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Security Forces Beat Yemeni Protesters Demanding Change

Security Forces Beat Yemeni Protesters Demanding Change

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni police with clubs on Saturday beat anti-government protesters who were celebrating the resignation of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and demanding the ouster of their own president.

The crackdown reflected an effort to undercut a protest movement seeking fresh momentum from the developments in Egypt, where an 18-day uprising toppled Mubarak. His ouster raised questions about the long-term stability of Yemen and other Western-allied governments in the region.

The United States is in a delicate position because it advocates democratic reform, but wants stability in Yemen because it is seen as a key ally in its fight against Islamic militants.

Hundreds of protesters had tried to reach the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital on Saturday, but security forces pushed them back. Buses ferried ruling party members, equipped with tents, food and water, to the city’s main square to help prevent attempts by protesters to gather there.

There were about 5,000 security agents and government supporters in the Sanaa square named Tahrir, or Liberation. Egypt’s protesters built an encampment at a square of the same name in Cairo, and it became a rallying point for their movement.

Witnesses say police, including plainclothes agents, drove several thousand protesters away from Sanaa’s main square on Friday night. The demonstrators tore up pictures of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and shouted slogans demanding his immediate resignation.

Saleh has been in power for three decades and tried to blunt unrest by promising not to run again. His term ends in 2013.

Yemen is the Arab world’s most impoverished nation and has become a haven for al-Qaida militants. Saleh’s government is riddled with corruption and has little control outside the capital. Its main source of income – oil – could run dry in a decade.

Yemen has been the site of anti-U.S. attacks dating back to the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden harbor, which killed 17 American sailors. Radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, thought to be hiding in Yemen, is suspected of having inspired some attacks, including the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

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  • FIVEHOLEJAMO
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:26pm

    Add your comments

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  • FIVEHOLEJAMO
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:26pm

    The World’s Largest Army. America ‘s Hunters? *

    Sheer numbers men….

    …The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season

    without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over

    600,000 hunters. Allow me to restate that number. Over the last

    two months, the eighth largest army in the world — more men under

    arms than Iran ; more than France and Germany combined — deployed

    to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer

    menace at bay. But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are

    in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan ‘s 700,000

    hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters

    in West Virginia and it is literally the case that the hunters of

    those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the

    world. * America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of

    troops with that kind of home-grown firepower.

    *

    Hunting – it’s not just a way to fill the freezer. It’s a matter

    of national security!

    Add Texas and then you’re talking about some serious fire-power.

    Good information to know.

    That’s why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us

    disarmed. Food for thought when considering gun

    control. God and Guns keep America Free. Take those two away and

    you have Kenya , Iran or China .

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  • jcessna
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:53am

    13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:34pm
    President Obama is elected, get over it.

    Supporters of Hosni Mubarak were saying the same thing. Elected? So are the rest of the despots in the world. Hell Saddam Hussein got 100% of the vote. A great many who voted for the lying Progressive secret Marxist apologize for that vote and realize they were duped.

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:18am

    Boy, that “Hope ‘n Change” is spreading like wildfire! Nobama loves the smell of a chaotic and de-stabalized Middle East in the morning!

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  • sroach8577
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:41am

    GLEN BECK IS RIGHT! tHE CALAPHATE HAS BEEN BORN AND WILL SOOM START TO GROW!

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  • Ron Staiger
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 6:16am

    A heavy hand is needed in countries where a majority of the people believe that adulterers should be stoned to death (87% in Egypt), converts from Islam to Christianity should get the death penalty(84% in Egypt), and a thief should have his hands cut off (72% in Egypt). Their holy book, the quran, teaches that it is not murder to kill an infidel (us), and pedophilia is ok. This should come as no surprise considering that islam’s profit, Muhammed, was a pedophile who married Aisha when she was six and consumated the marriage when she was nine! In Yemen, way back in April 2010, Nojud Mohammad Ali, an EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRL, had to go to court to get a DIVORCE FROM A 30 YEAR OLD MAN that she was FORCED TO MARRY.
    The Iranian Ayatollah Khomeni who married a 13 year old girl when he was 50 wrote this: “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. If he penetrates and the child is harmed then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however would not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister.” [The complete Persian text of this saying can be found in "Ayatollah Khomeini in Tahrirolvasyleh, Fourth Edition, Darol Elm, Qom"]

    Islam is a cult of pedophiles, fanatics, and murderers who should be surpressed. Any government willing to do so-REGARDLESS OF THEIR METHODS OR MOTIVE- should be supported by any “infidel” who would like to keep his head!

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  • EyesWide
    Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:19am

    PLease tell me that i did not just read that some nit wit here ACTUALLY believes in the Alex Jones “one world order” crap. OMG…. now that is madness.. YEPPERS…. some vast… secret…. hidden group of money men want to…. ( cue evil music)…. RULE THE WORLD !!!! How stupid can some be? Mankind can not even rule single nations and idiots like Jones want to see us on some invisible boogy men with all the power……Ruling the world went out with Rome. So…. tell me… what is the plan? Ahhh yes…. we all are to become zombie workers….And, of course, they will get rid of all the hatred and ego and anger that fuels the world now….not a problem for the all powerful BILDERBURG group……OMG…… TOOO F”ING FUNNY….

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    • spreadcommonsensenot pc
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:10am

      try reading the book of Daniel, and the book of Revelations,
      one world govt
      on world leader—-antichrist
      one world currency
      wont be able to buy or sell without the “mark of the beast”
      everything is shaping up just the way God said it would
      ps—dont take the mark………………….enjoy

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  • Race
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:31pm

    Alas….. another third-world toilet we’ll dump money into. Do you really think the regime there is gonna help us get a handle on terrorists? Most likely result is the money disappears along with the pres. Let it burn.

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  • DLG1956
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:27pm

    2012 will be the year Imam Obama goes down. He alredy admitted that being a ‘great’ one term president is better than being a average two term president. This causes me to think that he knows something that we don’t, or something he is covering up, say, not being born in the US perhaps?

    Right now 11 states are begining legislation requiring presidental hopefuls to prove they are consitionally eligable to be president. When these laws are passed the Imam will be found out and everything he has done; appointments, laws, rules etc will become null and void.

    The Imam will not seek a second term should one state pass this law. But the truth will come out after 2012.

    The Imam will return to his home country of Kenya and rule as the African despot he truely is.

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:04pm

    Everybody, keep putting out those compassionate and hopeful vibes!

    Report Post » Its Gonna Getcha  
    • EyesWide
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:24am

      Hopeful that all of the followers of Islam will manage to kill one another. Is that hopeful enough for ya? How about this…. I am really hopeful that they give Israel reason to use its WMD’s…. esp since barry has pissed away all of our goodwill with them. Under previous REAL presidents we were able to keep them from striking back….. under barry they would prob not answer the phone.

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    • Its Gonna Getcha
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:44am

      @eyeswide – In maturity we learn how to set aside crippling hateful energy from our body, and we embrace a daily shout out to all that is possibly good in this world. Down to the last drop. The choice is yours.

      Report Post » Its Gonna Getcha  
  • Waltermelon
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:46pm

    Who care’s what happens in other nations while our republic is falling all around us? Just another distraction.

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    • Waltermelon
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:55pm

      We should be focused on getting OUR house in order, before worrying about the politics of a foreign nation. Do I need to point out the fact that these people have a supernatural hatred of us?

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  • Waltermelon
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:31pm

    “There were about 5,000 security agents and government supporters in the Sanaa square named Tahrir, or Liberation. ”

    Wow, thats a lot of people named Tahrir… Lol

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  • jacarlton
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:29pm

    Oh no, another Arab dictator is about to fall we have to do something! Seriously, I can’t believe some of the comments here. You who call yourselves freedom-loving conservatives yet who want these dictators to keep their heels on the necks of their peoples as long as possible ought to be ashamed.

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:06pm

      I cant decide whether you are retarded

      or 8 years old

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:32am

      In some/most cases, better a pro-Western dictator than to be thrust under another dictator AND the MB/Sharia Law!!

      Look at Iran – need we say more??

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    • Boojer56
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:44am

      Been in the Kool Aid again? We don’t want the return of the Ottoman Empire. World War was fought over that, not Germany. I take it you are OK with Sharia law which doesn’t allow womens rights, gays are shot. Hands are cut off etc. Can you name one revolt in the middle east that ended up in a democracy with people who are free?

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  • Sinista Mace
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:21pm

    Only Nazis beat civilians.

    Any police force or military force beating civilians are no different from the Nazis in my book.

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  • silquin11
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:03pm

    13th…:maybe it’s high time you swithced to first genration Cuban, Chinese, North Korean or better: CHAVISTA! Thank God We,The People DO NOT HAVE TO “GET OVER ” Obama in The White House and will HAPPILY vote him out of office in 2012: get over it and go continu your generations elsewhere…ahh! Take your Dear Leader with YOU!

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:47pm

    What happened to the strong America I grew up in? When are we going to quit bitting our nails every time something happens in the world. Why does tthe government spend my money on the latest technology for the military if we are not going to use it? We have radar, laser and wire guided bombs and unmaned drones to deliver them, so instead of worrying about these islamists in the middle east we should just warn them to stop or blow them off the face of the earth. I know boo hoo the civilians, horse pocky. If the others don‘t want to be dead then all they have to do is quit hiding these SOB’s not a hard one. I mean what are they going to do come over here and blow up airplanes? They already do that. Are the other countries going to complain? They already hate us. This is America for Gods sake, What happened to mess with us and die? One more thing, after President Obama stated the muslim brother hood should have a part in the decissions in Egypt he should be making little rock out of big ones.

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    • RN MOM
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:23pm

      The beast is awake, and rubbing his sleepy eyes. Think positively, at least we know our weapons will be in pristine condition in 2012.

      Report Post » RN MOM  
  • NC
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:42pm

    I’m pleased our republic is not run as these democratic states are governed “over there”.

    I’m displeased with the current administration, but pleased with the results of the last election. Hopefully the GOP can nominate a worthy candidate for the 2012 presidential election.

    Rather than spend 18 days camped out in the Washington mall, I’ll wait 18 months here at home until the November election.

    NC(has tent, will travel, but prefers the ballot box over billy clubs)

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    • jacarlton
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:35pm

      I agree but we have the benefit of a constitution that gives us peaceful and legal recourse to change the direction of our government. What course of action would you suggest to those in the middle east who no longer wish to live under tyranny? Considering the circumstances and options available to the Egyptian people I can’t think of a more peaceful and orderly way for this to happen.

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:05pm

      @JCARLTON

      Because Shirah Law isnt tyranny right?

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:27am

      Amen,

      …BUT!! – We all need to be extremely vigilant about each of our polling stations, worker/volunteers, inspectors, machines and verification of voter ID’s to insure we get a true and fair vote this time. (I still believe Harry Reid – for one – cheated his way back into office in 2010.)

      REMEMBER – Those on the left will resort to any and all tricks to achieve their goal!

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  • fauxleopard {gallery of fat blokes}
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:41pm

    this injustice will not be tolerated

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:40pm

    THIRTENTHGENERATIONDUMBASS

    must have drawn the short straw.

    He has been in here for three days straight.

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaa

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    • scout n ambush
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:57pm

      He was better as 12 generation american over at the post accusing fess parker who had just died of promoting the killing of polar bears and remembering fondly how he ran his trap line before going to school as a child .

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:35pm

    There were about 100 Egyptian protestors in Houston today by the Galleria.

    I wanted to go rent a Camel and ride it through the crowd.

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:37pm

      that was actually pretty funny, Dash.

      thanks for the laugh.

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    • jacarlton
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:33pm

      Wow, why would you want to do that? That‘s the kind of thing I’d expect to hear from some SEIU thugs talking about Tea Partiers. Go screw yourself.

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:03pm

      WOW

      I think Jcarlton woke up on the wrong side of the OASIS

      Its called Humor check in to it.

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    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:42pm

      They probably would yank you off the camel and pummel you.

      You’d be found and arrested and made an example of by the police and courts if you drive over protestors.

      And no, that wasn’t really funny. I wonder if you’d like to be run over by a police paddywagon while you protest martial law in the streets in America?

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:31pm

    So the security forces beat the protestors and Demanded change, that is a harsh way to panhandle, plus they are security, they have jobs, why did they want change from the protestors?

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:31pm

    Let them fight amongst themselves.

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:30pm

    Where’s Obama now?

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:33pm

      Yemen is an ally .. so I would imagine on the phone telling the government to go.

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:35pm

      In the White House, get over it

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    • ADMIRAL747
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:10pm

      Taking notes from Soros..

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    • RN MOM
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:17pm

      13th Gen-“get over it”. I will get over it in 2012. This is MY country too and you better get over that fact. You and your commie weenie friends think that you will prevail when this genocide is over? No, comrad, you will be the first ones slaughtered in the streets. You and your leftie friends have encouraged a revolution in the hopes that when the dust settles you will install your power structure. That will never happen, the MB thugs have it all over you. You have made a deal with the devil, and he will come for his due. It’s times like this that remind me of a great American, Thomas Jefferson…

      He said “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:51pm

      Having knowledge with Michelle.

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  • brntout
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:29pm

    Wow another hammer drops.Oh how oh how will the administration talk to the youth this time?

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  • REDPILLREADY
    Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:28pm

    Wonder what would happen if Teaparty people started protesting and demanding the immediate resignation of Obama.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:32pm

      TSA would grope us into submission.

      Report Post » Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra  
    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:34pm

      President Obama is elected, get over it.

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    • scout n ambush
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:36pm

      We would all be Yemini’s they would do us the same way .Unless we were lefty’s!

      Report Post » scout n ambush  
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:37pm

      Well thirtenthgenerationdumbass

      After Obama there wont be another democrat elected
      to the Whitehouse for fifty years

      aaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaa

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    • PlanetXenu
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:37pm

      they’d get tired and go home to watch the biggest loser

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:50pm

      So thats where pepto-hags are heading now…. Yemen ……yippppeeeeeee

      Report Post » cheezwhiz  
    • Jayhawker
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 7:55pm

      The tea party doesn’t roll like that. We toss politicians out of office the old fashioned way, we vote them out!
      Now to be fair, its not like Egypt gave their citizens that opportunity, and I can’t think of any middle-eastern country that does, so I can understand why they revolted. Just hope things don’t go from bad to worse.

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    • BMartin1776
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:18pm

      The dominoes are beginning to fall as predicted… Isnt today the Day of Rage for all those peace loving muslims?

      This whole “democratic reform” needs to be spelled out. We arent talking about democracy as in Iranian, Cuban or Venezuelan we should make it clear Democratic Republic in other words rule of law, not majority/MOB rule!

      http://www.savingtherepublic.com

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    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:20pm

      Only Nazis beat civilians. I don‘t care if the Blaze mods don’t like my Nazi references.

      I would suggest that people start making signs that say Impeach Obama and exercize your freedom of speech, before you don’t have a freedom of speech.

      Report Post » V-MAN MACE  
    • Xcori8r
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:30pm

      With the swing to the right that B Hussein is having to take for even the hope of a 2nd term, it’ll be the left marching and demanding his ouster.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 8:56pm

      REDPILL, I can tell you exactly what would happen and with 100% certainty: You would be quickly and efficiently cast as extremist, radical, racist, bigoted, ignorant, anti-Americans to the vast majority of American via the main stream media….. Oh, wait, that’s already happened. Next question.

      Report Post » broker0101  
    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 9:01pm

      Tea Party members are already considered domestic terrorists by Homeland Security, run by Big Thick Sister Napolitano.

      Didn’t you hear the news?

      We’re ALL TERRORISTS NOW.

      Report Post » V-MAN MACE  
    • mcfinch
      Posted on February 12, 2011 at 10:43pm

      He should resign.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Video Website

      Report Post » mcfinch  
    • jzs
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:02am

      Pillready asks, “Wonder what would happen if Teaparty people started protesting and demanding the immediate resignation of Obama.”

      Answer: nothing.

      Report Post » jzs  
    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:27am

      I just wonder aboput all this and how it all fits into the end-times. I think there are unmistakeable delevopements taking place for the Book of Rev. to take place. I believe that God will spare the US from being sucked into the One World New Order that is spreading. Although we could go either way. I wonder why not many people are talking about this? Is it they just don’t know or see it? The Middle East has to change and be against Israel. Islam will dominate and we will see someone rise out of I believe Europe, the Holy Roman Empire, that will bring a peace for a time. It is very interesting to see these things happening and coming to life. It is like watching a puzzle being put together. Glen is right in his predictions but he still hasn’t come around to see that the end of this age is in sight. I am not saying it will be next year, or ten years, or twenty. It will not be long though, then when Christ comes back He has rule for 1000 years. How great will that be! Boy will it be great to have Him here on this earth and in charge. But until that time we must go through these times. I pray for our leaders and believe that they are given to us for a reason. Obama is to show us the wrong path and for us to wake-up and get into office by voting in 2012 people to govern us in sound policy and not follow the world into the New World Order. I have heard that term for well over thirty years in Christian circles. It is strange to hear it being used by people who are trying to establish it around the world.

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com Western Artist

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:28am

      Thought this might be of interest to others here at The Blaze:

      Hundreds of Iraqis brought to the U.S. as refugees NOW under scrutiny for al-Qaeda links

      It might have been nice to think of that before they got here. How much did politically correct fears of “Islamophobia” hamper the screening process or inhibit internal criticism of the program itself?

      WASHINGTON — Hundreds of refugees who sought shelter in the United States during the early years of the Iraq war are coming under fresh scrutiny from U.S. government security officials for possible links to Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq.

      From 2003 through 2006, the U.S. resettled about 700 Iraqi refugees, with more than half arriving in Michigan, Arizona, Texas, California and Illinois, according to State Department figures. The pace rose sharply beginning in 2007, and more than ” 58,000″ Iraqi refugees have arrived in the U.S. since the start of the war….

      WE’RE DOOMED!!!!!!!

      Report Post » AzDebi  
    • chazman
      Posted on February 14, 2011 at 7:19pm

      Yes … beat them … beat them … let’s get this party started!

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