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North Korea Capable of Arming Missile With Nuclear Warhead, According to the Pentagon
Apr 14th, 2013
Daily NewsTruNews
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

North Korea has advanced its nuclear knowledge to the point that it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, a U.S. intelligence report concludes.

The jarring revelation came just hours before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry landed in South Korea in the midst of bellicose threats from the unpredictable communist regime.

Kerry landed in Seoul Friday on the unusual diplomatic journey, as he spearheads the effort to shift U.S. power away from Europe and the Middle East and toward Asia. His trip was planned well in advance of North Korea’s apparent preparations for another missile test.

Kerry and his South Korean counterpart said in a joint press conference North Korea will gain nothing by threatening tests of its missile or nuclear programs.

Kerry says the U.S. and its Asian ally won’t accept the North as a nuclear power, calling the country’s rhetoric “unacceptable.”

Let the Headlines Speak
Apr 14th, 2013
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Syria crisis: Abducted Italian journalists released
Four Italian journalists who had been held hostage in Syria for nearly two weeks have been released, say officials in Italy. The three men and a woman were filming a documentary for Italy's Rai television in northern Syria when they were seized on around 4 April.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigns
The Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has resigned, after a long-running dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas. Official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the president accepted Mr Fayyad's resignation after they met in person.

Russia Bans Former Top Bush Admin Officials and Gitmo Commanders
Russia slapped sanctions on a pair of former top Bush administration officials, two former commanders of the Guantanamo detention center, and 14 other Americans in retaliation for a set of human rights sanctions the Obama administration imposed on a number of Russian citizens on Friday.

Quake strikes off Papua New Guinea, no damage reported
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck 46 miles west of Bougainville island in Papua New Guinea on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake, originally registered at 6.7 magnitude, was 40 miles deep.

US drone pact revealed by former Pakistani president
Pakistan's former president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, admits his regime had a secret pact with the U.S. to allow drone strikes in the country. "Only on a few occasions, when a target was absolutely isolated and no chance of collateral damage," said Musharraf, speaking to a US-based television network.

China says new bird flu cases found in central China
wo people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region and bringing the total number nationwide to 51, Xinhua state news agency said on Sunday. One of the victims, a 34-year old man in the city of Kaifeng, is now critically ill in hospital, while the other, a 65-year old farmer from Zhoukou, is stable. The two cases do not appear to be connected.

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead: why the BBC shouldn't play it
After anti-Thatcher protesters propel the Wizard Of Oz song, Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, into the charts, Neil McCormick on why the BBC shouldn't play it in Sunday's official rundown.

U.S.'s Kerry lands in Japan in push to rein in North Korea
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Japan on Sunday, the last stop on an Asian tour aimed at solidifying support for curbing North Korea's nuclear program and reassuring U.S. allies after weeks of threats of war from Pyongyang.

Kerry in Beijing Links Korean, Iranian, Syrian Crises
Apr 14th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday in a bid to persuade him to exert pressure on North Korea to scale back its belligerent rhetoric and, eventually, return to nuclear talks wit a view ot renewing vital aid. "Mr. President, this is obviously a critical time with some very challenging issues - issues on the Korean peninsula, the challenge of Iran and nuclear weapons, Syria and the Middle East, and economies around the world that are in need of a boost," Kerry told Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People. It was the first time that a high US official had linked the Korean crisis with the two Mid East issues.

In the Beginning
Apr 14th, 2013
Thought for the WeekA. W. Tozer
Categories: Exhortation;Commentary

None of us can approach a consideration of the eternal nature and Person of Jesus Christ without sensing and confessing our human inadequacy in the face of the divine revelation. John, in his gospel, provides a beautiful portrait of the eternal Christ, starting with those stark, incredible words: "In the beginning!', My brethren, that is where we start with the understanding and the revelation of Christianity! Many others have made a variety of claims but only our Christ is the Christ of God. Certainly it was not Buddha and not Mohammed; not Joseph Smith, not Mrs. Eddy and not Father Divine! All of these and countless others like them had beginnings-but they all had their endings, too. What an incredible difference! Our Christian life commences with the eternal Son of God. This is our Lord Jesus Christ: the Word who was with the Father in the beginning; the Word who was God; and the Word who is God! This is the only one who can assure us: "No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me!"

Chemical Warfare Looms Over Syria. Israel Passes Atropine to Rebels
Apr 14th, 2013
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

As the Syrian civil way went into its third year this week, signs abounded of increasing readiness for the use of chemical weapons on both sides of the conflict.
Since February, the US, Israel, Ankara and Amman have been aware of Bashar Assad’s resolve to override their threats and resort to deadly poison gas if the rebels closed in on the heart of Damascus. On April 3, an unnamed Syrian army officer made the warning clear. By continuing to advancie on Damascus, he said, “the rebels and their leaders” were assured of “certain death.”
At about the same time, debkafile reported exclusively that the Syrian ruler had ordered protective suits for chemical warfare and gas masks distributed to the 4th and 3rd Divisions defending the capital. Tank commanders were told to activate their filtering systems against chemical and biological agents.
Protective suits have since been distributed to the Syrian army units fighting in southern Syria and the Golan, the enclave divided between Syria and Israel by the 1974 ceasefire that ended the Syrian war of attrition after the Yom Kippur War.
These steps were registered by the joint counter-chemical warfare center set up between the US, Israel, Turkey and Jordan when President Barack Obama visited their capitals in the third week of March. In the last few days, Israeli troops were asked by this center to start handing out atropine injections or IV drips to Syrian rebels fighting Syrian troops on the Golan.
Extracted from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) and mandrake (Mandragora officinarum), atropine is highly effective for blocking such nerve agents as sarin, VX, soman and tabun and counteracting the effects of poisoning, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping and low heart rate.

The IDF’s distribution of a chemical weapon antidote to Syrian rebels may be regarded as the first Israeli intervention in the Syrian conflict, a small step past administering medical treatment to Syrians wounded in battle.

The Syrian high command will have noted this, or been tipped off by its Iranian, Russian or Hizballah intelligence comrades. And, say debkafile’s military sources, this may account for the Syrian decision for the first time in 34 years to direct shell fire at an IDF Golani patrol on duty Friday night, April 12, in the northern Golani area of Kibbutz El-Rom.
No one was hurt. But in order to deter the Syrians from making this attack a precedent, Israeli artillery and a Tamuz rocket returned the fire, achieving a direct hit on the Syrian outpost.

The British disclosure April 12 in the Times of London of soil samples smuggled out of Syria provided forensic evidence of the use of chemical weapons but carefully avoided assigning responsibility.

Though containing traces of “some kind of chemical weapon” collected from an unidentified “neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus,” the British experts could not identify the type of weapon – possibly even tear gas – or whether it was fired by forces loyal to President Assad or the rebels fighting him.
debkafile’s military sources note that, even if Britain’s MI6 secret service knew the answers to these questions, they would take care not to make them public so as not to build up the pressure for Western military intervention - pledged by President Obama in the event of chemical weapons being used in Syria – before the US president was ready to give the go signal.