Report: Feds, law enforcement scrambling to stop ISIS carnage on border
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is warning that a terrorist attack is imminent on the border between Texas and Mexico, according to the government watchdog group Judicial Watch.
The group said sources have told it the Mideast terrorist army ISIS is now operating in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, the narcotics-trafficking center located just across the border from El Paso, Texas, and it is planning to attack the U.S. with car bombs or improvised explosive devices carried by vehicles. Federal law enforcement, intelligence, and other sources have confirmed that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border was issued, and that agents for the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security have been put on alert and told to aggressively work all sources and potential leads.
One source told Judicial Watch intelligence officials "picked up radio talk and chatter" pointing to an attack on the border.
The source said both ISIS and al-Qaida were planning plots, and told Judicial Watch an attack "is coming very soon." Another source told the group the attack is so imminent the commanding general at the U.S. Army's Ft. Bliss in El Paso is being briefed. A Texas law enforcement bulletin sent out this week reportedly shows ISIS is keenly aware of the porous border in the area, and social media chatter shows it has expressed "an increased interest" in crossing the border to conduct an attack...
Also last week, Sen. Jim Inhofe warned ISIS is "rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major U.S. city." The ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee in the U.S. Senate said the U.S. now is in "the most dangerous position we've ever been in."
And, as WND also reported last week, Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, warned terrorists from the Islamic State could be sneaking into Texas across the Southwest border at any time, due to the Obama administration's failures in Iraq and in securing the border.
Pentagon press secretary, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, immediately denied any evidence of Perry's claims.
"I've seen no indication that they are coming across the border with Mexico. We have no information that leads us to believe that. That said, we do know they have aspirations to hit Western targets and that we've got to take that seriously and have to try to be ready for it," Kirby told CNN.
Mexican officials also quickly rejected the governor's warnings.
"Mexican authorities have no record of the presence of Islamist extremist groups or individuals in Mexico," said Ariel Moutsatsos, minister for public affairs at the embassy in Washington. "We take all possible measures to impede any terrorist activity in our territory."
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, joined Perry to warn Americans about terror threats from the largely unsecured U.S.-Mexico border.
"The FBI director previously said ... that there were people from terrorist countries who were assuming Hispanic names, and learning a few words of Spanish, and coming in," Gohmert said. "The FBI director himself testified to that before Congress. So we know that this kind of thing has been going on. Governor Perry isn't saying anything that's new, it just takes a little while for the mainstream to catch up."
The congressman added that more recently, Marine General John Kelly, the commander of South Command, testified before the House and Senate this year "that the penetration of our Southern border by criminal cartels, as well as terrorist organizations, poses, in his words, an 'existential threat the United States.'"
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/alarms-sound-over-imminent-attacks-on-u-s/#3VfdU8L6dSgSGKHd.99Blessings to you
Thomas Schlueter
Prince of Peace Church, Pastor
Texas Apostolic Prayer Network, Director
Let us keep the borders of the USA and those who guard them in our prayers. Pray that any terrorist plot of ISIS or any other extremist groups would be discovered and countered before they can do any damage.
Calling for a Gideon's Army of Prayer Warriors for such a time as this!
Are you sensing a call of God to a time of intense intercession for the United States? At this time of growing crisis in which our nation seems to be have lost its direction morally, spiritually, politically and economically, a number of Christian leaders have heard that call and are inviting you to Washington DC, October 29-30 for a National Prayer Assembly. Scheduled just one week before our national elections, it comes at a crucial time in our nation's life. It is not a time for politicking or posturing, but for passionate prayer for a fresh move of God for the transformation of our nation. Our prayer focus is on repentance, reconciliation, and revival in the spirit of God's great promise for national restoration in 2 Chronicles 7:14.
This gathering is being sponsored by America's National Prayer Committee, The International Prayer Council, Mission America Coalition, and Renewal of America.
The venue will be the Sheraton Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia near ReaganNational Airport and very good nightly rates of $184 (single or double) have been secured until September 25. A registration fee of $55 helps us secure the gorgeous meeting room overlooking all of D.C. and provides coffee, tea, and water for the two days of praying together. The hotel is located close to the Metro and allows us easy access to visit significant sites in the City for onsite intercession. The registration site is: www.nationalprayercommittee.com Additional details can be found there, including information on reserving your rooms at the hotel. The hotel number for registrations is: 1 800 325 3535.
At least three people killed and 494 injured as police clash with protesters calling for PM Nawaz Sharif to resign.
Islamabad, PAKISTAN - Clashes between police and anti-government protesters have continued outside Pakistan's parliament, resulting in the deaths of at least three people, and injuries to 494 more, witnesses and hospital officials have told Al Jazeera.
Police continued to fire tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters, while thousands more remained behind the front lines outside the country's parliament building in the capital Islamabad.
The protesters, supporters of opposition politician Imran Khan and anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, have been camped out outside the country's parliament since August 15, calling for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government to resign.
Meanwhile, limited protests were also held by PTI and PAT supporters in Karachi, Lahore and other cities in Pakistan.
http://m.aljazeera.com/story/2014831145733222260
Pray for stability and peace for Pakistan and that the government and military will be able to restore order. Pray that in the midst of all this uproar and chaos people would reach out to Christ as the only one who can bring them true peace personally and nationally.
WASHINGTON - Abdul Maulana Aziz, a follower of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who led the infamous Red Mosque rebellion in Pakistan, has declared his support for the newly formed Islamic State, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The jihadist army of the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, had taken over large swaths of Iraq and declared the establishment of a caliphate, governed by Islamic law, or Shariah, that also includes northeastern Syria.
Aziz's backing of Baghdadi is seen as ominous by Western intelligence, since he is close to such groups as Sipa-e-Sahaba and the Tehnik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which seek the overthrow - even by violent means - of the Pakistani government, which possesses nuclear weapons.
Aziz's support for Baghdadi and ISIS comes as Pakistan, a predominantly Sunni country, faces yet another political crisis that threatens the existence of its democratic secular government. Political opponents of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have demanded his resignation, which he has refused.
His opponents want sweeping constitutional reform to replace parliamentary democracy and confront alleged corruption that has crept into the electoral process. However, jihadist groups see an opportunity now to assert their influence as Pakistan's political crisis grows worse.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/isis-gains-support-of-fierce-leader/#ltJCmrshCzEGO3SZ.99
Please pray for the government and military of Pakistan to contain and stop the Islamic radical groups within its borders that threaten not only this nation but the world. Pray for the cutting off of any connections between the Pakistani and other Muslim extremist groups with ISIS so that their vision of an Islamic caliphate pictured below will be frustrated and overthrown
Pic: ISIS five year plan map.
Please keep this potentially most dangerous border on earth in prayer. Between them, India and Pakistan have an estimated 230 nukes and according to Dr. Kent Moors, an intelligence expert, "are literally gambling with the fate of the rest of the world". A nuclear conflict between these two nations could, he says, "set off a global famine that could kill two billion people and effectively end human civilization" because of spreading radiation.
Having already fought three wars over the disputed Kashmir territory, another all-out war is possible, especially with much of the military of Pakistan under the influence of radical Islamic groups who do not fear "mutually assured destruction", the deterrence that thankfully kept the Cold War from going nuclear.
1 Please pray for the governments of Pakistan and India that they will find a way to keep the peace between them and to settle their differences over the much-contested area of Kashmir as well as the matter of sharing precious water resources.
2 Pray for the discrediting and overthrow of radical, extremist Muslim and Hindu groups that are willing to provoke a conflict and do not care about the end of the world scenario that could be activated.
3 Pray that the devil, diabolos, the divider and destroyer would be bound and unable to exacerbate this long-standing conflict.
(See Kent Moors' book, The Great Game: The Coming Face Off for Global Supremacy, The Money Map Press, 2014 for more intelligence on geopolitical issues worthy of serious prayer focus.)
Two crucial, timely prayer seminars to build up the Iraqi prayer movement will be held in the next several days, first in Erbil in Kurdistan and then in Baghdad. "The need for prayer there with the Iraqis and teaching is urgent", says the facilitator, a dear friend and prayer initiative colleague named Sam. "They wrote that relief - support is plenty but no one to lead and call for prayer among the locals."
Erbil, 4th - 9th
- Please pray that many sincere believers & leaders would come for the prayer - days and unite with one heart for the nation of Iraq.
- For a strong interest in the prayer - meetings & in the seminar!
- For a strong presence of His Holy Spirit to lead us into intense times of prayer, repentance, grieving, weeping & wrestling!
- For HIS heart for the nation!
- For revelation & guidance of the Holy Spirit to know how to pray.
- For strong protection over the participants and Sam and his family.
Baghdad, 11th - 15th
- Please pray for a huge participation of believers & leaders and that the Lord may keep the roads open for people to travel to the venue.
- For unity and God's heart for the city & nation!
- We need a strong presence of HIS spirit & a flow in prayer and real brokenness among the believers & leaders to really cry out for their nation, to repent, grieve, weep and wrestle for Iraq.
- Pray for a strong prophetic anointing, revelation and God's strategy in the meetings.
- For a strong protection over the believers in Baghdad!
Pray also for Sam to have God's wisdom, guidance and anointing and that he will enjoy special favor and protection in this current core trouble spot of the world.
People waiting in line at Baharka transit camp in Erbil to receive their food assistance from WFP. Photo: WFP/Mohammed Albahbahani
27 August 2014 - Food aid convoys from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have reached displaced Iraqis in Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, bringing the number of people receiving food assistance to over 700,000 people since the start of violence in mid-June...
"The humanitarian situation in Iraq is extremely challenging," said Mohamed Diab, WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and East Europe...
Throughout the country more than 1 million people have been displaced - many without access to food, water or other basic needs. They are living in unfinished buildings, mosques, churches, parks and schools...
Before the latest wave of displacement, WFP was already assisting about 240,000 people displaced by conflict in Iraq's al-Anbar governorate, as well as more than 180,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria who are sheltering in Iraq.
UN News Centre
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48577#.VAYJqigQjRd
Pray for the UN, World Food Program, and other humanitarian efforts to help the Iraqis who are displaced due to the ISIS invasion and takeover of their cities and villages. Pray for effective coordination and a generous and abundant flow of aid to those who need this help so desperately.
The parents and children of this Syrian family sleep on the streets of Istanbul in Turkey. They are among the 3 million refugees from Syria, many of whom live in desperate conditions.
29 August 2014 - Three million Syrians will have registered as refugees outside of their country today, the UN refugee agency reported, amid accounts of increasingly horrifying conditions inside their homeland - cities where populations are surrounded, people are going hungry and civilians are being targeted or indiscriminately killed
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A news release issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that a further 6.5 million people are displaced within Syria, bringing to almost half of all Syrians who have been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. One in every eight Syrians has fled across the border, fully a million people more than a year ago. Over half of those uprooted are children.
"The Syrian crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era, yet the world is failing to meet the needs of refugees and the countries hosting them," said High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres.
And UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie said: "Three million refugees is not just another statistic. It is a searing indictment of our collective failure to end the war in Syria."
UNHCR Spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a press briefing in Geneva today that increasing numbers of families are arriving in a shocking state, exhausted, scared and with their savings depleted. Most have been on the run for a year or more, fleeing from village to village before taking the final decision to leave their country.
The vast majority remained in countries neighbouring Syria, with the highest concentrations in Lebanon (1.14 million), Jordan (608,000) and Turkey (815,000), according to UNHCR.
In addition to the 3 million registered refugees, governments estimated that hundreds of thousands more Syrians had sought sanctuary in their countries with more than four in five refugees struggling to make a living in towns and cities outside of camps, with 38 per cent living in sub-standard shelter, according to a recent survey.
Syrians are now the world's largest refugee population under UNHCR care, second only in number to the decades-long Palestinian crisis. The Syria operation is now the largest in the agency's 64-year history.
Jens Laerke, Spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), stated that more than 191,000 had lost their lives since the beginning of the conflict in March 2011. Even that high number was considered a conservative estimate with the real death toll likely to be much higher, he said.
He said the advance of Islamic State (IS) militants into central Syria had taken violence against civilians to a whole new level as the group continued to commit horrific atrocities against those opposing its rule. There had also been an increase in the use of barrel bombs by Government forces in Aleppo while Islamist militants had cut off the water supply to an area for displaced people, also in Aleppo, on several occasions. That kind of collective punishment was clearly a breach of some of the most basic principles in international humanitarian law.
Overall, nearly 11 million people are in need of aid in Syria and 4.7 million of them live in areas that are hard to reach. There are still some 241,000 under siege in various locations. Mr. Laerke informed that the UN has now sent nine shipments to Syria from neighbouring countries and more are planned over the following month.
While donors had contributed more than $4.1 billion to successive regional response plans since 2012, more than $2 billion more is needed by the end of 2014 alone to meet the urgent needs of refugees...
Please pray for the end of Syria's conflict and the huge numbers of refugees suffering in the midst of this way. Pray too that the remaining need in humanitarian funds will be met by the international community. May many Muslim Syrians encounter Jesus Christ in this terrible disruption of their lives!
UN News Centre
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48589#.VAYHjygQjRc
Photo: UNHCR/S. Baldwin