Tuesday, January 13, 2015

WHAT IS REALLY BEHIND THESE WESTERN ISLAMIC RADICAL TERRORIST ATTACKS

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)

ISAIAH 34:10
10  It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29  And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30  The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31  One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32  And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:3-6,19-21
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,(U.S.A) and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,(U.S.A) and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,(AMERICA) my people,(CHRISTIANS,JEWS) that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her (AMERICA-NEW YORK) even as she rewarded you,(WITH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM) and double unto her double according to her works:(DOUBLE-EMP 1ST,THEN RUSSIA NUKE ATTACKS U.S.A) in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.(PROBABLY A RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK WILL SET THE WHOLE SITUATION UP AS RUSSIA HACKS THE USA ARMY COMPUTERS.THEN THE EMP,THEN THE NUKE ATTACK)
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

SO AL-AWALAKI WAS THE LEADER WHO TRAINS AND LEADS ALL THE TERRORISTS. AL-AWALKI THEN GOES PLOTS TERRORIST ATTACKS WITH THE WHITE HOUSE. AL- AWLKI THEN GETS THE PLOTS SET UP.THE STOOL PIGEON ISLAMIC TERROR ISTS GET CONNED IN TO BEING USED BY THE US GOVERNMENT LEAD BY AL- AWALKI. THE US PUTS ALL THESE MUSLIM STOOL PIGEONS ON TERROR LISTS.THEN THE US ALLOWES THESE STOOL PIGEON ISLAMIC RADICALS TO GO ON PLANES ALL AROUND  THE WORLD TO DO THESE TERROR ATTACKS.AND THE US CAN EASILY COVER UP ITS ACTIONS.BECAUSE SINCE THESE ISLAMIC STOOL PIGEONS GLADLY KILL THEMSELVES IN THE NAME OF ALLAH.THE US CAN EASILY GET AWAY WITH SETTING THE TERRORIST ATTACK UP.AND THE CITIZENS GET THEIR RIGHTS STOLEN FROM THEM AS A RESULT OF THE TERROR ATTACKS. BUT ALL IT IS-IS THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WANTING TO STEAL ALL THE RIGHTS FROM EVERY BODY IN THE WEST.AND THEN THE WESTERN GOVERN MENTS.ALL MAKE UP TERROR LAWS.TO CONTROL AND WATCH EVERY CITIZEN. MEANWHILE IT WAS THE US GOVERNMENT WITH THE HELP FROM THE BIDDING OF THE PUPPET STOOL PIGEON ISLAMIC RADICAL MUSLIMS.THAT SET THE WHOLE THING UP.THEN AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACK.TO MAKE SURE AND COVER IT UP.THE US GOVERNMENT HAS TO SAY THE TERRORISTS THEN SAYS THAT THEY WILL BE COMING AFTER THE WEST AGAIN.JUST LIKE THEY ARE DOING WITH THIS FRANCE TERRORIST ATTACK. NOW THE US GOVERNMENT ARE SAYING THAT ISIS IS COMING AFTER GOVERN MENT OFFICIALS.CIVILIANS,POLICE.THIS WORKS BOTH WAYS FOR THE US TO SET UP MORE ISLAMIC STOOL PIGEON RADICAL LOSERS.FOR MORE TERROR ATTACKS. AS WELL AS COVERING UP THE CURRENT TERRORIST ATTACK.BY BLAMING IT ON A CURRENT TERROR GROUP ISIS.IS COMING TO GET THE WEST AGAIN.SO WE SEE HOW THE US GOVERNMENT CAN KEEP THE CHARADE GOING.BY DOING THE TERROR ATTACK.COVERING IT UP BY SAYING.THE TERRORISTS ARE GONNA CONTINUE TO GET THE WEST.THEN THE TERROTISTS GET TO DO WHAT EVER THEY WANT.AND THE WESTERN COUNTRIES LOSE THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS AND FREE SPEECH AS A RESULT OF THE TERROR ATTACK.SO ITS ALL JUST A GAME TO GET TOTAL CONTROL OF ALL THE WESTERN CITIZENS.AND TO SET UP THE RADICAL STOOL PIGEON TERRORISTS INTO DOING THE BIDING FOR THE US ADMINI STRATION.OR WHATEVER WESTERN COUNTRY NEEDS THEIR CITIZENS UNDER CONTROL FOR SOME REASON.AND NOW WE KNOW WHY THE WESTERN LEADERS ALL CLAIM THESE TERRORIST ATTACKS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM.AND WHY THEY SAY ISLAM IS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION.AND THATS WHY-NO MATTER HOW MANY ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACKS OCCUR ON THE WESTERN COUNTRIES.THE WESTERN COUNTRIES WILL STILL ALLOWS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ISLAMIC MUSLIMS TO COME TO WESTERN COUNTRIES EACH YEAR BY WAY OF IMMIGRATION.IF THE WESTERN COUNTRIES REALLY WANTED TO STOP THESE TERRORIST ATTACKS.THEY WOULD STOP ALL MUSLIMS FROM COMING TO WESTERN COUNTRIES.AND GET EVERY MUSLIM WHO IS A RADICAL IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES OUT OF OUR COUNTRIES.AND SHUT DOWN ALL MOSQUES IN THE WESTERN COUN TRIES THAT PREACH ANY KIND OF WESTERN HATE AT ALL.SO UNTIL THESE THINGS OCCUR IN WESTERN COUNTRIES.THE TERRORIST ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE. AND ISLAMIC RADICALS WILL INFILTRATE THE WESTERN COUNTRIES.AND UNTIL THE WESTERN LEADERS SAY-ISLAM IS NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION.NOTHING WILL CHANGE. AND THE WESTERN COUNTRIES WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE INNOCENT PEOPLE.TO THESE MURDERERS.AND THE WESTERN CITIZENS WILL HAVE NO RIGHTS OR FREE SPEECH LEFT AT ALL.AS A RESULT OF THE TERRORISTS.BUT ISLAM WILL BE ABLE TO BEHEAD-RIOT-BURN-KILL-TERRORIZE AND RUN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES UNDER THEIR DOMI NATION.UNDER SHARIA LAW.

BUT THANK GOD THE BIBLE SAYS ISRAEL WILL TAKE CARE OF THESE ISLAMIC RADICAL MURDERER COUNTRIES.WHO KILL THE INNOCENT CITIZENS WORLD WIDE.SINCE THE WEST WILL DO NOTHING TO STOP THE ISLAMIC BARBARIAN RADICAL MUSLIM - ALLAH-A-BAR-SEX FOR MURDER CULT OF RADICAL MUSLIM PUPPET STOOL PIGEON TERRORISTS.BUT AS YOU SEE FROM THE BIBLE SCRIP TURES ABOVE.AMERICA WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THEIR WHORING WITH ISLAMIC RADICALS FOREVER.AS RUSSIA WILL TAKE OVER AMERICAS ROLE WITH RADICAL MUSLIMS.AND THEN PUTIN WILL BE USING ISLAMIC RADICALS TO DO THEIR BIDDING AGAINST THE WEST.AND THEN PUTIN CAN USE AN ATOMIC BOMB ON NEW YORK OR VARIOUS AMERICAN COUNTRIES. LIKE THEY SAY.WHAT GOES AROUND AMERICA.COMES AROUND AMERICA.AND WHATEVER OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES THAT USE THESE ISLAMIC RADICALS.TO STEAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS FROM THEIR CITIZENS.AS A RESULT OF THESE TERRORIST ATTACKS.


WARNING AGAINST WEST OF MORE SLEEPER CELLS
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/11/al-qaeda-turncoat-who-helped-us-nail-al-awlaki-warns-more-sleeper-cells/
   
Opinion-Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.-By DAVID K. SHIPLER-Published: April 28, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidBrYAdvPg
THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.When an Oregon college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, thought of using a car bomb to attack a festive Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving, with Mr. Mohamud in the passenger seat. To trigger the bomb the student punched a number into a cellphone and got no boom, only a bust.This is legal, but is it legitimate? Without the F.B.I., would the culprits commit violence on their own? Is cultivating potential terrorists the best use of the manpower designed to find the real ones? Judging by their official answers, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are sure of themselves — too sure, perhaps.Carefully orchestrated sting operations usually hold up in court. Defendants invariably claim entrapment and almost always lose, because the law requires that they show no predisposition to commit the crime, even when induced by government agents. To underscore their predisposition, many suspects are “warned about the seriousness of their plots and given opportunities to back out,” said Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman. But not always, recorded conversations show. Sometimes they are coaxed to continue.Undercover operations, long practiced by the F.B.I., have become a mainstay of counterterrorism, and they have changed in response to the post-9/11 focus on prevention. “Prior to 9/11 it would be very unusual for the F.B.I. to present a crime opportunity that wasn’t in the scope of the activities that a person was already involved in,” said Mike German of the American Civil Liberties Union, a lawyer and former F.B.I. agent who infiltrated white supremacist groups. An alleged drug dealer would be set up to sell drugs to an undercover agent, an arms trafficker to sell weapons. That still happens routinely, but less so in counterterrorism, and for good reason.“There isn’t a business of terrorism in the United States, thank God,” a former federal prosecutor, David Raskin, explained.“You’re not going to be able to go to a street corner and find somebody who’s already blown something up,” he said. Therefore, the usual goal is not “to find somebody who’s already engaged in terrorism but find somebody who would jump at the opportunity if a real terrorist showed up in town.”

And that’s the gray area. Who is susceptible? Anyone who plays along with the agents, apparently. Once the snare is set, law enforcement sees no choice. “Ignoring such threats is not an option,” Mr. Boyd argued, “given the possibility that the suspect could act alone at any time or find someone else willing to help him.”Typically, the stings initially target suspects for pure speech — comments to an informer outside a mosque, angry postings on Web sites, e-mails with radicals overseas — then woo them into relationships with informers, who are often convicted felons working in exchange for leniency, or with F.B.I. agents posing as members of Al Qaeda or other groups.Some targets have previous involvement in more than idle talk: for example, Waad Ramadan Alwan, an Iraqi in Kentucky, whose fingerprints were found on an unexploded roadside bomb near Bayji, Iraq, and Raja Khan of Chicago, who had sent funds to an Al Qaeda leader in Pakistan.But others seem ambivalent, incompetent and adrift, like hapless wannabes looking for a cause that the informer or undercover agent skillfully helps them find. Take the Stinger missile defendant James Cromitie, a low-level drug dealer with a criminal record that included no violence or hate crime, despite his rants against Jews. “He was searching for answers within his Islamic faith,” said his lawyer, Clinton W. Calhoun III, who has appealed his conviction. “And this informant, I think, twisted that search in a really pretty awful way, sort of misdirected Cromitie in his search and turned him towards violence.”THE informer, Shahed Hussain, had been charged with fraud, but avoided prison and deportation by working undercover in another investigation. He was being paid by the F.B.I. to pose as a wealthy Pakistani with ties to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a terrorist group that Mr. Cromitie apparently had never heard of before they met by chance in the parking lot of a mosque.“Brother, did you ever try to do anything for the cause of Islam?” Mr. Hussain asked at one point.“O.K., brother,” Mr. Cromitie replied warily, “where you going with this, brother?”Two days later, the informer told him, “Allah has more work for you to do,” and added, “Revelation is going to come in your dreams that you have to do this thing, O.K.?” About 15 minutes later, Mr. Hussain proposed the idea of using missiles, saying he could get them in a container from China. Mr. Cromitie laughed.Reading hundreds of pages of transcripts of the recorded conversations is like looking at the inkblots of a Rorschach test. Patterns of willingness and hesitation overlap and merge. “I don’t want anyone to get hurt,” Mr. Cromitie said, and then explained that he meant women and children. “I don’t care if it’s a whole synagogue of men.” It took 11 months of meandering discussion and a promise of $250,000 to lead him, with three co-conspirators he recruited, to plant fake bombs at two Riverdale synagogues.“Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope,” said Judge Colleen McMahon, sentencing him to 25 years. She branded it a “fantasy terror operation” but called his attempt “beyond despicable” and rejected his claim of entrapment.The judge’s statement was unusual, but Mr. Cromitie’s characteristics were not. His incompetence and ambivalence could be found among other aspiring terrorists whose grandiose plans were nurtured by law enforcement. They included men who wanted to attack fuel lines at Kennedy International Airport; destroy the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago; carry out a suicide bombing near Tampa Bay, Fla., and bomb subways in New York and Washington. Of the 22 most frightening plans for attacks since 9/11 on American soil, 14 were developed in sting operations.Another New York City subway plot, which recently went to trial, needed no help from government. Nor did a bombing attempt in Times Square, the abortive underwear bombing in a jetliner over Detroit, a planned attack on Fort Dix, N.J., and several smaller efforts. Some threats are real, others less so. In terrorism, it’s not easy to tell the difference.David K. Shipler is the author of “Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America.”A version of this op-ed appeared in print on April 29, 2012, on page SR4 of the New York edition with the headline: Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I..

The American who inspires terror from Paris to the U.S.By Peter Bergen-Updated 12:18 PM ET, Mon January 12, 2015-cnn

(CNN)The deadliest jihadist terrorist attack in Europe in a decade was inspired and perhaps even was instigated by an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in a CIA drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
One of the Kouachi brothers, who mounted the attack last week on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, cited al-Awlaki as his operational commander. Before he died on Friday, one of the brothers told a French news network, "I was sent, me, Cherif Kouachi, by al Qaeda in Yemen. I went there and Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki financed my trip."U.S. officials say that the other Kouachi brother, Said, spent several months in Yemen in 2011, receiving training from al Qaeda.Al-Awlaki was both the instigator of the al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen's plots to attack the West and also one of the most influential clerics in the world of militant Islam. Indeed, al-Awlaki is the key influence behind many of the major terrorist attacks and plots of the past half decade in the West, and he has continued to retain that influence even after President Barack Obama made the decision five years ago to kill him with a drone strike.Awlaki is the key influence behind many of the major terrorist attacks and plots of the past half decade in the West.Al-Awlaki was an influence on the two Tsarnaev brothers, who are alleged to have killed three people at the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.He also influenced Carlos Bledsoe, who shot up an Army recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas, killing an American soldier in 2009. After the attacks, Bledsoe said his spiritual inspiration was al-Awlaki. Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 after sending 18 emails to al-Awlaki in Yemen, a correspondence that was known to the FBI. Al-Awlaki did not direct this attack, but he was the key inspiration for Hasan.The "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab was directed by al-Awlaki to bring down an American jet over an American city in the fall of 2009. In the days following Abdul Mutallab's Christmas Day 2009 botched attack to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit with a bomb concealed in his underwear, it became clear from AbdulMuttalab's FBI interrogations that it was al-Awlaki who had ordered the young Nigerian man to carry out the operation.

Al-Awlaki's influence

What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric, so he could present himself as a leading religious figure. Second, because al-Awlaki had spent much of his adult life in the States, he communicated with his followers in colloquial, accessible American English.At one point, he said that, "Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie." Third, his sermons were made widely available on YouTube and, indeed they continue to be available.Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University. Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained there for much of his adult life.As an undergrad, he attended Colorado State to study engineering.Al-Awlaki also started attending San Diego State, where he earned a master's degree in education. In San Diego, al-Awlaki encountered two men who, together with their 17 comrades, would transform American history. They were Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.The CIA was tracking Mihdhar and Hazmi from the time that they attended an al Qaeda summit in Malaysia on January 5, 2000. Ten days after the meeting in Malaysia, on January 15, 2000, they flew into Los Angeles. They also started spending time with al-Awlaki. Indeed, al-Awlaki wrote a check to Hazmi for $175 three months before the 9/11 attacks.After the attacks on New York and Washington, these suspicious contacts made al-Awlaki the subject of intense FBI interest. The 9/11 attacks happened on a Tuesday. By Saturday, the FBI was knocking on al-Awlaki's door. FBI agents also met with al-Awlaki on three other occasions, and they secretly trailed his white Dodge Caravan for many weeks afterwards.At the time, the FBI couldn't determine whether al-Awlaki was someone who just had happened to encounter a number of nefarious individuals on a regular basis in the years before 9/11 or whether there was something more sinister about the cleric's social circle. By early spring 2002, al-Awlaki was studying in a doctoral program at George Washington University in Washington, but he decided to leave the country.Al-Awlaki arrived in London in March 2002 and found a more congenial environment than in the States. The city was sometimes referred to as "Londonistan" because of the relatively large number of Islamist militants living there and permissive British laws regarding free speech.

Imprisonment in Yemen

After two years in London, al-Awlaki traveled back to Yemen. In 2006, he was thrown into a Yemeni jail. Al-Awlaki characterized this as the result of his intervention into one of Yemen's numerous, and often deadly, tribal disputes. The U.S. government asserted that his imprisonment, in fact, came after al-Awlaki became involved in an al Qaeda plot to kidnap a U.S. official.During this period, the FBI's interest in al-Awlaki remained high, and FBI agents interrogated the cleric while he was in the Yemeni prison. In December 2007, al-Awlaki was released. Those who knew al-Awlaki found him to have emerged hardened after his time in jail.By the time al-Awlaki was released, he was becoming the key cleric in the English-speaking world of radical Islam, one that militants were turning too for answers. Osama bin Laden was still the overall inspirational head of the al Qaeda network, but he remained inaccessible in his hideout in Pakistan, whereas for militants in the West, you could chat with al-Awlaki though his website and in colloquial English to boot.Of the some 250 individuals charged or convicted of involvement of some kind of jihadist terrorist activity in the United States following the 9/11 attacks, an astonishing 62 were found to have al-Awlaki's writings or sermons in their possession or cited him as an influence and a further six corresponded with him or traveled to Yemen to meet with him, according to a count by New America.

The drone debate

Following the Christmas Day plot, al-Awlaki's role as the leader of al Qaeda in Yemen's plans to target the United States came into focus. Senior White House officials began debating whether they should target him for death. Al-Awlaki was no longer merely the cleric who inspired militants in the West that they had previously pegged him for.It was a momentous debate. Never before had a president and his advisers seriously contemplated authorizing the assassination of an American citizen.President Obama and a small team of senior national security officials were in the unusual position of acting as al-Awlaki's jury, judges and de facto executioners.A few days after the Christmas Day plot, Obama gave his verbal approval to target al-Awlaki for death. While the President had agonized over some of the decisions to target militants for death, the decision to kill al-Awlaki was an easy one, according to a senior Obama administration official who spoke to me about it. In the President's mind, the weight of the evidence that al-Awlaki was constantly plotting new ways to kill Americans was sufficient to order his death.In the summer of 2010, al Qaeda in Yemen published the first issue of their English language magazine, Inspire. It underlined how obsessed the group, led by al-Awlaki, was about the issue of those who had purportedly "defamed" Islam.The debut of Inspire featured a "hit list" that included Flemming Rose and Kurt Westergaard, the editor and cartoonist who were responsible for a set of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that were published in Denmark in 2005 in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.Also on the hit list was Molly Norris, a cartoonist living in Seattle who had similarly initiated an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" in 2010.Inspire urged that they all should be killed and featured an essay by al-Awlaki who added his clerical imprimatur to this notion, saying that those who denigrated the Prophet are "insulting of over a billion Muslims worldwide. ... We will fight for him, we will instigate, we will bomb and we will assassinate."Al-Awlaki also released on the Internet an hourlong sermon, "The Dust Will Never Settle Down." Delivered in colloquial American English, it urged the assassination of anyone who "defamed" the Prophet Mohammed. In the lecture, al-Awlaki said, "Harming Allah and his Messenger is a reason to encourage Muslims to kill whoever does that."

A good lead on al-Awlaki

On May 5, 2011, just three days after bin Laden was killed in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Obama was briefed by his national security team that there was a good lead on al-Awlaki's whereabouts in Yemen.Drones tracking al-Awlaki and his associates flew out of bases in east Africa and Saudi Arabia as well as from U.S. Navy ships cruising in the Arabian Sea. On the evening of May 5, special operations planners sent Predator drones, Harrier jets and an aircraft to follow al-Awlaki ,who was riding in a pickup across the deserts of Shabwah in southern Yemen.Al-Awlaki's truck was driving fast and the flight crews tracking the vehicle could not keep their laser-guided weapons locked on the fast-moving target.The next good intelligence about al-Awlaki's location came in September. Now the hunt for the elusive Yemeni-American cleric centered on the governorate of Al Jawf on Yemen's northern border with Saudi Arabia.An al Qaeda operative in Yemeni custody said that al-Awlaki was hiding in a house in the town of Khashef. Al-Awlaki made an uncharacteristic mistake; instead of changing his hideout location often, he remained in the house in Khashef for two weeks. The cleric was living in a location where he was surrounded by children, which no doubt made him think that there was a lower risk that the United States would take a shot at him with a drone.On the morning of Friday, September 30, 2011, al-Awlaki had just finished breakfast. He and his companions got into some vehicles, and CIA drones soon locked on to them, shooting missiles that killed al-Awlaki at 9:55 a.m. Also killed along with him was Samir Khan, another American citizen who had joined al Qaeda in Yemen.Killing the man did not kill his ideas or his influence. It seems, if anything, only to have magnified them among Islamist militants living in the West. Some two dozen militants indicted in the States since al-Awlaki's death have cited his influence or possessed his propaganda, according to a count by New America. For instance, Quazi Nafis, a 21-year old Bangladeshi on a student visa, was arrested in 2012 for plotting to bomb the New York Federal Reserve. Nafis said that al-Awlaki's ideas had influenced him.In 2013, the government filed an indictment against Terry Loewen, a 58-year-old man from Wichita, Kansas, alleging that he attempted to explode a car bomb at Wichita Airport.Loewen told an undercover informant, "I have read Anwar Al-Awlaki's '44 Ways of Jihad,' and like everything l've ever read of his, it's very informative."And now we have the terrible attack in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, again inspired by al-Awlaki.Read CNNOpinion's new Flipboard magazine.Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion.

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

EZEKIEL 39:1-6
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia-U.S. will be progressively squeezed out of Eurasia-by Pepe Escobar | Sputnik | January 12, 2015

So yes – it will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia. We will see a complex geostrategic interplay progressively undermining the hegemony of the US dollar as a reserve currency and, most of all, the petrodollar.For all the immense challenges the Chinese face, all over Beijing it’s easy to detect unmistakable signs of a self-assured, self- confident, fully emerged commercial superpower. President Xi Jinping and the current leadership will keep investing heavily in the urbanization drive and the fight against corruption, including at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Internationally, the Chinese will accelerate their overwhelming push for new ‘Silk Roads’ – both overland and maritime – which will underpin the long-term Chinese master strategy of unifying Eurasia with trade and commerce.Global oil prices are bound to remain low. All bets are off on whether a nuclear deal will be reached by this summer between Iran and the P5+1. If sanctions (actually economic war) against Iran remain and continue to seriously hurt its economy, Tehran’s reaction will be firm, and will include even more integration with Asia, not the West.Washington is well-aware that a comprehensive deal with Iran cannot be reached without Russia’s help. That would be the Obama administration’s sole – and I repeat – sole foreign policy success. A return to the “Bomb Iran” hysteria would only suit the proverbial usual (neo-con) suspects. Still, by no accident, both Iran and Russia are now subject to Western sanctions. No matter how it was engineered, the fact that stands is that the current financial/ strategic oil price collapse is a direct attack against (who else?) Iran and Russia.

That derivative war

Now let’s take a look at Russian fundamentals. Russia’s government debt totals only 13.4% of its GDP. Its budget deficit in relation to GDP is only 0.5%. If we assume a US GDP of $16.8 trillion (the figure for 2013), the US budget deficit totals 4% of GDP, versus 0.5% for Russia. The Fed is essentially a private corporation owned by regional US private banks, although it passes itself off as a state institution. US publicly held debt is equal to a whopping 74% of GDP in fiscal year 2014. Russia’s is only 13.4%.The declaration of economic war by the US and EU on Russia – via the run on the ruble and the oil derivative attack – was essentially a derivatives racket. Derivatives – in theory – may be multiplied to infinity. Derivative operators attacked both the ruble and oil prices in order to destroy the Russian economy. The problem is, the Russian economy is more soundly financed than America’s.Considering that this swift move was conceived as a checkmate, Moscow’s defensive strategy was not that bad. On the key energy front, the problem remains the West’s – not Russia’s. If the EU does not buy what Gazprom has to offer, it will collapse.Moscow’s key mistake was to allow Russia’s domestic industry to be financed by external, dollar-denominated debt. Talk about a monster debt trap which can be easily manipulated by the West. The first step for Moscow should be to closely supervise its banks. Russian companies should borrow domestically and move to sell their assets abroad. Moscow should also consider implementing a system of currency controls so the basic interest rate can be brought down quickly.And don’t forget that Russia can always deploy a moratorium on debt and interest, affecting over $600 billion. That would shake the entire world’s banking system to the core. Talk about an undisguised “message” forcing the US/EU economic warfare to dissolve.Russia does not need to import any raw materials. Russia can easily reverse-engineer virtually any imported technology if it needs to. Most of all, Russia can generate — from the sale of raw materials – enough credit in US dollars or euros. Russia’s sale of its energy wealth — or sophisticated military gear — may decline. However, they will bring in the same amount of rubles — as the ruble has also declined. Replacing imports with domestic Russian manufacturing makes total sense. There will be an inevitable “adjustment” phase – but that won’t take long. German car manufacturers, for instance, can no longer sell their cars in Russia due to the ruble’s decline. This means they will have to relocate their factories to Russia. If they don’t, Asia – from South Korea to China — will blow them out of the market.

Bear and dragon on the prowl

The EU’s declaration of economic war against Russia makes no sense whatsoever. Russia controls, directly or indirectly, most of the oil and natural gas between Russia and China: roughly 25% of the world’s supply. The Middle East is bound to remain a mess. Africa is unstable. The EU is doing everything it can to cut itself off from its most stable supply of hydrocarbons, prompting Moscow to redirect energy to China and the rest of Asia. What a gift for Beijing – as it minimizes the alarm about the US Navy playing with “containment” across the high seas.Still, an unspoken axiom in Beijing is that the Chinese remain extremely worried about an Empire of Chaos losing more and more control, and dictating the stormy terms of the relationship between the EU and Russia. The bottom line is that Beijing would never allow itself to be in a position where the US could interfere with China’s energy imports – as was the case with Japan in July 1941 when the US declared war by imposing an oil embargo, cutting off 92% of Japanese oil imports.Everyone knows a key plank of China’s spectacular surge in industrial power was the requirement for manufacturers to produce in China. If Russia did the same, its economy would be growing at a rate of over 5% per year in no time. It could grow even more if bank credit was tied only to productive investment.Now imagine Russia and China jointly investing in a new gold, oil and natural resource-backed monetary union as a crucial alternative to the failed debt “democracy” model pushed by the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street, the Western central bank cartel, and neoliberal politicians. They would be showing the Global South that financing prosperity and improved standards of living by saddling future generations with debt was never meant to work in the first place.Until then, a storm will be threatening our very lives – today and tomorrow. The Masters of the Universe/Washington combo won’t give up their strategy to make Russia a pariah state cut off from trade, the transfer of funds, banking and Western credit markets and thus prone to regime change.Further on down the road, if all goes according to plan, their target will be (who else) China. And Beijing knows it. Meanwhile, expect a few bombshells to shake the EU to its foundations. Time may be running out – but for the EU, not Russia. Still, the overall trend won’t be altered; the Empire of Chaos is slowly but surely being squeezed out of Eurasia.

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

ISAIAH 23:15-17
15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16  Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

01/12/2015-vatican inside-Francis: “Fundamentalist terrorism eliminates God”-Pope Francis prays for peace in Jerusalem-In his address to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See this morning, Francis mentioned the Paris attacks, he spoke of the “chilling repercussions” of the Syria and Iraq conflicts and called on Muslim leaders to condemn “all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion”. The Pope also criticised a self-centered culture that sees the family as “disposable”-Andrea Tornielli

vatican city-Fundamentalist terrorism “eliminates God himself” and “I express my hope that religious, political and intellectual leaders, especially those of the Muslim community, will condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion which attempt to justify such acts of violence.” This was the message Francis sent out this morning to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See at the traditional address the Holy Father gives at the start of each New Year, an opportunity to reflect on the current situation in the world.The Pope referred back to the Nativity story, pointing out that Jesus was disposed of right from the start and left out in the cold. “If this is how the Son of God was treated, how much more so is it the case with so many of our brothers and sisters!” Herod’s attitude is emblematic of this. He has all children in Bethlehem killed. “We think immediately of Pakistan, where a month ago, more than a hundred children were slaughtered with unspeakable brutality,” Francis said assuring victims’ families of his prayers.Francis linked the “culture of rejection” which spawns “violence and death” to “the events reported daily in the news, not least the tragic slayings which took place in Paris a few days ago.” People are seen “as objects” and “losing their freedom, people become enslaved, whether to the latest fads, or to power, money, or even deviant forms of religion”. Speaking about the consequences of this mentality, Francis talked about “a true world war fought piecemeal” in various parts of the world, starting “with nearby Ukraine, which has become a dramatic theatre of combat.” “It is my hope that through dialogue the efforts presently being made to end the hostilities will be consolidated, and that the parties involved will embark as quickly as possible, in a renewed spirit of respect for international law, upon the path of mutual trust and fraternal reconciliation.”Francis then spoke about the Middle East and the intensity of the prayer meeting with Peres and Abu Mazen in the Vatican. He said he that negotiations between the two parties will once more resume, for the sake of ending violence and reaching a solution which can enable Palestinians and Israelis alike to live at last in peace within clearly established and internationally recognized borders, thus implementing the “two state solution”.” He also mentioned the other conflicts in the region which have had “chilling repercussions, due also to the spread of fundamentalist terrorism in Syria and in Iraq.  This phenomenon is a consequence of the throwaway culture being applied to God. Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.”“In the face of such unjust aggression,” Francis went on to say, “which also strikes Christians and other ethnic and religious groups in the region, a unanimous response is needed, one which, within the framework of international law, can end the spread of acts of violence, restore harmony and heal the deep wounds which the ongoing conflicts have caused.  Here, in your presence, I appeal to the entire international community, as I do to the respective governments involved, to take concrete steps to bring about peace and to protect all those who are victims of war and persecution, driven from their homes and their homeland. In a letter written shortly before Christmas, I sought to express my personal closeness and the promise of my prayers to all the Christian communities of the Middle East. Theirs is a precious testimony of faith and courage, for they play a fundamental role as artisans of peace, reconciliation and development in the civil societies of which they are a part.  A Middle East without Christians would be a marred and mutilated Middle East!” The Pope urged members of the Muslim community to raise their voices against violence: “In urging the international community not to remain indifferent in the face of this situation, I express my hope that religious, political and intellectual leaders, especially those of the Muslim community, will condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion which attempt to justify such acts of violence.”Francis recalled the children among the victims of this violence and spoke specifically about Nigeria, “where acts of violence continue to strike indiscriminately and there is a constant increase in the tragic phenomenon of kidnappings, often of young girls carried off to be made objects of trafficking,” “an abominable trade which must not continue!”Francis continued saying he looks “with concern to the many civil conflicts taking place in other parts of Africa, beginning with Libya, ravaged by a drawn-out internecine war which has caused unspeakable suffering among its people, with grave repercussions for the delicate balances in the region.” He mentioned “the dramatic situation in the Central African Republic” and “the situation in South Sudan and in some areas of Sudan, the Horn of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where civilian casualties are on the rise and thousands of persons.” Francis called for a “common commitment” from individual governments and the international community to end the fighting and pursue peace and reconciliation in these countries too.Francis turned his attention to “another horrendous crime, the crime of rape” committed where there is war. “This is a most grave offense against the dignity of women, who are not only violated in body but also in spirit, resulting in a trauma hard to erase and with effects on society as well. Sadly, even apart from situations of war, all too many women even today are victims of violence.”“Among the lepers of our own day we can count the victims of the new and terrible outbreak of Ebola which, especially in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, has already taken over six thousand lives,” Francis recalled, thanking “those healthcare workers who, alongside men and women religious and volunteers, are caring in every way possible for the sick and their families.”A key part of his speech was dedicated to immigrants and refugees. “How many persons lose their lives during these cruel journeys, the victims of unscrupulous and greedy thugs?” Then “there is the alarming fact that many immigrants, especially in the Americas, are unaccompanied children, all the more at risk and in need of greater care, attention and protection.” “A change of attitude is needed on our part,” and “adequate legislation to protect the rights of… citizens and to ensure the acceptance of immigrants” need to be enacted.But, the Pope went on to explain, alongside migrants, there are also many “other “hidden exiles” living in our homes and in our families. I think especially of the elderly, the handicapped and young people.” “Indeed, there is no poverty worse than that which takes away work and the dignity of work, or which turns work into a form of enslavement.”“Then too, the family itself is not infrequently considered disposable, thanks to the spread of an individualistic and self-centred culture which severs human bonds and leads to a dramatic fall in birth rates, as well as legislation which benefits various forms of cohabitation rather than adequately supporting the family for the welfare of society as a whole. Among the causes of these realities is a model of globalization which levels out differences and even discards cultures, cutting them off from those factors which shape each people’s identity and constitute a legacy essential to their sound social development.”To the beloved Italian nation, then, I would like to express my hope that in the continuing climate of social, political and economic uncertainty the Italian people will not yield to apathy or dissension.” Finally, after recalling his trip to Sri Lanka and the Philippines which starts today, Francis expressed his “hope for a resumption of dialogue between the two Koreas” and mentioned the positive experience of dialogue he had in Albania. He also spoke about the thaw in relations between the US and Cuba, “end[ing] a lack of communication which has endured for more than half a century and “initiat[ing] a rapprochement for the benefit of their respective citizens.” “Here I think too,” the Pope said, “of the people of Burkina Faso, who are experiencing a period of significant political and institutional change.” He noted “with pleasure that last March an agreement was signed to end long years of tension in the Philippines” and said he wished “to encourage the efforts made to ensure a stable peace in Colombia, as well as the initiatives taken to restore political and social harmony in Venezuela.”Francis said he hoped “a definitive agreement may soon be reached between Iran and the 5+1 Group regarding the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and my appreciation of the efforts already made in this regard.” He also expressed his satisfaction at “the intention of the United States to close the Guantanamo detention facilities.”The Pope concluded his address by quoting Paul VI’s speech to the UN in 1965: “Never again war, never again war! It is peace, peace, that has to guide the destiny of the nations of all mankind.” 

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