

Did You Know? Palestinian Law Says Selling Land to Jews ‘Punishable by Death’

By Palestinian Authority decree, Arabs face the death penalty if they’re caught selling their land to Jews.

It‘s a law that’s been in place since before Israel declared statehood in 1948, and while the decree is apparently well known in the region, it is relatively unknown in the West.

The Christian Broadcasting Network reports on a man whose death, his brother believes, was caused because people believe he sold his house to Jewish settlers:

“Who killed him nobody knows, but it was because of the house,” said resident Abraham.

Abraham told CBN his brother was innocent, and said the Jewish residents even said they bought it through someone else. Nevertheless, the situation is all too common, with some real estate transactions even including extra money for the Arab sellers to leave the region and settle somewhere safer.

According to CBN:

Israeli correspondent Pinchas Inbari said it’s widely known that under the Palestinian Authority, an Arab caught selling land to Jews faces the death penalty.

“People have already been executed on these charges or to be killed by the militias, by Fatah, or the Islamic jihad. or whatever you have,” Inbari said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought up the law when speaking to members of the foreign press earlier this year:

“Ten minutes from here in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, there is a law, a decree that if you sell land to Jews, it’s punishable by death,” Netanyahu said. “Now you think that’s something worthy of reporting?”

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Bodyguard who killed Karzai's brother was trusted CIA contact

The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai's brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement's increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.

Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed Wali Karzai at his home in Kandahar City on Tuesday, also held regular meetings with British officials, and had two brothers-in-law serving in a CIA-run paramilitary unit, the Kandahar Strike Force, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

Yet evidence is emerging that the Taliban recruited Mohammad – who was believed to be a friend, confidant and trusted lieutenant of Ahmed Wali Karzai – in an infiltration of the Afghan government's security apparatus.

"Our investigation shows that for the last three months he was acting out of character, not normal, erratic," said Mahmoud Karzai, another Karzai brother. "He wasn't sleeping, he was nervous, he was getting phone calls in the middle of the night, and our information shows he made a trip to Quetta [in Pakistan] and met with some Taliban. His father was a mullah. So all these things combined, plus the Taliban claim of responsibility... but our preliminary investigation indicates this was the work of the Taliban."

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Pakistan could "pull troops from Afghan border" if U.S. cuts aid

(Reuters) - Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense minister said on Tuesday in an interview with Pakistani media.

The United States Monday said it would hold back $800 million -- a third of nearly $2 billion in security aid to Pakistan -- in a show of displeasure over Pakistan's removal of U.S. military trainers, limits on visas for U.S. personnel and other bilateral irritants.   Read More>>>>

Egypt party leader: Holocaust is ‘a lie’

BUDAPEST — A leader of Egypt’s top secular party says the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were “made in the USA,” the Holocaust is “a lie” and Anne Frank’s memoir is “a fake” — comments sure to roil the post-revolution political debate in the Arab world’s most populous country.

Ahmed Ezz El-Arab, a vice chairman of Egypt's Wafd Party, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with The Washington Times last week while in the Hungarian capital attending the Conference on Democracy and Human Rights.  MORE>>>

Vatican fears increasingly unstable Arab world

By   Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere / Agence France-Presse June 10, 2011, 6:03 pm

VATICAN CITY: A Vatican expression of concern over the violence in Syria this week was the latest sign of deep misgivings in Catholic circles about Arab uprisings seen as a threat for Christian minorities.