MEMRI: Egyptian and Arab Press Reactions to the Attack on Egypt's Foreign Minister inside Al-Aqsa Mosque
From the sample given, only one Arab news organ carried anything resembling praise for the attackers--and an Egyptian took strong exception to that. Most of the reaction has been negative, and to the effect that the attackers of the Egyptian foreign minister ought to be ashamed of themselves. But one has to wonder whether the Egyptian and Arab press would be expressing such attitudes prior to the capture of Saddam Hussein.::Submitted for your wild man in the desert [Genesis 25] files.

WHO: China Sending Suspected SARS Samples
AP reports, "China has agreed to send samples from a suspected SARS patient to a foreign laboratory for testing after repeated Chinese tests failed to confirm whether he has the virus, the World Health Organization said." :: Submitted for your Pestilence (Luke 21:11) files on the spread of SARS.

MEMRI: Al-Qa'ida Leader Calls for Attacks on Americans in Iraq Rather Than on the Saudi Government in Saudi Arabia
The message involved could be straight out of the Koran, a fact that most Western news organs have been studiously ignoring.::Submitted for your wild man in the desert with his hand against every man [Genesis 25] files.

MEMRI: The Birth Pangs of Iraqi Sovereignty
Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli asks: Will it work?::Submitted for your wild man in the desert [Genesis 25] files.

Gadhafi Armed Al-Qaida with Bio-Chem Weapons
WorldNetDaily reports, "Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi provided al-Qaida with chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction before changing heart and agreeing to destroy his arms program..." :: Submitted for your Wars and Rumors of War (Matthew 24:6) and Fear for the Future (Luke 21:26) files.

MEMRI: Assessing Islamist Web Site Reports Of Imminent Terror Attacks In The U.S.
The head of MEMRI examines three sites purporting to be Islamic militant sites. Two he rejects as blow-hard fakes, but the third, he warns, could be real.::Submitted for your wild man in the desert [Genesis 25] files.

MEMRI: Palestinian Authority Sermons 2000-2003
Once again, the wild man in the desert raises his hand against every man [Genesis 25]. These "Palestinians," lacking any historical claim to the land they demand, now make a series of outrageous statements that have propaganda value and serve few other purposes.::Submitted for your war [Matthew 24:6] files.

Iran Fears Quake Toll Could Hit 40,000
AP reports, "Relatives and rescuers used everything from bare hands to bulldozers Saturday to retrieve victims of a powerful earthquake...The destruction was so all-encompassing that a reliable death toll in the city of 80,000 was still unavailable. Most people were asleep when the earthquake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.6, struck at 5:28 a.m. Friday. The Interior Ministry estimated the death toll at 20,000 but officials in the region said it could be double that amount." :: Submitted for your Quake (Matthew 24:7) files.

China Suspects First SARS Case Since July
AP reports, "China on Saturday announced its first suspected SARS case since July, saying the patient was hospitalized in the southern province where the virus is believed to have originated." :: Submitted for your Pestilence (Luke 21:11) files.

MEMRI: Increased Palestinian Adherence to Right of Return Following the Geneva Initiative
The disputed part of the "Geneva Initiative" is its seventh article, which is deliberately vague. How often have we seen that before, in legal instruments that men have drafted?::Submitted for your covenant with many [Daniel 9:27] files.

The Golden Report - High Mass for Christ in Bethlehem!
Jerry Golden comments on Christmas in Bethlehem and the rich--and ugly--ironies of Bethlehem's situation. These include the empty chair with the keffiya for Yasser Arafat and the very circumstance of Bethlehem being under Muslim rule of a sort.::Submitted for your struggle for Jerusalem [Zechariah 14] files.

MEMRI: Arab Columnists Envy Georgia's Political Revolution: Tbilisi Spring, Arab Winter
Many of them ask whether Islam and democracy are "contradictory." They probably don't realize that Islam and democracy are indeed contradictory.::Submitted for your wild man of the desert [Genesis 25] files.

Mob attacks Egyptian FM at Al-Aqsa
Haaretz reports, "Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher was briefly hospitalized yesterday after being attacked by Palestinians during a visit to the Temple Mount." :: Submitted for your Temple Mount (Matthew 24:15; 2 Thess.2:4; Daniel 9:27) files.

Emergency Declared After California Quake
AP reports, "Aftershocks rattled central California Tuesday as crews tallied damage from a magnitude-6.5 earthquake that killed two people, injured dozens and badly damaged the business district of this wine country town." :: Submitted for your Quake (Matthew 24:7) files.

MEMRI: Al-Qa'ida Magazine Debates Attacks in Saudi Arabia - Proposes More Attacks in the U.S. will Boost Support
Interestingly, they're beginning to rethink the notion of biting the hand that's been feeding them for the last seventy years.::Submitted for your wild man of the desert [Genesis 25] files.

The Golden Report - Who is this Ariel Sharon?
Jerry Golden angrily denounces him as a traitor to everything he has said he stood for, and a follower of expediency rather than plain Scripture--Old or New Testament, it makes little difference, because arguably Sharon, with his willingness to dismantle settlements, violates both.::Submitted for your struggle for Jerusalem [Zechariah 14] and stumblingblock [Zechariah 12] files.

Tiny transmitters give retailers, privacy advocates goosebumps
USA Today reports, "Say hello to RFID: radio-frequency identification. If you don't know about it already, you're going to. Because, depending on who you ask, RFID technology is either a giant can of WD-40 on the wheels of commerce and inventory, or a spawn of the evil military-industrial complex that (still) plans to enslave us all." :: Submitted for your Mark of the Beast (Rev 13:16-18) files on commerce technology.

MEMRI: Saudi Columnist: 'America is a Liberator and not an Occupier... Bush will Go Down in Arab History as the Liberator of Baghdad'
The columnists has harsh words for the Arab critics of the Americans. His column asks where his fellow Arabs were when Saddam was in power and why they criticize the Americans now for doing what was needed.::Submitted for your war [Matthew 24:6] files.

Sharon Gives Ultimatum on Peace Deal
AP reports, "Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that Israel was willing to move some Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip but delivered an ultimatum that Palestinians had only a few months to make peace or Israel would impose its own solution." :: Submitted for your Covenant with Many (Daniel 9:27) files.

Asia Health Authorities Ready for Return of SARS
Reuters reports, "Hospitals have customized anti-SARS plans, multinational manufacturers in China have stockpiled surgical masks and thermal scanners map the body temperature of arriving air passengers in Singapore." :: Submitted for your Pestilence (Luke 21:11) files.