Prophecy in the News Archive
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Pi Glilot attack raises questions. Boaz Ganor,director of the International Policy Institute on Counter Terrorism at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center says that "it should be clearly understood that this was a strategic attack attempt against the state, and not just another in the long chain of terror atrocities that we have witnessed until now"

IDF Intelligence head says: &We are very, very far away from the terrorist waves of the past"

While those in the West seem to be convinced that the Israeli-Arab dispute is about land, the Arab press weekly provides evidence that the issue of contention between Arabs and Jews is the very existence of the Jewish state. This week, a few examples of this attitude were to be found in the Egyptian press

The 'SS St. Louis' finally docks

The naked truth. When countries and nationalities start corrupting sacred ideas like the purpose of creation, and advocating the use of their own organs for unproductive or destructive purposes, then the world is on the brink

History as it was made ... and remade. What really happened during the siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity between April 2 and May 10? More details remain unknown than known

A major terror catastrophe, possibly the worst in Israel's history, was miraculously averted this morning, but some officials warn that Israel must respond as if the attempt had been successful. A bomb was detonated under a tanker as the truck was being fueled at the Pi Gelilot fuel depot, Israel's largest. Ex-GSS official Ehud Yatom said today that it would be a mistake to ignore the attack merely because it did not succeed: "A near-miss is just as serious as a successful attack," he said, noting that a lack of an immediate response by Israel would be a "clear signal of weakness to the terrorists, and it will increase their motivation to employ non-conventional weapons"

Security forces were on full alert in the North and Sharon regions yesterday amid fresh warnings of pending terror attacks following those in Netanya and Rishon Lezion this week, in which 5 people were killed and scores wounded

A suicide bomber blew up a booby-trapped car late Thursday night, at the entrance to the 'Studio 49' discotheque, at the corner of Kibbutz Galuyot and Abulafya streets, in southern Tel Aviv. Five people were lightly injured by the blast, which occurred at approximately 1 A.M.

Fatsh's Al-Aqsa takes responsibility for foiled attack at TA night club, but Fatah denies responsibility [ Go figure ]

Ultra-Orthodox Jews volunteer to collect body parts after homicide bombings

IDF forces uncovered a factory for the manufacture of Kassam rockets Thursday night, during an operation in the Zeitoun neighborhood of southern Gaza City. Sappers destroyed the factory in a controlled explosion. During the past week, two Kassam rockets were fired at Israeli settlements in Gaza

Two Palestinians were killed in an explosion inside a home in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus yesterday afternoon. The men, Fatah members, were preparing a bomb when it exploded prematurely

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said yesterday that he will hold elections in the winter, but did not set a date. He announced the decision after all 8 members of the central elections committee handed in their resignations on Wednesday evening

Solidarity with Israel:   58% of Americans .believe Arafat out to 'destroy' Israel. US public opinion favors Israel and thinks Israel wants peace, and blames Palestinians for the Middle East violence

The U.S. administration is planning to send CIA chief George Tenet and Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, William Burns, to the region next week. Tenet is expected to formulate a framework for the unification of the Palestinian Authority's security forces, while Burns will add political clout to the CIA chief's mission. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who will be visiting Europe next week, may stop over briefly in the Middle East if required

The World Against Israel:   The U.S. State Department published its annual report on world terrorism this week (on May 21). The central "conclusion" of the State Department document is that there is no hard evidence that the Palestinian Authority is involved in terror. Such a conclusion is equivalent to a statement in early 1945 that there is no hard evidence that Nazi Germany has been involved in murdering Jews

The World Against Israel:   Israeli victims don’t count at State Department

Tasked with defending the Palestinian Authority, the PLO, and Yasser Arafat from $250 million lawsuits filed last year in Rhode Island by the families of three American terror victims, former attorney-general Ramsey Clark is providing this defense: Palestine is a state

The World Against Israel:   Syria celebrates "Martyrdom Day". The official Syrian news agency, SANA, reported, "President Bashar Assad lauded highly Monday the heroic operations of the Palestinian resistance men against the Israeli occupation, which shook the Israeli occupation and the sacrifices of the Syrian forces in the battles waged in defense of the homeland and the nation." Assad was speaking "on the blessed occasion of Syrian Martyrs Day."

Rumors of Wars:   Is Iran testing intermediate-range missiles? Unconfirmed reports come amid intense scrutiny of U.S. intelligence

Rumors of Wars:   Yemen has launched what diplomatic sources described as unprecedented security measures in preparation for a renewed insurgency campaign by Al Qaida

Rumors of Wars:   The U.S. has used Qatar as a listening post to gather intelligence for tactical operations

Rumors of Wars:   Qatar and Turkey are discussing the prospect of military cooperation

For the second time in 2 weeks, the city of Rishon LeTzion -Israel's 4th-largest- has been hit by Muslim Palestinian terrorism. Shortly after 9 PM last night, a Moslem Arab detonated his bomb and himself in a pedestrian mall in the heart of the city, killing 2 Israelis and wounding over 40

At least 2 major terror catastrophes were averted in Israel today. At the Pi Gelilot fuel depot, Israel's largest, a bomb exploded under a tanker as it was being fueled. The truck caught fire, but the blaze was put out relatively quickly and no one was hurt

What the above news means: An analysis on the almost disastreous Pi Glilot bomb

Israel security forces discovered a fragmentation grenade in a car belonging to a foreign reporter traveling in the Gush Katif bloc in the southern Gaza Strip today [ The media says that it is neutral. Something very believable for those who do not read, hear or watch the media ... or are dishonest ... or do not think ]

In a marble factory in Erez, in the northern Gaza Strip, police found and neutralized several explosives this morning. The police also arrested the Muslim Arab who led them to the bombs and to an explosives vest containing nails and metal pieces

A senior member of Fatah's Aksa Martyr's Brigade and 2 other Palestinians were killed last night by IDF tank fire in the Balata refugee camp outside of Nablus

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said today that Israel is about to face "waves" of male and female suicide bombers. "And trust me, I know what I'm talking about"

Palestinian documents seized by Israel show that Yasser Arafat financially supported Bethlehem's top gunman, who until his death last year was the leader of a clan that controlled the Church of the Nativity during the standoff with Israeli troops. Atef Abayat was killed by the Israelis in October 2001. Members of the Abayat family seized the Church of the Nativity and controlled it during a 39-day siege that ended earlier this month. They were among the 39 Palestinians exiled to Europe or sent to the Gaza Strip, where they received a heroes' welcome

Nothing -not Shas' abstention in yesterday's budget-cutting vote, not a personal letter from Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, and not even the fatal terrorist attack last night- was able to convince Prime Minister Sharon last night from retracting his dismissal of the 4 Shas government ministers

Shas chairman Eli Yishai promised last night to make Prime Minister Ariel Sharon regret his uncompromising stance before yesterday's vote on the government's emergency economic plan, saying he would become a vocal opposition leader

"Y," a senior Mossad official, warned yesterday that the most serious security threat to Jewish communities in the Diaspora today comes from Osama bin Laden's "World Jihad" organization

Israeli biological and nuclear scientists are being knocked off in a covert war

How Israel builds its fifth column. Palestinian collaborators face mob justice, and fuel a culture of suspicion in their already extremely dysfunctional Muslim society

By freeing himself of the fetters of cold political calculation, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has never enjoyed such widespread support among potential voters - both inside, and outside the Likud. Herb Keinon examines the phenomenon

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has succeeded in climbing many mountains over the past two weeks en route to his highest popularity ratings since taking office

The war that ‘Peaceniks’ support. Democratically elected President Bush emerged from his recent ranch meeting with Arab dictator Prince Abdullah hastening to force Israel to free Arafat, free the Nativity Church terrorists, rebuild and reform PLO armed forces, and hurry up and create yet another Arab terrorist haven, with the name "Palestine" already picked out. No-one wants to frustrate Arabs these days. Safer to just smile and back away slowly… and keep the "coalition" myth alive for the war on Iraq. Wouldn’t want to start WWIII, now would we? But truth is, we are already in a worldwide war, though not a "conservative war" such as WWII was

The media bias exposed. On April 2, 2002, Palestinian Muslim gunmen-militants-terrorists shot their way into the Church of the Nativity, taking as hostage some civilian citizens and members of the clergy. Then the media gave us 2 different stories. Which one was true?

Why middle America loves Israel

The World Against Israel:   MK Michael Kleiner says that the U.S. may not be as fair of a mediator as Israel sometimes thinks. After seeing the State Department's report on terrorism, Kleiner said, "According to the report, there were only about 8 terrorist attacks in Israel throughout all of 2001. It is simply an embarrassment. The report ignores 86 other attacks, including the murder of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi and that of the infant Shalhevet Pass, and many mass attacks"

The World Against Israel:   Muslim antisemitism, cowardice and contradictions in the international Muslim Arab media

The World Against Israel:   A massive blaze broke out in the middle of the night at the Israeli Embassy in Paris, totally destroying the building. Israel’s Ambassador to France, Eli Bar-Navi, reports that no one was hurt in the midnight fire, and the small number of security personnel in the building at the time made it out safely

The World Against Israel:   A small group of Australian academics have circulated a petition calling for a boycott of research and cultural links with Israel

President Bush says he has never had respect for Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, because he has failed to lead his people adequately

The lesson of al-Hudaybiyah. President Bush was quick to praise Yasser Arafat's pledges of reforms and elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council. My guess is that the administration didn't actually read a translation of Arafat's long-winded speech

Rumors of Wars:   The U.S. Navy has heightened its alert in the Persian Gulf amid concerns of an attack

Rumors of Wars:   Iraq is fooling U.N. Arabic paper reports on Saddam's tricks to circumvent sanctions

"To Jerusalem we are headed. Jerusalem is the capital of our independent state of Palestine, never mind who agrees or does not," Arafat said in Nablus a week after Israel allowed him to leave his confinement. Arafat already acts as if he had an independent nation, counting every Israeli withdrawal as a victory. Arafat and other Arabs have consistently confused Jewish lassitude with surrender. An autonomous state would be a victory in their eyes and still additional motivation to extend Intifada. In a graver scenario, a corrupt and vindictive state of Palestine could become a springboard for more serious aggression against Israel. After all, Arafat is a chummy ally of Iraq and will surely hunt for other friends cut from the same bloody cloth

IDF divides Gaza. The IDF has finally taken action in Gaza, following a series of recent Palestinian attacks against Jewish targets. The action is basically a repeat of that which the army has done several times in the past: a partition of the entire region into two halves. Previous divisions into north and south helped prevent terrorist activity, but were always removed after various short periods

IDF forces continued to hunt down terrorists yesterday, carrying out a number of operations in the West Bank

Israeli Border Guard police killed a heavily-armed Arab who had opened fire on their position this morning. It was later discovered that the terrorist also had an explosives belt strapped to his body

The highest PA court ruled last night that Fuad Shubaki, the man who organized the Karin-A weapons smuggling ship, must be released from custody. The "judges" found him innocent of the charges because of what they called a "lack of evidence" [ Who had expected any different decision than this? Israel should go and get him now and try him now in a real court of justice ]

A prominent Palestinian in Israeli custody, Marwan Barghouti, sent a message from jail Wednesday urging Palestinians to press ahead with their resistance to Israel's military occupation

Israel Without Yeshuah:   Sharon fights to save his government

Israel Without Yeshuah:   Shas did not participate in today's Knesset re-vote on the government’s emergency economic bill. The bill passed today by a 65-26 count, with 7 abstentions and many MKs not present. Its defeat on Monday led to the firing of four Shas ministers from the government and great uncertainty in the political world

Israel Without Yeshuah:   Speculation is rife as to how Sharon will act. Finance Minister Silvan Shalom said that the Prime Minister wanted to make it clear that ministers must not vote against government decisions, implying that today's abstention may be acceptable

Solidarity with Israel:   Some 250 members of Aglow International, an interdemoninational group of Christian women, last night culminated a visit in which they expressed their support for Israel and the Jewish people

Solidarity with Israel:   The 4 major streams of Judaism in the U.S. joined fundraising forces with the United Jewish Communities

The World Against Israel:   The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said that Israel had made Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority less effective by destroying its security infrastructure, and it absolved Arafat and his senior associates of responsibility for attacks on Israelis in 2001

The World Against Israel:   Anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim media has reached a fever pitch

The World Against Israel:   A leading US military analyst warned yesterday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could degenerate into repeated cycles of violence if Israel continues to ignore Palestinian public opinion

Violence & Cruelty:   Violent lawlessness in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon

Violence & Cruelty:   The discovery in Beirut yesterday of the decomposed body of a leading member of the Christian Lebanese forces has sent shock waves through Lebanon

Rumors of Wars:   Iran re-mained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2001, according to the State Department's annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report, released yesterday

Rumors of Wars:   Is Iran joining terror war? Iranian government arrests 30 possible al-Qaida fighters at its border

Rumors of Wars:   Libya's efforts to attain nuclear weapons increasingly worry Israeli and American officials. The Libyan threat was discussed in a round of strategic talks between the two countries held last week in Washington. Officials decided to step up monitoring of Libya's nuclear-related activities. Though Libya was not formally included among countries in the 'axis of evil' cited by U.S. President George Bush early in the year, American officials consider it a "threshold" state which is making efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction

Rumors of Wars:   The U.N. continues to freeze Iraqi contracts. Despite the institution of smart sanctions, the United Nations continues to suspend Iraqi contracts of products deemed as dual-use

Rumors of Wars:   Tension in the Middle East has become a leading factor in preventing a resurgence of the world aerospace market

Rumors of Wars:   Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday in Damascus received Sudan's first Vice President Ali Othman Muhammad Taha and members of the accompanying delegation. The meeting was attended by the Syrian prime minister Muhammad Mustafa Miro and Sudan's ambassador in Damascus. Discussions dealt with conditions on the Arab arena, especially events taking place in the occupied Palestinian territories and means of enhancing inter- Arab solidarity to withstand impeding challenges

The stillborn Palestinian state – Part I.  It is not an exaggeration to say that all of "progressive mankind" is now completely crazy about the idea of establishing a new Palestinian state in the lands that Israel liberated from Egypt and Jordan called Yehuda, Shomron and Aza (collectively known as YESHA, and nowadays internatioanlly referred to as 'the West Bank and the Gaza Strip')

The stillborn Palestinian state – Part II.  The reason why the Palestinian state in YESHA will be unable to survive is one short word: WATER

Israel Without Yeshuah:   What Do We Really Want?. Many people are frustrated at the present situation. I certainly am one of them. However, there is something that frustrates me that may not be frustrating you. I believe that the Israeli public is being mislead by an elusion: the elusion that we have no available options, that we can do no more than sit and wait to see what happens next

Israel Without Yeshuah:   Israel's economy and political framework were both thrown into turmoil last night, after a failed Knesset vote and the firing of four government ministers. The story began when the Knesset surprised most observers yesterday afternoon by voting against a 13-billion shekel cut that Prime Minister Sharon and Finance Minister Silvan Shalom had been preparing for the last few months

Israel Without Yeshuah:   Political analysts say that the bill is likely to pass tomorrow, when it is brought to the Knesset for a revote. This is because all the technical glitches will be worked out and the absent MKs will be forced to show up. While the political ramifications of the firing are not clear, the economic significance is less cloudy

Israel Without Yeshuah:   An Arab member of the Israeli parliament, Azmi Bishara, recently called for the PLO leadership to take the reins of the "national resistance". In calling suicide-murder attacks on civilians playing pool or shopping for vegetables "martyrdom", MK Bishara implies, as did PLO's godfather Yasser Arafat, that the suicide bombings are wrong only insofar as they indicate an independence from the PA

Palestinian Authority dictator, Yasser Arafat, met last night with his cabinet and the PLO Executive Committee for the weekly leadership meeting and to discuss possibilities for reforming the PA and holding elections. But Legislative Council members were skeptical any concrete decisions will come out of the meeting

The unrelenting efforts by terrorists to carry out large scale attacks in Israeli cities since the end of 'Operation Defensive Shield' is widely viewed as a Palestinian attempt to show Israel that the military operation did not achieve its goals. Indeed, according to senior diplomatic officials, the Palestinians despite the hammer blow they suffered at the hands of the IDF during the month-long operation do not feel they lost this mini-war [ Reason why 'Operation Defensive Shield' should have continues and do in Gaza what was done in Jenin -then it would have completely achieved its goal. To wage a half-war campaign is a sure way to defeat. Remember Viet-Nam? Remember Hiroshima? What came out of these 2 extremes? The real problem is that Israel not only has to fight against Muslim terrorism, but also against the New World Order monger's agenda for the Middle East ]

Yasser Arafat's popularity has been slipping amid growing dissatisfaction with his corruption-ridden regime, but no other Palestinian can muster enough support to pose a serious challenge to the Palestinian thug-master, according an opinion poll

Support among Palestinians for bombings inside Israel has fallen although a majority still back such attacks. Support for bombings inside Israel fell to 52% from 58% in December, according to a poll conducted last week by the 'Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research'. But 86% of the 1,317 adults polled in the West Bank and Gaza Strip opposed arresting those behind such attacks, while 67%, up from 61% in December, believed that armed action was more effective than negotiations

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were preparing for military action in the West Bank last night after 3 Israelis were killed and 56 wounded in a suicide bombing in Netanya

Israeli officials disclosed that a Palestinian plan to detonate a one-ton bomb in the parking lot beneath twin 50-story towers in Tel Aviv was thwarted three weeks ago. Troops raided a West Bank town, preventing the planned car bombing, according to an Israeli military officer and a government official. Last year, Israel arrested two Palestinians who had also planned to bomb the towers

A plan to carry out simultaneous terror attacks on 7 coastal cities was foiled as a result of 'Operation Defense Shield', Prime Minister Ariel Sharon revealed yesterday. Sharon said in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the information about the attack was obtained from Palestinians apprehended in the operation. He said there was also a plan for a triple attack in Jerusalem

Yesterday afternoon, Israeli security forces in Tulkarm arrested a 26-year-old Palestinian woman affiliated with Yasser Arafat's Fatah Tanzim. She was allegedly planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack inside the Green Line

The alertness of a senior IDF officer and the fast response by police prevented a suicide bombing in the North yesterday, as terror organizations intensified efforts to carry out attacks inside Israel

Sunday's suicide bombing in Netanya – and even the horror in Rishon Lezion 2 weeks ago – cannot obscure the new IDF policy of preemptive action. Something is going on

The owners of scores of Israeli eateries have found an innovative way to stop suicide bombers from targeting their businesses: lock‘em out. Restaurants and coffee shops across the country, especially in hard-hit Jerusalem, which started employing private guards after the bombing at Jerusalem's Sbarro pizzeria that killed 15 last August, have now taken to locking their doors and admitting diners only after scrutinizing their physical appearance. After the March 31 bombing at Haifa's 'Matza Restaurant', where a security guard was not present, the mayor called on citizens to boycott unguarded establishments

Members of the forum of heads of Green Line communities emerged from the meeting they held with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer yesterday encouraged by plans to construct a security fence that would separate Israel from the Palestinian Authority-controlled region

The Israeli-Arab public is reacting with utter skepticism to the reports in recent weeks of alleged involvement by Israeli Arabs in terrorist plots

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday outlined eight conditions for Syrian participation in a regional peace conference, including expelling 11 terrorist organizations, withdrawing from Lebanon, and halting cooperation with Hizbullah. Sharon reportedly said the conference is aimed at creating a "peace supportive atmosphere," but is not a substitute for bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians with US involvement

A hitherto unkown group, the Lebanese Nationalists Movement, has taken responsiblity for the assassination of Jihad Jibril in Beirut on Monday. Jihad Jibril was the son of Ahmed Jibril, general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. In a statement sent to the press, the group claimed that it had killed Jibril because of the fact that PFLP-GC was operating on Lebanese ground at the behest of Syria

The prison conditions of Ahmed Sa’adat, the terrorist leader Israeli officials believe may have helped plan Sunday’s suicide bombing in Netanya, will be raised

12 of the Palestinian terrorists wanted and deported by Israel to Cyprus will fly tomorrow to various European countries. Italy, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and Belgium have agreed to accept an average of 2 each

Is Arab propaganda shaping the predominant view of the Holy Land conflict? That is the claim of a planned documentary film based on Joan Peters' groundbreaking best seller 'From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict'. 7 years of intensive, original research led Peters to an unexpected conclusion: Arab political and territorial claims to Israel are based on a myth. Current international efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict largely are based on those false premises

The day Arafat was offered power. Does Yasser Arafat really want a "Palestinian homeland"? Or, as many have suggested, is this 35-year-old demand merely a ploy to conduct asymmetrical warfare against the Jewish state of Israel?

At least 3 Israelis were killed and approximately 50 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up inside the covered section of the Netanya market yesterday afternoon

2 of the 3 victims in yesterday's Muslim Arab homicide bombing in the Netanya open-air market will be buried this afternoon. 21 of the wounded remain in the hospital, including 4 in serious condition and a 6 year-old girl with shrapnel all over her body

Israeli traitors are working hard. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres released details of a diplomatic plan calling for the centralization of Palestinian security forces immediately followed by the establishment of a Palestinian state. The announcement comes three days after Labor Party colleagues Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Haim Ramon each unveiled blueprints for a diplomatic solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

The World Against Israel:   U.S. State Dept. report whitewashes Arafat's terror role. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is "up to his neck in terror," cabinet secretary Gideon Sa'ar said yesterday, taking sharp exception to a U.S. State Department report which said there is no evidence that the senior PA leadership planned or approved acts of terror

The World Against Israel:   U.S. sending mixed signals on Arafat. 2 seemingly contradictory messages have reached Israel in recent days from high level officials of the U.S. administration

The World Against Israel:   Syria is pressing Hamas and Islamic Jihad to renew their suicide operations against Israel, contrary to Saudi Arabian demands (at least in public, who knows what really happens in private) on Yasser Arafat and Palestinian organizations to desist from such attacks

The World Against Israel:   As Israel endured the blows of unprecedented Palestinian terrorist attacks in the last terrible days of March 2002, National Public Radio (NPR) continued its long pattern of sharply underreporting and depersonalizing violence against the people of that nation while emphasizing the feelings, perspectives and accusations of the Palestinians

The World Against Israel:   Noam Chomsky, a treacherous professor of linguistics at MIT and author, most recently, of 9-11, which in just a few weeks has sold more than 100,000 copies, is the man who once said that there was "no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of the existence of the gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust". He also thinks America is "a leading terrorist state"

The World Against Israel:   Arafat's documents prove the Saudi Arabians are paying for terrorism. The Israelis also captured official PA correspondence praising the bombers

The World Against Israel:   Man arrested after Quebec City synagogue blast. Police arrested a man today after an early morning explosion cut a hole through the front door of the provincial capital's lone synagogue and shattered at least one window

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that Syria may participate in a regional peace summit only if it agrees to a series of Israeli demands, including ending its "occupation" of Lebanon, dismantling Hezbollah, and providing information on captured and missing Israelis

Two suicide bombs in as many days have force-fed Israeli public support for fencing the West Bank off from the Jewish state, despite bitter opposition by settlers who fear a security fence may turn into an international border

A family of Israeli terror victims filed a 100-million shekel lawsuit this morning in the Tel Aviv District Court against the European Union (EU). The civil action arises from a Palestinian terror attack that killed the mother of the family, Techiya Blumberg, and left her husband Steven and daughter Tziporah seriously injured and wheelchair-bound

4 soldiers were lightly wounded yesterday morning when Muslim terrorists of the Democratic Front carried out a bomb and shooting attack on a civilian convoy escorted by IDF jeeps on the Karni-Netzarim road in Gaza. The bomb blast caused a driver to lose control, and his jeep overturned, wounding the 4 soldiers

Miracle outside Afula. Even as Israeli security officials in both the police and army warn that the effects of Operation Defensive Shield are wearing off, a suicide bombing was thwarted today 5 kilometers west of Afula by a citizen's alertness

3 Muslim Palestinians were arrested last night during IDF operations in the West Bank

MK Uri Ariel claims that Ahmed Sa'adat, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) chief, is being held in Jericho in "vacation" conditions

40-year-old Jihad Jibril, son of radical Palestinian guerrilla leader Ahmed Jibril was killed Monday in a Beirut car bombing. A Senior PFLP-GC commander suspected of involvement in the assassination was arrested in Beirut. Jihad Jibril was head of military operations for the guerrilla group established by his father in 1968. Jibril's PFLP-GC is one of the radical Palestinian groups opposed to the peace process, and has close ties to the Hezbollah organization in Lebanon

What an identity crisis. In Israel you can register as any of 132 nationalities on your ID card, except `Israeli'!

"The only way my son feels safe now is by holding a gun". 10-year-old Yisrael Aharon, toy gun stuffed into the front of his sweatpants as he gloomily guarded the entrance of Netanya's open-air market, was the last casualty of a suicide bombing which claimed the life of three civilians

We have seen other terrorist groups fall from the graces that gave them power in the first place, it is high time that we let the Palestinian terrorists hang themselves with a noose. One tied by the Palestinian people

Stop your foolish imaginings. Just imagine, dear European leader, dear fashionable Leftist, dear anti-Israel intellectual, just imagine that Israel agreed to the creation of an Arab state west of the Jordan River

In Israel, old politicians never retire, nor do they fade away. Even completely failed politicians, defeated in landslides, are still around contemplating their comebacks

Iraq appears to be refurbishing its air force, refitting fighter-jets with spare parts to return them to operation

Saudi authorities, restricted by the official clergy in helping save women from fires and accidents, have launched a campaign to train women in civil defense

NWO News:   Questioning issues surrounding the attacks of September 11th. 2001     [ Do not miss this article ]

NWO News:   ( Corrected link )   FBI Phoenix agent's report in July, 2001 -now widely known as the Phoenix Memo- "was very specific. It named names," one official says. The Phoenix Memo warning about suspicious Middle Easterners at flight schools had developed detailed information before Sept. 11 linking Arizona students to Osama bin Laden and to a radical British Islamic group, and he shared some of his concerns with the CIA. Agent Kenneth Williams suspected that a group of about 8 Middle Eastern men in the Phoenix area were not merely studying at flight schools, but also they had shown a keen interest in airplane engineering and airport construction and security, according to sources familiar with the closed-door briefings Williams gave members of Congress this week [ How come we are now told that there was no specific information to act upon? Who is going to be the scape goat? ]

NWO News:   A paid FBI informant told 'ABC News' that 3 years before Sept. 11, he began providing the FBI with information about a young Saudi who later flew a hijacked passenger plane into the Pentagon

NWO News:   Agent says FBI ignored threat of Moussaoui. Senior FBI officials blocked an investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui, who authorities suspect was meant to be the 20th hijacker on September 11, because they did not understand the significance of his arrest on August 15

NWO News:   Bush rejects probe of 9/11. President Bush yesterday rejected Democratic demands for a special commission to investigate the administration's handling of terror warnings before September 11 and refused to release the contents of an Aug. 6 briefing that mentioned the possibility of airline hijacking. If the Bush administration –and its predecessor– will not come clean and accept responsibility, then the people will have to legally take matters into their own hands and force openness and responsibility in government [ If there is nothing to fear, then why to hide? ]

NWO News:   'Dubya' ducking accountability. [ Does he think he can act, or not, act without giving explanations? Is dictatorship his mindset? ]

NWO News:   The U.S. military used 2 kinds of nerve gas and a biological toxin in tests on Navy ships in the 1960s, the Pentagon acknowledged for the first time Thursday. Officials said veterans harmed by exposure to the agents could be eligible for health benefits

NWO News:   The Foreign ministers of the ten candidate countries hoping to join the EU by 2004 urged for equal conditions for farmers to be also included in all EU common policies and transitional periods up to 2006

NWO News:   The Swedish government's plans to hold a referendum on joining the euro suffered a public setback on Wednesday after the EU Commission announced that the krona was too volatile to be absorbed into the single currency. The report criticised Sweden's central bank for its lack of independence from the government, and expressed concern about the gyrations of the krona on the foreign exchange. Wednesday's report is likely to diminish the chances of a Yes to EMU membership from the Swedish voters, who are already very sceptical about the EU

Europe's irrelevance. Europe is a "fake." It pretends to be an economic superpower, yet its economy remains fragmented and sclerotic. It pretends to be a diplomatic player, but beyond signing its name to hortatory UN resolutions, it has accomplished nothing of note in the 10 years that it has been a "union" with a common foreign and security policy. It pretends that it can swing its fists just like the big boys, but it has ignored all martial exercise in order to feed the maws of its welfare state. It acts the part of the world's self-appointed moral conscience, but its foreign policy is mainly aimed at what Henry Kissinger once acidly called the "abstract quest for psychological fulfillment." In dealing with the world at large, Europe has been consistently feckless, opportunistic, and friendlier to dictatorships than democracies

The US and Russian presidents are set to sign a landmark nuclear arms treaty on Friday in a move which has been hailed as drawing a line under Cold War tensions. After talks in the Kremlin, US President George Bush and the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, are due to sign the agreement, which will slash the countries' nuclear arsenals by around 2/3

Rumors of Wars:   British military chiefs are drawing up plans for dealing with the consequences of a nuclear war on the Indian sub-continent that they now believe to be a "real possibility"

Rumors of Wars:   European Union External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten said on Friday that New Delhi was running out of patience with Pakistan

Rumors of Wars:   India weighs military response. Events could force U.S. to join New Delhi in action against Pakistan

Rumors of Wars:   Pakistan will withdraw some troops from the Afghan border -where they are supporting the US-led war on terrorism- and redeploy them on the Indian border amid rising tensions with India

Rumors of Wars:   Indians see war as the only solution to the Kashmir problem

Rumors of Wars:   The Pakistani government has informed New Delhi that it is going to conduct a series of short and medium range missile tests between May 25 and 28. It has also said that these steps were routine and not related to the current situation

Rumors of Wars:   Accused shoe bomber Richard Reid sent an e-mail "will" to his mother telling her he was going to carry out a terror attack "to help remove the oppressive American forces from the Muslim land," government prosecutors say in a court filing Thursday. "This is the only way for us to do so as we do not have other means to fight them," the papers filed in federal court in Boston quoted him as saying. In addition, the government says, Reid said after he was arrested December 22 for allegedly attempting to blow up an American Airlines jet that he believed an airplane attack during the holiday season would cause the American public to lose confidence in airline security and stop traveling. He chose an American jet after the U.S. began bombing the Taliban in Afghanistan, the court filing says

What if gunless pilots went on strike? Pressure mounts for allowing firearms in cockpits. A leader of the Airline Pilots' Security Alliance says he personally opposes a strike to force the government to allow firearms in the cockpits, but he has heard rumblings about the possibility from others [ For 40 years pilots were allowed to carry guns ... until 40 days before 9-11. Why since then it is unthinkable? ]

Rumors of Wars:   Fifteen people are reported to have been killed and many more injured when a plane dropped bombs on a village in southern Sudan. The rebels Sudan People's Liberation Movement has accused the government of responsibility. An Antonov bomber attacked in the dark without warning early on Wednesday, according to foreign aid workers inside southern Sudan. The plane dropped 16 bombs on the village of Rier, in western Upper Nile Province, the aid workers say

Rumors of Wars:   Suicide bombers in America?

Rumors of Wars:   The Department of Transportation has issued a warning about possible attacks on rail and transit systems across the country, law enforcement officials said on Thursday. The department's warning was sent out on Wednesday and was based on unconfirmed and uncorroborated information, one official said. This is the latest of a series of warnings eight months after hijacked airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, killing about 3,000 people

Rumors of Wars:   Authorities canceled a 119th birthday celebration for the Brooklyn Bridge because of the recent warning of a potential attack against the landmark. "We could not even contemplate finalizing our plans ... because of the concerns that have been raised," said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, whose office had been planning the June 2 event. The FBI warned city officials Tuesday it had received uncorroborated information that terrorists made threats against New York and its landmarks, including the bridge, the Statue of Liberty and City Hall. The FBI said the information was not specific about timing or methods

Rumors of Wars:   The U.S. government is demanding an in-depth investigation of what one congressman terms "another Mexican military incursion" and what the Border Patrol agent on the scene called "an act of war"

Rumors of Wars:   The U.S. has raised the prospect that Libya and Sudan could be removed from the State Department's list of terrorist sponsors

Preparing the End:   Supernova poised to go off near Earth. A student at Harvard University has stumbled across the terrifying spectacle of a star in our galactic backyard that is on the brink of exploding in a supernova. It is so close that if it were to blow up before moving away from us, it could wipe out life on Earth [ 2 Peter 3:12-13 says, "looking for and hastening the coming of the Day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." Also, Revelation 6:13 says, "And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind." (NKJ) ]

Signs in Nature:   Hurricane season off to an early start? Forecasters Thursday were eyeing the beginnings of what could become an unusual out-of-season tropical storm, with a wide area of low pressure accompanied by showers and thunderstorms forming in the northwest Caribbean. The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1 and lasts until November 30. But satellite and surface data suggest the system between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, which was growing more organized, could gain strength during the Memorial Day weekend and possibly become a tropical storm, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Computer models indicated the system would turn more north-northwest over the weekend

Signs in Nature:   Iceberg D-17 calves off Lazarev ice shelf

Signs of Plagues:   Romanian doctors are trying to find out why virtually the entire population of a mountain village has hearing problems

Nephilim:   A gigantic fossilized footprint of a Nephilim has just been found embedded in solid granite in the Cleveland National Forest [ This is the smoking gun for whoever wanted hard proof on ancient giants roaming the earth that the Bible talks about ]    A clear photo is included

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   A controversial billboard proclaiming the pope is the Antichrist remains standing today despite an expired contract prompting a Catholic group to say it's ready to "wage war" over the matter. Larry Weathers, the Oregon barber behind the placard, confirms his yearlong contract ended May 8, and he's now renting the advertising space on a month-to-month basis. "The only way that it's coming down is if it's forced down," Weathers said. "Rome is gonna get enflamed again." The billboard sparking outrage reads "The POPE Is The ANTICHRIST, Free Proof," and provides a website address for more information [ Most probably the Antichrist shall not be the Pope, but the Pope will be the False Prophet ]

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   The bent cross crucifix versus the traditional crucifix. What is behind?

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland has urged the Catholic Church to open up about its growing sex-abuse crisis, but he is now accused of trying to keep sexual assault allegations against himself a secret

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   Milwaukee's Roman Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland admitted on Thursday that he made a financial settlement with a man who said the prelate paid him almost half a million dollars to keep quiet about an attempted sexual assault

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   Bishop J. Kendrick Williams stepped down from pastoral duties Wednesday while the church investigates allegations that he molested an altar boy 21 years ago. Diocese spokesman Tom Shaughnessy said neither Williams nor the diocese would have any further comment on the case

NWO News:   U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says French authorities alerted the FBI in August that the "20th hijacker" had trained in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, according to an intelligence expert -but, again, the U.S. did nothing

NWO News:   The Bush administration is operating from behind a blur of spin. Whether the White House is parrying questions about 9-11 or Social Security, its slick tactics put even Clinton to shame

Nephilim & UFOs:   National Media Sidestep UFOs. It may just come down to the fact that they don't know what's going on, that maybe this is happening and they can't do anything about it. But that's an unacceptable public position when you're trying to project an image of being in control. We found out on Sept. 11 they're not

Rumors of Wars:   Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network appears to have shunted funds into diamonds and gold, and to be using the Internet to get round a freeze on its assets

Rumors of Wars:   Terrorist groups are using the Internet to recruit international suicide bombers, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said yesterday. The Los Angeles-based organization found two sites, one in Iran and the other in Gaza. With a few clicks of a mouse and the keying-in of basic contact information, volunteers can enlist for an attack on the United States or Israel

Rumors of Wars:   Foreign-born Muslim terrorists have used almost every conceivable means of entering the U.S., according to a study released today, which concludes every aspect of the immigration system has been penetrated and, therefore, needs reform [ The West needs to understand before it is too late that Islam is sending herds of savagely cruel silent invaders into our borders with the single objective of creating a substantial fith-column which would help to conquer us for the Satan-ordained religion of Islam. Already we have the bloodiest-thirsty enemy in our livingrooms -by the millions!- and ready to strike, over and over until... ]

Rumors of Wars:   A man fired a shotgun inside the New Orleans airport and wounded two people Wednesday, telling investigators that he opened fire because people made fun of his turban. The suspect was identified as Patrick Gott, 43, of Pensacola, Fla. He said Gott was carrying a Quran and invoked the name of Allah [ See what I mean? What this Muslim was doing with a shutgun in an airport ... to defend his turban? Americans in particular, and Westerners in general, need to have an eye on every Muslim in our communites -and if they get offended by it ... too bad! We should not forget that Rome was conquered by savage barbarians ]

Rumors of Wars:   The CIA has uncovered a detailed propaganda network used by the al-Qaida terrorist group. The U.S. is struggling in its [futile] effort to reach key Muslim audiences

Rumors of Wars:   Trying to anticipate "the most evil mind," the House voted yesterday to spend billions to prepare hospitals and build vaccine stockpiles for a bioterrorism attack and to increase security at borders, laboratories and waterworks. The bioterrorism bill passed the House on a 425-1 vote

Rumors of Wars:   The Bioweaponeers. In the last few years, Russian scientists have invented the world's deadliest plagues. Have we learned about this too late to stop it?

Rumors of Wars:   Missile-carrying Indian naval warships steamed into the Arabian Sea, closer to Pakistan, as military tensions between the two South Asian nuclear neighbours soared, officials here said

Rumors of Wars:   India preparing to strike in Kashmir. Hoping it will not trigger massive retaliatory action by Pakistan

Rumors of Wars:   Mexican soldiers entered U.S. territory Friday in the latest in a series of armed incursions and appear to have shot at a Border Patrol agent

Rumors of Wars:   The INS confirms that an 'Act of War' was committed at the U.S.-Mexican border. This is one of 21 border incursions that have taken place over the last year

End Times Society:   A new Trojan horse called 'JS.Fortnight' redirects Web browsers to porn sites and alters registry settings. The damage from the virus is minimal but potentially embarrassing and upsetting

End Times Society:   The Michael Savage's show tops in San Francisco. It bests 50,000-watt flamethrowers KCBS and KGO on a 5,000-watt KSFO. "What this says about America is people want the blunt truth," explains Savage. "The old-format news is no longer selling"

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   A 31-year-old Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring with five other men to manufacture and distribute the illegal drug commonly known as the "date-rape drug" [ Another Catholic corruption flavor ]

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   Cardinal Bernard F. Law apparently knew of allegations of sexual misconduct against another former priest Paul J. Mahan as early as 1993, before Mahan was temporarily assigned to a Cambridge parish and before he allegedly molested one of his nephews, according to church documents made public yesterday

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   Despite Cardinal Bernard F. Law's public vow to meet victims of clergy sexual abuse, the Boston Archdiocese is routinely ignoring requests for those sessions, victims and their attorneys say

Signs in Nature:   Toxic algae brings deadly spring for marine mammals off the coast of California

Mysterious Signs:   The Kokomo hum. A constant low-frequency hum still haunts residents of Indiana town. It started as a low hum, barely noticeable. But within months, the endless throbbing was like a corkscrew twisting into Diane Anton's temple. The walls of her home vibrated. Her bed shook. Bouts of nausea, short-term memory loss and hand tremors followed. Unidentified sounds that bother a handful of people have popped up in communities around the world, but because so few are affected, the issue hasn't received much attention

Mysterious Signs:   A 7-year-old girl who had half her brain removed, including its speech centre, has astonished doctors by becoming fluent in two languages [ The brain is a important organ (biological tool) but it has been grossly overrated for the sake of Atheism. We ARE NOT a direct consequence of our brain's activity. The brain is just a tool -a receptor from the world of the spirit. Our spirits think and talk, the brain is like the antenna and computer that receives the information from our spirits, and computes which part of the body is going to act upon it -in this case the mouth which acts as a material speaker. This case, where the speech center is gone, but still the person speaks proves it. If evolutionary processes are so flexible in front of needs, why can we not develop wings and fly or a skin that does not get scratched? ]

Roaring Demons:   Cannibals’ recipe. What would make someone kill, then eat, their victim? For accused child murderer Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, killing 10-year-old Zachary Ramsay was not enough —he allegedly had to make "little boy stew". Bar-Jonah, who faces sentencing Thursday for separate sexual assaults on 2 other Montana boys, is expected to face trial for the kidnapping, presumed death and alleged cannibalization of Zachary, who disappeared in February 1996 while on his way to school [ How come some people do not believe in demon possession? ]

Apologetics:   In a fundamental departure from scientific tradition, Stephen Hawking says that God may play dice after all. Famed physicist presents divine-snowball theory for the start of the universe. Of course, God may play dice ... but only if the dice are loaded

Calvin McCarter, a 10-year-old schooled at home in a "reformed Christian" style, yesterday became the youngest winner of the National Geographic Bee

Persecution of Christians:   The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ordered the National Education Association and its state affiliates to stop violating the religious rights of members who disagree with the union's political causes. Some objectors say the NEA's agenda promotes pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality positions and policies that interfere with parental rights

Persecution of Christians:   Law-enforcement officers on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco demanded that a pair of college students walking across the structure as part of a demonstration remove their pro-life T-shirts or be subject to a fine and jail time

Rumors of Wars:   Threat of inminent nuclear war over the Kashmir crisis. Atomic weaponized India 'will go to war after the monsoon' with nuclear Pakistan. Yesterday, India made detailed preparations for war with Pakistan, although senior officers said offensive operations would have to wait until September for the end of searing summer temperatures and the monsoon rain which follows. America and other powers have been lobbying hard to calm the crisis, fearing that such war could quickly result in a nuclear exchange

Rumors of Wars:   Pakistan-backed terrorists accused of being responsible for the killing of Indian senior Hurriyat Conference leader Abdul Ghani Lone at a rally in Srinagar

Rumors of Wars:   The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has said it is "inevitable" terrorists will acquire weapons of mass destruction. "They inevitably are going to get their hands on them and they would not hesitate one minute to use them"

FBI still careless on flight schools. Muslim Arab student pilots, some from terror states, still continue to stream into U.S. after 9-11

Concerns have been raised about inadequate safeguards of uranium used at hundreds of civilian research reactors in 58 countries. There are 345 operating or idle research reactors in these 58 countries that have highly enriched uranium that could be converted for use in a weapon by terrorists if they were to obtain the material. In most cases the uranium was provided by either the U.S. or Russia

Airline pilots may not carry firearms to deter or defend against hijackers, a senior Transportation Department official says [ After some disaster happens they will surely come to tell us that they had no way to imagine how to prevent terrorists from taking control of the cockpit ]

Rumors of Wars:   Landlords and tenants from San Francisco to New York went on alert Monday for suspicious persons and vehicles that could represent a terrorist threat to the nation's apartment buildings. The vigilance came after the FBI notified law enforcement agencies and apartment managers across the nation of intelligence reports that members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist group had discussed renting units in the USA and wiring them with explosives

Rumors of Wars:   The FBI warned officials in New York on Tuesday about uncorroborated information that landmarks, such as the Statue of Liberty, might be targeted by terrorists

NWO News:   An emerging technology could usurp the ubiquitous bar code's quarter-century of quiet domination. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which consist of silicon chips and an antenna that can transmit data to a wireless receiver, could one day be used to track everything from soda cans to cereal boxes ... or you

NWO News:   The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, warned European and American leaders to stop splitting the two continents, amid growing transatlantic rifts ranging from trade to defence and the stance on international conflicts. On the eve of a crucial visit by the American president George Bush to Europe, the British Prime Minister pledged to play the peacemaker to stop anti-American feelings in Europe and anti-European voices in the United States. In an interview with The Times, he admitted that he regarded it as his job to stop people “pulling apart" Europe and America. Tony Blair suggested a forum in which politicians from Europe and the United States could meet to discuss current problems would be welcome

NWO News:   President Bush was preparing Tuesday for his weeklong European tour to reinvigorate allied cooperation in the U.S.-led war on terror and to sign an arms reduction treaty with Russia

NWO News:   Why has the FBI investigation into the Anthrax attacks stalled? The Evidence points one way

End Times Society:   Report finds that American adults without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late. 18,000 without insurance die early

Signs of Famines:   The European Union has announced that it will immediately provide 95,000 tonnes of emergency supplies to famine-threatened Malawi. The country is facing an immediate shortfall of 700,000 tonnes of food, which it says it needs if it is to avert widespread hunger and the deaths of up to three million people. The BBC Africa correspondent, Rageh Omaar, says he saw field after field of dead maize during a recent visit to Malawi, during what should be the harvest season. The U.S. and Britain have also pledged food aid

Signs in Nature:   Planet Earth is going through its 6th and probably its most devastating period of mass extinction with scores, and possibly hundreds of species of animals and plants dying out each year

Nephilim:   Several dozens of Perm citizens in Russia saw an UFO flying over Energia stadium situated in the centre of the city. One of the witnesses, former military possessing flying training found difficulty in identifying the object with known to him flying devices constructed on the Earth

Nephilim:   Bigfoot may have a bigger foothold in the Bluegrass state than previously believed. That's the word from an Ohio-based geneticist, John Lewis, who recently analyzed hair clippings of a strange creature living in Kentucky and believes they may be Bigfoot in origin. Although Lewis says he's been able to determine the so-called 'Bigfoot bangs' are "hominid," he says they are closer to Bonobo apes than humans

Science for Evil:   The odds for extraterrestrial life on Earth-like planets will be put at 1-in-3 in a soon-to-be published report in the journal Astrobiology, but the smartest earthlings have no clue what that life might look like or where to find it. In fact, at a meeting earlier this month of about 100 chemists, biologists, astronomers and other highly evolved thinkers interested in finding extraterrestrial life -the scientists were said by one attendee to be the cream of the crop in their respective fields- none could even say how the simplest life begins

Science for Evil:   Does a U.S. University owns cloned humans? A U.S. biotechnology watchdog has discovered a patent giving ownership of cloned human beings to a U.S. university

Science for Evil:   The cash-strapped state Medical Examiner's Office has a secret contract with a company that harvests body parts from donors without telling their next-of-kin the remains are often used for lucrative cosmetic surgery

Science for Evil:   Scientists may soon be downloading our DNA from Kazaa and Audiogalaxy, if a California biotech firm has its way. Companies doing genomic research, like Redwood City's Maxygen, have a problem. To make money, the companies feel they need to control the rights to the DNA sequences they uncover

Violence & Cruelty:   2 men claiming to be child-welfare workers attempt to abduct a Florida baby

Violence & Cruelty:   The New York Mafia has begun an unprecedented recruitment drive because deaths, defections and FBI action have cut the number of "wise guys" by more than 10% in a year. Numbers on the streets fell from 634 to 570 during 2000, according to the FBI, prompting the Italian crime families that still run many of the city's drugs, gambling, extortion and prostitution rackets to "open the books" to new members

Violence & Cruelty:   A man kills his germ-obsessed wife. He was afraid that she would commit suicide if he left her

Violence & Cruelty:   A pretty 13-year-old Connecticut cheerleader who mysteriously vanished last week was found strangled in a Greenwich ravine yesterday. Her cyber-suitor has confessed to her sickening murder

Violence & Cruelty:   A man dressed as a Buddhist monk and wielding an AK-47 assault rifle was arrested after he took 30 hostages at a security checkpoint on the grounds of Thailand's parliament building in Bangkok

Satanism & Witchcraft:   A new form of tourism is emerging. Haiti voodoo tourism

The new supertanker plague. Blame it on super-rust, a virulent form of corrosion that has destroyed hundreds of ships and could sink the oil industry

Chickens could fly even faster to the dinner table if an Israeli geneticist gets his way and develops a featherless fowl. Avigdor Cahaner, from Israel’s Hebrew University, has crossbred a small, bare-skinned bird with a regular boiler chicken as part of a research project to develop a succulent, low fat poultry that is environmentally friendly

Self-castrated Roman transvestite priest is unearthed in archeological dig

Neuchâtel has made a name for itself as the home of the world’s first known robots, dating back to the 1700s

Apologetics:   Home-Schoolers find an intact dinosaur skeleton. A dinosaur fossil expedition for home educators has excavated a large, rare, intact allosaurus, a discovery that organizers say helps debunk the theory of evolution. Under the leadership of Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum and an adjunct professor of apologetics with the Institute for Creation Research , and Peter DeRosa, a veteran archaeologist and paleontologist with Creation Expeditions, the team of 30 home schoolers spent a week earlier this month hunting for and excavating fossils in a privately owned location in the Skullcreek Basin of northwest Colorado. DeRosa commented on the possible time of death of the giant animal. "The evidence strongly points to a relatively recent and catastrophic event similar to that described in the Bible as the flood of Noah's day"

Persecution of Christians:   Saudi Arabian authorities have deported two Filipino Christians after the pair spent more than a month in prison for possession of a Bible and some Christian CDs, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide as reported by Assist News Service . The Bible and CDs were found, says CSW, when police raided the room of Danilo de Guzman, 38, and Benjamin Diaz, 40, in Abqaiq on March 29, 2001

False Messiahs:   The Dalai Lama has questioned whether the war on terrorism was the best response to the 9-11 attacks by Osama bin Laden. Less than a week after the terrorist jetliner bombings, Tibet's spiritual and political chief-deceiver suggested diplomats meet those responsible to discuss the frustrations that led to the attacks. A month later, after addressing the European Parliament, the Nobel laureate [Arafat is also a Nobel laureate] again called for a non-violent approach. But at a press conference in Melbourne today, the Dalai Lama admitted that talking to the al-Qaeda leader would probably achieve little. He could not suggest a short-term solution to the terrorist threat, but he warned the war on terrorism could backfire [ This coward lost his country to Communist invaders from China without putting any opposition. He went to exil to live in oppulence while his population has died and languished for decades to this day. He'd better shut up and gather some honor and responsibility for himself ]

Toward the 'Great Apostasy':   Four sue cardinal over sexual abuse. Cardinal Roger Mahony is accused of protecting a priest who allegedly molested several children in the nation's largest archdiocese

Like in the 'Days of Noah':   Planned Parenthood concealing crimes? Investigation says sex by men with underage girls is 'epidemic'

Like in the 'Days of Noah':   A stripper mom dancing over the line

Why are U.S. universities moral wastelands?

End Times Society:   Death penalty and the new racism

NWO News:   A unified Cyprus is essential for European unity. The U.N. is at work on it

NWO News:   The House is expected to vote soon on a permanent world tribunal, the International Criminal Court (ICC), recently the centerpiece of a lavish champagne celebration at the United Nations. The court threatens our sovereignty, our leaders and our troops

NWO News:   The European Commission will make radical proposals this week on future EU reforms, which is likely to upset a number of EU member state capitals. In its long awaited contribution to the Convention on the future of Europe, the Commission requires the lead of the foreign affairs policy and of the economic policy of the fifteen. The Commission's paper also includes a controversial call towards a two-speed Europe in which rich countries in the eurozone could decide on their own economic policies and financial rules

NWO News:   Attorney General John Ashcroft and the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, were told a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks that the F.B.I. had received a memorandum from its Phoenix office the previous July warning that Osama bin Laden's followers could be training at American flight schools, government officials said today. But senior Bush administration officials said neither Mr. Ashcroft nor Mr. Mueller briefed President Bush and his national security staff until recently about the Phoenix memorandum. Nor did they tell Congressional leaders [ Is this a typical case of 'plausible diniability'? ]

Signs of Famines:   Swaziland has appealed for urgent food aid for its 200,000 people who are on the verge of starvation

Signs of Famines:   Farmers in this Guatemalan town are tired of waiting for rain and fear a second year of severe drought may be on its way, sending a new wave of starving children into the region's clinics

Signs in Nature:   India baked in a heat wave Friday so intense that mud huts became as hot as ovens and birds in trees dropped dead

Signs in Nature:   Nearly 150 people have been killed and nearly 175 000 forced to flee their homes in eastern Africa because of torrential downpours in the region, official statistics released on Monday said. With 68 dead and 150 000 displaced, Kenya has been hit hardest by the storms, which have caused landslides and floods along Africa's eastern coast

Signs in Nature:   The Earth is heating up. The early warning signs are in. Click on the map to find out where it's happening

Signs in Nature:   The National Hurricane Center is predicting 6 to 8 hurricanes in the Atlantic in the coming season, slightly above average

Signs in Nature:   A new iceberg nearly as large as Chesapeake Bay has broken away from Antarctica. The National Ice Center reported Wednesday that the berg, named C-19, had split off and was afloat next to Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf. C-19 measures 124 miles long and 19.5 miles wide, or about 2,400 square miles. Chesapeake Bay is 2,747 square miles

The Bush administration is seeking to restrict protections for marine mammals as part of a sweeping proposal to exempt the military from key provisions of environmental legislation.The Pentagon's proposed changes to six landmark environmental laws were presented to Congress in briefings Thursday

Signs of Plagues:   Every year, a quarter of a million people in the US may become infected with hepatitis A -nearly 10 times the number of cases that are reported to the federal government. What's more, the majority of these cases may occur in children under the age of 10

Like in the 'Days of Noah':   Little children featured at Northampton's 'Gay Pride' parade

Rumors of Wars:   FBI Director Robert Mueller predicted yesterday that suicide bombers, similar to those afflicting Israelis, would soon strike in the U.S.

Rumors of Wars:   Leaders representing the al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hizbullah gangs met in Lebanon at the end of March to discuss future joint terror activity. According to an ABC News report, it is feared that the three groups may be planning a new around of attacks against American, British, and other Western targets

Rumors of Wars:   President Bush risks sparking a new row with Europe this week when he calls for Europe’s support for expanding his War on Terror to include the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. On the eve of his six-day trip to Russia and Western Europe, the White House said that he would use his visit to Berlin, where he is due to make a keynote address to the Reichstag, to urge backing for the removal of the Iraqi dictator and his weapons of mass destruction

Rumors of Wars:   U.S. President George W. Bush intends to press Russian President Vladimir Putin this week on U.S. concerns that Russia is contributing to a weapons proliferation problem by helping Iran build a nuclear plant, a top Bush aide said on Monday. Bush leaves on Wednesday on a weeklong trip that will take him to Berlin, Germany and Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia. He will also travel to Paris and the Normandy beaches in France, and to Rome where he will visit the Vatican

Rumors of Wars:   It is a fateful and frightful coincidence that an India-Pakistan conflict should seem imminent on the 4th anniversary of their nuclear tests. India has cranked up its military machine, already on high alert for four months

Rumors of Wars:   India has ousted Pakistan's ambassador as cross-border shelling between the nuclear-armed neighbours escalated in the disputed Kashmir province, heightening fears that the two rivals are on the brink of war. Thousands of people were fleeing their homes as Indian and Pakistani troops engaged heavy weaponry to target each other

Rumors of Wars:   The U.S. lacks emergency-response antidotes for children in case of a nerve-gas attack, according to the U.S. Army neurologist in charge of preparing the nation's biochemical defenses

Rumors of Wars:   The Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged today it erroneously concluded that Gulf War veterans who escaped exposure to nerve gas were dying at a higher rate than those who were exposed. The study concluded that soldiers who escaped exposure were dying at a rate 10 times higher than those believed to have been exposed to low levels of toxic gas

Rumors of Wars:   Russia asserts that Middle East allies of Chechen insurgents have sent intelligence agents to spy on Moscow. Russian intelligence officials said the Chechen allies include Jordan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The officials said Iran's support for Chechens has been extended despite Teheran's pledge to stay out of Russian affairs. Cases have been discovered where Chechen extremists were supported by people working for the intelligence services of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran and Pakistan

Rumors of Wars:   The former head of Russia's biological weapons program and the man considered to be the foremost expert in the field of bioweapons told NewsMax he has "strong suspicions" that Cuba is developing deadly pathogens.Questions about Cuba's biological development program were defined recently by three separate charges

Rumors of Wars:   Denouncing Fidel Castro as a brutal dictator, President Bush said Monday he won't budge toward easing restrictions on trade and travel with Cuba until its communist regime allows free and fair elections and begins to adopt meaningful economic reform

Rumors of Wars:   The Cuban authorities have angrily dismissed remarks by US President Geroge W Bush, in which he reaffirmed his commitment to maintain the trade embargo against Havana. President Bush set out a list of conditions which he said had to be met by President Fidel Castro's government in order for the embargo to be eased

Rumors of Wars:   The U.S. has issued its harshest warning to Libya and Syria to end their weapons of mass destruction programs

Rumors of Wars:   The U.S. has approved the sale of missile and rocket motors for the Saudi Air Force [ Are we idiots? Please, do not answer this question ]

Rumors of Wars:   Sunday, the Board of Directors of the 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' moved the minute hand of the 'Doomsday Clock,' the symbol of nuclear danger, from 9 to 7 minutes to midnight, the same setting at which the clock debuted 55 years ago. Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, this is the 3rd time the hand has moved forward

As experts examine a tape of Osama bin Laden for clues about his whereabouts, ABCNEWS has learned that intelligence reports indicate the world's most wanted man may have received medical treatment in Pakistan after the U.S. military offensive in Afghanistan

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