In Scripture the battle Armageddon occurs physically in the norther part of modern Israel.
Revelation 16:15-16 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
In this battle of Armageddon we see at the possibulity of atleast one atomic bomb being dropped, men being burned by a great heat and being covered with sores
Revelation 9:1-2 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
This event could also well be another nuclear device being detonated
possibly aimed at Israel and striking a bit off the mark (The place this happens
in a desert area on the edge of Gaza. And we see that this event causes untold
suffering in the region around the explosion that opens the bottomless pit.
Israel
our own 9/11?
Jerusalem Post ^ | 3-5-06 | ERIK SCHECHTER
Posted on 03/05/2006
7:13:40 AM PST by SJackson
With
attacks by al-Qaida affiliates on targets in Eilat, Taba and most recently
northern Israel, security officials now expect that the global jihad network
will try this year to commit a mega-terror attack here. Already, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, has set his sites beyond the
war-torn country, attacking Jordan with three suicide bombers in November.
Coincidentally,
Chanan Azran, host of the investigative TV program Gilui Na'ot, has just
published To Die of Fear: The "Dirty Bomb" - Nightmare Scenarios,
a book filled with photographs of mushroom clouds, bio-chemical treatment
exercises, the bubonic plague and unguarded Soviet-era military bases.
Azran
argues that he is not peddling hysteria (though "dirty," or
radiological bombs do not create mushroom clouds), but just asking
uncomfortable questions - questions that are becoming more relevant by the
minute. Indeed, one could disagree with much of his analyses of terrorist
movements, WMDs, etc., yet agree that not enough has been done to take these
issues to the public.
Do
you believe it's only a matter of time before terrorists use non-conventional
weapons against Israel?
As a journalist, I went to the open sources and tried to put the pieces of the
puzzle together, and I have concluded that, bottom line, it is only a matter of
time before there is a non-conventional terrorist attack.
Which
sources do I rely upon? First, there's the IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen.
Dan Halutz, who said in the Knesset that Iran might provide al-Qaida with
radioactive material. That's the first time a senior military person has
publicly called a spade a spade - or in this case, a dirty bomb.
Then
there are the statements of the president of the United States, the prime
minister of Great Britain, and the counter-terrorism chiefs at American and
German intelligence, which all speak of the inevitability of a dirty bomb
attack.
What
is a "dirty bomb?"
We are talking about a non-conventional weapon cooked up by terrorists. There
is no dirty bomb, per se. It is a catch-all term for explosive material, say
dynamite, placed in a container with germs or radioactive powder, which is then
carried to a target or fired like a rocket.
You
have to remember, and this the American have said themselves, America is afraid
of a dirty bomb. You have to wonder why.
You
cite the 2003 fatwa by radical Saudi sheikh Nasir bin Hamid al Fahd justifying
the use of WMDs against infidels. How seriously should one take this statement?
Very seriously.
Conventional
terrorism - if I can use the expression - has, at least in our region,
escalated from the use of knives in the 1970s up to the deployment of human
bombs in the 1990s. But until now, the terrorists have not tried to tamper with
the food and water supply or tamper with the soil because they tried not to
harm fellow Muslims.
As
soon as the sheikh allowed Muslim collateral damage, so long as the interests
of jihad are furthered, then we should be ready for anything. Someone who
thinks that a local Muslim population will serve as a human shield must realize
that that is no longer true.
In
your book, you note that suspected al-Qaida terrorists have already been caught
in London with ricin. What does that mean for us?
We are talking about bio-chemical terrorism. There is a long list of deadly
chemicals and bacteria that can be used. It all depends on what the terrorists
can get their hands on. There are a lot of civilian sources for these chemicals
- research labs and factories, for instance. There are civilian reactors.
The
significance of London is that we saw that terrorists know what biological
agents like ricin are, how to get a hold of them, and it is only a matter of
time before they use it more effectively. In 1995, there was a cult in Japan
that used nerve gas to commit a terrorist attack, and some 10 years later, we
are talking about the threat of a radiological bomb.
Al-Qaida
is now sitting in Lebanon and in Gaza, and if Iran's long hand also reaches
here, we should worry about the network getting radioactive material. The
Americans recently organized a special study, at Hadassah Hospital, about how a
country deals with a biological attack.
I ask,
Why in Israel? Why not New Zealand or Australia? It's fair to assume that
Israel has some information about a biological weapon.
How
deadly is ricin?
When we talk about bio-chemical weapons, we are talking about things that are
dependent upon weather conditions, the nature of the target and how many people
are around. The issue is whether the terrorists have the scientific ability to
produce germs that can meet those conditions. I relied on open sources for my
book, so for specific answers as to how deadly some agent is, one can go to the
same sources.
What
is the difference between a nuclear and a radiological bomb and how is the
latter constructed?
My book does not discuss nuclear weapons, but rather what is called "the
poor man's atomic bomb." Terrorist groups do not have the access to
materials or scientific knowledge to produce a nuclear bomb. We are talking
about making a regular bomb that spreads radioactive material.
There
are those who say that a dirty bomb might only kill 100, 200 or 1,000 people,
and that is not a weapon of mass destruction, but the panic it will cause and
the amount of years it will take to clean up the radiation is the problem.
What
type of radioactive material would most likely be used and where would one
obtain it?
I'm not a scientist to say what is the ideal radioactive material, but the
terrorists have their people to look for it. But I can speak about from where
the material comes. The sources of the materials are from industrial sources or
stockpiles from other militaries.
With
the fall of the Soviet Union, Cold War-era military camps, where weapons are
stored, can be easily accessed. Radioactive material is stolen from these bases
and sold on the black market. Even [Russian] Gen. Alexander Lebed said that
dozens of nuclear bombs were missing from the Cold War inventory. Where are
they? The West is trying to find them.
You
traveled to the former Soviet republic of Georgia in October 2003. What was the
state of the Cold War-era military stockpiles there?
I was not at the camps while in Georgia; I just reported on the phenomenon. I
don't need a knock on the door and someone asking me, "Where was this or
that camp?"
But I
can tell you, by way of photographs and documents, about what's going on there.
In the Ukraine and Georgia, there are dozens of camps loaded with missiles and
other weapons, which serve as a resource for terrorists.
Chechens
have stolen rockets meant for meteorology and used them as weapons with their
war against the Russians. There's a whole black market, especially in the
Ukraine, supplied by these camps.
Wouldn't
it be incredibly hard to transport undetected radioactive material from the
former USSR to Israel?
No. We are talking about parts. Anyway, the Georgians and Ukrainians want to be
rid of them, too.
You
mention in your book that the US employs Nuclear Emergency Search Teams (NEST)
to deal with the unthinkable. What sort of measures does Israel have in place
to deal with radioactive contamination?
I tried to find out in my book, as much as security would allow, if Israel is
prepared for such an incident. There are two parts to the question. The first
is military, and it is a state secret and the best you can do is hope for the
best. I just hope they don't tell, like they did during the first Gulf War, to
wrap ourselves in nylon and drink water in the sealed room.
The
second part deals with the medical capabilities, such as the distribution of
vaccinations; in that respect, Israel is ready for a non-conventional attack.
Here, and not at the military level, is also where the public should be better
informed of preparations.
In
the event of such a suspected non-conventional attack, what should people do?
The reason I wrote the book is that the issue is not well understood and the
question to panic or not to panic needs to be addressed by a responsible
authority. Now is not the time to sit on our hands or tell the public that
chemical agents are just like dust.
In
every Russian school, they taught the students what bio-chemical weapons are
because they feared that the public might have to deal with it at some point in
time. In Singapore, the government distributed information booklets. Why should
Israel be any different from Singapore?