Middle East Message 1

I was instructed NOT to interfere with God the Father's work.

Dear Group, 6/6/2007 3:02:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time

I know we work on stopping all hurricanes and cyclones etc, but last night, this one hurricane... I was instructed to leave alone. Not to interfere with. So in that I am doing nothing at all, I must listen to the Father's wisdom as his divine plan is already in motion. I know this sounds odd as we have worked on almost every hurricane for almost what 4-5 years, but it is the truth and I cannot go against the Creator.

I will not ask you to do as I am but I am suggesting that this is meant to be and hope you will also listen to this warning and caution and be careful if you choose to intercede on this one (hurricane heading to the middle east), you will reach opposition and may have a repercussion if you do. This was the warning I was given. I have a feeling this is a part of their justice or "being judged" they are receiving. I am sorry I have to listen to what I am told as there are reasons for everything God is doing. The time has come for great change. It is a part of bringing the darkness to the light in the Middle East it will hit them Thursday.

I have been told by My Father that their are great secrets that must be told. The lies must be brought forth fo the truth to come forward. I am told That there are in the Vatican and within Jerusalem. A line is being drawn, which side will you choose? Will you live by the truth, or die by the lies? It is God the Father which commands you not mankind. God is sending many signs during these holy days. Each will receive a warning by God's hand that will be news worthy.

Massive Cyclone Strikes Persian Gulf

Thousands Evacuated; Storm Veers Toward Iran

By SAEED AL-NAHDY

MUSCAT, Oman (June 6) -- Cyclone Gonu battered Oman's coast Wednesday with fierce winds and torrential rains, forcing thousands from their homes and shutting down oil installations before heading toward the world's most important crude oil tanker route.
The storm - a rarity in the Middle East - was expected to make landfall on the southeastern Iranian coast late Thursday, according to the U.S. military's Joint Typhoon Warning Center. But it was likely to spare Iran 's offshore oil installations that lie more than 120 miles to the west.

In Muscat, the cyclone unleashed sheets of rainfall and howling winds rarely seen in the quiet seaside capital. Police and emergency vehicles could hardly move through the flooded streets, and authorities used text messages to warn people away from low-lying areas.

The storm caused little damage to Oman's relatively small oil fields. But raging seas prevented tankers from sailing from Omani ports, effectively shutting down the country's oil exports, said Nasser bin Khamis al-Jashimi of the Ministry of Oil and Gas.

Authorities also closed all operations at the port of Sohar and evacuated 11,000 workers, port spokesman Dirk Jan De Vink said.

To the north, the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates suspended all refueling and ship-to-ship supply operations the world's third-largest shipping fuel center. Ships were allowed to berth but other activities were halted, causing a delay in loading oil tankers, officials said.

A few ships were sailing through the nearby Strait of Hormuz despite 4- to 6-foot swells and strong winds, according to Suresh Nair of the Gulf Agency Co. shipping firm. About one-fifth of the world's oil passes through the narrow waterway at the entrance to the Persian Gulf

About 17-21 million barrels a day of oil are coming out of the Persian Gulf. Even if only some of the tankers are delayed, that could reduce the supply of oil and increase prices," said Manouchehr Takin, an analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London.

But Tim Evans, an analyst at Citigroup Global Markets, said the storm shouldn't have a major impact on prices because while it may delay oil shipments, they will eventually get to their destinations. Oil prices rose 25 cents to $65.86 a barrel in midday trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange after initially falling.

As of 11 a.m. EDT, the storm was about 70 miles northeast of Muscat, moving in a northwesterly direction, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said. The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of about 80 mph - the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane but well below the wind speeds that were recorded as the cyclone approached the Arabian Peninsula.

Even with the weaker wind speeds, Gonu, which means a bag made of palm leaves in the language of the Maldives, is believed to be the strongest cyclone to threaten the Arabian Peninsula since record-keeping started in 1945.

"Historical record in that part of the world doesn't go back that far because these types of storms are very, very unusual for this part of the world. It's likely that parts of Oman have never experienced storms like this," said Julian Heming, a meteorologist at The Met Office, a weather tracking agency within the British Ministry of Defense.

Electricity went out in Muscat on Wednesday, as winds of 62 mph battered the capital, and streets and some buildings were flooded. Health Ministry official Ali bin Gaafar bin Mohammed said rescue workers had trouble reaching affected areas.

Flights in and out of Oman's Seeb International Airport were canceled.

Vijayakumar Narayanan, operations manager of a Muscat company that provides call center outsourcing and medical transcription services, wrote in his blog for NowPublic that conditions Wednesday night in the capital were "really horrible and frightening."

"We are unable to go outside of our house. There is a fear of electrocution because there is knee-deep water and the power lines are unsteady. All of my rooms are leaking ... thank God we have enough groceries to get through the next few days, they are saying this is going to continue until tomorrow evening," said Narayanan, a father of three.

The Associated Press began working with NowPublic, a journalism Web site, this year to obtain citizen journalism images and video for distribution to news organizations.

Shareefa bint Khalfan, Omani minister of social development, said more than 20,000 people were evacuated and housed in government-provided dwellings stocked with medicine and supplies. Police said a body washed ashore in the coastal city of Sur, and there were reports of people trapped in homes in low-lying areas of the capital.

Oman's eastern provinces were cut off, with heavy rains making the roads unusable and communication lines severed. "We have no communication with them, nothing," said a senior police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity as is customary for security officials in Oman.

The potential for flash flooding was high in Oman and in neighboring countries like the United Arab Emirates, as rain washes down from mountains into the desert wadis, or dry riverbeds, that cut through the desert. Another potential worry are landslides and mud slides when the normally arid mountains get lashed with rain.

In Iran, authorities evacuated hundreds of people living in the port city of Chabahr on the coast of the Sea of Oman, believed to be next in the cyclone's path.

Iranian state television said floods caused by the heavy rainfall had cut off some major roads in southeastern Iran and winds gusting up to 69 mph had buffeted coastal areas.

"University and school students were moved to higher ground in the area to avoid the cyclone effects," said Hojjat Ali Shayanfar, head of emergency services in Sistan Baluchistan province.

Outer winds from the storm lashed the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, shattering windows, toppling billboards and trees, residents said.

Iranian officials said, however, that the cyclone was unlikely to threaten the country's oil platforms and installations in the Gulf because they are located far from its path.

"All Iranian offshore oil platforms in the Persian Gulf are working based on their schedule without any interruption," Bahram Narimanian, spokesman of Iran's Offshore Oil Company, told the AP. "However, we have prepared for any possible difficulty."

Associated Press writers Tracee Herbaugh and John Wilen in New York, and Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, also contributed to this report.

Powerful Cyclone Leaves at Least 13 Dead

Storm Veers Toward Iran, Vital Oil Route

By JIM KRANE

SOHAR, Oman (June 7) -- Residents of this port city cleared away sand bags and swept water out of homes Thursday after Cyclone Gonu battered Oman's coast with violent winds and fierce rains on its path toward the world's most important crude oil tanker route. At least 13 storm-related deaths were reported.

But as the cyclone - a rarity in the Middle East - headed from Oman to the southeastern Iranian coast

At least 12 people were killed from the storm in Oman, including members of police rescue squads, and others were reported missing, said Oman Royal Police spokesman Abdullah al-Harthi. He did not provide further details.

Across the Gulf of Oman, Iranian state television reported that a resident of the port city of Bandar Abbas was killed in a car accident Wednesday due to low visibility from the storm

In this coastal city west of Muscat, violent waves continued to crash the shore as several residents returned to their homes after being evacuated Wednesday.

"We all went to the school last night, and I came back to look at the house. Twice the water came into my house, and maybe the tide will come in again," said fisherman Salem Hassan al-Mukblai, 40, as he and his two sons tried to tie a downed fruit tree to a fence surrounding their house.

The storm caused little damage to Oman's relatively small oil fields. But raging seas had prevented tankers from sailing from Omani ports, effectively shutting down the country's oil exports, said Nasser bin Khamis al-Jashimi of the Ministry of Oil and Gas.

Authorities also closed all operations at the port of Sohar and evacuated 11,000 workers, port spokesman Dirk Jan De Vink said.

To the north, the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates reopened Thursday after it suspended all refueling and ship-to-ship supply operations at the world's third-largest shipping fuel center.

A few ships sailed through the nearby Strait of Hormuz despite 4- to 6-foot swells and strong winds, Suresh Nair of the Gulf Agency Co. shipping firm said Wednesday. About one-fifth of the world's oil passes through the narrow waterway at the entrance to the Persian Gulf .

"About 17-21 million barrels a day of oil are coming out of the Persian Gulf. Even if only some of the tankers are delayed, that could reduce the supply of oil and increase prices," said Manouchehr Takin, an analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London.

But Tim Evans, an analyst at Citigroup Global Markets, said the storm shouldn't have a major impact on prices because while it may delay oil shipments, they eventually will get to their destinations.

Early Thursday in Oman, the storm sustained winds of 52 mph, nearly half its strength of 95 mph just 24 hours earlier, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said. It was centered about 90 miles north of Muscat and was projected to weaken over the next several hours to less than 40 mph as it moves through the Gulf of Oman toward Iran.

Even with the weaker wind speeds, Gonu - which means a bag made of palm leaves in the language of the Maldives - is believed to be the strongest cyclone here since record-keeping started in 1945.

Cars and trucks were stuck in flooded streets in Muscat, and the Al-Qorom bridge in the central part of the city collapsed. Health Ministry official Ali bin Gaafar bin Mohammed said rescue workers had trouble reaching affected areas.

Shareefa bint Khalfan, Omani minister of social development, said more than 20,000 people were evacuated Wednesday and housed in government-provided dwellings stocked with medicine and supplies. Oman's eastern provinces have been cut off, with heavy rains making the roads unusable and communication lines severed.

In Iran, authorities evacuated hundreds of people living in the port city of Chabahr on the coast of the Gulf of Oman, believed to be next in the cyclone's path.

But the heavy storm, which caused trees to fall and windows to smash, eased Thursday morning, subsiding into light rain and wind.

"Thanks to God, people are back in the bazaars and streets of the city," said Abbas Jafari, a 47-year-old taxi driver. "Yesterday was terrible. I had never seen such a storm in my life."

Iran's state broadcasting company said on its Web site that some small villages in Sistan and Baluchistan province, on the Gulf of Oman, were still encircled by floods and authorities used helicopters to drop emergency supplies to them.

The storm affected power and telephone lines elsewhere in the province, but caused no major damage, provincial governor Habibollah Dehmardeh told the official IRNA news agency.

As a precaution, the Bandar Abbas oil refinery, which supplies the local petroleum market, closed jetties that receive oil from tankers, the Web site of Iran's Oil Ministry reported. The refinery was working as usual Thursday, the report said.

Even with the weaker wind speeds, Gonu, which means a bag made of palm leaves in the language of the Maldives, is believed to be the strongest cyclone to threaten the Arabian peninsula since record-keeping started in 1945.

“Historical record in that part of the world doesn‘t go back that far because these types of storms are very, very unusual for this part of the world. It‘s likely that parts of Oman have never experienced storms like this,‘‘ said Julian Heming, a meteorologist at The Met Office, a weather tracking agency within the British Ministry of Defence.

Associated Press writers Tracee Herbaugh, Lily Hindy and John Wilen in New York, Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran and Hassan Sarbakhshian in Bandar Abbas, Iran contributed to this report.

NOTE in the end this hurricane claimed around 28 lives.

Then I awoke now two days after this specific message above and Rita one of my helpers for the group of over 600 I teach alerted me knowing of these warnings that this article was on the news about the Vatican.

Man Lunges at Pope Benedict XVI

Suspect Tries to Jump Into Popemobile

By DANIELA PETROFF

VATICAN CITY (June 6) -- A German man tried to jump into Pope Benedict XVI 's uncovered popemobile as the pontiff began his general audience Wednesday and held onto it for a few seconds before being wrestled to the ground by security officers

The pope was not hurt and didn't even appear to notice that the man -- who was between 20 or 30 years old -- had jumped over the protective barrier in the square and had grabbed onto the white popemobile as it drove by. The pontiff kept waving to the crowd and didn't even look back.

At least eight security officers who were trailing the vehicle as it moved slowly through the square grabbed the man and wrestled him to the ground.

The man was a 27-year-old German who showed signs of "mental imbalance," said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.

"His aim was not an attempt on the pope's life but to attract attention to himself," Lombardi told reporters.

The man, whom Lombardi declined to identify, was interrogated by Vatican police and then taken to a hospital for psyciatric treatment, he said.

The man wore a pink T-shirt and dark shorts, a beige baseball cap and sunglasses. He vaulted up and over the barricade from the second or third row back. He got as far as the back of the jeep, holding onto it for a few seconds, before being wrestled to the ground.

The jeep kept moving, and the German-born Benedict kept waving, then proceeded with the audience as if nothing had happened.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Vatican has tightened security in St. Peter's Square when the pope is present. All visitors must pass by police to get into the square, with some walking through metal detectors or being searched with metal- detecting wands.

Nevertheless, virtually anyone can attend the audience. While tickets are required, they can often be obtained at the last minute -- particularly in good weather when the audience is held outside in the piazza.

When the pope uses the popemobile in St. Peter's, it is usually uncovered; when he travels overseas or outside the Vatican, he usually uses one outfitted with bulletproof glass.

The pope is protected by a combination of Swiss Guards, Vatican police and Italian police.

On Wednesday, the head of the Swiss Guards, Col. Elmar Maeder, walked along one side of the popemobile while the pontiff's personal bodyguard, Domenico Giani, took the other side. Several plainclothes security officials trailed them.

Benedict stood up behind the driver, holding onto a bar to steady himself, with his personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, seated behind him.

St. Peter's is cordoned off with wooden barriers to create "routes" that the popemobile can drive along to make the pontiff more visible to the crowd, which on Wednesday numbered about 35,000.

From his perch on the jeep, the pope waves and blesses the crowd, and occasionally will bless a baby handed up to him by a security guard. The jeep, though, never stops, with security officials walking or jogging alongside the whole way.

Benedict's predecessor, Pope John Paul II, was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded on May 13, 1981, as he was riding in St. Peter's Square at the start of his general audience. The gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca of Turkey, was caught and served his sentence in Italy before being transferred to his native land.

Iraqi clergy and churches
One thing all the presidential candidates seem to agree on is that Iraq is a horrible, horrible mess. This week, no one knows that better than Iraq's Christians. AsiaNews.it, a Catholic news service, reports that Christians there "have the impression that they are all alone, like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, when he felt abandoned by the Father." AsiaNews reports on Sunday's killing of Chaldean priest Ragheed Ganni and three deacons:

After celebrating Sunday Mass, Fr Ragheed and his three aides were leaving the parish by car, accompanied by the wife of one of the sub-deacons, Gassan Isam Bidawed. In recent days the three insisted on accompanying Fr Ragheed to protect him. "They were young men alive with faith, who accompanied their parish priests every move, risking their lives for their belief in Christ," their friends [said]. Suddenly, at the corner of the road, their car [was] blocked by unknown armed men militants who ordered the woman to distance herself from the others and then, in cold blood, shot the remaining passengers, repeatedly. The aggressors then booby-trapped the car with explosives, with the aim of further carnage should anyone go near the car to recover the bodies. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the bodies remained, abandoned on the city street, because no one dared to approach. It was only towards ten p.m. (local time) that security forces finally defused the explosives allowing corpses to be recovered.

Wednesday, another Chaldean priest, Hani Abdel Ahad, was abducted in Baghdad. Earlier in the week, militants attacked and occupied a Chaldean convent. And Shiites have now joined radical Sunnis in demanding that Christian women in Baghdad wear veils. News agencies also report that Muslim groups are demanding "that Christians pay the jizya, the poll tax demanded by the Koran which all Christians and Jews must pay in exchange for being allowed to live and practice their faith as well as being entitled to "Muslim protection' from outside aggression."

Assyrian International News Agency further reports that Christian women are being forced into marriages with Muslims. It quotes Assyrian Patriarch Mar Addai II as saying, "Only the families that agree to give a daughter or sister in marriage to a Muslim can remain, which means that the entire nuclear family will progressively become Muslim."

Again, that's the news just from this week. The plight of Iraq's Christians is scheduled to be Pope Benedict XVI's top agenda item when he meets with President Bush on Saturday.

Heed the Father's warnings, He says, It is by your actions and words that you will be judged. It is not the Father that chooses compassion or Mercy it is you. You have the option for Mercy choose to live by the truth. Do right by his people!