# 136 (10/17) - 'Arab Spring' News You've Probably NOT Heard About

[The following 2 stories - about Christians in Egypt and about Israel - probably didn't make the national newscast you viewed last night. Of course, in their precious few minutes of broadcast time they probably DID tell you about how the such and such celebrity just got married - again, divorced - again, went into rehab - again, etc. Well, now for some REAL news ...] [

Madness: Obama Administration Calls on 'All Sides' to Show Restraint in Egypt - CBN News, October 13, 2011 http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/Default.aspx

[The following is an update on the prayer request alert posted 10/9]

CBN News viewers know all about the church burning and riots--driven by Muslims who attacked peaceful Coptic Christian protestors--that resulted in the deaths of some two dozen Egyptian Christians in Cairo last weekend.

Well, according to the Obama administration, those besieged Christians must show "restraint" as they are being massacred and maimed by Islamists and the Egyptian military: two factions, ironically enough, that the Obamis empowered when they threw Hosni Mubarak under the bus and pledged support for the so-called Arab Spring earlier this year.

Really, you can't make this stuff up. Here's more, from Keith Koffler's White House Dossier:*President Obama has responded to the Egyptian military’s massacre of Coptic Christian protestors in Cairo Sunday with a pointedly even-handed statement that calls equally on Christians and the military to show restraint.* “The President is deeply concerned about the violence in Egypt that has led to a tragic loss of life among demonstrators and security forces,” Obama said in a statement released this week. ”Now is a time for restraint on all sides so that Egyptians can move forward together to forge a strong and united Egypt.”

Incredibly, Obama is not only equating the deaths of peaceful protestors and their killers, but he is suggesting that Egypt’s increasingly persecuted Christian minority should show as much “restraint” as their tormentors and refrain from vigorously objecting to the growing abuse.

More than two dozen people, most of them Copts, were killed as security forces attacked demonstrators protesting the burning of a church. The Egyptian military has denied the killings, but news reports, eyewitness accounts, and videos posted to the Internet contradict the claims, with footage showing armed personnel carriers ramming through crowds of protestors and a soldier firing at them. The dead, according to forensic reports, were either crushed by being run over or were shot. Three soldiers are also said to have died, but this appears to have occurred as protestors were fighting for their lives. There can be no mistaking that this was a slaughter of civilians.

The church burning was only the latest in an escalating series of attacks by Islamists against Christians and their churches.

Koffler notes that the Obama statement also calls for the rights of Coptic Christians to be respected. Hooray. This is similar to June 2009, when, at the outset, the Obama administration also essentially called on all sides to show restraint in Iran as the regime's thugs were mowing down unarmed protestors in the streets of Tehran.

With continuous feckless responses like this by the U.S. government to Islamist aggression, is it any wonder that the Iranian regime was bold enough to plot a terror attack on American soil? /em>
__________________________________________________________Great News: Missing Libyan Missiles Turn Up on Gaza Border -
Oct. 14, 2011 http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/Default.aspx

Just another example of the positive vibes given off by the peaceful, tranquil, post-revolutionary (or maybe not so much) Libya that the Obama administration has created. I'm sure Israel is thrilled.

From ABC News: Some of the thousands of surface-to-air missiles that have gone missing since the collapse of the Gadhafi regime in Libya have now turned up just miles from the Israeli border. U.S. officials say there were 20,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in Libya before the uprising, and thousands have disappeared in the looting of Moammar Gadhafi's arm caches. According to the Washington Post, many of those Russian-made anti-aircraft weapons are being sold in Egyptian black markets, and so many are available the price has dropped from $10,000 to $4,000.

Egyptian officials told the paper they have intercepted looted Libyan weapons, including anti-aircraft guns, missiles and artillery, on the road from Libya into Egypt, in black markets on the Sinai Peninsua, and in the smuggling tunnels between the Sinai and Gaza.The heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, most of them shoulder-fired, have a range of two miles and would pose a threat to Israeli helicopter and planes on either side of the Israel-Gaza border. Now whatever would they be doing there? Could it be that some enterprising jihadi entity, Iran perhaps, took advantage of the chaos in Libya to acquire weapons for its proxy, Hamas, in Gaza? Heckuva job, Barry.

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