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The following articles are compiled by:

Leo Wong

Leo@WatchmenWatching.com

 

 

 

 

Stunning admission by female British sailor

Source: CNN.com

 

March 29, 2007 -- The lone female British sailor, detained with 14 male sailors and marines by Iran last week, has written a letter to her parents "admitting" that her crew entered into Iranian waters, according to a letter released by the Iranian government.

 

CNN cannot confirm the letter was written by the female sailor, Faye Turney. The note was handed to the British ambassador in Tehran on Wednesday.

 

An Iranian television station also broadcast the first video of Turney, in which she smoked a cigarette as she spoke with someone off camera. She wore a black scarf covering her head.

 

The video also showed some of the other British detainees eating. All appeared to be in good health.

 

The letter said she regretted entering Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf.

 

"We were out in the boats when we were arrested by Iranian forces as we had apparently gone into Iranian waters. I wish we hadn't because then I'd be home with you all right now. I am so sorry we did, because I know we wouldn't be here now if we hadn't," the letter released by Iran said.

 

The television station also broadcast video of what appeared to be a hand-written letter, signed "Faye."

 

The British government protested Iran's broadcast of the captured crew as "completely unacceptable," Associated Press reported.

 

The pictures come after Iran's foreign minister has told CNN that Turney would be freed Wednesday or Thursday.

 

She was seized last Friday by Iran along with 14 other British Royal Navy sailors and marines who were conducting a routine inspection of a merchant vessel at the northern end of the Persian Gulf.

 

No other details were given about her possible release. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki's comments came Wednesday as he attended the Arab League Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

Earlier Wednesday Britain increased pressure on Iran, releasing evidence it said showed the group was operating in Iraqi waters and freezing bilateral contacts until the crisis is resolved. Iran insists the group was inside its territorial waters.

 

"We are now in a new phase of diplomatic activity," British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett told members of parliament.

 

"We need to focus all our bilateral efforts during this phase to resolution of this issue," she added. "We will therefore be imposing a freeze on all other official bilateral business with Iran until this situation is resolved."

 

Comments:  I suspect the female sailor was coerced (under the threat of torture and/or death) into admitting guilt.  If that was the case, so much for Islam being a peaceful religion.  Under intense pressure from her Iranian captors and probably isolated from her fellow seamen, she broke down and aside from giving out only her name and serial number, she blurted out a fabricated lie or perhaps the truth.

 

Look at Great Britain today.  How the mighty has fallen!  It used to be that “the sun never sets on the British Empire”.  So powerful was she that all nations were in awe of her.  Even czarist Russia and Nazi Germany respected the military capability of the “lion” that was the British Isles.  Her young lions (the U.S., Canada, Australia), although they had left the den, would still look up to their mother.  You didn’t dare mess with the Brits!  Britain took matter into her own hands when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.  Now look at her.  She can only mutter a mild protest against the Persians. Ezekiel 38:[13] Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? Where is the once vaulted British military?  Why hasn’t it send its warships and fighter jets to the Persian Gulf Region and demand the release of the captured sailors by issuing an ultimatum, i.e. release them immediately or incur the wrath of the entire British Commonwealth?  It’s so sad to see a long-in-the tooth lioness staggering just to get up let alone fight the hyenas that have taken her cubbies.  You begin to wonder about the role Great Britain will have, if any, in the last days.

 

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Saudi king criticizes Arab divisiveness

Source: Associated Press

 

March 29, 2007 -- The Saudi king chastised Arab leaders for infighting and said their divisions have fueled turmoil around the Mideast, prodding them to take united action at a summit Wednesday aimed at reviving a peace offer to Israel.

 

The gathering is to revive a 2002 initiative offering Israel peace with the Arab world if it withdraws from lands it seized in the 1967 Mideast war - a proposal the United States and Europe hope can bolster efforts to resume the stalled peace process.

 

Arab leaders have refused calls for changes in the plan to win Israeli acceptance, but U.S. allies Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan want the summit participants to give them flexibility in promoting the offer to Israel and the West.

 

Saudi King Abdullah opened the summit with a strongly worded speech, painting a bleak picture of the crises and bloodshed in the region - Lebanon, Iraq and Sudan - and lecturing the leaders that it was time to act.

 

"The real blame should be directed at us, the leaders of the Arab nation," he said. "Our constant disagreements and rejection of unity have made the Arab nation lose confidence in our sincerity and lose hope."

 

Comments:  The Saudi king hit it right on the nail when he blamed Arab disunity for Israel maintaining her continual existence and powerful presence in the Middle East.  Saddam Hussein once boasted he could rally some 5 millions troops to overrun the Jewish State.  He could muster a handful of relatives and in-laws.  When you consider the fact that the Arabs outnumber the Jews 600 to 1, the Arab world could have easily squashed Israel just you would an ant, but the constant internal bickering among Muslims has benefited Israel to no end.  Genesis 16:[12] [And he (Ishmael) will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him {Arab disunity}; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.] tells us that it was God who placed this disunity in Ishmael’s (the father of the Arabs) descendants.

 

The Saudis (no doubt influenced by the U.S.) are attempting to facilitate Middle East peace, but their Muslim brethren have deep seated disagreements which they will not set aside.   The oil rich Saudis will try to use their immense wealth and power to entice the dissenters into seeing the light of “peace”.  Many will buckle under the lure of all those billions of euros coming their way so that they will set aside (temporarily that is) their differences and embrace the Saudi Plan.  Once the hurdles have been overcome, it’s all up to the Israelis.  After the Rapture event, the Antichrist (AC) will cast his piercing eyes at the Jewish prime minister and with a gold plated fountain pen in his right hand, the AC will thrust it onto him to affix his John Henry signature on the Middle East peace treaty parchments.

 

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Israelis abruptly cancel Vatican negotiating session  

Source: www.cwnews.com

 

March 28, 2007 -- An Israeli delegation has pulled out of a scheduled negotiating session with Vatican representatives, the AsiaNews service report.

 

The abrupt cancellation of the talks, scheduled for March 29, comes as a severed blow to Vatican diplomats, who had been hoping for progress toward a long-overdue agreement establishing the legal rights of the Church in the Holy Land.

 

The withdrawal is the latest in a long series of delays in talks toward a final pact -- an agreement that was promised as part of the "fundamental accord" that paved the way for Vatican recognition of Israeli in 1993.

 

Comments:  You don’t back out of a scheduled meeting with the pope and expect to get away with it scot-free, do you?  Pope Benedict is a very busy man to be stood up this way.  He’s got books to write, cardinals to select, Mass to preside over, etc.  The Israelis just left him holding the bag and he’s not a happy camper.  He’ll file this snub away into his cranium to be recalled in a soon coming day.

 

How important is it for Israel to be recognized by the Vatican?  It’s paramount for her acceptance into the world community.  Once isolated and castigated repeatedly by the U.N., the pope and the EU have recently made overtures to Israel to be assimilated.  Unlike the Borg who said in Star Trek, “Resistance is futile”, Israel gladly wants to be accepted.  That’s what makes this meeting cancellation so puzzling.  What has the Vatican done to prick the Israelis?  Perhaps the sense the pope is coddling up to the Palestinian unity government consisting of Fatah and Hamas.  Could it be that the pope hasn’t come out vocally against Jew hating Hamas?  Pope Benedict can only speculate what he did to offend the Jews.  He’s not a man of patience though because of his advanced age, the sands of time are not in his favor.

 

We do know that after the Rapture, Israel’s religious leaders will join in with the One World Religion headed up by the Romish church.  Whatever differences or hurt feelings these two parties have will all be forgotten in the name of religious unity.

 

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