Thursday, February 14, 2008

Biblical Hero Joseph 'was really a Muslim'
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction issued a statement denying it will help restore the shrine (Joseph's tomb), referring to both the shrine and the biblical patriarch as "Muslim."

Nice try Abbas, but Joseph pre-dates Islam by at least 2,500 years.

US Says Hezbollah Warning To Israel Is 'Alarming' -AFP
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared "open war" on Israel during Thursday's funeral for commander Imad Mughniyeh. Hezbollah blames Israel for the car bombing in Damascus that killed him Tuesday, but Israel denies the charge.

U.S. shares intel' with IAEA on Iran
US intelligence also was forwarded on two other issues - the "Green Salt Project" - a plan the US alleges links diverse components of a nuclear weapons program, including uranium enrichment, high explosives testing and a missile re-entry vehicle, and material in Iran's possession showing how to mold uranium metal into warhead form.


Israel’s army chief orders IDF land, sea and air forces to prepare to defend the country’s northern borders and interests
...military sources report that he took these unprecedented steps following a stream of incoming intelligence updates reporting that Iran, Syria and Hizballah had decided not to let Mughniyeh’s death pass without an immediate response.

Al-Qaida in Iraq vows to use country as base to attack Israel, liberate Palestine
...al-Baghdadi said the ''Islamic state in Iraq will be the cornerstone for the return of Al-Quds' (Jerusalem)" and added the group was trying to use Iraq's western province of al-Anbar as a launching pad for missiles against Israel

'Putin's attacks reprehensible' - Rice

5 qassam missiles from Gaza land in Sderot this morning






DEBKAfile: Tehran, Damascus, Hizballah leadership reported coordinating retaliation for Mughniyeh’s death
Iran, Syria and Hizballah are certain that the bomb planted in the master terrorist’s Mitsubishi Pajero in the heart of the Syrian capital was rigged by the Israeli Mossad. They are therefore most certainly setting up a major reprisal in the form of a terrorist hit or a military assault.

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