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May 14, 2012

Good morning from Jerusalem.

Civil war is raging in Syria. Al Qaeda is now publicly claiming responsibility for the latest series of major bombings. The Free Syria Army and other armed resistance to the Assad government appear to have been co-opted by the al Qaeda terrorists who have recently infiltrated into Syria and have gone on the offensive. Al Qaeda knows that carrying out successful, “flashy” attacks is the best way to recruit followers and gain control of resistance fighters and their organizations.

The Syrian war has spread to Lebanon. Over the last two days sectarian fighting has begun to take hold. The number of dead and the locations where armed conflicts have broken-out increase daily.

Twelve thousand special operations unit members from 17 nations are on Jordan’s northern border with Syria. Later this week they are to participate in training exercises lead by Jordanian and American military personnel.

Hezbollah’s leader addressed his followers on Saturday. From his underground bunker Nasrallah ranted that he now possesses missiles with enough range and sufficiently upgraded targeting systems that he could strike anywhere in Israel. Hezbollah has been totally rearmed since the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Virtually all of the tens of thousands of rockets and missiles the terrorists possess were brought into Lebanon from Syria and Iran in total violation of UN resolution and without interference from the UN Peacekeeping Forces deployed in Lebanon to enforce UN resolutions.

Egyptian Presidential election campaigning is heating up. In the first ever televised debate among candidates for the office the only disagreement was whether Israel was “an enemy” or merely “an adversary.”

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate recently celebrated World Free Press Day by stating it would expel any member who made contact with an Israeli journalist. The Syndicate further promised to expose the identity of any Palestinian Journalist who attended the U.S. sponsored celebration of World Free Press Day in Israel.

The anti-Iranian government group Mujahedin-e Khalq has just reported that there is a centralized Iranian agency controlling 11 separate government and military agencies dedicated to an active and on-going nuclear bomb project. The report included a list of the names, addresses, agencies and even telephone numbers of the 60 top officials and scientists working on Iran’s Nuke project. Details of the weapons’ creation and construction and of the tasks of the groups involved were provided. Over the last 6 to 7 years Mujahedin-e Khalq has provided much intelligence about Iran’s planning and operations. The intelligence has been 100 percent correct and accurate.


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