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Subject: [BPR] - prayer request
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Hazel")
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 09:50:51 -0500

please pray for a little boy named Matthew,
he just got hit by a car while riding his bike.
His father is a very good friend of David our son in law
thanks
Hazel
noshbox@lvcm.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 27, 2000 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:59:13 -0400

8:00 PM Eastern

 A&E - BIOGRAPHY - "The House of Windsor: Survival of a
   Dynasty" - Biographers, historians and intimates profile
   Britain's royal family of the 20th century, the House of
   Windsor.(CC)(TVG)

 DISC - RAISING THE MAMMOTH - A woolly mammoth is excavated
   in northern Siberia.(CC)(TVG)

 MSNBC - MSNBC REPORTS: LOOK AT ME! THE WEBCAM EXPLOSION
   - The use of personal Web cams on the Internet is becoming
   increasingly popular.(CC)

9:00

 DISC - THE BURNING SANDS - "The Raging Sands" - Mysteries of
   the desert.(CC)(TVG)

 HIST - IWO JIMA: HELL'S VOLCANO - After 36 days of combat,
   Marines raise the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima.(CC)(TVPG)

 MSNBC - MSNBC INVESTIGATES: WHO'S WATCHING YOU? - Many
   companies use surveillance cameras for security
   purposes.(CC)

 PAX - JEREMIAH - God calls upon the prophet to preach the return of
justice and faith to those who have lost their way and turned to false idols
(1998).

10:00

 CNN - MILLENNIUM - "Century of the Furnace" - Arctic
   exploration; rebuilding Lisbon, Portugal, after an
   earthquake; the Age of Revolution; colonial rule in India;
   Chinese prosperity.(CC)

 DISC - THE BURNING SANDS - "Unforgiving World" - Desert
   survival skills.(CC)(TVG)

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Subject: [BPR] - China Puts 700,000 Troops on Alert in Sudan
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:02:44 -0400

China Puts 700,000 Troops on Alert in Sudan

        NewsMax.com
        Sunday, Aug. 27, 2000

In a stunning revelation, London's Sunday Telegraph is reporting in
today's editions that China has as many as 700,000 troops in the Sudan and
is preparing to enter that country's civil war.

According to the British paper, for the past three years China has been
bringing Chinese nationals into the Sudan by cargo jets and boats.

Ostensibly, the Chinese were to serve as guards at oil fields and
facilities controlled by the China National Petroleum Corporation.

The introduction of Chinese troops comes in the wake of the military
success of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) headed by Col. Johnny
Garang.

Garang's forces, largely Christian, have been battling Sudan's Islamic
regime which controls the country's oil region in the Upper Nile.

SPLA troops are reported to be just 10 miles from these oil fields.

The Islamic regime has made an emergency request that China crush the SPLA
forces and end the country 17-year-old civil war.

Oil production began in Sudan just last year, and since then arms have
been flowing in from Libya, Qatar and China.

The Telegraph cites an internal document from the Sudanese military
indicating that "as many as 700,000 Chinese security personnel were
available for action."

Baroness Caroline Cox, the leading human rights activist for Christians in
Sudan, criticized Western governments for their complacency and
complicity.

She said: "If with foreign help the NIF regime crushes all opposition we
will have entrenched in the heart of Africa a militant Islamist regime
aimed at spreading terrorism throughout the continent. It's unbelievably
serious for the future of democracy in Africa and could happen in the next
few weeks."

British companies, and Canada's Talisman Energy, have joined the Chinese
to help develop its oil production facilities and pipelines.

Human rights activists have criticized Western governments for backing the
militant Islamic regime in Khartoum, one that has killed civilians to
clear areas for oil production.

Christian groups have also publicized the regime's use of slavery.

China's involvement in the ongoing civil war may prove to be the most
unusual twist, and may represent the largest movement of one army into
another country that went completely undetected by other nations.

A Western aid worker in southern Sudan told the Telegraph, "Everyone knows
what is going on. We've all seen the Chinese being brought in and can only
pray about what's going to happen next."

The use of Chinese "workers" as a military force may raise serious
concerns about the growing number of Chinese illegals detected in Central
America and the Caribbean.

Chinese influence in Panama which controls the Panama Canal has already
raised serious warning froms military experts, including Adm. Thomas
Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Read Christopher Ruddy's special report on China's new air and sea base
just 60 miles from Florida in the Bahamas. Click Here to Read Report.

Read more about China's growing influence over the Panama Canal – Click
Here.

Also: Panamanian Officials Worry About Chinese Aliens.

Read more about China in Hot Topics.

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/26/204458

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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:01:11 -0400

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. THREE SOLDIERS KILLED IN BOTCHED MISSION
   2. WHAT WENT WRONG?
   3. ABU HUNUD C.V.
   4. MAJORITY OF MKS SIGN ON BARAK-BLOCKING BILL
   5. IN SEARCH OF A NATIONALIST CONSENSUS
   6. AIR FORCE TO FORFEIT CRUCIAL EARLY WARNING STATION
   7. PM: ARAFAT HOLDS KEY TO FUTURE
   8. A CHANGE OF PACE
   9. PRESIDENT TO COURT

1. THREE SOLDIERS KILLED IN BOTCHED MISSION
Efforts to capture one of the most-wanted Palestinian terrorists failed
last night, when three members of an elite IDF unit were fired on and
killed, apparently by the terrorist himself. In an attempt to soften the
blow of the botched mission, Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said that
several weeks ago, the army did confiscate tons of explosives in a
laboratory overseen by the terrorist.

The incident began at 9:45 Saturday night, when IDF troops arrived in Kfar
Atzira, north of the Shomron town of Shechem; the mission was to apprehend
arch-terrorist Mahmoud Abu-Hunud, who was hiding in one of the houses
there. For reasons not yet clear, Abu-Hunud was able to spot the unit, and
shot at the soldiers from the rooftop of his house, killing three of
them. Other IDF soldiers returned fire, lightly injuring Abu-Hunud, who
then fled. "After a difficult chase through orchards and terraced farms
near the village, Abu-Hunud reached an Arab-run hospital in Shechem, and
soon turned himself into the Palestinian Authority paramilitary police,"
reports Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman. "It was during the pursuit
through those orchards that a fourth soldier was injured, it seems, from
'friendly IDF fire.'" Surgeons at the Sheba-Tel Hashomer Hospital operated
on the soldier and he is now fully conscious, and "feeling fine." IDF
forces inspected the house and its environs throughout the night and into
the morning, after which it was razed. In the process, they apprehended
another Palestinian, named Nidal, who had been in the house with Abu-Hunud.

The dead soldiers are: Twenty-one year-old Staff Seargents Ro'i Even
Fielsteiner of Hod Hasharon; Liron Sharvit, 20 of Moshav Beit Hashmonai;
and Nir Yaacobi of Tel Aviv. Liron Sharvit was buried at 4:45 PM this
afternoon in the Ramla military cemetery, while Nir Yaacobi will be
interred in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery at 6:45 PM.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak issued a statement this morning, offering his
sympathies for the deaths, and expressing understanding for "the deep
mourning of the families who lost their sons in the incident." He said
that "despite the high price, Israel will continue to fight terrorism with
all its strength. The terrorists and those who dispatch them will not
escape. The IDF and the security forces will continue to stand guard and
defend the State of Israel and its citizens."

2. WHAT WENT WRONG?
By mid-morning, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz had convened a
press conference to discuss the background of the unsuccessful mission. He
told reporters that he has appointed a special commission of inquiry to
identify the causes of the debacle. During his review of the incident,
Mofaz indicated that "very grave" errors by one of the support units led to
the tragedy. Despite the initial IDF reports that the terrorist had shot
the soldiers, Lt.-Gen. Mofaz did not rule out the possibility that the
soldiers were killed by "friendly fire."

IDF sources dismissed early rumors that PA paramilitary police had leaked
information about the mission to Abu Hunud. Arutz-7's Huberman explained
that, as a matter of routine, the IDF establishes contact with the PA
forces in a given village shortly before launching such a mission: "The
reason for this is simple: the area is categorized as 'Area B-plus' - joint
Israeli and PA control, with the addition of a PA police station. If we
were not to warn them that we are entering, we risk being shot at by the PA
forces," Huberman said. "The army spokesman felt it was unlikely that the
PA gave Abu Hunud advanced warning of the mission. Israeli security
officials believe that the PA has an interest in fighting terror at
present, to ensure international support for the declaration of a
Palestinian state. Secondly, such missions are accompanied by a careful
monitoring of local telephones and cellular phones by the IDF; the army did
not pinpoint any calls to Abu Hunud's house. They also said that
coordination with the PA began 'only at the last second,' and that it 'is
hard to believe that information was conveyed to Abu Hunud so quickly.'"

Correspondent Huberman then turned to what army sources suggest was a more
likely cause: "Some have noted that the hour - around 10 PM - was a
miscalculation. At that time, villagers are still up. This town is a
hotbed of Hamas activity. It was widely known that Abu Hunud was hiding
out there, and that he was being sought by Israel. So it is possible that
villagers had identified the forces and someone ran to inform him. If the
operation had taken place in the early hours of the morning, fewer people
would have been aware of the presence of our forces."

Arutz-7 correspondent Yehuda Goldberg responded to the above analysis by
asking, "If the villagers could tip off Abu Hunud so quickly, why couldn't
the PA paramilitary police?"

3. ABU HUNUD C.V.
Mahmoud Abu Hunud is responsible for the deaths of at least 21 Israelis
over the past five years. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reviewed Israel's file on
the terrorist: "Abu Hunud's worst atrocities were the Machane Yehuda and
Ben-Yehuda street suicide bombings in the summer of 1997, attacks that
killed 19 people. Of the six suicide bombers dispatched to carry out those
attacks, four were from his village of Kfar Atzira. He began organizing
'local militias' about ten years ago, but intensified his activity when he
took the helm of a unit of the Hamas Izadin-el-Kassam terrorist cell. He
was first cited in connection with the shooting of a Jewish doctor in the
vicinity of the community of Elon Moreh in 1995, and he helped plan the
1996 murder of high-school student David Boim on the outskirts of Beit El."

Rabbi Uzi Navo, of the Yesha community of Kochav Ya'akov, was the first
victim of Abu Hunud's violence. Speaking with Arutz-7 today, Navo described
how, while driving down a main road one day, an Arab car pulled up next to
him, "and then, at point blank range - they fired three bullets at
me!" Originally listed in very serious condition with injuries to the
mouth, jaw and neck, Rabbi Navo says that he has now almost fully
recovered, and has returned to a relatively normal life.

In the course of today's press conference, Chief of Staff Mofaz said that
the fact that Abu Hunud is now in PA custody "is a real blow to Hamas, and
it will make their efforts at planning terrorist attacks more difficult to
implement." Not everyone agreed with this assessment, however. Likud MK
Gideon Ezra noted that Abu Hunud had "escaped" from PA custody on a
previous occasion, "as part of the PA's revolving door
policy." Correspondent Haggai Huberman said: "Today - and I repeat: today-
he is detached from the Hamas terrorist network. But it is noteworthy that
Muhammed Def, also a Hamas arch-terrorist, met with Hamas officials in the
PA's Gaza offices last week, and is reported to be in good health and good
spirits. We can safely assume that Abu Hunud will not be subjected to any
worse treatment in Shechem than Def receives in Gaza. If and when the PA
wishes, it can choose once again to activate its 'revolving door.'

Prime Minister Barak said this afternoon that Israel will, in the future,
demand that Abu Hunud be turned over to Israeli authorities. In August,
1997, Palestine National Council member Hanan Ashrawi told a Voice of
Palestine interviewer: "No Palestinian will ever be extradited to
Israel. A decision has been made to this effect, and it is inconceivable
to think that such a thing would ever happen." For the Prime Minister to
pretend otherwise, National Religious Party leader Rabbi Yitzchak Levy
said today, is an "embarrassment and a national disgrace."

4. MAJORITY OF MKS SIGN ON BARAK-BLOCKING BILL
Sixty-two Knesset members are sponsoring a new bill aimed at preventing
Prime Minister Ehud Barak from signing diplomatic agreements as long as he
does not have a Knesset majority. The bill was initiated by National Union
MK Rabbi Benny Elon. Should the bill pass - as it is expected to - a
minority government would be unable to legally sign deals that entail the
transfer of sovereignty to a foreign entity or the alteration of the
country's borders. Arutz-7 Knesset correspondent Haggai Seri reports that
the 62nd name on the list is that of MK Chaim Katz (Am Echad) - whom Ehud
Barak has been courting, of late, to join his coalition.

"This is not just another bill," reports Seri. "It is an amendment to the
(quasi-constitutional) Basic Law: Government. This means that what has
been dubbed a 'law to block Barak,' will be even more far-reaching, and
would bind any future minority government." Speaking with Arutz-7 today,
MK Elon said: "It's true that we have not yet obtained the 61 MKs required
for toppling the government; that's one matter. But Mr. Barak cannot
operate as if he heads a majority government ... All of the legal experts I
have spoken to about this amendment, including the bill's author, Prof.
Eliav Shochatman, feel that such a move would have great constitutional
significance. We hope to pass it. It is important to both the Land of
Israel and to the democracy of the State of Israel."

Correspondent Seri notes that despite the 62 signatures, opposition Knesset
members are not prematurely celebrating. Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg
(Labor) refused to conduct a special mid-recess preliminary vote on the
bill, but did agree to an initial debate on the matter during the
recess. As a result of Burg's decision, opposition forces will be
hard-pressed to pre-empt any Barak-Arafat summit this fall.

5. IN SEARCH OF A NATIONALIST CONSENSUS
MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union) is trying to get all of the national camp's
parties to select and support one candidate for Prime Minister. To this
end, Hendel hopes to arrive at a formula for "open leadership primaries" in
which voters from all of the national camp parties will
participate. Meanwhile, Zo Artzeinu leader Moshe Feiglin is preparing to
field his candidacy as the Likud party nominee for Prime Minister. A
gathering of pro-Feiglin activists is slated for this Thursday evening at
the Jerusalem Convention Center.

6. AIR FORCE TO FORFEIT CRUCIAL EARLY WARNING STATION
Israel plans to evacuate the Israel Air Force early-warning station at
Ba'al Hatzor within a year. IAF commander Brig.-Gen. Dan Halutz conveyed
the information several days ago to officers stationed there. Arutz-7's
Uzi Baruch reports that the plan is to transfer the base to the PA by the
end of the year 2001. A contingent of IDF personnel will remain there, but
will function in an administrative capacity only; an IDF liaison officer
will also visit the site at regular intervals. Ba'al Hatzor is considered
one of the Air Force's most vital bases, located on the highest mountain in
the Judea and Samaria region. The site reportedly provides troops with a
view well beyond the borders of the state.

7. PM: ARAFAT HOLDS KEY TO FUTURE
Prime Minister Barak says that "the ball is in Yasser Arafat's
court." Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Barak explained that it is
Arafat who must now decide whether or not he wishes a deal. "If not,"
Barak warned, "he (Arafat) will be responsible for the situation that
results." Barak added that although contacts are being conducted at
various levels, "we will only know in which direction the process is headed
when Arafat comes to a decision in the weeks ahead." Barak also boasted of
Israel's success in elucidating its diplomatic position on the relevant
issues to the international community.

8. A CHANGE OF PACE
Rock throwing continued today at the northern border, but this time, it was
headed in the opposite direction. In protest of the daily violence of
Lebanese villagers towards soldiers and northern residents since the IDF
withdrawal from Lebanon in May, several residents of Netanya parked their
vehicle at Fatma Gate today, and began hurling rocks over the fence into
Lebanon. IDF forces quickly dispersed the demonstrators.

9. PRESIDENT TO COURT
President Moshe Katzav visited the Supreme Court today, and was greeted
there by Chief Justice Aharon Barak. After a tour of the Court building,
Katzav met with several top Supreme Court justices. In response to a
reporter's question, President Katzav rejected recent criticisms of the
court by the Shas party, adding that he has "faith in the Court."

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