Ominous developments in Central Asia

Ominous developments in Central Asia

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Prophecy and Current Events
Vince Aquilino
05/02/2001

Ominous developments in Central Asia

On Sat Apr 28,2001, DEBKAfiles intelligence sources reported an ominous

development in Central Asia. According to DEBKA, under Russia leadership,

the newly independent republics of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan) AND CHINA are assembling a military force gathering

themselves for one of the greatest battles the region has ever faced

against militant Islamic forces in the area.

Purportedly, the objective is to form a Central Asian military to function

as a rapid-reaction collective security force against international

terrorism. Collectively, the initial deployment will be approximately

15,000 men comprising four battalions and including the Russian 201st

Motorized Rifle Division already stationed in Tajikistan. The 201st

Division will spearhead the combined force of tank units, light tanks for

mountain warfare, helicopter airborne units and elite forces trained in

combat in built-up areas.

Of note is that this is the first time Chinese military personnel were

allowed by Moscow to be stationed openly in the Central Asian republics of

the former USSR. This underscores the growing military alliance between

Russia and China that was birthed out of mutual desire to counter what they

consider growing imperialistic tendencies on the part of the United States.

Although the stated purpose of this rapid deployment force is target at

radical Muslim elements that embrace international terrorism, it should be

noted that Russia has been negotiating with Iran for quite some time --

exchanging nuclear technology and weapons for both Iran's silence in the

Chechnyian affair (the Chechnyians are Muslim) and to prevent radical

Muslim agitation in the southern republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,

Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyztan. The Caucasus Mountain region is

comprised of the the following nations Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan,

Kyrgyzstan (formerly Kirgizia), Tajikistan (Tadzhikistan), Turkmenistan,

Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldavia.

The DEBKA report is especially interesting when one considers that these

same nations are some of the nations expected to join with Russia, Turkey,

Libya, Ethiopia and Iran in the attack against Israel during the Gog and

Magog War -- predicted in chapters 38 and 39 of the prophet Ezekiel.

It becomes even more relevant when one recognizes the area of Chechnya is

located just north of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian republic of

Georgia, biblically known as Magog. In light of this new military

escalation in the area, it appears that the ongoing, dragged out Chechnyian

affair (which has allowed Moscow to maintain a burgeoning military presence

just 900 miles north of Israel), may have just been phase 1 in the possible

staging for the invasion of Israel). Isn't it strange how Russia just can't

seen to contain the poorly-armed and poorly-trained Muslim insurgents in

the area which has justified the continued build-up in the area.

Russia already is now joining with China (a major participant on the battle

of Armageddon) and the Central Asian republics (area of Magog) to increase

the size of that force. In light of the Russian-Iran alliance, however, it

may be that this new Central Asian military rapid-reaction security force

to be deployed against radical Muslim insurgents may be a ploy -- and in

fact may be phase two in preparations for a military strike against Israel.

It is very unlikely that Russia is assembling this large force against

Muslim rebels. If Russia is oreparing for a strike against Israel, it would

also explain explain why Russia continues to drag out the Chechen affair

while keeping up media reports about Russian authorities pursuing Chechen

bombers and blaming them for rogue terrorist attacks in Moscow. The whole

Chechnya campaign has been mysteriously dragged on justifying Russia's

troop deployments in the area.

Lending credence to this scenario is that fact that in February UPI

reported that a senior Russian military officer indicated that Russia and

Iran continued to hold military talks in Moscow to discuss security issues

and closer military ties between the two countries The official agenda was

to include talks on regional security, the Middle East peace process and

the situation in war-torn Afghanistan. It appears that this may also be a

smokescreen and the real objective is Israel -- just as foretold by Ezekiel.

So the Russian army contingent growing and is now located in strategic

proximity to the countries with whom she will ally in the attempt to

destroy Israel. To the west and southwest of Chechnya lie Turkey and

Armenia -- the House of Togarmah. To the south, en route to Israel, lie

Iraq and Iran (Persia). Chechnya is also close to Russia's Black Sea naval

facilities, which would be key to quick deployment to the south and to the

west.

"Gomer and all his bands" are also part of the Israeli invasion force.

Gomer was an immediate descendant of Noah who settled north of the Black

Sea and then migrated westward into what is today Eastern Germany and

Poland. So Israel will be hemmed in by the Mediterranean on the West, on

the east by Iran and Iraq, to the north by Syria and Turkey. "Cush"

(Ethiopia) and "Put" (Libya) to the south will complete the invasion force,

making Israeli escape an impossibility.

As has been discussed in past analysis, the Israeli-Turkish alliance is

critical to preventing a Middle-East War. Israel and Turkey signed a

military pact in 1996 that reversed years of frosty ties, but Turkey has

begun to waver on support to the U.S.A. as well as Israel. Turkey is an

ally of both the United States and Israel, but Turkey's close ties with

Israel included military agreements and military cooperation such as in the

recent Air force maneuvers using F15 and F16 fighter jets. But that may be

changing. Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said after talks with Yasser

Arafat last fall indicated he supported the principle of Palestinian

statehood. But was even more disturbing was that Arafat pointed out that

Turkish soldiers are in the West Bank city of Hebron assisting a

Palestinian army unit.

Turkey is an important regional power and it is continuing to move toward

the Arab world. President Suleyman Demirel visited Egypt last year with

hopes increasing economic cooperation and to consolidate already close

political ties with Cairo. King Abdullah of Jordan also said during a visit

last year to Amman that Turkey should play an important role in middle

eastern peace making "Changes in the region dictate that our relations

with Turkey assume a strategic dimension which we hope will set an example

for Arab-Turkish ties", Of particular note was Intelligence Digest's

observation at that time that "Syria cannot possibly go to war with Israel

until Turkey is neutralized." In their eyes, Turkey is the linch-pin to

stability in the area.

Then on April 19, 2001, in a move which would have been considered out of

the realm of possibility only a year ago it was announced that Syria and

Turkey are exploring the prospect of military cooperation. The

Damascus-based Syrian News Agency, SANA, said the talks concerned "means of

developing cooperation between the two armies." Turkish Foreign Ministry

officials said Ankara and Damascus are discussing a framework for military

cooperation that would include mutual visits by commanders, joint training

and invitations to exercises. They said the issue was first explored during

a visit by a Syrian military delegation to Ankara in January. Officials

said Turkey has even proposed to Syria projects to jointly develop

defensive systems that would increase border surveillance. They said the

Foreign Ministry in Ankara has taken the lead in a Turkish effort to

improve relations with the Arab world, including Iraq and Syria.

It appears that Turkey is starting to ally herself with Israel's enemies

exactly as prophesied by Ezekiel.

On February 16, 2001, World Net Daily reported that the Russian Bear has

awakened and has become a major concern to intelligence experts over their

spreading of influence in Asia and the Mideast "Russian military and

diplomatic contacts have been throughout Asia and the Middle East for the

past several months -- namely with India, China and Iran -- which has

caused increasing concern among U.S. intelligence and military analysts.

Since 1998, Russia -- in a bid to regain some of its former superpower

status -- began to expand contacts with old allies and rivals alike, both

as a means of heading off future Western and NATO influence and as a means

of bringing in much-needed hard currency through resumption of weapons

sales. In the past few years, for example, Russia has signed a number of

"strategic partnership" agreements with China, India and Iran that include

the sale and transfer of advanced Russian weapons systems, exchanges of

military-technical assistance and training."

The Kings of the East are also rising just as Biblical prophecy indicated.

China, which at the time of the end will march into the Middle-East with a

200 Million man army, is also starting to flex its military muscles. In

fact, two war simulations done between the USA and China shows the USA

losing as they are eventually overwhelmed due to the sheer volume of

China's weaponry and manpower. China has been moving closer to war with

Taiwan and has recently moved missiles closer to the Taiwan theatre. Chain

possesses long-range nuclear missiles that are capable of reaching the West

coast of the U.S. and they have threatened to nuke the U.S.navy in the

Taiwan straits if they get in the way of their ambitions for Taiwan and

just last year they threatened to nuke Los Angeles. China and Russia have

become allies against the United States.

In what is certainly to inflame China and Russia, with whom relations are

already strained over events of recent days, the "USA Today" reported on ay

2, 2001 that President Bush has vowed to go ahead with the U.S.

anti-missile defense initiative even if it does mean antagonizing Russia

and China and violating the 1972 ABM treaty which Bush said represents the

past and had been signed with the now defunct Soviet Union. President Bush

called for a "new framework" of defense that recognizes the cold war. If

President Bush is able to obtain approvals to pursue this plan, it would

not be before approximately 2006 that the technology could be deployed.

This frames a window of opportunity for our enemies to exploit the weakest

modern-day U.S. military since the cold war supposedly ended.

We do know that in the fullness of time that it will be God who will draw

Magog into this ill-fated invasion of Israel by putting "hooks in their

jaw". It appears that the Russian bear is in position for its final plunge

south toward Israel and the riches of the Middle East.

Russia has been flexing its muscles in the probing of U.S. military

readiness. On Friday Feb 16,2001 Russia test-fired nuclear-capable

strategic missiles from air, land and sea on Friday, a comparatively rare

demonstration of all three branches of Russia's "nuclear triad." The navy

and land-based Strategic Rocket Forces announced their launches within

minutes of each other, one of a Topol rocket, the other of a ballistic

missile fired from a submarine of the Northern Fleet. Two hours later, the

air force said a TU-95 bomber had also fired a strategic missile. Russian

strategic bombers intruded into Japanese airspace and flew near Norwegian

airspace. The flights prompted a protest from Tokyo. Russian Il-78 tanker

aircraft also have been sent to the edges of the vast Russian Federation

and have been spotted in aerial refueling of Russian warplanes. In addition

to strategic forces, Russian conventional forces are involved, according to

intelligence officials. Troops of the Russian Border Guards and Federal

Security Service have been mobilized. Russia's military press reported

Monday that motorized rifle and airborne divisions are participating, along

with air force and air defense troops.

The Nuclear-capable Russian bombers had just two days earlier performed

unannounced exercises near Norway and Japan, forcing those countries' air

forces to scramble to respond. Japan said Russian warplanes entered its air

space, which Moscow denied. Felgengauer said the missile launches and the

earlier air tests were probably part of a single strategic exercise

designed to simulate nuclear war.

Do you have ears to hear?

Equally disconcerting was the recent pinpointing by U.S. spy satellites of

Russian tactical nuclear arms in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad between

Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea -- contradicting Moscow's

contention that it had not transferred the tactical nukes to the battlefield.

The powder keg in the Middle East could ignite WWIII and the time is

running short. What we are observing may indeed be the initial staging for

a move against Israel and the oil-rich Middle-East. Russia is probing

America's defenses. China recently warned the U.S. that if they send a

carrier group into the area to defend Taiwan, that it would nuked. China is

getting more and more belligerent and is threatening to pull the U.S. into

a conflict over Taiwan while at the same time pursuing an aggressive

military build-up.

For example, Russia has developed new submarine-launched "ultrahigh-speed

torpedo" known as the "Shkva" against which there is no current defense.

This technology is based on a phenomenon known as supercavitation that

allows naval weapons and vessels to travel submerged at several hundreds of

miles per hour. In comparison, current undersea technologies is limited to

a maximum of about 80 mph."

Richard Fisher, a defense analyst and senior fellow at the Jamestown

Foundation, stated that "China purchased the Shkval rocket torpedo. The

Shkval was designed to give Soviet subs with less capable sonar the ability

to kill U.S. submarines before U.S. wire-guided anti-sub torpedoes could

reach their target. The Chinese navy would certainly want to have this kind

of advantage over U.S. subs in the future. At the speed that it travels,

the Shkval could literally punch a hole in most U.S. ships, with little

need for an explosive warhead. This torpedo travels at a speed of 200

knots, or five to six times the speed of a normal torpedo, and is

especially suited for attacking large ships such as aircraft carriers,"

stated Fisher.

The report that China purchased some 40 Shkval torpedoes from Russia in

1998 has been confirmed by U.S. intelligence sources. There are no evident

countermeasures to the Shkval and, according to weapons experts, its

deployment by Russian and Chinese naval forces has placed the U.S. Navy at

a considerable disadvantage.

"We have no equivalent, its velocity would make evasive action exceedingly

difficult, and it is likely that we have no defense against it," stated

Jack Spencer, a defense analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

According to the Jamestown Foundation's Richard Fisher, China is acquiring

a fleet of blue-water submarines armed with the deadly Shkval. In a recent

defense report, Fisher noted the Chinese navy is arming itself with a

deadly combination of silent submarines, supersonic nuclear tipped Stealth

missiles and Shkval rocket torpedoes. Fisher warned that the new Chinese

navy is capable of operating far from Asian shores.

The Chinese navy has completed the acquisition of four Russian Kilo-class

conventional submarines. The Kilo 636 is said to be nearly as quiet as the

early version of the U.S. Los Angeles class nuclear submarine," noted

Fisher. "This very high speed torpedo would provide the technology to build

their own version, and this is a looming threat," stated Fischer.

Do you have eyes to see?

God tells us, through Ezekiel, that at the time God moves to protect Israel

by destroying the Israeli invasion force, that He will also judge another

nation that lives in the safety of the far distant coastlands.

I personally believe that America is at great risk as she has spilt the

blood of 45 million babies and that blood is crying out to God for

vengeance (Vengeance is the Lords).

Unless the sin of abortion is dealt with in America, it is just a matter of

time until God will call for repentance in the midst of destruction.

In part 2 of this article, I will discuss at length America's status and

what steps can be taken to forestall judgement on this nation. It may be

one of the most important articles you will ever read -- not because of the

content, or because I compiled it, but because of the call of the Lord that

is going forth to raise up an army of Christians to wage war in the

heavenlies. Our very existence may be at stake.

Part 2 will be completed this weekend. Prayfully consider it, pass it on

to those on your mailing list, and "Watch and pray, therefore, that you

would be counted worthy to escape the judgment that is coming upon the

earth and be able to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 2136).

Maranatha!

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