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March 2015 • Vol. 2, No. 3
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Death of King Abdullah May Trigger Attack on Israel By Mark Ellis, Special to ASSIST News Service (Assist News Service/Jan 2015) The highest levels of Iran’s leadership believe there are only two prophetic triggers before the return of their long-awaited messiah and one of them just happened: the death of 90-year-old King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. “Iran’s leaders believe they can facilitate the coming of the last Islamic messiah,” says Reza Khalili. “They believe the centuries old Hadith predicts this and that the time is close.” Khalili ( a pseudonym) was a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who became a CIA spy before he escaped to the West. The second trigger is the destruction of Israel. “The first trigger is a sign that the second trigger needs to take place,” he notes. “Once King Abdullah dies, that will tell them the time is now.” This thinking — which may seem fanatical or impossible to Western observers — pervades the highest levels of Iran’s leadership. “He (Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran) told close associates that he will be the one to pass the flag of Islam to Imam Mahdi, the Islamic messiah. Khamenei believes he is the one.” “They will attack Israel and we are allowing them to get the nuclear bomb,” Khalili warns. In 2012, the supreme leader referred to Israel as a “cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut.” In 2013 he questioned whether Israel’s leaders are worthy of the “title human,” called Israel “a rabid dog,” and questioned the historicity of the Holocaust. “The Holocaust is an event whose reality is uncertain and if it has happened, it’s uncertain how it has happened,” he said last year. Khalili translated a film authorized by the highest levels of Iran’s leadership, “The Coming is Upon Us.” The presenter in the film makes this claim: “According to the Hadith, upon the death of a ruler named Abdullah, conflict and struggle for power will increase in Saudi Arabia and this will continue until the reappearance of the last messiah, Mahdi. Isn’t the presence of Abdullah, his illness, and his uncertain condition, great news for those anxious for The Coming? When Abdullah dies,
the reappearance is guaranteed.” In audiences where Khalili addresses his concerns, some can’t believe Iran’s leaders could be so irrational. “This is the danger of this regime, which the current U.S. administration is missing. Some people try to discredit me, thinking it’s crazy. That’s the core of the problem.” One of the hadiths the Iranians believe has already been fulfilled relates to the rise of a black leader in the West, ruling the largest army on Earth. According to the film previously cited, its presenter states: “This hadith, relating to Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law and the most revered figure in Shi’ite Islam, says: ‘Before the return of Mahdi, a tall black man will rule the West and the largest army on Earth. He will carry a ‘clear sign’ from my son, Hussein Ibn Ali [the third Shi’ite imam].’ Shi’ites believe Barack Obama, with his middle name Hussein, is this man.” Khalili’s believes the Iranians will attempt to arm their missiles with nuclear warheads. “Ukraine, North Korea, and China are providing the reentry vehicle for the missiles and they are working on the bomb,” he notes. Once Iran has nuclear-tipped missiles and attacks Israel, Khalili says the Hadith predicts an apocalyptic scenario unfolding, in which one-third of the world population will die and the world economy collapses. Most, but not all of Iran’ senior leadership believe in this prophetic picture. “Those who don’t believe it are there for the money, profiting from trading,” he says. Kahlili teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA), is a senior fellow with EMPact America and a member of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. He is the author of “A Time to Betray,” a book about his double life as a CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. “A Time to Betray” was the winner of the 2010 National Best Book Award, and the 2011 International Best Book Award. The book is set to become a movie. ASSIST News Service PO Box 609 Lake Forest, Ca 92609 USA http://www. assistnews.net/
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2015 / PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Warning that “the probability of global catastrophe is very high” unless quick action is taken, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board today cited
unchecked climate change and global nuclear weapons modernization as the basis for their decision to move the minute hand of the historic Doomsday Clock forward two minutes. The shift of the Doomsday Clock hands to three minutes to midnight is the first such adjustment to be made in three years. The Board also outlined action steps that will need to be taken "very soon" in order to avert catastrophe. Founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists subsequently created Continued on page 4
Teen Submerged in Icy Lake Makes “Miracle” Recovery By Jeremy Reynalds, ASSIST News Service ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI (ANS – Feb. 15 2015) — Fourteen-year-old John Smith had lost his battle for life. Three friends were playing on the ice covered lake about 150 feet from shore when suddenly John Smith fell through the ice. Josh Sander tried to grab John’s hand, but the ice broke under him. Josh Rieger then tried lying on his stomach to reach out to his friends, but the ice also gave way under him as well. Two of the boys were able to pull themselves out of the water, but John was not so lucky.For 15 minutes John lay motionless at the bottom of Lake Sainte Louise. John Smith was dead. When members of the Lake Saint Louis Fire and Water Rescue arrived soon after, they saw Josh Sander pulling himself from the water and Josh Rieger clinging to the
‘We prayed for about 10 minutes, and then I saw two angels appear, like guardians. The moment I saw them, John suddenly squeezed my hand and opened his eyes; another miracle.’ ice. John had already gone under. They rescued Rieger, and learned that John was somewhere underneath the ice. Jason Noble, pastor of First Assembly Church in St. Peters, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis), said Brian and Joyce Smith, John’s parents, have been committed members of the church for 21 years, with John attending with them. As Wentzville firefighter Tommy Shine probed the water with a recovery pole hoping to find John’s body, Noble said that
John Smith in the hospital Shine felt like someone told him to “move two steps to the left” as if he were guided. He did and immediately encountered John. The pole’s hook snagged John’s clothing and Shine pulled John’s lifeless body to the surface. “That was one of the first of many miracles to follow,” PE News reported Noble had said. Joyce says that John had spent the night at his friend’s house, and she had spoken to him by phone at 11:27 that morning. At 11:55 she received a call from the boy’s mother telling her what happened to John, that he had no pulse, and was on the way to the hospital. The ambulance transported John to St. Joseph Hospital West in the city of Lake St. Louis, where Dr. Kent Sutterer was the doctor on call. After performing CPR on John for 27 minutes, and John having been lifeless for about 45 minutes, Sutterer called John’s mother into the room, ready to record the time of death. It was time to accept that John was gone. “When the doctor called Joyce into the room, she immediately started praying,” Noble said. “She was calling on the Holy Spirit to save her son, that she didn’t want Continued on page 3