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To: Elroy who wrote (233642)	5/19/2005 2:35:18 PM
From: Cyprian	Respond to of 1573435

Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18) But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24) if Christ warns us that at his coming it will be as in the days of noah, it would behove us to remember the former things... And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. (Genesis 6)

To: Elroy who wrote (233642)	5/19/2005 4:24:30 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573435

AFGHANISTAN: MULLAH OMAR SIGHTED AS REVITALISED TALIBAN REGROUP Karachi, 3 May (AKI) - Taliban fighters, modelling their tactics on the Iraqi insurgency, are regrouping and intensifying their fight against the Afghanistan government and US-led military coalition, amid reports that their spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, together with al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawhari, have started directing battle operations. Sightings of Omar and al-Zawhari in the city of Zabul in southern Afghanistan, were confirmed to Adnkronos International (AKI) by sources in Kandahar. Al-Zawahiri, the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, is considered Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, acting as both an advisor and physician. Over the past few months, Al-Zawahiri was seen moving between the Pakistani tribal areas of South and North Waziristan, and in Birmal and Zabul in Afghanistan. The sources also told AKI that Mullah Omar and a Taliban veteran commander, the one-legged Mullah Dadullah, were also spotted in Zabul. When the ultra-Islamist Taliban emerged in the mid-1990s, they first set up base in Zabul where they dislodged the area's dominant warlords, before making Kandahar the movement's stronghold. The Taliban went on to control large parts of the country, including the capital Kabu,l where they established their hardline Islamist regime which lasted for almost five years. But the concentration of activity in Zabul is not just a return to the past for the Taliban. The sightings of Omar, Al-Zawahiri and Dadullah come amid a new spring offensive which has marked a change of tack for the Taliban including the clearing out of some of its top echelons. Traditional Taliban commanders including Jalaluddin Haqqani and Sasfullah Mansoor have been sidelined and the movement has adopted a new strategy with small attack groups assigned specific tasks, similar to guerillas in Iraq, the sources told AKI. Over the last few weeks the switch to small, focused strikes has been witnessed in attacks against US convoys, helicopters and military bases. US military authorities in Kabul have confirmed the upsurge in Taliban activity and have expressed fear that it could escalate. Still, Omar's presence in the front line, the first time the spritual leader has taken such a high profile role since the Taliban were toppled in 2001, suggests moves may also be afoot to try and rekindle mass support for the movement. Another sign that the Taliban is trying to spread its propaganda is the recent revival of its Radio Shariat braodcaster which went off air when a US-led invasion toppled the Taliban in 2001. adnki.com

To: Elroy who wrote (233642)	5/20/2005 1:04:26 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573435

Clashes Break Out Over U.S. Occupation Clashes Break Out As Thousands of Shiites, Sunnis Protest U.S.-Led Occupation in Iraq By ABDUL HUSSEIN AL-OBEIDI Associated Press Writer The Associated Press NAJAF, Iraq May 20, 2005 — Thousands of Shiites, many waving Islam's holy book over their heads, protested the U.S. presence in Iraq on Friday after the detention of several supporters of a radical cleric, while Sunnis shut down places of worship elsewhere in a show of anger over alleged sectarian violence against the minority. The U.S. military also launched what it said would be an aggressive investigation into how a British newspaper got pictures of an imprisoned Saddam Hussein clad only in his underwear, saying the photos violated military guidelines and possibly the Geneva convention on the humane treatment of prisoners. The photos, which appeared on the front pages of the British tabloid Sun and the New York Post, were expected to fuel anti-American sentiment among Iraqi supporters of the former dictator who are believed to be the driving force behind the country's insurgency. The Shiite protests in the southern cities of Najaf, Nasiriyah and Kufa, came as Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced that he will visit Syria, which has been blamed for harboring insurgents bent on starting a civil war in Iraq. The protests, which drew an estimated total of 6,000 demonstrators in the three cities, followed radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's call Wednesday to reject the U.S. occupation of Iraq by painting Israeli and American flags on the ground outside mosques to be stepped on in protest raids against holy places. In violence elsewhere, a suicide bombing targeting the house of Iraqi national security adviser, Mouwafak al-Rubaie, killed two civilians and wounded three in the Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyah, police said. After the explosion, gunmen in the nearby Azamiyah area opened fire at a U.S. base in Kazimiyah on the western side of the Tigris River, witnesses said. The gunmen later fled, they added. Witnesses reported seeing U.S. Apache attack helicopters firing rockets into the neighborhood. A U.S. soldier also was killed early Friday in a vehicle accident caused by roadside bomb attack near Taji, 10 miles north of Baghdad, the military said. The soldier's identity was withheld pending notification of relatives. Continued 1. 2. 3. NEXT» abcnews.go.com