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  (TempleInstitute.org) The Temple Institute: rebuild the Holy Temple [3/8/08]

  (LATimes.com) Babylon & Beyond: Los Angeles Times Middle East blog [3/3/08]

  (FT.com) Babylon Fund profits from the rehabilitation of Iraq [3/3/08]

  (BlueLetterBible.org) Satan: King of Babylon and Tyre? [2/29/08]

  (Dabar.org) The restoration of literal Babylon: a rebuttal [2/29/08]

  (WorldNetDaily.com) Danger of losing Lebanon 'imminent' [2/23/08]

  (ProphecyNewsWatch.com) "World Events From A Biblical Perspective" [2/9/08]

  (ProphecyNews.co.uk) Dubai, the new Babylon? [2/9/08]

  (Wikipedia.org) Restoring Babylon: UN and Iraqi leaders have big plans [2/7/08]

  (GlobalSecurity.org) Babylon - from a military source of information [2/7/08]

  (ArmageddonBooks.com) The Second Coming of Babylon, et al. [2/7/08]

  (Lebanon.com) Tourist information for Tyre, Lebanon [2/7/08]

  (SourCity.com) Live webcam of Tyre (Sour City) [2/7/08]

  (EthicsDaily.com) Muslims Accept Pope's Invitation to Dialogue [1/29/08]

  (IraqUpdates.com) Considering Babylon as Culture Capital for 2008 [1/29/08]

  (aina.org) Lambs To Slaughter: the Assyrians of Iraq [1/29/08]

  (Chaldean.org) U.S. Chaldean Catholic Website [12/23/07]

  (Rebuild-Iraq-Expo.com) Iraq 2008: Reconstruction worth over $100 Billion [12/10/07]

  (Google.com) Patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldeans [12/9/07]

  (Israelnationalnews.com) Temple Institute Says: High Priest's Crown is Ready[12/9/07]

  (Jnewswire.com) Muslims fume at discovery of 1st Temple remains [12/9/07]

  (Institutionalinvestor.com) The Iraq-focused Babylon Fund is boasting gains [12/9/07]

  (OnlineAthens) A free nation to rise from the ancient sands of Babylon [11/12/07]

  (MENAFN) $5.6m set aside to rehabilitate Babylon [11/5/07]

  (AFP) TYRE, Lebanon: UN peacekeepers a blessing for Lebanon economy [11/5/07]

  (DiscoverBabylon.org) Discover Babylon© free educational 3D video game [10/9/07]

  (PortalIraq.com) Babylon Center for Economic Development (BCED) [10/9/07]

  (ABC News) Tyre: Pop star Haifa Wehbe in concert [10/9/07]

  (Pre-Trib.org) The Biblical Argument for the Rebuilding of Babylon [9/28/07]

  (WorldNetDaily.com) Claim over discovery of the lost Ark of the Covenant [9/21/07]

  (Chattanoogan.com) The Bible And The Iraq War [9/18/07]

  (Portfolio.com) The Babylon Fund: investments in Iraq Stock Exchange [9/11/07]

  (SaudiAramcoWorld) 1989 Babylon International Festival [9/11/07]

  (culture-iraq.com) Babylon International Festival [9/6/07]

  (MENAFN) Iraq to construct airport at Hilla, Babylon [8/28/07]

  (virtualtourist.com) Tyre, Lebanon Travel Guide [8/27/07]

  (raptureready.com) Babylon In Bible Prophecy, by Thomas Ice [8/22/07]

  (People's Daily) Judge escapes assassination attempt in Babylon province [8/21/07]

  (IDP) Oil discovered in Hilla, Babylon [8/14/07]

  (VirtualTourist.com) Babylon Travel Guide [7/31/07]

  (MENAFN) Governor of Babylon plans $33.6m residential compound [7/18/07]

  (Iraqslogger.com) Two U.S. soldiers before map in Babylon, Iraq. [7/14/07]

  (aljazeera.net) Sen. Joe Biden chooses Babylon to announce initiative [1/17/07]

  (worldnetdaily.com) The Mahdi will soon come with Jesus [1/17/07]

  (turkishweekly.net) Pope's interfaith prayer in mosque [12/8/06]

  (News.com.au) Pope turns to Mecca at Istanbul [12/3/06]

  (WorldNetDaily.com) Calling Rick Warren: Condemn Syria for Assassination[11/22/06]

  (Times) Lebanese government close to the brink [11/22/06]

  (CNN) Glenn Beck Show: An united Islamic state based in Babylon [11/16/06]

  (Atlantic FP) Divide Iraq: Kurdistan, Babylon, Shia [10/31/06]

  (AP) U.S. ambassador inaugurates reconstruction team in ancient Babylon [10/23/06]

  (AP) Reconstruction team launched in Babylon [10/23/06]

  (NYT) Babylon Awaits an Iraq Without Fighting [10/23/06]

  (IIRTF) U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Iraq Reconstruction Task Force [10/23/06]

  (Zenit) Virgin Mary will bring Muslims and Catholics together. (10/23/06)

  (Information Week) IBM's Translation Technology: Babylon Program (10/17/06)

  (Indian Catholic) Pope meets with patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (10/5/06)

  (WorldNetDaily.com) Ahmadinejad evokes return of messianic Islamic 'madhi' (9/22/06)

  (OpEdNews.com) A Contrarian Scenario: U.S.-Israel-Iran Alliance (9/19,/06)

  (Architecture.about.com) Saddam's Babylon bricks stamped with his name (9/9/06)

  (CGGL) Tyre, Lebanon's fourth largest city with pop. of more than 100,000 (8/28/06)

  (Newsday) TYRE, Lebanon: Fierce fighting in the final hours (8/15/06)

  (Aljazeera) Israel kills Hezbollah leaders in Tyre (8/10/06)

  (AP) TYRE, Lebanon: Hezbollah Offices Bombed in City of Tyre (added August 6, 2006)

  (AFJ) Blood borders:How a better Middle East would look (added July 18, 2006)

  (AP) "The real occupying power in Lebanon is terror..." (added July 15, 2006)

  (Michelle Malkin) U.N., LEBANON & BOLTON (added July 14, 2006)

  (UPI) Riots over satire in Beirut and Tyre (added July 9, 2006)

  (AP) Tyre, Lebanon: 200,000 mark anniv. of Israeli pullout (added July 9, 2006)

  (CNN) Hilla: Deadly bombs kill 6 at market (added July 6, 2006)

  (Iraq Business News) New water complexes in Babylon (added July 6, 2006)

  (NYT) "Lure of Babylon is powerful draw" (added July 5, 2006)

 

IRAQ, U.N. UNDERTAKE PROJECT TO RESTORE CITY, TRANSFORM IT INTO CENTER FOR CULTURAL TOURISM

Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times

BABYLON, Iraq -- In this ancient city, it is hard to tell what are ruins and what is just ruined.

Crumbling brick buildings, some 2,500 years old, look like smashed sand castles at the beach. Famous sites, like the Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens, are swallowed up by river reeds. Signs of military occupation are everywhere, including trenches, bullet casings, shiny coils of razor wire and blast walls stamped, "This side Scud protection."

Babylon, the mud-brick city with the million-dollar name, has paid the price of war. It has been ransacked, looted, torn up, paved over, neglected and roughly occupied. Archaeologists said American soldiers even used soil thick with priceless artifacts to stuff sandbags.

But Iraqi leaders and U.N. officials are not giving up. They are working assiduously to restore Babylon and turn it into a cultural center and possibly even an Iraqi theme park. No one is saying this is going to happen any time soon, but what makes the project even conceivable is that the area around Babylon is one of the safest in Iraq -- a beacon of civilization, once again, in a land of chaos.

Ancient Babylon, celebrated as a fount of law, writing and urban living, sits just outside the modern-day city of Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.

Hilla is neither haunted by Sunni insurgents nor overwhelmed by Shiite militias, and though it has a mix of Shiites and Sunnis, it has not been afflicted by the sectarian violence that has paralyzed so many other parts of Iraq. Factories are churning, Iraqi security forces are patrolling and the streets pulsate with life -- children bounding to school, crowds wading into markets, taxis gliding by.

Emad Lafta al-Bayati, Hilla's mayor, has big plans for Babylon. "I want restaurants, gift shops, long parking lots," he said. God willing, he added, maybe even a Holiday Inn.

The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is pumping millions of dollars into protecting and restoring Babylon and a handful of other ancient ruins in Iraq. UNESCO has even printed up a snazzy brochure, with Babylon listed as the premier destination, to hand out to wealthy donors.

"Cultural tourism could become Iraq's second-biggest industry, after oil," said Philippe Delanghe, a U.N. official helping with the project. But before Iraq becomes the next Egypt, he said wryly, "a few little things have to happen."

One of those, of course, is better security. The American military still maintains bases near Babylon, but next month, in a sign of how relatively stable the area has become, most troops will pull out and head north to Baghdad, where they are needed more.

Many Iraqis said it was about time. Occupying forces have been blamed for much of Babylon's recent demise.

Donny George, head of Iraq's board of antiquities, said Polish troops dug trenches through an ancient temple and American contractors paved over ruins to make a helicopter landing pad.

"How are we supposed to get rid of the helipad now?" George asked. "With jackhammers? Can you imagine taking a jackhammer to the remains of one of the most important cities in the history of mankind? I mean, come on, this is Babylon."

Babylon. Its name has had a magical ring since Hammurabi, the Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C. and is credited with handing down one of the first sets of codified law.

After Hammurabi, the city flourished again under King Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled from around 605 to 562 B.C. and is best known for the hanging gardens he supposedly built for his wife.

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GLENN BECK: 9/11 Miniseries Raises Controversy; Does Iranian Leader Want to Subdue West?

Aired September 8, 2006 - 19:00:00 ET

Partial transcript from http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/08/gb.01.html

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. PRESIDENT: They`ve made clear that the most important front in their struggle against America is Iraq. The nation bin Laden has declared the capital of the caliphate. Hear the words of bin Laden. "I now address the whole Islamic nation. Listen and understand. The most serious issue today for the whole world is this third world war that`s raging in Iraq."

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: When the leader of your enemy tells you that this is World War III and that the central front of the war is in Iraq, you don`t cut and run. If you leave, you lose. Not just in Iraq, not just the whole Middle East. But World War III and the result will be exactly what they`ve been planning all along. A caliphate. A united Islamic state that would rival the greatest superpowers the world has ever known based squarely in the home of ancient Babylon. You do the math.

Calling Rick Warren! By Joseph Farah, November 22, 2006

from http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53055

Rick Warren just toured Syria last week where he announced that terrorist haven, that police state, that bastion of hate, anti-Christian persecution and anti-Semitism is really not so bad.

In fact, he said in a videotape released by his own church, then subsequently withdrawn from YouTube, that Syria does not countenance "extremism" and is worthy of praise for its protection of Christians and Jews.

I know I have dealt with all of these issues in recent days already. But, today, in light of what transpired in Lebanon yesterday, I am calling on Rick Warren to repent for what he said and to condemn Syria now.

In case you missed it, prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut yesterday.

Gemayel, the minister of industry and son of former President Amin Gemayel, was a supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah. He was named for his grandfather, who founded the Phalange Party in 1936 to exert Christian power in Lebanon. It dominated Christian politics for decades after Lebanon's independence from France in 1943.

Neither Gemayel nor his family nor the party he represented are perfect. There is no political perfection in a fallen, sinful world. But it is imperative that Christians - and especially Christian leaders - have discernment about evil in our world. And true, unadulterated evil is what you have running Syria today. The government led by Bashar Assad, who met with Rick Warren last week, is anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-Christian, ant-Jewish and pro-terrorist.

Rick Warren should know this. Yet, he has placed himself in a position of apologizing and excusing the government in Damascus, one of the most evil on the face of the earth.

It is not an exaggeration to say that government got cover last week as a result of Warren's shameful public relations on its behalf. I won't go so far to say there was a direct cause-and-effect relationship between Warren's embrace of Assad and the assassination of Gemayel yesterday, but it is both a coincidence of striking proportions as well as an illustration of the true character of Damascus' totalitarian police-state regime.

Before any more blood is shed, before any more damage is done, before any more Christians are run out of the Middle East, before any more momentum is gained by the Syrian regime, it's time for Rick Warren to admit he was mistaken in suggesting Damascus is hospitable to Christians and Jews.

I cannot even imagine the horror Christians and Jews trapped in the Middle East must feel, surrounded as they are by the jihadists and the tentacles of fascist dictators like Assad, when they hear co-called Christian leaders like Rick Warren explaining that things really aren't that bad in hellholes like Syria.

I'm persuaded by the Holy Spirit in me that this is sin. And Rick Warren needs to repent for further victimizing the voiceless and powerless martyrs in the Middle East.

Is Syria the worst place in the world for Christians? No. But, according to organizations like Voice of the Martyrs that work full-time on persecution issues, it is a place where Christians fear to evangelize. It is a place, much like other Middle East dictatorships, Christians are fleeing when they can. It is a place serving as a hub for the worldwide spread of jihadism. It is a place, as we saw once again yesterday, that spreads death to Christians in foreign countries in hopes of spreading Syrian hegemony over less-powerful neighbors.

Influential people are susceptible to mistakes like all of us. But they must own up to them as all of us are expected to do. They need to be held accountable for their actions, just as every individual will be held accountable by God.

I'm calling on Rick Warren to condemn Syria for its role in the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, the earlier assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, its spread of anti-Semitic bigotry, it's control of the Christian church inside Syria, its support for terrorism around the world and its unceasing threats and hostility to the very existence of the Jewish state.

That would be a good start in undoing the damage that has already been done by Rick Warren to the Christian community held hostage in the Middle East.

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