Awaiting World War Three (Revelation 15:2)

Pope Francis calls Paris massacre part of ‘piecemeal Third World War’

BY Meg Wagner

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Updated: Saturday, November 14, 2015, 6:16 PM

 

Pope Francis condemned Friday night’s Paris massacre, calling the attacks a part of a disorganized World War III.

“I am close to the people of France, to the families of the victims, and I am praying for all of them,” the pontiff said Saturday, according to the Vatican Radio. “I am moved and I am saddened. I do not understand — these things hard to understand.”

Francis called the wave of terrorist violence that killed at least 129 people “a piece” of the “piecemeal Third World War” and said the bloody rampage was “not human.”

“There is no religious or human justification for it,” he said when asked about the aforementioned war. “This is a piece of it.”The Friday night attacks — at a soccer stadium, a concert hall and a row of trendy cafes — left at least 350 more wounded and marked the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II.

French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that ISIS was behind the carnage.

The wave of violence killed at least 127 people and wounded another 200.

The wave of bombing and gun attacks was an “act of war committed by a terrorist army, the Islamic State group, a jihadist army, against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet,” he said Saturday.

ISIS also took responsibility for the bloodshed and vowed to keep France “at the top of the list” of its targets.

“The stench of death will not leave their noses as long as they remain at the forefront of the Crusaders’ campaign, dare to curse our prophet, boast of a war on Islam in France, and strike Muslims in the lands of the caliphate with warplanes that were of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris,” ISIS said in a statement.

The Nuclear End (Revelation 15)

Nuclear Nightmares Give Way To A New Terror, Seen On Paris Streets

November 14, 2015 8:26 AM ET

Scott Simon

Mourners arrange candles at the gate of the French Embassy in Berlin. Hundreds of people came throughout the day to lay flowers, candles and messages of condolence to mourn the victims of attacks Friday night in Paris.

Millions of people grew up in a time when we had nuclear nightmares. We worried that a few huge bombs might blow up the world, and we rehearsed how we should hide below our school desks if sirens ever sounded.

They’d test those civil defense sirens every Tuesday morning in Chicago; I’ve heard of other times in other cities. In time, they became just one more city sound, like the screech of a subway train or the flapping of pigeon wings. But every now and then, the siren could make you think, and chill a sunny morning. They could sound like small, mournful screams to remind us that we’d been born into a world that could disappear in a flash.

We couldn’t see what frightened us; maybe that’s often the way. The menace was overseas, in the skies, out of our hands. Powerful men were thought to hold our destiny in theirs, but we believed what held them back from pressing a button — the single button we thought would unleash a fireball — was what was pretty candidly called MAD: mutually assured destruction. Presidents, premiers and generals didn’t want to die any more than ordinary citizens.

Children don’t have to go through nuclear war drills now. We don’t think of our world disappearing in a flash. But in our times, almost anywhere, it’s hard not to think about the world being blinded by a thousand different flashes that take people by surprise as they go about their daily lives. In fact, terror depends on people being surprised as they laugh, walk, listen to music, talk to one another, walk the dog, or sip a coffee. And you may wonder: What can deter the kinds of people who wear suicide vests or rake crowds with bullets, if they are as uncaring about their own deaths as others?

The targets of terrorism don’t tend to be strategic military objectives. The language of our times calls them “soft targets.” Near as I can tell, this simply means targets that are as soft as our own flesh — like the people we saw in the blinking lights of emergency vehicles in Paris over these past few hours, and we’ve seen in recent years from New York to London, Mumbai and Nairobi: commuters, shoppers, concertgoers, laughing families, schoolkids, partiers and vacationers. Mothers, children, uncles and friends. Innocents.

Small Horn Attacks Paris (Daniel 8)

 
Shots heard inside Paris music hall where hostages held; at least 40 dead in terror attacks
Published November 13, 2015

FoxNews.com

Police: Explosion in Paris bar, shootout in restaurant

DEVELOPING – Police were storming a Paris concert hall where up to 100 hostages were reportedly being executed one-by-one, after at least 40 people were killed elsewhere Friday night as coordinated terror attacks rocked the French capital and prompted President Francois Hollande to order the entire nation’s borders closed.

The attacks are believed to have involved at least two suicide bombers, including one who detonated near the city’s Stade de France, soccer stadium where the French and German national teams were playing in a match attended by Hollande. Simultaneous attacks are a trademark of terrorist operations.

“There are lots of dead people,” said a witness believed to have been at the bar of a restaurant that was the scene of one attack. “It’s pretty horrific to be honest. I was at the back of the bar. I couldn’t see anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us.”

“There are lots of dead people. It’s pretty horrific to be honest.”
– Witness to attack on restaurant

No one immediately claimed credit, but Twitter accounts linked to ISIS celebrated the attacks. A gunman at one of the attacks, at Petit Cambodge, a Cambodian restaurant in the city’s fashionable 10th arrondisement, was heard shouting “This is for Syria!” as he sprayed gunfire at horrified patrons, witnesses said.

In a brief address, Hollande declared the entire nation under a state of emergency and ordered all borders closed, saying “unprecedented terrorist attacks were underway.” The closures mean no one can leave or enter the nation until the order is lifted.

“France needs to be strong,’ a somber Hollande said. “What the terrorists want is for us to be scared. In the face of terror, we must be united.”

The death toll was expected to rise, and the fate of 100 hostages reported held at a concert hall called Bataclan was unknown, The Associated Press reported. French television was broadcasting the sound of shots being fired inside the concert hall as police massed outside in preparation of an assault on the building.

The hostages were taken at the concert hall where the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal was playing. Julien Pierce, a Europe 1 journalist who was inside the Bataclan, described what he saw to the BBC.

“Several armed men came into the concert,” he said. “Two or three men, not wearing masks, came in with what looked like Kalashnikovs and fired blindly on the crowd.

“It lasted between 10 and 15 minutes. It was extremely violent and there was panic. The attackers had enough time to reload at least three times. They were very young.”

The soccer stadium where a match between France and Germany was going on as the attack began is shown.

Eyewitness Ben Grant said he was in a bar with his wife when the gunshots were fired and he had seen six or seven bodies on the ground. He told the BBC: “I was told people in cars had opened fire on the bar.

Economist columnist Jeremy Cliffe tweeted about the concert hall attack, “some escaped, describing pools of blood and attackers using pump-action shotgun against crowd inside.”

Inside the soccer stadium, stunned spectators huddled together following the explosions, as word of what happened spread. French Football Federation President Noël Le Graët said at least three people were killed and an unknown number injured in the explosion outside the soccer stadium’s main gate. He later issued a statement as midnight approached saying that the danger had passed for those in the facility.

“The Stade de France is secure,” he said. “There is no longer any danger, people will leave normally.”
The attacks spanned at least two Paris districts, the 10th and 11th arrondisements. The 10th arrondisement is a cosmopolitan district lined with restaurants and cafes. It also is the location of the two famed train stations Gare du Nord and Gare de l’Est. The 11th arrondissement is located on the Right Bank of the River Seine and is one of the capital’s most populated urban districts, with nearly 150,000 residents. In recent years it also has emerged as one of the trendiest of the city’s neighborhoods.

U.S. Homeland Security Department officials monitoring the attacks in Paris say there is no known, credible threat against the United States. President Obama, in a hastily-arranged address Friday evening, called the attack an act of terrorism by people with “a hateful vision.”

“This is an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians,” Obama said. “This is an attack not just on Paris, not just on France, but an attack on all of humanity and the values that we share.”
Obama, who said he had spoken with Hollande earlier in the day about an upcoming economic conference, said the U.S. stands ready to help France, which he called “an extraordinary counter-terrorism partner,” in the investigation.

A U.S. military and intelligence source told Fox News the coordinated attacks likely required “months of planning,” based on their sheer number, the locations including a site where the president was present and the variety of weapons used.

Terror struck in Paris near the same neighborhood earlier this year, when two Islamic radical gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 and wounding 11. The gunmen, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, struck to avenge Muslims for the magazine’s publication of cartoons that they believed mocked the Prophet Mohammed. The brothers were killed two days later after a manhunt was capped when police shot the two in a standoff in Dammartin-en-Goele.

During the dragnet, Amedy Coulibaly, an associate of the pair, attacked a Jewish grocery store in Paris, taking more than a dozen hostage and killing four. Coulibaly had killed a policewoman the day before. Couliably was killed when police stormed the kosher market.

Antichrist’s Response Regarding The Paris Terror Attack (Revelation 13:16)

Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr answers a question on the attack on Charlie Hebdo French newspaper office


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It All Began At The First Horn (Daniel 8:3)

Paris Attack: Jihadi Cancer Has Its Roots in Tehran

“The spread of violent jihad across the world was the inspiration of Ayatollah Khomenei.”

By Struan Stevenson

January 09, 2015

 

The horror assassination of ten journalists and two policemen in Paris is simply the latest manifestation of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism whose genesis can be traced directly back to the Iranian revolution and the coming to power of Grand Ayatollah Ruholla Khomenei, who made Iran the world’s first Islamic Republic. His medieval belief that his authority came directly from God enabled him to rule over a fascist theocracy that could imprison, torture, maim and execute at will, ruling by fear and violence and defending these excesses by stating they were the will of God. Similar to the “divine right of Kings” which bathed Europe in blood for centuries, this discredited anachronism plunged the 74 million forward-looking and highly civilized Iranians back to the Middle Ages, where women could be stoned to death and men hanged from cranes in town squares because they were guilty of “waging war on God.”

After executing 130,000 members of the People’s Mojahedin Opposition Group in the 1980s, Khomenei set about spreading his fundamentalist cancer across the Middle East. His successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has internationalized this obscene distortion of Islam by funding, training and equipping terrorist organizations across the Middle East. Iran is now extending its hegemony across the entire region and it is worth remembering that ISIS is not the only organization intent on using violence and bloodshed to create a worldwide Islamic caliphate; it is a core principle of the Iranian Constitution, drawn up by Ayatollah Khomenei, that they will export the Islamic revolution with the clear intention of creating an Islamic caliphate. Tehran regards ISIS as direct Sunni competitors in this struggle to enslave the world in a medieval corruption of the Muslim faith.
Iran now funds not only the brutal Shiia militias in neighboring Iraq, but Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine, Bashir al-Assad in Syria and the Shiite Houthi militia who seized Sanaa, the Yemeni capital last September. The so-called “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani also finances Iran’s hugely expensive program of uranium enrichment, the construction of nuclear weapons and the purchase of sophisticated missile delivery systems.

The plummeting oil price has caused a massive problem for the mullahs. Their future budget was predicated on oil prices rising from $112 to $130 a barrel. Today it has fallen to below $50 and experts predict it will fall to $45. This, combined with Western sanctions, is catastrophic for Tehran. Rouhani has found himself in an impossible trap. He was elected on a pledge to improve the Iranian economy and to improve living conditions for ordinary Iranians. But the hardliners in Tehran corruptly live off the back of the billions poured into the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Despite the collapsing oil price, Rouhani last month announced a 50 percent increase in the IRGC budget, taking their total annual spend to over €5 billion, which is more than half of Iran’s total defense budget which itself was increased by 33 percent last month. Buried in the small print of the budget was a further €2.5 billion that will go directly to the IRGC’s construction and engineering wing known as Khatam al-Anbia, a crooked vehicle for distributing largesse to the IRGC hierarchy.
Iran simply cannot afford this. The 74 million Iranians are facing economic meltdown. The people are fed up. They don’t want to be international pariahs. There is a seething undercurrent of protest in the air. Bread prices rose by 30 percent last month and the likelihood of another popular uprising is looming. Sanctions and the collapsing oil price are biting hard. Now is the time for the West to support the Iranian opposition and foment regime-change. The West must help the Iranian people overthrow the tyrannical mullahs and restore freedom, peace and democracy to Iran.

The spread of violent jihad across the world was the inspiration of Ayatollah Khomenei. The way to tackle this obscenity cannot simply rely on advanced intelligence and sporadic arrests. The primary cancer must be surgically removed at its core in Tehran and replaced by a modern and benign vision of Islam as espoused by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi and her National Council for Resistance in Iran.
Struan Stevenson was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. He was President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 to 2014 and is currently President of the European Iraq Freedom Association (EIFA).