Terror, Iran, North Korea Top List of Threats

Terror remains the No. 1 threat to the United States and its interests, the new U.S. director of national intelligence said in congressional testimony yesterday.

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Retired Navy Vice Adm. John M. “Mike” McConnell gave a tour of the world from a threat level.

Al Qaeda remains the terrorist network that poses the greatest threat to the United States, he said. “While many of al Qaeda’s senior leadership have been killed or captured, its core elements are resilient,” he said. “They continue to plot attacks against the homeland and other targets with the aim of inflicting mass casualties.”

Al Qaeda and other terror groups continue to seek chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons or materials, he said. “Al Qaeda also is forging stronger operational connections that radiate outward from their camps in Pakistan to affiliated groups and networks throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Europe,” the admiral said.

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Iraqi Army Detains 16 Suspects; Insurgents Kill 15 Civilians

Special Iraqi army forces detained 16 suspected militiamen during operations today with coalition advisors in Sadr City, and insurgents killed 15 Iraqis and wounded nine in a car-bomb attack in Ramadi yesterday.

The operations in Sadr City were targeting the leadership of several rogue militia cells operating against Iraqi civilians, officials said.

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U.S.: Large Cache of Weapons Discovered in Iraq Traceable to Iran

BAQOUBA, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces have seized a large weapons cache that includes parts for sophisticated roadside bombs that are believed to originate in Iran, U.S. military investigators said.

Military officials said that the arsenal is one of the biggest found north of the Iraqi capital and contains components for so-called EFPs — explosively formed projectiles that fire a slug of molten metal that can penetrate armored vehicles.

The U.S. military has said elite Iranian corps are funneling EFPs to Shiite militias in Iraq for use against American troops.

Earlier this month, U.S. officials showed reporters in Baghdad pieces of EFPs they said were directly traceable to Iran.

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The root cause of the problems in society.

Rebellion

A rebellion is, in the most general sense, a refusal to accept authority. It may therefore be seen as encompassing a range of behaviours from civil disobedience to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority. It is often used in reference to armed resistance against an established government, but can also refer to mass nonviolent resistance movements. Those who participate in rebellions are known as “rebels”.

1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

 

sedition

1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.

2. any action, esp. in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.

3. Archaic. rebellious disorder.

treason

1. the offense of acting to overthrow one’s government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

2. a violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.

3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

Free-Thinkers

Those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and accepting no dogmatic teaching on the ground of authority, base their beliefs on the unfettered findings of reason alone. Free-thought, of which they make a profession, is an exaggerated form, though a quite logical development of the doctrine of private judgement in religious matters. The free-thinker holds such principles, whether of truth or of action, as he is persuaded he can prove; and he gives assent to no others. He is a rationalist. But since the persuasion of having proved (or of being able to prove) even the doctrines of natural religion by reason alone varies infinitely with the individual, it is difficult, save on the most general lines, to class free thinkers together. This difficulty is apparent in the case of the Deists, to whom the appellation was characteristically applied in the latter end of the seventeenth century. They all agree however, in refusing to accept the doctrines of an authoritative Christianity; and it is on this negative ground that their position is most clearly defined.

So as a society who at one time held fast to a Biblical moral compass have now degraded to a fearless, disrespectful, carefree, irresponsible hate filled people who blame everyone else but themselves for every failure in life. Crimes that were not imaginable 30 plus years ago are now splashed on the TV screens on a daily basis. Our children are not safe in schools are not safe walking home from schools. Our children are being raised to question authority instead of respect it. Our children are being taught to question laws instead of obey them and we wonder why we are the way we are.

Free thought is good as long as you exercise common sense.

Who like to go to public places with unruly children who run a scream loudly and curse their parents?

Teaching children to disobey and think freely without a moral compass is on the parents head. The parents are responsible for the rebellion they have put in their child’s heart.

Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Being liberal has consequences whether you believe it or not.

A time will come when the people are going to want change and desire the way things used to be before rebellion set in. The people are going to turn to a system that works and is the foundation of civil law.

Denying wisdom because you don’t believe in God is wrong.

Look at the signs of the times and tell me your way is working.

 

 

Report: Britain’s Terror Threat Worst Since Sept. 11

LONDON - The threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than any time since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, a British Sunday newspaper reported, citing a leaked intelligence document.

More than 2,000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks, according to a government threat assessment prepared this month, which The Sunday Telegraph said it had seen.

“The scale of Al Qaeda’s ambitions towards attacking the U.K. and the number of U.K. extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged,” the newspaper quoted the document as saying.

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An Iraqi girl shows her support outside a dental clinic in Shulla, Iraq, Feb. 20, 2007.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Martin K. Newton)

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Two U.S. men named in suspected terrorism plot

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two more U.S. citizens have been indicted in a connection with a suspected plot to carry out a holy war against American troops in Iraq.

The indictments, announced by the U.S. attorney’s office in Cleveland on Wednesday, are part of an investigation into a suspected conspiracy that began in November, 2004, in which three others were previously named, officials said.

Zubair Ahmed, 27, and his cousin, Khaleel Ahmed, 26, both of Chicago, were named in the latest indictments and arrested on Wednesday. They were accused of plotting to “kill, kidnap or maim persons outside of the United States (including) U.S. military personnel serving in Iraq.”

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Second Iraq ‘Mystery Weapon’ More ‘Nefarious’ Than the First

 

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A second mystery weapon found in a Mosul weapons cache in 2005.

A mysterious green cantaloupe-sized metal ball with an unknown firing device, found in 2005 by GIs and a freelance journalist in Mosul, Iraq, is confounding weapons experts trying to pinpoint its origin.

Dubbed “Mystery Weapon 2″ by Iraq-based journalist Michael Yon, the orb was found under a barn among a weapons stockpile that was later destroyed by the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment.

“If there’s anything that, honest to God, could have nefarious overtones, it’s that, because nobody was able to tell what it was,” Yon said.

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Remember the Pledge?

I think that at this point in our time with division in our land that we the people should pledge allegiance to the Flag and remember we are indivisible and one Nation under God.

What has happen to our Nation? Unfortunately there is a trend of questioning authority without the use of common sense. Common sense is not taught in school and must not be taught at home in some cases.

It is our RIGHT to believe in GOD. It is our RIGHT and DUTY to support our President.

We need to pledge as ONE Nation under God as we did before this Country lost its moral compass.

A Country divided will not stand. Remember the United we stand symbolism after 911?

Remember the flags could not be manufactured fast enough for demand?

My how some of us have forgotten.

God has not forgotten us.

Cheney: Terrorists See Breaking America’s Will as Road to Victory

 

(Vice President Dick Cheney waves to the audience after speaking to military personnel, family members and Department of Defense civilian employees during a visit to the USS Kitty Hawk, Yokosuka, Japan, Feb. 21, 2007. Cheney is in Japan during a week-long tour of the Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Kyle D. Gahlau)

Terrorists know they can’t defeat the United States militarily, so they seek instead to break the nation’s will, Vice President Dick Cheney told the crew of the USS Kitty Hawk today.

Cheney spoke aboard the aircraft carrier in Japan, one stop on a swing through the Pacific.

“The only way (terrorists) can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission,” Cheney said. “So they continue committing acts of random horror, believing they can intimidate the civilized world and break the will of the American people.”

Terrorists have made Iraq the central front of the struggle, Cheney told the Kitty Hawk’s crew, and are well aware of the stakes there.

“If the terrorists were to succeed, they would return Iraq to the rule of tyrants, make it a source of instability in the Middle East, and use it as a staging area for even more attacks,” he said. “The terrorists also know that as freedom takes hold, the ideologies of hatred and resentment will lose their appeal, and the advance of liberty and self government in the broader Middle East will lead to a much safer world for our children and our grandchildren.

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