The Hellacious Iranian Horn Is Correct (Dan 8:4)

Iran leader predicts Israel gone within 25 years

Sep 21 2015

“I say that you (Israelis) will not see the coming 25 years and, God willing, there will not be something named the Zionist regime in next 25 years“, he said. “With Allah’s help, there will be no such thing as a Zionist regime in 25 years”. “Secondly, until then, struggling, heroic and Jihadi morale will leave no moment of serenity for Zionists”, Khamenei said. The statements, made in front of hundreds of Iranians in Tehran, appear to contrast the more conciliatory tone of President Hassan Rouhani.

According to columnist Aaron David Miller of The Wall Street Journal, the success of the Ira
n nuclear deal this 2015 is not so much reliant on how promising the proposal is. News reports suggest that the United States and our negotiating partners are poised to make concessions that would undermine our ability to ensure that Iran remains without the uranium enrichment capacity and technology necessary to develop nuclear weapons. Wyden said his parents escaped Germany in the 1930s, but not before both of his grandfathers lost their livelihoods and his father was kicked out of school for being Jewish. We can always think of ways of making a deal better. The Islamic Republic supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants. His latest remarks are likely to be seized upon by critics of the agreement as proof that Iran can not be trusted.

We also have to consider the feelings of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and other friends in the area. Cicilline said the agreement “forces Iran to relinquish its nuclear weapons ambitions and reaffirms, by its own language, that ‘under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons”. “The mullahs are not part of any regional solution, they are indeed the main source of the problem”, said Ali Safavi of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the main Iranian dissident group. Republicans have long criticized the agreement citing reasons that include it being an existential “threat to Israel”, one of the U.S.’s closest allies in the region. The comments from Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state in Iran, came after the US Congress began debate on Tuesday on the nuclear agreement reached with Iran. Even if the GOP could muster the bipartisan support needed to override a veto, the other nations involved in the talks have signaled they will go ahead with the lifting of sanctions against Iran. “There are those [in Iran] who insist to dress the Big Satan America in costumes, and paint it as an angel”, he said. NYSE

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Did The US Assassinate Al-Qaeda’s Mastermind?

Alleged al-Qaida member seized in Libya to face charges in 1998 bombings of US embassies dies

Libyan charged in 1998 US embassy bombings dies
By MAGGIE MICHAEL | ASSOCIATED PRESS | 6 hours, 59 minutes ago

CAIRO (AP) — Fifteen years after allegedly helping al-Qaida plot the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Abu Anas al-Libi parked his car on a quiet street in Libya’s capital.

Within moments, soldiers from the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force forced him at gunpoint into a van and sped away. They’d fly him to a naval ship in the Mediterranean Sea before finally bringing him to New York to stand trial on charges of helping kill 224 people, including a dozen Americans, and wound more than 4,500.

But al-Libi, who pleaded innocent to the charges against him, wouldn’t live to see his trial start Jan. 12. He died Friday night at a New York hospital of complications stemming from a recent liver surgery, his wife and authorities said Saturday. He was 50.

Al-Libi, once wanted by the FBI with a $5 million bounty on his head, was chronically ill with hepatitis C when the soldiers seized him. His wife, who asked to be identified as Um Abdullah, told The Associated Press that his experience only worsened his ailments.
“I accuse the American government of kidnapping, mistreating, and killing an innocent man. He did nothing,” Um Abdullah said.

In a federal court filing Saturday, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said al-Libi died after being taken from New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center to a local hospital.

“Despite the care provided at the hospital, his condition deteriorated rapidly and (he) passed away,” Bharara wrote.

Al-Libi, which means “of Libya” in Arabic, was his nom de guerre. Also known as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, U.S. prosecutors in 2000 described al-Libi as sitting on a council that approved terrorist operations for al-Qaida, which would become infamous worldwide a year later after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Before that, al-Qaida’s Aug. 7, 1998, truck bombings at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were its deadliest assault. The bombs tore through the embassies and nearby buildings, killing 213 people and wounding some 4,500 in Kenya alone. The Tanzania attack, conducted minutes later, killed 11 people and wounded 85.

Al-Libi, believed to be a computer specialist for al-Qaida, conducted visual and photographic surveillance of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in late 1993, the federal court indictment against him and others alleges. In 1994, he and other al-Qaida members researched alternate potential sites in Nairobi including the local office of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as well as “British, French and Israeli targets,” according to the indictment.

His path to Kenya and al-Qaida remains unclear. Al-Libi is believed to have spent time in Sudan, where Osama bin Laden was based in the early 1990s. After bin Laden was forced to leave Sudan, al-Libi turned up in Britain in 1995 where he was granted political asylum under unclear circumstances and lived in Manchester. He was arrested by Scotland Yard in 1999, but released because of lack of evidence and later fled Britain. After his indictment in December 2000 over the embassy bombings, U.S. officials said they believed he was hiding in Afghanistan.

Al-Libi later said in court filings that he returned to Libya as dissent against dictator Moammar Gadhafi grew into an open revolt that led to the leader’s downfall and killing in 2011. He said he “joined with forces of NATO and the United States” to replace Gadhafi, hoping to establish a “stable Islamic secular state.”

In October 2013, the U.S. Army’s Delta Force swooped into Tripoli and seized al-Libi after dawn prayers, his brother Nabih al-Ruqai said. Al-Libi said the soldiers took him to the USS San Antonio, where CIA agents interrogating him warned the questioning would be the “easiest step” of three.
“I took this to mean that the physical and psychological torture would only increase if I failed to cooperate with my questioners,” he said in a court affidavit. “These threats continued the entire time I was on board the ship.”

Al-Libi’s lawyer, Bernard Kleinman, argued his client didn’t plan the bombing.

“This case involves issues much more tinged with emotion and trauma than other cases,” Kleinman said in 2013. “The fact that Mr. al-Libi will be tried in New York, barely a half mile from the World Trade Center site, and that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida will be referenced numerous times in connection with his co-defendants cannot be ignored.”

Al-Libi isn’t the only terror suspect to be snatched by U.S. special forces in Libya. American troops last year grabbed Ahmed Abu Khattala, a suspect in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

The ability for U.S. troops to move freely in Libya reflects the chaos gripping the country beset by rival militias and political factions in the years since Gadhafi’s downfall. Battles openly rage in its east and west as Islamic militant groups have turned coastline cities and border areas into safe havens.

 Libya’s rival governments had no immediate reaction to al-Libi’s death.

Al-Libi’s wife said Saturday her husband underwent liver surgery three weeks ago, went into a brief coma and was moved prematurely back to prison. She said the last time she spoke to al-Libi, “his voice was weak and he was in a bad condition.”

On Friday, she said a lawyer told her that al-Libi had been taken to a hospital and put on a ventilator.
She added: “He was dying then.”
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Associated Press writers Larry Neumeister in New York and Jon Gambrell contributed to this report.

Al-Maliki Out: Clears Way for the Antichrist

Tanks on Baghdad’s streets, but Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki finally ousted

The Telegraph

Hopes rise for a more inclusive Iraqi government as parliament’s deputy speaker wins backing from powerful Shia factions

Tank Patrols In Baghdad

Iraqi army armoured vehicles patrol a st…Iraqi army armoured vehicles patrol a street in Baghdad’s commercial district of Karrada Photo: Getty

By Ruth Sherlock, Istanbul
8:57PM BST 11 Aug 2014

Iraq’s president named a leading Shia politician as the country’s new prime minister on Monday, driving Nouri al-Maliki from office after eight years of rule despite his sudden dispatch of tanks on to Baghad’s streets.

The nomination of Haider al-Abadi, currently Iraq’s deputy parliament speaker, came just hours after a defiant Mr Maliki ordered armour and special forces to take up position strategic points around Baghdad, in an action that smacked of an attempted coup.

As tanks surrounded the Green Zone, where Baghdad’s government offices are based, and troops locked down the presidential palace, Mr Maliki gave a surprise late night television address denouncing President Fouad Massoum, and threatening legal action for not choosing him as the nominee.

Mr Maliki had ignored repeated calls both from domestic opponents – including some members of his own State of Law party – and from the US to step down, after the onslaught by jihadists from Islamic State.

Critics of the Iraqi prime minister accuse Mr Maliki of aggravating the crisis by practising sectarian politics, arguing that the first step to regaining support from Iraq’s disaffected Sunni minority – some of whom have supported Islamic State’s takeover of swathes of Iraq – is for him to step down.

Washington heralded the nomination of Mr Abadi and warned that efforts by Mr Maliki to stay in power risked destabilising Iraq further, and would also jeopardise international support for the Baghdad government.

Baghdad Demonstration

Iraqis chant slogans and display placards bearing a picture of embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq (AP)

“The government formation process is critical in terms of sustaining stability and calm in Iraq,” John Kerry, the US secretary of state said in a pointed remark. “Our hope is that Mr Maliki will not stir those waters.”

As police and elite armed units, many equipped and trained by America, locked down the capital’s streets, Mr Kerry added: “There should be no use of force, no introduction of troops or militias in this moment of democracy for Iraq.”

The United Nations envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, warned Iraqi security forces to refrain from actions that “may be seen as interference” in the democratic transfer of power.

Britain, the EU and neighbouring Turkey all sent messages of support after Mr Abadi’s nomination. President Barack Obama had warned that military assistance beyond limited air strikes against Islamic State would depend on the formation of an inclusive government in Baghdad.

Mr Abadi, who as an opponent of Saddam Hussein spent years living in exile in Britain, is himself a member of Mr Maliki’s party, but was nominated after a coalition of Shia political factions turned its back on the former prime minister. He has 30 days to form a new government and present it to parliament and won crucial backing from Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq’s most influential cleric.

But Mr Maliki said he was lodging a complaint with the federal court in an attempt to block the process.

He argued that the announcement was illegitimate because it was made several days after the expiry of the constitutional time limit for the president to nominate a prime ministerial candidate.

A newly-selected president has 15 days in which to ask the largest parliamentary bloc in parliament to form a government. President Massoum twice extended that deadline, as politicians had failed to agree on a prime ministerial nominee.

Mr Maliki’s party has since issued a televised statement rejecting the new nominee, saying he did not have the support of the party and that Mr Abadi represented “only himself”.

However, with Iraq’s powerful Shia clerics, including Muqtada al-Sadr, whose movement controls dozens of seats in parliament, against him, it seemed on Monday that Mr Maliki was waging a losing battle.

“I think that this nomination will be an important start in order to end the crisis that the people are undergoing such as security and service problems,” Mr Sadr said in a statement.