'Israel using rats against J'lem Arabs'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull


IDF MI chief: Hamas, Hizbullah may be planning imminent attack
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull
Head of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin warned on Sunday of a possible terror attack by Hamas or Hizbullah in the near future along the Gaza Strip and Lebanon borders, respectively.
Slideshow: Pictures of the week Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Yadlin said Hizbullah still had many outstanding issues with Israel which could be used to justify such an attack, such as the Shaba Farms, the village of Ghajar, IAF flights over Lebanon and Imad Mughniyeh's assassination in February - for which the group has blamed Israel.
Of Gaza, Yadlin said some organizations which have not signed on to the cease-fire are planning a major attack.




New Gaza Terror Group Makes Hamas Seem Moderate
(IsraelNN.com) A new Islamist jihad group that may become as much of a threat to Hamas as it is to Israel is gaining strength in Gaza.

The Gaza-based group of Salafi Muslims, known as the Army of Islam (Jaish al-Islam), first made headlines a year ago when it kidnapped British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter Alan Johnston near his Gaza City bureau office.

"It was nothing personal," commented their leader, Abu Mustafa, in an interview published over the weekend by the German Der Spiegel. "It was a message to the West that they should release imprisoned Muslims." He added that at the
Compared to us [Hamas] is Islamism-lite.
moment foreign journalists are not in danger in Gaza.


20 Jul 08

Tropical Storm Cristobal rumbles off the Carolinas
Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, continued to move along the North Carolina coast early Sunday, and was expected to dump several inches in some areas of the drought-stricken state.

Drought threatens drinking water for a million Australians
Up to a million people in Australia could face a shortage of drinking water if the country's drought continues, a report on the state of the nation's largest river system revealed Sunday. The report said the situation was critical in the Murray-Darling system, which provides water to Australia's "food bowl", a vast expanse of land almost twice as big as France that runs down the continent's east coast.

Israel: Schalit talks resume this week
After over a month of delays and only days after completing a prisoner swap with Hizbullah, defense officials said over the weekend that Israel is scheduled to renew Egyptian-mediated negotiations with Hamas this week for the release of St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...icle%2FShowFull

U.S., Allies Give Iran Ultimatum After Nuclear Talks Stall
A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_st...,386542,00.html

Iraqi Sunni bloc rejoins government
Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc returned to the government fold Saturday after calling off a nearly one-year boycott of the Shiite-dominated leadership � another critical stride toward healing sectarian rifts.

Anglicans seek to prevent church split
The world's Anglican bishops turned Saturday to the enormous task at the heart of their once-a-decade summit: trying to keep the Anglican family from breaking apart over the Bible and homosexuality.

Life in the Garden - By Jack Kelley

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There was such peace and harmony in The Garden. Every need was met, every desire of the heart fulfilled. Scholars speculate on the length of time Adam and Eve enjoyed Life in the Garden, but no one really knows. I believe it was long enough to give them a very clear perspective on the differences they experienced after the fall. Life in the Garden is so deeply imprinted in the memory of man that it's been the stuff of mythology and the subject of books ever since. Sir Thomas More's book "Utopia" is just one example, although perhaps the most famous.


Whose Decision Was It?

What took Adam and Eve out of the Garden? Nothing more than the substitution of their own will for God's. He had given them everything, including the freedom from worry. He had accepted full responsibility for their well being, providing for and sustaining them, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

When they began making decisions for themselves He let them, but He also let them share some of the responsibility for their decisions. This shared responsibility brought them feelings unknown in the creation until then. The Hebrew word describing these feelings is translated sorrow in the KJV and pain or painful toil in the NIV. It's used only three times. Two of those are in Genesis 3:16-17, verses that outline the consequences of their decisions.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."


To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.


The only other time it's used is in Genesis 5:29 where it describes how the Lord would bring relief from these feelings.

He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."


Lamech named his son Noah, which means comfort. But how did Noah bring the world comfort from the curse? Well, one way was that he preserved the purity of the Messianic line, avoiding the attack on humanity that produced the Nephilim and contaminated the human gene pool. This made the coming of the One who really would give us comfort possible.

But I believe Lamech also knew that Noah was to be the last of the 10 Patriarchs from the time before the Great Flood, and because he named his son Noah, their 10 names could be formed into a single sentence that summarizes the complete Gospel story. "Man (Adam) is appointed (Seth) mortal (Enosh) sorrow (Kenan), but the blessed God (Mahalalel) shall come down (Jared) teaching (Enoch) that his death shall bring (Methusaleh) the despairing (Lamech) comfort (Noah)." It's a prophecy of the Messiah that took 10 generations to write, but it has brought much comfort to the world, because it had to have come from God. What kind of coincidence could have produced it otherwise?

But the most important point to remember is this. Adam and Eve learned that sorrow and painful toil came into their lives as the result of seeking independence from God.


Shared Responsibility

When I say the Lord let them share some of the responsibility, here's what I mean. Even though they had just made the second biggest mistake in the history of Man (the biggest was Israel's murder of their Messiah) and even though God could have made them disappear and started again with another handful of red dirt (Gen. 2:7), He still watched over them and cared for them as His children.

His first act of kindness after the fall was to provide food for them, even though they had to work for it. His second was to clothe them. His third was to send Cherubim to guard the way to the tree of Life, preserving their way back to the Garden once the consequences of their actions had been reversed at the cross (Romans 8:20-21).

In no way could Adam and Eve negate the outcome of their decision, but because of His great mercy they could learn from it and voluntarily yield their will back to the Lord who was still their Provider (El Shaddai). When they did, He blessed them with long life and many children, signs of His favor. And though their circumstances were forever changed, they again walked and talked with God and were at peace with Him in spite of those circumstances. In other words, even though they could no longer physically live in the Garden, they could achieve a Garden state of mind.


Lessons from History

The German philosopher Hegel once said, "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." But in Romans 15:4 Paul wrote that "everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope."

In other words, lessons that began in the Garden still apply today. We're to learn both from Adam and Eve's mistakes and the Lord's response.

Like Adam and Eve we're God's people. As long as we submit ourselves to His will our every need will be met and He will assume full responsibility for our well being (Psalm 37:4 & Matt. 6:31-33). But when we start exercising our own prerogatives He begins sharing that responsibility with us. The more independently we act, the more responsibility He shares. Along with shared responsibility come sorrow and painful toil.

When we surrender again He takes the responsibility back. Since He hasn't given us full use of the dimension of time, we can't go back and negate the consequences of our independent decisions, but like Adam and Eve we can learn from them and voluntarily yield our will again to the Lord who is still our Provider. All He requires is confession and a willingness to start over. His mercies are new every morning, so we too can achieve a Garden state of mind in spite of our circumstances, just like our first parents.


It's All in Your Mind

One day soon, the Lord will lead us all back to the real Garden, the one in heaven. But until then, there's the Garden state of mind. These are perilous times and every indication is that they'll become more so. If you're all stressed out about them, maybe you're assuming too much responsibility, trying to impose your own will on things you can't control instead of trusting God and living according to His will. If so, you're living outside the Garden, where it's full of sorrow and painful toil.

Jesus said, "Come to Me all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matt. 11:28)." Give your life to Him again, and relieve yourself of the responsibility. You may not be able to reverse the effects of your past decisions, but if you draw near to Him, He'll draw near to you and lead you safely through them. Just like Adam and Eve did, you'll find that life's better in the Garden, even when it's only a state of mind. Selah 07-19-08



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speak the truth in love
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Five-star hotel planned for Baghdad

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/1...-for-baghdad-1/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Originally published 07:04 a.m., July 19, 2008, updated 06:57 a.m., July 19, 2008

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi officials say they have approved plans to build a five-star hotel in the Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone.

Iraq's National Investment Commission says land for the project is being leased by the Summit Global Group, a U.S.-based investment company.

Robert Kelley, head of Summit Global, says the 300-room hotel will cost $100 million. He says American and Iraqi investors are involved in the project, but he did not name them.

At a groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday, Kelley said construction would begin soon, but he did not specify a date.

Iraqi government offices and American diplomatic and military facilities are inside the Green Zone, also known as the International Zone.

International Zone? That’s the first I’ve heard of that name. Plus I read they are building a kind of Disneyland in that same area....

I will not partake in the wicked schemes that I see abound everywhere.
While once I prayed for everyone to be saved, I must now conclude that God's Judgment is just in every way.

Do away with the crooked table, and make a new one, but don't give it a free will, or we will see another 6 days of cruelty and hatred.
I will praise the day I die.

Let's first go to Revelation. What is the last thing you read?

Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.


Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

The first point was, you want to go and eat with that gorilla over there, then go for awhile and see what that gorilla has to go through. They are dominating creatures and you will have to do what they do because I won't have anything to do with them. Woman was made a helper; she helped. I bet, when the animals were hungry, she fed them. But, that was not her job. Adam was created, formed, and put in the garden to the East of Eden to till it and to keep it, protect it. It is the garden that helps the animals. God made no restrictions on eating what He caused to grow, in fact He demanded that you use it to keep healthy and use 'the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations.'
The first statement above is demonic.

The second point of the true statement was, when you go over there to them gorillas, you will have to adopt their ways of childbearing, which is instinctual to them. It is just their way that they were programmed with to keep the species going.

The third point was, when you get tired of the cunning ways of a serpent who has to struggle in order to survive and really has no care whether they do survive, God Almighty has a place.



Well, he Noah was brought up for that purpose, but there was something else that God Almighty said to Noah:

Gen 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

There's something else that's pretty reassuring:

I do not know of any case whatsoever where the LORD has told a lie! The curse ended with Noah; there is no more curse by the LORD on this earth! The LORD is the one who first said, 'Thou shalt not kill.' And the LORD has kept His word.

Adam was 1 individual. Eve was the same. After they did what they did, which is turn backwards the commands of the LORD, they became flesh and had to go through what they have to learn instinct stuff and that instinct stuff has filled their minds after all of these years and they have started developing Alzheimer's disease because none of the instinct stuff works.

gregg, you are on drugs or something?

No offense, Justice, but really, think of what you are doing here, you are nitpicking on everything everyone is saying and you are being kind of mean about the way you are saying it. If you don't like something someone says, PM them... this is not acceptable, and take this from a friend, okay? I know you're going through a lot, but you don't ask someone if they are on drugs.. we are CHRISTIANS here. Please think before you say things that could hurt someone, okay? I care.

21 Jul 08
Is media playing fair in campaign coverage?
Television news' royalty will fly in to meet Barack Obama during this week's overseas trip: CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC's Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC's Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday. The anchor blessing defines the trip as a Major Event and � much like a "Saturday Night Live" skit in February that depicted a press corps fawning over Obama � raises anew the issue of fairness in campaign coverage.

Tropical storm Dolly heads for Yucatan
Tropical Storm Dolly headed for Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula today bearing heavy rains and winds, but it posed no immediate threat to Gulf oil installations slightly south of its projected path.

Dobson shifts positions, may endorse McCain
Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his position and endorse the Arizona senator despite serious misgivings. "I never thought I would hear myself saying this," Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. "... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might."

Brown to target Iran in historic first speech from Knesset floor
Gordon Brown will today use the first ever speech by a British prime minister to the Israeli parliament to issue a clear threat of tougher international action if Iran fails to halt steps towards becoming a nuclear military power.

World warned over killer flu pandemic
The world is failing to guard against the inevitable spread of a devastating flu pandemic which could kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe, the Government has warned.

Chavez Goes Weapons Shopping in Russia Amid Regional Arms Race
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez heads to Moscow today to shop for tanks, air defense systems and other weaponry as Latin America's arms race quickens amid signs that his regional influence is waning.

Iran buys time, and the fools are buying it.

Justice:
You need to turn to the Lord! You need Jesus! Prayers!
You are also hurting and hurting others -bigtime! there are pms. Stop-it!
JUstice:

That is funny. My mailbox is EMPTY!
So that is where the gossip is!
Now I know.

Whom of you had the GUTS to PM me? None!

And stop acting like God, for none of you knows what is going on.
None of you even took the time or effort to ask.

Hypocrites.

Return to sender, tenfold.

You wolve in sheeps clothes. Watch!

Syria and Iran missile joint command
US Official to Meet Syrian Negotiator
Marine Eloquence !
Operation Brimstone
"The Iraq war is over, we won.

Marine Eloquence !
Reconnaissance Marine in Afghanistan

It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.

I also glance at the area around my --- every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard.

The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.

The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement.

It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin.

I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me. I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit --- hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.

Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.

I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns. Actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do.

They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each others barbarism. Cavemen with AK47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.

I'm freezing my --- off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours.

Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart.

They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.

OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm good at it. Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and move on with your lives.

The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know. We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do.

Operation Brimstone

Source Article from the US Navy.

NOTE: This info was published by the US NAVY---nothing secret is being discussed

Operation Brimstone is currently occuring off the coast of the Carolinas. It is a joing US/UK/French led exercise that is being used to train forces in sea interdiction, search and siezure of vessels. The obstensible reason for this is to serve as a possible partial blockade of refined fuel and benzene into Iran as sanctions for not complying with the halt of uranium enrichment. Iran is almost totally dependent upon import of these products and a blockade would be devastating to thier economy.

This is no small scale exercise. It includes a British Carrier task force, the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Force and the Iwo Jima Expeditionary strike force as well as the Destroyer group 22, Guided Missle cruiser Monterrey and Vela Gulf, Guided Missle destroyers Mason, The Sullivans, Ramage, Roosevelt and Nitze, as well as the fast attack subs Springfield and Hartford. Also included will be the 26th Marine Expiditionary Unit and, as a first, a Riverine Unit (small patrol boats bor brownwater operations) and a explosives disposal unit.

All told this looks like a capable force. It looks as though they will have enough firepower through cruise missles and air operations to strike Iranian nuclear assets if needed--particularly with AF units in Iraq and B2s flying form Missouri. The MEU looks to sieze the small islands around the Strait of Hormuz to try to assure that tankers will not be stopped and the explosives disposal is likely to try to remove any mines that are to be deployed when this thing goes live.

The operation began today and ends the 31st. That gives it just enough time to arrive in theater when the 2 week deadline expires in August. Also interesting that the 5th fleet also has the USS Abraham Lincoln, and another amphibious assault carrier, the Peliliu in the Gulf right now.

Who is this being quoted?


Quote:
But I believe Lamech also knew that Noah was to be the last of the 10 Patriarchs from the time before the Great Flood, and because he named his son Noah, their 10 names could be formed into a single sentence that summarizes the complete Gospel story. "Man (Adam) is appointed (Seth) mortal (Enosh) sorrow (Kenan), but the blessed God (Mahalalel) shall come down (Jared) teaching (Enoch) that his death shall bring (Methusaleh) the despairing (Lamech) comfort (Noah)." It's a prophecy of the Messiah that took 10 generations to write, but it has brought much comfort to the world, because it had to have come from God. What kind of coincidence could have produced it otherwise?

The more layers we peal from this onion we call the bible, the more layers, knowledge, relationships, and messages we find. Man is not capable of putting together this complexity.

Hi Signet

This is the first post I see your name on today.. I'm glad you're here! and am still praying for you!

I found on a google search that the quote was part of an article from rapturealert.blogspot.com

Link: Forgiveness Perspective by Jack Kelley

you said: The more layers we peal from this onion we call the bible, the more layers, knowledge, relationships, and messages we find. Man is not capable of putting together this complexity.

and the first thing that came to mind was: Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Praise His name! we will have allll eternity to marvel and worship Him as He shows us all of the glorious things of God!

I was sitting the other day lQQking at a flower.. and the leaf that went with it.. alllll these tiny little veins .. and knowing that each leaf is different for each flower, or plant.. and had a moment of awe that something sooooo tiny had sooo much of our Father's attention and detail and purpose when He created it.. how much more the gift our our salvation..

Ohhhhh Jesus is beautiful in more ways than we can now comprehend!

Praise! Praise! Praise!!

Ohhhh How I Love Jesus!

There is a name I love to hear,
I love to sing its worth;
It sounds like music in my ear,
The sweetest name on earth.

chorus:
Oh, how I love Jesus,
Oh, how I love Jesus,
Oh, how I love Jesus,
Because He first loved me!

It tells me of a Saviour's love,
Who died to set me free;
It tells me of His precious blood,
The sinner's perfect plea.
(chorus)

It tells me what my Father hath,
In store for every day,
And tho'I tread a darksome path,
Yields sunshine all the way.
(chorus)

It tells of One whose loving heart
Can feel my deepest woe,
Who in each sorrow bears a part,
That none can bear below.
(chorus)

Oh yeah! I ate that little scroll and it was sweet to the taste and bitter to the stomach. And did I get a rush from that!

Amen Gregg.. if that's the case, send me some!

2ND BULLDOZER RAMPAGE IN JERUSALEM 7/22 on: Today at 07:26:50am
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5456

....reading this and experiencing "shock & awe"
Lord, awestrike me once again!
Lord, let me see how awesome You truly are.
the only way to crucify the flesh is through loving Jesus more.
How can I smile?
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us--Romans 8:18

23 Jul 08

Ahmadinejad vows no Iran concessions in nuclear crisis
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday vowed that Iran would not step back "an inch" in the crisis with world powers over its nuclear drive, in a speech broadcast on state television.

McDonald's hears: 'I'm NOT lovin' it!
The corporate headquarters for McDonald's is hearing from store managers in California that customers are upset over the company's pro-homosexual advocacy and they aren't going to take it any longer.

Media Ignores McCain, in Overdrive for Obama
The same day, Obama�s Republican presidential rival John McCain arrived in Manchester, N.H. As his plane taxied to a stop on the tarmac, he was greeted by just a single reporter and a photographer, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Solar power from Sahara will keep Europe�s lights on
European politicians are discussing ambitious plans to harvest the energy of the Saharan sun, connecting a vast network of solar panels to electricity grids across the continent.




New Evidence of Iran Nuclear Threat

http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/a...y-Chuck-Missler

Source article Christian world news network:
If Iran decides to expel IAEA inspectors and withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty the Isalmic nation could produce nuclear weapons in as little as six months. So says Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, whose recent comments on Iran's nuclear capabilities surprised many. Last year the IAEA chief said it would be several years before Iran would be able to build a nuke.

The most recent report by the IAEA on Iran's activities contains a number of disturbing details. The IAEA has asked for greater access and transparency, but Iran has refused. The IAEA has been denied access to various sensitive locations related to the manufacturing of centrifuges, as well as sites for research and development on uranium enrichment. The IAEA has also confronted Iran with documents it found detailing some of Iran's research activities. The documents have raised red flags concerning the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program. The IAEA report states: