Just another saturday in Afghanistan...Two navy men missing in Kabul - NATO leads manhunt while taliban claims they've been kidnapped

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Permalink Reply by Clare Rosalind Harrison on July 26, 2010 at 12:08pm

KABUL, Afghanistan | The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday.
U.S. and NATO officials confirmed that two U.S. Navy personnel went missing Friday in the eastern province of Logar, after an armored sports utility vehicle was seen driving into a Taliban-held area.
In a telephone interview Sunday with the Associated Press, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the pair drove into an area under insurgent control, prompting a brief gunfight in which one American was killed and the other was captured. He said both were taken to a "safe area" and "are in the hands of the Taliban."
Mr. Mujahid did not mention any offer to exchange the pair for Taliban prisoners. A local Afghan official said the Taliban sent a message through intermediaries offering to hand over the body in exchange for jailed insurgents.
Abdul Wali, the deputy head of the provincial governing council, said local authorities responded by saying, "Let's talk about the one that is still alive." The insurgents said they would have to talk to superiors before making any deal.
Hundreds of posters of the two missing sailors have been hung at checkpoints throughout Logar province where NATO troops are stopping vehicles, searching people, peering inside windows and searching trunks.
The posters, with photographs of the missing sailors, state: "This American troop is missing. He was last seen in a white Land Cruiser vehicle. If you have any information about this solider, kindly contact the Logar Joint Coordination Center," run by coalition and Afghan forces. A phone number is listed along with information about a $20,000 reward being offered for information leading to their location.
"Our latest, accurate information reports are that they are still in the area," said Din Mohammed Darwesh, spokesman for the provincial governor of Logar.
He said the governor's office was upset because the two Americans left their base without notifying Afghan security forces in Logar."This was an abnormal situation," Mr. Darwesh said.
NATO officials have offered no clear explanation why the sailors were in Logar. The two left their compound in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Friday afternoon but never returned, NATO said in a statement.
The visiting chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters Sunday that he didn't have all the details, but "from what I know right now, this is an unusual circumstance."
Adm. Mullen said he could not comment on the Taliban claim that one American was killed and the other was captured. He says the U.S. is doing all it can to "return to American hands anybody who has been captured or killed."
Earlier Sunday, Mr. Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, told the AP that he had no information about U.S. sailors in Taliban hands. He said he would look into the reports. He claimed responsibility in a subsequent conversation.
That suggested that the Friday attack was a spur-of-the-moment move and that the militants are trying to figure out what to do about it.
A NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the event, confirmed the two were Navy personnel, but would not identify their unit to avoid jeopardizing search operations.

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Permalink Reply by AH Regier on July 26, 2010 at 1:35pm

Clare,

thanks for posting this article. Gives the most detail to date about what might have happened. Seems a very dicey situation, and keeps the troublign question of why a single vehicle of navy guys were driving into a taliban controlled area.

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Permalink Reply by Clare Rosalind Harrison on July 26, 2010 at 10:44pm

Hello Abigail...You are welcome....I hope they find them soon but the Taliban is swinging them as bait..I am so looking forward to a world without all this wickedness...


By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post staff writer
Monday, July 26, 2010; 4:33 PM

KABUL --

The two U.S. Navy sailors who went missing Friday afternoon left a base on the outskirts of Kabul called Camp Julien, which houses NATO's counter-insurgency academy, and might have taken a wrong turn that sent them toward Logar province, according to NATO officials.

Although NATO still characterizes both men as missing, Afghan officials, along with a Taliban spokesman, said one of them was killed during a shootout with insurgents in the dangerous Charkh district of Logar. Their disappearance has prompted a vast manhunt in Logar, as both U.S. and Afghan troops are searching cars and houses for the Americans.

After the apparent killing of one American and the abduction of another, NATO has tightened its security. Now U.S. military personnel are prohibited from driving alone and must travel in at least two vehicle convoys, NATO officials said.

The circumstances of why the two sailors drove into Logar, or which unit they were a part of, remain undisclosed. Logar borders Kabul to the south, but it is a lengthy drive and is unclear why the sailors would not have turned around if they were lost.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on a visit to Kabul that their trip appeared to be an "unusual circumstance."

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Permalink Reply by AH Regier on July 27, 2010 at 7:00am

Dear Clare,

I agree that they -- if they are stil alive -- are most surely bat -- and that's what makes this case so troubling. I don't think the Taliban should be believed, in a strict sense, but they cealry feel as though they have the upper hand.....what were these guys doing driving away from Camp Julien by themselves????


I agree....wouldn't it be nice to see an end to this wickednesss and....evil, sinister forces at work in the world??? Can't people go back to living simple, clean lives? It breaks my heart on a regular basis, but how do you stop it...? LIke the oil well spill, all you can do, it seems, is mop up affter the mess..

Clare Rosalind Harrison said:

Hello Abigail...You are welcome....I hope they find them soon but the Taliban is swinging them as bait..I am so looking forward to a world without all this wickedness...


By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post staff writer
Monday, July 26, 2010; 4:33 PM

KABUL --

The two U.S. Navy sailors who went missing Friday afternoon left a base on the outskirts of Kabul called Camp Julien, which houses NATO's counter-insurgency academy, and might have taken a wrong turn that sent them toward Logar province, according to NATO officials.

Although NATO still characterizes both men as missing, Afghan officials, along with a Taliban spokesman, said one of them was killed during a shootout with insurgents in the dangerous Charkh district of Logar. Their disappearance has prompted a vast manhunt in Logar, as both U.S. and Afghan troops are searching cars and houses for the Americans.

After the apparent killing of one American and the abduction of another, NATO has tightened its security. Now U.S. military personnel are prohibited from driving alone and must travel in at least two vehicle convoys, NATO officials said.

The circumstances of why the two sailors drove into Logar, or which unit they were a part of, remain undisclosed. Logar borders Kabul to the south, but it is a lengthy drive and is unclear why the sailors would not have turned around if they were lost.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on a visit to Kabul that their trip appeared to be an "unusual circumstance."

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Permalink Reply by Clare Rosalind Harrison on July 27, 2010 at 11:07pm

Abigail.......
Did you catch this on the news? Too little too late.....The soldier killed was supposed to have returned home this August....so close..yet so far.....regrettably...so long Abigail..don't be too sad....Clare


NATO: 1 missing sailor killed in Afghanistan
By: HEIDI VOGT
Associated Press
07/27/10 4:10 PM PDT

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — One of two U.S. sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week — a 30-year-old father of two — has been confirmed dead and his body recovered, a NATO spokesman said Tuesday.

The search continues for the other missing sailor, said Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a spokesman for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

The two Navy personnel went missing Friday in the eastern province of Logar, after an armored sport utility vehicle was seen driving into a Taliban-held area. The Taliban have said they killed one of the two men in a firefight, captured the other and are holding him in a "safe place" where he will not be found.

In a statement, the NATO-led command said the body was recovered Sunday after an extensive search and that the coalition "holds the captors accountable for the safety and proper treatment of our missing service member."

NATO officials were unable to say what the two service members were doing in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan.

The sailors were instructors at a counterinsurgency school for Afghan security forces, according to senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. The school was headquartered in Kabul and had classrooms outside the capital, but they were never assigned anywhere near where the body of the sailor was recovered, the officials said.

The Pentagon identified the dead sailor as Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, of Wheatridge, Colorado, and the missing sailor as Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Washington. The Pentagon listed Newlove's whereabouts as unknown and is not confirming he was captured.
Jim Kerr, a Colorado legislator from the Denver suburb of Littleton, said McNeley was his wife's nephew. McNeley was from Colorado but moved to Kingman, Arizona, in 2004, three years after he joined the U.S. Navy. His mother lives in Kingman and his father is a fire official in Encinitas, California.

Kerr told The Denver Post that McNeley, a noncommissioned officer and father of two sons, was due to return to the U.S. in August.The only other American service member in Taliban captivity is Spc. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, who disappeared June 30, 2009, in Paktika province, also in eastern Afghanistan. That area is heavily infiltrated by the Haqqani network, which has deep links to al-Qaida. Bergdahl has since been shown in Taliban videos online.
New York Times reporter David Rohde was also kidnapped in Logar province while trying to meet with a Taliban commander. He and an Afghan colleague escaped in June 2009 after seven months in captivity, most of it spent in Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.

Hundreds of fliers, with reprinted photos of the two sailors, have been distributed throughout Logar province where NATO troops were stopping and searching vehicles. NATO has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the surviving sailor's location.

Separately in Afghanistan, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that a British soldier, who was serving with a task force working to counter homemade bombs, died Monday in a blast in the Sangin district of Helmand province in what may have been a case of "friendly fire."

The ministry said a smoke screen was requested to allow the soldiers to work safely, and "it is believed that one of the smoke shells may have fallen short of its intended target."

Also in the south, insurgents launched two rockets that struck the Zabul provincial governor's house Tuesday night, according to the governor's spokesman Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar. The governor escaped injury, but one girl was killed and two other children were injured, he said. A third rocket missed the house.

In the relatively peaceful northeastern province of Parwan, insurgents killed six Afghan construction workers and kidnapped a government official, NATO said.

The construction workers were driving through Siagerd district Monday when they came under fire from insurgents. Afghan police responded and drove back the militants, who kidnapped the district attorney general as they fled, NATO said.

Taliban insurgents regularly target civilians they see as complicit with the government, including those working on government-funded projects like roads and public buildings.

While the deputy provincial police chief confirmed that the dead were civilians, Faqir Ahmad said they comprised two families driving to nearby Bamiyan province for a vacation. Ahmad said two women and one child were among the dead. He did not have any information on whether there were construction workers involved.

Ahmad said the district official was released the same day through negotiations with insurgents.

Also in the east, a joint Afghan and coalition force captured a midlevel Taliban commander Monday night in Paktika province, NATO said. According to the coalition, the commander operates mainly in Mata Khan, planning bomb attacks on coalition convoys. Ammunition, bomb-making equipment and a bag of Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. cash were found at the scene, NATO said.
In neighboring Paktia province, a joint force carried out multiple precision strikes against a senior commander of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network. NATO said it had not yet confirmed the death of the commander, who controls fighter camps in the area and is in regular contact with top Haqqani leadership across the border in Pakistan.

In other violence, the Afghan Interior Ministry said five militants were killed and 10 others were wounded Monday during a joint Afghan and international forces operation in Chardara district of Kunduz province in the north; and four militants were killed as they were planting a roadside bomb in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province in the south. The Afghan Defense Ministry said five militants were killed during a gunbattle with Afghan soldiers Monday in the Muqur district of Ghazni province in the east.

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Associated Press writer Judith Kohler contributed to this report from Denver.

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Permalink Reply by AH Regier on July 27, 2010 at 11:58pm

clare,

thanks for the news. I hadn't heard that yet. Very unfortunate for the family, especially the kids. at least they'll get a conclusion to it, and his body. And no, can't get too sad about it. I was in New York for 9/11...in fact, saw much of the towers' implosion from my kitchen window, and lost people I'd known for years, including five firefighters who had been like uncles to me from the firehouse I grew up next door to, and saw innocence and peace shattered by 10 am -- unexpectedly, with very little warning, by 10 am on a beautiful September day. Before that day, I was a bit dubious about concepts of good and evil....knew them more as abstractions, by virtue of having had a fairly comfortable life. But I've come to accept that there is such thing as a terrible frightening force that belongs to no one in particular -- and certainly has nothing to do with a religion or a country -- that can infect and enter anyone, really, and that can cause such senseless damage and pain.

But can't get too sad about it. I've learned to keep my own sadness at bay. Actually, a lot of that water is laced with a fair amount of anger, anyway. But for all the little that can be done from the US-- I do believe that prayer -- the reallyu strong and focused kind, maybe can make some kind of difference. For every ten people willing and wishing jihad, if you have twelve people wishing just as hard for peace, maybe it can be countered. There is a physics to it, actually. Take care, Clare

Clare Rosalind Harrison said:

Abigail.......
Did you catch this on the news? Too little too late.....The soldier killed was supposed to have returned home this August....so close..yet so far.....regrettably...so long Abigail..don't be too sad....Clare


NATO: 1 missing sailor killed in Afghanistan
By: HEIDI VOGT
Associated Press
07/27/10 4:10 PM PDT

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — One of two U.S. sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week — a 30-year-old father of two — has been confirmed dead and his body recovered, a NATO spokesman said Tuesday.

The search continues for the other missing sailor, said Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a spokesman for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

The two Navy personnel went missing Friday in the eastern province of Logar, after an armored sport utility vehicle was seen driving into a Taliban-held area. The Taliban have said they killed one of the two men in a firefight, captured the other and are holding him in a "safe place" where he will not be found.

In a statement, the NATO-led command said the body was recovered Sunday after an extensive search and that the coalition "holds the captors accountable for the safety and proper treatment of our missing service member."

NATO officials were unable to say what the two service members were doing in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan.

The sailors were instructors at a counterinsurgency school for Afghan security forces, according to senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. The school was headquartered in Kabul and had classrooms outside the capital, but they were never assigned anywhere near where the body of the sailor was recovered, the officials said.

The Pentagon identified the dead sailor as Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, of Wheatridge, Colorado, and the missing sailor as Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Washington. The Pentagon listed Newlove's whereabouts as unknown and is not confirming he was captured.
Jim Kerr, a Colorado legislator from the Denver suburb of Littleton, said McNeley was his wife's nephew. McNeley was from Colorado but moved to Kingman, Arizona, in 2004, three years after he joined the U.S. Navy. His mother lives in Kingman and his father is a fire official in Encinitas, California.

Kerr told The Denver Post that McNeley, a noncommissioned officer and father of two sons, was due to return to the U.S. in August.The only other American service member in Taliban captivity is Spc. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, who disappeared June 30, 2009, in Paktika province, also in eastern Afghanistan. That area is heavily infiltrated by the Haqqani network, which has deep links to al-Qaida. Bergdahl has since been shown in Taliban videos online.
New York Times reporter David Rohde was also kidnapped in Logar province while trying to meet with a Taliban commander. He and an Afghan colleague escaped in June 2009 after seven months in captivity, most of it spent in Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.

Hundreds of fliers, with reprinted photos of the two sailors, have been distributed throughout Logar province where NATO troops were stopping and searching vehicles. NATO has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the surviving sailor's location.

Separately in Afghanistan, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that a British soldier, who was serving with a task force working to counter homemade bombs, died Monday in a blast in the Sangin district of Helmand province in what may have been a case of "friendly fire."

The ministry said a smoke screen was requested to allow the soldiers to work safely, and "it is believed that one of the smoke shells may have fallen short of its intended target."

Also in the south, insurgents launched two rockets that struck the Zabul provincial governor's house Tuesday night, according to the governor's spokesman Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar. The governor escaped injury, but one girl was killed and two other children were injured, he said. A third rocket missed the house.

In the relatively peaceful northeastern province of Parwan, insurgents killed six Afghan construction workers and kidnapped a government official, NATO said.

The construction workers were driving through Siagerd district Monday when they came under fire from insurgents. Afghan police responded and drove back the militants, who kidnapped the district attorney general as they fled, NATO said.

Taliban insurgents regularly target civilians they see as complicit with the government, including those working on government-funded projects like roads and public buildings.

While the deputy provincial police chief confirmed that the dead were civilians, Faqir Ahmad said they comprised two families driving to nearby Bamiyan province for a vacation. Ahmad said two women and one child were among the dead. He did not have any information on whether there were construction workers involved.

Ahmad said the district official was released the same day through negotiations with insurgents.

Also in the east, a joint Afghan and coalition force captured a midlevel Taliban commander Monday night in Paktika province, NATO said. According to the coalition, the commander operates mainly in Mata Khan, planning bomb attacks on coalition convoys. Ammunition, bomb-making equipment and a bag of Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. cash were found at the scene, NATO said.
In neighboring Paktia province, a joint force carried out multiple precision strikes against a senior commander of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network. NATO said it had not yet confirmed the death of the commander, who controls fighter camps in the area and is in regular contact with top Haqqani leadership across the border in Pakistan.

In other violence, the Afghan Interior Ministry said five militants were killed and 10 others were wounded Monday during a joint Afghan and international forces operation in Chardara district of Kunduz province in the north; and four militants were killed as they were planting a roadside bomb in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province in the south. The Afghan Defense Ministry said five militants were killed during a gunbattle with Afghan soldiers Monday in the Muqur district of Ghazni province in the east.

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Associated Press writer Judith Kohler contributed to this report from Denver.

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Permalink Reply by Clare Rosalind Harrison on July 28, 2010 at 10:22am

Abigail....
Good Morning....I hear what you are saying....I saw the second plane hit 9/11 and it was like a spear ramming through my gut....unbelievable things going on but never the less all these bear witness to the prophesies related through the Bible...it is the beginning of the end..when the good news is preached throughout the lands..then Armageddon will come when Jehovah God himself will sanctify His name and restore to the earth His original plan for a peaceful, holy life where no more wickedness will dwell...I am not a fanatic..it is my faith..what I believe...my hope....
Until then there will be wars and rumors of wars...unrest in all the land..there is nowhere that you find peace and security and all the peace talks are futile because man was never meant to govern themselves but the independent will of man created havoc and so here we are...I wonder how far ahead we would be if the first family had not screwed up....maybe we would really be 'beam me up Scotty'..who knows...
Prayer is a wonderful thing and most needed at this time...we have great men and women fighting for freedom in a place where most inhabitants absolutely despise them...when will we ever learn...until all is said and done...the weeping eyes of mothers, wives, children, fathers..the breakdown of families stressed from PTSD...obituaries of those so young who never lived long enough to enjoy the benefits of what they fought to achieve...
From the beginning..the garden of Eden until now....but it has to end sometime...otherwise humankind as we know it will be obliterated and all the snakes in the everglades will take over....there are now approximately thousands of them...and those are what they have monitored....if one of them can eat an alligator... I just got an idea....Why not gather all these reptiles and send them to the camps of the terrorists dropping them like food packages....they would be annihilated without anymore loss of our troops...send out those gigantic rats to sniff out bombs....WHY NOT...Anyway...it is past time for my medicines....the wonderful ailments I am plagued with reminded me..soooooo..I wish thee farewell.....have a great and prosperous day...so long Abigail...Clare

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Permalink Reply by AH Regier on July 28, 2010 at 2:46pm

HI Clare,

thanks for that. witnessing the towers falling, and everything that happened was horrific, and stabbed an entire city, and country, even a worrld,, in some neccessry organ of a body, futhering strengthening the drumbeats of war and for as long as people stay in fiight mode, it will llikely continue. That is not a productive means to find some sort of peaceful resolution to a conflict that doesn't really have a perfect resolution, or even a decent resolution, but a chance for some kind of detente. People get tired. Continued fighting just gives birth to a new breed of fighters who will take up where older fighters leave off.... But I do not think it's the end of the world. -- certainly not in a biblical sense. And if people believe that, then they are willing it....they are, in a sense, praying for it even when they are walking down the street or buying some bananas in the market. They are in a sense, praying for it. I do not think its time for people to believe that, or suspect that. That would be a lttle bit like Jihad with a different face and a new color lipstick.

and my understanding of prayer and meditation, and I think this is written about quite a bit in the bible, is to be highly conscious....I mean hyper hyper conscious, of what is truly in your heart, and you can only really do that if you''ve done a sort of brutal inventory of what's going on there....and even if those prayers are about soldiers "winning," what does that mean......? you are praying for killing....and that keeps the war energy alive -- and don't you think its been going on way too long? It sounds a little kooky perhaps, but praying foor peace is just that, praying that some larger benevolent, rbilliant and illuminating light will bask on and bring a clean rain to all the children of the universe, not just some of them, and for all of them, not just some of them, to begin to lay down theirr arms.

I live next to the Jehovah Kingdom headquarters in brooklyn. I am not one, but we've been good neighbors. I can feel sometimes -- and again, this might sound strange, but it''s true -- i can feel when they are doing some of their group worships -- and I always think to myself....with that much energy being unleashed into the universe, prayers directly articulating and willing new beginnings, not endings, but new beginnings, how much positive, divine impact that would have on the world.

this is not the end. That's a misreading of the book. That's an incorrect interpretation, but its understandable because the event of 9/11 was so shocking and troubling, and stunned the thought and reason oout of so many people for so long. But I don't think its the end, and I don't think people should weave that into their daily faith. again, that's a bit llike jihaad in disguise.

take care and peace,
abigail

Clare Rosalind Harrison said:

Abigail....
Good Morning....I hear what you are saying....I saw the second plane hit 9/11 and it was like a spear ramming through my gut....unbelievable things going on but never the less all these bear witness to the prophesies related through the Bible...it is the beginning of the end..when the good news is preached throughout the lands..then Armageddon will come when Jehovah God himself will sanctify His name and restore to the earth His original plan for a peaceful, holy life where no more wickedness will dwell...I am not a fanatic..it is my faith..what I believe...my hope....
Until then there will be wars and rumors of wars...unrest in all the land..there is nowhere that you find peace and security and all the peace talks are futile because man was never meant to govern themselves but the independent will of man created havoc and so here we are...I wonder how far ahead we would be if the first family had not screwed up....maybe we would really be 'beam me up Scotty'..who knows...
Prayer is a wonderful thing and most needed at this time...we have great men and women fighting for freedom in a place where most inhabitants absolutely despise them...when will we ever learn...until all is said and done...the weeping eyes of mothers, wives, children, fathers..the breakdown of families stressed from PTSD...obituaries of those so young who never lived long enough to enjoy the benefits of what they fought to achieve...
From the beginning..the garden of Eden until now....but it has to end sometime...otherwise humankind as we know it will be obliterated and all the snakes in the everglades will take over....there are now approximately thousands of them...and those are what they have monitored....if one of them can eat an alligator... I just got an idea....Why not gather all these reptiles and send them to the camps of the terrorists dropping them like food packages....they would be annihilated without anymore loss of our troops...send out those gigantic rats to sniff out bombs....WHY NOT...Anyway...it is past time for my medicines....the wonderful ailments I am plagued with reminded me..soooooo..I wish thee farewell.....have a great and prosperous day...so long Abigail...Clare

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Permalink Reply by Clare Rosalind Harrison on July 29, 2010 at 6:15am

Good Morning Abigail....

I hope you rested well....I understand your concerns....The end of the world will never happen as God intended for man to dwell here...The Bible says that God did not make the earth simply for nothing...He created it to be inhabited...if someone tells you the earth will be destroyed and all the people in it..that is simply untrue and if they are praying fo an end....maybe it is the end to these wars and all wickedness....when child molesters, murderers and all evil people unless they are willing to change will no longer exist.....because there will be an Armageddon....The Holy War of God and His Son Jesus Christ and all the Holy Angels of Heaven...against all those who do not know God and obey him.....2nd Thessalonian 1:6>....You hear of Holy Wars? there is nothing sacred about them...In the Bible...GOD IS LOVE...1John 4:8>>>>there is no fear in LOVE...1 John 4:18.....Now if God is Love.....why do you think He is destroying all these people from all places of this Globe He calls Earth?>>>>One side wins and kills.. the other broken bruised with casualities where they cannot find a spot to bury them....That is not God's work....the ruler of this world..earth..is satan the devil..creating chaos for mankind because his days are numbered....if you notice when the world wars began..it was 1914...it began over a man who had been killed.....one man for thousands....I do not say there should not have been retribution....but so many for one.......reminds me that one died for many John 3:16/17
The Holy War in the future is the only True one...many religions are calling their wars holy...there is nothing holy about them as God is not involved...2nd Peter 3:8>...Jehovah is not slow concerning his promises..but..he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance...yet Jehovah's day will come as a thief..Joel..Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah...all these speaks of the day of vengeance for christendom.....the priest who molest and not nurture, the religions that peddle Christianity...if you do not give money then God cannot bless you or heal...or assist when trouble comes.....Happy are those who make God their strong arm because his right hand of righteousness may allow these despicable happenings but he is paying attention and listening....keeping in remembrance the ones who are even simply thinking on His name..Malachi 3:16'>>>>>God does not take lightly the injustices being done...he allows them but vengeance will be repaid....
Our worship consists of many meetings geared towards learning Bible Truths and applying them to our daily living....to strengthen each other in love and peace...the hope we share..we sing a few songs and prayers are said by one person at the beginning and then at the end...We do not pray for the end of the world because it will not end...it will continue after God has cleaned it from wickedness as in the days of Noah...We pray for God's will to take place as in the Heavens also the earth...We do not pray for one country to win...Jesus ran away when they wanted to make him king...and when he was taken to Pilot.."he said if my kingdom was of this world, then my deciples would fight....how can one God let one side win the other lose?..I do not know a God like that...The commandments..first Love God with all your mind, heart and soul, and LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF...who is my neighbor...EVERYONE..so such a Biblical command should be practiced by all religions..if we love..then how can we kill? But the earth is to God like a man who rented out his dream house to those he considered friends and they destroyed the furniture, ruined his carpet, cut down his trees..returning home he finds it in shambles...tell me..is that man going to destroy his dream house because of that? ..I do not think so...He gets rid of his so called friends and then prepare to bring his dream house back to its original condition....even with man destroying the earth and the animal and human population is outrageously growing....the earth is still beautiful...and will be inhabited by the great crowd spoken of in Revelations...many things are taken literally from the Bible but many are symbols..in a figurative term...so interpretations should be carefully examined...God's will be done.....
It really bothers me that there is so much blood being wasted..these wonderful, vigorous, alive, open hearted, generous young people being slaughtered by wars because someone decided to draft them in...or because of Patriotic sentiments for their country and for the false hope that Peace will be acquired through their bravery...it is wrong..but as usual..Satan brings confusion.....
I have never been to the Bethel over by there or any of their Kingdom Halls in that area but I have been to Brooklyn....when I was a young girl....we sing about 4 songs each time we get together...the big assemblies occur twice per year...where we meet at a large facility and learn more about God and His Son Jesus Christ....so it might seem overwhelming at times..we just had a convention and seated 8 thousand plus at Silvr Spurs arena in Kissimmee....
I am going back to bed Abigail...You would be welcome at our Hall if you choose to check it out.....Keep on the Watch..do not let up...sending Peace and hope for a great day for you and yours.....hugs..Clare

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Permalink Reply by Clare Rosalind Harrison on July 29, 2010 at 11:54am

Hey Abigail....
Did you see this? What point are they trying to prove?....that they had the upperhand..obviously there is no GOD in these people who kill needlessly..no conscience..no regard for the worth of life....All this God sees....to the parents of these very young men and the lives left to carry on without them....my greatest condolence...such tragedy....my heart breaks for these....
Catch up with you later Abigail......






2nd Missing Sailor's Body Found In Afghanistan
by The Associated Press

July 29, 2010


A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.

The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information.

Newlove and Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley went missing Friday in Logar province. NATO recovered the body of McNeley — a 30-year-old father of two from Wheatridge, Colo. — in the area Sunday.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in Kabul on Thursday that two days ago the Taliban left the "body of a dead American soldier for the U.S. forces" to recover. The Taliban said McNeley was killed in a firefight, and insurgents had captured Newlove. Mujahid offered no explanation for Newlove's death.

NATO officials have not offered an explanation as to why the two service members were in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan.

The sailors were instructors at a counterinsurgency school for Afghan security forces, according to senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. The school was headquartered in Kabul and had classrooms outside the capital, but they were never assigned anywhere near where McNeley's body was recovered, officials said.

The chief of police of Logar province, Gen. Mustafa Mosseini, said coalition troops removed Newlove's body about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. An anti-terrorism official in Logar province, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the case, also said coalition forces had recovered a body.

Mosseini said he believed the body washed downstream after rains Tuesday night.

He noted that in the past several days, the Taliban were being pressured by coalition forces in the area.

"The security was being tightened," Mosseini said. "Searches continued from both air and the ground. Militants were moving into Pakistan."

Mohammad Rahim Amin, the local government chief in Baraki Barak district, also said coalition forces recovered a body about 5:30 p.m. and flew it by helicopter to a coalition base in Logar province, about 40 miles away.

"The coalition told our criminal police director of the district that the body belonged to the foreign soldier they were looking for," Amin said.

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Permalink Reply by Vance Pace on July 29, 2010 at 5:17pm

Very sad, our son (who is in the 173rd) called us on Sunday to tell us they had been patroling like crazy looking for these guys. He sounded exhausted on the phone, and said they were getting a couple of hours of sleep, something to eat, and then going out again. Our thoughts are with the families of these men!

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Permalink Reply by Clare Rosalind Harrison on July 29, 2010 at 8:26pm

Vance....
Thank you for letting us know...please tell your son that we appreciate all they do for us and that country...Let him know that he and all the other soldiers are in our prayers...It was courageous of them to keep going out with so little rest knowing they could be the next victim....tell him we send lots of hugs and love..Until you see your son again Vance..may you find peace in the memories and your phone calls...my heartfelt wishes go out to you and yours....Take good care of one another....So long for now..Clare

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