Lucis Trust- The Spiritual Foundation of the United Nations

by Atrayu http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_lucytrust04.htm

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The Lucis Trust

The Lucis Trust is the Publishing House which prints and disseminates United Nations material. It is a devastating indictment of the New Age and Pagan nature of the UN.

Lucis Trust was established in 1922 as Lucifer Trust by Alice Bailey as the publishing company to disseminate the books of Bailey and Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. The title page of Alice Bailey's book, 'Initiation, Human and Solar' was originally printed in 1922, and clearly shows the publishing house as 'Lucifer Publishing CoIn 1923.'

Bailey changed the name to Lucis Trust, because Lucifer Trust revealed the true nature of the New Age Movement too clearly. (Constance Cumbey, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, p. 49). A quick trip to any New Age bookstore will reveal that many of the hard-core New Age books are published by Lucis Trust.

At one time, the Lucis Trust office in New York was located at 666 United Nations Plaza and is a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations under a slick program called "World Goodwill".

In an Alice Bailey book called "Education for a New Age"; she suggests that in the new age "World Citizenship should be the goal of the enlightened, with a world federation and a world brain." In other words - a One World Government New World Order.

Luci's Trust is sponsored by among others Robert McNamara, former minister of Defense in the USA, president of the World Bank, member of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Thomas Watson (IBM, former ambassador in Moscow).

Luci's Trust sponsors among others the following organizations:

·         UN

·         Greenpeace International

·         Greenpeace USA

·         Amnesty International

·         UNICEF

The United Nations has long been one of the foremost world harbingers for the "New Spirituality" and the gathering "New World Order" based on ancient occult and freemasonic principles.

Seven years after the birth of the UN, a book was published by the theosophist and founder of the Lucis Trust, Alice Bailey, claiming that,

"Evidence of the growth of the human intellect along the needed receptive lines [for the preparation of the New Age] can be seen in the "planning" of various nations and in the efforts of the United Nations to formulate a world plan... From the very start of this unfoldment, three occult factors have governed the development of all these plans"

[Alice B. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age (Lucis Press, 1955), Vol. II, p.35.]

Although she did not spell out clearly the identity of these 'three occult factors', she did reveal to her students that,

"Within the United Nations is the germ and seed of a great international and meditating, reflective group - a group of thinking and informed men and women in whose hands lies the destiny of humanity.

This is largely under the control of many fourth ray disciples, if you could but realize it, and their point of meditative focus is the intuitional or Buddhic plane - the plane upon which all hierarchical activity is today to be found"

[Ibid. p.220.]

To this end, the Lucis Trust, under the leadership of Foster and Alice Bailey, started a group called 'World Goodwill' - an official non-governmental organization within the United Nations.

The stated aim of this group is,

"to cooperate in the world of preparation for the reappearance of the Christ"

[One Earth, the magazine of the Findhorn Foundation, October/November 1986, Vol. 6, Issue 6, p.24.]

But the esoteric work inside the UN does not stop with such recognized occult groupings.

Much of the impetus for this process was initiated through the officership of two Secretary-Generals of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld (held office: 1953-1961) and U Thant (held office: 1961-1971) who succeeded him, and one Assistant Secretary-general, Dr. Robert Muller.

In a book written to celebrate the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin (and edited by Robert Muller), it is revealed,

"Dag Hammarskjöld, the rational Nordic economist, had ended up as a mystic. He too held at the end of his life that spirituality was the ultimate key to our earthly fate in time and space"

[Robert Muller (ed.), The Desire to be Human: A Global Reconnaissance of Human Perspectives in an Age of Transformation (Miranana, 1983), p.304.]

Sri Chinmoy, the New Age guru, meditation leader at the UN, wrote:

"the United Nations is the chosen instrument of God; to be a chosen instrument means to be a divine messenger carrying the banner of God's inner vision and outer manifestation."

William Jasper, author of "A New World Religion" describes the religion of the UN:

"...a weird and diabolical convergence of New Age mysticism, pantheism, aboriginal animism atheism, communism, socialism, Luciferian occultism, apostate Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism".

At http://www.lucistrust.org you can find out much more about them and how they're involved with the work of the United Nations by following their link "World Goodwill" at the top of their home page.

The Aquarian Age Community

This Website is sponsored by the United Nations and the whole NWO philosophy is there.

The page which explains the work of the Aquarian Age Community, as they call themselves, has this proud quote at the header of their page:

Such a grandeur is ahead!
Such a great step awaits a fiery affirmation.
Our teaching and the affirmation of the Higher
Principles will reveal so much that is great to humanity!
A great period is drawing near: Thus we do create together.
Fiery World
Vol. III, par. 149

Amongst the many 'enlightening' pages in this website, you can easily find 'fascinating' articles entitled:

·         "The New World Order and the Work of the UN"

·         "The World Spiritual Teacher, the Esoteric Community and the United Nations"

·         "Preparing the Way for the Reappearance of the World Spiritual Teacher, the Work of the United Nations and the World-Wide Esoteric Community" and many more articles.

This is not Christian theology but New Age paganism.

Here's another by Curtis Dall, FD Roosevelt's son in law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father in Law:

"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States.

But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations One World Money group...

Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.

The UN is but a long range, international banking apparatus nearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One World Revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market...

The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."

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Is This the END?

Mat 24:

1  And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2  And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

5  For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

 

“The Pope is of great authority and power, that he is able to modify, declare, or interpret even divine laws. The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth...” — Lucius Ferraris, in “Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis, Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica”, Volume V, article on “Papa, Article II”, titled “Concerning the extent of Papal dignity, authority, or dominion and infallibility”, #30, published in Petit-Montrouge (Paris) by J. P. Migne, 1858 edition.     
   
The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ, Himself, hidden under the veil of human flesh.” — Catholic National, July 1895.

“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” — Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, “Cities Petrus Bertanous”.

“We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty.” — Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894.

           also see here;LINK

 

6  And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9  Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

10  And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11  And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15  When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16  Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17  Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18  Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19  And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20  But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

23  Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25  Behold, I have told you before.

26  Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27  For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28  For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30  And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 

The End is NOT Yet...but soon!

Iran plans 'pre-emptive strike' on Israel; senior commander warns of WWIII

Tehrān : Iran | Sep 24, 2012 at 10:04 AM PDT

By Nina Rai

The jingoistic war rhetoric between rivals Iran and Israel is heightening, with a senior Iranian army commander now giving a dire warning that a military conflict between the two nations could well escalate into “World War III” and also declaring that a “pre-emptive strike” against Israel by Iran cannot be ruled out. Click for video and opinion.

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, told Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam TV network that if Israel “is putting the final touches on attacking Iran,” Tel Aviv “cannot imagine” the force of Iran’s response to its attack. “It will sustain heavy damage and that will be a prelude to its obliteration,” he declared belligerently.

Hajizadeh said that currently Tehran did not see this happening because he did not think Israel will attack Iran without its staunchest ally, America. However, if the U.S. backs Israel’s agenda of attacking Iran, the latter will strike out against both Washington and Tel Aviv. Also, according to Hajizadeh, who is in charge of the Iranian Guard's aerospace division, any attack on Iran could well trigger a "World War III."

"We cannot imagine the Zionist regime starting a war without America's support. Therefore, in case of a war, we will get into a war with both of them and we will certainly get into a conflict with American bases," Hajizadeh blistered. "In that case, unpredictable and unmanageable things would happen and it could turn into a World War III," he predicted.

Hajizadeh went on to add that Iran will most certainly be striking at U.S bases in “Bahrain, Qatar and Afghanistan,” and there will be no neutral nation left in the region. “To us, these bases are equal to U.S. soil,” he added. This statement comes on the heels of a statement from the chief of the Revolutionary Guard, General Mohammad Ali Jafari.

Jafari on Saturday told ISNA and Fars news: "If they begin [aggression], it will spell their destruction and will be the end of the story." He went on to add that this war “will eventually happen” as the Islamic revolution starts moving towards its goals, and this is something U.S. and Israel cannot tolerate and so they will finally “impose a war situation.”

The latest statement from Hajizadeh on launching a “pre-emptive strike” against Israel comes as a reaction to Israel’s threats to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contention is that numerous sanctions have failed to be a deterrent to Tehran's purported nuclear weapons program.

In the beginning of September Netanyahu accused the U.S. and other world powers of not drawing a “clear red line” with regard to Iran, which he contended that unless Iran sees this line and determination will not stop moving ahead with its nuclear program. “Iran must never be allowed to acquire nuclear arms,” demanded Netanyahu.

However, despite all the Israeli pressure tactics, President Obama refused to bow to Netanyahu’s demand. Keeping in mind that this is a presidential election year and cannot possibly rock the election boat with a war, a firm Obama on Sept. 14 made it clear to Israel that there would be no “red lines or deadlines” because “there remains time and space for diplomacy.” This statement also clearly brought out the rift in the close allies, with regard to Iran.

The latest belligerent statements from the top Iranian military brass come against the backdrop of major U.S.-led anti-mine sweeping exercises taking place in the Persian Gulf. The drills are being construed by many as a show of strength, a kind of warning to Iran not to interrupt critical oil pathways in the Strait of Hormuz. Of course, U.S. officials justify the naval exercises as being fully defensive in nature and not aimed at any nation in the region.

Tension continues to mount, with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Friday calling Israel a “cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut,” and even boasting of supporting any group that will challenge the Jewish state. Meanwhile, Iran maintains that its nuclear development program is meant only for peaceful uses. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is presently in New York. He is attending the annual U.N. General Assembly and most likely will use the platform and meetings scheduled for later this week to underscore the possible risks of a military conflict between Israel and Iran.

UN secretary-general issues veiled threat to Iranian president
New York City : NY : USA | Sep 24, 2012 at 9:53 AM PDT

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Iranian President Mahmoud AhmadinejadMahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York on Sunday. According to a Reuters report, the secretary-general admonished Ahmadinejad against using the General Assembly as a platform to incite discord concerning the worsening crisis in the Middle East. Ahmadinejad is slated to address the General Assembly on Wednesday.

The secretary-general warned the Iranian president of "potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric, counter-rhetoric and threats from various countries in the Middle East," according to the article.
This report comes in the midst of Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, warning on Sunday that Iran will launch a pre-emptive strike against IsraelIsrael if it believed Israel was preparing to attack it.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu has already said Israel could strike Iran's nuclear sites even if the U.S. refused to aid it in a pre-emptive strike against Iran. Netanyahu has publicly criticized President Obama's decision to continue with sanctions and diplomacy as an alternative to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

The press statement goes on to say that Iran should "take the measures necessary to build international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program."
Additionally the statement addressed the "grave regional implications of the worsening situation in Syria and underlined the devastating humanitarian impact."

This statement appears to have been directed at the accusation that Iran is using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad in his attempt to quell the revolt against his regime.

Since the saber-rattling between Iran and Israel also coincides with the largest U.S.-led naval exercise ever in the region, currently being conducted in the Strait of Hormuz, it is not a difficult stretch of the imagination to construe the secretary-general's warning to Ahmadinejad as a way of letting Iran know that any move against Israel will not be tolerated by the assembled forces in the strait. But what will happen if Israel decides to use the distraction of the enormous naval armada to launch a pre-emptive strike, since Iran has repeatedly refused to dismantle its nuclear program and is now reportedly on the verge of fielding a nuclear weapon?

Whether Ahmadinejad will take the secretary-general's advice and use this opportunity to convince the world that Iran is not using its technology to build nuclear weapons is not yet known. However, it may be in Ahmadinejad's and Iran's best interest to at least tone down the inflammatory rhetoric the president usually engages in. At this point, any threats made by him might be just what Israel could use to turn the tides in its favor and launch its attack.

Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack

Kim Sengupta

Tuesday 18 September 2012

 

American diplomats were warned of possible violent unrest in Benghazi three days before the killings of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three members of his team, Libyan security officials say.

The claim came as the country's interim President, Mohammed el-Megarif, said his government had information that the attack on the US consulate had been planned by an Islamist group with links to al-Qa'ida and with foreigners taking part.

However, the American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, insisted that the killings had resulted from a demonstration against a film about the Prophet Mohamed, replicating protests in Cairo, which had been "hijacked" and got out of control.

The Independent has reported diplomatic sources who said that the threat of an attack against US interests in the region was known to the US administration 48 hours before it took place. The alert was issued by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, but not made public. A State Department spokesman maintained: "We are not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the US Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent."

But President Megarif told the American station National Public Radio: "We firmly believe that this was a pre-calculated, pre-planned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the US Consulate. A few of those who joined in were foreigners who had entered Libya from different directions, some of them definitely from Mali and Algeria."

A senior official of the biggest militia in Benghazi, the February 17th Brigade, told CNN that he had warned US diplomats of a rapidly deteriorating security situation in Benghazi three days before the attack. "The situation is frightening, it scares us," he said he had stressed during the meeting. Mr Stevens had been back in Libya for only a short time before US security officials decided it would be safe to make the journey to Benghazi during the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The British consulate in the city was shut after an ambush of a convoy carrying Dominic Asquith, the UK ambassador, in which his bodyguard were injured. The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross offices had been bombed and there had been a spate of political assassinations.

However, Ms Rice denied the Benghazi attack was pre-planned. She said: "Our current best assessment... is that... it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo. "A small number of people came to the consulate. It seems to have been hijacked by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons... And it then evolved from there." Mr Stevens was separated from his protection team during the attack. He was found, it is thought unconscious, by locals who took him to hospital where, doctors said, he died from smoke inhalation.
The Americans who escaped from the consulate made their way to a "safe house" at a supposedly secret location. That, too, came under mortar fire. Captain Fathi al-Obeidi, who had taken an eight-strong American rescue team which had arrived from Tripoli to the safe house, said "I don't know how they found the place to carry out the attack. It was planned, the accuracy with which the mortars hit us was too good for any ordinary revolutionaries." On Sunday, the head of Libya's national congress said about 50 people had been arrested in connection with the attack on the US consulate, though the interior ministry put the figure far lower.

And now we hear that we had unarmed drones flying over the area in advance of the attack!  No wonder they didn't want to admit anything.  It looks like our own governments complicity in the matter!  Someone asked, "Was this a hit?"   It looks like it.
 

Is Non-Trinitarianism Cultish?

According to most main line & evangelical Christians, the answer is a resounding YES!

Why do they feel this way? Because, this is what most have been taught. Does that make it true? Does evolution have to be true just because many have been taught that if you doubt it's true, you are an ignorant and hoplelessly foolish human? No. Evolution is a lie. Do all evangelicals agree on this statement? No. Does believing in creationism make a Christian believer lost? I don't know of any that teach that, even if they are convinced those holding to creationism are backwards and foolish...but probably saved. But creationism is absolutely biblical. It comes directly from the word of God.

 

Does trinitarianism come absolutely from the word of God...or from the extrapolations some have pulled from the word, then condemning all who oppose as heretics?

 According to "The Kingdom of the Cults" author, Walter Martin, "

"One prominent trait of all non-Christian religions and cults is their pointed denial of the scriptural doctrine of the Trinity and the deity of Jesus Christ."

 What if you accept the deity of Jesus, but refute the doctrine of the trinity? Are you then partially cultish?

 YES! IF that is what Jesus taught, or the apostles, or if it could be quoted from the Old Testament (or New Testament) somewhere. The problem is...Jesus didn't, nor the apostles, nor any of the prophets. If you research the teaching, you will find that... 

It is manifest that a dogma so mysterious presupposes a Divine revelation. When the fact of revelation, understood in its full sense as the speech of God to man, is no longer admitted, the rejection of the doctrine follows as a necessary consequence.

Then further arguments are presented by quoting their own (Roman Catholic) sources as being alone worthy of acceptence. The Roman Catholic Church (as Mystery Babylon) must teach a trinity in order to get Mary to be "venerated" as the Queen of Heaven". The Queen of Heaven was always and is still Semiramis, the female usurper to Nimrod as the prevailing deity. How many Roman Catholics pray repeatedly to Jesus, and how many pray to Mary repeatedly? I'm guessing (since I'm not Roman Catholic) that Mary gets many more prayers than Jesus. Especially since Roman Catholics are taught they should pray to Mary directly instead of Jesus, because Jesus may not grant YOUR request, but will NEVER deny his own mother's requests. Where is THAT found in scripture?

 If you must extrapolate your doctrines from scattered scriptures not explicitly stating a doctrine, that doctrine being extrapolated is mere philosophy!

      Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Scripture absolutely teaches the divinity/deity of Jesus. He is the Creator! The Almighty God! But nowhere do we read he is a trinity.

Believing in the trinity is THE doctrine required by the Roman Catholic church in order to be saved...to make you a Roman Catholic.

The Creed of Athanasius
"1. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith.
2. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
3. And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity,

Roman Catholic Doctrine...taken with the break-away Protestants. It is still Roman Catholic doctrine! You say your not a Roman Catholic, but hold to her doctrines? Did you know that according to the Roman Catholic church, as long as you have been baptized into the trinity... you don't need to be rebaptized if you join their church. But if you were baptized in Jesus name... like all the apostles, and every Christian believer in the New Testament...including Mary the mother of Jesus, your baptism is invalid! So according to their doctrine, Mary wasn't even saved?!!?? Right, like they believe that.

Check the links to the right to read more about the Mystery Babylon and her doctrines.

Go to the Tract page, and the Power Point pages to learn what the bible really says. If it isn't BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY, it isn't really Christian at all.

Russia wants Iran involved over Syrian conflict

As the death toll in Syria grows ever higher, key Damascus ally Russia says it would support the departure of President Bashar al-Assad – but only if Syrians agreed that was what they wanted.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference it would be “unacceptable to impose” such a change from outside.

And Russia remains opposed to foreign military intervention which it says would have dire consequences for the region.

Lavrov admitted the situation was becoming “more alarming” and gave his backing to an international conference on the crisis.

But he added: “We want this conference to be effective. For this reason all parties who have influence in this conflict have to participate and Iran is one of these countries.”

That comment will displease Washington and Paris have already voiced opposition to the idea of Iran being invited. They accuse Tehran of aiding the Syrian government and pro-Damascus militia.

Meanwhile United Nations monitors are still working on evidence gathered at Mazreet al-Qubeir where rebels say government forces massacred 78 people on Wednesday.

The UN team finally managed to get access to the village on Friday and say they saw indications the Syrian army had been there.
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Confirmed: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in Syria

 

Iran has officially acknowledged for the first time that its Revolutionary Guards have been deployed in Syria.

The commander in chief of the powerful group said that personnel from the Quds division were providing “intellectual and advisory help.”

He added that Iran might get involved militarily if its ally Syria came under attack.

General Mohammad Ali Jafari told a news conference: “Because of the special situation in Lebanon and Syria, a number of Quds forces have been in those countries. However, that does not mean we have a military presence there.”

More video purporting to show the latest government bombardment of rebel positions in Syria has appeared on social media websites.
It’s claimed this is Damascus, but there is more apparently from Homs and Aleppo.

Rebels near the Turkish border appear in a video obtained by the Reuters news agency, preparing for what they say is a big push to seize the northern province of Idlib.

They claim to have disabled two military airports in the province already.
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Taliban 'Targeted Prince Harry' On Base

9:37am UK, Saturday 15 September 2012
Two US Marines die in an attack on Camp Bastion, but a senior Taliban commander tells Sky News Prince Harry was the target.

A Taliban commander has told Sky News that Prince Harry was the primary target of an attack on a major Allied military base in Afghanistan.

Two US Marines died and several others were hurt when militants launched the attack on Camp Bastion late Friday.

Prince Harry was more than a mile away with other crew members of the Apache attack helicopters when the attack took place, sources said. He was unharmed.

The Taliban initially claimed that the attack was carried out in revenge for a low-budget YouTube film which allegedly motivated rioters in Libya to kill the US ambassador and three other Americans this week.

But speaking from Cairo, Sky News Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay said: "It appears that rather than the attack being linked to the video, it was actually Prince Harry that was the target."

"This is quite a development, that the Taliban is confirming Prince Harry was the primary target."

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