War Signals Flashing in Mideast
War Signals Flashing in Mideast
An A-O Intelligence Analysis
Introduction
With each passing day new war signals are emanating from the Middle East indicating a growing likelihood that some sort of armed conflict will develop this summer or fall in the Middle East. While God is in sovereign control it may be that He is about to allow the beginning of prophetic fulfillments with the introduction of a major war in the Mideast.
This is not to say that a major war will emerge. We may simply see a small-scale conflict like last year's summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, but the indications that are flashing suggest that this year, any conflict between Israel and Hezbollah will likely escalate to a much wider conflict, possibly even including the United States and Iran or perhaps even developing into a World War or perhaps even, the possibility that we are on the verge of The Magog War of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.
I know such a statement about a Magog war occuring now will be met by a great deal of skepticism by some prophecy watchers who are convinced that the Magog invasion will occur somewhere during the Tribulation period, but as one prophecy author, Douglas Berner has written a compelling book - "The Silence is Broken: God Hooks Ezekiel's Gog & Magog" which shows how the prophecies may be fulfilled before the Tribulation Period and perhaps even before a Pre-Trib Rapture of the Church.
There are certainly some developing indicators now at work suggesting the possibility that the Magog Prophecy nations may be in play for fuflillment of the Ezekiel prophecies. You'll read of these aspects later in this article. The Alpha-Omega Report is not - repeat - NOT claiming that the Magog War prophetic fulfillment is just around the corner. In fact, this article is not even predicting a major war will emerge. Instead, this article is merely pointing out the indications that some sort of conflict may emerge in the coming days or weeks of summer and or fall.
The following article is actually taken from the weekly A-O Weekly Newsletter. This type of "intelligence" information has been a regular feature of the weekly newsletter and with new changes coming to A-O in the next few days, more publications involving special intellligence analysis will be available via various email publications. So if you want to stay ahead of the news and have a deeper understanding of what's going on, you'll want to subscribe to A-O email publications.
War Signals Are Flashing
Intelligence Assessment for War
War signals seem to be flashing faster in the past few days. The following is a rundown of the various flashing signals suggesting an armed conflict in the Middle East is about to develop. There are 18 signals.
#1. Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) have been spotted by the British on at least three occasions crossing the southern Iran/Iraq border nearest Basra and deploying special forces or commando troops. On the Iranian side are more deployments of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Special Forces units in Iran's province of Khuzestan whichi is home to Iran's major oil fields. Iranian war planners believe that these oil fields would be prime targets in the event of a U.S.-led invasion. The IRG specialist troops have the task of attacking communications, command, control, and intelligence facilities, and causing general chaos in the rear lines of US invasion forces in the event of war.
#2. Syria has reportedly ordered its civilians out of Lebanon by July 15th citing fears of a civil war in Lebanon.
#3. Hamas has taken over the Gaza strip.
#4 Al Qaeda stepping up attacks on Western Targets - Lebanon & UK
#5. Syria has now finished deploying forces on the Golan Heights and is now stockpiled with ordinance for full scale war for 4 to 6 weeks supply.
#6. Syria has opened up the area to Syrian "terrorist" revolutionary guerilla's seeking to re-take the Golan Heights from Israel by terrorism & guerilla warfare.
#7. Turkey has 50,000+ troops on the border with Syria/Iraq + 90,000 more on the Iraq-Kurdistan border region.
#8. Syria has just been supplied with the latest Russian aircraft and anti-air missile system + the latest anti-tank missiles. Plus a huge stockpile of Iranian Shihab-3 missiles and C-802 Silkworm missiles now deployed along the Mediterranean coastline including into Lebanon under Hezbollah control
#9. Hezbollah is now fully re-entrenched back into its old border positions along the Lebanese-Israeli border, stocked with more arms, weapons and rockets than ever before.
#10. Syrian officials are preparing altnernate means of communicating with each other in the event that Israeli bombings wipe out Syrian's normal means of communication between governmental agencies.
#11. Iran just implemented gasoline rationing and is sticking to that program despite massive civil unrest and rioting - especially in the capital city of Tehran.
#12. Iran now has its own "spy satellites" transmitting regional data back to Iran to monitor US and Israeli military moves.
#13. The US is dispatching a 3rd Aircraft Carrier to the Gulf with reports that a 4th carrier will soon follow.
#14. Increased US Air Force activity in the United States on what is deemed to be more than mere routine drills.
#15. The Iraqi government teetering on the brink of collapse and a newly increase wave of insurgent activity suggesting a wide uprising may be in the works.
#16. Indications that a widespread campaign of terror attacks by Al Qaeda in Europe and America is imminent.
#17. A sudden move within Washington political circles, particularly amongst GOP lawmakers seeking to abandon the President's policies in regards to Iraq.
#18. Lawmakers of both parties lining up behind the President's stance on dealing with Iran including the need to keep the military option on the table.
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More Intelligence Analysis
Iraq Now Coming Apart At Seams
New developments behind the scenes in Iraq indicate that within a matter of weeks, if not days, the nation of Iraq as we know it, will no longer exist as a single, functioning nation. The Shiites in the south, particularly around Basra, are reportedly preparing to effectively secede from the central government in Baghdad. It's been a almost a separate entity anyway for the past year or more but new leadership there is reported to be fed up with the "federal" or central government. The leadership there is not interested in giving up it's oil revenues to other parts of Iraq, so as usual, it seems this conflict is primarily about money and greed. The southern shiites do not wish to share with their northern counterparts whether they be Shiite, Sunni or Kurds.
The leadership claims it wants to be independent and not allied with Iran and for that reason is making overtures to Saudi Arabia for recognition as an independent nation. The leadership also seeks Saudi protection against military encroachment by Iran. Their sales pitch is that they can be a rich, strong and friendly Shiite nation along the Saudi border and act as a buffer against Iranian hegemony against Saudi Arabia. The Saudi leadership is reportedly considering the concept but has yet to respond with an answer either pro or con. The Saudis will be very wary of a separate Shiite nation on its border no matter how much the leadership claims to be anti-Iranian. This is most likely due in part to a new and growing realization that for all practical purposes, Iran has declared war on the West and has begun executing a new type of war tactic of "terrorism by proxy."
Meanwhile ...
Iran is behind the UK terror - the Iranians have begun the war against the US/UK/Israel. British authorities are now deeper into their investigation of the recently foiled terror attacks and have begun to find that the tentacles of Iran, reaching into Iraq and the insurgent groups are behind the latest round of terror. Counter-terror experts may not yet realize it, but some private, Mideast strategic analysts are now recognizing the recent terrorist actions and their links to Iran. These links indicate that Iran has indirectly begun a 'proxy war" against the West, including the UK, by relying on third party terrorist groups including Al Qaeda and lesser terror groups such as the Ansar al-Islam terror group now situated in Iraq.
It should be noted that Ansar al-Islam is a potent internationl terror force in its own right, although not nearly what it was before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The US smashed the groups main operating bases in Iraq which were its 'home bases" for worldwide terrorism. Saddam Hussein had given the group a welcome sanctuary in the 1990s to be an allied asset against any future US invasion of Iraq. While the US smashed Ansar al-Islam's bases in Iraq, the group's international terror structure remained intact in places such as Western Europe, mainly in Britain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, the Far East and such places as India, Pakistan and even Australia. So Ansar al-Islam has wide tentacles in its own right, and not so dissimilar to that of Al Qaeda.
The difference now is that Ansar al-Islam is no longer headquartered in Iraq, but has instead re-located to Iran. Instructions for its operators around the world are distributed through a network of channels in Turkey which makes Turkey an 'unwitting' player in the terror war. In fact, Turkey has become a "proxy outlet" for terrorist's activities that emerge from Iran and are funnelled out into the West via Turkey. Whether we prophecy watchers realize it or not, the Turkish nation has become a key player supporting Iran and Syria's war against Israel and the West. The Turkish government is well aware of this activity and has allowed it to develop and continue.
For this reason, you will now begin hearing more news media talk of a widening in the War on Terror by the terrorists who are taking the war back to the homelands of Western nations instead of merely fighting the West on their own territories. You will not likely see for awhile at least, any reference to the notion that Iran has begun a "proxy war" against the West. Such an admission is not likely to happen until the US and UK governments have all the facts and documentation lined up that can be taken to the UN for approval to wage direct warfare against Iran.
The Bush administration has been waiting all along for a justifiable excuse to wage open war against Iran as the leading "rogue nation" fomenting international terrorism. Once those charges can be made in the world court of public opinion, the Bush administration is counting on the UN greenlighting a war against Iran. This is has been the US strategy all along.
Iran, realizing that the US was determined to attack Iran before its nuclear program could produce nuclear weapons, has agreed to oblige the US with justifiable provocation by launching a "proxy war" via terrorism, much like it used Hezbollah in 2006 to wage war against Israel. This new edition of "proxy warfare" however is more terroristic in structure than a military structure involving geographical land take-over, at least initially.
The Iranians have activiated a "proxy war" by using ill-defined terrorist tactics that on the surface bear little resemblance to normal warfare. In normal warfare, armies battle for land, but in the Terror War, the main battle ground is in the mind, at least initially. Later it will develop into assymetrical, guerilla-style warfare with flashes of conventional warfare tactics included as the war develops.
Iran's War Strategy?
According to some non-governmental "intelligence" analysts and organizations, Iran has a very complicated war strategy for defeating the United States, Israel and the "Western Powers." The following is a compilation of key points of an Iranian war strategy as gleaned from various non-governmental "intelligence" groups and or Mideast analysts.
The Iranian war plans call for the war to begin as follows:
#1. In Lebanon, with a wave of terror attacks designed to destabilize the government of Lebanon by using third party terrorists, including Al Qaeda and lesser terror groups battling the Lebanese government. The objective is to overthrow the current, democratic government and replace it with a more radical, fundamentalist leadership group. This plan does not include the use of Hezbollah because the West realizes that Hezbollah is nothing but a "proxy army" for Iran, so Hezbollah in the early stages must remain out of the fray. This first step began back in the Spring, with Al Qaeda forces taking up forward bases in the Palestinian camps. This has kept the Lebanese army busy in northern Lebanon and enabling Hezbollah to complete its preparations for resuming last year's war with Israel.
#2. In Yemen, where Al Qaeda terrorists will wage a terror campaign to overthrow the Yemeni government. This campaign theater began open operations a few days ago with the bombing of an ancient 3,000 year old temple dedicated to the Queen of Sheba. That event killed a few tourists and was the opening salvo in a campaign to overthrow that government.
#3. In Pakistan, a new terror campaign is being launched to overthrow the Pakistani government and replace it with a Taliban-oriented government enabling Pakistans nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists. Such a move would give Iran access to perhaps much of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal which consists of around 40 nuclear bombs, some already mounted on intermediate range ballistic missiles. This could make Iran an "Instantaneous Nuclear Power" should Iran's proxy allies in Pakistan pull off their coup attempt that is now surreptitiously begining in Pakistan with the takeover by radical elements of a large mosque and schools operating within blocks of the Pakistani government's key buildings and headquarters.
#4. In Saudi Arabia, where a new terror campaign will be launched to overthrow the Saudi government.
#5. In Kuwait, where a new terror campaign will be launched to overthrow the Kuwaiti government.
#6. In Western Europe, beginning with Britain where the first attacks will be implemented by little-known third party terrorist groups spun out of the Iraqi conflict. The attacks will spread to Spain, France and then Germany for their military forces being used as "peace-keepers" in Lebanon. When the more convention warfare shooting begins, these forces acting under UNIFIL command will become targets for Hezbollah and Al Qaeda forces. Hezbollah, using Iranian-supplied cruise missiles known as the C-802 Silkworm missiles will direct missile attacks against the European naval forces now parked off the coast of Lebanon.
#7. In America, with a spectacular Al Qaeda attack against the United States. This is thought to likely be some sort of series of coordinated attacks of WMD nature, possibly even nuclear attacks using portable "suitcase" nukes smuggled into the USA and detonated in certain key cities of America. This scenario has long been speculated as a possibility and while at this point remains conjecture, the only thing analysts are getting indications of is that however the attack materializes it will be spectacular and very devastating, at least on a psychological basis, if not on a physical and or economic basis.
#8. In Iraq, simultaneous to the terror attacks into the USA homeland, Iranian "proxy Iraqi militias" and Al Qaeda will move en-masse in a grand strategic coordinated campaign and begin attacking US and Allied forces located in Iraq in a more traditional guerilla warfare approach to begin taking and holding terrain, with the idea of routing US military forces and send them fleeing out of the country, with the only escape routes being through Turkey or Jordan but cut off from a southern exit by newly invading Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces.
#9. It will be simultaneously followed by Iranian missile strikes on US naval targets in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The key targets will be US aircraft carriers and their support fleets. The Iranians will be relying on not only their standard C-802 Silkworm missiles but also French Exocet and Russian Kh-12 cruise missiles and perhaps their own cruise missiles adapted from the Kh-12 cruise missiles. The Iranians may also utilize their small fleet of Russian Kilo-class submarines operating in the Persian Gulf which can also fire cruise missiles. There is even an outside chance that one or more of the submarines might even venture out into the Indian ocean to take a shot at US naval forces, should the US not have any carriers operating in the Gulf. The whole plan here is to sink the major aircraft carriers and also especially the amphibious ships capable of launching amphibious landings on Iranian shores.
#10. Iran will then move to seal off the Straits of Hormuz, most likely mining the waters.
#11. Iranian strategic missile barrages against Israel, and US facilities in the Persian Gulf as well as Saudi and Kuwaiti oil facilities.
#12. Simultaneous to Iranian military actions against the US in Iraq, Hezbollah and Syria will launch an invasion of Israel from the North, with Hamas forces in Gaza acting as a thorn in Israel's backside, keeping Israel so occupied on 3 fronts that Israel won't have the resources to launch any "Project Samson" plan against Iran and Syria. "Project Samson" calls for an Israeli nuclear retaliatory strike that destroys its enemies while itself is being annihilated.
Syria believes that it can whip Israel and takeover much if not the entire nation of Israel in one week's time. Syria's President Assad believes he will become a Muslim hero of epic proportions by leading his forces to victory in conquering and retaking Jerusalem for Islam and restoring Islams' third holiest site - the Temple Mount - to Islamic ownership. Syrian and Iranian leadership think that based upon last summer's war, the Israeli military is in no condition to successfully defend the nation of Israel against a joint Hezbollah, Syrian invasion that uses "asymmetrical warfare tactics."
The Syrians are no fools. They realize that in a conventional style of army-to-army battlefield tactics, Israel would clean their clocks for lunch, but the IDF is not prepared nor organized properly to deal with asymmetrical warfare as demonstrated in the Lebanon war of 2006.
What Syria fails to realize is that Israel was fighting with both its hands tied behind its back by diplomatic restraints imposed by the USA, the UN and by deliberate restraint and mismangement by an incompetent Israeli Prime Minister and his cabinet. Syria is banking on the same restraints remaining in place in a future conflict. However, we can expect the Israeli military to stage a coup should a war break out. That coup would sideline incompetent politicians and the military leadership would take over and conduct a 'no-holds-barred' strategy of warfare.
In other words, Israeli forces would make up their own rules for war as they go along. There would be no more concern for civilian casualties. Instead, Israeli military leaders would consider Arab civilians as much an enemy as Arab soldiers and begin conducting genocide as Syrian and Iranian missile attacks begin wiping out Israeli civilians indiscriminately. It will be a return to an "eye for an eye" type of war. It will be bloody.
There is one caveat to all of this. There might well be a "joker" in the deck. Israeli and US forces rely upon sophisticated computer-technology in their advanced weapons platforms such as missiles, planes, ships, vehicles, artillery, and communications. This technology runs on computer chips and most of the newer equipment of the past 10+ years was made with computer chips from Red China.
In an article published earlier this year by investigative journalist, William Thomas, the US military has learned that these Red Chinese computer chips have a fatal flaw that can cause the chips to malfunction and shut down when activated by a special electromagnetic energy pulse. This pulse could cripple any system within the range of the pulse. The Red Chinese have purposely rigged this achilles heel into the computer chips that now reside in anything involving computer circuitry, including missiles, warplanes, helicopters, radar, satellites, cellphones, laptops, communications, tanks, humvees, ships, including and especially aircraft carriers.
Here is an excerpt from the afore mentioned article by William Thomas:
"This means that in the event of an attack launched by the United States against Iran, an electromagnetic pulse from a deliberate or accidental nuclear detonation—or from a directed energy weapon manned by Chinese technicians defending their country’s interests ashore—will cause many or most American offensive and defensive missile systems to fail to fire, explode on launch, or not detonate on target. Some weapons may even emulate WWII torpedoes and Vietnam-era Sidewinders and boomerang back on the ship, plane or vehicle that launched them.
"Any detonation of Bush’s beloved “low yield” bunker-buster, an Iranian nuclear power plant, or shipboard reactor “could deactivate the U.S. Navy,” as Hank put it—along with all other command, control, communications and weapons circuits quietly humming in some forgotten but vital piece of equipment aloft, afloat or alongshore in the Persian Gulf.
"To rig the Trojan chips, “pick a frequency that isn’t in nature above 23,000 hertz or below 2 hertz… at power levels only you can produce,” Hank invited. Jackie the sailor would not be able to misdial her sonar and shut down the entire fleet because “the pressure and wattage, as well as the frequency equivalent to an EMP” would be needed to do melt all those microchips. And that “could only come from a nuclear blast,” Hank added.
"Or a pulse weapon. Hank was also informed that if attacked, Chinese technicians in Iran could make every vulnerable circuit within range “melt when hit by a microwave” tuned to their vulnerable frequency.
"If that happens, this military tech added, “You would immobilize the entirety of any response we would have. No radars. No engines to mobilize troops; to supply electricity. We’d be on foot. That’s it. Oops!”
"With vaunted American firepower reduced to assault rifles and bayonets, Iran will employ human-wave attacks using barefoot teenage conscripts packed with as many IEDs as have not yet been exported to their Shiite brethren in Baghdad. “And they will win by attrition.”
"Hank agreed with me that after Putin’s recent “America must be stopped” remarks, and Bush’s humiliating and costly eviction of China from its major oil investments in Iraq into even heavier infrastructure capitalization in Iran—neither superpower is going to allow the United States to “put a stranglehold” on them by once again controlling Iran’s oil."
See link here for the full Thomas' article.
I point this out, to note that Israel also uses much of this same computer circuitry made in China. Israel is also vulnerable. It is entirely possible that when the shooting starts, Israel's sophisticated weaponry may fail to function. If so, Israel would be absolutely 100% helpless and so would Israel's main allies, the USA and Westner Europe. The only hope for Israel's salvation would be Divine Intervention. Enter in - The Ezekiel Prophecies.
Biblically Prophetic Implications:
The Magog Invasion?
It should be noted that Turkey has 50,000 troops sitting on the border with Syria and those forces may somehow be drawn into the war and become allied with Syria. IFFF - this is the case, this conflict might well become the "MAGOG WAR" - despite the fact that many prophecy scholars believe the Magog Invasion will be by Russia and not Turkey-Syria-Iran-Libya confederation.
It should be noted that in the past two weeks, Libya's Muammar Gadaffi has called for a 2 million man African Army, to be led by Libya's own dictator. Libya, may well join in any such conflagration, particularly if it appears that the Iran-Syria confederation looks like it will become victorious. Gadaffi may well send a contingent of his own forces to aid in the war against Israel. Such an involvement by Libya would be the final nation involved in the Magog war, along with contingents of guerilla fighters from Algeria, Somalia, Ethiopia and other African nations operating under the Al Qaeda banner in Lebanon.
There are other Biblically prophetic ramifications possible in this scenario, including the "Mystery Babylon" or Babylon-America prophecies. I'll be dealing more on this in a later and separate article looking primarily at Jeremiah 51.
As it now stands, the aforementioned parties involved are situated in such a way that we might see a fulfillment of the Magog prophecies as well as the Babylon prophecies and both at or near the same time, in essentiall the same time-frame which at the moment appears to be sometime this year. The signals are in fact pointing towards fulfillments in the coming days, weeks or months, dependant of course on Divine permission. IF, these plans are not permitted by the Creator because its not yet time, then God will intervene to halt such actions and put everything on hold, much as it was last year when a similar type of an attempt was made. Nothing will happen prematurely on God's time table of predicted events.
An A-O Intelligence Analysis
Introduction
With each passing day new war signals are emanating from the Middle East indicating a growing likelihood that some sort of armed conflict will develop this summer or fall in the Middle East. While God is in sovereign control it may be that He is about to allow the beginning of prophetic fulfillments with the introduction of a major war in the Mideast.
This is not to say that a major war will emerge. We may simply see a small-scale conflict like last year's summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, but the indications that are flashing suggest that this year, any conflict between Israel and Hezbollah will likely escalate to a much wider conflict, possibly even including the United States and Iran or perhaps even developing into a World War or perhaps even, the possibility that we are on the verge of The Magog War of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.
I know such a statement about a Magog war occuring now will be met by a great deal of skepticism by some prophecy watchers who are convinced that the Magog invasion will occur somewhere during the Tribulation period, but as one prophecy author, Douglas Berner has written a compelling book - "The Silence is Broken: God Hooks Ezekiel's Gog & Magog" which shows how the prophecies may be fulfilled before the Tribulation Period and perhaps even before a Pre-Trib Rapture of the Church.
There are certainly some developing indicators now at work suggesting the possibility that the Magog Prophecy nations may be in play for fuflillment of the Ezekiel prophecies. You'll read of these aspects later in this article. The Alpha-Omega Report is not - repeat - NOT claiming that the Magog War prophetic fulfillment is just around the corner. In fact, this article is not even predicting a major war will emerge. Instead, this article is merely pointing out the indications that some sort of conflict may emerge in the coming days or weeks of summer and or fall.
The following article is actually taken from the weekly A-O Weekly Newsletter. This type of "intelligence" information has been a regular feature of the weekly newsletter and with new changes coming to A-O in the next few days, more publications involving special intellligence analysis will be available via various email publications. So if you want to stay ahead of the news and have a deeper understanding of what's going on, you'll want to subscribe to A-O email publications.
War Signals Are Flashing
Intelligence Assessment for War
War signals seem to be flashing faster in the past few days. The following is a rundown of the various flashing signals suggesting an armed conflict in the Middle East is about to develop. There are 18 signals.
#1. Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) have been spotted by the British on at least three occasions crossing the southern Iran/Iraq border nearest Basra and deploying special forces or commando troops. On the Iranian side are more deployments of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Special Forces units in Iran's province of Khuzestan whichi is home to Iran's major oil fields. Iranian war planners believe that these oil fields would be prime targets in the event of a U.S.-led invasion. The IRG specialist troops have the task of attacking communications, command, control, and intelligence facilities, and causing general chaos in the rear lines of US invasion forces in the event of war.
#2. Syria has reportedly ordered its civilians out of Lebanon by July 15th citing fears of a civil war in Lebanon.
#3. Hamas has taken over the Gaza strip.
#4 Al Qaeda stepping up attacks on Western Targets - Lebanon & UK
#5. Syria has now finished deploying forces on the Golan Heights and is now stockpiled with ordinance for full scale war for 4 to 6 weeks supply.
#6. Syria has opened up the area to Syrian "terrorist" revolutionary guerilla's seeking to re-take the Golan Heights from Israel by terrorism & guerilla warfare.
#7. Turkey has 50,000+ troops on the border with Syria/Iraq + 90,000 more on the Iraq-Kurdistan border region.
#8. Syria has just been supplied with the latest Russian aircraft and anti-air missile system + the latest anti-tank missiles. Plus a huge stockpile of Iranian Shihab-3 missiles and C-802 Silkworm missiles now deployed along the Mediterranean coastline including into Lebanon under Hezbollah control
#9. Hezbollah is now fully re-entrenched back into its old border positions along the Lebanese-Israeli border, stocked with more arms, weapons and rockets than ever before.
#10. Syrian officials are preparing altnernate means of communicating with each other in the event that Israeli bombings wipe out Syrian's normal means of communication between governmental agencies.
#11. Iran just implemented gasoline rationing and is sticking to that program despite massive civil unrest and rioting - especially in the capital city of Tehran.
#12. Iran now has its own "spy satellites" transmitting regional data back to Iran to monitor US and Israeli military moves.
#13. The US is dispatching a 3rd Aircraft Carrier to the Gulf with reports that a 4th carrier will soon follow.
#14. Increased US Air Force activity in the United States on what is deemed to be more than mere routine drills.
#15. The Iraqi government teetering on the brink of collapse and a newly increase wave of insurgent activity suggesting a wide uprising may be in the works.
#16. Indications that a widespread campaign of terror attacks by Al Qaeda in Europe and America is imminent.
#17. A sudden move within Washington political circles, particularly amongst GOP lawmakers seeking to abandon the President's policies in regards to Iraq.
#18. Lawmakers of both parties lining up behind the President's stance on dealing with Iran including the need to keep the military option on the table.
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More Intelligence Analysis
Iraq Now Coming Apart At Seams
New developments behind the scenes in Iraq indicate that within a matter of weeks, if not days, the nation of Iraq as we know it, will no longer exist as a single, functioning nation. The Shiites in the south, particularly around Basra, are reportedly preparing to effectively secede from the central government in Baghdad. It's been a almost a separate entity anyway for the past year or more but new leadership there is reported to be fed up with the "federal" or central government. The leadership there is not interested in giving up it's oil revenues to other parts of Iraq, so as usual, it seems this conflict is primarily about money and greed. The southern shiites do not wish to share with their northern counterparts whether they be Shiite, Sunni or Kurds.
The leadership claims it wants to be independent and not allied with Iran and for that reason is making overtures to Saudi Arabia for recognition as an independent nation. The leadership also seeks Saudi protection against military encroachment by Iran. Their sales pitch is that they can be a rich, strong and friendly Shiite nation along the Saudi border and act as a buffer against Iranian hegemony against Saudi Arabia. The Saudi leadership is reportedly considering the concept but has yet to respond with an answer either pro or con. The Saudis will be very wary of a separate Shiite nation on its border no matter how much the leadership claims to be anti-Iranian. This is most likely due in part to a new and growing realization that for all practical purposes, Iran has declared war on the West and has begun executing a new type of war tactic of "terrorism by proxy."
Meanwhile ...
Iran is behind the UK terror - the Iranians have begun the war against the US/UK/Israel. British authorities are now deeper into their investigation of the recently foiled terror attacks and have begun to find that the tentacles of Iran, reaching into Iraq and the insurgent groups are behind the latest round of terror. Counter-terror experts may not yet realize it, but some private, Mideast strategic analysts are now recognizing the recent terrorist actions and their links to Iran. These links indicate that Iran has indirectly begun a 'proxy war" against the West, including the UK, by relying on third party terrorist groups including Al Qaeda and lesser terror groups such as the Ansar al-Islam terror group now situated in Iraq.
It should be noted that Ansar al-Islam is a potent internationl terror force in its own right, although not nearly what it was before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The US smashed the groups main operating bases in Iraq which were its 'home bases" for worldwide terrorism. Saddam Hussein had given the group a welcome sanctuary in the 1990s to be an allied asset against any future US invasion of Iraq. While the US smashed Ansar al-Islam's bases in Iraq, the group's international terror structure remained intact in places such as Western Europe, mainly in Britain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, the Far East and such places as India, Pakistan and even Australia. So Ansar al-Islam has wide tentacles in its own right, and not so dissimilar to that of Al Qaeda.
The difference now is that Ansar al-Islam is no longer headquartered in Iraq, but has instead re-located to Iran. Instructions for its operators around the world are distributed through a network of channels in Turkey which makes Turkey an 'unwitting' player in the terror war. In fact, Turkey has become a "proxy outlet" for terrorist's activities that emerge from Iran and are funnelled out into the West via Turkey. Whether we prophecy watchers realize it or not, the Turkish nation has become a key player supporting Iran and Syria's war against Israel and the West. The Turkish government is well aware of this activity and has allowed it to develop and continue.
For this reason, you will now begin hearing more news media talk of a widening in the War on Terror by the terrorists who are taking the war back to the homelands of Western nations instead of merely fighting the West on their own territories. You will not likely see for awhile at least, any reference to the notion that Iran has begun a "proxy war" against the West. Such an admission is not likely to happen until the US and UK governments have all the facts and documentation lined up that can be taken to the UN for approval to wage direct warfare against Iran.
The Bush administration has been waiting all along for a justifiable excuse to wage open war against Iran as the leading "rogue nation" fomenting international terrorism. Once those charges can be made in the world court of public opinion, the Bush administration is counting on the UN greenlighting a war against Iran. This is has been the US strategy all along.
Iran, realizing that the US was determined to attack Iran before its nuclear program could produce nuclear weapons, has agreed to oblige the US with justifiable provocation by launching a "proxy war" via terrorism, much like it used Hezbollah in 2006 to wage war against Israel. This new edition of "proxy warfare" however is more terroristic in structure than a military structure involving geographical land take-over, at least initially.
The Iranians have activiated a "proxy war" by using ill-defined terrorist tactics that on the surface bear little resemblance to normal warfare. In normal warfare, armies battle for land, but in the Terror War, the main battle ground is in the mind, at least initially. Later it will develop into assymetrical, guerilla-style warfare with flashes of conventional warfare tactics included as the war develops.
Iran's War Strategy?
According to some non-governmental "intelligence" analysts and organizations, Iran has a very complicated war strategy for defeating the United States, Israel and the "Western Powers." The following is a compilation of key points of an Iranian war strategy as gleaned from various non-governmental "intelligence" groups and or Mideast analysts.
The Iranian war plans call for the war to begin as follows:
#1. In Lebanon, with a wave of terror attacks designed to destabilize the government of Lebanon by using third party terrorists, including Al Qaeda and lesser terror groups battling the Lebanese government. The objective is to overthrow the current, democratic government and replace it with a more radical, fundamentalist leadership group. This plan does not include the use of Hezbollah because the West realizes that Hezbollah is nothing but a "proxy army" for Iran, so Hezbollah in the early stages must remain out of the fray. This first step began back in the Spring, with Al Qaeda forces taking up forward bases in the Palestinian camps. This has kept the Lebanese army busy in northern Lebanon and enabling Hezbollah to complete its preparations for resuming last year's war with Israel.
#2. In Yemen, where Al Qaeda terrorists will wage a terror campaign to overthrow the Yemeni government. This campaign theater began open operations a few days ago with the bombing of an ancient 3,000 year old temple dedicated to the Queen of Sheba. That event killed a few tourists and was the opening salvo in a campaign to overthrow that government.
#3. In Pakistan, a new terror campaign is being launched to overthrow the Pakistani government and replace it with a Taliban-oriented government enabling Pakistans nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists. Such a move would give Iran access to perhaps much of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal which consists of around 40 nuclear bombs, some already mounted on intermediate range ballistic missiles. This could make Iran an "Instantaneous Nuclear Power" should Iran's proxy allies in Pakistan pull off their coup attempt that is now surreptitiously begining in Pakistan with the takeover by radical elements of a large mosque and schools operating within blocks of the Pakistani government's key buildings and headquarters.
#4. In Saudi Arabia, where a new terror campaign will be launched to overthrow the Saudi government.
#5. In Kuwait, where a new terror campaign will be launched to overthrow the Kuwaiti government.
#6. In Western Europe, beginning with Britain where the first attacks will be implemented by little-known third party terrorist groups spun out of the Iraqi conflict. The attacks will spread to Spain, France and then Germany for their military forces being used as "peace-keepers" in Lebanon. When the more convention warfare shooting begins, these forces acting under UNIFIL command will become targets for Hezbollah and Al Qaeda forces. Hezbollah, using Iranian-supplied cruise missiles known as the C-802 Silkworm missiles will direct missile attacks against the European naval forces now parked off the coast of Lebanon.
#7. In America, with a spectacular Al Qaeda attack against the United States. This is thought to likely be some sort of series of coordinated attacks of WMD nature, possibly even nuclear attacks using portable "suitcase" nukes smuggled into the USA and detonated in certain key cities of America. This scenario has long been speculated as a possibility and while at this point remains conjecture, the only thing analysts are getting indications of is that however the attack materializes it will be spectacular and very devastating, at least on a psychological basis, if not on a physical and or economic basis.
#8. In Iraq, simultaneous to the terror attacks into the USA homeland, Iranian "proxy Iraqi militias" and Al Qaeda will move en-masse in a grand strategic coordinated campaign and begin attacking US and Allied forces located in Iraq in a more traditional guerilla warfare approach to begin taking and holding terrain, with the idea of routing US military forces and send them fleeing out of the country, with the only escape routes being through Turkey or Jordan but cut off from a southern exit by newly invading Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces.
#9. It will be simultaneously followed by Iranian missile strikes on US naval targets in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The key targets will be US aircraft carriers and their support fleets. The Iranians will be relying on not only their standard C-802 Silkworm missiles but also French Exocet and Russian Kh-12 cruise missiles and perhaps their own cruise missiles adapted from the Kh-12 cruise missiles. The Iranians may also utilize their small fleet of Russian Kilo-class submarines operating in the Persian Gulf which can also fire cruise missiles. There is even an outside chance that one or more of the submarines might even venture out into the Indian ocean to take a shot at US naval forces, should the US not have any carriers operating in the Gulf. The whole plan here is to sink the major aircraft carriers and also especially the amphibious ships capable of launching amphibious landings on Iranian shores.
#10. Iran will then move to seal off the Straits of Hormuz, most likely mining the waters.
#11. Iranian strategic missile barrages against Israel, and US facilities in the Persian Gulf as well as Saudi and Kuwaiti oil facilities.
#12. Simultaneous to Iranian military actions against the US in Iraq, Hezbollah and Syria will launch an invasion of Israel from the North, with Hamas forces in Gaza acting as a thorn in Israel's backside, keeping Israel so occupied on 3 fronts that Israel won't have the resources to launch any "Project Samson" plan against Iran and Syria. "Project Samson" calls for an Israeli nuclear retaliatory strike that destroys its enemies while itself is being annihilated.
Syria believes that it can whip Israel and takeover much if not the entire nation of Israel in one week's time. Syria's President Assad believes he will become a Muslim hero of epic proportions by leading his forces to victory in conquering and retaking Jerusalem for Islam and restoring Islams' third holiest site - the Temple Mount - to Islamic ownership. Syrian and Iranian leadership think that based upon last summer's war, the Israeli military is in no condition to successfully defend the nation of Israel against a joint Hezbollah, Syrian invasion that uses "asymmetrical warfare tactics."
The Syrians are no fools. They realize that in a conventional style of army-to-army battlefield tactics, Israel would clean their clocks for lunch, but the IDF is not prepared nor organized properly to deal with asymmetrical warfare as demonstrated in the Lebanon war of 2006.
What Syria fails to realize is that Israel was fighting with both its hands tied behind its back by diplomatic restraints imposed by the USA, the UN and by deliberate restraint and mismangement by an incompetent Israeli Prime Minister and his cabinet. Syria is banking on the same restraints remaining in place in a future conflict. However, we can expect the Israeli military to stage a coup should a war break out. That coup would sideline incompetent politicians and the military leadership would take over and conduct a 'no-holds-barred' strategy of warfare.
In other words, Israeli forces would make up their own rules for war as they go along. There would be no more concern for civilian casualties. Instead, Israeli military leaders would consider Arab civilians as much an enemy as Arab soldiers and begin conducting genocide as Syrian and Iranian missile attacks begin wiping out Israeli civilians indiscriminately. It will be a return to an "eye for an eye" type of war. It will be bloody.
There is one caveat to all of this. There might well be a "joker" in the deck. Israeli and US forces rely upon sophisticated computer-technology in their advanced weapons platforms such as missiles, planes, ships, vehicles, artillery, and communications. This technology runs on computer chips and most of the newer equipment of the past 10+ years was made with computer chips from Red China.
In an article published earlier this year by investigative journalist, William Thomas, the US military has learned that these Red Chinese computer chips have a fatal flaw that can cause the chips to malfunction and shut down when activated by a special electromagnetic energy pulse. This pulse could cripple any system within the range of the pulse. The Red Chinese have purposely rigged this achilles heel into the computer chips that now reside in anything involving computer circuitry, including missiles, warplanes, helicopters, radar, satellites, cellphones, laptops, communications, tanks, humvees, ships, including and especially aircraft carriers.
Here is an excerpt from the afore mentioned article by William Thomas:
"This means that in the event of an attack launched by the United States against Iran, an electromagnetic pulse from a deliberate or accidental nuclear detonation—or from a directed energy weapon manned by Chinese technicians defending their country’s interests ashore—will cause many or most American offensive and defensive missile systems to fail to fire, explode on launch, or not detonate on target. Some weapons may even emulate WWII torpedoes and Vietnam-era Sidewinders and boomerang back on the ship, plane or vehicle that launched them.
"Any detonation of Bush’s beloved “low yield” bunker-buster, an Iranian nuclear power plant, or shipboard reactor “could deactivate the U.S. Navy,” as Hank put it—along with all other command, control, communications and weapons circuits quietly humming in some forgotten but vital piece of equipment aloft, afloat or alongshore in the Persian Gulf.
"To rig the Trojan chips, “pick a frequency that isn’t in nature above 23,000 hertz or below 2 hertz… at power levels only you can produce,” Hank invited. Jackie the sailor would not be able to misdial her sonar and shut down the entire fleet because “the pressure and wattage, as well as the frequency equivalent to an EMP” would be needed to do melt all those microchips. And that “could only come from a nuclear blast,” Hank added.
"Or a pulse weapon. Hank was also informed that if attacked, Chinese technicians in Iran could make every vulnerable circuit within range “melt when hit by a microwave” tuned to their vulnerable frequency.
"If that happens, this military tech added, “You would immobilize the entirety of any response we would have. No radars. No engines to mobilize troops; to supply electricity. We’d be on foot. That’s it. Oops!”
"With vaunted American firepower reduced to assault rifles and bayonets, Iran will employ human-wave attacks using barefoot teenage conscripts packed with as many IEDs as have not yet been exported to their Shiite brethren in Baghdad. “And they will win by attrition.”
"Hank agreed with me that after Putin’s recent “America must be stopped” remarks, and Bush’s humiliating and costly eviction of China from its major oil investments in Iraq into even heavier infrastructure capitalization in Iran—neither superpower is going to allow the United States to “put a stranglehold” on them by once again controlling Iran’s oil."
See link here for the full Thomas' article.
I point this out, to note that Israel also uses much of this same computer circuitry made in China. Israel is also vulnerable. It is entirely possible that when the shooting starts, Israel's sophisticated weaponry may fail to function. If so, Israel would be absolutely 100% helpless and so would Israel's main allies, the USA and Westner Europe. The only hope for Israel's salvation would be Divine Intervention. Enter in - The Ezekiel Prophecies.
Biblically Prophetic Implications:
The Magog Invasion?
It should be noted that Turkey has 50,000 troops sitting on the border with Syria and those forces may somehow be drawn into the war and become allied with Syria. IFFF - this is the case, this conflict might well become the "MAGOG WAR" - despite the fact that many prophecy scholars believe the Magog Invasion will be by Russia and not Turkey-Syria-Iran-Libya confederation.
It should be noted that in the past two weeks, Libya's Muammar Gadaffi has called for a 2 million man African Army, to be led by Libya's own dictator. Libya, may well join in any such conflagration, particularly if it appears that the Iran-Syria confederation looks like it will become victorious. Gadaffi may well send a contingent of his own forces to aid in the war against Israel. Such an involvement by Libya would be the final nation involved in the Magog war, along with contingents of guerilla fighters from Algeria, Somalia, Ethiopia and other African nations operating under the Al Qaeda banner in Lebanon.
There are other Biblically prophetic ramifications possible in this scenario, including the "Mystery Babylon" or Babylon-America prophecies. I'll be dealing more on this in a later and separate article looking primarily at Jeremiah 51.
As it now stands, the aforementioned parties involved are situated in such a way that we might see a fulfillment of the Magog prophecies as well as the Babylon prophecies and both at or near the same time, in essentiall the same time-frame which at the moment appears to be sometime this year. The signals are in fact pointing towards fulfillments in the coming days, weeks or months, dependant of course on Divine permission. IF, these plans are not permitted by the Creator because its not yet time, then God will intervene to halt such actions and put everything on hold, much as it was last year when a similar type of an attempt was made. Nothing will happen prematurely on God's time table of predicted events.
posted by shummer60 at Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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