Tuesday, May 4, 2010

THE CURSE OF THE LORD IS IN THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED - PROVERB 3 - 33

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Iran has new anti-cruise missile weapon, Cobra-type helicopter
DEBKAfile Special Report May 5, 2010, 1:46 PM (GMT+02:00)

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Iran claims new anti-cruise missile weapon

The development of the "Mesbah 1" (Lantern), a new air defence system for countering aircraft, cruise missiles, choppers and other low-altitude threats, was announced by Iran's defence minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi Wednesday, May 5. It will go into operation in the near future. debkafile's military sources say that if Iran has indeed designed a weapon of this type and quality, it has come up with a powerful answer to US and Israeli cruise missiles, which pose the biggest threat to Iran's nuclear facilities in a military strike.
Vahidi boasted that the Mesbah can fire 4,000 shots a minute, is very precise and can be operated by a smaller crew than similar artillery systems. He claimed it was also effective in tracing and shooting down unmanned aerial vehicles - drones.

The Iranian Air force is also reported to have received 10 new "Toofan" (Storm) attack helicopters based on the Bell AH-1K Sea Cobra design. After studying photographs, Western military sources reported the Iranian version has been heavily upgraded compared with the original. It has a narrower airframe for greater flexibility and is armed with M197 3-barrelled 20-mm "Gatling-type" cannon in the A/A49E turret. Its wing-stub stations carry a pair of 19-tube 70-mm rocket launchers. The rear section has a Vulcan-type 20-mm automatic cannon, and two clusters of 38 anti-tank 70-mm missiles.

Bullet-proof glass protects the pilot's cockpit and weapons officer station, internal avionics have been revamped with the addition of a GPS and receiver in the nose, and a warning radar attached to the rear, with four antennae providing 360 degrees coverage and all electronics systems integrated.
debkafile's intelligence sources note that the Iranian Air Force's Badr Base for light aircraft and helicopters in Esfahan, central Iran, accommodates 1,000 aerial military vehicles of different types, and is the biggest air base of its kind in the Middle East and Southwest Asia.

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FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
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EMP could leave '9 out
of 10 Americans dead'

Analyst: 'That is exactly what
Iranians are working toward'

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An American from Pakistan arrested over Time Square bomb plot
DEBKAfile Special Report May 4, 2010, 12:44 AM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Times Square US-Pakistani

Time Square bombing investigated

Faisal Shahzad, 30, a US citizen from Pakistan, was arrested at New York's JFK airport Monday night trying to board a flight to Dubai and will appear before a federal court Tuesday, May 4. He was identified as the buyer of the Nissan Pathfinder used to rig the failed car bomb. US Attorney General Eric Holder said that more than one person is sought in connection with the attempted terrorist plot.

Shahzad's information is vital for uncovering the extent of the conspiracy and its potential for more terrorist attacks in New York or other American cities.

US security officials began screening passengers boarding domestic and foreign flights out of Boston, New York and Philadelphia Monday night, May 3, hoping to snare a likely foreign terrorist or terrorists on the run after planting the Times Square car bomb.
By then, US officials had come around to accepting that the failed car bomb attack was coordinated by more than one person - possibly even a foreign terrorist organization - and no longer cast doubt on the credibility of the Pakistani Taliban's claim of responsibility.

The investigation got off to a slow start due to the initial skepticism in the administration and New York City Hall to the possibility of a high-profile terrorist operation which called for immediate, comprehensive action.
Shortly after the car bomb parked near on Times Square was defused safely Saturday night, May 1, debkafile reported: Our terror experts doubt that he was a loner. Surveillance was needed to locate the bomb vehicle and possibly steal or buy it from the used car junkyard, several hands must have assembled the materials and prepared the explosive device, and his lightning disappearance indicates that a getaway car must have been on hand to whisk him away from the scene before the police arrived.

NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the bomb made up of propane tanks, fertilizer and gasoline, which failed to detonate in the SUV, could have produced " significant fireball" in the heart of Midtown Manhattan Saturday night May 1 had it worked properly. It was detected when smoke billowed out of the parked vehicle near Time Square.
The next day, we headlined the Pakistani Taliban's claim of responsibility, taped in advance by its top bomb-maker, Qari Hussain Mehsud, and strengthened a few hours later by the release of a videotape allegedly made by Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud on April 4, weeks after he was reported killed by a US missile strike in January, and ignored at the time.
On that nine-minute tape, he vowed retaliation for the killing of Islamist leaders: "The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities."

Shortly before he was killed by a US drone in Aug. 2009, his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, claimed his movement was now able to execute operations inside the United States.

US security officials did not take this claim seriously. However the evidence against Najibullah Zazi, the Detroit taxi driver charged in February with conspiring to attack the New York subway, reveals that al Qaeda in Pakistan recruited him when he arrived their to join Taliban. The two movements' campaign of violence against the United States and US targets in Pakistan is so closely coordinated as to be virtually interchangeable.

Therefore, when Qari Hussein claimed Taliban was avenging "martyred leaders," he included Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the al Qaeda commander in Iraq killed by a joint US-Iraqi intelligence team in mid-April.
He also warned NATO governments to denounce the US and apologize for "the massacres in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistani tribal areas - otherwise be prepared for the worst destruction and devastation in their own countries."

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FROM STEVE COOPER "CNIN"

Photo of Suspected Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shazhad


Undated Facebook photo - Faisal Shazhad



The NYPD and FBI did a great job, but I do think that they leaked too much to the media. This guy knew ever step they were making and he was about to flee the country...



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naturalized American citizen of Pakistani descent has been arrested at New York's JFK International Airport in connection to last weekend's failed car bomb attack on Times Square.

Attorney
General Eric Holder identified the suspect Faisal Shahzad, a U.S. citizen. He's being held in New York.

CBS News sources say Shahzad is a resident of Sheldon, Conn. The New York Times says he is 30 years old. His Connecticut
apartment was still being searched by law enforcement agents early Tuesday morning.
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New gold-backed US dollar to be introduced after takedown of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Closedown audit of US Federal Reserve Board to comb all books back to 1916. Pentagon plans well-advanced to evacuate many of the eight hundred US overseas military bases.
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Huge national debts could push EuroZone into naked bankruptcy
European governments agree that saving Greece is imperative. They are worried about the euro, and the Germans are concerned about their banks, which, lured by the prospect of high returns, have become saturated with government bonds from Greece and other southern European countries. They are also terrified that after a Greek bankruptcy, other weak euro countries could be attacked by speculators and forced to their knees. There are striking similarities to the Lehman bankruptcy. The financial crisis isn't over; it has simply entered a new phase. Today, the world is no longer threatened by the debts of banks but by the debts of governments, including debts which were run up rescuing the banks just a year ago. The banking crisis has turned into a crisis of entire nations, and the subprime mortgage bubble has morphed into a government debt bubble.
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Greeks charge police over draconian IMF cuts, pay & pension losses

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Hundreds of demonstrators try to reach the finance ministry in Athens in protest at austerity cuts . (Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP / Getty Images)
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AND I SHALL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH THEM - ISAIAH 61 - 8

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TRULY REMARKABLE


I THINK IT IS REMARKABLE THAT WITHIN A WEEK OF TIGER WOODS CRASHING HIS ESCALADE, THE PRESS FOUND EVERY WOMAN WITH WHOM TIGER HAS HAD AN AFFAIR IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WITH PHOTOS, TEXT MESSAGES, RECORDED PHONE CALLS, ETC.

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AND EACH AND EVER DAY, THEY GIVE AMERICA MORE UPDATES ON HIS SEX-REHAB STAY, HIS WIFE’S PLANS FOR DIVORCE, AND HIS PLANS TO RETURN TO THE PRO-GOLF CIRCUIT.
ON THE OTHER HAND, OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE FOR OVER A YEAR NOW, AND THIS SAME PRESS STILL CANNOT LOCATE OBAMA'S OFFICIAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, OR ANY OF HIS PAPERS WHILE IN COLLEGE, OR HOW HE PAID FOR A HARVARD EDUCATION, OR WHICH COUNTRY ISSUED HIS VISA TO TRAVEL TO PAKISTAN IN THE 1980'S AS BARRY SOETORO OR EVEN MICHELLE OBAMA’S PRINCETON THESIS ON RACISIM. IT JUST CAN’T BE FOUND?

YET THE PUBLIC STILL TRUSTS THAT SAME PRESS TO GIVE THEM THE WHOLE TRUTH??? . . . . . TRULY REMARKABLE
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Times Square sequel to botched terror by Shoe-bomber Reid, Abdulmutallab
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis May 2, 2010, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)

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Times Square in lockdown

New York and other US cities are on high terror alert, debkafile's counter-terror sources report, after the failed car bomb attempt to blow up Times Square, New York, Saturday night, May 1. The Nissan SUV parked on 45th Street started smoking but did not explode, causing police to evacuate the heart of Times Square, Manhattan. Police and anti-terror agencies have mounted an exhaustive search for the perpetrator and additional potential explosive devices.
Our terror experts note the similarity in methods of operation between the failed Times Square attack on May, and two previous al Qaeda attempts to cause massive loss of American life in the past - both on, or around ,Christmas:

On December 22, 2002, the British terrorist Richard Reid, who was wrestled to the floor by the passengers of a flight about to land in Los Angeles before he could detonate the device hidden in his shoe, and the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who failed to trigger the explosives hidden in his pants on an airliner coming in to land in Detroit, on Dec. 25, 2009.
In this latest incident too, the terrorist managed to park an SUV loaded with an improvised bomb in Time Square, one of the most crowded spaces in the world on a Saturday night, and ignite the detonator.
But no explosion occurred. Mayor Mike Bloomberg said: "This could have been a deadly event." He also said the electric wiring of the device "looked amateurish."
This description exactly matches the bungled efforts of the would-be martyrs Reid and Abdulmutallab. It suggests that their al Qaeda masters have not been able to bring the new crop of jihadis up to professional terrorist standards. It is also possible that the Nissan SUV was supposed to blow up in another part of Manhattan and the perpetrator abandoned it on Times Square prematurely when he saw smoke coming out of his improvised device.
Our terror experts doubt that he was a loner. Surveillance was needed to locate the bomb vehicle and steal it from the used car junkyard, several hands must have assembled the materials and prepared the explosive device, and his lightning disappearance indicates that a getaway car must have been on hand to whisk him away from the scene before the police arrived.

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Roman Catholic Church deserted in Germany. 6.25 million German Catholics expected to leave Roman Catholic Church in 2010 because of paedophile sex scandals, according to poll in Frankfurter Rundschau.
The mass desertion is linked to German Pope Joseph Ratzinger's personal involvement in Germany-based sex abuse coverups. The multi-million exodus will cost Roman Catholicism millions of euros as the people leaving opt out of paying church tax in Germany.

Goldman Sachs' Greek Civil War begins in Athens on Saturday 1st May 2010
A photograph. Other pictures taken on the same day can be seen here, here and here. Greece has been hiding the true nature of its national financial deficits and debt using manipulative derivatives invented by Goldman Sachs. Greece’s debt managers agreed a huge deal with Goldman Sachs at the start of 2002. The fix involved cross-currency swaps in which government debt issued in dollars and yen was swapped for euro debt for a certain period, to be exchanged back into the original currencies at a later date. Transactions of this kind are part of normal government refinancing. Europe’s EuroZone governments obtain funds from international investors by issuing bonds in yen, dollar or Swiss francs. They don't use euros. They need euros to pay their daily bills. Years later the bonds are repaid in the original foreign denominations. However, with Greece, Goldman Sachs devised a special kind of swap with fictional exchange rates. This enabled Greece to receive a far higher sum than the actual euro market value of ten billion dollars or yen. In this way Goldman secretly arranged additional credit of up to $1 billion for the Greeks. This credit disguised as a swap didn’t show up in the official Greek debt statistics. Eurostat’s reporting rules don’t comprehensively record transactions involving financial derivatives. The Maastricht rules can be circumvented through swaps. Greece had no financial qualifications to join the EuroZone. Goldman Sachs helped them to cook their books so that no-one noticed. More current background here (28.04.10).
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